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3 months ago ::
Feb 21, 2013 - 7:09PM
#261
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If I were allowed to write an epic for Magic, this is what I would do if I could spread my corruption into Creative:
An epic multiblock narrative detailing the life and times of the first walker to be printed with      in the cost.
In my mind, she would be of noble birth (I say she only because I prefer writing female characters) and some cataclysmic event agains the throne would cause her ascension.
Each successive appearance would detail some part of her life as she dealt with the feelings of betrayal and loss over her ascension.
Running from her problems, denial, rage, grief. Each appearance would be her gradually going through the motions, adopting different colors along the way.
At the end of the journey she would get her $%^& together, go , and return home to reclaim her birthright.
I would read it.
No idea how you would blend that with current set design theory, though, if it was even possible at all.
I don't believe magic can currently support an Epic any longer.
"The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view." -Matt Ridley, Genome
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3 months ago ::
Feb 21, 2013 - 9:01PM
#262
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Magic could do an epic again, if the "Good" planeswalkers split into two or more teams and went searching for items to defeat the Phyrexians or whatever. All they need to do is tie the three or four major plots together.
Just off the top of my head.
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Hell, if they steal from us, we'd be honored.
oh my god, AWESOME!
Then changing the Slivers was your idea! haha
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Occassionally when catering, I've been put the task of arranging Fruit and Cheese or Grilled Vegetable platters. More than once a high class buffet has started with the mark of Phyrexia upon it. Since i've got a good eye for color so it looks great to people who don't get the "joke" (it's a niceley divided circle after all: the outline gives you 4-6 "regions" to work with), this has actually got me put on platter design more often, resulting in Phyrexia's presence at more private and industry events.
I have 6743 Planeswalker points, that's probably more than you. "Destiny, chance, fate, fortune, mana screw; they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures."  Gerrard of the Weatherlight
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3 months ago ::
Feb 21, 2013 - 9:32PM
#263
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Dec 12, 2008
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Yeah... I could see it maybe working if we could get broader tours of multiple settings across a few blocks with a larger quest story happening in the background.
Of course, they would need to stick to the plane-spanning epic story hook, rather than sort of, uh, ignore it for several years... >_> (koffkoffGideonwhatthehellareyoudoingkoff)
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3 months ago ::
Feb 22, 2013 - 12:17AM
#264
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Why do I get the feeling that this is going to end up like Avengers (please keep in mind I know nothing about comics); where, once a sufficient Magic crew has been built up, with enough time for some backstories and a number of frontstories, we're going to have: A) an epic clash, where we find Nicol Bolas was the one who instigated a Planeswalker's War or B) we find out 'walkers still have the capability of making artificial planes and we'll have a Force for Good planning against Bolas. That sounded a lot better in my head. Also, that picture about bad flavor obliviousness... that makes me sad.
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Right, chaps! Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling! Grab your eggs and fours and let's get the bacon delivered!
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What if we ended up in the Futurama universe?
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I suppose the downside is that it would be just like now, only in the future. And I couldn't get on the internet for places like this, because... well... you saw the episode. Not that going online full-body wouldn't be cool...
All I know is that this place would be a lot steamier if we went in full body.
And I'd blame Keeper for it.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 25, 2013 - 8:19PM
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You know... one really has to wonder how Garruk got a new wardrobe when he visited Innistrad.
I can only really imagine it going thusly.
Imagine now:
A hunter is out on the moors late one night, the moon staring balefully down from the heavens. His nerves are shot as he tracks his way through the brush, every noise setting his heart hammering.
He kneels down and looks over the expanse of the cold plain, the winds ruffling the trees far in the distance.
Then what's that?... the wind begins to blow heavier, a veritable cyclone kicking up from the middle of the field as lightning begins to spark from nowhere!
It crackles across the moorland, thunder and wind in its wake as light explodes into a perfect sphere! It hangs there, barely above the ground like some great pendulous effigy of the moon high above and then.... winks out. The night is quiet, leaves still caught in the remnants of whatever that was.
In the darkness, a figure is bent over and as the hunter watches, he slowly rises, a broad expanse of bronzed flesh stretched across a massive frame. The figure looks directly at the hunter and stalks forward. The hunter is speechless, the words and his breath caught in his throat as the man towers over him.
"Your clothes. Give them to me."
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3 months ago ::
Feb 25, 2013 - 8:23PM
#266
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As funny as that all was, Garruk is a good two to three feet taller than everyone on that plane.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 25, 2013 - 8:33PM
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As funny as that all was, Garruk is a good two to three feet taller than everyone on that plane.
Yes, thank you Hairless, for killing the joke.
Everyone else got that it was a Terminator reference, right?
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3 months ago ::
Feb 25, 2013 - 8:43PM
#268
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I knew it was a Terminator joke, I just think it's funnier imagining Garruk trying to wear the clothes of a man one third his size.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 12:34AM
#269
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith by using Garruk and Liliana
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 12:43AM
#270
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith by using Garruk and Liliana
No. Bad. No cookie. Not even if you're joking. Garruk and Liliana have nothing. And don't try to shoehorn a love-triangle between Jace, Liliana and Garruk into this.
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Hell, if they steal from us, we'd be honored.
oh my god, AWESOME!
Then changing the Slivers was your idea! haha
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