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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 8:38PM
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1. I like the card too.
2. I agree with you on every point, other than Godzilla being terrifying.
3. The problem for me is the art doesn't work as part of the whole. The art doesn't show the stampede. It doesn't show a creature savagely feasting. It shows a slightly obscured majestic Naya God. I actually feel very serne looking at that art. That's the issue. The art doesn't match what the card is obviously trying to convey mechanically.
I saw Godzilla when I was a kid, and although my love of dinosaurs pretty much stymied any real terror I had of him, the concept of running from something so big that the mere act of running accomplishes nothing, is in fact very terrifying.
Yes, I agree that the art really doesn't capture any sort of depiction of a stampede, but the art is still pretty cool in my opinion. I like the fact that you don't necessarily have to go back to Naya (from a new set standpoint) to find a card that from an artistic (and mechanical as well) perspective could be a near perfect fit in a Naya themed deck if you chose to include it (compared to other cards that sort of make me cringe when I shove them in a themed deck such as Student of Warfare  in my Selesnya themed deck--the Zendikons make it a very jarring inclusion). Although the trees in the art do seem to be uncharacteristic of the trees found in the Naya Jungle.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:36PM
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I saw Godzilla when I was a kid, and although my love of dinosaurs pretty much stymied any real terror I had of him, the concept of running from something so big that the mere act of running accomplishes nothing, is in fact very terrifying.
Yes, I agree that the art really doesn't capture any sort of depiction of a stampede, but the art is still pretty cool in my opinion. I like the fact that you don't necessarily have to go back to Naya (from a new set standpoint) to find a card that from an artistic (and mechanical as well) perspective could be a near perfect fit in a Naya themed deck if you chose to include it (compared to other cards that sort of make me cringe when I shove them in a themed deck such as Student of Warfare in my Selesnya themed deck--the Zendikons make it a very jarring inclusion). Although the trees in the art do seem to be uncharacteristic of the trees found in the Naya Jungle.
Oh the art is beautiful. It just isn't right for the card.
Each part is good on it's own, but feels lacking together.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:41PM
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Oh the art is beautiful. It just isn't right for the card.
Each part is good on it's own, but feels lacking together.
I think the major issue dealt with capturing the size of this thing correctly. If you tried to show a stampede with him at the center, the most you would have caught would maybe have been his leg. Which doesn't really provide a very satisfactory image for a creature.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 10:57PM
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 4:57AM
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Oh the art is beautiful. It just isn't right for the card.
Each part is good on it's own, but feels lacking together.
I think the major issue dealt with capturing the size of this thing correctly. If you tried to show a stampede with him at the center, the most you would have caught would maybe have been his leg. Which doesn't really provide a very satisfactory image for a creature.
Just my .
But why does he need to be so large? We already have a 5/5 green beast that wasn't as jarringly huge. The size, from the art not the card, is what is bothering people.
Whatever the reason: The feeling of the art doesn't fit. And for me it is a problem of aesthetically enjoying the card. If they couldn't capture that feeling with such a large creature then maybe they should have made him smaller.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 5:45AM
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See, Craterhoof Behemoth doesn't like zombies and vampires and werewolves. They make him sad. So he hides away. He likes angels. Because the angels are back, he is happy, and decided to come out and play. Spoiler:
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 7:46AM
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See, Craterhoof Behemoth doesn't like zombies and vampires and werewolves. They make him sad. So he hides away. He likes angels. Because the angels are back, he is happy, and decided to come out and play.
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LOLOL... Ok fine I'll take that explanation anyday.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 11:07AM
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To me he more conveys the message of "I just want to eat and to be me and I know that I'm bigger than you but please I'm going out of my way and doing my best to make sure we can both be happy in this place" while some red-eyed cathar is trying to kill the shy misunderstood monster. Which is great. But not on this card  There's plenty of room to make monsters of the wild depicted as a pine forest in which all the trees are being violently torn apart right towards you, where you can see nothing but that and eyes glowing in the dark. That is also really really green, fits with the flavour, and connects with 'strad far better.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 2:29PM
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So I'm the only one who got a sort of Cloverfield vibe huh?
well something that gargantuan feels like a trope they didn't really cover before. it's hard to be terrified of godzilla because he's on a tiny screen (even a movie screen is tiny by comparison) but if you take a second and put yourself in the place of the people looking up at him it's creepy as hell.
Go to a really tall building, a skyscraper or something. Walk all the way next to the wall and look straight up. It's daunting and a little creepy.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 11, 2012 - 3:45PM
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I don't think anyone's arguing that giant monsters aren't horror. The problem is that they're not classical gothic horror. Though I don't remember these same complaints about The  Blob 
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