Flavor Text Highlights - Core Sets (4th-10th Edition)
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This entry will be the largest one yet, with 4 cards for each category. All new flavor texts of pre-M10 core sets will be taked into account.
Cool -
Truce (5th Edition)
Not all victories require defeat.
—Onean idiom
Phyrexian Hulk (7th Edition)
It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel.
It doesn’t laugh or cry.
All it does from dusk till dawn
Is make the soldiers die.
—Onean children’s rhyme
Regeneration (7th Edition)
“Why should death always have the last word?”
—Llanowar druid
Llanowar Elves (5th Edition)
One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
—Llanowar penalty for trespassing
Funny -
Might of Oaks (7th Edition)
“Guess where I’m gonna plant this!”
Sizzle (8th Edition)
“Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.”
—Jaya Ballard, task mage
Temporal Adept (9th Edition)
“If yesterday was two days ago tomorrow, will the day after tomorrow be today or yesterday?”
—Temporal Manipulation 101 final exam, Tolarian Academy
Manabarbs (10th Edition)
“I don’t know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It’s a sword. With two edges.”
—Kamahl, pit fighter
Worldbuilding -
Ornithopter (6th Edition)
“It has been my honor to improve on the Thran’s original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work.”
—Urza, in his apprenticeship
Wrath of Marit Lage (8th Edition)
“Marit Lage lies frozen in a glacier’s heart. Still her dreams take form in our world, stealing the heat from our souls.”
—Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest
Ascendant Evincar (10th Edition)
His soul snared by an angel’s curse, Crovax twisted heroism into its purest shadow.
Blackmail (9th Edition)
In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion
Emotional -
Pacifism
Without warriors there can be no war.
Agonizing Memories
“I think little of the foes I’ve slain. But I’m haunted by the friends I’ve sent to die.”
—The Southern Paladin
Icatian Scout
“In these, our final days, I offer this. Though we could not save Icatia, we gave our children time to grow, and love, before it fell.”
—Ailis Connaut, diary
Grafted Skullcap
“Every day, I fight for my life and win. Every night, I fight to remember my name and lose.”
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