Flying Men

Preferred Cards

Flashback: Which do you prefer? Scryb Sprites or Flying Men?

1995 Mark: My favorite deck has both in it.

Flashback Flying Flying Men Scryb Sprites

Creature Play History

In your podcast on creatures you mentioned you played w/u weenie back when people thought it was silly to play creatures. What creatures did you use back then?

It was Green/Blue not White/Blue. I played lots of one drops like Llanowar Elves, Birds of Paradise, Scryb Sprites, Flying Men. I also play Mishra’s Workshops which cost less than 1 (although cost 1 to turn it into a creature).

Azorius (W/U) Bird Birds of Paradise Blue Creatures Drive to Work Elf Flying Flying Men Green Llanowar Mishra Scryb Sprites Simic (G/U) White

Color Flying Limits

There's Suntail Hawk and Lantern Kami. Then Flying Men. Then Scryb Sprites. Think we will ever get a french vanilla 1/1 flyer for B and R? (We came close with Nightshade Stinger and Goblin Balloon Brigade; I think we might get there eventually!)

Black has a chance (and even then not a great chance) but red is supposed to be horrible at flying with the only exception being dragons which are always far bigger than a 1/1.

Balloon Black Dragon Flying Flying Men France French Vanilla Goblin Goblin Balloon Brigade Lantern Kami Nightshade Stinger Red Scryb Sprites Suntail Hawk Vanilla

Alpha Set Anomalies

This has been bothering me for the last 18 years: What's the deal with Scryb Sprites? Timber Wolves was rare because that was how R&D balanced colours getting abilities that weren't native to that colour (In that case, banding), so why would Scryb Sprites be common when green was already well established as hating flyers? (Web, Hurricane, Giant Spider) Furthermore, why was Flying Men printed and then deemed too powerful without a drawback for 15 years and 5 strictly worse variations? Help me!

Alpha was not the bastion of color pie logic.

Alpha Banding Card Printing Color Pie Colors Flying Flying Men Game Design Giant Giant Spider Green Rares Scryb Sprites Spider Timber Wolves Wolf

Flying Men Reprint

will Flying Men ever be reprinted? I like that card and how it dosnt do anything but be a flying man at a reasonable cost

If the card is reprinted it probably won’t be men riding little flying carpets.

Card Printing Flying Flying Men Reprints

Reprint Considerations

Have you ever looked back at old sets and counted how many cards in them you'd actually print today? I looked at Arabian Nights and counted 2 and a half - Juzam Djinn, Flying Men, and Army of Allah (except it would probably be done as "all creatures" not just attacking creatures)

There are more card in Arabian Nights we could print than 2 ½.

Arabian Nights Army Army of Allah Attacking Card Printing Creatures Djinns Flying Flying Men

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