04 November 2014

Tuesday Crustie: Twentieth anniversary


It’s been almost 20 years since the Fallen Empires expansion of Magic: The Gathering appeared. It included a race of lobster creatures called homarids. Perhaps because the Fallen Empires set was kind of a dud, this article notes:

The naming team felt that Homarids were unpopular enough to warrant a name-change in Alliances, hence “Viscerid.” Their reasoning? “They evolved.”

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