General Favorite Flavortext?
- Thread starter LadyMapi
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This one has always stood out to me, probably because it was the first Magic card I ever saw. It came as the promo for the 8ED starter kit, and the RG deck included Enormous Baloth, which also resonated with me--as it clearly did with others in this thread. It's not the most elegant flavor text, but from the get-go I interpreted this text as an translation from Elvish rather than something this guy would actually say. Those layers of meaning, more than anything else, are what drew me to Magic.
More recently, this one really cracked me up. It reads like an Arrested Development gag, if Lucille Bluth was a vampire on Dominaria.
i dig pretty much all the very old flavor texts from the Bible / Shakespeare / other famous works of literature and poetry. A lot of my other faves are already here. Big shoutouts to Feldon and Hold the Line in particular.
Onderzeeboot
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I'm a big fan of Jaya's sassy lines.
“Yes, I think ‘toast’ is an appropriate description.” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
“Who needs the sun when you’ve got me around?” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“And I say north is where I want it to be!” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“Walls? What walls?” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
And of course my favorite...
“Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
“Yes, I think ‘toast’ is an appropriate description.” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
“Who needs the sun when you’ve got me around?” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“And I say north is where I want it to be!” —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
“Walls? What walls?” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
And of course my favorite...
“Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.” —Jaya Ballard, task mage
I like worldbuilding, larger-than-life descriptions of tragedy, and visceral edgelord power fantasies.
The seer's parables as a whole is great, and one of my favorite things about Kamigawa are all the flavor text of written letters that describe the tensions between the different people of Kamigawa, which I think does a great job of presenting the scale of the conflict.
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Onderzeeboot
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This honestly feels like an honorary Jaya Ballard quote :')
I quoted that one so many times while roleplaying...
Like Mown, I enjoy flavour text that contributes to worldbuilding for a set. The Love Song of Night and Day showed that the setting did not just contain heroes and monsters, exotic locations, and strange magic. It could also contain poetry, fable and love.
This is also my favourite lol
Chris Taylor
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landofMordor
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Mine is Rancor:
Hatred outlives the hateful.
Edit: yes, i missed the message directly above mine lol
Hatred outlives the hateful.
Edit: yes, i missed the message directly above mine lol
Chris Taylor
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A man of taste!
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned but this was an early one in my Magic career that stuck with me:
I generally like the feel of the 90s ones best. I think they got a bit cringey in the early 00s and never really recovered that old fantasy charm, and never took themselves with the right amount of seriousness. Some others I wanted to share though:
I generally like the feel of the 90s ones best. I think they got a bit cringey in the early 00s and never really recovered that old fantasy charm, and never took themselves with the right amount of seriousness. Some others I wanted to share though:
Wow that one on Miraculous Recovery is incredible!
(Not this reprint one. The one posted above by MilesOfficial)
(Not this reprint one. The one posted above by MilesOfficial)
This was released 4 years before the "300" comic, and more than a decade before the movie... I can't see how this line wasn't a direct inspiration to the one in 300
I think the original “shade in which to fight” quote was from Herodotus’ history, which was released about 2500 years before Alpha.