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An analysis of a Magic the Gathering draft deck's flavor - Zombies on Innistrad

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In this series, I look at draft decks that I or fans from my channel have built. To start this off I will do one from a draft I recently did. It was an interesting Midnight Hunt draft, where I drafted a Blue Back zombie-focused deck. I shall take you through some notable picks and what I think of the lore as Slow Unpacking is a lore-focused channel.  The first pick - Defenestrate the pick My first pick was this beautiful common that lets you kill a creature without flying at instant speed for three mana. Yes there was a rare in this pack but I do not like Rite of harmony and I knew that others would pick it and be in 2 colors, I prefer to stay in one color at the beginning of my draft.  The lore Now this card sets a grim moment. We see a man flying out of a window in Darek Zabrocki’s art. This is logical because defenestration is the act of throwing someone out of a window. Yes, there is a word for that. Flying creatures will not be destroyed, because they survive a fall from ...
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Why werewolves suck in magic the gathering lore

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  Werewolves | Why they SUCK  Oversized bears that only work half of the time. They are just big bears that do nothing else than being big. They do everything nature already does and do it worse. They also do not seem to have any goals of their own and need a pack to survive. Here’s a stupid question what’s a werewolf ?  Werewolfness, also called lycanthropy is the elitist way of being a furry. The only thing they do is turn into a big wolf at night, that’s it. It often even hurts them to transform and most werewolves I have seen don’t even want to be a wolf. They do everything our dog’s predecessors can, smell each other, chase their tail and run really fast. Some regenerate quicker and they often become very angry at everything. In movies they often fight vampires and it always seems like the wolves are way weaker. Vampires are the cat people of teen drama after all. Even the teenagers think vampires are stronger than werewolves, that must says something. No the real ki...
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