Quotes That Predate Legendary Creatures

Did you know that these legendary creatures existed on flavor text BEFORE they had cards?

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[zotmaster]

Not including Granite Gargoyle name-dropping was a huge miss!

[MakeVarahHappen]

Toggo also is mentioned on shock, saying lightning is his best invention since rock, then you look at his rocks that deal the same damage as a shock but have to be equipped.

[doktarr]

All pretty strong commanders, too. I got to play exactly one game with my Mairsil deck before my play group was done with her.

[StrangeGamer]

One day Commander sets will run out of old character quotes to reference and we will start seeing cards for Samuel Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe

[stephenvance]

is also mentioned in flavor text before getting a card printing.

[alfascorpi]

Fellwar stone is from 1994, Mairsil from C17. That 23 years later!

[carlwilliams]

The flavor text to OG No Mercy is a quote from Kerrick, who eventually became K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

[masticore]

There is also the card lightning axe from the original time spiral expansion, it features both and the underworld cookbook

[danzansandeev]

I feel like Innistrad is alongside ravnica is the most in depth plane we ever got in mtg. What’s funny is that we got in zendikar more often yet I for one still don’t get similar feeling as I get in Innistrad and ravnica, feeling of lived in world

[beestheknees]

Norin the wary had flavor text in alpha, we didn’t see his card until time spiral

[AffinityU]

Kenessos Priest of Thassa was mentioned on a card from OG Theros called Thassas Bounty too!!!!

[OmnivoreMacrophage]

These things are easy enough if you read the stories. Geralf often refers to Ludevic, whom he looked heavily up to, and is now an apprentice of.

[epicjettt]

Don’t forget she was referenced in the card Granite gargoyle

[TheMightyBattleSquid]

Toggo actually shows up on like 4 different flavor texts too. I was shocked to find them just the other week.

[SwagnerCountsThings]

"I love lighting, it's my best invention since the rock"
-Toggo, on Shock from Onslaught just a few months before Goblin Clearcutter

[joshuakoepnick]

showed up on granite gargoyle with a flavor text for the underworld cookbook as well.

[platypus]

If I'm not mistaken Brudiclad was referenced/quoted too before his printing

[kaihilbourne]

Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer is mentioned on Sarcomite Myr

[nuclearcatpotatoe]

Togo's mention to burning rocks and him creating rocks that "burn" is great

[elliotsikorski]

It's like Jared carthalion, Tavesh tzat, and giadrone dihada (hope I spelled those right) being planeswalkers in mtg battlemage for ps1 and finally getting cards a couple years ago