Took several tries to actually get through. You're challenging their bandwidth.

Cheers,
Tom

I'm also thinking of regular Magic cards I have that could be used to make a Mormon theme deck. Naturals are the Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale and the Farelite Priest (who gets your white's whiter).

There should also be an instant card called "Convenient Revelation" that would allow you to change color, land or creature descriptors, sort of a combo of slight of mind and magical hack. Likely something like three blue mana and you get to change one of each, or even remove them.

No, that's not "White and delightful!" it's "Pure and delightful!"

My favourite is the one about the Holy Undergarments shielding you from Logic and Reason.

Avram: I like yours too. :)

Also, they replaced 'sheep' with 'water' - I'm not sure if this changes what things cost to build. The 'knights' are 'stripling warriors,' and all the victory point cards are odd (i.e. not buildings, mostly).

They claim that soon you'll be able to read the rules on their website as a PDF.

---L.

Elizabeth, what hit me hardest were the F.A.R.M.S. art and the tapir. This is seriously inside baseball, and I love it.

I'm surprised that none of them used the Deseret Alphabet, the Liahona, senines/senums/shiblons, or the Planet Kolob. And don't they need a United Order card that forces all the players to redistribute their cards evenly?

Kevin, I'd spec the Convenient Revelation card as allowing you to change one word. That'll encourage ingenuity.

Eloise, I theorize that the victory points are odd because they're tied to the values of Nephite currency.

Ugh. The FARMS rationalisations about language make my head hurt. I guess Occam's razor only applies when it's useful to their cause. This also doesn't explain words like "rameuptom" where clearly a word and a concept we didn't have in the Old World exist in terms of BoM.

(Ditto for "Curelom".)

You're right. One word:

Convenient Revelation
Instant
Blue/White

Change one word of text in any card.

"That's not 'White and delightful!' it's 'Pure and delightful!'"

Tapir-Back Riders
Tune: "Paperback Writer"

Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Joe
And the main idea is the Lamanites were
Tapir-back riders
Tapir-back riders

See, the Nephites came to the promised land
And those damn exmos just don't understand
That when they said "horse" they meant something else
But it all makes sense if you know that they were
Tapir-back riders
Tapir-back riders

I know the whole thing doesn't hold up well
If you take it literally, but what the hell
There’s this group of guys that work at FARMS
And they can save the whole thing by postulating
Tapir-back riders
Tapir-back riders ...

I decided to see if I could find any pictures of a "riding tapir." This is what I found:

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/u/r/ursula/tribaltapir.jpg.html

I guess when JS meant something else by "horse" he also meant something else by "riding."

Another Convenient Revelation....

Riding a tapir (in either sense of "riding") would seem to have very little to do with convenience. Does this game have formal
disadvantages, like Champions or GURPS? So you could draw "Inconvenient Revelation?"

Riding a tapir (in either sense of "riding") would seem to have very little to do with convenience. Does this game have formal
disadvantages, like Champions or GURPS? So you could draw "Inconvenient Revelation?"

Yiminy...