Official MTG Snowstorm/Lore Thread

>>49569244
Posted a detail shot for Ka anon when he gets on. I'm working on it more and added the mana vents. Good?

I'm bored of detail work. I feel like starting another picture of Ka. I want to include another flake, too. Suggestions as to who? I prefer more monstrous things, but I can do humanoids, too.

>>49569566
Any flake riding him.

Or even better: Any flake riding him while he rides a bike.

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>>49569566
Draw Nico riding Ka like Falkor.

>>49569653
this

>>49569249

so get a picture of my snowflake, write the lore, then upload it?

>>49569710
Pretty much.

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>>49569710
don't forget the template

>>49569566

Oh great Gai anon, how might one convince you to draw our flake?

>>49569884
Bribe her with porn.

>>49570206
this

>>49570206
What sort is she into?

>>49570280
Tree fuckers

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AM I DOING IT RIGHT

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What does your flake's 'ultimate form' look like? (ex. pic)

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What is something you regret doing with your flakes or in the flake thread in general
I regret making Vronak the Slayer

>>49570547
Better than Vronak.

>>49569884
Which flake is yours?

>>49570589
Well...a lot of things.

I like Will anon, and I enjoyed the introspective writefaggings I did with her her and Will, and I don't dislike the idea of her being married at one point in time, but I kinda regret the whole Will thing.

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>>49570668

>>49570668
what is "the Will thing"? I'm not up to date on my snowflake lore.

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>>49570682
Okay, we gotta get this straight as to the differences between Vronak's Vronak and Belloski's my Vronak because with two Vronaks, it gets confusing as to which Vronak is being discussed or if it's Vronak anon and not Vronak or Vonak anons are talking about.

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>>49570787
Everyone talking about Vronak is taking about me.

>>49570901
Well, let's talk about the Vronak that's not you. Let's talk about the flake(s) known as Vronak and avoid any discussion of the person who refers to himself as Vronak on an anonymous image board

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Here's a closeup of what I'm working on atm. It's Forpols riding Ka. I drew the flakes from memory, so let me know if I got something wrong.

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>>49570954
Neah. The board would be less exciting without me.

>>49571015
>RRUUOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
>Mnyeeeaaa!

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>>49571015
That's precious, Gaia-chan.

>>49571095
This is a flake thread
where we talk about flakes
now let's talk about flakes

>>49571015
Absolutely incredible.

>>49570779
Long story short, 900 years ago Gaia tried to live a normal life. She fell in love with a guy named Will. They had a good life and had 2 kids. Later on, Gaia had to leave them for oldwalker business. She was gone longer than she thought she'd be (10 years) and her kids were killed by vampires in that time, igniting Will's spark. Exposure to the blind eternities and his family's death (he believed Gaia was dead at this point) and bitterness drove him mad. The two had a falling out. Fast forward a century or so. Will's a time traveler, so he's pretty old by now. Gaia makes her plane, cuts herself off from the blind eternities, and goes to sleep for, like, a fuck ton of time (she's in a time bubble, so time moved more quickly in the bubble). Will, now a troll and obsessed with all kinds of "ultimate truths" sees a blank spot in the blind eternities where a plane should be (where gaia's plane was plucked out and cut off). He's like "I wanna get in." Fast forward some more time, and after a shit ton of scheming Will breaks in. The Mending hits Gaia's spark, the plane collapses, taking her with it. Will's like "Oh shit, I killed my wife. I'm an asshole."

And then things get weird. It's...complicated.

>>49571272
lets facebook status this up, how complicated does it get?

>>49571345
Well...Multiple timelines and realities and dubius/multiple "flake canons" complicated. It's not even really set in stone.

>>49570529
So elves, liberals, and furries. Gotcha.

>>49570668

Kolya, till he dies. My next flake is in the process of having a bio written.

>>49571015

Top kek. That is great.

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>During each round, flakes will be assigned to random opponents in single-elimination tournament fashion.
>Flakes will be treated as though they are all neowalkers in order to create a balance of power.
>Flakes with meme-levels of power will be treated as though they weren’t.
>Flakes that directly contradict lore, especially by going against or interacting inappropriately with canon characters, will be disqualified.
>Flakes that are joke or troll flakes will be disqualified. The use of silver-bordered cards in a flake’s preferred spell list automatically disqualifies them.

>During the first round, all flakes will be placed into the roster randomly. Flakes that are disqualified will give their random opponents a bye for the round.
>During the first round, flakes will be revealed in smaller groups, noting disqualifications and asking the thread if they wish to disqualify anyone else.

>During each round, small groups of flake match-ups will be revealed
>Arguments will take place in the thread and votes will be taken from the polls over which flake is likely to prevail over the other.
>After each round, the flakes that move on will be re-randomized on the roster to make match-ups unpredictable.

>Match-Up rules will treat both competing flakes in a match as though they are both forced into conflict with the other, and neither is allowed to planeswalk away until a winner is determined. Flakes will be treated as though they start with zero assisting summons and will not have prepared for this encounter.

>Current match-up
>>49544628
>>49558387

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>>49571373
DID SOMEONE SAY MULTIPLE TIMELINES?

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>>49572241
WHY I THINK THEY DID

>>49572241
>>49572260
Even if the flakepoint was gay, not gonna lie, the intro gives me chills.

>>49559208
>>49559226
>>49559256
Doing these now

>>49572542
Do a bicycle riding Ka riding Forpols.

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>>49572551
I have done exactly as you asked Gaia senpai

On a scale of one to Digimon Eldrazi Lizard, how unforgivable is a flake Knight named Rider, who wears a mask and is themed around vehicles and justice?

>>49572693
make his last name "Ryder" and give him a righteous sounding first name, then it could be pretty cool.

>>49572685
Fucking delicious

>>49572693
About a GideonXChandra.

>>49572738

...Is that a "we sacrificed lesbian sex for this," or a "this is good and was at one time quite relevant but no longer the primary thing we're looking for" GideonxChandra?

>>49572981
>>49572981

I keep wanting to see Gideon get Chandra on all fours and put her in her place like that uppity fire tart keeps begging for.

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>>49572135
The following Flakes move on to the next Round:

>Serena
>Ka'Koarm

The next match-ups are as follows:

>Tok VS Ivander VS Del
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxNktKMHkzck5hODQ?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxenY5MlJDWl9pNW8?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxM1Q3ODU3Z05zWGs?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8

>Cala VS Talo'ara VS Vanya
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxVnRUVzNYZHF5Tkk?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUmJBOFM2ZXpHT1E/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxOXpuNmlkNWo4NDg?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxWEFFT0s5c0hlQXM?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8

DISCUSS!

