In general, card design for a big set will start about 20 months before the release date. After it leaves R&D's hands, it has to go through editing, typesetting, collation (randomization), manufacturing, and distribution. A big set released in October will be 'in the can' in February.
I guess there's just enough time to fit this card into [Dis] (maybe they'll change it into :2mana::symwu::symwu: ). And I'm sure we'll get a chance to come up with a (short) flavortext. A YMTC-card wouldn't be complete without it.
I voted for your VestDan's before I knew it was yours. Congrats to you on this, and I really do hope you win, not because I know you or because you are a good guy but because yours is the best option.
Totally seconded SorryGuy i voted for it because it was clearly the best name out of them all and i dind't knew that it was a name from one of us here at the mill.
Congrats to you Vestdan and all of the others that got your submission in the top 10 and good luck to you all.
Although had Aggro_zombies's name came up, I would have so voted for it!
Heck, I refuse to vote for one of these names. What selection committee do they have for YMTC?!
Seconded. It should not have taken that long to come up with that list of names.
The R+D hamster was held up for a few weeks I guess, so it took him a while to randomly pick these names without any discretion as to whether or not any of them are good. I voted Somnomancy because Somnophore was cool and its the only one that begins to sound like anything other than a crap Kamigawa block common.
edit: Maybe I should just stop paying attention to magic if this is the treatment our intelligence will get, heh. A large percentage of the Johnnys around kinda got slapped in the face here with the names...
that's not what happened at all. kamahl stabbed phage, akroma, and some old lady and they became korona. then korona got stabbed by her "prophets" and kamahl got drunk with a mutant centaur
ugh. I'd obviously prefer for submission to win, but Tranceport really just makes me want to cry. That's just terrible. I can deal with most of the others, but gah, that's just awful. It'd be the worst card name since "Kaboom!".
For once I agree with Jedit. The names really aren't all that original (no offense to anyone here whose submissions made it) and none convey to me the feeling of a great spell. In retrospect, I wish I had submitted something more original too.
yeah, you guys feel free and play anarchs but even if you cut all the names with prepositions, you still have five options
Alright the choice is kinda tough anyway but I'd like to know your suggestions then, just being bitter does no good in this thread...( if it wasn't Tranceport or AEther Lure, that is :))
Thanx, unless someone beat me to it, I belive that was my submission - so everyone can feel free to vote "astral sojourn" and still support a MTGSalvation junkie.
I would go with Astral Sojourn or Dust of Dreams. The Pilgrimage is too complicated, and I would prefer the Sojourn over Dust as the expression of leaving play and coming back
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yeah, you guys feel free and play anarchs but even if you cut all the names with prepositions, you still have five options
Feel free to play the nonconformist at any circumstances.
Post scriptum: Aside from the consonance between "transport" and "tranceport", the name is lame, at least for me.
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VestDan you are truely having a month to remember on the internets. Your wonderful storyline articles show up here on Salvation and then they get advertised on manascrewed.com (altho I must admit that most of that audience probably came here anyway). And now this. Congrats man!
Based on what we know of Ravnica so far (which isn't much), it seems fairly unlikely that they'd print a random UW card in a set that doesn't also contain the U/W guild, just like I doubt we'll see any in RAV.
Also, as Wizards had control over the whole process, why couldn't they have limited the mechanics chosen to reflect the abilities of the three guilds in Dissension? Rigging the process in that way is safer than letting the voters ruin block design.
We already have it CONFIRMED that the U/W guild is in Dissention.
I have no idea why people still don't know.
It all fits into a nice little package that way.
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I voted Dust of Dreams before I came here this morning, so congrats. Oh, and I agree with the others that Tranceport is awful. It's a totally wanky pun that's better suited to an Un- set.
Congrats to everyone whose name made it to the final ten names.
My vote when to Somnomancy since it was coolest name on the list to me.
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I swear I submitted "vanish into memory" or something similar, just to not use a variation of dreams... but I don't remember cuz it was a while ago, and I never thought it would be picked. So do we find out who gets credit for those ten names?
Also, my thoughts on the name:
Tranceport is a cool name. And I hate puns.
Dust of Dreams is the best name up there, but i don't know if it really fits the card as well as some of the other ones...
That being said, I'll prolly just vote for the one that I think might possibly have been mine.
True. I suppose they'll use the old first past the post rule to assign credit, which means I'd probably miss out even if 'Journey through Dreams' was voted to the top.
