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It's Not The Rules That Matter - It's the Flavour
Hello. This is my third contest, and it's all about the flavour now. The challenge is to make a card with the best creative flavour text and/or the best general flavour (like a top-down set - based off some trope or mythology.)
For example, here's a few existing MTG cards with inventive flavour text -
And here are some with inventive, top-down flavour -
Rules:
Unglued/joke cards are allowed (I feel like there is room for a lot of flavour here.)
Old cards are allowed.
Up to three entries.
Prizes:
Best Flavour Text:
1st: 4 favourites and a follow
2nd: 3 favourites
Best Top-Down/Inventive Flavour:
1st: 4 favourites and a follow
2nd: 3 favourites
If you win 1st for one of the categories and I'm already following you, then you get 6 favourites instead of 4. Contest ends around the 20th of March or when it dies down - whichever comes first.
Have fun!
For example, here's a few existing MTG cards with inventive flavour text -
And here are some with inventive, top-down flavour -
Rules:
Unglued/joke cards are allowed (I feel like there is room for a lot of flavour here.)
Old cards are allowed.
Up to three entries.
Prizes:
Best Flavour Text:
1st: 4 favourites and a follow
2nd: 3 favourites
Best Top-Down/Inventive Flavour:
1st: 4 favourites and a follow
2nd: 3 favourites
If you win 1st for one of the categories and I'm already following you, then you get 6 favourites instead of 4. Contest ends around the 20th of March or when it dies down - whichever comes first.
Have fun!
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(Not an entry, this is a real card.)
I'm all about that flavor text, whether its philosophical or comical...
Not an entry, unless you allow it, but this card has won me 2 contests on flavor text alone.
A wicked witch. She'll give you a gift, but you better watch out! No deal with the witch ever comes without a price.
@ArchieTaylor, can we still showcase the old cards, without them being entries?
@Fallen_Lord_Vulganos Yes, that works.
@Spookoops I've updated the rules, so now your entry will be considered.
Up to three cards to follow later.
In my opinion, my three funniest cards are all goblins.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/lament-of-the-executioner
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/quoth-the-server-404?list=set&set=5334 (Probably the longest I worked on a flavour text. And I've written short stories. Ha ha.)
Those are my entries, but I'd like to also, arrogant as it may be, offer a couple cards I wrote small stories for. If you are in the mood for flava, perhaps it will sate you.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/elkenswamp-hydra
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/keeper-of-skittering-forest
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/terminus-harbinger-of-peace?list=set&set=1001
Hope you enjoy. I did have many more, though they were lost in the purge...
That way I can reconstruct cards if I lose or delete them.
At the moment I have about 1200 cards saved even though my count here is only 644.
P.S. Caxnir is a God I made for a series creatures with the Pantheon ability I made. He is also the brother of the Azorius God Ixtos, God of Justice.
These two are more top-down designs:
(Controlling another's vote through either political power or bribes)
(Having a dinner conversation, but someone can pack up and go home)
Probably my personal favorite flavorful card I've made:
PUNS!!!: