Examining old Magic cards and mechanics, particularly from the game's early years,
and reimagining them without all the text and rules headaches
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Divine Offering
This card's fine. It was literally just printed in Mirrodin Besieged; it's priced correctly and it's an instant. Man, in Legends, "D" is for "d'aw, guess we done good."
Today's "easy card" trivia, courtesy of that repository of always-correct, never crowd-sourced-into-good-enough-territory source, Wikipedia:
"A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a god or spirit or in memory of those who have died. It was common in many religions of antiquity and continues to be offered in various cultures today.
"The English word 'libation' derives from the Latin libatio, an act of pouring, from the verb libare, 'to taste, sip; pour out, make a libation' (Indo-European root *leib-, 'pour, make a libation'). In ancient Roman religion, the libation was an act of worship in the form of a liquid offering, most often unmixed wine and perfumed oil."
The upshot? Take a shot every time you break an artifact. Declare that it's your lifegain, or suggest that you're the god of your own destiny.
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Legends
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