Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!
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“Level 17-20”
I wonder what that is about. Super ugly card. The non-showcase card will probably look beautiful.
Could this be one of those special cards that doesn’t really belong to the set but is only there to create a fun little game for prereleases and such like the Hero cards on Theros or the Garruk on Innistrad?
I wonder what that is about. Super ugly card. The non-showcase card will probably look beautiful.
Could this be one of those special cards that doesn’t really belong to the set but is only there to create a fun little game for prereleases and such like the Hero cards on Theros or the Garruk on Innistrad?
Onderzeeboot
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Bugbear and character levels 17-20 seems sus 
Took me a hot minute now to realize this is NOT another spoiled magic card
They have been doing several different showcase frames each set for some time. Latest we had Modern Horizons 2 which had four showcase frames:
Does it really matter to you what the names of the frames are? Does it matter to anyone? They are all alternate card frames of already existing cards in the set.
I thought like any sane person would that you asked if the card above was the alternate card frame for the set.
Onderzeeboot
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You're always very precise with language so I would have thought you might appreciate ravnic's additional insight
So, according to this article, Sword of Hearth and Home is an example of the borderless treatment, Damn is an example of the extended art treatment, Timeless Dragon is an an example of the showcase retro frame treatment, and Flametongue Yearling is an example of the showcase sketch treatment. Regardless, your point still stands. Modern Horizons 2 had two different showcase frames, so Adventures in the Forgotten Realms could easily have two different showcase frames as well!As a conclusion: Modern Horizons 2 had four different alternate frames besides the normal frame we use in 2021.
If Ravnic was very precise and only meant ‘Showcase’ frames and nothing else, then fine I thought he meant it was an alternate frame and therefore I answered his question with the knowledge I had.
If Ravnic was very precise and only meant ‘Showcase’ frames and nothing else, then fine
I thought he meant it was an alternate frame and therefore I answered his question with the knowledge I had.I think the deal with showcase frames is, that they're special to this set (although technically, that's not wuite correct for the retro frames). Like, the eldraine showcase frame looks (very) different from the kaldheim or z3ndikar version. The borderless/extended art treatments are something, that most/all sets these days get and they have nothing specifically matching this set's flavor.
By these standard, if AFR would give us two showcase frames, it would be something new for a premier set
By these standard, if AFR would give us two showcase frames, it would be something new for a premier set
Chris Taylor
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Frame naming conventions aside that card is ugly as sin
@Brad, I totally agree about the color not being great, but I think this specific shade of red is a callback to some of the original D&D materials, specifically the "Red Book."
Agreed that it's awesome and yet that I don't want it at all, and not only because it would probably be too strong for my tastes.
Agreed that it's awesome and yet that I don't want it at all, and not only because it would probably be too strong for my tastes.
yesssss that’s that good stuff, straight outta the 60s
i dont know if you or jason were intentionally doing a joke of this, but the cacodemon in Doom is actually traced off an "astral dreadnought" off the cover of one of the editions of d&d's "manual of the planes". Doom itself was originally based off the d&d campaign of the team (combined with ideas from Aliens and Evil Dead).
so the connection is a bit more than accidental
I was definitely joking, but also didn't know this history. Thanks 'tak!
Onderzeeboot
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I wasn't joking, but I also didn't know that the Doom monster was actually based on the astral dreadnought (which is an entirely different monster from the iconic beholder, by the way)
Onderzeeboot
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They don't fatigue me at all because I can completely ignore them
I can't because I primarily play on Cockatrice, and I have to manually replace the card image if I want to avoid them.They don't fatigue me at all because I can completely ignore them
I wouldn't mind if there was some checkbox that let me opt-out of alternate frames entirely... but that would probably be hard to automate.
EDIT: The really annoying thing, though, is that the "use the most recent art" setting (or, rather, the "load the card images dynamically" option) also grabs the card images for Arena, which look terrible alongside normal magic cards.