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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 12:38PM
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Apparently Werewolves are on the good side now:  Discuss.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 12:40PM
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We knew this from the trailer already.  Personally, I think its great. ~ Tim
 Reached DCI Rating 1800 on 28/10/11. :D Sig
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That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
~ Tim
Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise  in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch  . YAY COLOR IDENTITY 
Is algebra really that difficult?
Survey says yes.
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 12:41PM
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I'm curious to find out if there's anymore to the cursemute decree and the full implications for the werewolves wolfir (great name, by the way). Are the sentient in the sense that they have their human personalities in wolf form? Or are they just werewolves that don't want to kill humans anymore? Can they transform (lack of DFCs says no, but we'll see)?
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 12:45PM
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Was no one here watching the transcript of the PAX show?
Wolfirs are werewolves that have had their wolf and human spirits fused together by Avacynian Magic.
They have achieved inner peace.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 12:48PM
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Alright, some of us clearly know more than others, so any chance we could get the relevant information typed up here? All I know is that card, and the one image from the trailer (which, after all, hinted but did not confirm) so yeah, anything anyone knows is welcome.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 1:02PM
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Yeah what Hairless said is about all we know. The foil rare for the G/U Intro Pack is a wolfir, and the deck's called "Bound by Strength" so at least one of them will probably have Soulbond. i43.tinypic.com/1zdoqcz.png
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Thanks Gamma_Mage for the awesome banner!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 1:11PM
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I hope wolfirs are mind-raped werewolves. I want them to make the angels mean.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 1:24PM
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They're almost certainly "Creature-Werewolf"
And from what it sounds like to me, they're werewolves who are able to maintain sentience even in beast mode, and since a pretty good chunk of humans on Innistrad follow some form of the church of Avacyn, most of the wolfirs are likely to be good guys.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 2:06PM
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The Back-to-Back Badasses pose the human and wolfir are sporting in the art of Joint Assault  makes the wolfir look like it knows what it's doing. I don't think they're being controlled by the "Cursemute Decree." I think the decree is just letting them maintain their sapience in wolf form, or at least giving them the capacity to overcome any compulsions toward violence against humans. That still wouldn't explain how Avacyn handled the wantons, but I'm sure we'll get to that later. Or we won't and they're still a serious threat to humans. Don't forget there are no DFCs in this set. But apparently there are werewolves. Whatever Avacyn did to them, it might have involved more changes to the werewolves wolfir than this piece of flavor text mentions. These people might not get to live as humans anymore. "Bound by Power" and all that. I think the casual werewolf tribal / human tribal deck running around under Mayor of Avabruck  might start making flavorful sense once we get some wolfir cards.
"The truth resists simplicity." Some memorable quotes
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I know, as a good liberal scholar, that I'm supposed to respect every other belief and culture and what have you that comes along but... at the end of the day, when all is said and done, some things are just plain wrong.
Venser "Ah, Hello Myr. This is the King. Long Time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. The Myr Battlesphere. The Myr. Where the first rolls and the second follows. Roll, roll, roll. For that purpose we went to the bother, the bother of fixing up Mirrodin. The King of the Multiverse going to the bother just for rolling a Myr Battlephere, just for that, we went to the bother."
Heard a joke once: Mare goes to doctor. Says she's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says she feels all alone in a threatening world where even ponies you thought were your friends can't be trusted. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Go to one of Pinkie Pie's great parties tonight. Party hard. That should pick you up." Mare bursts into tears. Says "But, doctor...I am Pinkie Pie." Good joke. Everypony laughs. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black.
Sure, "the average person" might go see Transformers 3 if s/he wants a good story, but that doesn't stop people from making decent movies. Hell, they even managed to make Batman into a respectable movie. "The average" person might like American Idol or Jersey Shore, but people still made The Wire.
I think the people who would sit down and listen to a minstrel reciting Homer, or thought that novels were art, or read poetry were always a minority. It's a common viewpoint that art was better in the past because everyone's forgotten the bad stuff, while we haven't had time to forget the awful stuff that is current.
For almost all Magic fans, the "story" of Ravnica, for example, is that it's a city world with ten guilds -- yes, for most, that's a "story." All but a tiny fraction of the fan base are entirely unaware of an elaborate plot perpetrated by Augustin IV to trick Agrus Kos and Szadek into breaking the Guildpact, thereby enabling the Azorius to take control. Likewise, the vast majority of Magic players don't know who Harbin is, or Nivea, or Al-Hayat, or Feather, or Jared Carthalion, or Rebbec, or Zagorka ... the list goes on and on.
I'm pulling this out of nowhere and it has nothing like fact attached to it, but it cannot be disproven without breaking the fourth wall, and this is going to be my headcanon because it makes perfect sense.
I posit [Tamiyo, the Moon Sage] writes the Planeswalker's Guides to planes.
CANON is the collected events and details of a fictional work that come directly from its author or someone with equal authority to the author.
CANNON is a weapon that fires metal balls at a target, usually a structure or a crowd of enemy combatants.
Every time you confuse the two, I'm forced to break one of my own fingers.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 9:35PM
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Am I the only one that keeps hoping that they will soon start showing some wolfir cards so we can see them?
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