Don't you die on me, thread...

>>49574071
Things are slow at this time in the mornings.

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Do not die but never forget.

>>49574876
Sorry, I forgot.

>>49573433
>First match
I think Tok is a bit too gentle for these contenders (unless his anon wants to correct me.) I think it will come down to either the rage wolf or the literal ball of Izzet magic. I'll look at their sheets more after work to be sure.

>Second match
I don't remember who Talo is off the top of my head (something else to look at later), but between Cala and Vanya I think Cala gets it. They both spit out tokens, but Cala has sic burn and storm. If livin in the country taught me anything, it's that fire is the best hard-counter to huge spiders (preferably delivered via lighter and aerosol can.)

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I find it interesting how so many Instants and Sorceries aren't actual spells in universe, but events, actions and circumstances.

Can you make a timeline out of cards for your flakes backstory?

>>49576871
A lot of instants and sorceries, even the storytelling kind, are often pretty real. Oftentimes those spells just try to capture the power or effects that existed in a moment of time and replicate them.

Bandage is pretty weird, but I imagine that they wanted something beneficial as a spell instead of an artifact. Its simplicity is why it's a cantrip.

Feeling of Dread is mechanically in color, but its flavor rather oddly belongs to black.

Survive the Night could very well be a spell that someone has cast to help ensure that they have what it takes to survive a horrible night on Innistrad, just given a more flavorful name by an observer.

>>49573433
I think that Tok is gonna get burned out, leaving us with Ivander and Del. While some of Ivander's spells may not be as suitable for fighting an elemental, Del is also not primarily a combatant (though they do have quite a bit of knowledge that would be useful in combat). This is a tough call, but Weirds rather certainly can still be beaten, so I'm giving it to Ivander.

A samurai, a half-devil, and a spider-person all walk into a battlefield, and they throw tokens all over the place. Honestly, the methodology is everything here, and I think the crazy girl with the fire affinity has the upper hand.

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So? What manner of transportation do YOU use to get around a plane?

>>49578911
Planeswalking can be aimed, right? Planeswalk somewhere else, then back to the original plane, but to a different location.

>>49578986
that'd be tiring as fuck, anon.

>>49579056
Worth it for trips that would take longer than a couple of days.

>>49579126
Not.. cool though is it.

>>49578911

Riding other flakes.

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>>49572542
Yo Sem, I brought goodies

>>49581535
woah wooooahwoah spooked.
Disclaimer: I do not use skeletons for the purpose or pronecreation

>>49573433
POLLS

http://www.strawpoll.me/11336152
http://www.strawpoll.me/11336154

>>49578986
Only if you're familiar with a place, likely mana-bonded with it. Jace had to hoof it to the Eye of Ugin with some merfolk girl he wanted to plow or something during BfZ and he couldn't use planeswalking to fast travel to it, even though he, Chandra, and Sarkhan were the ones who fucked it up before Sorin even thought about looking for Nissa.

After talking to Ugin he then bounced to Ravnica to bounce back to the ally camp, which is why he hypnotized said merfolk to go back halfway into the trip.

>>49576531
Talo is either weenies or start shitting tokens

>>49581718

No one believes you.

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>>49576871
Yes
do I get points for keeping it in my flake's colors?

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Alright, I'd appreciate comments and criticism on this card. I don't have the bio totally fleshed out for this new flake, but he's a former mage-priest from the Boros Legion (they're mentioned on Lightning Helix).

As such, I tried to copy that choice mechanic between a white spell or a red spell effect, or a combination of them for his abilities, but I suspect they need work/a more creative touch.

>>49585927
his ult is pretty weak considering how long it'd take you to use it, maybe add a buff or two in there?

>>49585910
Yes.

>>49585952

I was thinking about a way to add a 2nd combat phase once per turn in the vein of Aurelia. Any way to make it workable and not broken?

>>49586302
what's your guy's deal? Make it have a flavorful requirement. Like, say, if they're all about heroes, give it "At the beginning of combat phase, tap target legendary you control. This creature cannot untap until next turn. If you do, untap all creatures you control that attacked this turn and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase." or something. Since your guy is dealing with lightning, maybe have the requirement be discarding an instant to suggest him charging up his soldiers with lightning speed and ferocity?

So few votes so far today...

>>49582549
>Choice between a weird and a thallid
Don't do this to me

>>49586437

I'll play around with it. Appreciate the suggestions, senpai.

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>>49585927
>Using Mtgcardsmith.
>That formating and wording.

Boy, you need to re-work your flake's card a bit and not use MTGCardsmith.

+1 is too broken, IMO. Absolutely neuters aggro on a FOUR MANA PLANESWALKER with both the damage and the lifegain. See Ajani Vengant; his Lightning Helix is a minus ability.

-2 is Templated wrong, also that's more of a plus ability if you tone it down a bit. Maybe +1/+0 until end of turn. Don't do both because that takes up a hella lot of space for formatting and is TOO flexible and powerful.

-7 is a bit weak. Could beef it up a bit. Maybe throw in first strike?

I threw on my rendition of it, done in Magic Set Editor.

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>>49581535
Would you consider Skyre or Kherto? I'd really like more art beyond my shitty phone doodles. I might even bust out a traditional medium depending on how desperate I get.

>>49585927
>they're mentioned on lightning helix
Right you are, but let me also attempt to cross-reference where that falls into ranking within the Legion, because I am into that shit.

Known rankings within the Boros Legion for mortal casters fall into one of the following Power Bands (with 1 being the Guildmaster and working its way down)

>5: Guildmages
The highest rank any mortal can hold within the Guild. Are allowed to make contact with angels. They also take orders from angels and pass them down to the commanders of the army and the League of Wojek.

>9: Wojek Embermages
The Guild's combat mages. They exist to break up situations where direct, hand-to-hand style combat methods aren't effective.

>12: Wojek Apothecaries
These people are the healers in the 'jek barracks. Sometimes they're contracted in from different Guilds, when recruitment is poor.

So we've got three examples of mages, so the question is, where does your character fall in? Given that the title is "mage-priest," I would imagine that the "priest" part means that there is a connection to the angels, effectively making that the same as a Guildmage.

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Made a new attempt at Venn, using shitty art. Critique?

>>49587991
The +1 needs some tweaking on the wording.

The -7 costs a whole lot for being an easily breakable artifact whose equip cost I can't read.

