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It plays into a longstanding and unfortunate trope of Western European and related attitudes called orientalism.* The recipe is fairly simple: take an Asian (anywhere from Turkey to Vietnam will do) culture thats not yours, appropriate** some stuff that seems outlandish, make some more stuff up, and sell it all back to your own culture as exotic. The persistent redefinition of a culture seen as the other is how a harem, originally the decidedly unsexy womens quarters in a household, became in the broader Western imagination a private bordello

Valley Rally, Blooming Blast, and War Squeak show some of the cutest war criminals ever, but their names are also illustrative of Magic: The Gathering Bloomburrow as a whole