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Disappointed with her poor sales, Asmor ordered the beast’s imps to destroy the remaining copies of the Underworld Cookbook, but they lazily dumped them into a trash chute that led to another realm instead. Now the book is known across many planes… #MTGBookHist
Gray Ogre toes in a sweet black sauce, sautéed beebles, barbecued Throat Wolf ribs with cornbread and baked beans, deep-fried dryad bark pancakes with maple syrup, and frozen sprite delight with chocolate sauce, to name a few #MTGBookHist
Anyway, there are two other illustrations in Folio of Fancies: first, an illuminated serpent, inspired by medieval bestiary manuscripts – books of descriptions of animals – like the Aberdeen Bestiary. #MTGBookHist
Which gets at the fact that the Thran Tome contains much more than Thran knowledge, though this side of it is invisible to most except planeswalker Karn. Drawing three cards but missing out on the benefit of one of them mechanically illustrates this. #MTGBookHist