For me, as a veteran, it is, and always was, about the community, not the name. I'll go where the people I like to talk to, and the staff that did such amazing work, are going.
If the staff moves to Nexus, I'll follow, like I went from News to Sally 14 years ago.
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May 9, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Retrospective by Mark WintersGreat article!Posted in: Articles
Though I am a little sad that after Kelly Digges, I see that another man highly responsible for the gem that is Dominaria left Wizards.
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Apr 9, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Preview - Final PartingCalled it!!! (I mean the Final Parting being Josu + Liliana, not Jodah + dying Jaya).Posted in: Articles
Also, gratz a lot to an official preview card! -
Mar 15, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesPosted in: ArticlesQuote from Formless_One »No, the Baron Sengir and Grandmother Sengir come from Ulgothra. However, Grandmother Sengir is actually a planeswalker named Ravi who knew the Baron when he was young and as I understand it before he was a vampire. Then she went insane after pulling an Urza and blowing up most of Ulgothra. But the plane has a planar portal that most likely connects to Dominaria, and who knows? Maybe the Baron and his "Grandmother" did some traveling around the Multiverse at some point.
The Baron is NOT from Ulgrotha. He is from an unknown plane, he was brought to Ulgrotha by an unknown walker and stranded there. He might be originally from Dominaria, as we seen Sengir vampires there...but there is not enough info either to confirm or dismiss it.
Granny is a former planeswalker and one-time friend of the Baron who had a hand in him becoming vampire. See here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Ravi
More in this 12 years old article from Matt Cavotta: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/royal-bloodline-emphasis-blood-2006-02-15 -
Mar 12, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesYou are welcome. Some more:Posted in: Articles
odah's paragraph is quite wild.
"(Jodah) was also present during the Phyrexian Invasion and helped restore Urza's sanity during that time" - this is wholly incorrect, where you got it?
- one of the primary contributous to Worldspell - not quite, he had to provide his mirror and was forced to utilize (and in the process, consume) the safe havens to distribute the excess energy of the spell to prevent another Sylex Blast.
It is debatable, whether Evra, Halcyon Witness is what we think. After all, we have seen Halcyon Glaze. But using this very particular name on Dominaria and NOT tying it to THE Halcyon would be immensely stupid.
Kolo Meha was above all a Bogardan fire mage, but with ties to Madara, of course.
Gix was not Glacian's kíller. He attacked and wounded him, but Yawgmoth "killed" him by his treattment. -
Mar 12, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesSome minor corrections:Posted in: Articles
- Primevals' rebirth was one of the climaxes of Planeshift,not Invasion
- Karn's Temporal Sundering is probably the time machine explosion also depicted on Sunder, not the Tolarian rift closure.
- Sagas get counters on the beginning of the precombat main phase
- Mirari was just one of Karn's probes, and a faulty one (it shouldn't be leaking power)
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Mar 7, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Ixalan Story Interview with Alison LuhrsLoving it. Amazing read.Posted in: Articles
The most interesting thing for me is the reveal of intentional use of farce structure and themes for the story. It makes PERFECT sense. And explains a lot. -
Feb 11, 2016
Caranthir posted a message on Archive Trap: The World of InnistradGreat article, guys. Thanks for summarizing this.Posted in: Articles
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Jan 13, 2008
Caranthir posted a message on [Powerfantasy] Some pics of a game...Great pics, JamesPosted in: Hydrokinesis's Blog
Losing Miles had to hurt, indeed. I like your choice of team....playing with Miles and Phobeya together is one of my preferred combinations. Just add Harass and you got my fav "supervillain" team. But Sil is powerful with any high-damage super character. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I think that I can say these things after reading this book.
1) Dumbledore sacrificed himself, knowing that he is not able to finish Voldemort - but the over-pissed Harry has now enough hate and power to do it.
