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CardName: Bimblblin the Frugal Cost: Bgw Type: Legendary Creature - Gnome Noble Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Vigilance Whenever you sacrifice a permanent to pay a cost, you may return that card to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Rare |
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Removed regeneration ability.
Creature type change from Troll to Gnome; though I guess Magic gnomes are normally artifact creatures, aren't they?
They really shouldn't be. The first one (Quarum Trench Gnomes) wasn't, but for some reason the second one (Clockwork Gnomes) set the precedent, and I have no idea why.
Who knows?
Magic is weird.
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/145809054783/why-are-gnomes-artifacts-in-magic-the-first-one
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So it's really just tradition.
To be fair, I like the fact that Magic isn't a clone of DnD/WoW. Oddities like these keeps the flavor of the game interesting IMO.
Yeah, the artifact gnomes are a little weird, but I agree, I like that magic does develop these little bits of worldbuilding.
And it's not as weird as it might seem. Modern fantasy tradition as influenced by DnD has a lot of clear divisions between creatures, but I think in older tradition, it's often a lot more ambiguous, and lots of small underground creatures are sometimes just tunnelers and sometimes have some sort of "made out of rock" thing.
OTOH, I guess, magic gnomes always look constructed, they're like "tiny golems" or "tiny clockwork creatures" -- is there a standard name for that sort of thing?
If there were, I would think it would pop up when talking older fairy tales, such as in Anderson's 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'. I believe Dungeons & Dragons calls creatures like this "The Created"... though, that term is pretty much a second edition Ravenloft thing. So I guess there's supposed to be a veneer of sinister-ness to it. That, and, now that I think of it, the Created are pretty much limited to a single adventure module, in which... I think a Geppetto-like character is the Dark Lord?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Created