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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 4:14PM
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Alright, I don't know if I'm weird about this, but I really do like to imagine my creatures standing on the battlefield and fighting eachother. I imagine that all 1/1's have the rough fighting prowess equivalent of a Snake  , 2/2's the rough equal to a Bear  , and 3/3's the size and strength of an Elephant  , and things above that encroach into the world of magical strength and size that the human world can't compare to. What I have trouble imagining though is how I visualize my creatures with counters on them. I mean, I can understand -1/-1 counters as an effect of a necrotic plague inflicting deleterious effects on the creature's health, but what are +1/+1 counters doing? Making it healthier? Bigger? Magically enhanced somehow? When my Steel Overseer  uses his ability, what is he doing? Is he making all my artifact creatures bigger? Meaner? More motivated? Welding a knife to their face? I'm truly curious.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 4:51PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 26, 2011
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Ever watch the Zero Punctuation video game reviews? The author jokingly depicts weapon upgrade systems in shooters by drawing a guy holding a gun with another gun taped onto it. When Steel Overseer buffs my guys, I picture something along those lines. Graft creatures are weirder. I'm not sure what to think when one buffs a creature...
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 4:56PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 27, 2011
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It is kinda hard to imagine some things, like one game where my 6/6 Abbey Griffin  , with four +1/+1 counters on it from Gavony Township  , faced down a 9/6 Mentor of the Meek  , with two +1/+1 counters on it from Elder Cathar  , a Spectral Flight  enchanting it, and holding a Silver-Inlaid Dagger  .
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 5:00PM
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Date Joined:
May 18, 2002
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I visualize them as a 2.5" x 3.5" cardboard rectangle with words and numbers printed on it, with occasional modifications to those words and numbers.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 5:36PM
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I visualize them as a 2.5" x 3.5" cardboard rectangle with words and numbers printed on it, with occasional modifications to those words and numbers.
Seriously dude this schtick is getting old.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 7:13PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 15, 2009
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I sometimes picture groups of creatures using their numbers and cunning to defeat something much larger than themselves. How do four Elite Vanguards  kill a Khalni Hydra  ? They sacrifice themselves heroically as each attacks from a different direction, eventually defeating it despite heavy losses and some damage getting through to the Planeswalker commanding the human soldiers. With Innistrad, it gets interesting. I had a reckless waif  carrying a silver-inlaid dagger  . She could wield it skillfully, but when the moon came out, she became a merciless predator  just using the weapon as another claw. The werewolf got a -1/-1 counter from an attack into a plague stinger  . The werewolf was corrupted by the Phyrexian poison, and it was barely strong enough to keep fighting. When the moon set and the sun came out, the waif became human again and collapsed dead. When I get Bloodline Keeper  and Intruder Alarm  onto the battlefield, I just picture an orbiting Death Star made of vampires that can beam destruction from orbit.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 7:20PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2010
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Usually just a Dragonball Z Super Saiyan type of pumping up. When my Retaliator Griffin  hit 74/74, well... he was glowin' somethin' fierce!!
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 7:21PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 24, 2004
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I sometimes picture groups of creatures using their numbers and cunning to defeat something much larger than themselves. How do four Elite Vanguard  kill a Khalni Hydra ? They sacrifice themselves heroically as each attacks from a different direction, eventually defeating it despite heavy losses and some damage getting through to the Planeswalker commanding the human soldiers.
With Innistrad, it gets interesting. I had a reckless waif carrying a silver-inlaid dagger . She could wield it skillfully, but when the moon came out, she became a merciless predator just using the weapon as another claw. The werewolf got a -1/-1 counter from an attack into a plague stinger . The werewolf was corrupted by the Phyrexian poison, and it was barely strong enough to keep fighting. When the moon set and the sun came out, the waif became human again and collapsed dead.
When I get Bloodline Keeper and Intruder Alarm onto the battlefield, I just picture an orbiting Death Star made of vampires that can beam destruction from orbit.
On a related note, the art to Elite Vanguard never made sense to me. How does the guy kill something, live, and then bow down in prayer when his toughness of 1? Maybe it was a 0/1 Goat he killed. :/
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 7:59PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 14, 2010
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maybe he's kneeling because he's been mortally wounded having successfully brought down a bigger foe
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 8:23PM
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Date Joined:
May 22, 2011
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When I try to visualize a battle or any kind of stuff happening in a magic game I see them as their own individual people and that they get there buffs from different things for various reasons. For example when I have Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite  on the battle field I visualize my guys being experimented on by her and becoming stronger as a result, and the opponents creatures getting weaker because they are afraid of what she might try to do to them. But if say I have a couple of white creatures out and a Honor of the Pure  then I visualize my guys as supporting each other and getting pumped for battle and stuff like when people go into real battles and stuff. And when you have a spell giving them [+1/+1] counters like for example Travel Preparations  then I visualize that they are getting ready for a long and arduous journey and are eating and sleeping properly. But that is just me I obviously think way to much about what it would really be like if this stuff actually happened, and sorry this got so long. Thank you for Reading
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