Actually, on at least the YMTC 1, despite saying they were going to post credit for each submission(names, etc) and asked the submittees for name and info, they never posted it. Maybe half the people didn't respond, who knows. So whether or not it was yours they counted submission-wise won't matter if it happened to be identical to another(and about 8/10 of those probably got submitted a few hundred times. Maybe that's why they chose them? *shudder*). I got the email asking for name etc. on YMTC 1 for my name submission('hand of creation'); I don't recall if they posted peoples' names for everything on YMTC 2 or not...
And props to the Somnomancy guy. Though Trial of Sands actually doesn't sound that bad either on further inspection. The rest still suck though, lol.
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BTW, did anybody notice that the card has a frame of a multi-colored LAND rather than a multicolor card?!... what's up with that
Just them being sloppy I think. Perhaps they figured they didn't have enough time in their coal-min...I mean playcard designing schedules to actually take the time to do this part right.
that's not what happened at all. kamahl stabbed phage, akroma, and some old lady and they became korona. then korona got stabbed by her "prophets" and kamahl got drunk with a mutant centaur
Let me explain "Dust of Dreams" for those who don't seem able to get it. The "Dreams" part is for the temporary leaving play part of the mechanic, half the submissions touch on that. The "Dust" part ties it to the art, making it the dust pictured the actual agent causing the effect of the card. And I submitted Dust of Dreams instead of Dream Dust, in that the extra syllable just makes it sound better, more fantasy-setting.
This is what they told us:
I guess there's just enough time to fit this card into [Dis] (maybe they'll change it into :2mana::symwu::symwu: ). And I'm sure we'll get a chance to come up with a (short) flavortext. A YMTC-card wouldn't be complete without it.
Totally seconded SorryGuy i voted for it because it was clearly the best name out of them all and i dind't knew that it was a name from one of us here at the mill.
Congrats to you Vestdan and all of the others that got your submission in the top 10 and good luck to you all.
Seconded. It should not have taken that long to come up with that list of names.
The R+D hamster was held up for a few weeks I guess, so it took him a while to randomly pick these names without any discretion as to whether or not any of them are good. I voted Somnomancy because Somnophore was cool and its the only one that begins to sound like anything other than a crap Kamigawa block common.
edit: Maybe I should just stop paying attention to magic if this is the treatment our intelligence will get, heh. A large percentage of the Johnnys around kinda got slapped in the face here with the names...
With that I went with Tranceport, I hate all these titles with multiple words.
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Thanx, unless someone beat me to it, I belive that was my submission - so everyone can feel free to vote "astral sojourn" and still support a MTGSalvation junkie.
Feel free to play the nonconformist at any circumstances.
Post scriptum: Aside from the consonance between "transport" and "tranceport", the name is lame, at least for me.
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We already have it CONFIRMED that the U/W guild is in Dissention.
I have no idea why people still don't know.
It all fits into a nice little package that way.
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My vote when to Somnomancy since it was coolest name on the list to me.
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Also, my thoughts on the name:
Tranceport is a cool name. And I hate puns.
Dust of Dreams is the best name up there, but i don't know if it really fits the card as well as some of the other ones...
That being said, I'll prolly just vote for the one that I think might possibly have been mine.
Why Dust of Dreams and not Dream Dust? Dust of Dreams is purposefully inelegant, and it annoys me. Sorry.
I voted Somnomancy. Simple, elegant, and interesting.
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The Matrix Lord has gone with "Dust of Dreams"... good name!
BTW, did anybody notice that the card has a frame of a multi-colored LAND rather than a multicolor card?!... what's up with that?
Actually, on at least the YMTC 1, despite saying they were going to post credit for each submission(names, etc) and asked the submittees for name and info, they never posted it. Maybe half the people didn't respond, who knows. So whether or not it was yours they counted submission-wise won't matter if it happened to be identical to another(and about 8/10 of those probably got submitted a few hundred times. Maybe that's why they chose them? *shudder*). I got the email asking for name etc. on YMTC 1 for my name submission('hand of creation'); I don't recall if they posted peoples' names for everything on YMTC 2 or not...
And props to the Somnomancy guy. Though Trial of Sands actually doesn't sound that bad either on further inspection. The rest still suck though, lol.
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Just them being sloppy I think. Perhaps they figured they didn't have enough time in their coal-min...I mean playcard designing schedules to actually take the time to do this part right.
Given the choices, I went with Astral Sojourn.
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