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More flavor text for Najeela please!

Well, here’s your five-color Warrior tribal commander! (Source)

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Pia and Kiran Nalaar

Submissions open for Week 4 are now open! 

Send in your awesome flavor text! 

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You may have noticed there was no card posted this week to submit flavor text for...

Well, I’m here to assure everyone that there is a very good reason for this. 

...I forgot. I’m sorry. 

Please tune back in next week for Week 4!! 

- Dave @flavoracle

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Voting for Week 3!

We’ve counted up your submissions for Sidisi, Brood Tyrant, and now it’s time to put it to a vote! Here are the ground rules.

Put your vote in the comments. 

You can vote for as many submissions as you want, but you can only vote for each submission once. (Just type the number or numbers, separated by commas if necessary.) 

Use any criteria you like!

1. Her penchant for death and cruelty give serpents a bad name. @bladerunner-37

2. “From death’s coils we shall wrest the power to crush our petty neighbors on the steppe.” @uginsbones

3. Don’t look her in the eyes.  She’s not a gorgon, but she’ll still kill you on the spot. @youranswerisuncorrect

4. In her wake shamble silently the assassins who failed, each ready to strike down the next servant to be. @croisvoix​

5. Her whispers are insidious, intricate, and inescapable.  They echo in your ears even after death. @uffdathegreat​

6. Anafenza meet Silumgar. @ajanigoldmane​

7. Merciless methods got her to the top, but malice keeps her there. @skrambeck​

8. “I shall take the undead multitudes of this world. and make an empire the likes of which Tarkir has never seen!” @wardenofthefirsttree

9. Sacrifice is more than worthwhile when you can be brought back. @ekatclan​

10. “Humans were never much use alive, anyway.” @surrak-the-hunk-caller​

11. Her army never ceases to grow, for who can stop death? @asktheguildpact​

12. “I’ve had to claw my way to the top.  You’ll just be another corpse in the mix.” @nezumibloodeyes​

13. “The food chain is little more than a mountain of corpses.  And I am already on top of one.” @mitlamit​

14. “I said I still had a use for you.  You’re the one who thought that meant I’d let you live.” @cobui​

15. She didn’t get where she is by being nice. @solemnly-mystifying​

16. Her heart is as cold as those of her servants. @shorewall​

17. “I used to wonder about the symbol of the Sultai.  There is no question about the fang once you meet the venom behind it.”  -Surrak Dragonclaw @outlookinginward​

18. “That heartless witch would see all of Tarkir fall under her thrall.  She is poison to everything we hold dear.”  -Anafenza @mtgrapbattles​

19. “What do you mean, we’ve run out of corpses?”  -Sidisi, Brood Tyrant @turtletom854​

20. “Death alone will not hold us back.  An army of walking corpses will yield unto me eternal obedience.” @commandtower-solring-go​

21. “The Naga claim dragons as the ancestors of their race, but I don’t believe it. Surely no dragon was ever as heartless as Sidisi.”  -Anafenza @flavoracle​

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Winning Flavor Text for Week 2!

Here is your winner for Week 2, and the Flavor Text for Maelstrom Wanderer!

“Chaos born, chaos sown.” Submitted by @skrambeck Congratulations! Thank you to everyone else who participated!  Check below the Read More for the runners up!

Second Place: “It’s raining men. And beasts. And dragons. And-” @mitlamit Third Place:  “You can’t stop it. You can’t resist it. All you can do is wait for it to pass, and pray that you’re still standing afterwards.” @odric-master-swagtician

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Quick reminder that there’s still one more day to send in your flavor text submissions for Sidisi, Brood Tyrant! 

Then voting for Week 3 starts tomorrow! 

Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Week 3 - Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 

Submissions open for Week 3 are now open until Sunday. 

Send in your awesome flavor text! 

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If your submission does not appear in the voting post...

A few people have expressed that they had posted flavor text submissions before submissions closed, but didn’t see their submissions listed in the compilation post for voting. 

First of all, if you are one of these people, please accept my apologies. With the exception of vulgarity or offensive content (which so far no one has submitted) it is not our intention to filter or weed out entries in any way. 

In other words, if you don’t see your submission, THAT IS NOT ON PURPOSE. Tumblr seems to have some limitations as far as showing all reblogs and comments consistently, and we are trying our best to account for that, but if we have missed you, please reach out to us and let us know! 

One of the reasons the list of submissions is below a “Read More” link is so we can make corrections after initially posting the list, so it’s not too late!! 

