For me, the worst flavor fail is Tsunami. A giant, land swallowing wave is very blue. I can see it being red, if you argue that tectonic activity causes them. I cannot understand how anything green does. The effect makes sense, so I'm fine with that. But the art? That looks like a Middle Eastern/desert landscape being smashed by a tsunami. What?
Why is the creature type of Boartusk Liege not Goblin Knight Boar? It has boar in its name and its flavor text, and the boar is in the picture.
Mounts are rarely taken into account when determining creature type, which is why White Knight doesn't have the creature type Horse or Gryff Vanguard doesn't have the creature type Hippogriff.
It has always bothered me that tiny spiders have reach, but Indomitable Ancients do not, even though they are like 20 stories high.
Also, why are all nearly spiders in the multiverse orb weavers? Oh, and moar spiders with deathtouch or flash would be nice.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I can kind of understand the cycle of Staffs, and I get Angel's Feather but how exactly do a Demon's Horn, a Kraken's Eye, a Wurm's Tooth, and a Dragon's Claw all also somehow have restorative properties? Actually, from a kind of meta-flavor standpoint, why a Kraken's eye? The other colors all got their signature "big creature" while when it was printed I think there were only three or four Krakens in magic. Why not a "Sphinx's Pelt" or something?
They might have restorative properties because they're magical ingredients from hard to get creatures that live for a long, long time. As to Sphinxes, think of the history of Magic. Seriously. Demonic Hordes. Shivan Dragon. Serra Angel. Craw Wurm. POLAR KRAKEN. Fine, a better flavour would have been Djinn's Lantern or something, but it's way better than sphinxes. When did Sphinxes first appear? Gatherer says Ravnica. Before Ravnica it was Petra Sphinx in Legends, and that was white. Kraken is totally fine.
There is not a single facet of Storm Seeker that makes sense. Not the color, not the type, not the name, not the effect, and not the art. It's a total mishmash of random crap.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
That sword is some kind of a makeshift lightning rod. I mean, it's conductive, stands in open grassland and a thunderstorm is approaching. It's almost guaranteed to get struck. The damage portion makes sense. And since green, in older times, had a certain amount of weathercontrol, even the colour works. I'm just not exactly sure where the scaling off hand cards comes from. Probably just to mess with those pesky blue mages.
Why exactly does Ball Lightning die to Lightning Bolt?
And how does a wurm wear/carry... anything?
And what the hell is cycling?
1. The same way Water Elemental gets -5 from Hydrosurge?
2. In its mouth? With its tail?
3. I've always thought of cycling like this. So, when a card is in your hand, it's basically an idea. Your hand and library represent your mind, essentially, the spells you're thinking of casting. So I've always saw cycling as kind of being like "Well, no, this isn't going to help me. I need to think of something else."
I think these are significant. I mainly protest when the card, on its own, seems like it should do something and then doesn't. For example, Whippoorwill doesn't fly.
The most annoying one in actual play is that Reach of Branches creatures a Treefolk who doesn't have Reach. "Reach" is in the friggin' name and it doesn't have Reach!. That one really got me in MM limited.
I think these are significant. I mainly protest when the card, on its own, seems like it should do something and then doesn't. For example, Whippoorwill doesn't fly.
Whippoorwill is a bizarre card for lots of flavor reasons. Why in gods name is that ability green and on a small bird that exists in the real world? Is there something about whippoorwills what I never learned that would make this ability make sense? It should be on a ghost, or a magic user, or something, not some random woodland creature.
Wiitigo. Seems to come from the Lakota word witko meaning 'crazy' or 'spirited', and is an adjective. If they meant wendigo, they still got it wrong, because it's 1) not an aura (Wendigo was actually a diagnosis for someone who was, well, the kind of nut who eats his family. Euthanasia was the recommended course of action.), and 2) doesn't have something like "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Human or BLAH!"
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I think these are significant. I mainly protest when the card, on its own, seems like it should do something and then doesn't. For example, Whippoorwill doesn't fly.
Whippoorwill is a bizarre card for lots of flavor reasons. Why in gods name is that ability green and on a small bird that exists in the real world? Is there something about whippoorwills what I never learned that would make this ability make sense? It should be on a ghost, or a magic user, or something, not some random woodland creature.
Due to its haunting, ethereal song, the eastern whip-poor-will is the topic of numerous legends. One New England legend says the whip-poor-will can sense a soul departing, and can capture it as it flees. This is used as a plot device in H. P. Lovecraft's story The Dunwich Horror. Lovecraft based this idea on information of local legends given to him by Edith Miniter of North Wilbraham, Massachusetts when he visited her in 1928. This is likely related to an earlier Native American and general American folk belief that the singing of the birds is a death omen.[8] This is also referred by Whip-poor-will, a short story by James Thurber, in which the constant nighttime singing of a whip-poor-will results in maddening insomnia of the protagonist Mr Kinstrey who eventually loses his mind and kills everyone in his house, including himself.
Wiitigo. Seems to come from the Lakota word witko meaning 'crazy' or 'spirited', and is an adjective. If they meant wendigo, they still got it wrong, because it's 1) not an aura (Wendigo was actually a diagnosis for someone who was, well, the kind of nut who eats his family. Euthanasia was the recommended course of action.), and 2) doesn't have something like "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Human or BLAH!"
