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Viscid Lemures

Multiverse ID: 111082

Viscid Lemures

Comments (16)

Mode
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (10 votes)
made in remembrance of Ice Age's Hyalopterous Lemure :)
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (7 votes)
I love this flavor text! Norin the Wary is awesome...
TDL
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (7 votes)
If only they had gotten Richard Thomas to do the art for this.
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Time Spiral was how many cards over a regular set's size and they used up an additional slot to print this guy? Was the original way more popular than I realize? I love Time Spiral, but if viewed from an objective distance...
Oh and cut Richard Thomas some slack he thought the art de***ion actually called for winged lemurs.
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (7 votes)
They printed this card to reference the gaffe on Hyalopterous Lemure's art. The original card wasn't popular, but it was notable that the artist mistook what was supposed to be an evil spirit for a flying monkey.
Imperialstonedragon
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
should look like lemurs
zenuedite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
But wait! You could activate that ability more than once a turn! What a combo card!
mimeoplasmlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
LOVE the flavor text. Stupid Norwin.
marmaris74
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0) (11 votes)
"Lemurs? Is that all? Finally, something harmless . . ."
--Richard Thomas
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (5 votes)
Even if there were just lemurs, though, Norin would still head for the hills if they showed up. They don't call him Norin the Wary for his clever brownie recipe....
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (8 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.

This card references Hyalopterous Lemure in ability and flavor text. Famously, artist Richard Thomas misread lemure (a French word for ghost) with lemur, the primitive, bushy-tailed monkey. This same mistake is being made by our favorite coward, Norin the Wary, in the flavor text.
Knifethrower
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not bad
sweetgab
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Is there a way to make use of the fact that this can be a -1000000/3 creature?
plopfill
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Replying to sweetgab's question: Yes. Ichor Explosion, sacrificing it, gives any amount of power and toughness increase (the negative of a negative number is a positive number).
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's a little bit sad that you can't spam this to -999999/3 and then Fling it at yourself to gain 999999 life.
Smokey790
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@sweetgab Magical Hacker