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If IKEA produced magic cards... (Contest!)
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to my 3rd contest! This months challenge is a bit of a weird one, so lets get started!
Have you ever tried to assemble something from IKEA? then you know what it's like trying to read the instructions. The wording they use for everything is weird and it seems like it has been translated through 20 different languages. A more
well-known example (?) is the people on youtube who take song lyrics, run them through all the languages on google translate, then put it back into English and have google say them. They always turn out hilarious and I think it would be funny trying to do this for magic cards.
How this will work: You have to create a legendary creature that has at least two abilities (one word abilities don't count.) and then translate it through at least 10 different languages on google translate (Preferably more). After that post the original card then the translated one here. So, to sum up the idea...
Create a legendary creature with two or more abilities
Translate the creatures text (Minus the artist credit), then re-create the card with the translated text.
Post both cards here.
No unset cards, make the pre-translation card balanced
Prizes to be determined, this will end on the last day of June.
Happy smithing!
Have you ever tried to assemble something from IKEA? then you know what it's like trying to read the instructions. The wording they use for everything is weird and it seems like it has been translated through 20 different languages. A more
well-known example (?) is the people on youtube who take song lyrics, run them through all the languages on google translate, then put it back into English and have google say them. They always turn out hilarious and I think it would be funny trying to do this for magic cards.
How this will work: You have to create a legendary creature that has at least two abilities (one word abilities don't count.) and then translate it through at least 10 different languages on google translate (Preferably more). After that post the original card then the translated one here. So, to sum up the idea...
Create a legendary creature with two or more abilities
Translate the creatures text (Minus the artist credit), then re-create the card with the translated text.
Post both cards here.
No unset cards, make the pre-translation card balanced
Prizes to be determined, this will end on the last day of June.
Happy smithing!
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Translated:
New:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/stone-wood-rich-gentleman?list=user
Yours is fire bro. Honestly love that new flavor text!
here's my crack at it:
If anyone's looking for a good list of languages:
English
Arabic
French
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Japanese
German
Korean
Russian
Hebrew
Polish
English
Old:
New:
I always seem to have difficulty with that single word.
Translated through
Russian
German
Arabic
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Irish
Chinese (traditional)
Hawaiian
French
and Irish again
*Translated*
Here is the screenshot of what came out in order: Name, creature type, keywords, ability 1, ability 2, flavor.
Translated through...
Esperanto
Samoan
French
Filipino
Irish
Zulu
German
Hawaiian
Icelandic
Portuguese
Then back to English
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