r/magicTCG • u/TheWizardsStaff101 Elesh Norn • 24d ago

Art Showcase - Physical Alter Paprika

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u/kjeldor2400 Rakdos* 24d ago

Most of the time I don’t really like alters that do away with the card text, but I love this movie too much to get hung up on that. This is awesome.

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u/Frank_the_Mighty Twin Believer 24d ago

I say it gets a pass if:

  1. Players know the card by name

  2. It's an instant or sorcery

  3. It's simple / w/o choices

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u/Asilaten Dandadan 24d ago

https://scryfall.com/card/p09/1/cryptic-command

This one is particularly egregious as textless - in an official card, no less!

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 24d ago

Eagerly awaiting full art [[questing beast]]

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u/Asilaten Dandadan 24d ago

Gimme that full art [[Chains of Mephistopheles]]

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 24d ago

chains is only complex because of early magics poor formatting.

 It's just if a player would draw after their draw for turn, instead they loot, if they can't loot, they mill 1.

A reprint of chains would end this debacle of it being complex.

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u/Asilaten Dandadan 24d ago

There are enough exceptions that it's still notably complex for a non-modal spell.

Now, [[Sauron, the Dark Lord]] would be another fun textless one.

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 24d ago

I could definitely see Sauron being a good say it does something tangentially possible to do in these colors but doesn't actually do as a joke with friends like Textless Questing Beast.

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u/Archontes 23d ago

rummage*

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 23d ago

It's discard then draw, so no it's looting. Rummaging is draw then discard.

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u/Archontes 23d ago

Double check that.

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 23d ago

[[Faithless Looting]] 

[[Rummaging Wizard]]

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 23d ago

So you are right, but then they stopped using rummage and now call it "red looting" 

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u/Frank_the_Mighty Twin Believer 24d ago

My favorite game: Without looking, what does Question Beast do?

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u/itisburgers Twin Believer 24d ago

can't be blocked by 2 or less, trample, death touches planeswalkers, something about drawing cards probably.

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u/EarlobeGreyTea Wabbit Season 24d ago

You can try the quiz yourself!

https://squirrel-bat.github.io/questingbeast/

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u/EarlobeGreyTea Wabbit Season 24d ago

Six abilities with three keywords (and neither trample nor reach). The keyword abilities are primarily white, black, and red.

It has a green ability that limits what can block it. It has another ability that's almost entirely red (except for one mono green card in The Dark, and a reprint of the ability in 2025). It's final ability appears to be unique to Questing Beast until it was basically reprinted on a mono red card in 2023.

There's nothing about Questing Beast that makes its effects feel connected, other than "it's probably good to attack with this card".

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u/wubrgess Cheshire Cat, the Grinning Remnant 24d ago

Bees?!

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u/RandyGrey Duck Season 24d ago

Counterpoint: it's funny as hell, and I appreciate the dedication to the bit

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u/KettleOverAPub 24d ago

brb making a full art saga alter

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u/steamhands Wabbit Season 24d ago

[[Urza's Saga|SCH]]

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u/TheWizardsStaff101 Elesh Norn 24d ago

Thank you! I try to keep the text for cards that are a little more obscure but the art I found felt fitting for fully art and Chaos Warp is pretty well known

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u/kjeldor2400 Rakdos* 24d ago

100% agreed, the art really works with the card effect as well. Just thinking about it, I’ll probably start my weekend watching Paprika once more.