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CardName: Diet of Bugs Cost: {b}{r}{g} Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Dwarfs have protection from werewolves and from vampires. Vampires and werewolves have protection from dwarfs. Flavour Text: A commonly misunderstood agreement among vampires, werewolves, and dwarves reached in the Uberwalden city of Bugs. Set/Rarity: Discworld Uncommon |
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I have no idea what this card is referencing, so it made me say "What?" out loud.
The first ability has to say "from werewolves and from vampires," or it only offers protection from things that are both.
Who wants to eat something that eats bugs? You know, besides humans. Because we seem to have no problem with poultry. Though, the more I think about it, the more it kind of wigs me out.
That said, since this set is based on Discworld, I assume it refers to the truce between Dwarves, Vampires and Werewolves called the Diet of Bugs:
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Diet_of_Bugs
I'm not clever enough to know that off the top of my head, though. Had to look it up. I like Pratchet's work, but I've only read 'Going Postal', 'Thud!' and 'Making Money'.
This is indeed a reference to the Discworld Diet of Bugs, but that itself is (as L-space points out) a reference to the real world historical event the Diet of Worms, a months-long imperial council of the Holy Roman Empire in 1521, notable for being where Martin Luther was interviewed by the Emperor and where the Emperor officially proclaimed Luther to be a heretic.