>>49588020
Goddamnit, I forgot to put Indestructible to space out the wording. Equip 0 is the cost.

>>49588020
Also how is it worded wrong? That's the wording for Welding Sparks.

>>49587991
Make the equipment indestructible.

For the -2 maybe just put it into play? Being able to equip it too is a bit silly. Eitherway that's going to be silly with Withengar.

>>49588080
Maybe a -3 or -4 then?

>>49588078
You have to capitalize Equipment.

You also have to use the word plus, rather than a + symbol when writing rules text.

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>>49573433
>>49582549
The following Flakes move on to the next Round:

>Ivander
>Cala

A tie-breaker is required to complete the Round.

>Winifred VS Domoyl
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxcjh3dHphUnAwY1U?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxblgySGg0QUxiOVk/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxaDRfSTZld1h1bFE?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8

DISCUSS!

>>49588295
I still think that tutoring a equipment and playing it is a bit strong for something you can just drop on turn four and equip it while still having a solid walker up.

Just tutoring one could be a -1 or -2, when you're cheating it out like that it just opens horrible abuse cases like Withengar, Argentum Armour and Moonsilver Spear.

>>49588477
Made it a minus 4 then.

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>>49588525
Still too good, just make it a tutor. Searching and equiping is the realm of Stonehewer Giant which costs more and can't do it on the turn it comes in. Just make it a tutor or allow him to play an equipment from your hand for free.

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Another close-up update to keep the thread moving. Sorry it's taking so long to finish. I'm at the tedious stage where good shading takes a fuckton of time.

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>>49588700
it perf and I love it

>>49588405
Oof, tough call. They both seem like backup characters in power level, meant to support not to lead, so them fighting eachother's a difficult decision. I think I like the archer guy more, and his range focus can keep him out of black trickery hitting distance, but the witch has much more magical focus, and can probably get around whatever he does with his arrows. This is actually a real tough call. What do you others think?

>>49587856
Sure can

>>49588405
>Winifred VS Domoyl
That's a fight you want to win as fast as you can, because the longer that it goes on, the worse it gets. Summons that punish you for attacking and curses making you weaker bit by bit. This is the kind of flake that you want big answers to as fast as possible so she can't take off and make your day bad.

Now, if that Naturalize is a spell in Domoyl's set, then this may not be so bad, but since there's just three sitting in his gear section, it's hard to tell if that's just a joke. I think that his creatures would be having a bad time during this fight. I don't think that he has the skill set needed to put her down before it gets bad, but it really all hinges on whether that Naturalize is a thing, because if he's really focused on using that spell, then her curses aren't going to stick and it would be a lot harder for her to seal the deal.

>>49585910
>do I get points for keeping it in my flake's colors?
Definitely. I did mine using the preferred spells, because the character is supposed to be a newbie mage and not know much actual magic, so events it is.

>>49589364
I feel like a mage that only casts "events" would be a good way to describe a non-mono red probability mage, who manipulates the likelihood of the events happening.

>>49589438
Red doesn't have all that many events, it's all "FIRE" or "RAGE".

>>49589478
nono, what I mean is that probability mages are more reds thing because they have all the chance-related cards, so making one that wasn't partially red would be flavorful to have them "cast" the events they are manipulating to happen.

>>49588405
next round gonna return to 1v1's? I miss those.

>>49590378
Should be, yes. Personally I'm hoping for Serena vs Ka and that Gaia will draw it.

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>>49590431

>>49587776

Moving that +1 to a -2 makes much, much more sense.

>>49587929

So you're thinking they might be a type of guild mage or simply on the same tier?

I do like the idea if also being able to initiate contact with angels like the other guy especially since the type of magic they cast is similar to Boros angels: a mix between defensive/healing White spells and offense red spells.

I do find the priest part of the title interesting since Boros never really dealt with religion much, leaving that to Orzhov and the hippies.

>>49589198
I'm thinking I'll actually track down a scanner when it's done and scan it in.

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Did someone say Rem Karolus?

>>49592425
He's Naya, not Abzan.

>>49592445
According to who?

>>49592460
According to all of the cards he's featured on.

>http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&flavor=+[karolus]

>>49592425
What card creator do you use?

>>49588405
POLL:

http://www.strawpoll.me/11341089

See you all at midnight, when I can start putting together the next Round.

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>>49592918
Standard Magic Set Editor with these shiny hi-res templates: http://pastebin.com/Mph6u6WY

Have any of you made a before/after planeswalker card ala Origins for your flake?

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>>49594321
no but if I did I'd have the pictures for those cards already picked out

>>49594397
>AAAA I FUCKING LOVE COCONUT

>>49592425
>>49592492
>All those red and green cards.
>The one white card he's on, he's talking about how great an animal is.
Rem is Gruul just with the rest of the otherwise Selesnyan humans.

>>49594321

That's a good idea, though.

How do you put the tap symbol onto a card in cardsmith?

>>49594983
Well, first, download Magic Set Editor instead, it's way easier and more intuitive to use. But if you need to use Cardsmith, there's a button for it under the "Ability/Effect area" heading.

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Just pretend that's a tap symbol in the first ability.

>>49595107

If you post the image you used for the card, I'll make it in Magic Set Editor.

>>49595107
If this is running in a Thallid deck, wouldn't the last emblem just make Saprolings? 1/1 thallids are basically meaningless fodder, but Saprolings can be sacrificed to trigger all kinds of effects.

>>49595481
this, make it produce saprolings for each saproling you control

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>>49595481
>>49595536
Fuck, I fucked that up right didnt I. It should be saproling.
>>49595386
Use this image instead.

>>49595554

Coming up in a couple minutes.

>>49595554
>>49595571

Nevermind, that image is way to small.

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>>49595585
Here.

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>>49595591

Here we go

>>49595697

>>49593073
Yo ice age, can we get a flake kill list for each of the victors before we move on? Some people are interested how their flake lost, and others want to draw/write past matchups.

>>49596346
In each Round from now on, I will be notating all of the Flakes that the remaining competitors defeated on their way there.

If you need to ask about anyone in particular, then do so.

>>49596631
nah that'll pretty much cover it, I can wait till then, thanks!

>>49593504
Thankie.

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>>49596631

thanks senpai. Looking forward to the pairings.

Also, bumping with my edited card per
>>49587776
>>49586437
suggestions.

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>>49593073
The victor this time is Domoyl.

