I agree, I think they're printed too many cards with the phrase 'you win the game' on them lately. I mean they're cool once in a blue moon, but they're in almost every set now. Recently off the top of my head there's this, Azor's Elocutors and Lab Maniac. Maybe I'm being too much of a Vorthos here, but what the heck is supposed to be the flavor in this? So they have 4 Biovisionaries ..... which means you've defeated your opponents how? Same thing with Lab Maniac, so you have a crazy guy doing experiments ... therefore you win? I guess Elocutors could be justified a little better, that you beat your opponent by rule of law (and say lock them up for good).
Still doesn't make for a very fun card, imo, though.
I agree, I think they're printed too many cards with the phrase 'you win the game' on them lately. I mean they're cool once in a blue moon, but they're in almost every set now. Recently off the top of my head there's this, Azor's Elocutors and Lab Maniac. Maybe I'm being too much of a Vorthos here, but what the heck is supposed to be the flavor in this? So they have 4 Biovisionaries ..... which means you've defeated your opponents how? Same thing with Lab Maniac, so you have a crazy guy doing experiments ... therefore you win? I guess Elocutors could be justified a little better, that you beat your opponent by rule of law (and say lock them up for good).
Still doesn't make for a very fun card, imo, though.
I'd actually argue that theBiovisionary and Azor's Elocutors make good sense in terms of story They give the more ... insular? guilds an alternate win-con (i.e. those guilds that are mostly off tinkering with their own stuff, the lawyers and scientists. Izzet's an exception, but they're 'splodey enough to be the exception. Admittedly, I'll be VERY surprised if they ever see play in Standard, but they're great fun and flavour for casual and EDH.
They give the more ... insular? guilds an alternate win-con (i.e. those guilds that are mostly off tinkering with their own stuff, the lawyers and scientists. Izzet's an exception, but they're 'splodey enough to be the exception. Admittedly, I'll be VERY surprised if they ever see play in Standard, but they're great fun and flavour for casual and EDH.
