Hey folks,
Yesterday MaRo posted up the in-jokes for the cards in Unhinged.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/ar ... 2017-08-14I arrived late to the party in that game, but between the references to it over so many years, I saw every card they showed in this article. And I know he said a lot of people didn't "get it" for many of them. Which did you get? Which caught you by surprise?
Myself, I got a lot of them, but didn't get these:
#4 - Remember Ice Age?
Yeah, I got
Necro-Impotence as a call-back to
Necropotence, but didn't get
Aesthetic Consultation as a call-back to
Demonic Consultation.
#6 - Cards in Cards.
Maybe saw a few, but it never really clicked that this was a joke besides the fact that these cards messed with other cards.
#7 -
Ambiguity.
Did you realize there was a second image when you flipped it upside down? I sure didn't!
#15 - Did You Catch the Time Traveller?
Call back to old mechanics? Time machine in
Old Fogey? Oh yeah, definitely got those. Seeing a smudge on the card
Blast from the Past? Nope. Not even once.
#17 - The First Rule of Unhinged
No way did I realize this was a dual
Fight Club and Alcoholics Anonymous reference.
#20 - There Once Was a Cycle from Unglued . . .
Hey, these form a limerick! That's neat.
#21 - Polly Want to Crack Her
See, I take it you had to play the set to get this one, and I never did. That's a great interaction that this forces you to sacrifice the creature if your opponent has Gotch'a cards.
Of them all, I'm really surprised that people didn't understand the joke in
Duh!