Flavour text. That short blurb of text at the bottom of any underfilled textbox that is meant to explain, or amuse, or awe.
Some cards are extremely effective at this.
Some are remarkably less so. When a new set comes out, naturally everyone is going to be looking at its playability first - what new cards combo with old ones, what are the powercards, overall how does it compare? But after we've done the preliminary perusal of powerful pieces, there's still the scraps to pick over, so to speak. Since a new set is coming out so soon, and
Battle for Zendikar already got
a more thorough review, why not give a quick look to the flavour text of
Oath of the Gatewatch?
It turns out we have surprisingly few categories to pick from.
1. The "X, but actually Y" series
2. The "Statement. Subversion of that Statement." series
Seriously, that's three "It also"s and two "Sometimes no"s in one set.
3. The "This reads like a factoid out of a textbook" series
4. The "impenetrable name-dropping" series
Slow down there, Berkley Breathed.
5. The "X is bad, but X+1 is worse" series
See also: Prophet of Distortion, Unnatural Endurance
6. The whatever-the-hell-this-is series
Oh, you!
7. And lastly, the "apparently all those other cards were lying" series!
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