This day will have no combat as I prepare for Round Five, the Quarterfinals of the Ice Age.
The following eight Flakes are all that remain of the 222 that began this long-lasted skirmish:

>Ussa
>Amund
>Gaia
>Domoyl
>Serena
>Ka’Koarm
>Ivander
>Cala

>>49601170
>By color representation

>White
Gaia, Serena

>Blue
Gaia, Ka'Koarm, Cala

>Black
Gaia, Ka'Koarm, Ivander

>Red
Gaia, Serena (these days), Ka'Koarm, Ivander, Cala

>Green
Ussa, Amund, Gaia, Domoyl

>Mono-color
Ussa, Amund, Domoyl, Serena (originally)

>Multi-color
Gaia, Serena (these days), Ka'Koarm, Ivander, Cala

>>49601243
Sadly Serena would never have made it this far if she was still her kind, mono-white self.

I mean, she might have anyway, but she wouldn't have deserved to.

>>49601243
>>49601170
I'm so happy

>>49601349

Did she get stronger, or is it a temperament change? i.e by not being kind, and becoming more aggressive, she is able to fight better.

>>49601395
Which flake is yours, anon?

>>49601243
Good to know that the colors aren't extremely out of wack. All of the mono-color walkers are green though, so that's interesting.

>>49601486
I mean, they do have the advantage of becoming physically strong quick and producing lots of mana on the fly, which is a boon when dealing with the more complicated and powerful flakes.

>>49601170
Dear god, that's who's left?

These fights are going to get fucking bonkers.

>>49601170
>>49601243
new fight when?

>>49601552
As I said, today will have no battles. Now that we have reached the Quarterfinals, I want to do this right, and that means some additional preparation.

I should be able to start in 23 hours, at midnight in my time zone. This will be quite the ordeal.

>>49601591
ohboyohboyohboyohboy

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>>49601442
A little bit of both. In her fight vs the Cathar she lost because she gave him so many opportunities for free attacks, something she no longer does as she now attacks relentlessly. It's also a change in how she fights too, Serena used to use magic defensively which is why most of her spells used to be enchantments but now she's always on the offence using burn and wraths and getting good value out of madness and delirium cards. It lends itself well to these types of fights because it's always a fight with 0 prep which is very much her strongest point now while before she'd have benefited from time to plan and prepare.

>>49601528
Out of those who are left I see Serena struggling most vs Gaia and Ka while having a very easy time vs Ivander/Cala/Ussa.

>>49588700
Is this how Gaia beats Ka'koarm? With Pacify?

>>49601842
Ka'koarm anon here, probably. While Gaia is, as far as I can tell, the only person here with the spellpower to completely overwhelm Ka's ability to repair himself, her green-centered nature means it's possible she'd go the "calm the savage beast" route. Either way, Gaia's going to win when she fights Ka.

>>49601925
D'awwww. Angerfish is gentlefish. He just wants to be loved.

>>49601762
>Serena
>Have an easy time with Ussa
>Implying she wouldn't be the first to fall for the titty magic
What an angel slut

>>49601762
what a terrible drawing.

>>49601958
rude
>>49601762
I actually see Ivander as being the best matchup thematically and power-wise for serena. From what I can see they're pretty close in casting, martial skill and physical ability, have the same homeplane, and are opposing forces of red, with black vs white stuff going on.
One of a race blessed by avacyn but rejected the peacefulness that came with it, one of a race related to avacyn and distraught at her loss.
Of these potential matchups, Serena vs Ivander is one I personally would like to see most.

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>>49602154
It's true though

>>49601958
Nah m8, it's decent, just stylized. I've seen plenty of drawings that people thought were good but actually weren't, this is not one of them.

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>>49602154
I don't think they are as evenly matched as you think. The fights we saw Arlinn have vs those angels is pretty telling, I believe that Ivandar has her beat in martial power but is outmatched in spell casting. The way I see it, if Ivandar gets on top of Serena she's fucked(pun intended), he'll just rip her to shreds but otherwise she should be able to abuse flight while throwing superior spells at him while using her wrath fetish to nullify any packmates he decides to summon.

Also Ivandar is literally this memelord. Pic related.

>>49602689
>filename
What the fuck.

>>49603121
Too far?

>>49603199
I didn't know filenames could even be that long.

>>49603224
And I didn't know flavour text could be that terrible until I started playing Magic.

>>49584599
);

>>49604319

Don't enjoy collared furries?

>>49602689
Serena's an enchanted human rather than an actual angel though.

>>49606081
You think an angry werewolf is going to differentiate?

>>49606247
no but he might integrate

>>49601170
I'm noticing a theme here. All of these flakes have either a splash of red or are mono green. Also, there is an even split between male and female flakes, which is a cool coincidence. Oh, and none of them are human. I guess humans suck?

>>49606792
Well, Cala's a human with a bad case of "Tibalt-biology"
But yeah a lot of "They also have the natural advantage of ____" did help them out a lot.

>>49606976
What I want to know is who will succumb to Ussa's titty instants first?

>>49607251
That's incredibly stupid. I hope she gets wrecked so we can stop having this thirsty meme run rampant in battle.

>>49607282
Ussa's like every bimbo I've ever known, slutting her way to the top.

>>49607251
>Serena casts a spell, it bounces off of Ussa's tits and back at the angel
>This is how Serena loses.

>>49607317
But wouldn't it just bounce of Serena's tits too? Fuck this match is dangerous. Too much tit in too small an area.

>>49607308
Who's the biggest slut left in the Ice Age?

itt: Meme Powers

>>49607419
Serena, hands down.

>>49607282
I'm honestly salty that Venn lost over that meme without even a bat of an eye. This storm is so thirsty.

>>49607441
Who's the LEAST slutty of the female flakes left?

>>49607457
Did Venn get smothered by Ussa's tits?

>>49607468
Cala. Hands-down.

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Alright, you chucklefucks. I've been posting here for a month or two, because I like the setting or something, and have that creative itch. Hopefully this will encourage me to writefag something.

Fair warning, this is NOT OC. Props to anyone that has read the source material.

I have 2 actual OC flake ideas hanging around, for whenever I get around to that.

This is obviously not supposed to be balanced or anything, but that is kinda the point of the character

>>49607485
Oh, puhleeze. We all know that devil slut, with her tight ass and DSL, gents punctured by her devils on a daily and nightly basis.

>>49607505
>Literally the only Flake with no smut
Your argument is invalid.

>>49607521
Good point. I should rectify that right away. Brb

>>49607485
This.

>>49607546
I mean, Rule 34 exists, but you don't HAVE to enforce it.

Who is the sluttiest male flakewalker?

