What does this card represent? I mean what is even in this drawing.
Looks like some sort of suit of armor or robot man being set on fire or exploding with magic energy and shit. It's kind of abstract, it's a good mood though.
>>97445337What does this card represent? I mean what is even in this drawing.
>>97445337>he doesn't know about The Great Work
>>97445555This one represents The Great Replacement Theory
>>97445559>>he doesn't know about The Great WorkYes.Care to give me the lore?
>>97445526>Looks like some sort of suit of armor or robot man being set on fire or exploding with magic energyI did go over >Armor >Hemet >mouth spiting magic/energy fire>Magic energy fire from behind>Ridiculous shoulder pads (cool)>Hes has 4 sided gem in it>Exploding with power or creature is asymmetric and/org incompleteThen you go down and go>Is this 1 arm on the right (the left one is all fire or non existent/obscured by fire)?>Does it even have arms?>Are the feet obscured by this energy or .... is is hovering while having these stalactites for lower body?It is OK for a representation of a cosmic being.However I prefer the realistic onesPS: I found also a face and 1 hand that I do not thing are supposed to be there or seen. PS2: Also there is an asymmetric evangeliion golem with one genetic canon/club arm in one of the inc blobs.
>>97445555>What does this card represent? I mean what is even in this drawing.NEVER TRUST ELVES!
>>97445559I don't. Elaborate?
>>97445635>>97445658This is some basic bitch imagination anons. You don't even have to know fuck about shit or shit about fuck in relation to whatever mtg lore it is. Its called >The Great Work >elaborate thing spewing smoke, fire, energy >does powerful magical effects Great as in large, powerful. important. Work as in takes effort , time, produces effects in the word. Its a big magical powerful thing people have put effort into and does cool magical shit. One step further into having a grain of imagination and familiarity with anything fantastical would link up terminology like that with cultists, religious mystical trappings, etc. Could be armour if you are so dull witted you need it to be iron man to understand, or a kirbyesque cosmic entity, or dagoth ur, etc. If you want a lore dump I'm sure there's a mtg wiki about it that can overexplain in detail and remove any possibility of imagination.
>>97445674>just use your imaginationI'm imagining you as less of a faggot but it's not doing anything.
>>97445881I won't stop being a fag after I'm done fucking your ass this badly but neither will you cupcake.
>>97445555It means this is checked
>>97445674>HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW ABOUT " The Great Work"®™ from Wizards of the Coast®™ subsidiary of Hasbro®™ !>Umm just use your imagination and shit!Yea I can do that however I expected you to have the lore of that thing!>RREEEE you have no imagination REEEEWhat I imagined form the title>Some gigantic building possibly human shaped(ARMOR)>unfinished>Some guts are building it to get great power possibly machine to alter reality itself. >Something like the Numidian from the elder scrolls>Extremely powerful even when unfinishedNow want to post the lore?
>>97445555Here the artist was instructed to draw the most beautiful white chick he could draw. Then make her an elf. After that take some meth, watch lotr and blacked porn in two windows and finish the painting after 4 hours of straight masturbation.
>>97446114>I expected you to have the lore on an abstract piece of art in a game that has fuck all to do with the lore! That's a you problem. What you imagined from the title works fine. What else do you need to play mtg? You don't even need that really. MTG is database mgmt. You want to deep dive on lore you can go find it. Shit's not complicated.
>>97446114>Some gigantic building possibly human shaped(ARMOR)>unfinishedSee, your imagination is fine. Because that's what the normal art of the card is.>Now want to post the lore?The Great Work is just Urabraks's particular brand of phyrexian philosophy. Jin-Gitaxis calls it 'The Great Synthesis', Vorinclex calls it 'The Grand Evolution'. It's just the name for their view of how to guide their particular breed of biomechanical horrors towards what they see as perfection.It does not refer to a specific invention or monument, but rather the general goals of improvement.>But that's way more boring than a giant machine to alter realityCorrect. You're more imaginative than WotC. It's a low bar.
