[31.10.2009] PLANESWALKERS' QUOTES UPDATE: [12.07.2011]
Planeswalkers' quotes

Ajani Goldmane
"One's blade is only as sharp as one's conviction." [Glorious Charge]
"Rage is a dangerous weapon. Your enemies will try to use your anger against you. Use it against them first." [Kindled Fury] "All the wizardry in the world has to pass through one small and easily sealed door." [Silence]
"Blades dull and armor dents. Marisi taught us that instinct is the only thing a true warrior needs." [Nacatl Savage]
"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified." [Titanic Ultimatum]
"In the wild, white fur like mine is an aberration. We lack natural camouflage, but the inability ti hide encourages other strengths." [Silvercoat Lion]

Chadnra Nalaar
"Tjose who wish to invade our monastery, please take it up with my servant." [Inferno Elemental]
"Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?" [Pyroclasm]
"Lightning a fire needs kindling and heat. You be the kindling. I'll bring the heat." [Magma Rift]
"The land here seems to go out of its way to kill you." [Seismic Shudder]
"I like it here. You always get a little more for your mana." [Rumbling Aftershocks]
"Which do you think is a better deterrent: a moat of water or one of fire?" [Circle of Flame]
"Spontaneous combustion is a myth. If you burst into flame, someone wanted you to." [Incinerate]

Jace Beleren
"All consciusness is one, separated only by a thin veil of the physical." [Hive Mind]
"Illusion is a handy but fragile medium. Use it only in a pinch, or against the dim-witted." [Illusionary Servant]
"Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?" [Mind Control]
"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." [Phantom Warrior]
"I don't need to have the perfect plan. My foe just has to have an imperfect one." [Summoner's Bane]
"I of all people know that memory is not a safe place to hide valuables." [Selective Memory]
"On this plane, the use of magic can provoke a ferocious reprisal from nature. Whoever the Eldrazi were, their relics left Zendikar forever enraged." [Nature's Claim]
"It's good to learn from your failures, but I prefer to learn from the failures of others." [Lay Bare]
"Her mind is an incredible mix of emotion and power. Even if I could grasp it, I couldn't hold it for long." [Chandra's Outrage]
"The mind: a great weapon and an even greater weakness." [Mind Control]
"It's actually quite simple, but since you've only recently begun to walk upright, it may take some time to explain." [Redirect]

Garruk Wildspeaker
"I can't claim to hunt all creatures. There are some things in the jungle that simply can't be hunted." [Mist Leopard]
"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." [Garruk's Packleader]
"Nature does not need adornment." [Naturalize]
"When your cities and trinkets crumble, only nature will remain." [Naturalize]
"The predator knows the true way of the world. Life is conflict. Only the strong survive." [Hunter's Insight]
"The wild is always changing, but it does have a few constants." [Giant Spider]

Liliana Vess
"Stop complaining. You can rest when you're dead. Oh... sorry." [Disentomb]
"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." [Duress]
"Death is no excuse for disobedience." [Rise from the Grave]
"The finest minions know what I need without me ever saying a thing." [Liliana's Specter]
"When you find yourself teetering on the edge of oblivion, mine will be the hands taking pleasure in giving you the final push." [Brink of Disaster]

Sarkhan Vol
"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison." [Act of Treason]
"Never corner a barbarian. You become the path of last resistance." [Colossal Might]
"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it." [Crucible of Fire]
"The dragon has no pretense of compassion, no false mask of civilization - just hunger, heat, and need." [Hellkite Overlord]
"Sangrite is the dragon's beating heart. Little wonder, then, that so many fools' chests burst trying to contain it." [Sangrite Backlash]
"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands." [Violent Ultimatum]
"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon." [Dragon's Claw]

Tezzeret
"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection." [Scornful AEther-Lich]
"Etherium is limited. Innovation is not." [Thopter Foundry]
"Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance." [Tower Gargoyle]
"Phyrexians are tenacious. That's not the same thing as clever." [Quicksilver Geyser]
"I tolerate Phyrexians because the dragon requires it. But I have no patience for uninvited guests." [Psychic Barrier]
"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends." [Spined Thopter]
"Phyrexia is certainly dangerous, but I have to admire some of its innovations." [Torpor Orb]

Elspeth
"Only by the bravery of those who put loyalty above glory is our home kept safe." [Guardians of Arkasa]
"Knowledge of Bant's landscape and ruins is a weapon that the invaders can't comprehend." [Knight of the Reliquary]
"Finally, I understand. Home isn't where you rest. It's what you fight for." [Crusade]
"I was called to this world of steel, and it will be my steel that answers." [Soul Parry]
"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond." [Unwinding Clock]
"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate." [Pristine Talisman]

Nicol Bolas
"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak." [Imp's Mischief]
"The finest pawns are those with pawns of their own." [Rakka Mar]
"Birth and death are both reversible." [Soul Manipulation]

