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Timelapse video here on my new channel!This is art for a Yu-Gi-Oh! OriCa that I'm making. Please don't use without my permission, since I plan on making more OriCas to sell.
Done in Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI.
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It's 2015 and people are still selling this art on OriCas, even on playmats. I guess I should feel humbled that random people like my drawing, but there is no credit, and often the dealers will say they got permission or claim ownership to my art. That's not cool. If you see anyone else with this artwork posted, you should report them. I never ended up selling my OriCas, but I had made three, which I gave to three of my close friends in college. I firmly believe that if you're going to sell OriCas, you should own the art you're selling, either via permission from the artist (expect to give them a cut) or creating it yourself. Doing otherwise makes you no more than a thief.
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Yeah, got back into it like two years ago to play Lightsworns! Now I'm running a bastardization of Wind-Ups and Inzektors that I call "Winzektors." Thanks!
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nice! I also got back awhile back, when plants where still strong but now I just play fun decks 
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That's about when I was coming back in, my friend Dan was running a plant deck and I started up with a Machina Gadget deck. I played when the game was first released as a kid, but it was so limited compared to now-- there's like, legit combos and strategy, and not just putting United We Stand on Maha Vailo! You should play against me on Dueling Network, see if you can take on my stupid deck. My name is DreamError and I often sit on the main page when I'm not drawing.
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yeah I remember some of the old school days when you won with busted cards but yeah I'll look for you in DN my name is Axismundus the same as here
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Back in the day you won with no strategy or combo at all... just get the most expensive cards you could and go for it. I played my old GBA Yu-Gi-Oh games and it hurt, it was JUST LIKE THAT. I wanted to combo, but the most you could do was maybe a Magician of Faith/Morphing Jar #2 loop.
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well now days if is a big derp type scenario but long back it was just has derp of format lol
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Wait what? I feel like "derp" is replacing key words here...
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that there are many crazy combos going around and crazy card effects lol
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Knocked it out of the park yet again!
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Oh, OC. Never heard that term used for them before.
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Doesn't "OC" stand for "Original Character?" I see the term OriCa used most often by Yu-Gi-Oh! players, eBay dealers, and collectors.
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Yes, OC stands for Original Character. But I have never seen the phrase "OriCa" before this.
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FFF. Danny got me into playing this game. Awesome Orica! Are you planning on posting them?
Also will you be around on the 13th to Thursday? Danny and I coming up then and hope to see you then!
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Awesome! I have two decks built right now, and I plan on getting some of these printed for casual play and trading with other artists (they really are like Artist Trading Cards). I'll be around, can't wait to see you guys!
Can't believe you're playing, too. Remember the old days? Haha.
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Awesome! You're gonna make some kick ass Oricas! I've seen them on ebay and stuff. I have twoish decks built and one Danny and I are teaching Bob on xD Apparently Sportspage moved - we should totally find the new building and go for old times sake!
I KNOW xDD Well... bare in mind I started with Joey Wheeler's structure deck... when you can't compete with your friends period it's difficult to keep up enthusiasm. XD
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Sports Page is basically the same place, they just moved to the larger shop next door in the same building. I'm not a big fan of their tourney setup because it's traditional format and heavily based on how fast your opponent plays (it's mostly really bad kids, so you could easily be stuck in 20 minute games with a kid zoning out). But it's always fun to browse!
And man, all of our decks back then... it was kinda like Magic, we didn't have anything good at all, just good by comparison. I hope you can keep up this time!
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Really? And yeah - I can see why you wouldn't be a fan. Besides what I understand about traditional format + Children = bad mix. Yeah it was more for the browsing we were thinking about going.
Hahaha yeah seriously! It was tough back then because the game was new and you could only use the expensive cards to have any hopes of winning. I hope I can keep up! I have a Wind-Up deck and a Horus Blackflame build. The third is a super-basic Chaos Dragon build.