Again, I’m sorry for any disappointment or frustration this may have caused any of you. This is still an experiment, we’re still figuring some things out, and we really appreciate your patience in the meantime. 

PLEASE KEEP THE AWESOME SUBMISSIONS COMING!! 

-Dave @flavoracle

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Winning Flavor Text for Week 1

Announcing the winning flavor text for Week 1 of The FlavOracle Reborn experiment!! 

And the winner for Worldheart Phoenix is... 

“Its ashes scattered across five shards, it was not able to be reborn until the worlds again become one.”  by @ezuri-claw-of-progresso 

Congratulations!! 

HUGE thanks to everyone who participated in this first round! I look forward to seeing your submissions in the future!! 

Read below for second and third place. 

Now for our runners up... 

Second Place:  “In the end, anything burns. In the flame, everything begins.”  by @morkaischosen 

Tied for Third Place:  “So long as the world turns, its wings still burn”  by @frozenfallenuniverse  AND  “Forged in the heat of creation itself.”  by @thepanekbutton 

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Sidisi, Brood Tyrant

Week 3 - Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 

Submissions open for Week 3 are now open until Sunday. 

Send in your awesome flavor text! 

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Voting Begins for Week 2!

We’ve counted up your submissions for Maelstrom Wanderer, and now it’s time to put it to a vote! Here are the ground rules. 

Put your vote in the comments. 

You can vote for as many submissions as you want, but you can only vote for each submission once. (Just type the number or numbers, separated by commas if necessary.) 

Use any criteria you like! 

You find many wonders where it wanders - @karnslivergolem

“An echoing sound, like the ringing of a great steel vessel, followed by a cacophony of destruction.”  - @lordanski

“It does not manifest the impossible. It manifests the impossible /twice/.”  - @tibalt-the-fiend-blooded

“Like the eye of the storm at it, its presence portends more in its wake”  - @vajra-furor

“You can’t stop it. You can’t resist it. All you can do is wait for it to pass, and pray that you’re still standing afterwards.”  - @odric-master-swagtician

It comes from somewhere far away, caked in the dust of countless worlds. When it leaves, some of that dust will stay.  - @part-the-waterveil

“I’ve driven through worse storms than this, it’ll be easy” -Captain Jord-Bal, last words  - @outlookinginward

"The conflux was an impossible miracle. The beings which could survive inside of it were just impossible."  - @conflictedcontradiction

As the Shards became Alara once more, energies long separated formed into beings of great power.  - @ezuri-claw-of-progresso

"There was a dear cost to behold it's might"  - @senor-myr

"Where it wanders, all follow"  - @ichiryuu111

Unshakeable, unfathomable, and completely unstoppable.  - @vausskgoon-intlwierdo 

Then it got up on top with a tip of its cane. ‘I call this game Fun-in-a-Box,’ said the plane. 'In this box are two things I will show to you now. You will like these two things,’ said the plane with a bow.  - @scalding-karn

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade  - @alexandherhamilton

“One unfathomable act of creation always deserves another”  - @thepanekbutton

The Wanderer seems to follow only one rule: Never take the same path twice.  - @flavoracle

“It’s raining men. And beasts. And dragons. And-”  - @mitlamit

“They said I couldn’t survive the storm. They didn’t realize that I am the storm.”  - @littlewolf1275

“Where it wanders, the world becomes a hurricane.”  - @xenagoat

For what many see as an impossible labyrinth this one sees as a morning stroll.  - @sir-breygon

Where the shards converge, great power flows. Where great power flows, greater beings reside.  - @uginsbones

Chaos born, chaos sown.  - @skrambeck

It is as unpredictable as it is unstoppable. - @arbiteroftheideal

Godtrackers follow the Maelstrom Wanderer not only to worship it, but also to give their praise to those that appear in its wake.  - @samwisethebold

Heart of a storm and a body to match, he’s the reason we say when it rains it pours.  - @sahoni-stuff

It keeps an recondite pilgrimage, sharing its esoteric gospel. - @jakaltimes 

A wanderer can never cross the same river twice. - @morkaischosen 

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In the settings menu for the blog (assuming your on desktop) directly above the settings for asks is the reply option, where you get to decide who can reply. I recommend setting it so everyone can reblog, but that's just me.

Ah-ha!! Thanks so much for the help! The setting has now been updated to allow replies from everyone. Please let us know if you still have any trouble adding comments.

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A number of bloggers have sent in messages saying they are not able to use replies on this thread. Thank you for letting us know.

Until we can determine the source of this limitation, please feel free to vote using reblogs.

