Card/Deck [M14] Elvish Mystic
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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If you're going to make an off-topic (read: productive) remark, please make a new thread.
This thread is only for discussion of which of the three listed mana elves to run, provided you have to run exactly one. Flavor battle commence.
Sorry, back on topic.
There are seventeen editions of Llanowar Elves. Seventeen! And 16 of the 17 are actually "Llanowar Elf" (or even "Severed Llanowar Elf Head.") If anyone plays anything other than 7th edition, they should have their cubes taken away from them for flavor violations.
There are seventeen editions of Llanowar Elves. Seventeen! And 16 of the 17 are actually "Llanowar Elf" (or even "Severed Llanowar Elf Head.") If anyone plays anything other than 7th edition, they should have their cubes taken away from them for flavor violations.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Alpha to 6th:
Do you see "elves" here? DO YOU?
THE GLORIOUS 7TH:
Elves! Plural! Dammit! They were so awesome when they're correctly plural that they WERE BANNED FROM 8TH EDITION FOR BEING TOO AWESOME! (That has to be the reason, right?)
DESPITE THE FIRST DUDE WEARING A BATTLE TIARA!
9th to now:
One elf! And they forgot to paint a background! Bah...
Do you see "elves" here? DO YOU?
THE GLORIOUS 7TH:
Elves! Plural! Dammit! They were so awesome when they're correctly plural that they WERE BANNED FROM 8TH EDITION FOR BEING TOO AWESOME! (That has to be the reason, right?)
DESPITE THE FIRST DUDE WEARING A BATTLE TIARA!
9th to now:
One elf! And they forgot to paint a background! Bah...
Dom Harvey
Contributor
The art and background on post-9th Elf/Elves look like he's presenting the Weather Channel.
From a strictly power level standpoint, I can't justify running Elvish Mystic. It's only one elf! Llanowar Elves and Fyndhorn Elves are both elves! Two elves for one mana! Ambiguity!
From a flavor standpoint, Llanowar is a place where you'll have a bajillion broken bones. The guys from there? I don't want to piss them off, they'll be on my team. Fyndhorn looks like a great place to get shanked. The guys from there? I don't want to piss them off, they'll be on my team. Elvish Mystic, the "new mana elf" is led by Nissa, the Elf Planeswalker who ... can't produce mana. Yeah, we know who's getting picked last for the dodgeball team at Elf summer camp. If only Elvish Mystic had just followed Garruk, it would probably be a strictly-better mashup of Arbor Elf and Ulvenwald Tracker. Alas.
From a flavor standpoint, Llanowar is a place where you'll have a bajillion broken bones. The guys from there? I don't want to piss them off, they'll be on my team. Fyndhorn looks like a great place to get shanked. The guys from there? I don't want to piss them off, they'll be on my team. Elvish Mystic, the "new mana elf" is led by Nissa, the Elf Planeswalker who ... can't produce mana. Yeah, we know who's getting picked last for the dodgeball team at Elf summer camp. If only Elvish Mystic had just followed Garruk, it would probably be a strictly-better mashup of Arbor Elf and Ulvenwald Tracker. Alas.
Yeah, I mean, Llanowar and Fyndhorn Elves do trigger Blood Artist twice each (depending on the art, of course).
Not to mention sweet sweet interactions with cards like Coat of Arms.
http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/two-cops/
http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/03/09/two-cops-in-mass-effect/
http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/two-cops/
http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/03/09/two-cops-in-mass-effect/
I'm aware that I'm new to the forum and that I have no credibility backing anything I'm about to say.
MTGS is cancerous. And I really mean that in the sense that a functionally good idea is denied the opportunity to reproduce as it is smothered by an environment of mutant thoughts vying for attention. Thank you Waddell and your fellow authors for contributing to this site where I've received more useful information in a couple weeks than in the years of browsing MTGS. And I know you can't outright post an article ripping on the place lest it draw unwanted attention to this bastion of reason.
