Purple Mana Paperweight

I’ve been thinking about this a good while and.

It would be a hoard of collections.

I love starting and maintaining various collections: movies, games, board games, mtg decks, mtg commanders, dominion sets, recipes, dnd books, wall art, movie posters, I enjoy collecting and meaning.

Our first story is up! "Of Mice & Myr" takes us to Mirrodin before the corruption of Phyrexia. We find a myr named Scraps & their chance encounter with an injured mouse on a mountain of rust...

The final story will take us to Phyrexia's victory over a doomed plane...but even a spark of hope can burn away the darkness, if only for a little while.

Look for "Myr Besieged" November 19!

It's not a binary good/bad thing to do kind of decision. Context matters, and this sort of assumption flattens diverse cultures.

Kiora's last name of Atua was changed because it tread on Polynesian beliefs, yes. You can see Doug's post about it here. I don't know if no one intended for Kiora's name not to be a homophone for Kia Ora, the Maori greeting, given her nature but that's irrelevant at this point. It was changed because the community asked for it be changed, as it wasn't something they used casually. My understanding is it's a phrase that's a blessing. I don't know all the specifics, but we can agree there's a difference between naming a character 'Praise Jesus' and 'Jesus Lopez', yeah?

An important factor in this discussion is whether or not a culture uses that name for like, first names. Is there a taboo against naming individuals after that god? For some cultures there is, or for others there isn't. I wasn't part of the team creating the set, but it's pretty easy to find a bunch of real people named Inti online. I would imagine, in that context, that there isn't a taboo, or as much of a taboo that would upset the south american community about it, then.

And that's not getting into the fact that Inti was created six years ago for the original Ixalan (he's not a new character), or that the phonemes making up the name are extremely common in Nahuatl as well.

Taking a look at other Magic characters, Chandra is also named after a god. Chandra is the god of the moon in Hinduism. While I won't say it's a great use of the name - Magic mostly used Indian names to make their characters sound 'exotic' and 'fantasy' for many years - it's also an extremely common regular name for folks. Although both Wizards and 99.9% of Magic players mispronounce it as Shawndra. Heck, I even do it because no one knows who I'm talking about if I say 'chundruh'.

Myr Servitor

The Krark Clan enjoys pulling them apart just to watch them reassemble one another.

I don’t think they harm the flavor of the set. What-ifs are fun, I have always enjoyed them. They’re thematically linked, just not canon.

I don’t think they’ll always be slam dunks, but I’m looking forward to cowboy versions of characters who didn’t make the actual set of Thunder Junction, for instance.

It’s also cool to get cards like Mirri and Lord Windgrace who could almost never get reprinted easily because they’re dead in-lore.

Magic’s takes on Sol Ring