I did a quick advanced search on the forum and couldn't find a thread for this, so I wanted to start it myself, but didn't know where to put it. So I put it here in "Magic Storyline" because, well, it's about the storytelling tropes of Magic: The Gathering. I apologize in advance if this is the wrong sub-forum to classify this thread.
For those of you who are not familiar, there's a website called "TV Tropes", which is like a wiki for practically every sort of literature (in the very broad definition of the word) that has ever existed. Instead of merely writing summaries of stories like the normal Wikipedia, it revolves around deconstructing the stories by looking at how particular "tropes" (storytelling or literary devices) are used in them.
Of course, Magic being made up of it's own storyline, it has it's own pages:
Main Page
Personally I feel that a lot of the Magic TV Tropes pages could use some help. The tropes in the character page, for example, are rather scant, including the entries for the five colors and the ten guilds.
Now, I know there's a huge community of Vorthoses here dedicated to keeping the knowledge of the Magic continuity up to date, so I think that if there was an avenue for any of you to use your literary skills outside of the MTG Salvation Wiki, this might be a nice break for you. I also wanted to make a thread for this so that anyone who wasn't aware of it would know that such a thing exists.
If a thread like this has existed before, then I sorely apologize for replicating it. I couldn't find any such thread using the advanced search, and seeing as how little attention is going to the TV Tropes pages, I simply assumed that a lot of people don't know about it.
In any case, thanks for reading, and I wish you (hopefully) happy "troping".
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
I participate yearly in a survival challenge in which I am dropped off in the wilderness with 1 days rations, a knife, and no other supplies, and have to find my way home. This is typically several weeks hiking from civilization.
I have personally killed several bears in the course of this challenge, with the use of snares and other traps.
Storyline isn't really the place for this. Magic General is probably the better forum, since it's not about the storyline per se but about another Magic website.
I have lost days of my life to TV tropes. Anyone who happens across this thread should seriously check it out, assuming you're into over-analyzing things you love and discovering odd trivia.
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Known about this for a while. It's a nice info-dump/pseudo-archive, but it doesn't really compare to the neatness of the MTGS wiki. Could use more addition though; I do feel like it's lacking somehow.
Then again, my attittude towards TV Tropes as a whole has changed since I first discovered the site.
"Also, if an attacker is blocked, it is blocked; it fights only the creature that got in its way, even if it's a Physical God and the blocker is a Red Shirt making a Heroic Sacrifice. (This tactic is called "chump-blocking.")"
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This is why I started playing magic in the first place. It wasn't PT aspirations just making noobs cry by doing things that are perfectly fair.
Note that some editors can be a bit overzealous there, for some reason.
I noticed that the entry on "Art Evolution" didn't have any actual examples comparing very old card art with newer art, so I added a few actual examples (as links to gatherer.) For some reason that I still cannot comprehend, someone reverted that edit. (I have added quite a lot of stuff to tvtropes, and never had anything reverted, unless it was clearly a duplicate that I had missed.) I started a discussion on that subject, getting no answer. Deducing that it was a case of vandalism, I re-reverted my examples. The same person removed them again.
In the end, my account was perma-banned for engaging in an "edit-war". The other guy's account was not. It seems that the moderator doing the perma-ban was a bit biased.
There are still no examples comparing old and new art side-by-side, and there probably will never be. Go figure.
In short, the whole website is actually quite terrible. Well yes, reading through archives for hours on end of your favorite media products is certainly fun, but the whole way the site is managed is awful. The moderation is a joke, their policies are a joke, and overall it's just simply bad.
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I did a quick advanced search on the forum and couldn't find a thread for this, so I wanted to start it myself, but didn't know where to put it. So I put it here in "Magic Storyline" because, well, it's about the storytelling tropes of Magic: The Gathering. I apologize in advance if this is the wrong sub-forum to classify this thread.
For those of you who are not familiar, there's a website called "TV Tropes", which is like a wiki for practically every sort of literature (in the very broad definition of the word) that has ever existed. Instead of merely writing summaries of stories like the normal Wikipedia, it revolves around deconstructing the stories by looking at how particular "tropes" (storytelling or literary devices) are used in them.
Of course, Magic being made up of it's own storyline, it has it's own pages:
Main Page
Characters
Literature
... and a few others more.
Personally I feel that a lot of the Magic TV Tropes pages could use some help. The tropes in the character page, for example, are rather scant, including the entries for the five colors and the ten guilds.
Now, I know there's a huge community of Vorthoses here dedicated to keeping the knowledge of the Magic continuity up to date, so I think that if there was an avenue for any of you to use your literary skills outside of the MTG Salvation Wiki, this might be a nice break for you. I also wanted to make a thread for this so that anyone who wasn't aware of it would know that such a thing exists.
If a thread like this has existed before, then I sorely apologize for replicating it. I couldn't find any such thread using the advanced search, and seeing as how little attention is going to the TV Tropes pages, I simply assumed that a lot of people don't know about it.
In any case, thanks for reading, and I wish you (hopefully) happy "troping".
How well do you do against one?
Thank you, likewise for expressing to help out. I'm sure it will improve over time.
How well do you do against one?
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Nice to see that some others can be working on it now.
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Then again, my attittude towards TV Tropes as a whole has changed since I first discovered the site.
I'm stuck here all night, as usual for TV tropes.
"Also, if an attacker is blocked, it is blocked; it fights only the creature that got in its way, even if it's a Physical God and the blocker is a Red Shirt making a Heroic Sacrifice. (This tactic is called "chump-blocking.")"
In short, the whole website is actually quite terrible. Well yes, reading through archives for hours on end of your favorite media products is certainly fun, but the whole way the site is managed is awful. The moderation is a joke, their policies are a joke, and overall it's just simply bad.