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As an homage, I tried to force 'making up' to the end so I could end the sentence with a preposition, but that resulted in a word order up with I could not put. ;)
To most writers, it should be "pretend you understand" without either the 'like' or the 'that'. Superfluous modifiers distract from the message. That said, when I create dialogue, I often leave adverbs and superfluous modifiers in there, since that's how people talk. Or, to be more precise, that's how I'd imagine Chandra would talk. Jace would probably be more precise with his language.
Alright, time to take a tour of the building and come up with a different line.
Not in a conversational tone, no.
V: You don't see anything wrong with "pretend like you understand"? As opposed to "pretend that you understand"?
...not seeing what's terribad about the grammar here. It's conversational; sure - it reads just fine to me as someone delivering an admonishment. "(Do) ''try'' to.."
Saying that; I'm not averse to new and better flavour.
"I will know that he knows what I will know..." maybe?
Perhaps we can try to pretend like we understand why Wizards hacked the flavor text?
It's a good point. I could probably do better. Things to remember to do by tomorrow: 1). Come up with new Sphinx. 2). Improve on this flavor text.
The reprint (and the rarity) make a lot of sense. (Also a nice money rare for Wizards' pocketbooks.)
But yuck, did you have to keep the horrible ungrammatical flavour text?
One of my all-time favourite decks is built around Imaginary Pet. The main combo is with Spawnbroker, but it also works awesomely with Halcyon Glaze, Azorius Aethermage, and a whole bunch of other random things. And yes, I often do spend a couple of early-game turns playing it as a temporary blocker when I don't have anything else to use the 2 mana on.
Reprint of Brink of Madness. If I'm going to go hellbent, why don't you go hellbent, too? Brink of Madness, honestly, might be too good. I don't know. At the time, I must have thought that this would be an excellent card for draft, since dropping to zero cards, even in a hellbent set, would take time. In Modern, however, you could get this effect to go off on upkeep 3. You might even have something else on the battlefield. ;)
The flavor text was me being a bit silly. On a few real Magic cards, I put in new artwork to throw players, in an attempt to work against their built in expectation that "Cards with Magic-like art are probably real reprints, and therefore 'safe'". The artwork for this card was David Bowie as the Goblin King inside one of those rooms with stairs leading in impossible directions. So, since people really liked that, I gave the card appropriate David Bowie flavor text. I continued the tradition in Magic 20XD6 with The Doors on the reprinted Breakthrough (though, I didn't attribute it there. I wondered if anyone would pick up on it.)
Reprint of Sphinx of Jwar Isle. No real stories here. I think I was just charmed with SoJI when it came out, and had an open slot to fill in the end, so I put in a card which I felt would make a very good staple big blue flyer for many years to come.
Now that I look at it, though, it occurs to me why this card hasn't cut the mustard for core sets. It has 'shroud' on it. How unfortunate. I suppose I will have to come up with a new Sphinx for this set. Something that doesn't do with drawing cards, I suppose. The set is flush enough with that.
Part of the unnassociated double tribal cycle with Thrull Mindslave. Normally, I frown upon combining evasion with hexproof, but it seems fine on a 1/1 flyer for three, and personally, I think the bird deck could use a kick in the pants.
Reprint of Imaginary Pet and another lost card form the Urza Block. While Imaginary Pet obviously matches well with Hellbent, it also does double-duty with Wisdom, providing you a 4/4 blocker that will return to your hand in a sort of 'reverse Viashino Sandstalker' way.