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Babes in Toyland (1934)

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The Atchison Daily Globe, Kansas, August 6, 1897

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Travis-isms we have been blessed with:

Reverse Math

I don’t need a hat of disguise what I need is a disguise!!

Do I really want to dress up like a Cat from…what’s that musical?

Candy Carrots! That’s what they call Candy Corn right?

Truly inspired. But what will the future hold? Oh Travis, we love you.

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Breakfast of Champions, Qixuan Lim

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That is one determined kitty

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BEST QUALITY

H I S W I G G L E S

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Inquiring Minds Want To Know - Worlds Not To Return To

Recently, we’ve talked a lot on this blog about worlds you want to revisit. I’m interested in hearing the opposite. What’s a world or worlds you never want to revisit?

ashmole

Alara

I didn’t much like the shards and liked the plane made of the combined shards even less. The shards aren’t cohesive – they don’t feel like they deepen and enhance the nature of one another’s worlds (unlike the guilds of Ravnica and the wedges of Tarkir) and when combined they become incoherent.

Otaria in Dominaria

Had the worst worldbuilding flavour out of all of magic to me. The cultures and races didn’t seem to have any complexity to them and the interaction between them didn’t seem to offer a fleshed out world. It felt more like the worldbuilding was filled in around mechanical constraints. Otarian goblins are the most boring goblins in the history of magic, the wizards aren’t a culture etc. I liked the cephalids though.

Amonkhet

The number of remaining familiar tropes that I’m interested in is limited and the setting was too much of an Egyptian riff without unique elements for me to want to go back. In contrast Theros, while feeling similarly close to Greece as Amonkhet is to Egypt, still has more familiar tropes and stories that I’d be excited to see the Magic approach to and Kaladesh despite its influences has enough unique worldbuilding and innovative combinations of influences that are all its own that I still want more.

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can’t wait to meet Squawkzilla

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Kate Bush 1978-1986

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cat doesn’t want to get out of nice warm bath [x]

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The towel on the head is what kills me forever, too precious.

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I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GIFSET FOR MONTHS.

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The “smiling stones” of Japanese artist, Jiyuseki.

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the indian giant squirrel is so gorgeous & just loves hanging around

its just hanging out w/ its gorgeous sunset colors…..

eating some grapes…

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Inquiring Minds Want To Know - New Worlds

My question for today is about new worlds you’d like to see (for a Standard-legal set). You can tell me about any source material (cultural or genre) you’d like to see serve as an inspiration for a set or any existing mechanical components or themes you’d like to see a set built around. The only thing I ask for you not to give me is mechanical things Magic has not done yet (aka I am not soliciting new Magic cards, mechanics or mechanical components). Thanks.

ashmole

1) Artifacts vs. Enchantments - a mystical land fighting a colonising technological empire. 2) Fantasy/steampunk spacefaring 3) Gulliver’s Travels world - peculiar and metaphorical micro societies each of which operate by their own rules, maybe a world of islands 4) Folktales and storytelling world, preferably with different cultures meeting and sharing 5) German Expressionism World - otherworldly, absurd, dreamlike, grim. 6) Rock Album Cover World

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Inquiring Minds Want To Know - Planes to Visit in the Future

In today’s information gathering, I’m interested to hear what planes you want to visit in an upcoming Standard-legal set. Here’s how I would like you to respond. Please list, in order, your favorites from one up to five. You can list less than five, but please restrict yourself to five answers. Number 1 should be the plane you most want to see us visit in the future.

If you’re interested you may also tell me why you want to return to that plane. You can list any known plane including ones we’ve never visited before. I need names of existing planes though and not “wild west plane”.

Here’s an example:

1. Innistrad - It’s my favorite plane

2. Fiora - I love Conspiracy and would like to see Fiora in a Standard-legal set.

3. Tarkir - Go back, but there better be clans.

4. Rath - I don’t know how you’d do it, but I’d love it.

5. Alara - More Esper please.

I would love to get a lot of data, so please pass this along to your Magic friends to answer as well.

Please number your answers as the data will be weighted. I will count them in the order listed if you don’t number them. Please don’t list the same plane more than once.

ashmole

1. Kaladesh. I absolutely loved the worldbuilding here and multicolor steampunk is a much more interesting approach to an artifact theme to me than a metal world like Mirrodin.

2. Dominiara, specifically Jamuraa. I think it had the most beautiful creative aspect (art + flavor text) of any sets in magic history.

3. Innistrad. For me the most thematic and flavorful design work ever done. I loved both the take on traditional gothic and Lovecraftian horror. Would be interested in colonial or postcolonial horror although maybe that would need another plane.

4. Lorwyn/Shadowmoor with a top down flavor approach to fairytales rather than a mechanics first approach to tribal and color matters.

5. The Plane of Mountains and Seas from the Global Series: Jiang Yanggu and Mu Yanling product. Super cool and vibrant. What awesome creature names, but attached to some very dull cards. The creatures (so many animals! Is it an animal plane?) suggested at a grandeur and weirdness that wasn’t really there in Portal: Three Kingdoms, with some of the specialness of Kamigawa’s Kami.