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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Gathering Storm
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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The serious matter is that he apparently paid somebody to provide him with mint choc chip
Losing it is a mercy
Also, what are the chances of some kid ripping open this pack, and having no idea what it is?
I have young kids, and for all I know any number of these pokemon or bakugan or digmon or whatever cards that I'm throwing out while I clean out under their computers, do their laundry, vacuum the minivan, or step on while walking in their rooms could be worth lots of money.
I can just as easily see this thing going in the trash after being used to pick up a smash cockroach.
I would laugh my ass off if someone did that.
Mint chocolate chip ice cream is like oatmeal raisin cookies. Phenomenal if it's what you were expecting, disappointing if you thought it was just chocolate chip. Which is why they usually color it green, but not always. I've been burned before.
Nah, to generate the proper amount of gnashing of teeth, you have to commit to the bit. Fly to Iceland, hike up a volcano, and toss it in. All while streaming.
No - The One Ring is a unique card, with text all in Elven (it's probably not even playable, like the original promo Egyptian God cards in Yu-Gi-Oh.)
WotC is also creating LOTR themed Sol Ring variants in limited quantities, with the elven version capped at 3k, dwarven at 7k, and human at 9k.
I rather like mint choc chip. Although I grant you I rarely like it enough to actually chose it when I have a ice cream now. It was a good option back before the ice cream renaissance brought excellent ice cream to basically everywhere.
That is all.
I don't know Black Speech, but I am pretty sure that's still essentially a variant design on this card:
So technically it is a variant design, though it's not as if anyone is going to play the Black Speech one in a game.
Yeah, it's ultimately a very fancy proxy.
Also, the set depicts Aragorn as black. This is having the expected effect in the usual dark recesses of nerd culture.
I would find it awesome if there was a lad or lass mad enough to do this.
I don't particularly want this card destroyed or anything, but you know just to take the whole thing to it's weirdest conclusion.
have a person of humble origin get the card, amass a band of trusty companions travels, and climb a Volcano to destroy it.
I can almost taste their tears, nyum-nyum.
I'm curious if this is new art made for this set, or preexisting art.
What else have they done?
Black Lotus
Whereas my reaction to this sort of thing is more like this:
Which I think is at least a little better.
It's going to be put inside of Collector's boosters, iirc, so at least that's a reduced chance of that, since generally if you're buying Collector's boosters it's because you know at least a bit about mtg, at least enough to google why did you get a weird card written in symbols if nothing else.
Bloody woke botanists
O rly? The question is, who cares?
None of these cards should be tournament legal, because none of them belong in the MtG universe.
Boy, you must hate Smash Brothers.
Like: Marvel vs Capcom, Mortal Kombat vs DC, Smash Bros, Multiversus
(Because all of these products are designed at their very core to be crossovers)
Dislike: When they put non-DC characters into Injustice, when MtG crosses over with LotR or anything else, the cultural smashup that Fortnite has become, One-Punch-Man in Overwatch 2
(Because these products were created as standalone IP/universes and adding crossovers muddies the waters of what is supposed to be an in-universe product)
But I don't see where crossovers really violate that, since I understand the setting to be broadly about dimension hopping anyway.
I do dabble in MtG. Mostly in Arena these days because that's more convenient (and inexpensive) than buying cards. But just as a general principle, regardless of the universe or lore or medium, I'm just generally anti-crossover, unless the very product itself is a crossover product. Which MtG is not.
All the blizzard skins were crossovers already. Hell a lot of holiday skins for many characters are as canon as any of the crossovers. Overwatch has always been a smashing your action figures together game in the same way that Smash Bros is, unless you think Zennyatta pals around with the woman that assassinated his brother on the reg.
Smash Brothers - as far as I am aware - doesn't even try to bother with any sort of lore. They started out showing them as pre-existing toys, but they dropped that pretty quickly and have zero story, AFAIK.
I feel like analogy doesn't work as well with Overwatch, since all these are characters created specifically for this game. They don't really exist outside it in anything other than Rule 34. So bringing in something from "the real world" does jar a bit, if you've tried to see it as a real world full of real people.
Ironically, AFAICT MtG actually is a crossover canon, with the Planeswalkers moving between universes, so it's not really out of the question they could travel through Middle Earth. I just think it's weird after such a long time of MtG having its own canon and using the Planeswalkers to explain the juxtaposition of high fantasy with sci-fi that they're now starting to do runs with other IPs.
It's like Spider-Man visiting Middle Earth. I mean, multiverses are a well-known part of Marvel Comics, after all. But... no.
(And yes, comics have done some very stupid bullshit. So I wouldn't even put this past them.)
1) As noted by several people here, it's a crossover to begin with (Marvel VS Capcom, project x Zone, Jump ultimate Star ).
2) On the other hand of the spectrum it is so obviously not canon and just a little bonus thrown in for the players . Like having one non-naruto guest character in a Naruto fighting game who is not integrated in the plot or anything. Even then, I'll prefer if the character in question make sense thematically or visually. Kratos in a Simpson game would be stupid.
It kinda bugs me when it messes with the game's universe, like making a character from a other franchise Canon to your franchise's world. (when the franchises weren't already part of the same world to begin with).
I can accept it easily in shows set in a "Real world" kind of setting. Like two police procedural shows having a crossover.
I'm kinda apathetic to stuff like Fortnite throwing skins of anything existing, since it just doesn't feel like anything special like a "real" crossover.