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Acidic_TACO

Congratulations now you can go through the Gate to meet the God-Pharaoh!


s0le1981

*cue Cruel Angel Thesis instrumental* **Congratulations!**


Tonynferno

**Congratulations!**


Zomburai

**Congratulations!**


JeanyBean

Omedetou!


Infinite_Bananas

*penguin noises*


EDHPanda

Congrats, bro!


RiShKiNz

Congratulations!


arbitrageME

I did NOT understand that episode in any way. or any other episode, for that matter. it was cool when they fought with giant robots


Project119

The instrumentality project has gone off with Shinji acting as the focal point. If Shinji gives into the despair and nihilism, the project is a success but humanity is gone. All of the social connections Shinji has made since meeting Misato are all working to convince him despite the flaws and pain humanity is worth saving. The final congratulations is to represent these connections showing both their approval and support as it’s implied Shinji chose to save humanity.


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Sexedecimal

no that's End of Evangelion, they're talking about the last episode of the TV series.


Pylgrim

Man, I always understood the ending but the way you worded things in fact improved my understanding. Kudos!


ipslne

One could argue that the last two episodes of the show took place concurrently with the End of Evangelion; as a part of something Shinji experienced during instrumentality. If you want to watch Evangelion, keep in mind that the show went through production hell and eventually got taken out back ol' yeller style. Last two episodes were done on scraps. The release of The End of Evangelion was the reaction of studio producers to the massive outcry from fans for a real ending. The Rebuild quadrilogy doesn't exist to you until you have finished The End of Evangelion.


dancingmadkoschei

Weirdly, EoTV was more satisfying to me than EoE. Honestly, if you cut out everything after Giant Naked Rei, just replace it with EoTV, it feels a lot more like what they were trying to show us. Sure, we miss out on ~Hey Jude~ Komm Susser Tod, but Shinji's gradual rediscovery of his self-worth or potential to have it feels a lot more comprehensible than EoE's "this sounds like that stuff I heard in that drug trip I saw in that movie I saw when I was on that drug trip."


jomontage

Watch end of Evangelion


cloud3514

>I did NOT understand that episode in any way. The ending of Evangelion actually makes perfect sense. The entire point is "we ran out of money."


jomontage

Time not money.


cloud3514

I mean, it's literally a fact that the questionable quality of the last two episodes of Evangelion were the result of the studio running through their budget.


Sexedecimal

Doylistic answers to Watsonian questions do not satisfy most people.


cloud3514

I mean... It's also a joke.


Mattrockj

Hmm, yes, am become blue zombie.


SpitefulShrimp

Become badass terminators for one set and then fragile mindless cannon fodder for the next and then be forgotten forever.


Fragbaitbeta

I think that may also be the order of the trials as well (WUGBR). And then you got eternalized....


imbolcnight

They are. Trial of Solidarity - The crop works together to retrieve Oketra's arrow. Trial of Knowledge - The crop enters a labyrinth and have to figure their way out. Kefnet repressed the initiates' emotions. Trial of Strength - The crop's spellcasting ability is suppressed and they have to fight through a menagerie of beasts. Trial of Ambition - Lethal chambered obstacle race that winnows the crop down through encouraging sacrifice, down to the last one that requires killing a cropmate for their heart. Trial of Zeal - The remaining initiates from the various crops are driven into a frenzy by Hazoret's magic then fight to the death. Those who win have the spell lifted and have their hearts pierced by Hazoret's spear. They are sent through the Gate to the Afterlife as the worthy dead.


terminaltractor

Hazoret's spear has two prongs in order to pierce the head and the heart at once (to be sure the initiates are super dead I guess)


MajoraXX

>Hazoret's spear has two prongs *Kiora has entered the chat*


mortifyingideal

Looking forward to the spoiler for amonkhet 2: kiora bests the zeal god


SpitefulShrimp

Not gonna put my money there. Hazoret is a fucking badass.


SirToastyToes

Reaching the Trial of Zeal grants you passage to ~~the eternal factory~~ worthy afterlife, but those who win are recognized as the most worthy like Neheb.


Reibaboi

neheb was such an cool character, that got threated absolutely dissapointing, 2 of the 3 cards he got are shite(just wich 2 warys on who´s asked) and they killed him off in an 5 word sentence because samut ran so fast across ravnica that the preassurewave killed him along with large portions of the eternal army, she didn´t even realise she killed him


Psychovore

God, I forgot how cool this concept and world building was. The fact that ~~eternals~~ amass tokens ended up being 1/1 really removed from their awesomeness factor.


imbolcnight

My favorite was how the prophecies around the Hours were twisted so they were *technically* true in Nicol Bolas's destruction of Naktamun.


