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The melanin,

Seriously? This is literally the first thing you mention?

~*~ i do not think it is wrong to be excited about people of color getting more representation in yr fantasy multiverse of choice ~*~

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Barinellos wrote:
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The melanin,

Seriously? This is literally the first thing you mention?

~*~ i do not think it is wrong to be excited about people of color getting more representation in yr fantasy multiverse of choice ~*~

I don't really disagree, but I really don't think it's a healthy attitude to prioritize that over everything else.

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Seriously? This is literally the first thing you mention?

~*~ i do not think it is wrong to be excited about people of color getting more representation in yr fantasy multiverse of choice ~*~

I don't really disagree, but I really don't think it's a healthy attitude to prioritize that over everything else.


I think it's a pretty disgusting thing to be so fetishistic about it.

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is moppi... fetishizing? i'll let them speak to whether or not they are making a fetish of melanin, but i don't think they're fetishizing the architecture or the fashion, either. but also this is a linguistic non-issue so w/e i hope wotc makes a whole bunch of ankh artifacts and a jackal tribal subtheme

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 7:20 pm 
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is moppi... fetishizing? i'll let them speak to whether or not they are making a fetish of melanin, but i don't think they're fetishizing the architecture or the fashion, either. but also this is a linguistic non-issue so w/e i hope wotc makes a whole bunch of ankh artifacts and a jackal tribal subtheme

Oh my god, this set might have jackal people. YES.

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jackal people

but enough about my ex-wife [laugh track]

on a serious note (and maybe this doesn't belong in the art, flavor and storylines subforum): i'd love to take bets right now on:

1. a desert reprint
2. re-use of the creature type sand
3. something something ankh of mishra

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I would love to get Sand creatures in this set. Hazezon Tamar remains one of my favorite cards from Legends.


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is moppi... fetishizing? i'll let them speak to whether or not they are making a fetish of melanin, but i don't think they're fetishizing the architecture or the fashion, either. but also this is a linguistic non-issue so w/e i hope wotc makes a whole bunch of ankh artifacts and a jackal tribal subtheme

The giant canine head on the pyramid looks like a fennec fox.

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Sexy fox people woo

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Seriously? This is literally the first thing you mention?

Honestly, its the fashions and architecture that resonated with me immediately for this set, being Egyptian inspired... I think I shot my own foot putting melanin in front...

And I am just genuinely extremely happy to see POCs in fantasies I follow (second would be LGBTQ people, but the hope about them, much less) in a Magic set and not just drip drops of them scattered around the arts like back in the days, I may not be as excited as with Tarkir (maybe because the POCs of that set are majorly the fair skinned(?) folks, and I am more in the brown spectrum) coming off Kaladesh I was not expecting another set with a huge presence of POC this early... Am I fetishizing with this? If so, I am genuinely sorry and would like to be educated if ever....

but i don't think they're fetishizing the architecture or the fashion, either.

I just love cultures with extremely detailed fashions and architecture: Chinese, Egyptian, Japanese, some regions in the S.E.A. etc. So there...

a jackal tribal subtheme

What would a possible jackal tribe's type would be tho? :+

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a jackal tribal subtheme

What would a possible jackal tribe's type would be tho? :+

"They ain't nothin' but a Hound, dawg. Cryin' all the time."

I'm sorry...

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Vengeful Pharaoh predicted this.
Has the same 'bauble floating between horns' look Bolas is championing.

Also, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker has the same chin thingy you see on pharaoh headdresses.

I wonder how far out they planned this...


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So while we consider possible reprints, do you think we might see mindclaw shaman or Augur of Bolas?

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Vengeful Pharaoh predicted this.
Has the same 'bauble floating between horns' look Bolas is championing.

Also, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker has the same chin thingy you see on pharaoh headdresses.

I wonder how far out they planned this...

That would be amazing if ever... though it can be that they sort of put one thing and another thing together and just happened that Nicol Bolas would fit an Egyptian set seeing his design or what not.

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So while we consider possible reprints, do you think we might see mindclaw shaman or Augur of Bolas?

Maybe other races that are in Amonkhet, but the merfolk one is suspect... :/ Unless, they end up being the Blue race representative in the set.

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More viashino would be fantastic. Maybe as visual references to Set the crocodile god.

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I expect Leonin, hound people, (Hopefuly not scarab people because I had an egyptian idea with those) humans, possibly a tribe normally in one color, in another color as they adept to a desert envirnoment. As a desert world I expect them to do something interesting with blue races. didn't bolad breed cat dragons on that one world? So maybe we see some other sort of dragony people.

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The nekoru weren't Bolas's. They actually usurped him in Madara, but even there they were an invasive species.

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:o interesting

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(Hopefuly not scarab people because I had an egyptian idea with those)


Or Wizards can surprise us and bring back the nantuko as a white-aligned race. (A guy can dream, right?)


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Barinellos wrote:
The nekoru weren't Bolas's. They actually usurped him in Madara, but even there they were an invasive species.


I've often wondered how he felt about them taking over Madara in his absence.

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