Voting begins for Week 1!

We’ve counted up your submissions, and now it’s time to put it to a vote!  Here are the ground rules.   -Put your vote in the comments, not as a reblog. -You can vote for as many submissions as you want, but you can only vote for each submission once.  (Just type the number or numbers, separated by commas if necessary.) -Use any criteria you like!

Keep reading

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Voting begins for Week 1!

We’ve counted up your submissions, and now it’s time to put it to a vote!  Here are the ground rules.   -Put your vote in the comments, not as a reblog. -You can vote for as many submissions as you want, but you can only vote for each submission once.  (Just type the number or numbers, separated by commas if necessary.) -Use any criteria you like!

1. “In the end, anything burns. In the flame, everything begins.” @morkaischosen 2. “It, like Alara, will always live on.” @shingekinostunfisk 3. “All the world shall be its cradle, all the sky its domain. The fire from the first times returns now to we lucky few at the end.”

@khattnip 4. “A manifestation of the raw mana that once flowed through Alara unimpeded, it seeks not to destroy but to restore its once beautiful home with cleansing fire.” @tibalt-the-aggressively-costed

5. “It burns with a passion that surpasses the splintered fragments of its plane.” @imbeingheldagainstmywill

6. “As the shards began to reform as one, creatures never before seen were born from the energy.” @vorthosthewillis

7. “Its ashes scattered across five shards, it was not able to be reborn until the worlds again become one.” @ezuri-claw-of-progresso 8. “Suddenly, my stomach doesn’t feel very good.” @zerotheta 9. “So long as the world turns, its wings still burn” @frozenfallenuniverse 10. “So, do we even need to cook this bird?” “Depends on if we can keep it down.” @circlesmadeofglass 11. “Strike me down and I shall return twice as strong from the ashes” @genderlessalien

12. “Forged in the heat of creation itself.” @thepanekbutton

13. “As we destroyed it, we thought it was gone.

It wasn’t…” @deiingentes 14. “The world’s soul has come together through death.  Now reborn, its heart will protect Alara, until once more it parts through death.” @mtgexpert  15. “Born from fire, reborn from the maelstrom.” @humboldtfenix 16. “Only in rebirth may the slag of life be melted away, so its true majesty can emerge.” @cobui 17. “With the Shard’s convergence, the Conflux kindled far more than even Bolas had anticipated.” @aspiringsorcerer 18. “And from the ashes came new life.” @solemnly-mystifying 19. “Many swear by the world’s beating heart. Few are aware that it also possesses wings of fire.” @wardanofthefirsttree  20. “As Alara was reborn, so was the phoenix.” @sarkhan-punbroken 21. “The embers of the present will be the furnace of the future.” @youranswerisuncorrect  22. “The center of the world, reborn by the wishes of all.” @youknowwhatscrewyou 23. “The flames of one world. The soul of all five.” @samwisethebold  24. “Only the flames from its benevolence could draw the people's eyes from their fighting.” @linvala-the-memer 25. “As the sparking Shards crashed together, they reignited a new Alara.” @nudibranchs-and-caffeine 26. “It rises… the burning heart of Alara rises!” - Rakka Mar, former agent of Bolas @dimestoretajic 27. “By your powers combined I am Captain Phoenix." @derdave 28. “The fires of the maelstrom always burn bright.” @saidzed 29. “Progenitus could burn, and the world would barely notice. If this stopped burning, though…” @joslifer 30. “A few creatures quickly made the Maelstrom their home, as if they had been waiting for it for millennia.” @roonil-wazlib-offical 31. “Flames alone are not enough for its revival.” @thefrankiemorga 32. “As the Shards converged, flames long dead blazed new life into the skies.” @uginsbones 33. “A harbinger of a greater rebirth.” @snugz 34. “The heart of Alara burns anew.” @flavoracle 35. “The shamans were the only ones who were calmed by the phoenix’s appearance, seeing it as a sign of the world’s rebirth.” @magus-of-the-color-pie 36. “If Progenitus is the ‘Soul of the World’, then what’s that?!” @grimlockandload 37. “Forged in the fires of the Maelstrom, it is born anew.” @wtrob 38. “We burned the world. So then, shall the world burn us.” @thepianoelf 39. “A simple flame can ignite the world.” @karnslivergolem 40. “Ignite the heart, revive the world. Then to us the return the bird.” @popcornguy13 41. “In Soviet Conflux, chicken fry you!” @scalding-karn 42. “There is no greater drive, than the desire to survive.” @izzet-somnomancer 43. “From the energy of five worlds, reunited, came one blazing whole.” @magicbat 44. “The inhabitants of the newly whole Alara were too busy fighting each other to notice the gentle beat that echoed through the world.  The heart of Alara had come back to life after the longest heartbreak.” @northernweird 45. “From the ashes, even a world can grow anew.” -Scrolls of lost Alara @nezumibloodeyes 46. “They embody the most important aspect of the world: the will to live.” @krazybomb 47. “Only the fool cannot distinguish between that which is truly extinguished, and that which merely flickers.” @turtletom854 48. “Once, it was a memory, a shattered relic of a forgotten world. Now, it is an oath, a shining herald that will never break again.” @wanderingrootwalla 49. “The heart is the hottest part of the body.” @lesserideafountain 50. “Just as the phoenix rises from its own ashes, so too will it rise from the very ashes of our world.” -Joran Kel, Worldheart Prophet @princeofclockwork 51. “A single spark can devastate a forest; a single phoenix can devastate all who’ve earned the world’s ire.” @zemedelphos 52. “The heart of the world may flicker, but it will never truly go out.” @shorewall

