Dig the card, but Sorin's face is throwing me for a loop. He looks like he's about to ask mummy for more porridge and will throw a tantrum when he doesn't get it.
Interesting thing to note here: this Aven doesn't appear to be from any plane we've seen before. The only crane-aven we've seen have been from Tarkir, but they don't have arms separate from their wings.
I'll throw my hat into the ring and say that I actually really like this new breed of ninja. (Undead, steampunk, naga, etc.) Ninja as they exist today are just as much a product of globalized pop-culture as they are the real world historical figures that inspired them. I mean, to be honest, they've been kind of decoupled from any specifically Japanese cultural context for about 40 years now, and there's a lot of resonant design and narrative space being walled off to preserve their perceived integrity.
That's a sophomore anthropology student way of saying that I like zombie ninja and I don't want them to stop.
The fact that the art is of a reanimated Phyrexian Negator is so cool it actually makes me kind of irrationally angry. Like, how dare they commission something that rad!
This is some of the most ingenious flavor I've ever seen. The name, art and mechanics brilliantly and efficiently convey the story of a bunch of idiots who summon a demon and get eaten for their troubles. Whatever your opinion on the card's playability, you have to admit that that's pretty cool.
Yes, lack of Humans was absolutely one of the reasons Lorwyn as a whole went poorly, even with two-maybe-three major races that are basically Humans but slightly jazzed up (Kithkin, Elves, Giants).
Take that problem and add memes about furries - you'll get a considerably worse reception to say the least. Feel free to replace "memes about furries" with "hackneyed jokes quoting Planet of the Apes" in the version where Humans are a slave race.
Actually, if we could just have an entire set of hackneyed Planet of the Apes jokes, I would be ecstatic.
Interesting. Certainly the most out-there of this set's God abilities, which is always a plus for me. I think this will find a good home in a lot of U/X spellslinger decks.
Somebody guessed his word, I suppose.
That's a sophomore anthropology student way of saying that I like zombie ninja and I don't want them to stop.
*Cries in Adarkar Valkyrie*
Actually, if we could just have an entire set of hackneyed Planet of the Apes jokes, I would be ecstatic.