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Quote from ChrisBP7 »Quote from Simto »It's Magic's story, if you're expecting it to be better than *****ty you're kidding yourself. I hope the cards are good and the art is cool. I hope they go full viking stereotype with big helmets, horns, muscles, ships, valkyries and stuff like that. There's still hope for some of that old school Conan heavy metal album style art with the recent Jared Carthalion, True Heir which I think would fit this perfectly. Well,in that case why even bring your opinion into the matter if you don't see the point and think the discussion is unimportant? Instead it feels like you just want to push your own opinion (Magic story always equals *****) and then stop it right there to have the last word. Believe it or not, some people here do care and like at least some aspects of the story and do want to talk about it. I also feel like "*****ty writing" and "Mary Sue" have both become snarl words thrown against any story/character that people dislike, no matter the actual quality of it all. Not saying that the storyline is always great, but seriously, confusing ones own subjective likes/dislikes with objective criticism is astoundingly common in this thread and often on this forum as a whole. That aside, if Wizards has done one thing relatively right (with a few exceptions) then it is mixing the common stereotypes about ancient cultures with some more realistic and not well-known aspects to create their fantasy counterparts. I wouldn't worry about horns, ships, valkyries and definitely muscles to appear to fulfill your wildest viking stereotype dreams. Just probably mixed with some less well-known facts about them probably.
Quote from Simto »It's Magic's story, if you're expecting it to be better than *****ty you're kidding yourself. I hope the cards are good and the art is cool. I hope they go full viking stereotype with big helmets, horns, muscles, ships, valkyries and stuff like that. There's still hope for some of that old school Conan heavy metal album style art with the recent Jared Carthalion, True Heir which I think would fit this perfectly.
Quote from Borealis »Quote from Simto »Who cares about the lore anyway. It reads as terrible fan fiction. A couple of lore hints in the flavour text can be cool and add a certain sense of mystery, but the way the story is drive now is terrible. No bother. Still, as a Dane, I'm hype for a Viking themed set. Hope it doesn't suck. Your not wrong and it doesn't help the planes in the longterm. After all part of wanting to visit certain planes was the lore. If the lore is trash then the desire to see certain planes or characters has less interest behind it.
Quote from Simto »Who cares about the lore anyway. It reads as terrible fan fiction. A couple of lore hints in the flavour text can be cool and add a certain sense of mystery, but the way the story is drive now is terrible. No bother. Still, as a Dane, I'm hype for a Viking themed set. Hope it doesn't suck.
Quote from Drangsal83 »So now that norse gods are confirmed it is finally possible to play a subgame of ‚Age of Mythology‘ within MtG.