>>49607576
>Cala
>Female devil
>Amongst a swarm of male devils
>Pure
Ha

>>49607583
Of those left? Domoyl.

At all? Big Black Dragon.

>>49607600
But Belloski's a manlet

>>49607588
Devils are asexual masses of pain and assholery anon. I mean she COULD probably turn one into a fuck toy, but that's more "I have a flesh based dildo" than actual sex.

>>49607588
>Half-human
>Assuming that devils, which are typically not very large, will attempt to dominate anything bigger than them, particularly if that thing also commands them.

>>49601170
>Busty satyr made by someone sad enough to churn out massive quantities of smut for these threads. Destined to win against any non-female flake she gets matched up again.
>A reasonable flake that's generally agreed to be good by almost everyone, destined to lose in the quarterfinals to a more popular flake that's surrounded by memes.
>The queen of snowflakes that has been blown ridiculously out of proportion by the namefag posse and was never meant for situations like this. Guaranteed to win.
>A surprisingly niche flake that likely to this stage through a series of flukes and is destined to lose in the quarterfinals to a more popular flake.
>The princess of snowflakes that is adored by the namefag posse despite being pretty one-dimensional. Destined to make it to the finals unless she fights Gaia before then, even if she's matched against anyone that hard-counters her.
>Literally made by the same asshole that made by the digimon dinosaur of the original snowstorm, except he's loved this time around. Says something about the quality of this snowstorm.
>Another fluke that's sneered at by everyone for being edgy. Like Amund and Domoyl, he's destined to be knocked out in the quarter finals by a more popular or memetic flake despite any combat prowess the character might genuinely possess.
>A character with loads of smuttiness projected on to it by thirsty faggots that are a little too eager to jack off to snowflakes. Of all of the female flakes, she has the least potent memes and will lose to any of them. Likely to overcome most of the male snowflakes.

My predictions have been made, screenshot this.

See you guys around for the guaranteed Gaia versus Serena fight.

>>49607615
>>49607620
>Defending Cala's "purity" this hard

>>49607707
>>Literally made by the same asshole that made by the digimon dinosaur of the original snowstorm, except he's loved this time around. Says something about the quality of this snowstorm.
Yeah, that you can't tell who made Angerfish.

>>49607713
>Trying this hard to imply the book devil has time for sex when there's reading and destruction to be done.

>>49607707
Someone's still really, really bitter.

>>49607751
>>Trying this hard to imply the book devil has time for sex when there's reading and destruction to be done.
>Implying she needs to pay attention while the devils pound her raw.
Cala, the autistic slut, everybody!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=symP4QT7wLU
Planeswalking Rockbiter when?

>>49607779
But why bother getting fucked if you're not going to enjoy it? Distracted sex is fun for the person getting the sex, not the distracted one.

>>49607750
The maker literally admitted that he also made Ka'Koarm. Besides, he does an identical sort of power-wank and uses very similar art and themes.

>>49607707
>>A character with loads of smuttiness projected on to it by thirsty faggots
I mean, to be fair, basically every remotely cute and remotely popular female flake has had smuttiness pushed on it. Only Smut anon's lady flakes, angel hitler, and Preae are flakes who's anon pushes their smuttiness.

>>49607836
I never said it had to be fun for her. It probably annoys the hell out of her while she's busy browsing ff.net and reading her crossfictions.

>>49607479
live a fuccboi die a fuccboi

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Look, guys, if you want smut, the /wst/ moved to /d/. Please consider talking about literally anything else than which flake is how much of a slut and in what ways. We don't have enough of the other stuff, to the point that many posts not pertaining to smut and lewdness are completely ignored, even if they are actually interesting.

I mean smut is nice and all, but at some point you gotta fucking stop going on and on about it.

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>>49607317
>>49607413

But Serena already defeated Dyna, who kind of by definition has the biggest breasts in the snowstorm because Theros giants are ridiculously big.

>>49607859
Not that anon but I agree with you. I've made three flakes and the two that got any attention at all were latched on to for waifu value and potential fetishism.

>>49607880
>When not causing mayhem and devestation, she's writing stories involving stuff like shipping Thalia getting transported to Bant and falling in love with Rafiq.
>The people of Innistrad eat that shit up like Harry Potter, and just think whoever this author is, she's very creative.
>Poor girl just wants to get the next chapter out but the devils won't stop fucking her tits and face long enough for her to get the words down.

>>49607934
It's all about proportions anon. Dyna may be biggest overall, but she was probably just a proportional C-cup compared to those two titty monsters.

>>49607952
>>49607923
>>49607859
/wst/ was Phyrexian oil. It may have been exiled, but a trace remains, and is mutating this thread to be much like the old.

>>49607707
>The princess of snowflakes that is adored by the namefag posse despite being pretty one-dimensional. Destined to make it to the finals unless she fights Gaia before then, even if she's matched against anyone that hard-counters her.
To be fair, she's been up against 0 hard counters so far.

Also, I get the impression you don't like things that are popular purely due to them being popular.

>>49607837
You are literally the only person her who cares.

>>49607880
To appease the non-smut people, isn't Cala basically the closest thing the snowstorm has to that "Weird, nerdy girl that reads/writes fanfiction" anyway.
Like, she became a half-devil when the popular girls played a prank on her and everything, right?

>>49608018
He's a right tonker.

>>49608034
Her or Inzhu, yeah.

>>49608018
That's because there's nothing that you'd consider to be a hard counter to her because muh angels.

>>49608036
A what?

>>49608080
A tonker.

>>49608018
Ok then, what do YOU think is a hard-counter?

>>49608086
I don't understand that slang. Pretend for a moment I'm an young person what knows nothings. NOW tell me what you mean. I'll suc ur dic, kthx

>>49608056
Inzhu can literally play out her totally hot Game of Thrones Doctor Who crossover slash-fiction using conjured clones. I think she wins the weird nerdy girl contest.

>>49608114
Tonker is slang for dick iirc

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Am I doing this right? I saw a lot of action hero type characters, so I decided to do something a bit different.

>>49608127
>Totally hot
>Monoblue
The spark of hot isn't quite there, but that is quite an advantage. Inzhu probably writes those serious fanfiction where people aren't fucking half the time with those weird things you call, a "plot"
So she could probably get a job at WotC's writing department

>>49608244
oh

>>49607751
As Cala's Anon, I'd like to say that this guy gets it.

>>49608034
She's too busy reading nonfiction to write fanfiction.

>>49608244
Totally hot in her eyes, at least.

To everyone else, the dialogue is stilted, the body language is uncanny-valley and the sex is so soulless and mechanical it makes a Phyrexian construct seem human.

