For me, as a veteran, it is, and always was, about the community, not the name. I'll go where the people I like to talk to, and the staff that did such amazing work, are going.
If the staff moves to Nexus, I'll follow, like I went from News to Sally 14 years ago.
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May 9, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Retrospective by Mark WintersGreat article!Posted in: Articles
Though I am a little sad that after Kelly Digges, I see that another man highly responsible for the gem that is Dominaria left Wizards. -
Apr 9, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Preview - Final PartingCalled it!!! (I mean the Final Parting being Josu + Liliana, not Jodah + dying Jaya).Posted in: Articles
Also, gratz a lot to an official preview card! -
Mar 15, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesPosted in: ArticlesQuote from Formless_One »No, the Baron Sengir and Grandmother Sengir come from Ulgothra. However, Grandmother Sengir is actually a planeswalker named Ravi who knew the Baron when he was young and as I understand it before he was a vampire. Then she went insane after pulling an Urza and blowing up most of Ulgothra. But the plane has a planar portal that most likely connects to Dominaria, and who knows? Maybe the Baron and his "Grandmother" did some traveling around the Multiverse at some point.
The Baron is NOT from Ulgrotha. He is from an unknown plane, he was brought to Ulgrotha by an unknown walker and stranded there. He might be originally from Dominaria, as we seen Sengir vampires there...but there is not enough info either to confirm or dismiss it.
Granny is a former planeswalker and one-time friend of the Baron who had a hand in him becoming vampire. See here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Ravi
More in this 12 years old article from Matt Cavotta: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/royal-bloodline-emphasis-blood-2006-02-15 -
Mar 12, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesYou are welcome. Some more:Posted in: Articles
odah's paragraph is quite wild.
"(Jodah) was also present during the Phyrexian Invasion and helped restore Urza's sanity during that time" - this is wholly incorrect, where you got it?
- one of the primary contributous to Worldspell - not quite, he had to provide his mirror and was forced to utilize (and in the process, consume) the safe havens to distribute the excess energy of the spell to prevent another Sylex Blast.
It is debatable, whether Evra, Halcyon Witness is what we think. After all, we have seen Halcyon Glaze. But using this very particular name on Dominaria and NOT tying it to THE Halcyon would be immensely stupid.
Kolo Meha was above all a Bogardan fire mage, but with ties to Madara, of course.
Gix was not Glacian's kíller. He attacked and wounded him, but Yawgmoth "killed" him by his treattment. -
Mar 12, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesSome minor corrections:Posted in: Articles
- Primevals' rebirth was one of the climaxes of Planeshift,not Invasion
- Karn's Temporal Sundering is probably the time machine explosion also depicted on Sunder, not the Tolarian rift closure.
- Sagas get counters on the beginning of the precombat main phase
- Mirari was just one of Karn's probes, and a faulty one (it shouldn't be leaking power)
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Mar 7, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Ixalan Story Interview with Alison LuhrsLoving it. Amazing read.Posted in: Articles
The most interesting thing for me is the reveal of intentional use of farce structure and themes for the story. It makes PERFECT sense. And explains a lot. -
Feb 11, 2016Caranthir posted a message on Archive Trap: The World of InnistradGreat article, guys. Thanks for summarizing this.Posted in: Articles
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Jan 13, 2008Caranthir posted a message on [Powerfantasy] Some pics of a game...Great pics, James Losing Miles had to hurt, indeed. I like your choice of team....playing with Miles and Phobeya together is one of my preferred combinations. Just add Harass and you got my fav "supervillain" team. But Sil is powerful with any high-damage super character.Posted in: Hydrokinesis's Blog
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For someone unable to remember something that was here only two years ago you surely have a strong and loud opinion, as usual...
And everything you said is entirely invalidated by something that came 20 years ago, in Mirrodin. Things like Pentavus, various myr, Grid Monitor etc. are just 100% robots.¨
So you do not like Doctor Who, we get it. But do not mix your very subjective personal tastes with unfounded axiomatic statements what Magic is and is not
EDIT: Apparently it was a panel on a convention and the video will be available today.
Getting Lukka's cat named is not a bad thing, I guess. Despite he never named her or really cared about her. Except for getting pissed when Kudro ordered to execute it. Whatever.
Vronos is OK, though I really hoped for Feroz.
