General I just play it for the flavour text, I swear!

[safra]

We've got a terrible flavour text thread but I don't think there's one for cards with genuinely good writing in italics. The obvious contender is the Love Song of Night and Day, which contrasted with current f.t. looks like, well, night and day. And once upon a time Magic used more literary quotes (the removal of T.S. Eliot's work from Wasteland is a tragedy). Plus, they were on a Shakespeare kick, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms with P3K:

What are some of your favourite flavour texts? Do you cube any marginal cards because their flavour pushes them into your list? Right now I like:

 

[CML]

never getting better than this

 

[Tzenmoroth]

 

[Laz]

A friend once asked about Mnemonic Wall, to which I replied "It augments anamnesis. What is so confusing about that?" then realised I was playing the ROE edition one...

 

[japahn]

never getting better than this

Ironically he most often melts ashtrays into Darksteel Colossus.

 

[Aston]

I have a soft spot for Jaya Ballard



(Incinerate is my particular favourite. E: the autocard gives the wrong picture )

Also I can't not mention this guy

 

[James Stevenson]

Yeah Wearbear might be my favourite.

 

[blacksmithy]

They need to let maro write flavor text again. Werebear was one of his, wasnt it ?

 

[Tanner K.]

Is it just me, or does Cowardice look like a guy that just shit out a sword?

 

[japahn]

Must've been in the art description.

The MM/8E Cowardice flavor text is good too (not in a Shakespeare way though), but the art is not as funny. The flavor text and art should have been swapped.

 

[shamizy]

These are some of my favorites:

 

[Jonas]

Ironically he most often melts ashtrays into Darksteel Colossus.

Is that even possible?

 

[safra]

Is that even possible?

He's a comically bad welder.

e: for the pun

 

[kevthewalker]

Best flavor text ever bar none:

 

[Goldenpineapple]

 

[vennythekid]

I don't like this flavor text because for the longest time the seemingly stray apostrophe after 'Invincible' confused me. It still bothers me a little bit.

 

[Goldenpineapple]

Fair. Pretty much any quote flavor text would be better without the quote baggage. I just always thought it was good for what the card does paired with the set it was printed in (ROE). You can get a mild chuckle that Gideon is also referring to himself, though we didn't really know what his deal was back then.