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I personally love Dante's Inferno. Between all the circles of hell and sins being punished, you could come up with some pretty interesting cards. Especially land and enchantments. One down side is that it does have that Christian sentement that would not attract some people.
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« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2006, 04:24:43 pm » |
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I think Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series could be turned into an entire block, and it would have plenty of strong cards.
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« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2006, 04:49:55 pm » |
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Yu-Gi-Oh.... Oh wait!  Well, if by book you mean traditional books I.... well I don't know really! If we're allowing mangas though I think ".Hack" could be used to spawn a set or two. |
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« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2006, 05:00:38 pm » |
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Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid. That would be a great Classics block.
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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2006, 05:36:16 pm » |
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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2006, 06:03:33 pm » |
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« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2006, 06:56:08 pm » |
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War and Peace.
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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2006, 07:45:03 pm » |
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Redwall, obv.
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« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2006, 08:25:15 pm » |
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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2006, 08:30:14 pm » |
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OBVFEST 2006.
THE BIBLE.
You could like, turn that into a completely new game, let alone a single set or block!
(yes, that is the joke. don't bother posting how hilarious it is that I said this because...etc...)
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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2006, 08:30:23 pm » |
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I personally love Dante's Inferno.
Where do you think phyrexia came from? |
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2006, 11:53:08 pm » |
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Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid. That would be a great Classics block.
Those would be pretty sweet. My vote, though, would have to go to Dune. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2006, 12:27:39 am » |
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Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid. That would be a great Classics block.
Those would be pretty sweet. My vote, though, would have to go to Dune. Dune is definitely a great pic. Dante's Inferno is one of my favorites, but I have never concidered it a piece of Magic the Gathering before.. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2006, 01:34:20 am » |
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« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2006, 02:56:38 pm » |
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I say the "Captain Underpants" series.
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« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2006, 03:26:43 pm » |
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Neuromancer They already kinda did that, though. Or was your remark more of that sarcasm phenomenon I've been hearing about? SF author Greg Bear once wrote a pair of rather great fantasy books called 'The Infinity Concerto' and 'The Serpent Mage' (for those who care: they were bundled later and sold as 'Songs Of Earth And Power'). THOSE would make a cool set. Also, however corny it my seem at this point, Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has definite set potential (as has Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum). Oh, and the chronicles of Narnia! |
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« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2006, 03:59:32 pm » |
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Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid. That would be a great Classics block.
That's just 2 sets, though; the Aeneid is Virgil's idea of a 'set' based on the first two.  Though a set based on that would be cool in the extreme. Maybe use Ovid's Metamorphoses too? |
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« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2006, 04:07:03 pm » |
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SF author Greg Bear
Didn't he write the anvil of the stars also? I seemed to remember liking that book back when I was a kid. Oh, and to whom ever picked out the Wheel of Time series, lets be honest. The best books in the series were just a rip off Dune anyways. I vote DUne. |
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« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2006, 05:33:39 pm » |
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Hmm. Terry Pratchett's Discworld would be a pretty natural fit. And Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons are quite zany, so that I've tried to think of cards for many of the characters -- Illiad plus Odyssey plus Shakespeare plus Caliban upon Setebos plus Mars plus old humans plus post human plus space aliens, plus many other things besides.
I've also thought about George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, but it's difficult to assign many of the characters to a color. The Others are clearly black, the Dothraki red, and the Starks are probably white -- but what about the Lannisters? And the ironmen -- their connection to the sea puts them in blue, but their way of life is very not.
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« Reply #19 on: December 25, 2006, 06:42:23 pm » |
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Neuromancer They already kinda did that, though. Or was your remark more of that sarcasm phenomenon I've been hearing about? SF author Greg Bear once wrote a pair of rather great fantasy books called 'The Infinity Concerto' and 'The Serpent Mage' (for those who care: they were bundled later and sold as 'Songs Of Earth And Power'). THOSE would make a cool set. Also, however corny it my seem at this point, Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has definite set potential (as has Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum). Oh, and the chronicles of Narnia! Oh god, I have yet to see a good Cyberpunk CCG. |
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« Reply #20 on: December 25, 2006, 07:53:45 pm » |
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OBVFEST 2006.
THE BIBLE.
You could like, turn that into a completely new game, let alone a single set or block!
(yes, that is the joke. don't bother posting how hilarious it is that I said this because...etc...)
LOL, ever heard of Redemption? I've been wracking my brain for a cheeky and ironic answer here and I'm failing. Dr. Seuss came to mind but that's too easy to think of. OH! I KNOW!!! Lolita. |
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« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2006, 07:56:56 pm » |
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Harry Potter could easily spawn a set full of wizards and the such.
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« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2006, 09:59:54 pm » |
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I've been wracking my brain for a cheeky and ironic answer here and I'm failing. Dr. Seuss came to mind but that's too easy to think of. OH! I KNOW!!!
Lolita.
Cheeky and ironic? Lord of the Rings. Ooh, or even better, The Wizard of Oz. Lolita is hard to top, though. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life might do it, but probably not. Don Quixote would be either excellent or atrocious, and I'm too worried about the latter to suggest it in hopes of the former. |
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« Reply #23 on: December 26, 2006, 12:12:01 am » |
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1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451
You got all kinds of good themes for each color--except green. But green isn't a real color. Red=the chaotic rebels. Black is the secret police. White is the pompous strict disciplinarians. Blue has mindcontrol/brain washing.
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« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2006, 01:34:47 am » |
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« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2006, 03:13:51 am » |
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Mossflower would make a much better set than Redwall would, though.
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« Reply #27 on: December 26, 2006, 11:40:09 am » |
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Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series.
The amount of cool creature cards available from that boggles the mind. I would put Gasher and the Tick-Tock man in every deck.
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« Reply #28 on: December 26, 2006, 01:47:36 pm » |
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Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series.
The amount of cool creature cards available from that boggles the mind. I would put Gasher and the Tick-Tock man in every deck.
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« Reply #29 on: December 26, 2006, 02:49:00 pm » |
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Detta. All I have to say.
While I think the card would be cool, "Tap: Destroy target Honky MahFah." is probably not that useful an ability |
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