What are the chances raben is a legendary creature in the set?
Pretty low if not nil. We have supposedly "one" legendary for each tribe (besides werewolf, which got pushed into a later set of this block). So the odds of getting a second legendary human are pretty low, but he could of course always wind up as some other kind of creature- we're missing a geist and zombie of course.
If this stuff is really leading up to the reveal of that sword, the Bloodletter, then by the flavor it sounds like anything killed by the sword is going to do...something. I'm not entirely sure how you'd represent the eternal bleeding of a corpse within the game.
Not to complain about flavor, but bloodletter sounds more like a monster truck less like the work of advanced necromancers and flesh sculptors in a dark gothic universe.
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If this stuff is really leading up to the reveal of that sword, the Bloodletter, then by the flavor it sounds like anything killed by the sword is going to do...something. I'm not entirely sure how you'd represent the eternal bleeding of a corpse within the game.
"Deathtouch
If a creature dealt damage this turn by Bloodletter would die, exile it instead and put a blood counter on Bloodletter.
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent loses X life where X is the number of blood counters on Bloodletter."
Interesting flavor and I think it will be a legendary artifact.
But how about somthing more like this.
Deathtouch ( if a creature blocked by ( Bloodletter ) is sent to the graveyard exile it instead. Search opponets library hand and grveyard and exile all copies of exiled card. (sort of spinal extraction on a stick)
Equiped cerature get +2 +0
Equip sacrifice a non zombie/artifact creature
basically something alive to keep in the theme
it would defintly be MYTHIC and broke
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Which can eternal lie,
Yet with strange eons,
Even death may die.
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you get an auto response of;
12-й день Месяца Охотника, год Авацин 719-й
Они нашли мой дом. Выцарапали на двери их символ - стилет.
Меня нашли. У меня три дня, при условии, что никто из видевших объявления не придет по мою голову раньше. После этого я труп.
Если только я не найду деньги. К черту культ, надо действовать!
Рейка
from "good evil"
my russian translator is terrible but somehting like
the 12th day of the month of hunter, the year Of [avatsin] 719- y They found my house. They scratched out on the door their symbol - stiletto. They found me. In me three days, when no one of those seen declarations will not arrive on my head earlier. I am corpse after this. If only I will not find money. To feature cult, it is necessary to act! Lath
I like how we're using the Russian one to cheat and get the emails b4 wizards spams them on their site. Don't we get anew wallpaper the seventh? Also is there a French or Japanese version of this?
Oh wait as usual I wasn't paying attention, Josh brauer posted that email three days ago...
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Not to complain about flavor, but bloodletter sounds more like a monster truck less like the work of advanced necromancers and flesh sculptors in a dark gothic universe.
Hey, I just hate when the names are already taken. To me it sounds like +3 whirlwind, +4 sword mastery, and some decent damage for an poor mans lld back in 1.09
A 3rd auto response from [email]rircarothma@mail.com[/email]
15th of Hunter's Moon, Ava. 719
Albrecht,
What delicious temptation I reside in!
This town has proven to be peopled with paradox. If the weapon is as Reika describes, it will be most useful to us. But oh for a mortal to test it out on! My complicity with the local nobility means that I cannot kill indiscriminately, and must only feed on the willing. Can you imagine that?
Last night my thralls at the city gates told me of a country rube that has come to town bent on my destruction. They have even seen him training with that insane priest!
What a gift that has fallen into my lap...a stranger who nobody here would miss, and sweeter still, has given me a reason to destroy him! Oh, to be back on the hunt again!
I believe I shall let him find me, let him think that he might succeed in his star-crossed quest. Disappointment makes the blood so delicious.
For your part, get the casks, troughs and hooks ready. If this sword does what I'm told it does, we shall soon have use for them.
Interesting flavor and I think it will be a legendary artifact.
But how about somthing more like this.
Deathtouch ( if a creature blocked by ( Bloodletter ) is sent to the graveyard exile it instead. Search opponets library hand and grveyard and exile all copies of exiled card. (sort of spinal extraction on a stick)
Equiped cerature get +2 +0
Equip sacrifice a non zombie/artifact creature
basically something alive to keep in the theme
it would defintly be MYTHIC and broke
I feel like any attempt to put the Bloodletter into a card based on the flavor we have is going to be more broken than BSA.
EDIT: So Thatu killed Pitre.
Jorelda beheaded him, but only after she knew/strongly strongly suspected he was going to turn, probably because he told her he was being hunted down and had both the Bloodletter wound and the messge carved into his back. He may or may not have actually been bitten.
No. I don't dare. If the cult discovered that I'd pilfered from the secret vault, it would be more than just my blood that was forfeit. I'll have to find another way.
