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There were the threads about worst (here) and best (somewhere else) artworks. But (imho) the huge part of MtG charm is flavour. Not only the words in the bottom of the cards, but also the pictures. Some of them are just beautiful (or disgusting), but some of them are teliing some story (or even better - making you to imagine it on your own). 

I was inspired to think about that by Dimir Guildmage . May be in the tenth time, when I zoomed it in game process (it is very Dimir after all)), I spotted a shadow behind him. A shadow of some creature! Who (or what) is it? Is it friendly companioin or hostile pursuer? Why mage doesn't look at it (and also - why his face is so concentrated)?

And - when I've googled for bigger variant of Dimir Guildmage, I found this article about similar topic. I was delighted that it's author (someone from WoC, so this link is legal, I hope) even suggests that the mage even stole smth that glows in his hands.

So I thought - may be some cards also tell (or suggest) some stories to someone? Why is the whole city burning in the Chandra's Fury < /a> (perhaps with innocent people in it)? Why Indrik Stomphowler  is in a city, when all other PI creatures are in a forest? What is on the head of Goblin Arsonist ? And so on.

Jan 26, 2013 -- 4:32AM, Hakeem928 wrote:

Someone explain Disperse to me.

Looks like an insectoid creature's body is getting disintegrated or Disperse d - if you will. Although the pallete is very green-heavy, the effect still resembles an unsummon spell.

Jan 26, 2013 -- 3:20AM, falclon wrote:

So I thought - may be some cards also tell (or suggest) some stories to someone? Why is the whole city burning in the Chandra's Fury < /a> (perhaps with innocent people in it)? Why Indrik Stomphowler  is in a city, when all other PI creatures are in a forest? What is on the head of Goblin Arsonist ? And so on.

The city in the background of Chandra's Fury is a part of Ravinica that she went to to steal a map that showed the location of a powerful burn spell.  This story is told in a webcomic Fuel for the Fire.  Story told here: www.wizards.com/Magic/Multiverse/Article...

Indrik Stomphowler is in a city because it's a Ravinica card.  The entire planet that holds Ravinica is a city.  There are no forests there.  Even the forest cards from Ravinica are more like hanging gardens and city parks than real forests.

The Arsonist has a "hedron" on his head.  Its the same thing you see on Hedron Crab .  For an article that explains what the hedron are: wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Eldrazi

Also, back in magic 2012 and in this magic, there are some cards that supposely have some of the planeswalkers depicted in them. Is this true also in paper magic? Was it originally meant like that back when the card was 1st printed? Or they though about it now with the DoTP games?

Some cards I can think of are:
Finest Hour = Gideon.
Liliana's Caress = Gideon and Lilianna

I know I have seen others but can't remember them right now.

Jan 26, 2013 -- 10:18AM, Squalltheonly wrote:

Hey sixty, tell us where Child of Alara came from. Is it female or male? Who are the parents?

Avatars do not have parents, however, I can see where that question would be raised since it is called the "Child."  A direct quote from the MTG Salvation Wiki states, "An Avatar is an aspect or projection of a larger power. Avatars are powerful beings, and while most Avatars are benevolent, many are considered to be evil."

The Child of Alara was the manifestation of the Conflux itself.  See, the Conflux was a period of time in Alara where the 5 seperated shards (each represtended by 3 colors of mana) merged together to form the, for lack of a better term, super plane of Alara.  During this time all five shards were coliding with each other causing massive devestation to the portion of the surface of each shard which slammed into the other 4 shards.  Basically only 1/5 of each original shard survived as the other 4/5 of each shard (my personal theory).  This is also explained partially in the flavor text for Maelstrom Pulse .  So, since 20/5 (4/5 of each plane X 5 planes) of the entire plane of existence was destroyed during the Conflux it could be described as a period of time of horrible devestation and destruction.  That's why the Child of Alara has the Nevinyrral's Disk ability.