The Official MTG Snowstorm/Lore Thread

Something something women menstraute.

he's covered in fur and I love it.

This isn't things you say about your boyfriend.

>implying I don't have a handsome girlfriend.

>things you can say about your special snowflake, but not your girlfriend
>but not your girlfriend
>and I love it
I'm so sorry for you, I hope things get better

> implying you aren't the handsome girlfriend

>miracle
>bad mechanic
U Wot?

Ante
Banding
Splice into arcane
Conspire
Chroma
Fateseal
Sunburst
Domain
Forecast
>all mechanics RFA thinks are better than Miracle

The cursemute was definitely a mistake, it basically guaranteed that something horrible had to happen to Avacyn in the return block because the return block had to have werewolves.

Spreading the angels out over the block would have been better, one of the powerpuff girls per set maybe? One of the biggest issues with AVR is how many giant angels there are in the pool for limited.

Obviously it will come as no surprise to anyone that AVR is my favourite set.

The problem is that angels don't really mesh with Gothic horror. Avr was supposed to be a drastic tonal shift

>Serena liked Avacyn Restored
Granted, it did give us some nice fucking cards, but seriously, though?
Even moreso than classic Innistrad or Dark Ascension?

I mean for limited I prefered the other parts of the set, but AVR prelease was just so fun and it contains so many of my favourite cards. I still have my Helvault promos and the AVR Game Day mat that I won playing humans.

It was my first block and to me AVR rounded it out nicely for me.

R.F.A., I'm reading your delicious story from last thread this morning and loving it.

I don't have a girlfriend, but I do have 'Flakes.
Which makes sense, because I like men.

AlanMoore.jpg

I can say that about my husband.
As well as mai husbando, Ajani.

I might just be stupid, but I can't find my stuff in the Repository. I can see that Sir Joseph and Mephiri have folders in the writing directory, but when I click on them, they're empty.
Also, if nobody else has said it, thanks for managing all of this delicious Mary Sueism for us, Gaia user.

Assuming you're talking about the SerenaxSamnel one, thanks! It was really fun to write.

Odd. They appear for me. Try refreshing. Google can be buggy sometimes.

And no problem.

Are you the same person? Also, yes, I'm talking about that one and I am loving it!

It's still got nothing for me, but that's okay. I'll take your word for it that they're there. I wonder why I can't see them?

No, but we wrote that together. Same for almost all of his stories involving Serena.

I have an opinion question for anyone reading Dreams & Wishes, if there is indeed anyone reading it:
Was the literary device I used for the Dervishes being full characters interesting, or was it confusing? I didn't describe any of them who weren't directly involved in things until they were all naked on the beach to emphasize that they are soldiers, and that they kind of become their uniforms when they aren't at home.

I'm trying to emulate the Dervish State of 1800's Somalia in the story, albeit with a flavor/"setting" of much-older Iran, where Sufism's tenet of living humbly through a common profession meant that the entire military became Dervishes, split among the Orders and Brotherhoods in small groups. I chose Rabiah the Infinite both because it's one of my favorite settings, but also because I can do whatever I want there and still be in-canon thanks to the Thousandfold Refraction.

That's pretty neat! I'm working really hard on finishing up this story that sets up who my 'Flakes are, but after that, I have no idea what I'll do next. How do you guys work together? Skype, IM, etc.? What do you recommend for whenever I get my shit well-enough together to start propositioning other Anons to collaborate with me? I ask because I haven't done anything online with anyone in so long, I kind of forget how to do it efficiently, and I'm trying to get ideas.

I have a few of the anons on skype but the steam group(MTG Flakes Waifus and Lore) is the usual method. A bunch of us have collabed before, we open a google doc and take turns writing paragraphs then post it when it's finished.

Ive been gone for a long time. Why/when did the snowstorm get reset?

A few months back, because there was no space left on the original one and to encourage a new variety of creativity.

You're free to continue writing about the old one though. Just don't expect old flakes on the new snowstorm image.

That sounds like a lot of fun! I don't have Steam on this computer (it's just a low-memory netbook barely capable of running the internet), but once I fix the other one, I'll be sure to join that group. Maybe I should get Skype.
My husband and I do similar with a story that we've been writing for three years now by passing a binder between us in turns. That story has been a bitch to transcribe and edit, let me tell you, it's thousands of typed pages thus-far and I still have nearly a year's worth of writing to transcribe and edit as well.

My old one went that good, and considering this one was the one I liked the most that's saying something. If we are going to keep doing this then I would rather start over anyway.

The steam group sounds interesting though, Id like to get in.

You can log into steam on a browser. I don't think you can join the group on there but you can add me if you like. Steam name is: Serena of Flight Goldnight

To encourage new flakes.

I remember him, the gagagigo flake.

I've been playing since Mirage and I have to say that my favorite individual set is Avacyn Restored as well. While Innistrad and Dark Ascension were better for drafts. Avacyn Restored made the set more balanced in Standard and Sealed. It was also the first set that I was extreme excited to just open packs for. I got two Avacyns, two Giselas, two Sigardas, one Bruna, one Griselbrand, and one Temporal Mastery out of two fat packs. Over all, I think the set was extremely well done and I loved it more than any set released ever since.

