Cover image: Urzas Mine by Anson Maddocks In this two-part article series, I take a look at the story that emerges on the flavor text of cards from Magic: The Gatherings Antiquities set as an exercise in textual interpretation, with an occasional reference to the art or the names of cards without flavor text
In this case, that meant the Arabian Nights , Antiquities , Legends , and The Dark expansions
When it enters the battlefield, each opponent will lose X life where X is your devotion to Black, and then you gain all of that life
The cards in this set leaked and spoiled so far strike a decent balance between flavor, power, and uniqueness
The Golgari deck from Worlds Top 8 had four Cottages and three Tortoises, with the Tortoise able to find a Cottage (or bring one back from the dead), while also reducing the cost of activating it (allowing the potential for multiple creature lands to attack each turn), and even pumping them
Last year at the end of the year was hectic and while it still feels too soon to have cards to write about and I literally havent busted all of my packs of the last set (by last set I mean last set Im going to buy collector booster boxes of) but we have cards so cards we must discuss