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DUDE. Okay, so I was building Wind-Ups because it's an auto-pilot combo deck that makes the game unplayable for your opponent if you do it right (little kids with Wind-Up decks are TOO cocky). I made a Wind-Up Inzektor deck that I call "Winzectors," it's stupidly consistent and is really not fair at all. I know it's gonna get all the cards banned. I just need the Tour Guides, hence the OriCa (want to use these as proxies until I get a real set for tourneys). And my girlfriend has a Chaos Dragon deck, too, not a mainstream build but I'm gonna help her with that since I have all the cards needed to make it top-tier (but I know Red-Eyes Metal Dragon will get banned in September as well). It's funny, 'cause she also was trying to make a Horus deck, but focused mainly on her dragons. Come to think of it, I noticed you two have very similar personalities and lifestyles... wonder if that has something to do with it. Haha.
Another thing about Sports Page I don't like is the pricing, but there may be deals in there. Last time there was an over priced common (marked at $10 for some reason), just made me feel awkward... and the packs were double the MSRP. Oddly enough, Target is the best place to get cards, and in a month or so there will be new tins released that have a bunch of expensive cards in them, like Wind-Up Zenmaines and the Evolzar stuff, and Wind-Up Rabbit, too. And Scrap Dragon... can't wait for those. I'm glad the game is actually really popular still, and it's actually the most-played game worldwide so I don't feel weird sinking money into it. The old cards, like Monster Reborn from the Legend of Blue-Eyes set, is worth like $50 now. Same with like all the usable foils, and even the starter deck stuff. Craaaaaazy.
How long are you guys staying? School starts for me in like the first week of September, so I'm probably heading back to Savannah the last week of August.
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Yeah my biggest hang up about Wind-Ups is how expensive some of the cards are - Danny and I preordered the Heroic tin thing, and I'm getting his Rabbit from it. I almost did a Wind-Up Inzektor thing. I know, Wind-Ups and Heiratics(sp?) are going to get "raped" as Danny would say. And you think they're gonna ban REDMD? That's partially why I started making Horus, Disaster Dragons are the oldest type of deck apparently, so I'm hoping not too much of it will be banned. Hahaha I like her already then! I might build up the Chaos Dragon, it depends how into it Bob gets. Are we going to meet your girlfriend?
Really? That's interesting, well, it would be more for old-time sake than anything. We can always look around. Yeah Walmart around here sells them for pretty cheap. I can't /believe/ the shit they've banned - I mean seriously! It's stuff that used to come in starter decks like Change of Heart. Yeah, I mean, Magic will always be number one in my heart but yugioh is fun, now that there are more than 3 types of decks to build. And omfg the foils are insane!! I wanted to get a Koa'ki Meru Drago in foil (for vanity's sake) but they were like twice the price of the non foil card. And yeah, I've seen what you're talking about for that old time stuff.
We're there from August 13th to August 16th so not the end of August. How much longer do you have in Savannah?
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I haven't even seen Hieratics in the meta, I doubt they'd get hit at all. Do you use Dueling Network at all? I wanna play more people on there. Red-Eyes will get banned because it breaks Future Fusion, Inzektor Hornet and Dragonfly will probably be banned (or maybe just Hornet) because their engine is super broken, and the parts of the Wind-Up loop will also get hit hard (probably a limit/ban on Zenmaity, and ban on Hunter unless they decide to hit Rat). Chaos itself is an older archetype, but the Chaos Dragon deck itself was only relevant after the structure deck came out, what with the Lightpulsar craziness. I hope Lightsworns can become a powerhouse again because I never got to play them at their peak power, and that archetype is the whole reason I got into Yu-Gi-Oh again(I have an entirely foil Lightsworn deck)! Aaaaand my girlfriend is currently in Savannah for summer courses, so unless she comes up to NJ at a time you guys are up here in the future... don't think so. I told her about you, because you guys are really similar, it's kinda scary.
