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While netdecking and testing VileHorror i thought about Biorhythm. Sure its really expensive, off-color and crappy but still you're always the one with creatures while playing VH. That made me think.
So we'll see the other races back to probably, less of them I guess.
But wasn't there a topic allready about this on speculation?
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hey i have managed to evolve my axolotls by feeding them thyroid glands the thyroxine contained in these gland is enough to change these water dwelling creatures into land based creatures
Posted by: Tay Collins | January 20, 2010 6:45 AM
Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
Posted by: David Marjanović | January 20, 2010 8:55 AM
Peanut elves wear leaves in their hair - sometimes twigs. Attire has leaf motiffs [sic]. Where Jelly elves favor symmetry, Peanut elves favor asymmetry in their clothes/armor
That's a very interesting statement. Not only does it suggest that Jelly has elves, but also that the Jelly elves are from a different place (world? plane? or just different side of a disc where one side has eternal sunlight and the other side eternal shadow?) or time than the Lorwyn elves.
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It's also good news for an aquaintance of mine, she's collecting as many different foil elves as possible(i've lost count of how many thousand she's up to by now, including hard to obtain ones like the rares and power common elves). She was pretty put out by Oddessey and Kamigawa blocks absense of elves way back.
This could mean that Jelly is the also on the Lorwyn plane, or at least uses the same elves.
But another explanation could be that Peanut and Jelly were both Started at the same time, and at some time the two blocks were switched. Perhaps Lorwyn was developing faster?
Or Possibly both, It would be silly to start a tribal mini-block, and then drop the tribal creature types for a second mini-block.
I'm still holding out hope for a world in which Squirrel is master of Elf.
yay! squirrels are fun!
I still want to see a card that can replace crosis's catacombs
in my all dragon extended deck though so dragon tribe is what I realy want.
also, some dragon tribal burn would be nice!
My guess is that the aspect that connects the two mini blocks is either the future or history of Lorwyn. How things became the way they did or how they are affected by the events that happen in Lorwyn, lending itself to brand new mechanics and most likely the absence of tribal.
I thought peanut and jelly where in the same setting, so would not the elves be the same in both? Unless there is some kind of elf reformation. Splitting the elves into two, based on philosophy of what "beautiful" is.
Normally "people" have to be separated to come to two different philosophies like that, but there are no oceans so that could not really be it.
I am guessing that there is some kind of elf messiah that drastically changes many of the other elves outlook and tries to convert all the other elves, from peanut, to his/her way of thinking, and jelly is about that change.
What we're doing here is akin to taking the text of Moby Dick, locating specific words therein, rearranging them to create a passage from Fight Club, and concluding from this evidence that Tyler Durden is based on Ahab.
I hope this means kithkin will step up to the plate as the iconic weenie race of white and not go away. They are instantly endearing, and something has been needed for this position.
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I hope this means kithkin will step up to the plate as the iconic weenie race of white and not go away. They are instantly endearing, and something has been needed for this position.
They'd be horribly out of place in a lot of settings though.
What we're doing here is akin to taking the text of Moby Dick, locating specific words therein, rearranging them to create a passage from Fight Club, and concluding from this evidence that Tyler Durden is based on Ahab.
I hope this means kithkin will step up to the plate as the iconic weenie race of white and not go away. They are instantly endearing, and something has been needed for this position.
Instantly endearing?? If, by "instantly endearing", you mean instantly worthless, yeah, you're right.
So much hate for the halflings? I suppose tranquility, a love of hearth and a sense of place and community arent for everyone.
They are still -the- iconic white weenie race for me. They represent white in a way nothing else has. Leonin? Aven? Loxodon, even? White has had an embarassing saga of being the choice of furries, and this is something altogether more wholesome and cute.
And really, what is wrong with white being wholesome and cute? it's white.
I do regret that they have an affinity for attack mechanics that will limit their reuse, and as you say, do not fit all the environments wizards will take magic. (Although I would say if an environment cannot find a home for the kithkin, that is an argument against that environment, not kithkin..)
Still! I hope we have not seen the last of them with this block.
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'..they imagine their gift is to meddle and rule, while they worship their reflection in a social cesspool..'
This pretty much means the second block will NOT take place on Lorwyn, because they would be the same elves otherwise. This picture makes a distinction between the two.
This pretty much means the second block will NOT take place on Lorwyn, because they would be the same elves otherwise. This picture makes a distinction between the two.
Or it could be years later! No, wait, that's Time Spiral.