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Maelstrom Wanderer

Week 2 - Maelstrom Wanderer 

Submissions open for Week 2 are now open until Sunday. 

Send in your awesome flavor text! 

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We’ve received some excellent submissions so far! Thank you all for the enthusiastic start! 

Submissions are open until Sunday night, so if you want to add your own flavor text, there’s still time!! 

Week 1 - Worldheart Phoenix

To celebrate the rebirth of The FlavOracle, our first card in need of flavor text will be Worldheart Phoenix.

I look forward to seeing your submissions!!

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Week 1 - Worldheart Phoenix

To celebrate the rebirth of The FlavOracle, our first card in need of flavor text will be Worldheart Phoenix.

I look forward to seeing your submissions!!

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The FlavOracle ReBorn

Introduction 

What is The FlavOracle? 

The FlavOracle was an experiment launched back in 2002 on the original Magic: the Gathering official website. 

The objective of the experiment was relatively simple, but ambitious for its time. It would provide official flavor text for Magic cards that lacked space for flavor text on the physical card. 

To add an extra layer of both complexity and awesomeness, fans would be able to submit ideas for flavor text, and then vote on their favorites. 

This wasn't just meant to be "honorary flavor text" either, it would be the real thing. Winning submissions would be included in Oracle, the official database of all Magic cards. 

So what happened to The FlavOracle? 

In brief, the experiment was a failure. 

Keep in mind that as stated earlier, The FlavOracle was incredibly ambitious for its time. It was launched at a time when a website was more a destination, rather than a place to interact. Early social media sites like MySpace existed, but they weren't prevalent like today, and definitely not a tool used by respectable companies like Wizards of the Coast. 

Basically, the concept was fantastic, but it lacked the technology to succeed in its time. 

If The FlavOracle failed, why talk about it now? 

Because it is no longer 2002, and technology and internet culture have both advanced more than a decade since the original experiment concluded. 

It's time to launch The FlavOracle again, and see if it can reach its true potential. 

The FlavOracle ReBorn 

OK, what's the plan? 

To start off, let's keep things simple. Each week this blog will post a card that lacks flavor text. Fans will be able to submit their flavor text suggestions as comments or (preferably) reblogs of the post. Submissions will be open for one week from the initial post. 

After that, a compilation post will be made with all submissions (excluding submissions with profanity or offensive content) for fans to vote on. Voting will be open for one week, and fans can vote for as many submissions as they choose, but should not vote more than once for a single submission. 

Votes will be tallied and a winner announced at the end of the week. 

So at the beginning of each week, there will be three posts to expect: 

A Magic card lacking flavor text, open for submissions 

A compilation of the submissions for the card from the previous week, open for voting 

Announcement of the winning flavor text from the card posted two weeks prior 

What happens to the winning flavor text?! 

At this point... not much besides a feeling of satisfaction and fun. This time the experiment is being started by fans, not official Wizards of the Coast staff, so there's no current path to get the flavor text officially added to Oracle. 

If this whole thing is unofficial, then what's the point? 

Well for starters, it's meant to be fun. As with many projects among the fandom, the chance to be creative and engage with other fans is the real drive and motivation here. 

In addition to the fun, it's also meant to illustrate to actual Wizards of the Coast employees that this IS something that fans want enough to engage this time around. After all, it's one thing to ask for something, but actions speak louder than words. 

So instead of asking, let's just work our own magic and bring The FlavOracle back to life!!