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Welcome to the another episode of Snack Time with Mike and Ant. In this episode, Mike and Ant sit down with Great Designer Search 2 winner Ethan Fleischer and discuss that holiday flavor.
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Flavor Gems for This Week
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Useful Links
- “Snack Time with Vorthos” by Matt Cavotta
- “Melvin and Vorthos” by Mark Rosewater
- Ethan's Old Mothership Article Archive
- “A Love Letter to Vorthos” by Ethan & Ian (about Commander (2014 Edition)
Useful Images
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Bonus Flavor
According to Gatherer, there are actually five different Magic cards that reference the word coal in their names:
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And for those of you who are members of the Magic TCG subreddit, there are an additional five cards that have the word coal in their names:
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And there’s also this one if you want to count other languages:
With all these flavorful options, I still think Coal Golem was the best choice (even if it does look more like a magma golem than a coal golem).
Last, I followed up with Mark Rosewater on his blog, and it turns out that Ethan was sorta right: MaRo wrote some of Jaya Ballard’s flavor text, but not all of it.
-Ant
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE!
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