>>49608313
So like >>49608281 basically?

>>49607707
While your worries are understood, I think you're putting too much onto the namefags, as though they were deliberately making an unbeatable circlejerk.

Really, it's up to all of us to scrutinize the match-ups as hard as we can before we vote, right? Everyone that's meme-ing is just being irresponsible.

>>49608018
The best fight she's had so far was against Dyna. And the reason she one was that flight and ranged magic are pretty good ways to fight something that likes to battle bare-handed.

>>49608034
"Played a prank," is putting it as lightly and unreasonably as possible. Bunch of jerks decided that they didn't like her and decided to use her to test forbidden magic.

>>49608541
Yeah, it was "just a prank, sis."

That is overkill though. Couldn't they just get her raped by delinquents or something? My kamigawan picture scrolls tell me that's what popular girl's do to girls they don't like.

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>>49608530

Not to mention Dyna's notion of ranged combat is summoning a giant and then throwing it at someone.

Unfortunately, Serena's got a pretty wicked counter-serve.

As the maker of both, I still don't quite understand how Vanya got further in the Ice Age than Dyna did.

>>49608652
Waifuism
I like Vanya, but I don't think she should've made it past Spidermom.

>>49608062
>>49608092
Most blue mages, massive amounts of life-gain, flyer hate and cryptoliths.

Most of the characters that counter her never met up with her, all the people left can do is be stronger than her, which is why she'll lose to the likes of Gaia.

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>>49608868

Were there any lifegain-focused walkers besides Sonia? There's so many it's easy for me to lose track.

And sadly the ultimate hero of flying hate wasn't invited to this little shindig.

>>49608018
honestly as far as I can tell srena's made it by pretty close to only because of luck, very few of her opponents have been actual threats, Dyna being the only real exception, so from here on she's gonna have a harder time.

>>49608902
your flake is and always has been shit.A literal fucking meme

>>49607837
I don't believe I've ever explicitly stated this actually, no, only not denied it when pointed out.

>>49608941
I believe you admitted to it when I called you out on it when I was ranking flakes a bit back.

>>49608530
>flight
>ranged magic

It's not as if dragons, a creature that Dyna regularly fights for fun, can fly or breathe fire, lightning or any other harmful element.

>>49608966
huh, I actually don't remember this at all, thank you though

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>>49608902
There was this one.

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>>49608868
>lifegain
>mfw Belloski could've gone to round 2 had he gone up against Serena

>>49608868
So, if that's Serena's hard counter, what's Gaia's hard counter?

>>49609111
Time

>>49609111
Land destruction :^)

>>49609111
A older olderwalker with more than five colors.

>>49609111
Blood Moon+Contagion+Ophiomancer

>>49608868
Would serena realistically even consider casting pacifism anymore?

>>49609111
plot

>>49609111
Herself
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Slow_Start_(Ability)

>>49609131
>>49609143
>>49609164
>>49609171
>>49609323
So, in other words, nothing left in the Ice Age?

>>49609131
>someone plays time in a bottle
>gaia curls up on the floor crying.

>>49609111
The Mending

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>>49609467
yeah but this for some reason assumes the post flakepoint gaia whose plane didn't fall apart and kill her once the mending broke through
either that or meme gaia who took Will's spark and raped Diomedes cause fuck it why not.

>>49609501
Isn't meme-Gaia Slaanesh? Wasn't that established at some point?

>>49609454
>What's Gaia's hard-counter
>depression

>>49609007
She wrestles dragons, which implies that they frequently get close enough to grapple, this is a situation where being far smaller is an advantage.

>>49609067
>Hot Fuzz
mah nigga

>>49609250
If Serena was pacifismed she'd revert to her old self and would then go back to spamming that shit.

So really, the answer is no.

>>49609386
Pretty much, I was always sure this would come down to Ka vs Gaia.

>>49609512
Technically meme gaia has a council of meme gaias from different multiverses sort of like Rick.
There's also Rick!Gaia

>>49609561
..W...W-what?

Flakes being memes is a meme unto itself. When you point your finger, you'll find that your own fingers point back at you. For shame, Snowstorm.

Instead of short-handing buzzwords, be constructive.

>>49610157
Is there any walker more powerful than a five-color non-human oldwalker?

>>49610224
See this? This is a better question.

Let's break that down a bit:
>five-color
Comes with a lot of potential, but casting style still counts for something.

>non-human
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages, because human is certainly not equal to weakness.

>oldwalker
Experience counts for something in terms of breadth, but does not account for actual power level.

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>>49610224
>le "color count being an advantage" meme

>>49610264
According to the lore, color diversity has no a disadvantage. Mana bases are a purely mechanical feature.

Therefore there's no disadvantage to having five colors, meaning that a five color flake is by far the most powerful.

>>49610306
Color diversity has no advantage, either. Each color has an endless amount of different possible spells anyway, they just generally fit a certain archetype.

>>49610224
>>49610257
>>49610264
>>49610306
>Color Count
Means basically nothing, because every character is different.

The most powerful multi-color planeswalker that we have in the modern era is Nicol Bolas. He has three colors to his nature and is good at using them in combination with one another. But look at what he actually does when a fight breaks out and tell me if you think that he's really using all three of them in every way that you can think of separately or in combination.

Methods count for everything.

>>49610368
This is truth. Honestly Sarkhan has been through Red, Black, Green, and Blue
According to you guys he should be able to 1v1 Bolas and win everytime because he's at least 3.5 colors depending on how you count black

>>49610257
>Experience counts for something in terms of breadth, but does not account for actual power level
This is true. However, I personally would say the most powerful canon oldwalkers from before the Mending were those that could either create or destroy planes, such as Urza, Serra, Karn, and the make of Phyrexia. From everything we have been told, making a plane, particularly a large and complex plane, was a difficult feat even for oldwalkers and the made plane required constant upkeep. Therefore, I would say that plane-makers and plane-destroyers have (generally) the highest power level of post-Mending oldwalkers, and therefore are likely the most powerful planeswalkers remaining.

>>49610306

It's the hedgehog vs fox thing.

The fox that knows a thousand tricks is versatile, but if he's going up against a hedgehog that knows one really good one, it comes down to the fox and hedgehog in question.

For monocolor walkers, there are hedgehogs out there with spines that you can skewer dragons on, and they are going to roll the fuck over a fox that's not similarly monstrous without even losing speed.

