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11 months ago ::
Jul 31, 2012 - 11:57AM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Uncharted Realms, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 31, 2012 - 9:19PM
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Dec 27, 2009
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Talrand keeping the pimp hand strong, ladies and gentlemen.
The articles about random critters or spells are cute, but I really love these articles that build upon settings we're familiar with. Great stuff.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 31, 2012 - 10:23PM
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Jan 13, 2012
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I enjoyed this story so much. Mainly because it was blue mage besting big dumb creature, maybe because I hate Thundermaw Hellkite's "Mythic Rare" design, or maybe because it was well written.
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Okay, here is the clincher. I've been waiting to say this.
The "cam girl" this was inspired by was just a girl from a social networking website, Stickam. Her name was TinyTerror and she was just a regular girl who was on her webcam, totally unrelated to any type of adult content.
I hope you all feel really smart now. 
This is like someone coming into class with a bloody nose and everyone's like "Jeez what happened to you" and they're like "I ran into a wall" and everyone laughs at them for being an idiot but then at the end of the class they say "HAHA JUST KIDDING I PUNCHED MYSELF IN THE FACE!!!!!! TALK ABOUT OWNED HAHAHAHAHA"
I really enjoy imagining this from Kevin's perspective. Because in Kevin's world, Rosewater actually reads everything he types. Mark is sitting there right now, reading this, and thinking "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. . ." Or some such. He chuckles low, then clicks on "The Best Of KEVINSET" and says "Yes, this'll do just fine. A busty lady with banding who deals direct damage to Zones!? Why this will be the star of my next set, and no one will ever believe you Kevin." Then he closes his Macbook, so his servant may move it out of the way, while another servant puts a Fetal Richard Garfield Clone lathered in Steak Sauce in front of him. Then Mark Feasts.
Sorin walked into the chamber where his newly wed bride, Vampy, awaited. A beam of moonlight illuminated his brilliant silver hair as he strode with confidence towards the bed. His shirtless body showcased his powerful abdominal muscles and he was wearing jeans with holes in the knees.
I wish more girls play magic cards...
Have you considered assassinating Kevin?
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 2:02AM
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Feels like every one of these articles come to an end with someone dying. Tis a little sad.
Side from that, great as always.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 2:51AM
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Absoluely loved this story. Even though I feel a bit sympathetic towards the dragon, I love seeing such an overated creature die so painfully >8D
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 6:46AM
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Aug 19, 2007
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just that this dragon wasn't the Thundermaw
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 6:52AM
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Where are you Jenna? I didn't read all of this story, because it was the first Uncharted Realms which did not nigh-instantly prove its quality to me. The writing of the first eight or twelve paragraphs was dull and stilted, and my patience disappeared in short order.
What we could have used for this article (assuming I didn't just miss it) was some decent information about Shandalar, preferably something that proves that anyone on the M13 design and creative teams even knew that it was a pre-established plane. I still have seen not a single callback to the Microprose game, just a bunch of random stuff from M10 and forward that all of a sudden we're told was Shandalar all along. Pft.
Also, do you think this article contained the word Talrand often enough? Pfft. So obviously Marketing demanded this piece.
Oh well, one more week and hopefully the awesome will return.
My New Phyrexia Writing CreditsMy M12 Writing CreditsAs far as the benefit of the rest of Magic is concerned, gold cards in Legends were executed perfectly. They got all the excitement a designer could hope out of a splashy new mechanic without using up any of the valuable design space. Truly amazing.
--Aaron Forsythe's Random Card Comment on Kei Takahashi 
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 6:59AM
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Apr 15, 2004
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"Perhaps it was good for the occasional dumband arrogant contender to have pretensions. It had perhaps been too long since Kalyntri had had an opportunity to fully show his power. Lost in this thought, Kalyntri almost missed the lone dark storm cloud up ahead. A single small cloud of blackness amid an otherwise endless blue sky. The air had the tangy scent of a fresh storm, recently passed. As Kalyntri flew lower, he could see a small ring of islands dotting the water beneath cloud. And there, in the middle of the islands, in the water, was a man. No, he was on the water. And not a man, but a merfolk. Good gods, was Talrand suicidal? Or perhaps simply that dumb and delusional..."
I guess dragons don't own a thesauruses (thesauri?)...
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 7:20AM
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Sep 29, 2010
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DRAKES ARE SENTIENT!? I always thought drakes were to dragons like chimps are to people.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 10:34AM
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Nice article, although I don't see how Talrand really survived. Even if the dragon was dying, why did it simply not finish off Talrand before turning to the drakes. It tried to deal with the drakes first when it would have only taken the dragon a couple of seconds to stomp on Talrand. DRAKES ARE SENTIENT!? I always thought drakes were to dragons like chimps are to people.
If you have ever read the older flavor text of Snapping Drake you can somewhat tell that some drakes are sentient. Not all are however. It depends on the world.
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