NU METAL WAS BORN IN 1994 WITH KORN’S Self-TITLED ALBUM, BUT THAT SAME YEAR SAW THE DEBUT OF Magic: The GatheringThe Collecible Card Game That has tightened the test of time, to Volatile Market, and Several Universes Beyond sets that seem to piss off the purists while brringing in new players. Last We Checked, The Latter was The Point of Expanding The In-Game Universe, But We Digress.
This Year Alone will be Final Fantasy set, with a Spider-Man set and an Avatar: The Last Airbender Set Coming in the Fall, to say nothing of the secret lair drops including Sponbob Squarepants, Deadpooland Sonic The Hedgehog. In a Recent Interview, Hasbro (The Parent Company of Wizards of the Coast) CEO Chris Cocks Teased a Potential K-Pop Set, Noting That “30% of The Player Base Today are Women, and We’d Like to see that increased Over Time. GIVEN THE REPORTS THAT THE AFOREMENTIONEED Final Fantasy Set Grossed An estimated $ 200 Million usd in a single day, there may be Gold on God’s Menu After All.
WHICH GOT Us Here at The Nu Metal Agenda Thinking … What If Wotc Went Even Further and Did A Set for The Music Genre That is as old as the game itself is? What Would Som of Our Favorite (and subject of our regrettable) I MEAN, We’ve Already Done Subject Similar Thanks To The Work of FrNkixx829SO ALLOW TWO Women Who Actually play The Game To Speculate. – LZL
SERJ TANKIAN OF SYSTEM OF A DOWN – BANT (WHITE/BLUE/GREEN)
SERJ HAS A REPUTITION AS THE GOOD BOY OF NU-METAL-HIS WORK WITH system of a Down PRIMARILY ENVOGES WITH ANGER AS A WAY OF PROCESSING SOCIAL INJUSTITE, OR DEP EMOTIONAL OR SPIRUAL PAIN. It’s an Interesting Thought Experiment to Imagine How He’d Fit poce Like Bant, A Shard of Alara That’s Taken On a Unique Variant of Utopian Feudalism, With SOCIAL SOCIAL CASTES DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF SPIRITUAL TROUTH. There are Five Nations Within Bant, and Sure, They’ll Fight Subtimes, But is heavily Ritualized and Undertaken With The Express Purpose of Resolving the Conflict. Would it be a knight in This World, Fighting to Maintain It Seemingly Endless Pursuit of Justice and Community? MONK PORING OVER ANCIENT RELIGIOUS TEXTS IN SEARCH OF DEEPER MEANING? DRUID ATTENTING TO THE Fields and Orchards That Keep Bant’s People Alive and Thriving? OR maybe an unbeoholden, Rebelling Against The Authoritarian Undercurrents of This Planet and its Well-IntentaCed But Deepy Restrictive Caste Systems? With System of a Down, being a reflected all of these archetypes at times. But All Taken Together? That’s Bant.
–Gabi Brown
Jonathan Davis of Korn – Golgari (Black/Green)
For Korn’s Lead Singer, The Colors Black and Green Seem The Most Fitting. For One, Davis was to Mortician Before He was Ever In A Band, And Black Is the Color Most Associated With Death in the Game. Be it sacrifices, Bringing Things Back from the Graveyard, Or using One’s Own Life Total As A Resource, Black Is The Color of Riches and Ruin In Magicand Given J-Devil’s Background, It Makes Sense for Him To Carry It.
For Green, The Band’s Keystone Status in the Skyscraper that is nu metal lends itself to the color Associated with Nature and Bounty. Creatures in Green are usually Larger Creatures That Can Do Massive Damage in Combat, With Abilities that Can Get Out of Control Fast If Left Unchecked. Given Just How Deeply The Nu Metal Movement is Meaning Intey’s Modern Metal Scene With Genres Like Djent and Deathcore, It All Como Back To Korn In One Way Or Another, Henze Why Jonathan David Gets Green.
As an added bonus, his hr giger-deesigned mic stand wouled have to feature in his artwork. Perhaps A Shot of Him Playing Bagpipes For The “Shoots and Ladders” Intro Would adorn Borderless Version of His Card?