>>49610435
Lorewise, of course he should. He's dragonkin, so he's got the non-human advantage, he's got more colors, and mana bases are purely mechanical so he can cast whatever he wants whenever he wants. The only thing that might stop him is that Bolas is also nonhuman, and an oldwalker. So at two to two on the classic planeswalker auto-win factors, it might be a somewhat even match, but the colors are really the tiebreaker here.

>>49610458
I agree with this logic, since it is based in canon. And if someone is using this argument on top of the potential diversity of a 5-color oldwalker, it is logical to say that Gaia could be approaching a Brolas tier flake. I don't care if people think Gaia is the strongest flake, I just want them to use logic in their arguments instead of memes or namefag-hate.

>>49610465
Oldwalker trumps more colors which trumps non-human.

Mono-color human oldwalker beats five-color dragon neowalker, three-color human neowalker beats two-color vampire neowalker, mono-color elf walker beats mono-color human walkers, etc.

>>49610517
>Mono-color elf walker beast mono-color human walkers

Stop. Stop.
This is blatantly not true. Other races are DIFFERENT than humans, not necessarily BETTER.

>>49610774
Unless they are a dragon, a demigod, a vampire, a giant, etc.

>>49610517
> thinking Nissa beats Elspeth on any level

>>49611586
>Elspeth removed an incomplete god before getting stabbed in the back
>Nissa was instrumental for removing 2/3 eldritch monstrosities from the face of the multiverse.
>Monstrosities that made the best of Elspeth's gods shit itself in fear.
>Plus Nissa has a dozen or so years more experience by virtue of being an elf. It's no older walker experience, but hey, that's still half Elspeth's lifetime.

I think the nature elf has this one.

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>>49612060
>>Nissa was instrumental for removing 2/3 eldritch monstrosities from the face of the multiverse.
Yeah, and then a based human dealt the death blow.

>>49612060
Nissa being an elf doesn't mean she's older than Elspeth. Not all elves are born before all humans. Also, Nissa fueled Chandra the first time. And Nissa didn't do shit to stop Emmy. Emmy sealed herself away.

So, literally Nissa killed nothing while Elspeth killed a fucking God.
> HURR DURR arrow to the heart weakened the god
> still a fucking God who was 100% a-ok living with the arrow in his chest
Elspeth is a soldier who has decades of battle experience. Nissa is a tree elf who has decades of experience talking to trees and linking leylines to actual powerful Planeswalkers.

>>49612189
To be fair, the Theros gods are kind of pussies on the scale of planar/cosmic entities.

>>49612189
There is no way Elspeth is decades old.

Besides, Nissa has plenty of experience fighting literally everything Zendikar's thrown at her, then fought against the eldrazi since they got out. By sword during most of it at that, and by elementals during the rest.

So several huge eldrazi downed under Nissa's killbelt, including two/three at a time. She also outsmarted and outtacticed Ob Nixilis while holding back because she couldn't use Ashaya. He wasn't at full oldwalker strength, but he still had all his oldwalker experience of conquering worlds and fighting armies and he still lost to her.
While she was holding back. That part needs to be stressed.
So sure, she hasn't killed much, but she's won several stupidly high powerlevel fights.
Remember Drana had to drain a healthy as fuck kor to be able to solo a single giant eldrazi. Nissa killed 3-4 a story with such casualness that they were boring.

>>49612302

>Implying Elspeth didn't die for the sins of Theros
>Implying Heliods Spear wasn't the Lance of Longinus
>Implying Elspeth won't rise from the dead
>Implying Elspeth isn't Jesus and therefore all powerful

>>49612302
>She also outsmarted and outtacticed Ob Nixilis
And then after reigniting his spark Ob soloed her, Jace, and Gideon without breaking a fucking sweat. While none of them were holding back.

Nissa is as strong as the plot demands of her. Nothing more.

>>49612569
Well duh, he got most of his power back when he reignited, regaining the mana and power he had across what was his vast interplanar empire.

Ob is no Bolas with a spark, but he's definitely up there.

The point is though was that she still beat a demon, which means he still has plenty of mana and power, just nowhere near what he should as a walker, with an oldwalkers amount of practice, training, and combat experience by herself, while she herself was mostly depowered, while consciously holding back.

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>>49612569
>Nissa is as strong as the plot demands of her. Nothing more.
The Gatewatch in a nutshell.

Jace wasn't strong enough to mind rape Avacyn for more than a few moments but could engage in a lengthy mental battle with a cosmic god while also shielding his entire party.

>>49612302
> not thinking 35 years old is decades old

>>49612715
>Jace wasn't strong enough to mind rape Avacyn for more than a few moments but could engage in a lengthy mental battle with a cosmic god while also shielding his entire party.
Apparently Avacyn was just that baddass.

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>>49612715
>filename
Yes. Yes it does. Thank you, based Angrycyn.

Where do I read up on Kaladesh lore? Where do I start?

>>49612732
When was it stated that she's 35? Though I admit, that's two decades max.

Nissa's been training with the most militant elf nation on Zendikar since she was a child, is the last land animating animist, and a prodigy of it at that.
Eslpeth is also a prodigy of combat, but that's not exactly an even fight.

Elspeth is strong, no doubt, but I don't think she'd be able to beat Nissa.

>35 years is two decades max

>>49612815
>Nissa waifuism
Never again.

>>49612815
>Nissa's been training with the most militant elf nation on Zendikar since she was a child, is the last land animating animist, and a prodigy of it at that.
Nigga, literally every planeswalker bar a few are prodigies and speshul. Literally, being speshul and better than others is part of their definition. The only difference between canon planeswalkers and snowflakes is that canon planeswalkers are canon. Fuck, they even break canon rules, like no timetravel without silver.

>>49612715
Jace just got a better hand during that game.

>>49613167
>It's waifuism to compare what Nissa has done with what Elspeth has done and say Nissa's done a bit more.
Right

>they even break canon rules
>like no timetravel without silver.
That wasn't a canon rule, that's Urza's rule. That's what he came up with after research. That's not a solid rule to the canon. Never was.

>>49613167
I'm thinking that KtK to Fate was more of a rift than time travel without silver.
Ugin dying created a rift that stretched back a little before he died, Ugin not dying led to that rift not existing thus Sarkhan being pulled out of that time.
Silver being needed was for the method of time travel Urza knew of that didn't need rifts but also caused paradoxes and required a lot of energy.

>>49613376
>Silver being needed was for the method of time travel Urza knew of that didn't need rifts but also caused paradoxes and required a lot of energy.
This. There's a difference between a rule that "All time travel can be done with silver" and "The method Urza developed requires silver."