It looks like Wizards addressed your concerns with Shape of the Wiitigo... sort of.
for your 1, wendigo has huge roots being a creature and not just a diagnosis. Being in many lores about how it was once a man who then becomes a wendigo. There is not a flavor fail in making it a creature.
for 2, I assume they just wanted to show off the creature's gluttony, why would it have to eat your own things. its ability requires it to try and eat other creatures for it to grow and not decay.
There is not a single facet of Storm Seeker that makes sense. Not the color, not the type, not the name, not the effect, and not the art. It's a total mishmash of random crap.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
Doesn't explain why the electrical energy is amplified by cards in hand, though.
A message from one Mark to another. And oddly for this forum, neither one has "rose" or "water" in his name.
Seriously, though, it's a lot of weirdness to it. Like, just knowing things damages the environment enough to call lightning? And why lightning and not floods, deforestation, and heat waves?
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
There is not a single facet of Storm Seeker that makes sense. Not the color, not the type, not the name, not the effect, and not the art. It's a total mishmash of random crap.
My thoughts is that it references Stormbringer. But then again, it doesn't justify why it is green.
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So he dies and drops the sky, which takes the rest of the turn to fall. But then he comes right back like it's nothing and picks up the sky again. Then at the end of the turn, the sky finally lands on his head and kills him, causing him to drop the sky again. Over and over and over again.
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Also, Godsend wielding Elspeth.
For me, the worst flavor fail is Tsunami. A giant, land swallowing wave is very blue. I can see it being red, if you argue that tectonic activity causes them. I cannot understand how anything green does. The effect makes sense, so I'm fine with that. But the art? That looks like a Middle Eastern/desert landscape being smashed by a tsunami. What?
Mounts are rarely taken into account when determining creature type, which is why White Knight doesn't have the creature type Horse or Gryff Vanguard doesn't have the creature type Hippogriff.
Also, why are all nearly spiders in the multiverse orb weavers? Oh, and moar spiders with deathtouch or flash would be nice.
On phasing:
anything flying having a tragic slip, but at least it can be see symbolically
extinguish all hope & hopeful eidolon
go for the throat on spirit creatures, or let's just say something like headless horseman
it's pretty easy, especially with a lot of removal. Like how would you Sever the Bloodline of a Volatile Rig
They might have restorative properties because they're magical ingredients from hard to get creatures that live for a long, long time. As to Sphinxes, think of the history of Magic. Seriously. Demonic Hordes. Shivan Dragon. Serra Angel. Craw Wurm. POLAR KRAKEN. Fine, a better flavour would have been Djinn's Lantern or something, but it's way better than sphinxes. When did Sphinxes first appear? Gatherer says Ravnica. Before Ravnica it was Petra Sphinx in Legends, and that was white. Kraken is totally fine.
This is most on par when I think of flavor fails. Like Stone Hands, Storm Seeker's ability doesn't really reflect what it is, and what is it even? A legendary sword, that attracts storms, that's an instant, that punishes people for holding cards. No sense whatsoever.
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That sword is some kind of a makeshift lightning rod. I mean, it's conductive, stands in open grassland and a thunderstorm is approaching. It's almost guaranteed to get struck. The damage portion makes sense. And since green, in older times, had a certain amount of weather control, even the colour works. I'm just not exactly sure where the scaling off hand cards comes from. Probably just to mess with those pesky blue mages.
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And how does a wurm wear/carry... anything?
And what the hell is cycling?
1. The same way Water Elemental gets -5 from Hydrosurge?
2. In its mouth? With its tail?
3. I've always thought of cycling like this. So, when a card is in your hand, it's basically an idea. Your hand and library represent your mind, essentially, the spells you're thinking of casting. So I've always saw cycling as kind of being like "Well, no, this isn't going to help me. I need to think of something else."
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I think these are significant. I mainly protest when the card, on its own, seems like it should do something and then doesn't. For example, Whippoorwill doesn't fly.
The most annoying one in actual play is that Reach of Branches creatures a Treefolk who doesn't have Reach. "Reach" is in the friggin' name and it doesn't have Reach!. That one really got me in MM limited.
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Whippoorwill is a bizarre card for lots of flavor reasons. Why in gods name is that ability green and on a small bird that exists in the real world? Is there something about whippoorwills what I never learned that would make this ability make sense? It should be on a ghost, or a magic user, or something, not some random woodland creature.
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On phasing:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_whip-poor-will
It looks like Wizards addressed your concerns with Shape of the Wiitigo... sort of.
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for 2, I assume they just wanted to show off the creature's gluttony, why would it have to eat your own things. its ability requires it to try and eat other creatures for it to grow and not decay.
Omg no. Its actually Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker!
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Doesn't explain why the electrical energy is amplified by cards in hand, though.
A message from one Mark to another. And oddly for this forum, neither one has "rose" or "water" in his name.
Seriously, though, it's a lot of weirdness to it. Like, just knowing things damages the environment enough to call lightning? And why lightning and not floods, deforestation, and heat waves?
On phasing:
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My thoughts is that it references Stormbringer. But then again, it doesn't justify why it is green.
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So he dies and drops the sky, which takes the rest of the turn to fall. But then he comes right back like it's nothing and picks up the sky again. Then at the end of the turn, the sky finally lands on his head and kills him, causing him to drop the sky again. Over and over and over again.