Very much a play on Leatherface/Cannible Slasher movie killer.
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Is it just me or are the uncommons uncommonly strong this set?
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I don't care about the creature type, none of the secondary ones are supported. But this thing seems very strong, and now I want to rebuild aristocrats.
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WotC probably couldn't get away with Serial Killer as a creature type.
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I wonder why they're white. Close with their family? Thinks they are doing something honourable somehow?
Yeah, the flavour is utterly non-white; and also the effects doen't require white at all, this card could have been (and would have fit better) as a black only card.
I wonder why they're white. Close with their family? Thinks they are doing something honourable somehow?
Serial killers are often ritualistic, killing similar people/similar means of killing/needing to take trophies/ect. If this is more of a nod to Leatherface (which I believe is the biggest influence) and similar killers are part of a family (this is non-legendary) that often only see themselves as "people" and everyone else as "meat/food" which also is very WB.
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I wonder why they're white. Close with their family? Thinks they are doing something honourable somehow?
Serial killers are often ritualistic, killing similar people/similar means of killing/needing to take trophies/ect. If this is more of a nod to Leatherface (which I believe is the biggest influence) and similar killers are part of a family (this is non-legendary) that often only see themselves as "people" and everyone else as "meat/food" which also is very WB.
I don’t know I think the ritualistic part can also be associated with blue and I think would be more in line with a gentleman killer flavorfully. I actually think this would have for better in golgari flavor wise and mechanically. While Garruck was under the veil curse he displayed attributes associated with serial killers. I think this is more a case that they created the card before the flavor. I know people will get mad at me for this but I don’t think they should make too many cards like this for Innistrad. Innistrad is supposed to be a gothic horror plane and while I have nothing against the slasher genre I don’t think they mix very well together. It’s the same with the eldrazi last time we were on Innistrad cosmic horror is it’s own thing to.
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A legacy of lies,
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The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
I don’t know I think the ritualistic part can also be associated with blue and I think would be more in line with a gentleman killer flavorfully. I actually think this would have for better in golgari flavor wise and mechanically. While Garruck was under the veil curse he displayed attributes associated with serial killers.
Rituals and patterns stuff can be both white and blue and a serial killer being white is one way to show that aspect of having to do killing in a ritualist/following a pattern. Maro has often cited character who do patterns or who have "ODC" like behaviors as white.
Mechanically this likely WB since WB in Innistrad is traditionally human based aristocrats with you wanting to sacrifice humans to power up monsters (which included was the black aligned humans).
I think this is more a case that they created the card before the flavor.
Oh very likely, but as a horror fan it still works with some of the tropes and real life stuff we know on killers.
I know people will get mad at me for this but I don’t think they should make too many cards like this for Innistrad. Innistrad is supposed to be a gothic horror plane and while I have nothing against the slasher genre I don’t think they mix very well together. It’s the same with the eldrazi last time we were on Innistrad cosmic horror is it’s own thing to.
Since Shadows Over Innistrad they had said that Innistrad is now a horror plane with gothic horror as its base, as they felt the first Innistrad took a lot of the gothic horror design and adding in other horror sub-genres helps give the sets more to stand on. Even in originally Innistrad they branched out of gothic horror with the black zombies being more modern version of them and stuff like Delver of Secrets being a Fly reference. They had even set up the comics horror with Reno and such being part of a cult of an old sea god and the pagan/folk horror themes we are seeing in the humans.
Genre wise a lot of modern western horror evolved from gothic horror/gothic writings (hovercraft was a gothic horror writer before evolving his wrote into what we now consider cosmic horror), so to me all the non-gothic horror stuff kinda feels like a natural extension of the genre.
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an uncommon and this psycho human which is probably scarier than anything on innistrad is just a S tier card for Orzhov aristocrat
I don't think they are quite willing to put Human Psychopath on a type line and Horror doesn't quite fit either.
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Understandably so, but I've never thought of killer psychopaths as "assassin" before is all which is where that iffy feeling comes from.
Agreed, I actually think hunter might have been a better fit. Plus "human hunter" is a beautiful play on words
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Just wait till someone appears at your LGS and "cosplays" at this card ...
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Warrior, Cleric, and Wizard would definitely disagree with you.
WotC probably couldn't get away with Serial Killer as a creature type.
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Yeah, the flavour is utterly non-white; and also the effects doen't require white at all, this card could have been (and would have fit better) as a black only card.
Serial killers are often ritualistic, killing similar people/similar means of killing/needing to take trophies/ect. If this is more of a nod to Leatherface (which I believe is the biggest influence) and similar killers are part of a family (this is non-legendary) that often only see themselves as "people" and everyone else as "meat/food" which also is very WB.
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So this is getting an art card in Set Boosters.
I don’t know I think the ritualistic part can also be associated with blue and I think would be more in line with a gentleman killer flavorfully. I actually think this would have for better in golgari flavor wise and mechanically. While Garruck was under the veil curse he displayed attributes associated with serial killers. I think this is more a case that they created the card before the flavor. I know people will get mad at me for this but I don’t think they should make too many cards like this for Innistrad. Innistrad is supposed to be a gothic horror plane and while I have nothing against the slasher genre I don’t think they mix very well together. It’s the same with the eldrazi last time we were on Innistrad cosmic horror is it’s own thing to.
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
Rituals and patterns stuff can be both white and blue and a serial killer being white is one way to show that aspect of having to do killing in a ritualist/following a pattern. Maro has often cited character who do patterns or who have "ODC" like behaviors as white.
Mechanically this likely WB since WB in Innistrad is traditionally human based aristocrats with you wanting to sacrifice humans to power up monsters (which included was the black aligned humans).
Oh very likely, but as a horror fan it still works with some of the tropes and real life stuff we know on killers.
Since Shadows Over Innistrad they had said that Innistrad is now a horror plane with gothic horror as its base, as they felt the first Innistrad took a lot of the gothic horror design and adding in other horror sub-genres helps give the sets more to stand on. Even in originally Innistrad they branched out of gothic horror with the black zombies being more modern version of them and stuff like Delver of Secrets being a Fly reference. They had even set up the comics horror with Reno and such being part of a cult of an old sea god and the pagan/folk horror themes we are seeing in the humans.
Genre wise a lot of modern western horror evolved from gothic horror/gothic writings (hovercraft was a gothic horror writer before evolving his wrote into what we now consider cosmic horror), so to me all the non-gothic horror stuff kinda feels like a natural extension of the genre.
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