“Doggone It, I’m Still Feline for Him”
Month: July 2019
One good creative writing exercise is writing with a stipulation, something like, you can’t use the letter “a,” or you have to write a story with a sentient bag of chips.
One good creative writing form of torture is writing a story with FIVE stipulations!
When you’re writing your story, quite often your characters will start going in a different direction than you expected.
Maybe they’re turning out different than your initial idea, or maybe they’re even deviating away from your 30-page outline.
What do you do when that happens? Let’s DISCUSS!
Hey there! I’m Scott from the top four of last year’s Great Designer Search 3. Welcome back to another installment of Deadly Designs, where we talk about Magic card design from an outsider’s perspective.
Last time we talked about one card, specifically Karn, the Great Creator, but this time we’ll be looking at a whole set: Modern Horizons.
A set which has already brought about a fresh banning in modern!
Modern Horizons is the first set to print cards directly into the modern format without having to first go through standard. The idea of that is very exciting. What cards would Wizards give us to help shake up and slow down the format?
Maybe Containment Priest to stop broken strategies? Or Counterspell so we can stop playing Logic Knot? Or maybe something new that would spark whole new decks?
There were so many possibilities…
…and then we got Dredge cards, Infect cards, and lands for blister-fast aggro.
In all seriousness though, I can’t complain much about Modern Horizons.
I think Wizards did a good job for their first stab at printing cards directly into modern. And to be fair their original idea for the set wasn’t even “new cards for modern” but rather “Time Spiral 2.0,” where they print complex cards that reference all of Magic’s lore/history.
And they did print a few modern-focused cards,
even if they they didn’t go quite far enough.
However, since it was billed to us, the audience, as “the modern set,” it brought some disappointment. There were a lot of cards that I personally was hoping would be in the set in some form or another that were not there.
So today I’d like to go through some of those ideas, and talk about 10 cards that I wish had been in Modern Horizons, starting with…
Just like a good car ride, you want to maintain a regular pace throughout most of your story.
You can speed up and slow down for sure, but doing either too quickly will risk throwing your reader through a windshield.
So how do you prevent that? Let’s find out!
Making your reader scared isn’t easy.
Ironically, the harder you try to scare your reader with things like spiders and dungeons, the worse it will be.
So how do you write a story that makes your reader sweat? Let’s find out!
Coming up with a good simile is hard… like concrete.
Thankfully, if you just keep a few tips in mind, they can be a little easier… like making instant ramen.
So let’s go ahead and get started… like a race! (Okay, I’ll stop now.)
Hey there! I’m Scott from the top four of last year’s Great Designer Search 3. Welcome back to the third of three articles on potential planeswalker mistakes in War of the Spark.
Last time we talked about Narset, Parter of Veils, and this time we’ll be talking about everyone’s favorite robot father:
#3. Karn, the Great Creator
The only thing this guy “creates” is pain.
In my opinion, Karn is the worst offender of the three planeswalkers. All three of his abilities have issues. Let’s go over them one by one.
It’s not just that both are extremely terrifying.
“What ended my last relationship? A micropig wearing a tiny raincoat and booties.”