Flavour text thread?
I always found the text for Cage of Hands to be profoundly full of sorrowful beauty, but I never see it posted here.
>"Our own actions built the prisons that now hold us. Our hands reached too far and tried to hold too much."
>>51109865
If you don't cry for this one, I don't know what you are.
>>51110156
the GOAT ;_;7
>>51109865
>>51110156
Got a serious chill.
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>Seer
The seer sat before me,
Wrapped gently in smoke and satin.
A small smile in purple-painted lips
Peeked out from under her silk veil.
Her crystal on the table before her
Swam in an inner light
That set my heart pattering.
"What is it you want to know?" she asked.
I swallowed the rock in my throat.
"Tell me, O seer, how will the world end?"
Her smile widened.
Her white, white teeth
Gleamed at me.
"That is a deep question, my dear,
As deep as Inkfathom, and just as cold.
The answer
Will surely not bring you any joy."
"I know," I replied,
"But know I must."
Even if I did not know why.
Her smile dazzled once more,
As if I had made light wit.
"You are not ready for my answer.
Perhaps there are other things
You wish to know?"
I nodded.
Her hands embraced the crystal.
The light within it
Swam and jumped
Writhed and stretched.
"Then ask."
>>51110645
The rest is here:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/seers-parables-2008-08-05
>>51110156
Anon, I have some bad news.
best flavor text NA
>>51110757
daaaammmmm drops wizards staff*
>>51109865
im 14 and this is deep :0
>>51110156
Good but reposted so much to the point of being a meme. Let it rest next time buddy
>>51110228
Best of thread so far. Wish they cut the last line though
>>51110357
>>51110645
>>51110660
>>51110679
>>51110686
>>51110838
Meh tier
>>51110616
Really charming line, whimsy done well
>>51110757
The way that sentence was constructed bothers the fuck out of me
>>51110838
It always bothers me that they never used the original bible quote for that.
>>51111032
>debtor's knell is the best of thread
pic related, and thread apropriate
I always thought this would be a really horrible last thing to hear.
>>51111222
Checked
Obligatory
>>51111032
>recap post with hot opinions
Ugh.
Maybe it's just edgy, but I adore the simplicity of this one.
>>51111683
Another
>>51111874
posted the version without flavor text
>"Hatred outlasts the Hateful"
>>51111961
>>51111988
>>51112003
patrician taste, anon
>>51111032
>that's_like_your_opinion_dude.webm
>>51112143
posted the version with the wrong flavor text
>>51112143
I think you meant to post this.
Fact: this is the best Vindicate flavor text.
>>51112279
>>51112218
No, I actually don't like the poem one. Sounds lame, honestly, too try hard.
... Which will make me sound hypocritical eventually.
>>51112164
I always thought this was trying too hard to be clever. The second sentence is so clumsy.
>>51112311
This is a good execution of what Tarmogoyf was going for. I love it.
Straight out of Pratchett.
I love when all of card's name, flavour text, art and rules fit together perfectly, which is also the case with >>51111988
>>51112247
I don't get it
Very much like this one.
>>51112534
Ethnu is some Phyrexian drone, and his report describes the last real battle of the war between Phyrexia and Mirra, answering two questions that I assume amount to: "Do you have news?" and "Did we win?"
>>51112637
>dat comfy shirt
>dat battle panty
>originally from Odyssey
I miss the pre-Jacetice League aesthetics.
>>51112312
I much prefer "awesome machinery" Phyrexia to "body horror" Phyrexia.
>>51113611
They both have their individual merits. I love the striking aesthetics of the Machine Orthodoxy more than the grimy cyborgs of Old Phyrexia, though.
>>51111032
Friend, remember that you're supposed to break each of those responses up into separate posts.
>>51114735
Why? That's not a rule or anything.
>>51114735
>telling me how to live my life
>>51111032
>im14andthisisdeep
>being this leddit
Why am I not surprised. Fuck you, Cage Of Hands a best.
I've always liked this one.
I miss Gerrard.
>>51122277
RIP Gerrard.
>>51122293
This concludes the Gerrard minidump. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
>>51112389
WotC needs to get back to quoting literature and poetry instead of Gatewatch-LARPing-as-Weatherlight dreck
>>51119301
What does reddit have to do with anything?
>>51123895
That's bit in poor taste
>>51124012
they're goblins, getting fired out of cannons and shit is basically the standard greeting
>>51110156
> He didn't have a word for "dick," but he knew it was something to defend.
>>51123895
That flavor text actually hits me pretty close.
>>51111126
That's an awesome card. I never played MTG but it feels really... Black.
>>51111515
That card is what got me to read up on kamigawa lore
>>51112143
You did not mean to post that version right.
>>51110757
Thats really pretentious
>>51114735
Why
I myself make multiple posts but there is nothing wrong with joining them together.
translated it's:
>This was the poodle's real core! A travelling scholar then? The casus is diverting.
it's a quote from goethe's faust
>>51110357
This become God tier when paired with pic related. Years after, and he's still keeping his word.
>>51111961
It bothers me how that card is from Rise of the Eldrazi while it's a perfect fitting for Oath of the Gatewatch. Why making a card for the ending of the story in the set in which it starts?
>>51112312
Wait, why is this card from Visions? There where Phyrexian even then?
>>51112295
I never understood what the art is showing.
Goblin flavor best flavor
>>51126065
"We kinda stopped talking to the Marsh goblins once they started fucking trees."
>>51125548
Because
>*it was a hologram*
>*the stars weren't aligned*
>>51109865
>>51115532
That's gonna be nice.
>>51129924
>>51134468
That's bretty good
>>51111032
get over yourself
>>51110670
Its implied on the card tardo, hes only got 3 toughness and those myr are 1/1s with infect and ones already gotten a hit in.
>>51125571
Phyrexians are old as fuck.
>>51125571
Dude, Phyrexians were the first major antagonists, ever since Antiquities back in '94.
>>51125261
This is the GOAT. 12 year old me was fascinated by that flavour text. Still am.
>>51125517
>this card is canon from darettis perspective just before he returns to fiora to get revenge and help marchesa
>koth stands alone thinking he saved elspeth
>elspeth never told ajani about mirrodin
>its been two years since elspeth died
>koth has been fighting for two years alone
>>51111051
What's the original quote?
>>51135901
Go read the bible, you heathen.
>>51125595
Dude is stabbing his sword into the ground to look dramatic as a subterranian explosion pierces the surface
>>51135901
"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
Isaiah 2:4
>>51111961
>Gideon dodging standard bans: the card
>>51123567
best one in recent memory
>>51111032
>whimsy done well
>literally just a line about Cthulhu
Are you trying to say the stupidest shit possible?
>>51112312
>i saw a 0/3 and now i'm scared
This one always gave me a chuckle.
>>51110645
duce of calamity sounds like what i do to the toliet after taco bell
>>51135334
>>elspeth never told ajani about mirrodin
You're retarded.
>>51142782
He's right that she didn't it was random other walkers that did.
Obligatory Jaya!
>>51127587
>Honestly we didn't mind the dendrophilia, but what really got us to stop talking to them was their constant requests to examine our family tree...
Lot of black or red cards so far...
>>51124012
>hating on based Festivus
>>51135228
It's weird how little artifact interaction black gets.