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CardName: Celestial Glider Cost: 3WW Type: Creature - Griffin Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Flying, vigilance Discard a card: Exile target flying creature blocking Celestial Glider. Flavour Text: And up and up the Dragon flew, and up and up the Griffon. The air grew weak and breath was few, but neither one would give in. -From "Why Griffin Flies High" Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Workbench Rare |
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Multiverse Random Generator gave me Stealth Glider, designed by M Houlding, and another L2i0n0k7 design, Celestial Horseman. Two random cards and two made by Link... but I suppose that's not too weird. 50% of the cards on this system are probably made by 10 people. Just more weird for Link, I suppose. Oh, and if you're wondering what's going on, check out the notes for (((Weird Washer))).
I kind of flipped the flavor of Stealth Glider on it's head here. Now, instead of flying too low for your opponents creatures to block it, when this creature engages flying creatures, it climbs, and climbs and climbs, until the lack of atmosphere knocks the other creature out. Creatures with reach, like Spiders, however, continue to be unaffected, since they generally block by dragging the griffon to the ground somehow. I also tossed Protection from Black and Red... they make sense in Link's cycle, but you kind of want this creature to be blocked.
Oh... also, is it my imagination, or can the word "flagon" be used to describe "giving in". I'd prefer the hard rhyme instead of the soft rhyme... am I thinking of a homonym or something? Dictionary.com doesn't seem to agree with me.... what am I picking up on?
"Flag" certainly has that meaning, so yeah, you can stretch for the pun.
Yeah, I'm probably picking up on "flag" and tagging an unnecessary article to it. Strange. Sometimes the mind picks up on a word and assumes it means something it does not. Up until a couple days ago, I thought "enigmatic" meant outgoing and personable. Turns out it means "puzzling"... like an enigma. Somehow puzzling became cryptic, cryptic things are engrossing, people that are engrossing have charisma, and charismatic people are outgoing. Or I made a straight jump to charismatic. Either way.
Nice mashup. Fractionally better than Serra Angel, but minorly enough that I think it's fine on a rare.
A pity moving this card back, because I rather like it. White Machine needs more cards, though, and this is fighting for the same cc slot as another white rare there.