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Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
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Something about Salvage Scout gets me. I mean he is an actual person who chose to help you out by abseiling down some dangerous cliff face in order to get you an artefact back. And yet his death is simply remembered in card form as “Sacrifice Salvage Scout” as though he were a tool and his life didn’t matter…
Inexorable Tide gives me a feeling of dread, I'm facing storm and didn't even know it. And, considering...
A lot of the infect creatures. This is where "block mechanic version of stock card" works very well, since you see all these old cards turned Phyrexian. And not just Mirrodin cards: Compare Metathran Soldier to Blighted Agent.
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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!
Triton Shorestalker is a sad one I saw in the full Journey into Nyx spoiler.
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I think Gisela, the broken blade and Bruna, the fading light are very sad when you compare them with their previous cards, Gisela, blade of Goldnight and Bruna, light of alabaster.
Squee's Toy. Sad and sweet and flavorful because squee.
Basically any card that mentions Squee in any way makes you feel bad for the guy. Nobody likes Squee, he eats bugs and he's as dumb as a Homelands filter land. To name a few in no particular order...
The Fifth Edition version of Icatian Scout is almost unbearable to me. I basically tear up every time I see it when I'm going through a pile of old cards.
I'll also mention Unfulfilled Desires, from Mirage. Like Day from Night,
I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky,
because you cannot change, my dear,
and nor can I.
And the Fifth Edition version of Primal Order: "My sorrow: to dream of simple times, and wake in mine . . ."
(I often think of that one when there's some new Magic-related internet scandal or circlejerk.)
There was a lot of heavy flavor text around that time, wasn't there?
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Wandering Ones
Also, Vindicate is pretty sad.
>implying
Modern
>implying
Legacy
UWMiracles/Countertop
EDH
UUUMemnarch, Steal your grillUUU
RWUZedruu, Queen of ChaosRWU
GWUBRReaper KingGWUBR
My Trades
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
I don't always post about Rafiq of the Many, but when I do, I cardlink to the original artwork, and not the supplementary product version.
"I trust myself to do my duty, even unto death. It's what comes after that I'm afraid of."
"Just fight without fear. Your soul is protected by the hand of Avacyn and will never submit to evil."
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Decks:
Casual
R Burn R
EDH
R Godo Voltron R
RUG ETB Overload RUG
BW Clerics Pain and Drain BW
GW Spirits!!! GW
RUG Landfall Silliness RUG
Thank goodness it can be countered by Indestructible Aura and whatever the hell is going on in that art.
METAL!
Something about Salvage Scout gets me. I mean he is an actual person who chose to help you out by abseiling down some dangerous cliff face in order to get you an artefact back. And yet his death is simply remembered in card form as “Sacrifice Salvage Scout” as though he were a tool and his life didn’t matter…
Flavor Text:
For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.
For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.
A lot of the infect creatures. This is where "block mechanic version of stock card" works very well, since you see all these old cards turned Phyrexian. And not just Mirrodin cards: Compare Metathran Soldier to Blighted Agent.
On phasing:
Why do we toy with these creatures lives? WHY?!
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BRSacrificial AggroBR
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BRRakdos, Lord of PingersBR
GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
UB Ramses OverdarkUB
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WLinvala, Queen of the AngelsW
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UTalrand, Drake-Slinging to VictoryU
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I stopped in to post this one.
My other favorite flavor text is Pernicious Deed.
Third place is probably Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth.
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Basically any card that mentions Squee in any way makes you feel bad for the guy. Nobody likes Squee, he eats bugs and he's as dumb as a Homelands filter land. To name a few in no particular order...
Squee, Goblin Nabob
Squee's Embrace
Avizoa
Legerdemain
Pincher Beetles
Aluren
Medicine Bag
Call of the Wild
Deadly Insect
Fool's Tome
Frog Tongue
Lowland Giant
It's not all bad for Squee. Squee finds redemption on cards like Zap.
I'll also mention Unfulfilled Desires, from Mirage.
Like Day from Night,
I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky,
because you cannot change, my dear,
and nor can I.
And the Fifth Edition version of Primal Order: "My sorrow: to dream of simple times, and wake in mine . . ."
(I often think of that one when there's some new Magic-related internet scandal or circlejerk.)
There was a lot of heavy flavor text around that time, wasn't there?