Daily MtG Flavor Text

"I am my life's work."

Slibbo was tired of following Korvold's draconian library rules.

"The expected way through the trial is far too tedious."

There are no weapons allowed in the Biblioplex, but a clever mage is never truly defenseless.

The pull of duty was so strong that they barely paused to notice they'd died.

"Fear doesn't make you a coward; giving in to it does. Now take up your sword and fight!"

"Walls crack. Buildings fall. Always the wilds return." —Domri Rade

"You should have folded when you had the chance."

"A tale of a tyrant being humiliated and losing all his power? I'm inspired already!" —Killian, Silverquill mage-student

"But I brought enough for the whole class!"

Hah, great, now I have to look up what that means!

Alrightee, to answer your question, yes I guess I am in a way. I've always viewed my deckbuilding almost as a form of artistic expression, so I like my decks and the cards within them to have a certain "feel" to them. As much as I try to win when I play, that's not the reason I do it. I want my gameplay to evoke some kind of feeling. So in that sense, flavorful design is extremely important to me.

The lore is something I always followed loosely, but only really through the cards themselves. Losing the block structure of older sets really distanced me from all that. Quick visits to one-off "hat sets" simply don't do it for me the way a three-set block like Scars of Mirrodin did, even if I happen to like they plane that's being visited. I know there's a story being told, but jamming everything into a single set ruins the pacing for me. For that reason, part of me internally still feels like we're stuck on Throne of Eldraine. And I love Eldraine, don't get me wrong. But that set and most sets after felt like an introduction without a conclusion. Just, "BOOM! This is Tarkir (or whatever)! Moving on." Mechanically it's great to see these places and mechanics, but the "feel" suffers for doing it that way.

"On the eighth day, a blizzard hit. Supplies were lost, and morale plummeted. On the ninth day, Dover found us." —To the Summit: A Tale of Survival

"To provoke the mountain is to invite the avalanche." —Perisophia the philosopher

A mouth like that can never keep secrets.

A dragon is born. A province burns.

"Research is hardly the dry, serious pastime outsiders make it out to be."

"I'm certain it's some kind of sophisticated navigational tool. If only I had any idea what it was telling me!" —Colbo, Brazen Coalition surveyor