Judging by its illustrations, the manuscript seems to be a compendium of knowledge related to the natural world, including a section about herbs, a section apparently detailing biological processes, various zodiac charts, and pages devoted to the movements of celestial bodies, such as the transit of the moon across the Pleiades. What these glyphs signify-whether they represent phonetic information or numeric values or something else-is anyone’s guess. A series of distinctive letters, called “gallows” for their resemblance to a hangman’s scaffold, are sometimes conjoined with other letters, or have been embellished with elaborate curlicues by a scribe. The writing system is oddly beautiful, full of looping and fluid curves. That’s because the book-called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago-is written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages. But perhaps the oddest thing about this book is that no one has ever read it. (Click on the images to expand.) Tentacled balls of roots take the forms of animals, or of human organs-in one case, sprouting two disembodied heads with vexed expressions. The manuscript’s botanical drawings are no less strange: the plants appear to be chimerical, combining incompatible parts from different species, even different kingdoms. With their distended bellies, stick-like arms and legs, and earnest expressions, the naked figures have a whimsical quality, though their anatomy is frankly rendered-something unusual for the period. These illustrations range from the fanciful (legions of heavy-headed flowers that bear no relation to any earthly variety) to the bizarre (naked and possibly pregnant women, frolicking in what look like amusement-park waterslides from the fifteenth century). Why it Might Fail: Mage secrets are kinda meh.Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color. Unlike secrets you put in your deck you know that it's likely not going to be spellbender or vaporize. The secrets are hard to play around since it could be any of them. Why it Might Succeed: Synergy with minion mage. Seems fine, but not crazy op or anything. It works with the minion mage shit they're pushing this set. In wild that shrinks down to 25% which is hopefully enough to make playing 4 ice blocks not consistent enough. If I can remember how to do simple math that means that there will be a 37.5% chance to get the specific secret you want, which is pretty high honestly. Counterspell, Explosive Runes, Frozen Clone, Ice Barrier, Mana Bind, Mirror Entity, Spellbender, and Vaporize. The issue with mage secrets is that they are typically not worth the mana cost, so getting a 2/2 body for 1 more mana is pretty nice.Īssuming they don't print any more mage secrets this set there are going to be 8 mage secrets in standard. General Thoughts: So a body worth ~1.5 mana to generate a ~3 mana effect for 4 mana.
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