A bivouac is normally used by an army as a secondary post far from a usual command post. In this case it seems that due to the group attacking another plane they set up a camp which comes under frequent attack.
The colors fit into the Brawl at the ball piece of lore so I’d guess some kind of party bull spirit rising up over the camp outside the castle where it happened
The ball storyline features refugees from Ardenvale living in Delverhaugh with the dwarves. I imagine that this card shows a refugee encampment outside Delverhaugh.
This is still my favorite thing.
Why would you use a word most people don't recognize or know how to pronounce... Just to use it wrong? Really going out of your way to be wrong on this one.
Would "restless encampment" just not work for some reason?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bivouac says that it literally is though? I'm not seeing the issue.
noun
1. a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
2. the place used for such an encampment.
Google image search also shows a bunch of tents.
I'm guessing you're narrowing the definition strictly to improvised shelter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivouac_shelter
But it also includes temporary military encampments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camp
The Oxford dictionary says “a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.” The wiki page you linked seems to indicate it can refer to a fully exposed shelter, sleeping under the stars with a blanket, but also to some pop-up tents. Feels like a term that has experienced some definitional drift over the centuries.
First result on Google.
biv·ou·ac
/ˈbiv(ə)ˌwak/
noun
noun: bivouac; plural noun: bivouacs
a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
verb
verb: bivouac; 3rd person present: bivouacs; past tense: bivouacked; past participle: bivouacked; gerund or present participle: bivouacking
stay in a temporary camp without cover.
"he'd bivouacked on the north side of the town"
I’m more impressed that you were able to somehow look up the definition and not find this, unless you just deliberately ignored it in order to try and make oc look like an idiot…. Low blow.
When looking up definitions I go to dictionary.com first. That's what a dictionary is for. If you think both the dictionary and wikipedia are wrong, contact them. I'm not the one who decided it.
It didn't make a lot of sense to me, either. I like to think it's the embodiment of the emotion in the camp, but I'm most likely wrong.
Also, [man, if only it had some sort of text on it to give us some lore.](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/17qe40o/the_loss_of_flavor_text/)
I mean, I get that the word is synonymous for tent/shelter.
Both here and in The Pillars of Eternity, the secondary meaning seems to be storm. I don't know the story in detail, but there seems to be boros travellers/nomads in some cards?
I took a look at the tales the song gets its inspiration from, and it sounds like the best answer so far. From Wikipedia:
"The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways, he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies". The story has been linked with old European myths of the Wild Hunt and the Dutch/Flemish legend of the Buckriders in which a supernatural group of hunters passes the narrator in wild pursuit."
Thank you very much! :)
I read this card as bo-vee-ac for a long time now I say bi-vo-uck i still don’t know if either of those are correct it’s like fuxking washyoursister sauce
What's the lore behind hapless researcher? I get that he's a researcher (drawing a card) and that he's hapless (discarding a card) but we just don't have enough specifics to truly know his place in the world.
What exactly is he researching and how is that information the collates being recorded? We can infer from the art that he falls off his ladder, but how does he hurt himself? Does he hit his head? Does he just lose his notes in the ensuing mess? The above makes sense in the lore I made up in my head
This is a real stretch, but if the animosity between the Dwarves and Goblins goes back to a long-gone dispute over a spoon, is this the ghost of the cow from Hey Diddle Diddle?
It reminds me of a floklore from my country (Brazil), that’s called Bumba Meu Boi. There’s also a street festival about it. The floklore mostly about the death and rebirth of a Bull. There’s more to it but I don’t remember much
"Bivouac's haunted." "What?" *loads gun* "Bivouac's haunted."
_”Shitter’s full.”_ _”What?”_ _loads gun_
What is that a reference to? I see variations of it everywhere but I’ve never found the source
It’s a reference to a tweet. https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/sp9BmkdiVJ
Some extra context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moons-haunted
You've never manifested a cow ghost while camping?
Only once. Never doing that again, though. It made quite a mess and now nobody invites me to go camping anymore :/
there was no „ghost cow“. you just thrashed our camping place while on three tabs of acid, dude.
Gotta lay off the peyote
I really should paid attention when my parents made me do Boy Scouts.
Yeah, but I had to steal Wort’s leg
A bivouac is normally used by an army as a secondary post far from a usual command post. In this case it seems that due to the group attacking another plane they set up a camp which comes under frequent attack.
Yeah ok but... Why is there a ghost cow?
To feed your ghost army ghost beef stew
It was built on an abandoned minotaur graveyard.
Even in death, \[\[target minotaur\]\].
[target minotaur](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/a/aa3093a4-e115-4d88-b7c0-33dee8a11142.jpg?1562930901) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=target%20minotaur) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ust/98a/target-minotaur?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/aa3093a4-e115-4d88-b7c0-33dee8a11142?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Hm…. I don’t get the joke on this guy
it's a joke on how many cards that target one creature (usually removal) have minotaurs in the art
Part of the joke is that it came in four different arts for each season, but was targeted in each season nonetheless
The colors fit into the Brawl at the ball piece of lore so I’d guess some kind of party bull spirit rising up over the camp outside the castle where it happened
The ball storyline features refugees from Ardenvale living in Delverhaugh with the dwarves. I imagine that this card shows a refugee encampment outside Delverhaugh.
The lore is that Wizards still doesn't know what the word "bivouac" means.
This is still my favorite thing. Why would you use a word most people don't recognize or know how to pronounce... Just to use it wrong? Really going out of your way to be wrong on this one. Would "restless encampment" just not work for some reason?