...
Reika
I am so very proud of you! You have come so far from the frightened
little girl I once knew you as. I know two things: you will go on to
greatness, and the instructors at Elgaud will have their hands full!
A deeper sleep I have never slept, but a sleep filled with frightening dreams I did not understand. A strangely dressed old man was angry with me.
As I had chronicled yesterday, the leader of the footpads survived our alleyway battle. I placed a food on his chest as he lay on the cobblestones, and pointed my sword at his neck. I then demanded the knowledge I sought.
Not wanting to give too much away, I began by asking about the thatcher, but this was a dead-end. He had assaulted so many that trying to get the details of one of his victims was futile. To speak of the cursed blade was too dangerous, especially to this one. I could justify killing the others, as they had clearly sought to end my life, but to kill this one as he lay in such a position of weakness could not be rectified. Of course, there was no reason for him to know this.
I pressed my foot into his chest and drew my blade back, intending to knock him unconscious. He turned his head in anticipation of the blow, and it was then that I saw it: the same mark that had been carved into Pitre's body. The mark of Thatu.
"Thatu" escaped my lips in pure astonishment, and the man's eyes grew wide with recognition. Seizing upon the moment, I said "Thatu sent me." Another transgression, but I pray a necessary one.
His lips curled in horror, and he finally gave me the information I needed to know.
Thatu has traveled to Stensia, to a place called Maalfeld. Stensia being a haven for Vampires, it is likely that he is one of them. The sword must be quite a treasure to his kind.
I left the wretch sleeping off his headache in the alleyway. May Avacyn show him the way.
If wizards is listening, we need more preview cards to keep our attentions on the story.
Also got this one
Reika,
I am so very proud of you! You have come so far from the frightened
little girl I once knew you as. I know two things: you will go on to
greatness, and the instructors at Elgaud will have their hands full!
May Avacyn watch over and guide you my dear,
Elder Rimheit
116th of New Moon, Ava. 714
--
twitter.com/brauerjosh
Again is this in another language aside from Russian?
Appears Reika is part of the demon cult and uses thatu for the sword.
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A fourth auto response email from [email]rircarothma@gmail.com[/email].
Your most excellent Master Thatu,
I have something sure to interest one of your power and discerning
taste. A relic of ancient power. Something so potent that it has been
hidden away by those who one day hope to channel its power.
If this interests you, meet me at midnight on the 14th. I promise you
won't be disappointed.
A fifth auto response email from [email]rircarothma@gmail.com[/email]
36th of Hunter's Moon, Ava. 719
I'm afraid Albrecht is no more.
I had met him in Stensia, as was our plan, and showed him the magical
sword. He reached for it, taking it in his hand blade-first. As he
hefted its weight, the blade slid through his grasp, cutting his hand.
The sight was almost comical.
Albrecht smiled, then his expression melted into one of anguish. His
wounded hand began to shrink and shrivel. Slowly, his body shriveled
up as is every drop of blood in him was being sucked out. A scream
escaped his lips and he fell to the floor, the silver blade clanging
against the stones.
To the living, this blade causes eternal bleeding. To the eternal, it
causes final death. Albrecht's calamity has revealed the sword's true
power to me. Perhaps they will finally give me a seat on the council.
Sounds like the Parasite Blade from the Zen novel, the one Sorin carried. Maybe Sorin destroyed Avacyn with it and then fled the plane?
Yeah, I kept thinking that it sounds like Sorin's sword. What made me think that, is the artwork of Sorin's Vengeance, where the blade is draining the victim's blood. There is so much flavor for a simple sword, and Sorin being in the next set makes sense. The only problem I have with it, is how did Sorin lose the sword. Unless those letters were written long before Sorin got the sword. Interesting.
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Pretty low if not nil. We have supposedly "one" legendary for each tribe (besides werewolf, which got pushed into a later set of this block). So the odds of getting a second legendary human are pretty low, but he could of course always wind up as some other kind of creature- we're missing a geist and zombie of course.
"I feel like I haven't done my job unless somebody says, 'How the hell is that supposed to work?'" - Mark Rosewater
Collecting Islands need:
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Arena: Donato Giancola, Tony Szczudlo, Anson Maddocks, John Avon (ravnica)
European Land Program: Ben Thompsom, Eric Peterson, Ben Thompson
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Location: Bangkok
"Deathtouch
If a creature dealt damage this turn by Bloodletter would die, exile it instead and put a blood counter on Bloodletter.
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent loses X life where X is the number of blood counters on Bloodletter."
But how about somthing more like this.