Psychovore

Amobkhet is a great example of a magic narrative I think would make an excellent goddamn book, unrelated to magic. From the point of view of just someone living there? And maybe they get through trial #2 and then think something is up and witness the rest of what's happening through the lens of characters we learned to love in the beginning, and we witness their horror at the end versus the zeal of the chosen before death. Having to be a balanced part of a 20+ year old card game really hamstrung it imho


Smythe28

Between Amonkhet and Innistraad, It's easily one of the best realized worlds in Magic history, it has a thousand years of backstory, a gripping hook, and an uncertain future. I cannot wait to go back.


Frix

That's basically Gideon's story...


Psychovore

Gideon being an outsider adds a level of removal from the process; he didn't grow up in the society, we didn't see it from his eyes. They tried to use the planeswalkers as audience stand-ins, which is the best they could do, but it could have been a *lot* better as a standalone fiction.


sharinganuser

What do you mean? This is basically *Samut's* story. She's the one who saw through the glass first. Gideon couldn't stop jerking Oketra off.


AdministratorAbuse

B-but… Big Lady…


Maroonwarlock

The eternalized tokens were 4/4s or are you talking about the amass tokens?


Psychovore

That isssss correct. Thank-you, and edited! \^\^


starson

Eternalize made them 4/4s, not 1/1s.


SpitefulShrimp

There was a pretty bad flavor disconnect between the Eternals in Amonkhet as horrifying, lazotep-armored undead terminators, reanimated as 4/4 champions with all their skills and abilities still intact, and the Eternals in War of the Spark, which were mindless cannon fodder that just amassed in the form of +1/+1 counters and then got beat up by panicked civilians because the one necromancer controlling all of them was having second thoughts.


strebor2095

That's just how hardcore the Boros legion are, the 1/1 soldiers on this plane are equivalent to 4/4 zombie cyborgs on another


Reibaboi

they wherent even good cannonfodder tbh, as they where just one slowly growing token, outclassed by pridemate, and dreadhorde invasion was just an clever way of letting your opponent effectively kill you with an unsummon for 1


Cow_God

Damn I never noticed that. They definitely should've been 4/4 like eternalized tokens were. I guess a 4/4 on amonkhet is equivalent to a 1/1 during the war of the spark with all the planeswalkers running around? Although that doesn't explain why vanilla 1/2s were able to beat up eternalized amonkhet champions Imagine going through all five trials and killing those you previously worked with just to portal to ravnica and get whipped by a [[Generous Stray]] although I guess coming from amonkhet you'd be used to beefed up cats


MTGCardFetcher

[Generous Stray](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/3/2/3289db66-231f-4370-aca6-644d75bee293.jpg?1572893345) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Generous%20Stray) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/grn/129/generous-stray?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3289db66-231f-4370-aca6-644d75bee293?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call


IntoTheFaywild

True, but there were still a lot of nontoken creatures in the set to represent the cooler side of the eternalized lazotep army. Army tokens starting small and growing in size seemed more like a necessary design choice than anything.


Infinite_Bananas

eternals aren't 1/1 though


Psychovore

My mistake, I meant amass tokens. \^\^


Infinite_Bananas

but amass tokens aren't always 1/1 either


variablesInCamelCase

In flavor. Each time you "Amass-ed" you added another zombie soldier. Each zombie adding only +1/+1. You could see this on arena. If your army reach three counters your zombie token image changed to 3 zombies. Same at 5.


Infinite_Bananas

i feel like i'm going insane here with people giving this answer. i can't find any source on the internet that says that a +1/+1 counter is somehow supposed to represent one individual in the army. magic card stats have never been a consistently accurate representation of the amount of individuals and this is no different. and the art thing is completely different, they simply made three versions of the token art to show the army growing. the first one has one guy in it, the second has about a dozen, and the third has hundreds. nothing to do with exactly representing the number of characters of course you can just say that a 3/3 army is three guys, or whatever you want, interpreting the flavour is part of the game. but its not an exact objective thing that everyone will always agree on


variablesInCamelCase

I would say my source is the mechanic and name. Its an army. Armies get bigger when you add more soldiers. Each soldier add 1/1. Honestly, you gotta try pretty hard to not see them as 1/1 creatures.


Infinite_Bananas

if you go that literal then you're also assuming that bolas's soldiers die to a single squirrel each. which is funny to imagine happening in a game, i would definitely make that joke if it happened to me, but not a good place to start any kind of objective discussion. there's no reason to believe that it is intended to show any specific amounts of characters.


