I always check the flavor text the first time I read a card. Sometimes the flavor text is really cool (Hold the Line) or is hilarious (Hidden Gibbons, Gorilla Titan, Goblin Offensive, everything by Jaya Ballard), or just gives insight into what the card is supposed to depict.
Yeah when I first see the card.
Also if someone is taking a long time to puzzle out a play in an edh game, we will take turns reading flavor texts to them in an attempt to bother them
clearly that was the intended purpose of flavor text
Yeah when I first see the card.
Also if someone is taking a long time to puzzle out a play in an edh game, we will take turns reading flavor texts to them in an attempt to bother them
clearly that was the intended purpose of flavor text
Absolutely I do. Some of them are great (the old Werebear) while some are a little overwrought (the Oaths from Oath of the Gatewatch), but I do read and sometimes remember them.
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I always check the flavor text the first time I read a card. Sometimes the flavor text is really cool (Hold the Line) or is hilarious (Hidden Gibbons, Gorilla Titan, Goblin Offensive, everything by Jaya Ballard), or just gives insight into what the card is supposed to depict.
the flavor text of Goblin Offensive in portuguese clearly shows that the translators didn't understand the joke, because with how they chose to template the card name in portuguese, the flavor text lost it's sense completely.
As others have said I too read them when i first see the card and then again if a player takes some time to make a move raging goblin have made me laugh the most
how about you?
Also if someone is taking a long time to puzzle out a play in an edh game, we will take turns reading flavor texts to them in an attempt to bother them
clearly that was the intended purpose of flavor text
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The goblin ones are often funny. ^^
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Some aren't all that good, but I usually enjoy them.
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That's my favorite way to play. When you play a card, you read it's flavor text. Makes the game somehow seem that much more fantastical.
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the flavor text of Goblin Offensive in portuguese clearly shows that the translators didn't understand the joke, because with how they chose to template the card name in portuguese, the flavor text lost it's sense completely.
raging goblin have made me laugh the most
Someone spent to a lot of time to craft that text.