I'm pretty serious in Magic, I have a pretty decent standard library that rotates out when Return to Ravnica releases, but after that I'll probably just play it casually. I'm looking into the modern format, because after all the bans they made, it's really healthy and a lot of decks can be competitive-- gonna try rebuilding Mythic Bant. And yeah, Koa'ki Meru Drago was sought by Amanda(girlfriend) for the longest... she settled for the common and it was still ridiculous!
All right, six days until you guys get here then! Sweet! I'm in NJ right now, and I have one, maybe two more years at SCAD. I don't know yet because my scheduling has been pretty hectic. I'll probably end up being a "super senior."
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Have you seen Atum and Heliopolis? They'll get hit, just check them out. And yes! I do. I doubt I'm good enough but we could play some time if you want (I'm always open to tips). I read about the limit/ban they might put on Carrier (I hope it's a limit - I only have one). Yeah! Lightpulsar is pretty nuts, you'd think that it'd be more likely to be banned. I have to say that's really annoying about YuGiOh - everything gets banned. Danny said that Lightsworns have never won a tournament, they've placed but never won. Hahaha see I poisoned your mind when we were kids, we grew up together so you knew what you needed XDDDD Someone JUST like me XDD
I'm playing with the idea of getting back into Magic - they banned those fucking indestructible Darksteel cards (which were the reason I quit) and brought Phyrexians back (why?) but oh my god there are some AWESOME new Phyrexians! Good enough to be in actually good decks xD That was something I always really liked about Magic - how most builds /could/ be competitive. And aw bummer. Yeah it still is. I love Koa'ki but seriously I thought I was getting a foil for the price! It was a bitch. (Tell Amanda I like her style since we're so similar!)
Yay! xP It's not so bad... being a super senior... it's just a pain in the ass.
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Konami only bans things that directly affect the meta, and the Hieratic stuff is only used when over-extending in some builds of Chaos Dragon, and barely at that. If a Hieratic deck becomes T1, it would probably be a healthy environment. It's not like when they banned my beloved Trishula, that thing could turn the whole game around right when it was summoned (even turn 1). Lightsworns were really good before, when Honest and Lumina were at 3. I'd love to see that again, oh man, I'd rock it so hard. Magic bans more stuff than Yu-Gi-Oh though, since Yu-Gi-Oh rotates their formats with a banlist, and Magic makes entire cycles unplayable.
So yeah, about Magic, the Mirrodin block cycled out years ago. The problem with that black as well wasn't indestructible stuff, but the infinte loops available in Arcbound Ravager decks. The meta was so unhealthy, the only deck played was Ravager, and Wizards banned the key pieces to the deck to make the meta more lively (one of the only two times standard had a banning, by the way-- the next was Zendikar block, with a ban on Jace, the Mind Scupltor and Stoneforge Mystic, the dominating Caw Blade deck). And the new Mirrodin block with New Phyrexia is cycling out soon as well-- but oh my god, their stories are so cool. Elesh Norn is my favorite by far, and she's probably the scariest in her ideals. I looooooooove her! My deck uses three of the five praetors, I made it a weaker version so I could play with my friends in NJ, since not many people here are really competitive. It still wrecks though. Make sure you bring Magic cards when you come!
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Lmao Danny and I played Lost Kingdoms and named it Trishula (You can't serious tell me that character was male-- I'm sure dragon high school would have been hell lmao). But ok I'll take your word for it, I don't compete so I wouldn't know. And yeah but at least with Magic it's all or nothing and there are a LOT of different styles of tournaments (I looked this stuff up when looking at a new zombie library that I might try to build).
Cycled out? I don't know what that means. I'm guessing that she's Phyrexian? I haven't read any of the new stuff. I started to read Mirrodin but stopped because it wasn't that great. But if they have a New Phyrexia book I might just HAVE to read it. I'm still totally obsessed with Phyrexians. Elesh Norn, is she the one you drew? What are her ideals? I am bringing both Magic and YuGiOh
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Okay, Hieratics are not widely played and don't top, but I looked up their silly FTK. How cute, haha. And I totally think Trishula is a female. I mean... TRISH.