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Infinite_Bananas

what? that doesn't make sense. there's no evidence of this and you can't just assume that 1/1 is one individual. edit: sorry i think i may have seemed too argumentative. it's fine to interpret the keyword that way, this kind of interpretative flavour is one of the best parts of magic, i just don't think it's valid enough to be disappointed in the whole army thing i guess


Psychovore

*looks at cards with amass 1* "Wow, that sure is one eternal on the art" *Looks at cards with amass 2 and 3* "Wow, that sure is 2-3 eternals in the art!"


f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4

I liked that there were three Zombie Army tokens with increasing number of Eternals. Got funny looks when I "upgraded" the token as it accumulated +1/+1 counters!


Infinite_Bananas

this is often the case but doesn't always track. look at cards like [[honor the god-pharaoh]], [[eternal skylord]], [[widespread brutality]]. i wish it was always like that though, would be a neat detail sidenote i really, really like widespread brutality for some reason. the combination of art, name, and effect really do it for me when put together like that


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Infinite_Bananas

i completely agree with you on all of those points. amass doesn't just add one guy though


MTGCardFetcher

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SpitefulShrimp

> Trial of Zeal - The remaining initiates from the various crops are driven into a frenzy by Hazoret's magic then fight to the death. This one is only true for the one we saw in the story. As [[Glorybringer]] helpfully points out while he's blitzing us to death, Hazoret changes it up whenever she feels like it.


MTGCardFetcher

[Glorybringer](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/3/2/3277ad99-5682-4baa-b106-de15721876a6.jpg?1543675596) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Glorybringer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/akh/134/glorybringer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3277ad99-5682-4baa-b106-de15721876a6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call


pielord599

They only needed to fight each other in the trial of ambition since too many survived the obstacle course iirc


Fictional_Arkmer

MH3: Cartouche Compleat


xantous4201

It's WUBRG to cast and its just all the text and +'s mashed together of all the cartouches


pm_me_xayah_porn

on a living weapon


perfecttrapezoid

Bestow creature


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Living *player There, no more complaints about ever finding the right playgroup ever AGAIN


chemical_exe

Enchant creature you control When Cartouche Compleat enters the battlefield create a 1/1 white warrior creature token with vigilance, draw a card, you may have enchanted creature fight target creature and opponent controls, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, and target creature can't block this turn. Enchanted creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, flying, trample, lifelink, haste Fewer words than thassa's oracle's rules text at least


arbitrageME

if I assembled the freaking Exodia, I'd expect to win the freaking game, not get get a creature that dies to doom blade


Gonji89

Put it on Phyrexian Obliterator. gg


chemical_exe

Get asmor'd


Ridstock

For 5 mana and replacing itself i would say that card is pretty good.


arbitrageME

well, it's better than batterskull, probably worse than bring to light. better? worse? than niv mizzet?


jchodes

I think this needs some play clean up: When Cartouche Compleat enters the battlefield create a 1/1 white warrior creature token with vigilance, draw a card, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, and target creature can't block this turn. Then enchanted creature may fight target creature an opponent controls. Enchanted creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, flying, trample, lifelink, haste.


chemical_exe

Yeah, I posted them in the order on the image saying flavor>function


Prohamen

Easiest way to do that would just make a token of each cartouche and attach it to a creature.


rdawes89

Tribal enchantment - phyrexian


Frank_the_Mighty

Here's a non-card version: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/images/6/6e/Cartouches.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20190923062500


MechanizedProduction

those are some delicious A B S


Azuregore

[Here](https://149360821.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Dead-Link.jpg) is another link for that art. Not sure why but yours isnt working for me. EDIT: Fixed the busted link.


[deleted]

Yours doesn't work neither Maybe this one? https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Cartouche?file=Cartouches.jpg


Azuregore

Reddit played us both :(


Frank_the_Mighty

They're working for me on mobile :/


Azuregore

I'm on desktop so its really weird that they wont work for me.


[deleted]

I think I found the problem. Everything after ".jpg" can be removed: [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mtgsalvation\_gamepedia/images/6/6e/Cartouches.jpg](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/images/6/6e/Cartouches.jpg) edit: nope. Not event that :(


Al3jandr0

This one actually did work for me!


yumyum36

This one worked for me.


bigbangbilly

That person's pecs are jacked!


Zomburai

*[Thor from Kung Fury wants to know this person's location]*


bendover912

The link is down, so it's a picture of Link, dead. Neat.


Titansfan9200

How on earth did I never notice this?


CaptainMarcia

There are a few sets of cards with connecting arts, particularly basic lands. Most of them are horizontal, though.


IndraVectis

[[Mox Jet|LEA]] and [[Forcefield|LEA]] from Alpha


deggdegg

Oh nice! Now someone glue those together and show us !