Deathtouch ( if a creature blocked by ( Bloodletter ) is sent to the graveyard exile it instead. Search opponets library hand and grveyard and exile all copies of exiled card. (sort of spinal extraction on a stick)
Equiped cerature get +2 +0
Equip sacrifice a non zombie/artifact creature
basically something alive to keep in the theme
it would defintly be MYTHIC and broke
That is not dead,
Which can eternal lie,
Yet with strange eons,
Even death may die.
H.P. Lovecraft
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Этот твиттер захвачен, хахаха! [email]ntulaurmmithat@mail.ru[/email]
you get an auto response of;
from "good evil"
my russian translator is terrible but somehting like
Oh wait as usual I wasn't paying attention, Josh brauer posted that email three days ago...
"I feel like I haven't done my job unless somebody says, 'How the hell is that supposed to work?'" - Mark Rosewater
Collecting Islands need:
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Arena: Donato Giancola, Tony Szczudlo, Anson Maddocks, John Avon (ravnica)
European Land Program: Ben Thompsom, Eric Peterson, Ben Thompson
Fifth Edition J. W. Frost Islands foil
Location: Bangkok
Hey, I just hate when the names are already taken. To me it sounds like +3 whirlwind, +4 sword mastery, and some decent damage for an poor mans lld back in 1.09
I feel like any attempt to put the Bloodletter into a card based on the flavor we have is going to be more broken than BSA.
EDIT: So Thatu killed Pitre.
Quotes in blog.
But I could pay my debt . . .
No. I don't dare. If the cult discovered that I'd pilfered from the secret vault, it would be more than just my blood that was forfeit. I'll have to find another way.
...
Reika
[email]Marinthalauth@gmail.com[/email]
I am so very proud of you! You have come so far from the frightened
little girl I once knew you as. I know two things: you will go on to
greatness, and the instructors at Elgaud will have their hands full!
May Avacyn watch over and guide you my dear,
Elder Rimheit
116th of New Moon, Ava. 714
The one I got is from MTG's facebook.
A deeper sleep I have never slept, but a sleep filled with frightening dreams I did not understand. A strangely dressed old man was angry with me.
As I had chronicled yesterday, the leader of the footpads survived our alleyway battle. I placed a food on his chest as he lay on the cobblestones, and pointed my sword at his neck. I then demanded the knowledge I sought.
Not wanting to give too much away, I began by asking about the thatcher, but this was a dead-end. He had assaulted so many that trying to get the details of one of his victims was futile. To speak of the cursed blade was too dangerous, especially to this one. I could justify killing the others, as they had clearly sought to end my life, but to kill this one as he lay in such a position of weakness could not be rectified. Of course, there was no reason for him to know this.
I pressed my foot into his chest and drew my blade back, intending to knock him unconscious. He turned his head in anticipation of the blow, and it was then that I saw it: the same mark that had been carved into Pitre's body. The mark of Thatu.
"Thatu" escaped my lips in pure astonishment, and the man's eyes grew wide with recognition. Seizing upon the moment, I said "Thatu sent me." Another transgression, but I pray a necessary one.
His lips curled in horror, and he finally gave me the information I needed to know.
Thatu has traveled to Stensia, to a place called Maalfeld. Stensia being a haven for Vampires, it is likely that he is one of them. The sword must be quite a treasure to his kind.
I left the wretch sleeping off his headache in the alleyway. May Avacyn show him the way.
Raben
http://brauerjosh.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-silver-judo.html
If wizards is listening, we need more preview cards to keep our attentions on the story.
Also got this one
Reika,
I am so very proud of you! You have come so far from the frightened
little girl I once knew you as. I know two things: you will go on to
greatness, and the instructors at Elgaud will have their hands full!
May Avacyn watch over and guide you my dear,
Elder Rimheit
116th of New Moon, Ava. 714
--
twitter.com/brauerjosh
Again is this in another language aside from Russian?
Appears Reika is part of the demon cult and uses thatu for the sword.
"I feel like I haven't done my job unless somebody says, 'How the hell is that supposed to work?'" - Mark Rosewater
Collecting Islands need:
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Arena: Donato Giancola, Tony Szczudlo, Anson Maddocks, John Avon (ravnica)
European Land Program: Ben Thompsom, Eric Peterson, Ben Thompson
Fifth Edition J. W. Frost Islands foil
Location: Bangkok
Sounds like the Parasite Blade from the Zen novel, the one Sorin carried. Maybe Sorin destroyed Avacyn with it and then fled the plane?
Yeah, I kept thinking that it sounds like Sorin's sword. What made me think that, is the artwork of Sorin's Vengeance, where the blade is draining the victim's blood. There is so much flavor for a simple sword, and Sorin being in the next set makes sense. The only problem I have with it, is how did Sorin lose the sword. Unless those letters were written long before Sorin got the sword. Interesting.