But about the topic at hand. In parallel to what Peter Angell said, I am wholly in support of elves that solve their problems by breaking limbs and that any elves associated with Nissa should be put under the most rigorous scrutiny. About Nissa's Chosen, "Nissa will save the elves, but only the ones who have proved their worth" - that sounds like some candy-ass pacifist talk; in Llanowar, you prove yourself when you break the legs of your neighbor as he stepped on your lawn to break your legs because he didn't like how you trimmed the hedges that morning. I bet in Zendikar, Nissa's home, that they waste perfectly good forest to make crutches for people with shattered legs.
If there's any further reason to use your precious manas to summon the inhabitants of Llanowar it's this.
Llanowar Dead
They get even tougher when dead. They'll shuffle themselves out of your graveyard so they don't stink up the place and murder some intruders on their way out and I'm certain they won't be bothered by a couple of broken bones themselves.
MTGS is cancerous. And I really mean that in the sense that a functionally good idea is denied the opportunity to reproduce as it is smothered by an environment of mutant thoughts vying for attention. Thank you Waddell and your fellow authors for contributing to this site where I've received more useful information in a couple weeks than in the years of browsing MTGS. And I know you can't outright post an article ripping on the place lest it draw unwanted attention to this bastion of reason.
But about the topic at hand. In parallel to what Peter Angell said, I am wholly in support of elves that solve their problems by breaking limbs and that any elves associated with Nissa should be put under the most rigorous scrutiny. About Nissa's Chosen, "Nissa will save the elves, but only the ones who have proved their worth" - that sounds like some candy-ass pacifist talk; in Llanowar, you prove yourself when you break the legs of your neighbor as he stepped on your lawn to break your legs because he didn't like how you trimmed the hedges that morning. I bet in Zendikar, Nissa's home, that they waste perfectly good forest to make crutches for people with shattered legs.
If there's any further reason to use your precious manas to summon the inhabitants of Llanowar it's this.
Llanowar Dead
They get even tougher when dead. They'll shuffle themselves out of your graveyard so they don't stink up the place and murder some intruders on their way out and I'm certain they won't be bothered by a couple of broken bones themselves.
The great thing about this place is that you don't need credibility to justify or back up anything. Ideas are the only currency.
Thanks for posting, and welcome to our forum!
Thanks for posting, and welcome to our forum!
CML
Contributor
'mystic' for me conjures up the not-so-great state of connecticut. if i may put on my Humbert Humbert literary caper cap right now, it's got to be some kind of elaborate pun, kind of like how LLANOwar suggests, paradoxically, a plains (dutch and flemish spelling: jan-o'-war) -- and yet avacyn's pilgrim only taps for white. (birds of paradise lost? thomas more's utopia tree? noble heresiarchs of bant, argentina, and uqbar?)
i'm pretty sure arbor elf is a joke about hippies not working, since that guy taps for mana more rarely than i collect an unemployment check.
i'm pretty sure arbor elf is a joke about hippies not working, since that guy taps for mana more rarely than i collect an unemployment check.
I have to say, Chris, that most of the time I have no idea what you mean with your posts. But I like it! I think!
Your online persona reminds me of this:
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/44189893625/apple-cabin-foods-no-2
Your online persona reminds me of this:
http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/post/44189893625/apple-cabin-foods-no-2
I am super confused.
P.S. Chris I saw you posted the Elvish Mystic on MTGS. I take it you didn't use the links I provided in the article to get there?
I have to say, even though that's the oldest joke on the internet, it still makes me crack up when done well. Good work.
Can you explain what you meant by the link replacement.
I have to say I think CML's posts are some of the most enjoyable ones on the board so far for me. Even when they aren't being particularly insightful there is something great about the way he's trying to impart his feelings or experience of thing to you.
I haven't looked at the mystic thread since I complained there about green only doing one thing in most salvation cubes these days. I can imagine mystic will be a great addition to modern cubes though.
I have to say I think CML's posts are some of the most enjoyable ones on the board so far for me. Even when they aren't being particularly insightful there is something great about the way he's trying to impart his feelings or experience of thing to you.
I haven't looked at the mystic thread since I complained there about green only doing one thing in most salvation cubes these days. I can imagine mystic will be a great addition to modern cubes though.
Click on the links in the article. Joke ruined. Thanks Lucas.