[CON] Voracious Dragon

[Skander]

A Little Birdy told me that this is a certain card from Conflux. Enjoy!





Remember, the Internet is your friend.

Part 1.
Unscramble
βΠολύςιο
(Inspired Montesquieu, also an urban legend)


51 34 42 11 13 24 24 45 43 14 42 11 22 34 33


Part 2

Proceed directly from L to R.
Y - H + Be / C - Be
green ideas sleep furiously


GNU S - iomggrramnp gneluaag
GNU S - iomggrramnp gneluaag


Part 3.
A band, an album, an album, a song, a song, a pseudonym and a(n) __________ slang term. (__________ does not represent actual word length.)


tycanio hmattnd eyluhei otcresa nhrecec lieihzc

Part 4.


Olivia d'Abo, Rita Tushingham,

EDIT: Part 4b (forgot a clue )

eoehrtorpth vertical line with a seriph on top



Part 5.

Tilde bargains Enemy Territory (no splash) equal to Two Way Interactive Connections in Education the abstract object used in counting and measuring of 18 on wiki list consumed to Wal-Mart and The Home Depot competitor homophone of a HP character or VLC media.

Part 6.

20 yd - 0.001829 km / 324 in. + 1.829 m

/

3 t/s - 86 400 t/day x 259 200 t/day - 120 000 kg/min



EDIT: Puzzle solved and confirmed.

Spoiler:

Voracious Dragon
Creature-Dragon
Flying
Devour 1
Voracious Dragon deals damage equal to twice the number of goblins devoured this way to target creature or player.
4/4

Note: Wording may vary slightly.

[Sniffnoy]

A mana cost of ?! OK, now I have to go figure out the rest of this...

Oh, crap. It seems everyone's making calculation errors... it's actually , and later posts point out that that's not the whole mana cost.

...and later posts show that it's actually .

[Knowledge]

Originally Posted by Sniffnoy

A mana cost of ?! OK, now I have to go figure out the rest of this...

How do you get a mana cost of ?

[aldan]

that would be instantly BILBIC right there, sif 19 mana... unless this is a Draco-like card?!

[saintskeith]

whats w/ part 4a?

are we supposed to figure out what they have in common?

british film stars... so?

[pitbull7894]

Originally Posted by aldan

that would be instantly BILBIC right there, sif 19 mana...

Glad your not a detective. You have no idea what the rest says. It could be amazing and you are jumping to conlusions based on the mana cost alone.

[royk]

Originally Posted by Skander

A Little Birdy told me that this is a certain card from Conflux. Enjoy!





Remember, the Internet is your friend.

Part 1.
Unscramble
βΠολύςιο
(Inspired Montesquieu, also an urban legend)


51 34 42 11 13 24 24 45 43 14 42 11 22 34 33

So, knew the scrambled bit was Greek, but I still tried to search for it directly in Google until I realized it was scrambled.

Since there are only 24 Greek letters as opposed to English's 26, I am going to assume that the English equivalent of each letter is that which produces the beginning consonant sound.

β = B(eta)... lowercase
Π = P(i)... uppercase
ο = O(micron)... lowercase
λ = L(ambda)... lowercase
ύ = U(psilon)... lowercase
ς = S(igma)... lowercase and final form (what does that indicate???)
ι = I(ota)... lowercase
ο = O(micron)... lowercase

So... what we have is bPolusio, assuming certain letters were capitalized on purpose.

BRB to cross-reference the spoiled [CON] list for matches.

Edit1: So I think I messed up somewhere... >.< Let me think...

Edit2/3: Changes thanks to Sniffnoy who got that it was Polybius and his square.

51 = v
34 = o
42 = r
11 = a
13 = c
24 = i
24 = o
45 = u
43 = s
14 = d
42 = r
11 = a
22 = g
34 = o
33 = n

Though this was only discovered after we'd already figured out that the card was a dragon and thus "Devouring Dragon." =P

[Shizazination]

Proceed directly from L to R.
Y - H + Be / C - Be

Y=23
H=1
Be=4
C=6

(Atomic Numbers on the Periodic Table of Elements)

Only problem is if you proceed L to R, you get a decimal.

26 / 6 - 4 ??

[aldan]

yeah you're right pitbull. itll be cleared up soon enough... though i myself dunno how to solve this

[drakelordphil]

Part 6:
For the first one I get something like 4,05 bla bla so I guess its a 4/? creature but what is the second part?
I have no clue how to convert that tons per second, kilogram per minute etc

[saintskeith]

Originally Posted by Shizazination

Proceed directly from L to R.
Y - H + Be / C - Be

Y=23
H=1
Be=4
C=6

(Atomic Numbers on the Periodic Table of Elements)

Only problem is if you proceed L to R, you get a decimal.

26 / 6 - 4 ??

6-4=2

26/2=13

[Iammars]

P/T is 4/4

20 - 2 / 9 + 2 = 4 (Left to Right, not OoO)
3 - 1 * 3 - 2 = 4

[Sniffnoy]

Originally Posted by Knowledge

How do you get a mana cost of ?

By being wrong, apparently... I've left my original explanation intact, but, well, you get 3 colorless, not 19 colorless, and that's probably not the whole casting cost. Apparently it's actually .

Part 2. The symbols are clearly chemical elements; if we ignore the usual order of operations and just calculate left to right as he says, we get the number 19. (If we do try to do the ordinary order of operations, we end up with 38 instead, which is A. even more ridiculous and B. ignoring the instructions.)

(Guys, Y is 39; V is 23.)

Then we have "green ideas sleep furiously", clearly a reference to Noam Chomsky's famous sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously". So the missing word is "colorless". 19 colorless.

Now for the P/T... unfortunately the calculations given aren't really meaningful, because pure numbers are being mixed with dimensioned quantities, but if we assume that for the first one all distances should be thought of as numbers of feet, we get a power of 8. If we do yards, we get 4. This is once again computing left-to-right, as if we do the ordinary order of operations, we'll get a fraction.

For the toughness, assuming it's tons/day, well, whether you do it left-to-right or ordinary order, either way you get a fraction... but rounding, we get 4 if it's left-to-right, and 1 if you do ordinary order.

So its power is probably 8 or 4, and its toughness is probably 4 or 1, more likely 4 for consistency. Which seems decidedly underwhelming for something costing , but there's still the rest of the card...

[astrospoon]

Flying
Starring: Olivia d'Abo, Rita Tushingham

[Neyda]

Originally Posted by drakelordphil

Part 6:
For the first one I get something like 4,05 bla bla so I guess its a 4/? creature but what is the second part?
I have no clue how to convert that tons per second, kilogram per minute etc

It's 3 - 1 x 3 - 2. Doing from left to right (so NOT the usual order of precedence), we get 4.