Basically, the goal for these things is that they’re something I want to think about, write about that’s outside the confines of my normal set skeleton review format, but still something that is kind of strange and out of the ordinary for MTG things to be read about.
I think my best bet is on “The Magic Art of Olena Richards”. This will probably end up being the most normal of the bunch, the strange part is the artist being chosen, of all people truly. Well, I can just show you these two cards and you should get it immediately.
Someone who probably can nail both abstract spells and super detailed artifacts alike, and also cute animals and hot goth girls alike. Does that sound fun? Well, maybe not to like the last… 4 sets or something unfortunately. Sucks on them (the sets) really.
A Slightly Better Written Naya Hit Piece
This one feels more cynical to really contrast. It will be “A Hit Piece on Naya”. I will pull up a lot of facts and stats, some you may have realized, others not, to really illustrate a picture of this really boring color trio. And maybe through it we realize we were the problem all along, letting such boring cards reach such levels of popularity as if we don’t know better. Almost as if I’m talking about Ajani right, because yes this color trio lacks both function and flavor.
I may have already written a draft of this, but it fails as a draft because it really lacks an outline to really illustrate the problem at hand. This is the first one I have delivered.
https://www.tumblr.com/markrosewater/783637835320279040/ive-not-it-seems-like-most-precons-nowadays-seem
Can I deliver a second one? What about one where I examine set symbols to really hammer home how bad LCI’s was.
I could hold this back for previous Ravnican set because it will be “How Many Ravnican Sets are Possible?”. Not exactly a question of when the designers will run out of ideas, just examining the different combinations of different color pairs and the different logical ways you can come to them. Which may probably ends up handier as a tool to look at sets of commander precons than to build actual draft sets out of, so certainly a usage for me.
Why is there such awful color balance in this set? Why do <insert character here> got in and not some others? Because, according to some NotC designer, “There is No Correct Answer!”. This is probably the most detached topic from Magic, and it may prove actual use too.
I finally realized the necessary precursor to the next one, and that is “What is Magic as Richard Garfield intended?” I can be fully sure it isn’t to print a card so obviously pushed everyone just focuses on it and forget everything else. But then there’re further steps until you can really pretend people should have to learn and make up everything about Magic by themselves.
(I wish I could make that as an embed, but it’s insanely long)
I feel like a lot of my furry-phobe feelings can really fit in the Naya hit piece. So now you ask me what’s uniquely a Bloomburrow problem and honestly I may go blank for the time being.
I’m not blank anymore, I decided this will be the best place for something called “The Enthusiasts Trap”, the thing that some 20 years of Magic have conditioned us to like certain things and hate others then the later years try to tear down piece by piece until now, where we just have to get along with the furries and waifus and whatnot or just have to leave.
It’s important to note where I got this term from: