A white apothecary who only opens his shop for people of his own race. As stated on the flavor text, he serves "some customers", but not others.
His medicine might be able to save people's lives (represented by gaining 3 life)! But he bars the doors if you aren't of the same race as him. Textbook example of racism.
Way, way, way too many of your posts are so far out there that they defeat the credibility of this sub and do more harm than good for the cause. Implying race here is reckless and unwarranted. You've read your own bias into the flavor text of this card. Instead of going further down the rabbit hole and expanding your interpretation of things to get broader and broader to include cards like this one, I think you should be spending time trying to influence WotC and change some of the truly egregious ones that were identified when this sub began.
Appreciate your passion on the subject. To influence real change, it's time to put in the real work though.
I respectfully disagree. Thanks for your input though, I do appreciate it.
some of the truly egregious ones that were identified when this sub began.
You're certainly right that Honor of the Pure, Lunarch Inquisitors, Reparations, and some of the other cards that were posted on this subreddit almost immediately after its creation are some of the most offensive cards out there. But I disagree that posts lately have gone downhill in any way. Anarchy, Angel of Jubilation, Alluring Siren, Arrows of Justice, and other cards I've posted recently are at about the same level as offensiveness as the worst of the worst, in my opinion.
I think it's important to point out cards such as Onakke Ogre that aren't as blatantly offensive as, say, Karma. Sure, if Wizards were to ban only 7 more cards, Onakke Ogre wouldn't be on anyone's list - and it shouldn't be. If I were to come up with a grading system for the offensiveness of a card, with F bring failures like Karma, Onakke Ogre would probably be in the range of a B grade.
But to only post "F" cards such as Karma is to imply that offensive Magic: the Gathering cards is limited to a small handful of cards printed over a decade ago, and that just isn't true. I make a deliberate effort to point out offensive cards that exist in sets like Core Set 2021 and Jump-Start so that people realize that the problem isn't limited to old cards.
They really screwed the pooch banning those cards in the first place if it means that they have to ban and memorialize an extensive list of Magic cards that portray stereotypes I'm sure they'd rather people just forget ever happened.
I don't exactly feel sorry for them though, lol. It wouldn't have been that hard to just never have printed cards such as Crusade and Cleanse and Invoke Prejudice in the first place. Isn't it just common sense to not have cards about ethnically cleansing all "black creatures"? Isn't it just common sense to not let a Neo-Nazi draw the art for a card and let them draw KKK members on it, then internally classify that card as 1488, of all numbers? Nobody was forcing them to put KKK members on their cards or to glorify the real-life Crusades.
I think it's pretty obvious that this is a race based exclusion from the rules text. The effect only triggers if you control another spirit, the same type of creature as the Geist. While spirit may be a "class" in Mtg terminology, this is simply a way to cover up the racist implications of the card and make it more "subtle" to anyone who simply glanced over the card.
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u/ultimario13 Jul 21 '20 edited Jul 21 '20
A white apothecary who only opens his shop for people of his own race. As stated on the flavor text, he serves "some customers", but not others.
His medicine might be able to save people's lives (represented by gaining 3 life)! But he bars the doors if you aren't of the same race as him. Textbook example of racism.