Card Preview – MUN222 Beta Ray Bill

There comes a time in a man’s life when the cosmos recognises his efforts. Some karmic balance is finally tipped. All those times you walked the little old lady across the street. All those times you distinctly didn’t take the last doughnut. All those times you actually emptied the dishwasher before your mother / wife / girlfriend / alternative-lifestyle-partner-of-choice nagged you.

And then there’s those times when some crazy dude in an office somewhere who, for some godforsaken reason, has control over these things decides he’s gonna be nice to you to make up for that time he ate a puppy.

I have no bloody idea which this is, but, let me just say…

HOT DAMN!

How I’d Do It: Episode 11

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled How I’d Do It to bring you something a little different!

When the fan previews were first announced, I had just started working on this article series, and I made a semi-joking request that when LH got its preview card, could it PRETTY PLEASE be on a Tuesday, so that I could form my article around it, designing cards to go along with it? I didn’t expect anyone to listen… and maybe they didn’t. Maybe this is just pure blind luck.

But hot damn, it happened that way, so I’m going to take advantage of it! Now, a fairly obvious caveat here: the stuff I show you today is almost guaranteed to be proven completely wrong. In fact, it’s likely that we’ll see cards before the end of this week that contradict one or more items in this article. And that’s fine; I’m just having fun here.

Modern Mythology

Our imaginations often run rampant with thoughts of spandex-jockeys with fanciful names, futuristic gadgets and amazing powers that boggle the senses… but it amuses me how often things return to roots in mythology.

I spent more years than I care to admit at University studying the cultures of Classical Greece and Ancient Rome… with a splash of Egypt, and a short stint in Viking territory as well, and I retain a deep affection for the tales created by these cultures that to this day affect the tales we ourselves tell.

Everywhere I turn, I see the roots of myth.