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Thats fine lol. The one I ended up with is Prince of Light. I figured I'd ask since I basically get all of my HS info from this friend.

Me and my friend decided to make OCs based off a Land the other made. Im between 2 ideas. What Classpect would have the Land of Glass and Meteors?

I HAVE NO IDEA SKFNKENFKDNF

ill be honest im bad at lands. i do not understand them, i do not know how they relate to classpect, can someone who understands them pls explain lands to me

anyways uhhhhhh my kneejerk reaction is Time and maybe it can have puzzles based on winding back time on certain surfaces that have been broken by meteors striking the land. maybe. no clue about class tho

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Now you know.

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what’s the mood for february?

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Not anymore.

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This implies that Azor knows what a spare tire is. I’m not sure how i feel about that.

Jace to Azor: I’m the Guildpact

Azor: *laughing so hard he can’t speak*

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Yawgmoth himself. For such an influential character, i am kinda surprised he hasn’t had a card yet.

Question for All if You

What Magic character, that has never had a card, would you most like to see as a Magic card?

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Still fits his namesake.

Thraximundar and Blood Artist

Mission complete: Muse Monsters of 2018

EXCELLENT. Earlier today I asked you to find some Magic flavor text related to making and creating. Then I asked you to hunt down Magic art of inspiringly fierce critters. NOW WE COMBINE THEM. BEHOLD, and BE INSPIRED.

Zhur-Taa Ancient by Adam Paquette + the flavor text of Simic Charm

2018 is gonna be a year of making. This year we cup our ear to the ethereal whisper-plaints of our souls, scoop up big handfuls of Scared-But-Doin’-It-Anyway, and forge ordinary time and atoms into some LOUD-SHOUTIN’ HEART-EXPRESSIN’ ART. 

Purity art by Warren Mahy + flavor text of Future Sight (ONS)

And who better to inspire and motivate and encourage us this year than our own personal MUSE MONSTERS? I took some of my favorites of your flavor text and art suggestions and mashed them together in ways that inspired me. 

Art of Sanctuary Cat by David Palumbo + flavor text of Goblin Welder

Now you make your own. Making stuff is always hard – you hear the critical voices in your head long before the jerks OUTSIDE your skull even get a chance to pipe up. You’re gonna need to drown out those voices this year. Have some monster bellow some foul-smelling advice at your face, and I promise that’ll make things easier. Happy 2018, gang.

Art of Godsire by Jim Murray + (part of the) flavor text of Inventor’s Apprentice

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Who is more Ferocious than someone who paints... the ground red.

“Thraximundar”

(also his flavor text works for the previous thing, being about “””Painting”””)

Mission part two

OKAY, SWEET. MISSION PART TWO.

Y’all fetched up some great creation-themed flavor textsesses over in this post. The replies and reblogs are FILLED UP NICELY. Go looky, and feel free to continue hunting up more over there if you like.

BUT NOW. For this almost-final part of the mission, I want you to find art. Specifically you’re looking for Magic card art that depicts NOBLY FIERCE CREATURES. It could be a big toothy befeathered paleomonster from Rivals (because eyyy) or a brave-hearted little fur-beep from a Magic set from twenty years ago. Could be the art of a sorcery or artifact or whatever, if you like, as long as the piece involves some kind of nonhumanoid beastie looking INSPIRINGLY FEROCIOUS. Bonus points if they look like they’re YELLING. Use reblogs to post your pic(s) so we can all find them later (unless you can put images into replies now? yesno? yo it’s been a while, tumblr). Okay? This is part two of your mission.

Later today we’ll finish up the mission. ART OF EPIC MONSTERFRANDS! Let the hunt beginnnnn

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One of my favorite cards, Blood Artist:

“Great art can never be created without great suffering”

And Another, though this time for commander, Masterwork of Ingenuity:

“The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth.“

Both seem relevant to the creative process

A mission

Are you ready for a mission? This will be fun.

