#feldon

[gloryofdawn]

Feldon of the Third Path is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of storytelling in Magic: The Gathering.

Every part of this card comes together to tell you Feldon's story without ever overtly saying anything.

The art depicts him as a sturdy man, used to labor, and the workshop around him supports that. His hair is dark, but his beard is gray. He's getting older, but there's life in him yet. He gazes intensely at at the machined face of an automaton's head.

His ability doesn't do anything so gauche as bringing a card back from the graveyard. No, he targets a card in the graveyard -- someone, something that has died -- and and creates a copy, a facsimile, that's an artifact in addition to whatever it was before. But his creation is imperfect. It doesn't last. At the end of the turn, you sacrifice the copy. Greater magics than what Feldon posseses are required to make it stay more than a moment.

And then the flavor text. "She will come back to me." Powerful. Defiant. Sorrowful. Broken? Who can say, we haven't heard Feldon himself speak the words. But he lost someone, and he is determined, driven to bring her back the only way he knows how.

We're never told what the first two paths are, even if we can assume, but Feldon very clearly indicates what the Third Path is.

[triscuit-cafe]

Darlings

[retrotvblr]

Get Smart (1965 – 1970) season 1, episode 1: "Mr. Big" dir. Howard Morris original air date: September 18, 1965

[citizenscreen]

Dean Jones, Jerry Lewis, and Barbara Feldon performing on “The Jerry Lewis Show” in 1968.

[vintagetvstars]

Barbara Feldon Vs. Carol Cleveland

Propaganda

Barbara Feldon - (Get Smart) - she's so earnest and sweet as 99 that I couldn't help liking her! and she's mesmerizingly pretty. I would let her knock me out with her lipstick any day

Carol Cleveland - (Monty Python's Flying Circus) - another hilarious comedy lady without whom python would 100% not have worked

Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket

Additional propaganda below the cut

Barbara Feldon:

agent 99 my beloved

Barbara Feldon Sings in French "La Vie en Rose " (HQ audio)

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Feldon's Cane

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Artist: Mark Tedin TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[oldshowbiz]

Conceived by Mel Brooks Executed by Don Adams Rescued by Barbara Feldon

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[mudwerks]

(via Film Noir Photos: Girls Who Wear Glasses: Barbara Feldon)

Get Smart (1965-1970,TV)

[davidhudson]

Happy 91st, Barbara Feldon.

With Don Adams and Edward Platt.

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❤️❤️

[stone-cold-groove]

Don Adams and Barbara Feldon. Get Smart - 1965.

[carolyn1761smith]

[citizenscreen]

Happy birthday, Barbara Feldon

[hellooldsmelly]