Goatrider ExtraordinaireR&D Card Name: [Chuk-Rok, Akki Marksman]
Mana Cost: o1oR
Spell Type: Legendary Creature —
Creature Type: Goblin Warrior
Power/Tough: 1/1
Rules Text: Whenever an opponent plays a Spirit or Arcane spell, [CARDNAME] deals 2 damage to that player.
Art Desc.:
Color: Red
Location: rocky, dusty mountains outside of goblin cave complex (upper left of styleguide p. 17)
Action: Show a goblin shaman sitting on a small mountain goat, swinging a sling over his head, getting ready to let the bullet fly at an out-of-frame target. The sling bullet is ablaze and throwing off magical sparks.
Focus: the akki goatrider
Mood: kinda funny, but that bullet will really hurt somebody pretty bad.
My submission for [Chuk-Rok] (a brilliant R&D name if there ever was one) followed the same sort of cadence as my submission for Kyoki. This time, though, the idea was to make the list of titles more funny than intimidating. You’ve probably realized by now that Goblins tend to have jokes in their flavor text more often than not, which usually means that Goblins receive more flavor text submissions than any other sort of card. [Chuk-Rok] , for example, received almost thirty flavor text submissions!
For some reason, I thought the funniest thing about [Chuk-Rok] was that he rode a goat. Goats are funny, at least to me, and riding a goat is funnier still. Here are my three contributions to the pile of [Chuk-Rock] submissions:"Astride his faithful goat Yuki, [Chuk-Rok] vowed to make the mountain kami fear his battle cry: AIAAAAIIIIKIKIKIKIIII!!!" -- Observations of the Kami War
"I tell you this, goat dung is the most miraculous substance in Kamigawa. It is fertilizer, kindling, breakfast, and a flaming weapon of terror!"
"Here fell [Chuk-Rok], King of the Flaming Pebbles, Scourge of the Mountain Kami, Lover of Goats. May his shell never burn." -- akki cave inscription
It’s nice for me that both Kyoki, Sanity’s Eclipse and Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot’s flavor text appear in the same set because, side by side, I think they make good counterpoints to one another. Speaking of which... I wonder what the heck Kyoki, Sanity’s Eclipse rides?
引用元
A FLAVORFUL VIEW OF BETRAYERS Posted in Feature on February 14, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/flavorful-view-betrayers-2005-02-14
ゴブリンのフレイバーテキストと言えば、面白いものが恒例になっています。それゆえに、《悪忌の撃ち手、イシイシ/Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot》のフレイバーテキストにはたくさんの応募があったようです。また、ヤギに乗っているイラストが気に入った筆者は、ヤギにちなんだフレイバーテキストをいくつも考案しています。
最終的にできたフレイバーテキストは、《蝕まれた正気、凶鬼/Kyoki, Sanity’s Eclipse》のように、二つ名を並べたものとなっています。鬼とゴブリンでこのような共通点があるのは珍しいでしょう。もっとも、最後に「実は死んでいた」とオチがつくのがゴブリンらしいと言えますが。
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