I'd like to introduce everyone to Jack Bauer, the newest addition to the calf squad. He is a brown swiss x red Holstein which means he's gonna be fucking huge. Gonna start training him as a single ox.
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Who will win in these vintage animal fights?.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Cuba (2) (3) (4) by Don McDougall
Via Flickr:
(1) Oxen, Soroa.
(2) (3) (4) Agricultural life in Viñales Valley.
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Today's Hidden Gem
Taking a wander through the National Museum today, I nearly walked past this cute lil' carving of an Ox!
This wee beauty hails from East Lomond Hill, and dates to c.AD 500-800. Carved into (I believe) a rough block of sandstone is the ox, with clearly defined leg muscles, ears and tail!
Oxen were domesticated and utilised by farmers to move heavy loads and plough fields.
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A couple of oxen. I usually only did the rough designs but I did the final cleanup on these guys as well.
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Krenko’s Guide to Creature Types: Ox
Art by Andrew Robinson
What is an Ox (flavorfully)?
You don’t know an Ox’s flavor? What are you, a vegetarian?
Though Ox technically means a castrated bull, in Magic it’s just the catch-all term for cattle, including cows and yaks, but for some inexplicable reason not aurochs. Notably, Minotaurs are their own type, not Oxen.
What is an Ox (mechanically)?
Oxen are mid-sized creatures in red, green, or white. More than half have a combined power and toughness of 6, though this does range from 5/1 to 0/6. No single mechanic appears on more than two Oxen and there’s otherwise no unifying feature. One Ox token is a 4/4 Green creature while the other is a 2/4 White creature.
Can I make an Ox deck?
With Animal Sanctuary being the only Ox support card and the Oxen on the whole not being particularly powerful, an Ox deck simply isn’t reasonable. There are just enough decent Oxen that you could try making a 60 card deck that just involved attacking with them, but it wouldn’t be very good.
Is Ox a good creature type?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Oxen, Goats, and Sheep need to share a creature type. There simply aren’t enough of each to warrant its own type, and they serve much the same purposes. Taxonomically, Antelope should be in that type, too, and it could reasonably be expanded to all ungulates other than perhaps whales, but Oxen, Goats, and Sheep are the big three that are not only closely related but work well together thematically. Ox isn’t doing anything relevant, which is honestly a shame because cattle are one of the most common animals for humans to encounter. They’re part of our daily lives, and yet somehow the only cow the game lets me eat is actually a human.
Also, it’s straight up ridiculous that Aurochs aren’t Oxen, because the “ochs” in Aurochs means “Ox.”
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Male musk oxen headbutt at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Anchorage. The bulls battle over access to females during breeding season.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DESIGN PICS INC, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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