Lately I've been reading a lot of spanish poetry for a class of mine. In several cases when authors have described snakes they use the word "glisa." Technically "glisa" translates to something more like "glides," but translations of these poems commonly use the word "slithers."
Because I have a Glissa the Traitor EDH deck I immediately thought, "Cool, wizards named their snake-legged zombie elf Glissa because it references the word glisa (or possibly the latin root of the spanish word)." Of course, then I rembered that for all of the original mirrodin Glissa wasn't snake-esque at all, she was just a normal elf.
What do you all think? Did Wizards know that Glissa would get phyrexianized before they named her? Did they decide to give her a snake body because she was already named Glissa? Is her snake body and name just a coincidence?
Also, what other instances of foreign words being used as names have you noticed?
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Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land, [Card] deals 2 damage to them.
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Whenever a player would gain life, flip a coin. If heads, that player loses that much life instead. If tails sacrifice [card] and that player gains that life as per usual.
I'm going to vote for the "just a coincidence" option. Probably just sound association because she has some metal on her so it sounds like she should be shiny (glistening).
Glissa doesn't have a snake body. It might look that way at first glance, but look closer and you'll realise that that copper coloured snake-thing is just a tube or something that Glissa is leaning up against.
(Check out the promo version's art for more proof)
Because I have a Glissa the Traitor EDH deck I immediately thought, "Cool, wizards named their snake-legged zombie elf Glissa because it references the word glisa (or possibly the latin root of the spanish word)." Of course, then I rembered that for all of the original mirrodin Glissa wasn't snake-esque at all, she was just a normal elf.
What do you all think? Did Wizards know that Glissa would get phyrexianized before they named her? Did they decide to give her a snake body because she was already named Glissa? Is her snake body and name just a coincidence?
Also, what other instances of foreign words being used as names have you noticed?
Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land, [Card] deals 2 damage to them.
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R
Whenever a player would gain life, flip a coin. If heads, that player loses that much life instead. If tails sacrifice [card] and that player gains that life as per usual.
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(Check out the promo version's art for more proof)
Pete Venters did say that they knew during the original block, Mirrodin was going to be New Phyrexia in the future.
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