When you transition so hard you become three women
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The hand-drawn art of 90's MTG was so evocative and full of soul. I think it's not simply the change towards digital art that ruined it, but also WotC's imposition of corporate style guides that ironed out all the lumps of character that the art had before. It affected the tabletop gaming industry broadly as it become more financially lucrative, you see the same phenomenon from Games Workshop and D&D stuff: the art came to reflect the character of the Business.
The anime and its consequences were a disaster for the art community.
The older card's flavor text is just literally a description of many Native People's foraging practices.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at western fantasy authors doing the classic "what if people of color were actually inhuman", but I'm not even sure they did that here. Maybe they just came up with it on their own.
THIS IS REVISIONISM
...or Unlimited, I never really could tell those two apart.

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