This first meme is one of the most political Magic: The Gathering memes you are likely to find anywhere. Alyssa Bereznek is a blogger of infamy among magic players. She once went on a date with the beloved former Magic: The Gathering world champion Jon Finkel. After finding out that Jon was so serious about the game she broke it off and wrote
this article in which she humiliates Jon and kind of talks about the entire game derogatorily. Also, this first meme is formatted exactly like a real MTG card.
This second meme utilizes the famous Xzibit "Blank while you blank" meme. For this meme to be funny, you would have to understand the basic mechanics of the game. Basically, while playing, if you want to use the abilities of most cards under your control you have to "tap" them, which basically entails turning them sideways and making them unusable for the rest of the turn.
These two pieces of fan art depict the same Magic: The Gathering Character, Jace Beleren.They are both highly stylized but in very different ways. The Jace on the right depicts him almost exactly how he appears
on his first card, while the second one is an almost adorable version.
That Xzibit meme is hilarious, especially considering that you would almost never take Magic cards on a date. The Jace art is pretty badass (the second one, of course). I didn't know about that Bereznak situation.
ReplyDeleteI actually have taken magic cards on a first date because she wanted to learn how to play haha. Ycmat.
ReplyDeleteI suppose if a girl didn't mind that a guy brought his magic cards on a first date, she would be one type of girl that the guy would want to date... that's a funny meme. I like the word play of tap that. I only know about the taps because I played the game once for about 5 minutes, so I get this meme, but if someone didn't know what taps were, it might not make sense. It may not make sense to some kids either if they don't know what the other tap is referring to.
ReplyDeleteI like the different versions of fan art that you have of Jace, pretty cool looking. I have seen untold amounts of memes about MTG. It's something that definitely has to be played in order to understand why these are so funny. I think you could almost consider a lot of the Unhinged or Unglued cards to be memes especially the ones with actual people on them.
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