>>97446466>>But that's way more boring than a giant machine to alter reality>Correct. You're more imaginative than WotC. It's a low bar.The real question is why the fuck did they stick a building on the card instead you know some abstract ethereal hands and eyes and spheres or something. >>But that's way more boring than a giant machine to alter reality>Correct. You're more imaginative than WotC. It's a low bar.Now you want to play a control deck where you build a machine tower that alters reality.7 Tokens >You can do -1/-1 on all enemy creatures or destroy 1 target creature8 Tokens>-2/-2 on all enemy creatures>You can spend 2 mana do exile 1 enemy creature9 Tokens>-3/-3 on all enemy creatures>1 mana to exile 1 creature (2 times per turn)10 Tokens >YOU WIN THE GAME!
>>97446635>The real question is why the fuck did they stick a building on the card instead you know some abstract ethereal hands and eyes and spheres or something.A partially constructed machine is a physical representation of the abstract concept of improvement.And as mentioned, each of the phyrexian leaders has their own brand of progress, and so having all the art be too abstract would make things even less clear.
Are you all fucking stupid? Phyrexians, as a defining feature, have genetic memory. Phyrexians pass down their beliefs, ideals and works through the oil, as it retains the collective past of their kind.This is what the whole cycle is about; the Phyrexian leaders carry within them legacy, beliefs, ideals and stories, and those will survive their physical demise. They have, literally, their factions' ideals running through their veins. So, they have Sagas- the Magic representation of a story- in their backside.>>97446635>The real question is why the fuck did they stick a building on the card instead you know some abstract ethereal hands and eyes and spheres or something.Because Urabrask is a smith. He builds shit. That's his thing. To Urabrask, free will and self-expression are key parts of "perfection" is which the goal that all Phyrexians aim for. Look at the other Sagas.Elesh Norn, who is about control, hierarchy and structure, has her throne of ossified flesh representing the "Argent Etchings", the rigid ideology that composes her faction.Sheoldred, who is about competition, survival and ambition above all, the traditionalist approach that is identical to New Phyrexia, gets The True Scriptures, that being Yawgmoth's original beliefs, represented by a tower in the Old Phyrexia style.Jin-Gitaxias, who is about perfection not as an ideal to be achieved but as something to be endlessly ran towards through iteration and learning, gets "The Great Synthesis," represented by a new work, a new Phyrexian lifeform being created in a laboratory.And Vorinclex, who is about instinct and might-makes-right, with natural selection as the true form of evolution, gets "The Grand Evolution," bones enmeshed in vines, representing his gigantic maze made of vines where he has monsters kill each other endlessly so only the mightiest of the mighty survive.
A Saga card is some kind of story. Naturally, this means this is the story of "The Great Work." What is on the other side, as this is some kind of transforming card, might provide some clue to what the card means, OP.
Works better when you can see it more.
Couldn't find a bigger version of this one.
Or this one.
This one's only okay. Couldn't even find the green one just as the art. Fucking hippies.
>>97445337At least you can read it. A lot of the secret lair cards are basically illegible.
>>97445337I wish that they could somehow sneak flavor text in each step of a saga.
Where did he find this giant vein to lick?
>>97445337It's an oil painting of a phyrexian.
>>97449129Something like this.
>>97446171>watch lotr and blacked porn in two windows and finish the painting after 4 hours of straight masturbation.Do you often think about people jerking off to race fetish porn anon?
>>97445337>intentionally posting the artistic version of the art instead of the intelligible version
>>97445559>>97445635I don't know what crap the other anon who replied to you guys is talking about, but outside of nerd shit "the Great Work" is the process and things you go through on your path to enlightenment. It's a term frequently used in occultism, particularly alchemy and Hermeticism.
>>97445337who the fuck cares at this point about art
>>97449866The sighted.You numpty.
>>97445337Why is this Magic the Gathering card depicting my parents fighting?
