Real good shizz here.
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Alexander Sullivan
Liam Davis
Goddamn there are six copies of some cards that all do wildly different things.
At least I can run sixteen Killbots in my upcoming hyper competitive Mary O'Kill deck
Josiah Collins
>Alternate art and flavortext
Shit, I really hope they bring this back for actual sets. I remember when they did this way, way back in the day. Neat little way to make bland commons a little more interesting.
David Cook
>everythingamajig has variants
I wish there was an engine you could make by stringing them together, but that's still awesome.
Jason Walker
It'd definitely make me more excited for the different sets. Even if they'd just change the art up a little bit, it'd be better than "There's an alternate art on the foil of the rarest card on the set. Nobody's ever going to see it :^)"
Like the I understand that it costs more money, but it can't be that much to pay the artist to modify in the same vein as Extremely Slow Zombie or Target Minotaur, right?
Adam Hill
Shit, they even hid a new un-keyword in one of the Garbage Elemental variants!
Noah Cooper
So if a creature has both art menace and menace, that means that it can only be blocked by two or more creatures, each of which has two or more visible figures in its art, right?
Michael Turner
Sounds about right, I guess.
Elijah Anderson
For Very Cryptic Command version D, what does "turn over" mean? Just literally turn the card over -- so it could either be "turn face down", "turn face up", or "transform", depending on whether the card is double-faced and its current facing?
Cooper Evans
If it's face up, it's face down. If it's face down, it's face up.
It's a DFC, it transforms. (or transforms back, if applicable)
Presumably if it's one half of a meld creature it exists on the battlefield with half its information missing. The bottom half of a meld would have a type and subtype and power/toughness and text box, but no name and almost no art. The top half would have a name, but no type/subtype. While it may sound weird for a permanent to exist on the battlefield without having a type, be aware that this is already possible in black border.