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Treamayne
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Post by Treamayne » 1 year ago

Playing Shandalar I was recently reminded of Touch of Death
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And that made me wonder - what great artwork and/or flavor text do you play (or at least consider) in EDH even if it is wasted on (nearly) unplayable garbage?

Some other cards I sometimes consider playing, if only because I like the creative parts:
Hyalopterous Lemure (Art)
Lure (Art)
Reya Dawnbringer (Flavor Text)
Krakilin (Art)
Catacomb Crocodile (Flavor Text)

Since I can't find a resource elsewhere on Nexus. . .
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Post by RxPhantom » 1 year ago

I don't think I'd play bad cards just for the art. What's with the list of expansions, by the way?
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Post by Treamayne » 1 year ago

Even if you wouldn't play them, it's easy to appreciate good art/flavor text wasted on a bad card. . .
RxPhantom wrote:
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What's with the list of expansions, by the way?
I couldn't find a resource on site, and when linking cards, if you want to show a specific version, you need the set trigraph (Lure vs Lure|ICE *see below). So I started making an excel doc for myself, and was tired enough to copy parts here in case others would look for the data to post a card here (or anywhere).

Just trying to share in case others found it useful.

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[card]Lure[/card] vs [card]Lure|ICE[/card]
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Post by Dragoon » 1 year ago

I like Catacomb Dragon's art but the card is way too bad, even for my pile of dragons for Ur-Dragon in which I included some questionable dragons.

I also keep Goblin Archaeologist in my randomness deck purely due to the flavour text.

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Post by Igzex » 1 year ago

I play dragons so yeah I'm playing an entire pile of unplayable disasters because I think dragons are all adorable.

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