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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 21, 2021 17:55:03 GMT
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Nonagon Infinity
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 124
Favorite Card: Barren Glory
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Nonagon Infinity on Aug 21, 2021 21:50:38 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 22, 2021 8:19:07 GMT
Cause oth the lack of restrictions in this one i added some on my own to spice it up .) dont use keywords or abilitywords that are mentioned here.) additionally, only use one keyword at all .) the theme ot the card should be time based (aka fitting for a "time spiral" succsessor)
.) time themed reminder required .) and regardless of all of that, keep it nice and simple I also set myself a bit more of a challenge by having a keyword from before Time Spiral and one from after it. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 22, 2021 15:09:51 GMT
Just quickly passing by leaving my entry..
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 23, 2021 0:27:28 GMT
1) It seems weird seeing mutate, an ability that explicitly doesn't work with Humans, on a Human creature. Guess it's always going down onunder other creatures.
2) Is that Bruce Willis' doubled face?
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Post by kefke on Aug 23, 2021 1:44:25 GMT
{Card}  1) It seems weird seeing mutate, an ability that explicitly doesn't work with Humans, on a Human creature. Guess it's always going down onunder other creatures.
2) Is that Bruce Willis' doubled face?
Maybe not the place for it, but I always thought the "non-human" clause in Mutate seemed a bit arbitrary. I kind of see how, thematically, some dude getting the powers of some other random dude isn't much of a mutation, but at the same time there's no "non-artifact" or "non-wall" clause, so it's totally valid for a living thing to mutate into a crumbling, ancient pile of rocks. Just so long as it's not Bill from Accounting. |
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Nonagon Infinity
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 124
Favorite Card: Barren Glory
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Nonagon Infinity on Aug 23, 2021 2:26:08 GMT
1) It seems weird seeing mutate, an ability that explicitly doesn't work with Humans, on a Human creature. Guess it's always going down onunder other creatures.
2) Is that Bruce Willis' doubled face?
Maybe not the place for it, but I always thought the "non-human" clause in Mutate seemed a bit arbitrary. I kind of see how, thematically, some dude getting the powers of some other random dude isn't much of a mutation, but at the same time there's no "non-artifact" or "non-wall" clause, so it's totally valid for a living thing to mutate into a crumbling, ancient pile of rocks. Just so long as it's not Bill from Accounting. Supposedly, they made it that way due to "flavor reasons". Before you ask, I can't remember where I read this (I think it might have Blogatog, but I can't be sure). |
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Post by kefke on Aug 23, 2021 5:45:44 GMT
Maybe not the place for it, but I always thought the "non-human" clause in Mutate seemed a bit arbitrary. I kind of see how, thematically, some dude getting the powers of some other random dude isn't much of a mutation, but at the same time there's no "non-artifact" or "non-wall" clause, so it's totally valid for a living thing to mutate into a crumbling, ancient pile of rocks. Just so long as it's not Bill from Accounting. Supposedly, they made it that way due to "flavor reasons". Before you ask, I can't remember where I read this (I think it might have Blogatog, but I can't be sure). I can believe that, it's just silly that they'd exclude a type of living creature, but not any of the types that are explicitly not. |
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the5lacker
3/3 Beast
Posts: 198
Favorite Card: The Reality Chip
Favorite Set: Kaladesh
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by the5lacker on Aug 23, 2021 12:58:19 GMT
Supposedly, they made it that way due to "flavor reasons". Before you ask, I can't remember where I read this (I think it might have Blogatog, but I can't be sure). I can believe that, it's just silly that they'd exclude a type of living creature, but not any of the types that are explicitly not. The literal entire theme of the set and world is "Humans vs. Monsters." Mutate was the monster mechanic. Monsters mutate, humans don't. The fact that it also works with Elves, Dwarves, Kithkin, Vedalkin, Aetherborn, etc. is a consequence of the game being weird. The flavor works in the isolation of the world it's presented in. Now, the original plan for the mechanic was you could only mutate onto a creature that shared a creature type, but that was too restrictive and not fun enough, so they opened the mechanic up to all of the critters of Ikoria and beyond. But for the set to work the way it was intended to, especially in limited, Humans were excluded. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 23, 2021 18:46:31 GMT
Yep, the5lacker 's "timeline" for Mutate is indeed correct.
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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