The Tenth Day of Fishmas

Lauby:  This actually would have been a nice land if we tweaked it a bit.  Either add a second mana option or ditch the sacrificial aspect of it I’m thinking  Yes, it’s a totally boring reference to the challenges of fishing in man-made lakes, but in an alternative universe, a card series like this is the kind of thing that could skew an entire metagame.  I declare the alternative universe us’s to be geniuses.

Uglyraincoat: It is for those reasons that this card is more than just a green fishmas knockoff of Alliance’s Kjeldoran Outpost.  
dethtron:  perhaps giving all fish protection from everything could have been a more interesting mechanic for this one.

Uglyraincoat: This could easily have been changed into sunburn counters.

Lauby:  Bah!  You guys and your counters.  Do you even remember how hard it was to keep all the counters we did have on the cards on the windswept promontory we were set up camp?  
dethtron:  then you clearly need heavier counters....and more of them, because Fishmas the Gathering II is going to require enough of them to collapse one of the cots all of our games were played on.

dethtron:  Hey look, more counters.

Uglyraincoat: See Billy Rubin, Master Fisherman and Hank, Fisher of the Damned (edited copy).  That it makes Craw Wurm clones is the genius that holds this otherwise convoluted game mechanic together.  
Lauby: Why does it say “looks like a craw worm”?  That’s just weird.  

dethtron:  So much to say about this card, it probably should have gotten its own post.  I miss tequila Jeff very much.

Uglyraincoat: He is in a better place now.  Mexico.  
Lauby:  Now that I think about it, I think Jeff managed to contain his other, tequila-fueled self once and for all shortly after the debut of this set..  He could teach Bruce Banner a thing or to. Which is not to say that he has nothing to offer the common, non gamma irradiated man. Tequila Jeff once vomited so hard that he lost his watch.

Uglyraincoat: We just simply did not have enough creature kill otherwise.

Lauby:  yeah, this really ties into the fact that we built our cards as replacements to the rares and chase uncommons in the blocks that were current in the time. Since the three of us were the only people with actual collections, there was no way in hell our good stuff was going to make it into the hands of drunks near a fire.  So we needed to add some things back into the mix that we knew wouldn’t be there.
dethtron:  I think this card is really about the futility of war or something.

Uglyraincoat: Because OG Sunshine needed it, and we needed OG Sunshine.
dethtron:  if only there were such a thing as a Rhianna when this card was made.
Lauby:  ugh.  Oh man.  That was bad, man.  real bad.  I feel like there’s a Chris Brown joke to be made here, but I don’t want Chris Brown to punch you. I want to punch you.