So, with Innistrad left as a bit of a mess, which flakes are hanging around there?

Leon's there, organizing recovery and hunting down remaining mutants. Yao Shen is deep in his cups, disappointed that he didn't get to kill Emrakul.

Damn, those are some nice pulls.
I started playing when Tempest came out in 1997, but started collecting during Mirage Block. How long has everyone else been playing for?

I'll give that a try, and I'll definitely add you. Thanks for the help!

I'm in the middle of a rewrite of my 'Flakes stories and sheets, so Mephiri will have left from there a few years ago. He liked it there so he might go back, depending on how he feels at the end of Dreams & Wishes.

Cala was there during the chaos, causing more chaos. She's probably leaving right about now, as the Eldrazi influence fades and the thing that she was curious about is ending as a result.

Winifred is probably about to arrive looking for some vacation time, not realizing what all just happened there. She will likely appreciate that there are less angels, but be extremely confused as to the drastic shift.

I'm unsure. Serena's decision to stay or not was going to be based on how humanity proceeded and just how many angels survived. With not solid answers on either I have legitimately no clue how to proceed.

There's a lot of orphans that need to be found new homes, so Owlmom is there.

I guess Ante is technically worse because it did make the game literally impossible to play in some countries, but otherwise, yes, those are all better.

I think Ante was hilarious.

I like Splice onto Arcane, I don't care what everybody else says.

>Ante
Bad. Gambling. No one likes to lose their cards.
>Banding
Shitty. Overcosted. Weak.
>Splice into arcane
Cool but parasitic and to few Arcane spells.
>Conspire
Meh. I like Giantbaiting but yeah pretty sucky.
>Chroma
Not bad though Devotion is better.
>Fateseal
Don't even remember this desu.
>Sunburst
Same as above. Some Boros mechanic?
>Domain
Ok-ish though not really that good.

>Sunburst
>Boros

Aaaaaaaaaaand triggered. Not really

Boros mechanics are Radiance and Battalion.
Radiance causes a spell to, once you have selected a target, also effect every other legal target that shares a color with it.
Battalion creates an advantage when that creature attacks with two or more other creatures.

Sunburst is a Mirrodin Fifth Dawn mechanic that puts a +1/+1 counter onto the creature for each color of mana spent to play it.

Fateseal is a mechanic from Future Sight where you Scry your opponent.

Fateseal is you scrying your opponent's deck.

Now show me where the miracles deck touched you

I've played since m14.

Right in the Terminus.

> no one likes to lose their cards
> refers to pic

Fuck off Vronak
Nobody wants to be forced to gamble in a children's card game.
besides, gambling outside of casinos is illegal

I think that was the digimon, not this guy.
I can't remember, did we have more than one gagigo flake?

> forced to gamble
You had to agree to ante. No one forced you to do anything. And gambling amongst friends is legal. It's only illegal when you make it into a business outside of the stipulations of your county's laws.

I'm referring to the yugioh card about the lizard who went evil trying to get stronger to protect people.

oh, right, that's fair. Last storm also had a cyborg lizardman, so you can see my confusion

Yeah, Arakis wasn't he?

that's the one

For a while it was the official way.

...

>proto angerfish

Why the fuck is there a butchered Watchmen quote in there?

The same reason why an Eldrazi-cyborg that seeks to destroy death is green.

I am complete.

...

Neat. Zombie Chandra.

Glad you got to enjoy it. Wish I could have went.

Why can't you go?

the watchmen used a similar quote? Huh, I do not recall this, but am happy. I guess my shit taste in media infects my more more than I think.

yeah, I've come to accept that philosophy as not-green. The reworked version still brings people back, technically, but it's more complicated and operates under a philosophy that has no ties to the opposition of natural forces. Reworked version also doesn't animate artifacts or lands, because "life" itself isn't the focal concept of the new version.

Work.

It's seriously dead obvious. Like thrown in your face. It's not really a good thing. You but here's the shit out of it to make it sound all Planeswalker-ish.

can you post the quote? The new version doesn't hold the same philosophies, but I wanna know what's seeped into my attempt to portray his old persona anyway, because I can't remember that quote. Are you referring to rorschach's city protection rant? I guess I can see that, my bad.

Read the book. It's a great story.

no I mean I have, and I think I've remembered the quote. My last post is kinda two separate posts rolled into one, me asking for the quote, and me remembering it. Sorry for the confusion.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Bummer.

>Crisp

>best girl

Hanweir before and after.

I am getting drunk as fuck right now. Each of those pitchers is 32 oz of long island iced tea.

This is the equivalent of sending a friend a text at three in the morning that reads 'I AM SO DRUNK LOL'

It couldn't be any less relevant and we couldn't care any less.

Pretty much yeah.

So, how do your flakes act drunk?

>Nishal
"look Iosha, I can purr! look!"
"Nishal you're just making "rrrrr" sounds with your mouth"

>Iosha
She keeps a notebook on hand so she can write down all of her "glorious ideas," but she usually ends up burning it in shame the day after.

