Plot Coupon That Does Something (affects in-story mechanics).(The joke being that once you gather enough of them, you can send away for an ending.) If the goal of the mission is to obtain an item that turns out to be less valuable than the finding of it, It's the Journey That Counts.Ĭoined by Nick Lowe note the writer, not the musician in a science fiction convention talk, later printed as an article The Well-Tempered Plot Device in the fanzine Ansible and popularized by the Turkey City Lexicon. If the items in and of themselves are useless and only become valuable in hindsight, see It May Help You on Your Quest. Extremely common in video games, where collecting these coupons is known as a Fetch Quest, it is often presented as collecting several pieces of a lost artifact or gaining recognition from several factions.Ī plot coupon might just as easily be one item in a series of MacGuffins, where the things themselves are not important, it is the seeking of them that moves the story along (indeed, the two terms often get used interchangeably). The key, the chest, and the Orb are all plot coupons. The deck will be not publicly searchable until the above errors are fixed.- Rod Hilton, Abridged Scripts for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceĪ thing that a character needs to obtain in order to cash it in later for a Plot resolution.įor example, let's say that our intrepid hero must steal a key, then find the Treasure Chest of Galumphry that the key will open, then remove the Orb of Power from the chest and use it to banish the Big Bad. Deck contains card outside your deck's color identity ():.
Deck contains cards not legal in Commander.This deck is not legal due to the following reasons:
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