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Quote from NecroBlade »

While I admit it's very clever how the whole thing fits together, I just don't like it as flavour text.

Agreed. It wins as the coolest idea for a Flavor Text ever, but it just doesn't fit elegantly in the textbox.

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Theros faces a crisis like none before. The gods have turned against humanity.

Where have I heard this before? Oh right, that was the plot of Kamigawa block.

Quote from Xenphire

Remind me again why people are trying to argue against the Sliver's evolution in a fantasy-based universe with real world science?

Because it ends up going against my suspension of disbelief as to what differentiates each species within the this fantasy world. Despite the fact that this all exists in a crazy fantasy world filled with magic it still needs to run on internal logic that makes sense to people. If every time we had re-experienced Slivers they were given a radically different look to show how they evolved in the environment you wouldn't have people mad about this iteration because there was precedent that they dramatically changed form every time they came back, although I would question the choice of name if this were the case.

Instead we have had 3 different iterations of Slivers that all used a basic body shape to represent themselves so people have a specific look in their mind as to how they are supposed to be represented. In addition, since the Sliver's revival by the riptide project it was 200 years before we saw them again and in that time they continued to have have a unique, consistent body shape in all that time. Now you may be saying well those are the Slivers from Rath, these are the Slivers from Shandalar. To which I say that if the species has diverged this much they have ceased to belong to the same species at this point (it doesn't help that the name no longer makes any sense in the context of their new form).

This isn't even mentioning that these creatures seem to lack any internal consistency between each other to the point that I wouldn't even place them as being part of the same species. Oh yes there is supposed to be moving exoskeleton parts that allow them to reshape their bodies or something like that. Well that should have been more obviously clear because I wasn't able to see that at all just looking at them.