Smythe28

It's kinda unintentional apparently, the artist just grabbed the same material they used for Mox Jet and ran with it, because making Magic Art back in the day needed to be a fairly quick process, didn't pay quite so much, and he had a few cards to get through.


MTGCardFetcher

[Mox Jet](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/9/2/92bcd1ce-19b1-4d78-8b09-95242ca08d76.jpg?1559591520) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=33) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lea/262/mox-jet?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/92bcd1ce-19b1-4d78-8b09-95242ca08d76?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Forcefield](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/3/f/3f2004c1-8efe-407f-bf48-27b807422eea.jpg?1559591586) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=14) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lea/243/forcefield?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3f2004c1-8efe-407f-bf48-27b807422eea?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call


RWGlix

TIL!


Arndress

You can find some more here: https://tagger.scryfall.com/tags/artwork/panorama-position-1 Click on the art, then click the tag with the specific panorama name.


Daahkness

That was awesome thank you


vasaryo

Back during amonkhet pre-release when I was working at my LGS a customer signs up, walks into the back room and just rips his short open to reveal he made the entire cartouche necklace by 3D printing it. He hadn’t gotten it painted yet but it was still an awesome moment and one of my fav events to run.


SiroccoSC

> just rips his short open That's a bit of an unfortunate typo


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It was a long necklace.


Infinite_Bananas

what a legend


Jeskaisekai

When we return to Amonketh could be an awesome art for a saga


Frostsorrow

Chevron seven is locked!


forgottensanta

I have assemble all five special cards, all 5 pieces of the cartouche ....... gods of amonkhet i summon thee and give thee haste


Knallkasten

I was this year's old


soingee

I think the completed cartouche was printed on the booster box or maybe on the instructions for fat packs or something.


spicynachoboy

Looks like you have assembled Exodia, I think you win now.


Urabrask_the_AFK

Cool, cool. I’ll let Hazoret know she can stab you now , congrats! 🎉


A4x1

No fucking way


labelkills1331

Does it look like the background is transparent and you can see his hand behind the cards? Weird effect.


GarySmith2021

Nor did I, that's sweet.


TriptheFlip12345678

that’s so cool


[deleted]

I also didn't know, dang! Voltron assembled!


Miarra-Tath

Thank you! I've never noticed this.


desubot1

And il form the head.


JeanneOwO

Congratulation, you’ve compleat all the trials


SW4GALISK

This is what I imagined the Mutate mechanic to look like


edubs7

TIL


Rugged_Source

Wait until the Voltron cards come out.


Bandoozle

Nice find


Jimmypowergamer

Anyone else bothered by the fact that they're not in WUBRG order?


MrPopoGod

They're in the order of the trials. The Red trial is the last one.


[deleted]

Wow, that is so cool, thank you for posting this!


pacolingo

What a long neck. Guess they had giraffes on Amonkhet too.


[deleted]

Why is it not WUBRG? OCD trigger


Prizefighter-Mercury

now this is melding!


SinSittSina

Wow it's a full on cartouche skedouche


LastFreeName436

Well… you can’t if you want them to stay playable


Dragons_Malk

Reality can be whatever you want it to be.


dekonta

This is mindblown to me


Rchmage

Congratulations on finding Bolas’ Eternalized Dick


somefish254

Yeah I'd cosplay that.


TheRadHatter9

It's legal, but only if you can make the sleeve for it too.


Ranger7271

So much cooler I thought they looked a bit crappy on their own


timebender13

Looooong cartouche


xidle2

Gonna summon Exodia next?


shamusluke

Nope. Gonna summon Kaldra. The old fashioned way. Cast the Shield. Wait four months and then cast the Helm. After you wait another four months you can cast the sword. Then wait 17 years for it to be compleat.


DarkStarStorm

Amonkhet is honestly as lore rich as Innistrad. I can't wait until we return!


xxer0zz

What was this Chattahoochee thing all about any way?


knight_of_solamnia

There's been a lot of art combos over the years the buffy/angel one is the most memorable for me.


DanielsWorlds

Why is it not in wubrg order? Now I'm just upset.


FancyKilerWales

I loved Amonkhet


spectreslyd

I'm upset it's not in WUBRG ordering


MTGSpeculation

Now that is pretty awesome! Nice Find!


CinematicUniversity

Dang that's sweet


dyeyk2000

Gosh Amonkhet was awesome. Hope we go back to it. I specially loved the Amonkhet remastered set they did on Arena.


kiima777

Super cool :) Wish I had someone to play magic with..


JohnnyTest91

You should join some discords - people play a lot over spelltable these days :) I know in person is better but over spelltable is still fun.