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Jenny, I share your love for the Ooze subtype and its bearers-various slimes, goos, and plasms. The best name for anything ever? Possibly. Do you think the flavors will ever be resolved? There is an aching hole in my gooey, ooze-infested heart, and its name is/will be Ooze Control. I have a nigh disturbing relationship with every ooze yet released, but am plagued with one question: will there ever be a white or blue ooze? I have wracked my brain thinking of ways for this to be true to flavor, and cannot think of anything that wouldn't be better suited by a shapeshifter or licid. I have been looking forward to the Conflux release for two reasons: Bloodhall Ooze and Gluttonous Slime. Regarding your article 'Jund's One Rule': I'm eager to see what wins in each category! Tune in next week to see the results. I hope you take time to vote (at least, for the categories that Nicol Bolas allows you to vote). Therefore we award Vorthos's Choice to the well-deserving ancient dragon planeswalker. Not only that, but Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker marks a new branch in the evolution of planeswalker cards, the 'planeswalkerization' of past creature-based characters in their newly available proper card type. Many expansions have a 'face of the set,' a piece of art that is the go-to showcase for what that set is about-and Nicol Bolas is indisputably it for Conflux. It's hard to think of another recent set that was so flavored around the actions of one figure, and of a card that so thoroughly encapsulated the flavor themes going on in the set. That kind of campaigning tends to have a powerful effect on a selection committee. I was going to have a set of nominees for this category, too, for you to vote on-but Nicol Bolas casually took control of the other nominees' minds, ripped out their sentience, and left them drooling drones. After the Conflux their mission changes-they're sent to explore beyond Bant's borders, looking for Bant landmarks that have emerged from other shards during the overlap. Knight of the Reliquary вЂ“ The Order of the Reliquary scour ancient ruins of Bant, searching for relics that might hold clues about their world's past. I created this award to recognize those small moments of cool world-building detail seeing the light of day on cards.

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We don't expect players to be such experts in the setting that they catch every detail that makes it onto cards-but the overall effect creates the sense of populated world (or worlds) full of history and verisimilitude. Most of these details go unnoticed by those playing the card game. The cards determine what details turn out to be actually useful.) The style guide is meant to provide an overwhelming pile of detail from which the set's concepter, its artists, and its name and flavor text writers can take inspiration. (In a way, there are just not enough cards to get across all this detail. There are gobs of detailed backstory goodness built into each setting's style guide, and the Alara style guide is no exception. How much do I love this category? Almost as much as Glacian loved Rebbec. Conflux Maelstrom Archangel Rupture Spire Shard Convergence Skyward Eye Prophets Vote for the Best Conveyance of Set Themes in Conflux. Top-down designs aren't necessarily related to the storyline, but they're so flavorful that they deserve a Vorthos Award all on their own.Д«lood Tyrant вЂ“ A vampire that gets stronger when it feeds on creatures-or on players! This top-down design manifests in grand style if you're playing in multiplayer. The perennial example of this is Frozen Solid, a card which captures in its mechanics the feeling or flavor of being encased in ice-but every set has more or less of this kind of design. In Ramp D, when we say ' top-down design,' we mean a card design that has been created around flavor. Be sure to click your Back button to return to the article after each vote submission.

Throughout the article you'll have opportunities to vote on each category, and then next week I'll announce the winners. The winners, however, will be determined by you.

The Vorthos Awards have no twenty-four-hour entertainment channel's red- (and green-, white-, blue-, and black-) carpet coverage, so we'll get right to the categories and the nominees. It's high time that the flavor of Magic, that hidden lore and fantasy feel glimpsed through the cards' flavor and function, had its own awards ceremony.