>>97449798>>intentionally posting the artistic version of the art instead of the intelligible versionI wanted to know how others interpret what they see there.>art instead of the intelligible versionNot even here am I sure WTF am I looking at.
>>97449770>kike race over the aryan species.???????>kike raceKikes are a race?>aryan species.aryans are a species????????????What>1488 brothers, the swastika rises.I understand this however explain what did you say before?
>>97459744It is a deconstructed/semiconstructed metal sculpture. It represents Urabrask's philosophy of Phyrexian perfection (constantly destroying what was already done to start something better). The entire faction has a running theme of "creation through destruction" (which it inherits from the original Mirrodin goblins), in both the visual sense, with a heavy emphasis on melting things down, scrapping or smashing them to pieces, and in the mechanical sense, with many of their cards emphasizing sacrifice of permanents, mainly artifacts.
>>97459842>Urabrask's philosophy of Phyrexian perfectionElaborate
>>97464789All Phyrexians factions seek perfection, but they have a different idea of what it means. Elesh Norn sees an imperfect thing, and reshapes to be closer to what she thinks is perfect. Sheoldred sees an imperfect thing, thinks "this is worse then me, because I'm.more perfect," and enslaves it to her will. Jin-Gitaxias looks at an imperfect thing and makes notes of how to improve next time. Urabrask looks at an imperfect thing, pulls out the elements he thinks are good, and melts down the rest. Vorinclex sees an imperfect thing and eats it, and if it eats him instead, that means it was more perfect than him.
>>97447940Ideally the mechanics of a Saga should represent the story it's trying to tell well enough that flavor text isn't necessary. Some Sagas do that better than others, though some of them are also more obvious about what the events involved would be.
>>97464789explained multiple times in a thread with barely 40 posts. bumpfagging sure is real.
>>97468099Yea however it sounds like pure nonsense did Wizards smoke crack while writing that?
>>97469163Why is it pure nonsense?
>>97469251Mostly all of >>97459842Especially the later phrases.
>>97469285I don't get what's nonsense about this. "Destroying to create" is a common motif in fiction, and that's what the Quiet Furnace is about. They are smiths who are continuously destroying what they build in order to create better things. Urabrask's Forge perfectly encapsulates this concept; it makes and then destroys a continuously better and stronger token, turn after turn.And The Great Work is exactly that; the eternal toil of the Furnace, forever destroying and then creating, represented by a giant melted statue that you can't say is being created or destroyed.
>>97469315>Destroying to createIs more a meh. > represented by a giant melted statue that you can't say is being created or destroyed.See nonsense territory.> in both the visual sense, with a heavy emphasis on melting things down, scrapping or smashing them to pieces, and in the mechanical sense, with many of their cards emphasizing sacrifice of permanents, mainly artifacts.Also this.
>>97469340Literally just check the other red Phyrexian cards at all and you will obviously see this is a big focus for the faction. Are you retarded?
>>97469358Yea that part is more meh (makes sense). Expected something more.The big problem is that in reality you do not need to destroy anything to create something new.Except if you are engaging in some ridiculous metal scrapping and recycling however this indicated serious metal shortages, in reality. Maybe this is why I do not feel this as being very good?
>>97469399>The big problem is that in reality you do not need to destroy anything to create something newYou do. If you want to make paper you need to cut down trees. If you want to make a sword you need to mine the metal out of mountains. If you make a new technology you will inevitably obsolete what came before.
>>97469414>You do. If you want to make paper youYou rarely destroy books that already exist.Or destroy a car to make another car.You see how this is a meh ideology?>If you make a new technology you will inevitably obsolete what came before.And this is not destruction!
>>97469439Were the livelihoods of tailors not destroyed with the advent of the textile industry? The creation of new things inevitably means destruction.
>>97469439>too dumb to understand a metaphor
>>97469439>ohhhh the fantasy magic cyborg monsters aren't practicalwhat a stupid complaint.
