Literary Quotes
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Posted on April 7, 2014, 9:37 a.m. by Captain_GoatHead
So I have been playing magic for a few years casually and one of my favorite cards is Pearled Unicorn. I know, a 2/2 for 3, no effect; what's up with that? Well, I like it because it quotes one of my favorite authors of all time, Lewis Carrol. There are an abundance of cards that quote real world figures and famous literature in the space for flavor text and over the years, I've collected quite a few of them. The only problem with a collection like this is that I have no idea where to start looking, I just have to hope that I happen to be paying attention when one of them is in front of me. Since there is no obvious tell, I can't simply use the advanced filter on the Gatherer to compile a list (Though you can filter out quotes from specific authors, but this isn't entirely useful since as far as I know, no one knows who all has been quoted).Because of this, it has been very hard to put together a trading list and since many of the cards are uncommon and common with no real value, many people don't even carry them about. My collection has some fairly old cards about it, so as far as I can tell, this practice has been going on since roughly the beginning. My collection so far isAlluring Siren - M11Air Elemental - M10Soul Barrier Durkwood Boars Pearled Unicorn Castle Diminish - M11Boomerang Vampire Bats Wolverine Pack Frozen Shade Giant Octopus Scathe Zombies Visions Taste of Blood - M12
It would really help to have a better idea of what I'm looking for so if there are any others that you know of, or any resources that might help, I would greatly appreciate your imput. Thanks!
if your still interested i noticed "Will-O'-The-Wisp" is missing from your list of cards featuring literary quotes from authors, featues a quote from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Colerige,"About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and whiteis a dsecent card as well, cost 1 back mana, 0/1 fyler with regenerate.
Oletorpedo says... #2
Pay No Heed from M14 and Naturalize from 8th edition springs to mind!
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&flavor=+%5Bshakespeare%5D
The link above shows 21 cards with Shakepeare qoutes on them.
April 7, 2014 9:48 a.m.