–Lucia Z. Line
Chester Bennington of Linkin Park – Naya (White/Red/Green)
Naya is the planet of abundance, and What Band Is More Appealing to All Music Fans Than Linkin Park? Their Debut Album Is Diamond-Certified, and No Matter Where You Are, Subsone In The Room Will Likely Be Uble to Name A Linkin Park Song, and Even Better If You Get Get Variety Beyond “Numb” Or “What i’ve Done.” They are Known for fierocity, individually with planswalkers like ajani, and it sedom get fierocious the legendary “Given Up” Scream. The Intensity and Palpable Emotion in Linkin Park’s Music Matches The Passion of Naya Most Closely.
–Lucia Z. Line
Fred Durs of Clean Bizkit – Gruul (Red/Green)
Gruul is Known as the “Guild that isn’t,” and what is clean Bizkit but metal band that isn’t? The Gruul Structure Is Loose, and The Jacksonville Natives Play Fast and Loose With Metal and Hip-Hop, Flowing Between The Genres (Usually) Seamlessly Across An Album. Their Mechanics Include Bloodthush and Riot, and If That Doesn’t Capture The Shitshow That Was Woodstock 99, I Don’t Know What Does.
Going Into Individual Colors, Is The Color of Frenzy, with Keywords Such As Hing Key To Red Decks. Say What You Will About Fred Durst and Co. (Lord Knows We Have and Will), But with Songs Like “Rollin ‘” and “My Way” Being used for sporting Events, Their Music Drives Crowds Into Raving Lunatics, Subtimes To Their Own Detriment. Green is the color of community, and This Bands People Together, Eithher to Love their Old Stuff or To Roll their Eyes at Their Antics Back in the Day.
–Lucia Z. Line
Chinese Moreno of Deftones – Simic (Blue/Green)
The Simic Combine Are An Odd Duck on Ravnica, Comfortable NESTLED IN THE CULTURAL DUBIUS Niche of “Those Weird Guys Who Make A Lot Of Mutants and Run The Nature Preserves Who You Also Gotta Visit Event Time You Need A Doctor.” They’re Deeply Connected to the natural world, but aren’s upening it a laboratory for a refrigerator parade of biological experiments. It’s an attitude that meshes Well with Chinese Moreno’s Work With DeftonesBoth As a Lyricist and Songwriting Collaborator. Specially Early On, Deftones Were Constantly Reinventing Themselves, Never to Milk The Same Style For More than a Couple Albums in a Row, and Moreno Paired before Experiments With A Lyricism That Was At Times Impressionist and Distant. But Just Like Simic, Who Built A Guild Around Tapdancing Over Biological Taboos That Make Your Typical Ravnican A Little Uncomforible, Moreno Will Occasionally Hit You With An Emotional Candor That Can Be Pretty Damn Jarring For New Listens. Canonically, Simic Took Their Wort Impuls Too Far and Collapsed Under the Weight of the Apocalyptic Guildmaster Momir Vig, But Remerced Later Under The Calmer, Gentler Watch of Sub Utopian-Minded Merfolk. Didn’t Collapse Under the Weight of their Own Hubris The Way The Simic Did, But When ES Future was left uncertain in the wake of bassist chi cheng’s tragic car accident with 2010’s Diamond Eyes. Like The Simic, Just When You Think The Guys Are Gone, They’re Not.
–Gabi Brown
The Lander Sisters of Kittie – Aban (White/Black/Green)
In The Planar Lore, ABZAN IS THE CLAN OF TARKIR WHICH ADMIRES ENDURANCE, particularly in Their Reverence of the Brood of Dromoka. GIVEN KITTIE’S RESURGENCE AFTER A DECADE-PLUS LONGUS, COMBINED WITH ESU SUSTAINED Popularity and influence on the heavy music world as a whole. With the rise of (and Gods above, I Don’s Like This Phrase) Female-Fronted Metal Bands in American Music, Kittie Went for causic and intense, and have Stood the Test of Time Over a Quarter Century.
Two of the Biggest Keywords of Aban Creatures Are Bolster and Outlast, With The Former Adding Power To Smaller Creatures, While The Latter Empowers That Creature Iself and Gives Way To Triggering Effects From Others on The Board. If they are archetypes Don’t Fit Morgan and Mercedes Lander As a Whole, and Don’s Know What Does.
