Regarding flavor texts being awesome:
The correct answer to a barbarian's riddle is to choke on your cleverness and die.
If you want to kill a lot of goblins, just make sure your defenses look like fun.
Flavor text is one of the best parts of Magic. There's a real sense of exactly what each card is supposed to represent.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Like many cool concepts in Magic, the Myr are limited by the ability to only appear when their plane is relevant. The game takes place in a vast Multiverse with each block (since leaving Dominaria, anyways) taking place in a different world, with different civilizations, creatures, magics, etc.
The Myr are worker drones on the plane Mirrodin, which has only been the focus of two arcs. They're created in the image of the plane's mechanical overlord Memnarch.
...they probably aren't coming back.
edited 16th Apr '17 2:46:33 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Which isn't unfair. I wasn't socially-conscious enough when I made that my signature to notice the parallels to real-world victim-blaming.
edited 16th Apr '17 3:49:04 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.S'okay, it's still not an unfair criticism.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's literally victim-blaming. It's saying that it's the fault of the dragons' victims that they're eaten, because they're made of meat and treasure.
It's victim-blaming from the perspective of the dragons rather than the writer, but it's also clearly meant to be comedic rather than horrifying, which means you are meant to laugh at someone being victim-blamed. It's not exactly a rape joke but it's in the same ballpark.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I did consider that it might be intentional (an intentionally cartoonish version of victim-blaming logic) but it's hard for me to tell because much of the flavour text is written from a POV of smugness and superiority.
It's really hard to tell if the joke is meant to be on the dragons or the humans. I guess it doesn't help by the implication that the dragons are frequently the winner.
edited 16th Apr '17 4:20:13 PM by Saiga
...I'm legit facepalming this is a real topic of discussion and parallels made. Dragons aren't real and its clear dark humor that isn't meant to be taken serious. This verges into that territory people mock about being too PC.
Improving as an author, one video at a time.Dragons aren't real, but victims are, and the logic is dangerously identical to a sentiment commonly said of rape victims: "If she didn't want to be assaulted, why was she dressed like that?"
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well, there's no need to trivialize it so much.
My first thought wasn't actually race jokes - but simply one of racial violence, theft, conquest, etc. Given that fantasy races usually serve as a stand-in for real world races (not always as a direct comparison, but more as a way to have racial tension) that seemed like a fairly obvious one.
And part of it comes from the fact that, as I said, many MTG flavour texts take the side of the card they're on and are all about being badass/superior. So my first assumption was that the card was mocking humans for opposing the awesome dragons.
I can see the other side, that it's mocking the dragons for being so silly, but it didn't come across like that for me.

But they are making water wetter!