Magic: The Gathering
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benny blanco
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What's the magic gathering?
ChubbySoap
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Mark Rosewater ruined that game....never again
mystifiedbongs
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i dabbled about a decade ago when i was a kid
ChubbySoap
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1993 phantom monster, flavor text:
" 'While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh - but smile no more.'
- Edgar Allen Poe,
'The Haunted Palace'"
Elegant, powerful, classy...
Classical quotes and the floating third person"detached historian" point of view are the way to go most of the time, like in Alpha, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark.
...now enter the comedy stylings of the clown rosewater
2001 Fear, flavor text:
"Booga booga booga!"
nuff said neyh?
probably not....so onwards to the drudge skeleton card
Original:
"Bones scattered around us joined to form misshapen bodies, We struck at them repeatedly - they fell, but soon formed again, with the same mocking look on their faceless skulls."
the 'humorous' new butchery:
"'The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, they never surrender, and they don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off.' - Nevinyrral, Necromancer's Handbook"
rosewater was quoted as saying, "This flavor text reflects my belief that the undead have great comedy potential."
the man sickens me....truely a pox on all mankind
every storyline since mirage/visions is a thatched cesspit. I'd sooner have Jar Jar Binks in Magic then some shoddy wanker named, Chainer, Gerrard or Kamahl!
Magic used to be about putting yourself in the game - our imaginations, not some two bit hack that wrote a couple of episodes of 'Rosanne' for heaven's sake.
It used to be about the dueling mages. Us!
Now it's about flavor texts like those poor Dwarven Berserkers have to shoulder?
I am unamused.
" 'While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh - but smile no more.'
- Edgar Allen Poe,
'The Haunted Palace'"
Elegant, powerful, classy...
Classical quotes and the floating third person"detached historian" point of view are the way to go most of the time, like in Alpha, Antiquities, Legends, and The Dark.
...now enter the comedy stylings of the clown rosewater
2001 Fear, flavor text:
"Booga booga booga!"
nuff said neyh?
probably not....so onwards to the drudge skeleton card
Original:
"Bones scattered around us joined to form misshapen bodies, We struck at them repeatedly - they fell, but soon formed again, with the same mocking look on their faceless skulls."
the 'humorous' new butchery:
"'The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, they never surrender, and they don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off.' - Nevinyrral, Necromancer's Handbook"
rosewater was quoted as saying, "This flavor text reflects my belief that the undead have great comedy potential."
the man sickens me....truely a pox on all mankind
every storyline since mirage/visions is a thatched cesspit. I'd sooner have Jar Jar Binks in Magic then some shoddy wanker named, Chainer, Gerrard or Kamahl!
Magic used to be about putting yourself in the game - our imaginations, not some two bit hack that wrote a couple of episodes of 'Rosanne' for heaven's sake.
It used to be about the dueling mages. Us!
Now it's about flavor texts like those poor Dwarven Berserkers have to shoulder?
I am unamused.
Omgwtfbbq Indicaman
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My favorite deck was a black and green deck i had with a bunch of vampires and kavu titans. i had a spiritmonger and a lhurgoyf. good ol days. like 4 years ago i stopped playing.
SmokeyMcSmokester
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i never liked magic...I was all about POGS tho...remember that shit!?!