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CardName: Telosian Chimera Cost: {4}{U} Type: Creature - Spirit Pow/Tgh: 4/3 Rules Text: Flavour Text: The thing is what it is not and is not what it is. -Telosian mantra, memorized phonetically Set/Rarity: LibraryPlane Common |
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We don't seem to see all that many cards with seven lines of flavour text any more. And yet my set is poised to be filled with them. I take this to be an indication that I'm failing to convey my world as coherently as I should. But I'm willing to allow myself lengthy flavour text as a concession to the fact that this is just a beginner's experiment anyway.
Here's this set's biggest common in Blue. Very few blue vanillas are bigger than some variation of 2/3 (as far as I can tell giant octopus, water elemental and vizzerdrix are the exceptions). (((Thinkbeast))) would be the biggest common vanilla Blue has ever gotten. That has me a little nervous, but I think it's justifiable given the themes of the set.
typo in flavour text
This was a 4/4, but I got nervous about the colour pie (bonebreaker giant says that 4/4 is too big for a blue vanilla creature at this mana cost). A blue zombie goliath sounds right (I had it as a 3/5 for a moment, but there's too much toughness in blue common already).
This was called thinkbeast, which seemed liked a good idea at the time. Now it's a chimera, and in the cute sense of it being a chimera like an illusion or absurd idea rather than a Greek sheep-eater. This is confusing, which means I'll probably change it again next month.
And it gets worse: the flavour text is a paraphrasing (it may be a direct quote, but I don't trust my translation) of Hegel's (in)famous upsetting of Aristotelian logic derived from the principle of identity. I admit it's bad flavour text because 1. most people don't know about / care about Hegel, and 2. even those who know about /care about Hegel probably don't like this quote. But I think it's important that this set wear its pretentiousness on its sleeve.
I'm going to store the old flavour text here:
The Telosians are the children of the tiniest fallacy, the barest question-begging of some distant axiom. This needling unreason has festered for innumerable years, incrementally poisoning our history, perverting our laws, inverting our truths.
This is to remind myself that the current flavour text is actually an improvement.