We all kind of assume that Sarkhan is going to go back in time 1,000 years to save Ugin from Nicol Bolas (and thus change the plane of Tarkir to being full of dragons). But I got to thinking: if/when Sarkhan travels back in time to save Ugin, will he have the powers of an Oldwalker? I'm assuming that he would since only how the multiverse treats Planeswalker sparks changed with the great mending, not the sparks themselves. In other words, if an Oldwalker went to the future, s/he would have the same power as a Neowalker, so I'm assuming that it works in reverse as well.
If that's the case, what will the implications be for the storyline? Sarkhan actually being able to hold his own against Bolas?
No, because the spark itself was changed during the mending. Jeska didn't just seal the rifts, she altered the sparks themselves.
Going back in time doesn't change the spark that was minted (as it were) after the mending.
Okay, so if Bolas from 1,000 years ago came to the present, he'd have all of his old powers? How did Jeska make it so that all sparks in yet-to-be-born Planeswalkers were changed as well?
Okay, so if Bolas from 1,000 years ago came to the present, he'd have all of his old powers? How did Jeska make it so that all sparks in yet-to-be-born Planeswalkers were changed as well?
Because she changed the way the multiverse works, the way that it produces sparks in the first place.
So, if it was the production of the sparks that changed, and not the existing sparks themselves, or how the Multiverse treats them, why were the oldwalkers depowered to neowalker sparks instead of simply being the last of those with the old sparks?
So, if it was the production of the sparks that changed, and not the existing sparks themselves, or how the Multiverse treats them, why were the oldwalkers depowered to neowalker sparks instead of simply being the last of those with the old sparks?
Nobody said that the sparks in existence weren't changed as well.
The two alterations weren't mutually exclusive. By doing one, she did the other as well.
Well, if we want to be pedantic, I believe Jeska changed the fundamental rules of the multiverse, instead of each spark individually. That would make a lot more sense to me.
But then, that's about as hairsplittingly as it can get so eh.
If that's the case, what will the implications be for the storyline? Sarkhan actually being able to hold his own against Bolas?
Going back in time doesn't change the spark that was minted (as it were) after the mending.
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The two alterations weren't mutually exclusive. By doing one, she did the other as well.
But then, that's about as hairsplittingly as it can get so eh.