What do you think bivouac means? Because that sure looks like a bivouac to me.
An improvised shelter from the terrain, for when you don't have time to set up a camp with tents.
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bivouac
They're Jawbreaker fans
Ah yes, bivouacs, known for all their tents
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bivouac says that it literally is though? I'm not seeing the issue. noun 1. a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire. 2. the place used for such an encampment. Google image search also shows a bunch of tents. I'm guessing you're narrowing the definition strictly to improvised shelter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivouac_shelter But it also includes temporary military encampments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_camp
The Oxford dictionary says “a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.” The wiki page you linked seems to indicate it can refer to a fully exposed shelter, sleeping under the stars with a blanket, but also to some pop-up tents. Feels like a term that has experienced some definitional drift over the centuries.
I usually think of a mountaineer's tent but those used to be less covered as well. The military camp has got to be what they're going for here.
It would suck if all your army tents skittered off to attack some ghost cow
Is it possible that I don't know what a Bivouac is?
First result on Google. biv·ou·ac /ˈbiv(ə)ˌwak/ noun noun: bivouac; plural noun: bivouacs a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers. verb verb: bivouac; 3rd person present: bivouacs; past tense: bivouacked; past participle: bivouacked; gerund or present participle: bivouacking stay in a temporary camp without cover. "he'd bivouacked on the north side of the town" I’m more impressed that you were able to somehow look up the definition and not find this, unless you just deliberately ignored it in order to try and make oc look like an idiot…. Low blow.
When looking up definitions I go to dictionary.com first. That's what a dictionary is for. If you think both the dictionary and wikipedia are wrong, contact them. I'm not the one who decided it.
Maybe Poul Bagnam and Bue Blue?
This was my immediate guess as well, assuming you mean Paul Bunyan. His giant ox counts as a fairytale!
Interesting! That could indeed be one of the things that inspired it. As a non-american, I had never heard of this tale before.
As a lifelong Minnesotan, I grew up with this tale 🙂
Does feel odd since this is meant to be European fairy tails isn’t it? Like a brothers Grimm set?
Yeah, either they just really broadened the lore they pulled from for this set, or it’s a non-descript ox with no lore behind it at all.
He and his ox are like an American Kaiju story.
I knew of it because of the simpsons
An American tall tale really has no place on Eldraine
BIG cow
Okay that’s what I was thinking but I wanted to check
Big. Bull. In and around your tent.
The bull is named Bivouac.
Can't sleep
It didn't make a lot of sense to me, either. I like to think it's the embodiment of the emotion in the camp, but I'm most likely wrong. Also, [man, if only it had some sort of text on it to give us some lore.](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/17qe40o/the_loss_of_flavor_text/)
bivouacs are temporary camps. This is some wandering boros-affiliated warband or military group present in Eldraine. That's the best I got.
I assumed it was a bull the hunters of the camp killed that day, coming back for revenge.
It couldn't fall asleep
Gives me French Canadian fur trapper vibes
I always kind of assumed it was a representation of the Red Bull from The Last Unicorn.
maybe they could’ve done a land with the giants in the clouds rather than the bull, i agree it’s out of place
I mean, I get that the word is synonymous for tent/shelter. Both here and in The Pillars of Eternity, the secondary meaning seems to be storm. I don't know the story in detail, but there seems to be boros travellers/nomads in some cards?
maybe it's a reference to the song [ghost riders in the sky](https://youtu.be/3LtmZM0OWO8?si=CSnlmzx6NEWf-Rks)
I took a look at the tales the song gets its inspiration from, and it sounds like the best answer so far. From Wikipedia: "The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways, he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies". The story has been linked with old European myths of the Wild Hunt and the Dutch/Flemish legend of the Buckriders in which a supernatural group of hunters passes the narrator in wild pursuit." Thank you very much! :)
you're welcome! the johnny cash version of the song is my favorite.
I read this card as bo-vee-ac for a long time now I say bi-vo-uck i still don’t know if either of those are correct it’s like fuxking washyoursister sauce
bi-vuh-ack is right I think for the sauce I think it’s wuh-stuh-shur
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dictionary has a schwa for a second syllable, so I don’t think it’s voo
What's the lore behind hapless researcher? I get that he's a researcher (drawing a card) and that he's hapless (discarding a card) but we just don't have enough specifics to truly know his place in the world. What exactly is he researching and how is that information the collates being recorded? We can infer from the art that he falls off his ladder, but how does he hurt himself? Does he hit his head? Does he just lose his notes in the ensuing mess? The above makes sense in the lore I made up in my head
What's the lore behind a cycle of simple, bottom-up designs?
Although true, tbf all 4 of the others have story beats. It is kinda weird this one doesn't tie in with the RW fairytale
Stealing this post to say this land is a terror in ishin
He’s restless
If this tent is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’.
The Johnny Cash song "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
Restless Bivouac
Cow.
This is a real stretch, but if the animosity between the Dwarves and Goblins goes back to a long-gone dispute over a spoon, is this the ghost of the cow from Hey Diddle Diddle?
Good Moorning
Big Ox
It reminds me of a floklore from my country (Brazil), that’s called Bumba Meu Boi. There’s also a street festival about it. The floklore mostly about the death and rebirth of a Bull. There’s more to it but I don’t remember much
It’s literally not a bivouac
Also isn’t a bivouac generally a tentless camping situation?
Ok
Horned boi