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Reprint of Blood Knight, and part of the Knight cycle that started with Order of the White Shield, through Vodalian Riddlemaiden and out Dunerider Outlaw. I guess I didn't have many choices in red without designing a new 2cc red knight (This, and, if I ease the color restriction, Bogardan Lancer). Doesn't really matter, though, cause Blood Knight is pretty solid.
Reprint of Bestial Fury. I always liked that card... it does what cantrips are supposed to do. Make a card situationally better, then allow you to keep going. For those who need reminding why I'm using slowtrips, see Bone Harvest.
Reprint of Slithering Shade. Really, I just reprinted any non-gold appropriate Hellbent card I could. Wasn't much to pick from, so Slithering Shade was a bit automatic. Rather wish it was a wall, though, since I have an anti-wall card in the set. You know... maybe I'll just re-flavor this thing? Or maybe I shouldn't bother, considering it's too close to Flowstone Wall anyway...
Wow, I thought this was an actual mirror of Bounty of the Hunt, it evokes it so well. Very smooth.
Very interesting. I think it's fine.
Rand is being taken out of context here... that's one of the intriguing things about flavor text. By it's very nature, it is out of context.
In Rand's next paragraph, she happens to say "the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)"
All of this sounds self-evident. Rand is setting up 'The True is the Whole', a postulation put forth by Hegel that says (loosely) "First myself, then my family, then my community, then my country". Except in this case Rand is saying "If I have individual freedom, then my minority group has freedom, then my country experiences freedom".
There's nothing wrong with that in theory. The problem is when someone tries to abuse that line of thinking. You could postulate off that and say "Minority group X has a freedom. I don't have that freedom. Therefore Minority group X should have that freedom taken away from them until each individual is allowed such a freedom. No one can be free until everyone is free."
A real world example would be how Jews used to be allowed to perform business transactions on Sunday in mostly Christian Europe. Jews had a freedom that Christians did not. The correct thing to do would be to allow Christians to practice business on Sundays if they so wished. Unfortunately, that would be a very difficult law to pass. Instead many Christians believed that, since they weren't individually free, then neither should the Jewish population, and they often took matters in their own hands.
I want to stress again that this is A). Not my philosophy and, B). I think that's putting words into Rand's mouth. I could see how this quote could offend someone, though, it does take quite a bit of extrapolation and imagination to get to that point. For those that have done the extrapolating, though, I assume they would think it self-evident. It's more "Something to intentionally get yourself upset over".
I didn't realize this was an actual quote. Other than the fact that it doesn't seem appropriate for a card called Skittering Horror, I guess it's fine on a Magic card. It is very black, you're correct. I don't see how this is offensive, but if it is, it shouldn't be included; this is a game, after all.
Reading the quote out of context, I'm not sure how you reached your analysis in the last paragraph. Could you explain?
Hah! You know, I wasn't sure where it came from, so I Googled it. It turns out this particular line is from Ayn Rand. I think it struck me as 'very black philosophically' and put it on the card, but then didn't attribute the author, because I didn't want to advocate the author.
This, of course, is keeping in mind that I never intended to publish the card on the internet... only to print up some copies and draft some times with some friends. Had I ever thought it would have ended up here, it would have had attribution, or the flavor text wouldn't be used at all.
That being said, I think the line's a load of bull, but I do like how it encapsulates black's sense of selfishness, and it's willingness to do anything to protect its interests. Since Magic (and this set) sometimes uses real world quotes, do you think that quotes that can offend some people, or have been used as a form of hate speech, have no basis in the game? Does it strike too close to home?
I have no qualms about pulling the flavor, you understand. I'm keeping it up, temporarily, because I find the subject of moderation and self-censorship to be interesting, and this particular piece of flavor text does walks that very fine line. After all, it argues for the sacredness of individual freedom... it does it, however, at the expense of the freedom of minorities.
That's very political/real-world flavor text. I'm not sure if it's appropriate for a Magic card.
Reprint of Skittering Horror. Not an exciting card to go out on, true. As it stands, Innistrad has some better options, maybe, than this staple from 2000. Maybe I should take another look at that file and update this card? Anyhow, this bugger helps create alternate draft strategies in uncommon, which I like. I'd also like to give it one more point of toughness nowadays... but, what can I do?
Reprint of Midnight Charm and part of the charm cycle. I know... this one comes from Planar Chaos... but if I was to follow my own rules, one of them is supposed to do that. That, and I don't see black not doing any of these three things. It's really rare, but the abilities aren't really that good. I'm not one to sit behind the Timber Wolves defense too often, but I don't have a real problem with this card.
Functional reprint of Sink into Takenuma... Missing the words 'sweep' and 'arcane'. Between this and Delirium Skeins, blacks got some diesel discard in set, but only in uncommon, and they're both tough to work with (though, they work together very nicely...). Also, this happens to be a black wisdom card, so, yeah.
Part of the same cycle with Abolish and Foil. I think you can see where this card came from. Bounty of the Hunt meets Seeds of Strength meets Contagion.
Originally I had this card as a sorcery. It still sits in my file as a sorcery, which I did to balance out the power level of these cards (I think). Problem was, I drafted this card a number of times, and it just wants to be an instant. You keep playing it like one, only catching yourself when you've screwed yourself in combat, and can't. Something about pitch cards makes you feel like you can do it whenever... so I put it in Instant.
Reprint of Evil Eye of Urborg. Funny how I just happened to end last week on Evil Eye of Erg...
Name is now back to normal, thank you.
Fixing the typo in the link, I note that this appears to have been a slight name change from the original as well as a rarity change. The rarity change is curiously unobtrusive: this card doesn't look remotely odd at uncommon, perhaps because it evokes Fugue.