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one-time-i-dreamt · 3 months

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Me and my mom were wizards and we had a wizard duel on top of a train because she stole my goddamn blueberry muffins.

#dream #wizard #magic #mom #mother #family #duel #wizard duel #train #muffin #blueberry muffin #food #theft

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thenightling · 2 years

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“The Oldest Game”

I was surprised to find someone in my Sandman Facebook group actually complaining about “The Oldest Game” in The Sandman Netflix series (episode 4). They seemed disappointed that it wasn’t a “Real” battle but instead it was “like watching them play Dungeons and Dragons.” Meanwhile the majority of us Sandman fans loved the scene. When I first read that scene that was when I knew I was reading something truly different from the usual DC content. I was reading something truly special. To the person complaining about it, I am afraid The Sandman might not be to your taste. There is very little physical combat and scenes like The Oldest Game / “I am Hope” are what hooked a lot of us.

The Oldest Game is based on something TV Tropes (and The Sword in the Stone) calls a “Wizard’s Duel” or a Wizard Duel. The concept turns up a lot in folklore and mythology. It’s where two magical entities (sometimes sorcerers, sometimes Gods, sometimes shapeshifters) have a duel of wits and creativity using their powers and imagination. There’s a similar trope called the Transformation chase and there is an overlap but the transformation chase usually requires there being a chase. You see a sort of single-person transformation chase in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among thieves.

In The Sandman this battle was for Morpheus’s helm. If he won he got his helm back. If Morpheus lost he would have been enslaved by Choronzon The Demon.

Here’s how the game usually works. The challenged usually gets to make the first move. They pick a form or a spell and it is usually non-lethal. You’re supposed to start small and build up to bigger / more imposing things. The battle follows TBL (Turn based Logic) like in a tabletop or online text based role playing game. So the Dungeons and Dragons comparison isn’t actually wrong so much as it’s not quite the right role playing game. (Yes, I AM a nerd. Thank you for noticing.)

After the first move is made the opponent may take the hit and then make an offensive move (attack) in return or instead of taking the hit, they can make a defensive counter move to avoid taking the hit but in doing so the person loses the opportunity to make a offensive move. If you’re clever you can sometimes get away with a single move that does both but that is tricky. So the choice is usually take damage and attack or protect from damage and not attack until the next turn. The game is usually about “one upping” the opponent so you go for something slightly bigger and better than what they used.

In some versions of the game you are allowed to defend yourself and then make an attack move during the same turn so you don’t have to make the choice of defense or attack. In both variations, if you’re clever enough you can come up with a combo of attack and defense in one move but that’s rare.

Usually it’s like this. If your opponent throws a magical dart, you can create a shield or shoot a similar projectile but in some variations you can do both if you can pull it off in a single concept (like creating an armored knight holding a sword and shield). If the rival turned into a rat, you can turn into a cat. Hopefully you get the idea. You can’t go too big too fast or the creativity and strategy the game is known for is lost. It’s a game of wits and creativity after all, not really brute force.

Recently I have seen some people try to argue that during the Lucifer and Morpheus version of the duel that Despair can kill Hope and that Lucifer could have won if she was willing to say she is Despair. No, that may have just caused an unhappy stalemate because pretty much everything that can destroy Hope can also be destroyed by Hope. Hope kills Despair as surely as Despair kills Hope. They are two sides of the same coin after all. It would just be an infinite loop at that point. However there is also the argument that Hope springs eternal while Despair is always only temporary, depending on your perspective.

I have provided three pop culture examples of The Wizard’s Duel. The first is the version in Netflix’s The Sandman between Lucifer and Morpheus.

The second is from Disney’s Sword in the Stone between Mim and Merlin.

The third is from the 1963 film The Raven starring Vincent Price and Boris Karloff. I have a bias in favor of this one since I love this movie. It was written by the late Richard Matheson, directed by Roger Corman, and starred Vincent Price. It came out the same year as Disney’s The Sword in the Stone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOwaeAEIw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxqhjWcS8zQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gBhMdJ23Q

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#The Sandman #Sandman #The Oldest Game #Wizard's Duel #Wizard Duel #Morpheus #Dream of The Endless #Lucifer Morningstar #Neil Gaiman

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 3 months

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Vincent Price and Boris Karloff

The Raven (1963) dir. Roger Corman

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yourlocalbreadenthusiast · 9 months

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@squid-wizard

It's time.

#wizard island island #wizard island island lore #wizard duel

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odd-animated-armor · 8 months

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@terrencetheshark14 shall we begin?

Draws the anchor, stances up

#wizardblr #wizardposting #creatures of wizard posting #wizard island #wizard duel #wizard island duel

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vaguewizard · 9 months

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I call forth.. my CREATURES

A rift opens up, revealing these

Get 'em boys!

#arcane areana #wizard duel #wizardblogging #wizardposting #familiars #reblog to make them stronger

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frogpantsthebloodgod · 7 days

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I challange you to a wizard duel!

wonderful, let us go to where i have set up a battle arena, follow me if you will

#wizard rp #wizard duel #wizard tumblr #wizardblr

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fallow-grove · 8 months

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fallow is quite indisposed at the moment.

but luckily Princess Dippy Fresh is ready to jump in with a classic round of...

rb to make CAT ON ASS stronger - visit @wizardweekly for duel info

#arcane arena #cats #wizard duel #doodles

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yumantimatter · 8 months

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To contain my foes, nothing serves better than a Cosmic Cube! My good friend, the Red Rectangle Nebula, come to my aid!

Just give her a second to awaken...

Now get in the box, please </:^)

#wizard games #arcane arena #wizard duel #consume the stars

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elliottnotyet · 3 months

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I couldn't sleep last night so I made a new card game. It's called Lizard Duel. There are 18 unique Lizard Wizards based on real, nonmagical lizards and most of them are lesbians. I'll have to clean up the art a bit and change the icons before it's done but I'm pretty happy with the first rough draft.

[Image ID: screenshot of 9 different cards. They each have a different anthropomorphized lizard and type of damage except for the top center card which is a health counter that goes up to 15. End ID]

[Image ID: a lizard in a hat holding poison ivy in one hand and a spotted mushroom in the other is kneeling in front of a lizard in a shawl and skirt holding cards. End ID]

#lizards #lizard #wizard #lizard duel #wizard duel #card game #card game design #game design #image id #artist described #art #illustration #illustrator

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feyosha · 8 months

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#crowley #yeats #Wizard duel #hermetic society of the golden dawn #occult shitpost #Magic #wizard posting #feyosha #free range sustainable shitpost

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femmephantasm · 6 months

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wizard duels are just those backyard games where one kid says “well I shoot you with a gun” and the other kid says “no i have a bullet proof vest” retorted by “well i have a special gun that shoots through bulletproof vests” except each of your arguments require thorough citations

#wizard #sorcerer #warlock #mage #fantasy #magic #wizard duel #cool

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 5 months

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