>Ussa
"Why would I willingly ingest poison?"

>Dyna

It's not a good time.

I'm drinking cheap store-brand beer, so empty calories for everyone! Time to get drunk together long-distance.

Sir Joseph spends a significant portion of Chapter I of "Dreams & Wishes" drunk, so I've already answered that question for him. He gets very forward and kind of uppity, and he's a very loud, stumbly, talkative drunk.

Mephiri, hoo boy, he's probably dangerous when he's drunk. I picture accidental drunken wish granting and fire, lots and lots of fire.

Speak for yourself, don't include me. I like when people send me those texts, they usually cause adventure.

Currently at a casino in Mississippi, should I go for it?

Yes

And then when you lose, go for it again

I can't see it happening and it might not even be possible sooo.... I think it would be funny if Serena became a sexual predator while drunk, just picks on the most vulnerable looking men.

What a slut.
Drink more, you fucking lightweight.

>Remes
A little clumsy. Talks a little too much.

>Cala
When Cala gets drunk, she can't focus. Which means she's not reading. Which means drunken, firey devil chaos.

>Jakrol
Jakrol is drunk most of the time when he's not out doing things. He's actually not too bad as a drunk. He's pretty content to sit there and have small talk as he drinks. You might not want to start a bar fight with him. Or maybe you do, he's not any tougher drunk.

>Winifred
Flirting with anything that moves. Even though she's not bi. Also, the occasional mis-aimed jinx.

>Wyston
Doesn't drink to such extremes.

>earned 4 dollars before losing all but 9 dollars
FUCK

MORE

GAMBLE

MORW

Couple of questions about Planeswalkers. How much can they planeswalk with them? I mean, obviously they can planeswalk with their clothes/armor weapons, and they can't planeswalk other people since the Mending, but what about luggage? Could they planeswalk a small wagon full of stuff with them?

Also, how do they deal with being absent from a plane? I mean, Jace has been off playing Superhero despite his importance to Ravnica, so does he have a secretary just turning away Niv Mizzit or Zegana? "I'm sorry, The Living Guild Pact isn't available right now, may I take a message?"

How many people who aren't Planeswalker know about the multiverse? Like, do all the people on Zendikar know that the other people hanging out with Anissa aren't from around these parts? Do Planeswalkers have to fear hillbilly rape?

That's what I'm doing! I switch between cheap beers and cheap gin on and off through most nights. I'm just responsible enough, or enough of an alcoholic, to drink the cheap stuff so that I can drink more and more often. Drinking while doing artwork right now.

Sorry, dude. It sucks when you run out of money at the casino. Happens to me all the time.

Those are spectacular questions. I second wanting some answers to them!

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Q: How do planeswalkers manage to bring items/people with them when they planeswalk? To my understanding, the Blind Eternities are a pretty chaotic place, and without a spark, you aren't going to survive them long enough to get from one plane to the other. So how does Vraska carry her trophies around with her? What's Gideon going to do when he finally finds the one thing that'll help him fight the Eldrazi? So many questions!

>Planeswalkers can bring some amount of nonliving items with them when they planeswalk. Not a lot, but some. If Chandra wanted to planeswalk away from Kephalai with a scroll, she could. Planeswalkers still have pants on when they arrive somewhere, so, I mean, yeah. But there’s a limit. Chandra couldn’t bring with her, say, a city block.

>Unless something special is going on, planeswalkers can’t bring living beings with them. Only beings with active planeswalker sparks can leave a plane and travel to another one (except for weird and very rare exceptions, such as the Eldrazi titans, or someone with access to some kind of gate).

>Note that summoning creatures is not planeswalking. When you create a baloth out of the aether and have it fight for you, you’re magically creating an instance of baloth-ness, even if you’re summoning it while on Theros and you learned about baloths back on Zendikar. There is not one less baloth on Zendikar due to your summoning spell on Theros — Theros is just +1 baloth, thanks to you making a new one. However, summoned creatures tend to stop existing after a while — they last for a while, long enough to fight for you in a duel or whatever, but not forever.

I believe a planeswalker can take anything that is both theirs and nonliving matter, but the specifics have never been elaborated and I too would love to know the upward limit.
I have no idea for the management of planar vacancies thing, but for jace specifically I believe he's elusive and antisocial enough that people don't really notice when he's not there, and assume he just does not want to be found at the moment. I imagine zendikar got a healthy dose of multiversal education in preparation for fighting the eldrazi, at least to the extent that the other planeswalkers could teach, and I suppose the same goes for any who are close friends with a planeswalker. An exception is dominaria, the few left there know full well hell comes from other worlds, and for just once they'd like to forget the multiverse exists.
I imagine all new phyrexia knows, by being an extension of the dominaria plot on both the mirrodin front and the phyrexia front.

The MtG creative team's style of writing is "never set hard rules and limits on anything."

That's why they don't have maps or even strict distances.
That's why they don't have a solid timeline that we can track.
That's why there's so many ill-defined rules regarding planeswalking.

It's so that they can write whatever they like without needing to worry about niggling specifics and just pump out fiction without needing to check up on continuity.

This is the correct answer.