I guess standard never really appealed to you, but it's basically the last two blocks of cards-- currently we have the Scars block (Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia) and the Innistrad block (Innistrad, Dark Ascension, Avacyn Restored), along with the most recent core set (Magic 2013). When Return to Ravnica releases in October, the Scars block will cycle out and will no longer be standard-legal. Standard is the most played Magic format, and easiest to get into... but in my opinion, the most expensive over all. Most people I know here in NJ just play casually and don't follow formats, so none of that stuff really matters to them. I wish I at least brought my rare binder, I have so many crazy broken cards that I'd love to use in casual games.
And Elesh Norn was one of the ones I drew-- the white one. All the Praetors have their ideals for how New Phyrexia should be run, and her's I think is the creepiest. She kills and "rebirths" creatures into Phyrexia, and believes she is saving them, like a pastor "saves" people by "bringing them to Jesus." Being Phyrexian is a pure and perfect state of existence, and she has been told that there are other worlds where creatures live, and they are just waiting to be "saved." None of the other Praetors have any interest in the other worlds, and Urabrask (the red one) is super chill and just doesn't want to mess with anyone who doesn't mess with him. A close second to Elesh Norn is probably Jin Gitaxias, who experiments on creatures trying to create the "perfect" Phyrexian. Fuckin' needles and surgery, man, that's creepy.
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Trish HAS to be female. End of story. (I think Black Rose Dragon is my favorite - that one's either female or a VERY flamboyant male, so I think she's female).
Meh. I've only ever done one Magic tournament thing and it was terrifying --everyone was like two feet taller and four times wider than I was and that was intimidating--. I'm guessing the casual tournaments don't follow the super strict rules. Are there any online Magic-equivalents to dueling network? I would be more likely to play that against random online people - I just need to get to know the new rules and stuff. Where did you leave your rare binder?
That is AWESOME. How do you know all of this? I'm iffy about some of the new ideas (like Yawgmoth being dead I did hear another theory that Yawgmoth existed within the black stuff that helped bring back the Phyrexians or something like that) but I LOVE some of the art on the cards--I LOVE how they did Phyrexian Vatmother in particular. Do they still do the books attached to each of the cycles? And that's how classic Phyrexians were (I LOVE the Gix-people seeing as Gix was one of the first Phyrexians in the Thran) to "convert" them all and conquer. Omg that is BRILLIANT!! I MUST find out more about her. I seriously love Magic.
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I'm positive that a "casual Magic tournament" really can't exist, unless it's not advertised well. Anything without restrictions would result in turn-one Vintage decks, and nobody wants that, haha. I play a manaless dredge deck that is so sexy... I'd have to proxy it up to play it here though, since it's in Savannah. Same with my rare binder. the closest thing to DN for Magic would be a program called Cockatrice, but I'm not sure if it has random play, and it might be confusing to set up.
Yawgmoth died waaaaay back, remember? Apocalypse, classic Star Wars-esque ending to the block. I'm sure there's still books, they're focusing more on the newer Planeswalkers though, like Jace. Bitches love Jace. He's such a douche! <3 Some of the blocks were really weird. Like the Alara block. Apparently that whole plane got overrun by zombies and now everyone is dead and zombified and shit. The Zendikar block got fucked too, an alien race called the Eldrazi awakened and started eating their world. That race exists just to eat worlds. They'd eat the New Phyrexia, too, I bet. I was so not thrilled when I heard about the new Mirrodin block, but when it all started getting corrupted and alien-robotics and whatnot, it got super cool. Like the Invasion block.