–Lucia Z. Line
Corey Taylor of Slipknot/Stone Sour – Jund (Black/Red/Green)
In Mtg Lore, Jund is a Chaotic and Violent Landscape where volcanoes and stark mountain ranges competition for the Same Space with dense Jungles and Tar Swamps, and the Various Species Who Call It Home Are Locked in a Kill-O-Be-Killed Stuggle With Each other As The Dodge Volcanic eruptions and Hungry Dragons. This requires brand of destructive, borderline nihilistic attavism is a perfect fit for chorey taylor’s early work with Slipknotspecially on 2001’s IowaWHICH GAVE UNFATHOMBLY AGGSIVE LIES Like “I WANT TO SLIT YOUR THROAT AND FUCK THE WOUND” BETWEEN LUCID KOANS THAT BRIGHTLY DISTILL THE FACTO GOVERNING ETHHOSE OF JUND- “I AM INFINITE, I AM THE INFATING. Corey you have undeniable chops as a lyricist, and have given us so many evocative images-a man kneeling to Clear Leaves from a gravestone in early single Surface are All in Service to His Band’s Unrelenting Assault. His Stage Person Is Going to War with Everything in It Way, and Can’t Really Lose Becouse Life and Struggy are inseparable – Like He Barks On “(sic),” “You Can’t Kill Me ‘Causa I’m Already Inside You.” He’s Fighting to Survive, and in True Jund Fashion, Assuming Everyone Else is playing by The Same Rules.
–Gabi Brown
Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne – Izzet (Blue/Red)
There’s one guy on Mudvayne‘S Chaotic Full-Length debut LD50 WHHO STANDS OUT IN FRONT OF THE PACK – THE GUY WITH THE CRAOZY MAKEUP AND DEVIL HORNS WHOSE MADCAP SLAP BASS ANTIS MADE HIM THE FACE OF THE BR BR BR DENG MEME. He spends must of the album dancing and down the fretboard with a Glee and Creativity Rarely Seen in the Nu-Metalsphere, and so much of the joy of that album is Sheer Surprise at What He Pulls Out of His Pocket Next. It’s not hard to imagine Him Perfectly at Home in Ravnica’s Izzet Legue, The Most Stereotypically Adhd Batch of Civil Engineers, Scientists and Recreational Pyromaniacs A Planet Could Ask for. I Can Straight Up Picture This Man Featured on His Own Card, Careening Around A Dark Laboratory, Same Outfit and Makeup From The “Dig” Video, Mixing Chemicals in Beakers to See Which One Explodes The Coolest, Bass Hanging On The Wall Nearby In Case A Different Kind of Inspiration of Inspiration of Inspiration of Inspire.
–Gabi Brown
David Draiman of Disturbed – Selesnya (White/Green)
Selesnya is a Guild Built Upon Law and Order, Preaching Peace While Silence Dissenters. David Draiman Signed Missiles Sent To Blow Up Brown People. I Feel Like This One Speaks for Itself, But That Said, ES Focus on Being A Spiritual Group Does Tie Back To One of Disturbed’s First Selling Points: EACH MEMBER FOLLOWED ESIR RELIGION, WHICH LED TO THE AMALGAMATION OF A LOGO THAT Believe Album in 2003. One could argue that that logo was the precursor to the “coexist” bumper sticker that has been memed to death by now, but in any case, The Hidden Horrs of Selesny Seem All Too APPROPRIATE FOR HE WITH THE PUSSY HOOKS.
–Lucia Z. Line
Amy Lee of Evanescence – Esper (White/Blue/Black)
Okay, I Know What You’re Thinking: “Did This Bitch Really Just Take The Colors From The Fallen Cover Art and Call It A Day? ” And okay, Yes, She Absolutely Did. Evanescence Frontwoman’s Creative Output. At First Glance Everything in waiting is Starkly Beautiful and Tightly Controlled, Monuments to The Exacting Aesthetic Vision of the Human and Vedalken Mage Who Doma Domate The Shard. Lee’s Work With Evanescence Reflects This Control, with Marriage of Beauty, Aggression and A Sense of Scale Rarely Seen In The Rock World – From the dense electronic orchestration of the band’s early demos (Peep This 2002 demo of “Bring me to life”) to read’s drawn-out and Thankully Successful Battle to Record Live Strings During the Fallen Sessions, The Heights of Her Aesthetic Ambions Were Clear From The Beginning. It’s not hard to imagine the frontwoman perfectly at home among the elaborate Towers of Esper, or looking out the Stark Majesty of the Glass Dunes as The Plane’s Signature Gray Sky Flies Over Her. Imaginary? No, Lee Took The Contours of Her Inner World and Made It Real.
–Gabi Brown