Guff Rewrites History .... well, what the **** should tnis be? First, he in fact did not REWRITE it, he erased the already written victory of Phyrexia and give the fate chance to decide itself.
I really have no idea wha these silly doodles should be.
And mechanic-wise....meh. Again, a chaos effect could be expected, but with name such as this, I really expected something like "return the game back to its state at the beginning of this turn".
I am glad we got him (now give us the Taysir "family", Bo Levar and (not 9-titan) Leshrac!)and we are good, wizards. Kinda disappointed that we god a nineteenth Chandra instead of a new (or old) character. Teyo's spot could have been taken by Daria, but I guess it would not fit flavorfully.
Overall, I am glad for this deck, but nothing to write home about.
That's friggin' good. Poor Setessan girl.
Is that Narset on Fierce Guardianship?
Signing off.
Wow, brave hero, you got me on a technical detail. Wanna get a medal?
I read the books several times in the thirty years since first time, so be a good boy and stick your "incredibly clear" statements where the sun does not shine.
I am fed up with this bad parody of intelligent discussion. Enjoy this parody of Tolkien.
If you consider yourself being funny, you might want to reconsider
The point I was trying to make is that I do not like outright butchering and inverting the source material for no reason. Citing a very specific appearance-related phrase from a characterizing song about her is prime example of it. And a very laughable one.
I do not get the argument about "personality", because well, her personality is not sung about, hence I am ignoring it as something wholly non sequitur.
And I am simply expressing that I do not like what they done with the source, despite it being approved by MME. But I do not hate it like the travesty they did with The Watch.
Okay, I will try it once more and this time more slowly...
There is a song, yes? A song sung by Tom Bombadil.
The song has a very clear lyrical description of her appearance, and no, the words are not "puffy as a morning cloud".
If you do not see the problem with them wiping their butts with the source and completely inverting it, I do.
Heck, if they really needed to force a chubby female character there, why not choose e.g. Ioreth, that has virtually zero description in the books save for being old, and not a fething descriptive song.
The last sentence is an oversimplification. I have my own gripes with the film adaptation, as well as this set. All I say is that Peter Jackson treated the original with far more respect to the source material than those who made this set. But again, it is all caused by the shift in the society since the movies were made, resulting in changes in the name of "equal representation". If these were made today, I would not be surprised it to look more like the infamous Rings of Power.
It is similar to how they butchered The Watch - Sibyl Ramkin is basically a black streetwise Xena/Van Helsing, Cheery is a badly drag queen-looking transperson, Havelock Vetinari is a ****ing non-binary granny, even Dr. Cruces is a woman. Angua looks like a post-apo scrawny punk, but at least really female.
And then there are some less inportant characters, like Vimes, eh...? Carrot is far from the impressive "giant" from the books. Probably not to accidentaly overshadow the
weakfemale heroes, well...?It is all so forced so it is utterly ridiculous.
You call making Goldberry thick when she is explicitly sung about being "slender as a willow-wand" a "cosmetic aspect"?
No wonder they omitted the flavortext from her card, because even the most thick-headed people would probably spot the discrepancy.
And as someone said - the movies maybe omitted parts of the story, but made the rest absolutely breathtaking. For example, the Rohirrim arrival to Pelennor Fields and the charge - the "Arise, arise, riders of Théoden!" scene remains one of the best movie scenes EVER for me.
Yes, there were some WTF parts, like Aragorn singing a love song to Arwen in the Extended edition, or Faramir being a bit Boromir-like, wanting to force Frodo to go to Gondor and not the super-good boy scout
Also, Bernard Hill's Théoden is (not only in that scene) a total homerun, not this old Jamaican rasta/Battlefield Earth parody from this set. In short, this set makes a travesty of some of the elements, whereas the movies omitted some, but kept the rest unchanged and/or even improved on the books by the motion picture representation.
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Song_to_Goldberry
Okay, I might even understand making over half of the characters black... I can endure helm-less Eowyn or Andúril in magical fire....but this outright sh*tting on the source material for no reason, completely inverting it, is really beyond my understanding.
My comment aims on the fact that she removed her helmet to reveal she is a woman just moments before she slew the Witch-King, as a big plot moment, at the climax of the battle.
They are basically wiping their bottoms with the source material.
Excellent point.