I'm still hoping for a Zelda: Link to the Past sort of Dark World/Light World kind of feel, but NOT Shadow.
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This pretty much means the second block will NOT take place on Lorwyn, because they would be the same elves otherwise. This picture makes a distinction between the two.
It only makes a distinction in their styles of dress, so maybe they are the same elves otherwise... perhaps the "jelly" elves are from the other side of Lorwyn... the eternally dark side where the sun never rises above the horizon?
Also, if the G/b "peanut" elves favor asymmetry, maybe the "jelly" elves which favor symmetry are G/w or perhaps G/u?
Symmetry is a white idea, but I think G/x anything elves is a bad idea. Elves need to quietly return to their place as little green men. The colourwanking was fun times in ravnica, and by the end of lorwyn block it will be a tired thing.
Remember when you splashed green to get another colour because only green could fix mana?
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'..they imagine their gift is to meddle and rule, while they worship their reflection in a social cesspool..'
More elves? I'm gonna have to sig myseld, but doesn't WotC get tired of elves? They always claim that dwarves' stereotypes are too hard to break, and that's why they don't do them, but if they spended half the effort they spend on elves and goblins on dwarves, they could have already gotten something.
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But wasn't there a topic allready about this on speculation?
Posted by: Tay Collins | January 20, 2010 6:45 AM
Tay, that's not evolution. It's metamorphosis. Evolution means descent with heritable modification – individuals cannot evolve, unless they're Pokemon.
Posted by: David Marjanović | January 20, 2010 8:55 AM
That's a very interesting statement. Not only does it suggest that Jelly has elves, but also that the Jelly elves are from a different place (world? plane? or just different side of a disc where one side has eternal sunlight and the other side eternal shadow?) or time than the Lorwyn elves.
- Jon Finkel believes in maintaining a healthy, balanced diet. He gets all his fiber from eating Magic cards for breakfast, and all his protein from eating Magic players for lunch.
It's also good news for an aquaintance of mine, she's collecting as many different foil elves as possible(i've lost count of how many thousand she's up to by now, including hard to obtain ones like the rares and power common elves). She was pretty put out by Oddessey and Kamigawa blocks absense of elves way back.
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This could mean that Jelly is the also on the Lorwyn plane, or at least uses the same elves.
But another explanation could be that Peanut and Jelly were both Started at the same time, and at some time the two blocks were switched. Perhaps Lorwyn was developing faster?
Or Possibly both, It would be silly to start a tribal mini-block, and then drop the tribal creature types for a second mini-block.
yay! squirrels are fun!
I still want to see a card that can replace crosis's catacombs
in my all dragon extended deck though so dragon tribe is what I realy want.
also, some dragon tribal burn would be nice!
Normally "people" have to be separated to come to two different philosophies like that, but there are no oceans so that could not really be it.
I am guessing that there is some kind of elf messiah that drastically changes many of the other elves outlook and tries to convert all the other elves, from peanut, to his/her way of thinking, and jelly is about that change.
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They'd be horribly out of place in a lot of settings though.
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No they're not. I hope the giants stomp on all of them.
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Instantly endearing?? If, by "instantly endearing", you mean instantly worthless, yeah, you're right.
Except for Teeg. He's (almost)worthwhile.
They are still -the- iconic white weenie race for me. They represent white in a way nothing else has. Leonin? Aven? Loxodon, even? White has had an embarassing saga of being the choice of furries, and this is something altogether more wholesome and cute.
And really, what is wrong with white being wholesome and cute? it's white.
I do regret that they have an affinity for attack mechanics that will limit their reuse, and as you say, do not fit all the environments wizards will take magic. (Although I would say if an environment cannot find a home for the kithkin, that is an argument against that environment, not kithkin..)
Still! I hope we have not seen the last of them with this block.
Or it could be years later! No, wait, that's Time Spiral.
I'm still hoping for a Zelda: Link to the Past sort of Dark World/Light World kind of feel, but NOT Shadow.
It only makes a distinction in their styles of dress, so maybe they are the same elves otherwise... perhaps the "jelly" elves are from the other side of Lorwyn... the eternally dark side where the sun never rises above the horizon?
Also, if the G/b "peanut" elves favor asymmetry, maybe the "jelly" elves which favor symmetry are G/w or perhaps G/u?
I don't know, just some thoughts.
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More elves? I'm gonna have to sig myseld, but doesn't WotC get tired of elves? They always claim that dwarves' stereotypes are too hard to break, and that's why they don't do them, but if they spended half the effort they spend on elves and goblins on dwarves, they could have already gotten something.
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