Sixten describes the backstory:
Back when they were doing the art for the Magic 2011 Core Set, French fantasy illustrator Aleksi Briclot (of ANEYEONI) fell in love with the girl he was assigned to draw, the super-powerful mythic Primeval Titan. He asked her to marry him, and she said yes. They are married happily to this day, even if she occasionally gets drunk and puts all sorts of strange lands onto the battlefield tapped.
And with that, today’s Lotus Cobra is Evil.
When deciding on topics to write for your blog, you have to wade through a ton of ideas, or things you want to get to (such as the winner of the Twitter Game 2 which will go up next week). Sometimes an idea is just that, or you it’s something you want to explore more in detail and you get your fingers working on the keyboard.
I was going to write about how I love to prefer to create my own decks rather than taking them from online and playing them. It’s been a hot topic online recently and I was thinking of throwing my hat in the ring. But, two things stopped me: 1) I took a net deck to SCG Seattle because I didn’t have time to test and I it was my type of playstyle so the big argument would consider me a somewhat of a hypocrite (which is ironically one of the only times I have taken a net-deck to a large tournament), and 2) Do you really care?
Sixten looked at the M11 set and something caught his eye. There was something very familiar about the card Ajani’s Mantra.
At the Seattle M11 Prerelease, I was talking with some of the employees of Wizards of the Coast and I brought up the whole “Sixth color is coming to Magic” thread from MTGSalvation. All of the guys started laughing and saying that sometimes people read too much into things. If you don’t know how it started, one person looked at the art for Time Reversal before the card was spoiled and said “Hey, there are six colored planets (one for each color and purple) on this art and MaRo tweeted that a future set will have players the opportunity to draft something they’ve never been able to. That must mean Purple is coming to Magic!” It’s a very fun thread to read about how some people do read too much into things.
Well, the conversation went from there to how Mana Leak in M11 was spoiled by WotC employee Mr. Tom LaPille at Grand Prix DC. But there was a problem:
Rumors of my presence at Grand Prix Washington: DC are greatly exaggerated.
Oh.
Continue reading “Friday Afternoon Fun – Things Tom LaPille Has Told Me”
Editor’s Note: I’m going to try these shorter pieces a little more frequently. They’re not enough information to fill several thousand words, but enough for food for thought.
Aaron Forsythe tweeted this:
Akroma Without Her Sword – 5WWW – Legendary Creature – Angel – 4/6 – Flying, protection from black and from red
That was later changed to 2WWW when it was pointed out that it would cause 3 to equip. Confused? Look at the card to the right. This is basically Akroma’s sword (look at the handle and compare it to this). It’s pretty easy to see that this sword is what makes Akroma so powerful. If you take off the text that this sword provides, then you get the creature mentioned above. I stuck my nose in:
@mtgaaron Well, it should be her sword that’s Legendary, not her.
My thinking was this: is a 2WWW, flying, Pro Red/Black angel Legendary?
MTG Color Pie 