>>49610925
>Dragons
Those are dragons. I have to say that dragons are pretty powerful, but everything is variable. There are knights that live to slay dragons.

>Demigods
Pretty good at whatever they're good at. This isn't everything.

>Vampires
Have their own set of weaknesses with their strengths.

>Giants
Big, but generally also slower as a result.

Honestly, you could make this argument down the line for any race. Race doesn't matter, abilities (though some are racially granted) and methods matter.

>>49614056

This. While an average vampire may be more powerful than your average human, for instance, that difference become negligible when the main source of their power is something f other than their bodies.

A vampire mage and a human mage are differentiated between the power if their magic, not their race.

This is even more true among walkers.

>>49614326
Reminder that Innistradi vampires fold hard to living wood.
With all her stoneforging, all Nahiri needed was a properly sharpened tree branch to off Sorin.

>>49614358

Admittedly, Sorin also massively outclassed her when it was sword against sword, but that's more of a testament to Sorin's individual skill than just racial hax, as normal-ass Cathars duel vampires to the death all the time despite the natural advantages vampires have.

>>49614326
What if the planeswalker's race plays a direct role in fueling either the type of magic they use, the power of that magic, or both?

>>49614624
Sorin only really lost that fight because he fought on her terms, she had a major advantage when she has time to plan a venue and prepare because she can use her lithomancy to twist the leylines to benefit her and screw him.

Basically Sorin is a retard and fucked up continuously that block eventually ending up both damning his plane and getting stuck in rock.

>>49614628

I'd have to see examples. While we have example of normal beings being made strong by their race in various ways (see marquee creatures for each color), and some reasons are more prone to having magic/powers, the level of power seems to be independent of the race. A human Walker is as strong as their magic is and their humanity is neither a boon nor a weakness. If Elspeth and Sorin duked it out, I don't think her humanity and his Vampirism would matter one iota beyond possibly White mana being strong against undead. But once again, that's a magic thing.

>>49614971

I do feel like SOI pulled a fair amount of character assassination on ol' Sorin for no reason I can understand. He was always kind of a dick, and he certainly didn't do all he could as a good guy, but he just seemed a lot more incompetent and spiteful in this block.

>>49615116

While I think seeing your plane get fucked over and having to murder your pseudo-daughter can make anyone a bit testy, you're right. I think they wanted us to be able to sympathize with Nahiri just a little bit as she destroyed Sorin/Avacyn/Innistrad. Because otherwise there would be zero doubt she's an insufferable entitled cunt and a disgrace to white walkers.

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>>49615006
The real boon Sorin has from his race is just longevity. That's the real boon that most races have in MtG over humans, the ability to live longer and gain more experience.

>>49615116
>>49615220
Pretty much, I really don't feel like killing Avacyn is in his character at all. She's so damn valuable and important to him, it feels like he'd exhaust every option instead of doing it as soon as the spiteful cunt she's been protecting asked him to.

Really it's that Sorin is a very, very selfish person, at the end of the day Avacyn is still probably doing more good than harm as far as he is concerned. He knows the Eldrazi are free and as far as he knows they can't be stopped so offing his planar shield just seems so damn stupid, especially as it doesn't seem like he even needs Olivia's help. When the battle happens he needs the vampires to fight the Eldrazi horrors that have amassed around Nahiri. If he hadn't unmade Avacyn to gain her help then he wouldn't have needed their help to fight her. It's literally a paradox.

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>>49615483

>>49615483

Not to mention Olivia immediately reneges on the agreement to help him so she can usurp power on the plane when Sorin isn't in a position to retaliate, and he's known her long enough this should not surprise him at all.

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The Quarterfinals, Round Five, of the Ice Age begins in about a half an hour.

The Rules from now on are slightly different:

>During each round, flakes will be assigned to random opponents in single-elimination tournament fashion.
>Flakes will be treated as though they are all neowalkers in order to create a balance of power.
>Flakes with meme-levels of power will be treated as though they weren’t.
>During each round, small groups of flake match-ups will be revealed
>Arguments and votes will be taken from the thread over which flake is likely to prevail over the other.
>Discussion in the thread now takes a greater deal of importance: polls will only be released after a considerably reasonable amount of serious discussion has taken place.
>Polls will be up for 24 hours after their opening.
>Polls that appear to have been tampered with will result in a replay of that match.
>Ties will be broken by chance.
>After each round, the flakes that move on will be re-randomized on the roster to make match-ups unpredictable.

>>49615733
Just speed it up and post the Gaia vs Serena match-up.

>>49615942
The saltiest of niggers.

>>49616030
He's not you or Murdock during the last block.

>>49616067
Touche.

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Welcome to Round Five. Two Hundred and Twenty Two Snowflakes are now only Eight.
The first match-up is as follows:

>Ka'Koarm
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxdGYxbF9rWGJMdHM?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8

Ka'Koarm defeated the following Flakes over the course of the Ice Age:
>Round One: Sajek
>Round Two: Iohannes
>Round Three: Varametra
>Round Four: Narimi and Andromeda

>Ivander
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0Bwl7IuoVRkFxenY5MlJDWl9pNW8?tid=0Bwl7IuoVRkFxUDZRVGVfQ1BDbm8
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FMdDLd9KGzA_FvX00IM9r3IquhBYW-jAzAs1soVJcX8/edit

Ivander defeated the following Flakes over the course of the Ice Age:

>Round One: Ivander was given a bye when Unit IV was disqualified.
>Round Two: Sonia
>Round Three: Sumarru
>Round Four: Tok and Del

The first battle of the Quarterfinals begins...
DISCUSS!

>>49616133

Huh. Ivander didn't fight an opponent that wasn't arguably handicapped in combat until Round Four?

Still, I'm favoring Ka'Koarm here, and not simply based on name recognition. It looks like Ka'Koarm is significantly brawnier than Ivander and anyone he's fought so far, so brute force is already looking less appealing against a cadre of massive horrors, and I feel like the fish's spellcasting is probably about equal with the red/black douchebaggery Ivander's all about. I think the wolf's run is over.

>>49616133
Fuck and I was so looking forward to Serena v Ivandar.

Also NEW THREAD

>>49616252
>>49616252
>>49616252
Time to fucking pass out.

>>49616133
>angerfish won against Varametra
Wasn't Varametra an oldwalker? I'm calling some shenanigans here, how the fuck is a neowalker able to do that?

>>49616441

Because fuck forced memes, that's how.

>>49616441
Because read the goddamned rules, scrub.