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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:00 am 
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It's the two cards I would have guessed, but why anyone would change Massacre Girl into Vial Smasher is beyond me...

But overall, I think you guys did a good job handling four-colour decks mechanically, and the reprints are amazing.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 1:12 pm 
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There have been at least two attempts to make a Massacre Girl card so far. We'll get there eventually! Unless we lose interest.

Any chance you can tell us what card Massacre Girl turned into when it was changed? I'm guessing that the second card may not have seen print so you may not have extra stories about that.



I believe that the cards that game designers initially labeled as Massacre Girl in the database became Exava and Vial Smasher eventually. It's an important detail that most of their card texts also changed.

Vial smasher was almost certainly a mistake.

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Dealing damage to random opponents really doesn't feel like a massacre, though. Remember, the partners weren't designed top-down.

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Dealing damage to random opponents really doesn't feel like a massacre, though. Remember, the partners weren't designed top-down.


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I believe that the cards that game designers initially labeled as Massacre Girl in the database became Exava and Vial Smasher eventually. It's an important detail that most of their card texts also changed.


Chances are whatever the card did before it was changed was more Massacre-y.

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Yeah, I'm just defending the creative team for changing the flavor when the text changed. People were wondering why anyone would decide to print Vial Smasher instead of Massacre Girl, and that's why. Design/development preferred the random damage design to whatever Massacre Girl's original design was, and Vial Smasher was a better character for that ability.

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That implies vial smasher is in any way a good character to start with.

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I'd rationalize it as preferable to being a disservice to Massacre Girl, who I think is one of the more anticipated 'recent' characters along with Fblthp and Ludevic, but then Ludevic happened and, well, he really could have been more Ludevic-y even if I don't totally mind the version we got.

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Somebody pointed this out on Tumblr recently: there was a much better choice for Goblin commander than Vial-Smasher...

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Now I really want a Toggo card.....

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To be fair Magic is moving away from goblins are stupid, so...

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To be fair Magic is moving away from goblins are stupid, so...

Stupid, nothing! Wood DOES burn better than rocks!

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Well, except maybe coal...

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Coal is just rockified wood though

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Coal is just rockified wood though

I tried explaining that to Toggo, but it was a no-go.


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To be fair Magic is moving away from goblins are stupid, so...

I dunno. Maybe I'm too charitable, but Toggo seems competent. Simple and single-minded maybe, but competent.

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Toggo seems like a pretty philosophical guy. It takes a special goblin to know that other people use words to solve problems.

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Huh, I just figured that "Massacre Girl" was a title of Exava's.

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Huh, I just figured that "Massacre Girl" was a title of Exava's.
Well, it does seem that the "Massacre Girl" card underwent lots of changes and became Exava in the end, but I always read them as two different people.

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