For this mission, I’ll need two things from you today.

PART ONE is that I need examples of Magic flavor text that are about building, making, creating, forging, whatever. Seek me out quotes, sayings, observations – serious or silly, all will work. They just have to have something to do with the theme of making or building something in some way. Post them in replies or reblogs. (You can include the name of the card the flavor text comes from, in case folks are curious about the origin, but that’s not required for the mission.)

Part two of the mission will come later today, with another quest for y’all. And then we’ll complete the mission and see the results.

Okay? FIND SOME FLAVOR TEXT ABOUT CREATING. GO!

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Surrender now or

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Seeing this is an odd experience. I was introduced to Magic with sample decks, and my first full deck was just 2 of them shuffled together. Knowing that my introduction to the game is now being sold, my nostalgia for these things has soured.

I’m not offended. I’m disappointed.

There was a time when you could buy a Magic: The Gathering starter deck for $7.95 USD. For me, that was almost a life time ago, but it was cheap enough even a single parent can give. Sure, it may not be constructed playable by itself, it was a decent starting point for anyone curious about the game. 

Eventually, Wizards of the Coast would find ways to introduce new players or even table top gamers into MTG, without overwhelming them. Starting with Portal, Wizards wanted to streamline the process and later with other Starter products with 40-card starter decks. These were marketed under $10 at the time, but they served their purpose to introduce players to the game at a relatively low cost.

Fast forward a bit about 10 years ago, WotC started to produce what most brick and mortar store owners would call, “sample” or “demo” decks. Not only could these 30-card decks serve as a friendly way to teach players how to play MTG, they were also completely free to anyone. Not only would you see these pop up at comic conventions, E3, PAX, etc… as freebie inserts. They were pretty much everywhere and it was eventually mass produced annually to promote core sets and later, expansions. Your school/college could even contact WotC and they would even send them!

So here’s where I found myself disappointed in an aisle at Target. Instead of giving away sample decks, someone at WotC had a great idea to just sell them instead. While I understand capitalism, I don’t think it’s a great idea to have a sample product that’s currently given away for free and also sell it. 

It would be like going into a Costco and grabbing a free sample off a tray and then repackaging it to someone dumb enough to buy and eat it. I’m not sure who signed off on the deal, but I really hope they understand that customers don’t enjoy being ripped off. Especially potential customers that will eventually find out. 

It’s one thing to repackage sample decks to make it look like new product on the shelves, but to have audacity to pretend they can’t get that product anywhere else. You know who could really use the foot traffic WotC? The local LGSs that sell your products, run your DCI sanctioned events, meticulously handle registration every week for FNMs and go out of their to find qualified volunteer judges. Oh and they also teach and demo the game in their stores with the sample decks that you provide them… 

But I guess profiting off grandma’s purchase of sample decks for her grand kid looks better for your quarterly earnings. After all, that was the whole point of trashing your Holiday gift boxes for a half-assed attempt to cash in on Pokemon gift boxes.

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Yes as long as the person they are stealing from is a bad guy.

Is it okay to tell somebody to steal for me and give the things to me if I’m not doing it myself? 

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He can and will grab the closest unmarried woman in your army to marry, even if their only previous interaction was him saying how he didn't think of her as a lady.

So I’ll probs regret this, but...

What is this series? I found this post on my dash and now I’m curious and wondering what other shenanigans this blue haired individual has gotten into and WHY is there an entire tumblr dedicated towards making people disappointed in him when obviously this is the only correct way to do ANYTHING

listen I’m tagging @moonfrost84 because they are the reason why this showed up on my dash

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I love that he still has the exposed legs. Also A-Skill: Shield of seals, non inheritable: unit gets Atk/def/res/spd +1 and hp+ 2 for each unit from a different game.

I drew Brave Hero (King) Marth!

Armored Unit. His A Skill is the goddamn Fire Emblem shield. Any ideas on what effects it could have? :3c

-[My art side blog, nsfw warning]