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Yeah but you know what I mean? Something like the Sportspage one was were it was basically no Mercadian Masques and that was as far as they went with limits. Manaless, eh? How does that work? I'm looking into a blue/black zombie deck currently, I need to get back into the swing of things.
Yeah yeah yeah so they say. Yawgmoth is forever. I KNOW oh man they've been overdoing it with the planeswalkers, in the old series they only had a few planeswalkers but now EVERYONE is a bloody planeswalker. They're supposed to be really powerful so shouldn't they be few and far between? Seems like everyone and their mum is a planeswalker nowdays.
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Wait what? That's such a weird limitation, MM wasn't even a strong set.
The deck's really really cool, I need to proxy it up so I can play it here in NJ. It doesn't even look like I'm playing Magic when I use it.
And I'd say it's because the planeswalkers have started... walking planes. Technically the players are planeswalkers, too. They were originally referred to as "wizards" before the word planeswalker was coined. So there's always been thousands, but since Urza kinda died and Koth was doing his thing, they brought more into the light. The idea of actually having Planeswalkers in the game was a really cool idea. Nicol Bolas is a planeswalker too, but only had a shitty legend card (it really wasn't good at all, especially because he's kinda THE STRONGEST THING EVER). Bitch used Yawgmoth as a puppet to weaken Dominaria, released the Eldrazi on Alara, brought the Phyrexians to Mirrodin... what a dick. Jace is kinda just the typical douchy guy, but with counterspells.
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Yeah. I... can't explain it. I have no idea.
I'm sure it doesn't - never mind the play style but the cards themselves look like they're gravitating towards pokemon.
Yes but players and books are two separate things. Ok, so every player thinks they're planeswalkers - great for them. And doctors thik they're gods. Doesn't change the practice of medicine. I just feel like, after Urza --a superpowerful dude who couldn't even be stopped when his head was cut off-- who had no emotions and little left to connect with, as a character left him rather bland. Urza pre-planeswalker was an interesting character, but he would make shitty main character after he became a planeswalker.
Just as characters, I think they could be very weak. Ok yeah they're super powerful, big deal. Weak characters and weak character attachments make weak stories, you know?
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Well, planeswalkers aren't all exactyle "super-powerful." That's just Urza. Planeswalkers are simply characters able to move through planes at will (just as the players do, as we progress from the Innistrad plane to the Ravnica plane, for example). Literally, the players are planeswalkers, that's not an expression of ego. Found this little thing:
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Thing about the planeswalkers that exist in the story, or at least Jace, he's a really interesting character, fun to just watch him do his thing. I have a friend in Savannah who is EXACTLY like Jace, and that makes the guy all the more believable to me.
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The Neoplanes walkers aren't - which is good (Barrin's whole purpose was to make Urza human). I hadn't realized that the new planeswalkers were just chaps who can walk through the Blind Eternities. The old ones like Teferi, Lord Windgrace and Urza were god-like (not sure if Yawgmoth was a planeswalker or not). And as far as the play goes, that makes sense that the standard goes with each of the cycles because the players are shifting through the planes of existence.
Hm. I've no idea who Jace is but he sounds interesting. I've heard little bits but like I said - the Phyrexians are what matter to me. I'm surprised that they went back to using Phyrexians, you know? I thought they had those world-eaters but I guess technically Rath wasn't destroyed in the war so some Phyrexians and Phyrexian vats could have remained seeing as Old Phyrexian was destroyed.
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Yawgmoth wasn't a planeswalker or a god, but he embodied the black mana of Phyrexia and was probably comparable. OH MAN MAGIC LORE IS SO COOL.
Jace has a whole book to just his douchebaggery. When it first came out, it had a nifty promo with it. That promo is now like $50 and it's just alternate art on the regular Jace (albeit amazing art by Aleksi Briclot).
I've heard bits and pieces of the new Phyrexian lore, mostly about the Praetors and how they adopted colors other than black mana. I wish the fat packs still came with the books, after I got back into standard Magic, I started buying fat packs more and more.