2) Snape is not a villain, but an double agent extraordinaire. Dumbledore was actually pleading him FOR doing it, FOR killing him. This has to be a master plan of Dumbledore, including paying the utmost price. This has to be a plan how to fuel Harry to do the final task, with leaving him with the mightiest ally in disguise, who Harry thinks now to be his blood enemy nr.2 after Voldemort. Dumbledore was not such an ass to blindly believe Snape for the years. Also the Order of the Phoenix members seemed to be not so ultimately shocked by his death.
3) R.A.B. = Regulus Black. The A. is maybe a mark of some nickname, as "Wormtail" for Pettigrew. With all that references (I do not know whether he was mentioned before, maybe in nr.5) in this book and the match of twp letters...He is coming to avenge his brother...
I have managed to read half the book, as well as the ending (not quite orthodox a way, I know, but I am not so hard a fan not to want to be spoiled). The outcome and the brutal twist at the end, nevertheless, shocked me pretty much. I wonder in what way it is going to be wrapped in the final book.
So that made me laugh hard. Now tell me that the Onslaught story was way more better than the Weatherlight storyline and it will be clear that we are wasting our time here.
May I remind you, that Kamigawa was "A land of thousand legends" ? So much for the "overabundance". Tough times make heroes - plenty of them. But this time they were more portraited on individual cards.
Well, Onslaught block *tried* to make us play goblins, beasts, clerics... [irony] what a Kamigawa bashing to play certain tribes !!! [/irony] What is wrong with you, man?
That statement is simply ridiculous. The novels. The vignettes. The many references in the flavor text. The various card interactions types - Spiritcraft, Ogre-Demon synergy - yeah, "fundamentally flawed".
I have a sneaking suspicion that the majority of your post could be summarized like this: "I do not like Kamigawa because I do not like Japanese." Surely you can. But there is no need to hide it with the help of quasilogical arguments.
I like it as a casual player and flavor/storyline geek very much.
Well, from a casual player's perspective, I really liked both Mirrodin and Kamigawa. I thought they both did a good job of taking the game into places it has never really been before from an artistic and flavor perspective and there were lots of interesting cards and mechanics to build fun (if not necessarily competitive) decks around.
Amen to that.
I was browsing the artists' pages (thanks to MagicDeckVortex for listing many of them on one page) and found an interesting pic from an artist named Donald Hazeltine. I knew him, he did Ghitu Encampment and some other lands, but what attracted me was a pic named "Shuriken". It is listed in the section "Magic:the Gathering" so it has to be an alternative to Matt Cavotta's more "action" pic. Enough talk, enjoy:
So what do you think? I must admit that although it features the general picture that comes to mind to majority of people when they hear the word "Shuriken", ergo throwing "stars", I like Cavotta's version more. At least I learned that the shuriken had more types tham just stars.
I'll disappoint you, Anus. No, I am not engaged or betrothed. You do not really think that after 15 years of learning English I do not know this word, do you? I do not know how it works in your country, but in my country, the engagement means giving the girfriend an engagement ring and state the date of wedding. And this has not been done yes. You missed, pal.
Yes, it is. But it is not this case.
Eh...should I answer?
Good point. Maybe these guys's work is a mix of aerial scouting and leading/inspiring the legions below them to go into the battle?
Yeah, I needn't to go so deep. Consider it to be a professional deformation.
Well. I presume that the dipping into block specific creature types is meant mainly card-wise. Loxodons - OK. Skyhunter was never a creature type, they were Cat Knights. Also, there was not a single Pteron in Mirrodin cycle. Only Pteron Ghost, and that is a Spirit, I believe. These guys are other kind of airborne knights, but I do think them neither being cats nor riding pterons - and not to be called Skyhunters.
I cannot help myself, but the mood of the pic points that way. But it is a bit jawbreaker, I know.
For the worst set? Fallen Empires, Homelands, Legends, Ice Age, and most of Seventh Edition.
Hmm...interesting username....aren't you a relative to a certain kanji magician :-D ?
Zaz's CenCon theory:
http://forums.mtgnews.com/showthread.php?t=128102&highlight=planeswalker
Squirle's Planeswalkers list:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=976
Squirle's Planes list:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=968