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CardName: Karn, the Lost Cost: 7 Type: Planeswalker Pow/Tgh: /5 Rules Text: [+3] Add three mana of any color to your mana pool. You may use this mana only to cast artifact spells and activate artifact abilities. [-6] Gain control of target player's next turn. [-12] Gain control of all non-land permanents your opponents control. Take an additional turn after this one. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic

Karn, the Lost
{7}
 
 M 
Planeswalker
+3 Add three mana of any color to your mana pool. You may use this mana only to cast artifact spells and activate artifact abilities.
-6 Gain control of target player's next turn.
-12 Gain control of all non-land permanents your opponents control. Take an additional turn after this one.
5
Created on 29 Jan 2014 by jmgariepy

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2014-01-29 06:33:40: jmgariepy created the card Karn, the Lost

For Challenge # 098. Michael Clarke Duncan as Karn. Some thoughts:

I don't know what plots they plan to use for the MtG movie. It seems obvious to me to play the entire Jace/Lilliana/Chandra plot over some scroll, or whatever the heck that was. That plot lets them show off the 'new' planeswalkers, and lets them planeswalk a bunch. I get it. It makes sense. I can't help thinking, though, that I'd much prefer to see the Phyrexian assault of Mirrodin on the big screen. The fact that it all ends in disaster would be one of the big draws for me... and the reason why they won't do it, I suppose.

Strangely, I almost gave this role to Richard Karn, i.e., Al from Home Improvement. He's got the right body type for the job, at least. We've never seen him do a serious role, but I think he's got it in him... or at least I'd give him a shot. But at the end of the day, I don't think many people would believe it. They'd just see the host of Family Feud whenever they looked at him.

Michael Clarke Duncan, on the other hand, has the right, almost perfect, build for the role (I'm not even sure you'd need to do much more than sculpt a costume around him, and add some post sound effects) but has the acting chops (Seen the Green Mile much?) Unfortunately, he had a heart attack and died in 2012. That's unfortunate. I was unaware of this until I was mostly done working on the card, then decided it was fine anyway. This is our first choice for actor, even if the choice is now impossible, I guess.

It is almost impossible to find a picture of Michael not smiling, which made finding an image for this picture complicated. And his smile is huge. He sure looks like he lived a full life, at least

Duncan was a great actor.

Karn is kind of hard to find a match. You want someone tall, stocky, and solemn. maybe an athlete?

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