4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm pulling out the parking lot. |
0:02.5 | We all know what that means. |
0:04.1 | It's time for the drive to work. |
0:06.5 | And I dropped my son off a cape. |
0:08.3 | Okay, so today was a topic requested by my blog. |
0:11.8 | I'm going to talk all about the Farexians. |
0:15.7 | So I consider the Forexians to be like the iconic magic villain. |
0:23.2 | You know, if you're looking like, you know, |
0:29.2 | Batman's iconic villain is the Joker and Superman's is Lex Luther. I believe that magic's iconic villain is the Frexians. There are other villains. I'm not saying it's the only villains, but |
0:33.5 | here's why A, the Frexians have really been part of the magic story from the very beginning. |
0:39.2 | We're talking about that today. |
0:40.5 | All the way to modern day. |
0:42.5 | And in some ways, I think what the Frexians are represent the ideal for what magic is as a storytelling medium. |
0:51.7 | One of the things to remember is we have to tell our game through, we have to tell our, sorry, |
0:57.3 | our story through our game. |
0:59.1 | That's our main thrust of what we are. |
1:02.2 | We are a trading card game. |
1:04.0 | And yeah, we have short stories and we've had novels and it's not that our story is always |
1:07.9 | told through the game, but that's the core of the story. |
1:10.6 | We have to be able to communicate the story through the game. |
1:13.8 | And what that means is one of the things that magic is not particularly good at is it is hard to tell plot. |
1:20.5 | And the reason is we don't control what cards people see, nor do we have any control of the order they see. |
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