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ISN'T IT?? I found most of my old books and am skimming/reading them.
Lmao, I'm guessing he's a douchebag then from all of these clues you're dropping. Wow, yeah (Kachi Kochi Dragon came from the ZeXal manga and that's worth like $12 now for no apparent reason) well that was like Rhox and the two arts of him. What makes Jace a douche? I read the wiki article of him and he doesn't seem like much of anything.
Yeah, I haven't bought anything in a long time - going to Walmart tomorrow and I might break down and buy a pack of New Phyrexia if they have it. I just really want to know HOW they survived, you know? Is there anything new about Rath? (I would think since the new slivers came out not long ago and they're natives of Rath). Does Robert King still write for them? He was always my favorite but Scott McGough is pretty good and I see he's written some as well.
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Oh wow, you're really hoping for the old Magic storylines, haha... the newest slivers came out six years ago! Rath also became part of Dominaria during Planeshift. The last book I read was Scourge, though, so I have no idea about the books themselves. I just know the storyline from the cards themselves.
And Jace? He like... uses people to move ahead and whatnot. He's also cocky as hell. It's mostly in the books that you get a feel for that, I think.
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I don't want the old stuff back -- I just want to know how they survived. And I thought Rath failed to merge with Dominaria. Haha kind of shows the last time I was into Magic, you know. Six years? Wow. And ah ok. I didn't really want them to bring back Phyrexians, I thought that when Mirrodin started the story would no longer take place on Dominaria.
Lmao I'll have to read the new ones to learn about him. Sounds douchy all right.
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Dominaria is so long forgotten... I kinda miss the events being centered there, or around there, and I did like how long they spent in that plane to really develop it. Dominaria felt like home, and ever since, it's been a long space voyage... though the Ravnica plane I really like. It has beautiful architecture and a great art direction, and the colors are broken up into different guilds, both enemy-colored pairings and allied-color pairings (Red/White is Boros, White/Black is Orzhov, for example). And of course in this return we are joined by Jace, the Douchebag (I love him though, such a loveable douchebag). I'm sad I missed out on the standard with Ravnica. I came back into Magic competitively at the tail end of Ravnica in high school, just in time to catch Llorywn and Shadowmoor. Those sets were fantastic, it felt like a twisted fairytale. It was a meta dominated by misleadingly cute creatures-- faeries and Kithkin. Though I'll always love the Invasion Block for being the Star Wars in Magic, my favorite standard rotation was definitely the shifting between Shadowmoor/Alara and Alara/Zendikar. It was such a beautiful and welcomed transition. Going into the new Mirrodin block felt so gritty, and leaving it behind feels so abrupt. I'm not a big fan of the Innistrad block either, since it's pretty much a nod to classic horror and feels a lot less "Magic" than past sets, Mirrodin included. I want my giant wurms, devastating dragons, vigilant angels, and blood-stained warriors back! Man, Kamahl was a badass before he became a hippie...
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They did a magnificent job with Dominaria, without her, it does seem like a long space journey. It just doesn't feel the same out of Dominaria, you know? Mirrodin was an artifact proxy if you will of Dominaria as crafted by Karn so it still had connections to the old land.
Invasion was the most amazing cycle - and a HUGE part of our childhood. I missed a lot of the new stuff (when indestructibles appeared I quit Magic, I hated that Darksteel shit) but I know I never finished the book Mirrodin. I checked out Innistrad and my natural inclination towards horror gives it points for me - I mean there are WEREWOLVES - what's not to like? Granted, I've only looked at the werewolves and little else of the set, but you could be right, I've lost the sense where Magic is. It's like living in the Blind Eternities to stumble back.
Hahahaha new card: Kamahl Creature - Hippie. I LOVED Chainer, Ixidor was cool too.
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OMG OMG one of my favorite cards!!! O:!
she looks so good!
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