Nissa Revane
"When the land is angry, so are they." [Rampaging Baloths]
"The blood of the forest is beholden to no one." [Tanglesap]
"Why fight the world when you know who will win?" [World Queller]

Sorin Markov
"I have seen planes leveled and all life rendered to dust. It brought no pleasure, even to a heart as dark as mine." [Day of Judgment]
"The vampires of this world don't know the pleasures of hunger. They gorge themselves without savoring the kill." [Feast of Blood]
"You clerics brag about your strength of spirit, yet I take away the tiniest fragment, and you crumple like a rag doll." [Consume Spirit]
"What do vermin cling to when all hope is lost?" [Monomania]

Gideon Jura
"'Invincible' is just a word." [Oust]

Koth of the Hammer
"If it wasn't a blackened, stinking, melted abomination before, it certainly is now." [Turn to Slag]
"The mountains have been corrupted. Otherwise, they would not lend me their fire so easily." [Geosurge]
"So even the heart of our world has succumbed." [Phyrexia's Core]
"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever." [Darksteel Plate]
"Drive them back! Make their underworld into their grave!" [Rally the Forces]
"As long as we have the will to fight, we are never without weapons." [Slagstorm]

Venser
"Two magi could trade spells all day and never crown a victor. The real battle is not one of power but of will. If your confidence breaks, so too shall you." [Dismal Failure]
"This one would be accepted into the hive but still obey my commands."[Venser's Sliver]
"They can't even comprehend nature. How could they improve it?"[Mitotic Manipulation]

Karn, the Silver Golem
"Every act of destruction has a repercussion." [Aftershock]
"An innocent man died because of my anger. That knowledge will haunt me for all eternity."[Agonizing Memories]
"My world is corrupted beyond cleansing. I must prevent this from happening to other worlds."[Argent Mutation]
"If it is meant to be nothing but a machine, why did Urza build it to be like me?"[Beast of Burden]
"I am reminded of the fable of the silver egg. Its owner cracks it open to see what jewels it holds, only to discover a simple yellow yolk."[Bottle Gnomes]
"Consider the fable of the greedy herder. As her flock grew, so did her weariness; she slept, and the sheep wandered off."[Fade Away]
"Remember the moral of the fireslinger fable: with power comes isolation."[Fireslinger]
"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal."[Fit of Rage]
"Remember the fable of the elf who came upon a cave of gold. In trying to free the largest piece, she was crushed by its weight."[Flowstone Blade]
"One cannot cleanse the wounds of failure."[Humility]
"History is a potent weapon."[Scrivener]
"At first I simply observed. But I found that without investment in others, life serves no purpose."[Intervene]
"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."[Serrated Biskelion]
"Twice I have let the Legacy slip away. Never again."[Sift]
"Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began again."[Spellbook]
"Although I would give my life to protect Gerrard, my conscience will not let me take another's. There are many who would not hesitate."[Steel Golem]
"Because I am incapable of tears does not mean I have no need to shed them."[Tendrils of Despair]
"One touch to the stone and the sidar's son turned me from stalwart to statue."[Touchstone]
"We are kinfolk. Just as you need your progeny to complete you, so do I need the pieces of the Legacy to make me whole."[Victual Sliver]
"Many have been lost to pity."[Wall of Tears]
"Until you have lived as a statue, do not talk to me of pigeons."[Xanthic Statue]


You're exactly right that the shards don't have any contact with one another (other than the secretive travel of planeswalkers), and yet Bant is shown full of knights, paladins, armored soldiers, and battle angels, not to mention high-walled castles and citadels.







Когда Ричард Гарфилд создал Magic, он использовал довольно широкий круг фентезийных архетипов. Одним из
них были демоны. Ричард выбрал демонов по нескольким причинам. Во-первых, этот тип очень узнаваем, т.е. игроки
изначально поймут, что это за существа и что они собой представляют. Во-вторых, они весьма символичны. Т.е. их
внешний вид не значительно меняется в представлении разных игроков. В-третьих, они прекрасно подходили под многие
черты Черного цвета. И, в-четвертых, они просто классно выглядят.

Для того, чтобы вызвать чувство ностальгии как у старых игроков по тем временам, когда они впервые знакомились с
MtG, так и у новых, впервые открывших для себя игру, в этот сет была помещена 121 карта
из прошлого. Т.е. карты из ранних сетов и блоков, без внешних изменений. Единственным отличительным признаком этих карт от
своих древних родственников является символ сета Time Spiral сереневого цвета. Таким образом, разработчикам удалось
создать эффект, при котором к нам из прошлого, через разрывы временной ткани, попали карты, которые давно уже не выпускаются
в наши дни. Поэтому, не удивляйтесь, когда в бустере Time Spiral вы обнаружите анахронизм в старой рамке - это карта
из прошлого.





Взять, к примеру, карту существа
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