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* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Yawgmoth started out as a blend of all the worst parts of [[Adolf Hitler]] and Josef Mengele. This was when he was still human. After gaining control of Phyrexia, he ended up as the multiverse's equivalent of [[Satan]].
** The Simic from Ravnica are quite possibly the most evil criminals of the setting. Besides genetically altering people against their will and sending deadly predators around, they threw around deadly plagues just to see if people would survive, and charged for the cures! At least the [[
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** The [[Crazy Awesome]] pyromancer Jaya Ballard, whose [[Crowning Moment of Funny|awesome quotes]] adorned many a burn spell (and who provided the ''page quote'' for [[Kill It with Fire]]). Finally printed in Time Spiral, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=109752 and she was awesome].
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* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Magic 2010 replaced the old familiar [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=129586 Grizzly Bears] with [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=189888 Runeclaw Bear]. The ratings speak for themselves.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1058 Atog] was a scrappy thanks being the most printed card other than basic lands for a few months after ''Revised'', but by the time ''Mirage'' made atogs an iconic race, not only had the haters disappeared in a puff of apathy, but the people who liked the atogs' goofily-large toothy grins and power in decks built to feed them were more plentiful than ever.
* [[Rooting for the Empire]]: One of the most prominent fansites is called Phyrexia.com, and is themed around the plane of Phyrexia, complete with the forums being named after each of that plane's layers, users calling themselves "Phyrexians", and it being an unnofficial rule not to write the name of Yawgmoth. For those unfamiliar with the setting, we would like to remind you that Phyrexia is a hellish biomechanical dystopia occupied by [[
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]:
** The occasional reaction to [[Game Breaker|horribly overpowered]] blocks. Mirrodin and Urza's Combo Block come to mind. ''Especially'' Urza's, due to the Combo Winter that resulted.
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** Mark Rosewater is the head designer and is essentially the public face of Magic design and development. If something goes wrong, it's his fault. Even if he had nothing to do with it, it's always [[Fan Nickname|MaRo's]] fault. People often mistakenly call him the head of Magic R&D as a whole. The game's inventor, Richard Garfield, seems to have escaped this.
** If the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74250 card based on him] is any indication, Richard Garfield is actually [[Creator Worship|an inversion]].
* [[The Scrappy]]:
** This applies to the ''Homelands'' expansion. Almost all of the cards were too weak to see any play, even outside of tournaments, giving it a reputation as a set consisting of nothing but useless junk (''The Duelist'' once admitted the only worthwhile card in the set was [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202280 an ok anti-weenie card], and people only played ''that'' when there were block rules that required decks to contain cards from every expansion in the current rotation; later, [http://magiccards.info/hl/en/42.html Merchant Scroll] gained some popularity as well). Packs of Homelands cards were still available in stores for next-to-nothing long after it had "officially" gone out of print.
** ''Fallen Empires'', too, for about the same reasons. It ''was'' considerate enough not be jammed in the middle of the first semi-real block. It was also ''massively'' over-printed, with almost six times as many cards printed as any expansion set before it (approximately 350 million cards, compared to the 62 million of the preceding set, ''The Dark'') and almost as many as the then-current base set, ''Revised Edition'' (estimated at 500 million cards over its lifetime.)
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* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: One of the oldest ongoing disputes amongst competitive Magic players is whether netdecking or not is more "pure". Netdecking is the concept of taking a well perforing decklist, and fine tuning it to your meta. The alternative being to develop a rogue strategy specific for the anticipated metagame.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Too many times to count. The most recent example (as of mid-2009) are the rules changes introduced [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/42a here], but the game has to tweak itself a little every year, and each year brings a plethora of complaining, along with the beeping of cash registers to drown them out.
** The major rules overhaul with ''Sixth Edition'' caused a massive outcry among players at the time.
** Perhaps the biggest [[Internet Backdraft]] occurred in 2003, when they made some rather drastic changes to the cosmetic layout of the cards.
** Four words: Planeswalkers as playable cards.
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** [http://magiccards.info/wwk/en/31.html Jace, the Mind Sculptor]'s unprecedented price tag (about $100 at its peak), combined with his status as a staple in multiple formats, has earned him a lot of unpopularity among some segments of the player base. It got to the point that Wizards had to ban Jace from decks.
** Similar to Jace, [http://magiccards.info/m11/en/192.html Primeval Titan] became a key card in the then-dominant Valakut Ramp (and to a lesser extent, Eldrazi Ramp) decks, leading for calls to ban the Titan and Valakut. Soon afterwards, however, ramp decks fell out of favor, mostly ending Primeval Titan's [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]] status until the Wolf Run Ramp deck brought it back.
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler|Venser, among others}}.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The writers of the Guildpact, for {{spoiler|intentionally writing in an antagonist for whom [[Failure Is the Only Option|failure was NOT the only option]], because "hey, there's an empty slot."}} The spoilered mistake sets in motion the plots of the entire Ravnica trilogy.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=218058 Phyrexian Unlife] is quite jarring.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Yawgmoth's rational, scientific and analytic mindset is in open contrast with any kind of mysticism, romaniticism and/or devotion towards "magic" typical of the biggest part of characters. Needless to say, he's the [[Big Bad]].
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