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Shadows over something 🌘 As I said last week, MTG has a huge number of Lovecraft references, there are even entire worlds that are imbued with an atmosphere of horror. For example, the dark and gothic world of Innistrad 🦇 In this world, everything has always been unsettling, and in one of the latest expansions, they even summoned an ancient, abominable Deity from another reality! The series of these expansions is called "Shadows over Innistrad", which in itself is a bold reference to Lovecraft's story "Shadows over Innsmouth". In addition to the general atmosphere, the Ancient Deity and all sorts of distortions of space, objects and perception, these sets squeezed in a couple of direct references to the work of the gentleman from Providence 🤓 For example, the Rancid Rats card and its flavor text: "They're in the walls! Can't you hear them?" almost literally refer us to the story of Lovecraft "Rats in the Walls" - a very creepy story teaching us that sometimes it is better for us not to know the history of ancient estates and what our ancestors did there... And the card "Cryptolith Fragment" and its reverse side "Aurora of Emrakul" (in MTG there are double-sided "transformer"-cards) keep an interesting flavor text: “I felt compelled to take the twisted stone, and I abandoned my horse's burden to accommodate its weight. Now, its continued glow illuminates my home and warms my mind." — Garner Kroft, Moorland farmer This text alludes to Lovecraft's work "The Colour Out of Space", in which farmer Nahum Gardner and his family encounter a meteorite falling on their farm, a very creepy story, far ahead of its time and, by the way, this is the writer's favorite work ✨ And here is "Emrakul, the Promised End" herself, whose radiance and bad influence we discussed above, this is an Ancient Deity, very similar in its properties and manifestations to Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath or Cthulhu Lovecraft! In MTG, the analogues of the Ancient Gods are called Eldrazi - these are unpleasant creatures from other dimensions, very s

Watch them eating 😱 MTG is famous not only for its interesting mechanics, beautiful art and fabulous prices for a piece of colored cardboard 😅 This game is also known for its love of Easter eggs of various kinds! There is such a fictional world in this board game, it is called New Capenna! In fact, it is New York of the 20s of the last century: fashionable suits, jazz, art deco, sparkling skyscrapers and mafia quarrels In the New Capenna release, there are a lot of references to various cultural events and phenomena of that time. For example, I really love the Easter egg on the "Riveteers Ascendancy" card, it refers to the famous photograph "Lunch atop a Skyscraper". This photo was taken in 1932 in New York during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The photo shows eleven workers having a peaceful lunch, sitting on a beam of the 69th floor of a skyscraper, and that's no less than 850 feet (260 meters)!!! This photo is known among people as a piece of American history itself, so MTG simply couldn't ignore it when creating such an issue 😇 And what are your favourite references in MTG cards? #cute #teen #babyface #babygirl #skinny #mtg

Much has been said about good MTG art and much has been written about good MTG artists 😸 In particular, many articles are written about the living legend Seb McKinnon! I will not go into details and list all the titles and the long list of achievements of this wonderful creator. I will just say that he is a very cool artist, musician and director! I am very glad to have the opportunity to have several cards with his art in my collection ✨ I hope that he will continue to delight us with his creativity, inspiring artists around the world to great deeds! #cute #teen #babyface #babygirl #skinny

Haven't told you yet, but I'm a huge Magic the Gathering fan! 🧚🏻 I absolutely love the artworks they use for the cards and adore their world building in general! I really like that it's basically a tabletop game with physical objects and real people required to play, old-school style! Today it's especially exciting since everyone is stuck at their computers most of the day... It's such a wonderful feeling to gather with your friends at someone's place and just embrace the gaming spirit and immerse yourself in a fantasy battle! 💫 There's a popular gaming format called "Commander" where many players fight against each other in a big long battle... I wish there was a format called "Subordinate" where one single poor player would get destroyed by all the others... Just a thought 🤭 #cute #teen #babyface #babygirl #skinny