Well the purpose of the Eldrazi is still unknown, and my never be fully revealed. But if the events from the Homelands story line are still cannon then there may be some explanation for their purpose. When Grandmother Sengir rings the Apocalypse Chime all the mana was severed from Ulgrotha, which leads me to believe that mana is not actually native to each plane but flows in and out of the planes. If mana in its natural state is colorless, then when it enters a plane it would break apart like light through a prism, then collect in areas, which may be the "broken" that the Eldrazi were feeling. It also could mean using something like the Apocalypse chime could protect a plane from the Eldrazi.
Also when they felt they were in the wrong place, it could be that the Eldrazi are suppose to be fixing the multiverse in a specific order and when the original three led them to Zendikar they through off the order. We know that both artificial planes as well as natural planes eventually cease to exist this may be due to mana needing to return to its colorless state as a form of entropy. This is all speculation of course.
We know that the Eldrazi were based upon Cthulhu mythos but that doesn't mean that Wizards has to follow all the rules entailed therein, which means that the Eldrazi can as you say serve a definitive and comprehensible role in the multiverse such as fixing mana/plane problems. It's like the whole Theros/Greek scenario. Theros was based on Greek mythos yet the set doesn't follow into every trope therein (such as heroes being bastard offspring of the gods).
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We know that the Eldrazi were based upon Cthulhu mythos but that doesn't mean that Wizards has to follow all the rules entailed therein, which means that the Eldrazi can as you say serve a definitive and comprehensible role in the multiverse such as fixing mana/plane problems.
Except they're using Lovecraft as a selling point. "Look, it's Magic's Cthulhu!" Even BASIC comprehension of Lovecraft tells you it isn't about giant space monsters, but what they represent in relation to man: they're the truth, we are insignificant. No, it'd be more like if they said "Theros is a greek set, but, you know, they use lightsabers and spaceships."
If you're gonna say you're referencing something, you can put twists on them, like Theros successfully did, but have to stay true to the thing being referenced. The Eldrazi, as of BFZ, are just tentacle monsters you'd see in any anime.
This is getting really off-topic from the Uncharted Realms stories. IF you want to debate the merits of the Eldrazi's nature, move it to one of the other Eldrazi threads.
Well, on a different note, while I no longer believe Kozilek is on Zendikar I still think it's interesting that all of his spawn are shown underground. Is this a feeding preference? Like Ulamog and his spawn drain the mana out of planes by scouring the surface and oceans while Kozilek drains planes by going underground and feeding on a world's core? If so it would probably explain why he was the titan that the Kor and merfolk turned into their Earth god in later mythology.
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Well, on a different note, while I no longer believe Kozilek is on Zendikar I still think it's interesting that all of his spawn are shown underground. Is this a feeding preference? Like Ulamog and his spawn drain the mana out of planes by scouring the surface and oceans while Kozilek drains planes by going underground and feeding on a world's core? If so it would probably explain why he was the titan that the Kor and merfolk turned into their Earth god in later mythology.
They seem to be going back and making a lot of changes so this makes sense given that there wasn't a lot to differentiate the Eldrazi titans last time.
Pretty lackluster "story" if you can call it that.
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
That was short. It ended pretty abruptly. I fully expected her to connect with Zendikar again by the end? But just like the last Nissa story, she's still on that quest and it took TWO URs to confirm that? Holy filler, Batman. Does anything get accomplished or resolved in these stories?
Oh. My. God. Another boring Nissa story. I'm so bored and tired of hearing about Nissa's self-doubt and self-pity. Every story is 99% her questioning herself and the circumstances around her, and then at the end she has some pseudo-revelation...
And my god, nissa is such a pretentious ****. What the hell was the deal with her questioning everyone else's feelings for Zendikar? That was some next leve self-reverance. Apparently, she is so aloof that she thinks no one else can love or fight "For Zendikar" other than her
edit: "...we'll take back Zendikar."
Nissa's breath hitched. She almost spun on the kor, she almost snapped, almost told him that Zendikar wasn't something you could "take back."Zendikar wasn't something that belonged to anyone. Not to the people, not to the Eldrazi, not even to the great Commander-General Jura.
Zendikar, the real Zendikar, was simultaneously bigger than anything they could imagine and so much more intimate than they could ever understand.
She almost told him that when they cried out—"For Zendikar!"—they didn't know what they were saying.
Did anyone else read that as totally unnecessary snobbery? Maybe it was just me. But when I read that it felt so petty. I just didn't understand the point of her attacking and degrading everyone else on the plane.
Man alive, that was boring. They honestly could have just skipped the entire thing and replaced it with the sentence: "Nissa decided to go and look for Zendikar's soul at Khalni Heart, which we've retconned to be in Bala Ged instead of Akoum." Just a waste of time reading the full article.
Man alive, that was boring. They honestly could have just skipped the entire thing and replaced it with the sentence: "Nissa decided to go and look for Zendikar's soul at Khalni Heart, which we've retconned to be in Bala Ged instead of Akoum." Just a waste of time reading the full article.
Oh well, at least Kiora is up next week. Finally.
Basically.
And about time honestly. I really hope Kelly Digges is writing Kiora's story. I haven't liked a single UR so far but this next one has potential. Meanwhile, it could be a century before we hear from Ob.
I'm wondering why Ugin hasn't told them that killing Ulamog wont work because he's just a puppet shell and the real entity lies in the Blind Eternities? I mean Wasn't that explained in a Nahiri's story? Or is my memory just that bad?
Maybe that's because they haven't encountered Ugin yet.
In responce to everyone complaining, I liked this UR. I think each person likes the stories that meet their color identity most, and as a UGr person, I felt a fair amount of connect with this story. I quite liked her interactions with pili. They seemed natural and human to me.
In responce to everyone complaining, I lived this UR. I think each person likes the stories that meet their color identity most, and as a UGr person, I felt a fair amount of connect with this story. I quite liked her interactions with pili. They seemed natural and human to me.
i liked the irony of that when referring to Nissa
My gripe is its the same story every week when we have Nissa-centric story. Nothing ever happens. I enjoyed seeing Munda in this story, but he Was just an aside. It could have been any nameless kor. He wasnt developed at all. Its just another mtg namedrop.
I didn't mind this story or Nissa. I'm Abzan (I think?) in my mindset so I can also kind of relate. There's something sacred about the relationship between one's home and one's identity so I can see her snide reactions as a part of the trauma she's experiencing. Oh, and by the way, the Planeswalker profiles have been updated. As you can imagine, some character qualities we have previously known in the characters now essentially don't exist.
And the thing is, this isn't a good representation of Green. Nature isn't all lovey-dovey: it can be a ferocious thing. Garruk was the best representation of all the sides of Green, since he was a ferocious fighter, AND at peace with the world. Beyond that, he wasn't preachy and self-righteous. Nissa's just a caricature.
I have to disagree with this. I never thought of Garruk as monoG. He's a senseless killer who hunts for nothing more then pleasure. He's always been BG in my eyes. A monoG character believes all life is equal and sacred. Nissan is a better green character because in all of her URs she is looking to be at peace both with the world as a whole but with all the inhabitants of that world too.
This story should have started roughly where it ended. Nothing plot relevant happened at all. I thought that at least the rescued goblins would be the ones who discovered the way to use hedrons against the Eldrazi.
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Also when they felt they were in the wrong place, it could be that the Eldrazi are suppose to be fixing the multiverse in a specific order and when the original three led them to Zendikar they through off the order. We know that both artificial planes as well as natural planes eventually cease to exist this may be due to mana needing to return to its colorless state as a form of entropy. This is all speculation of course.
The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
Except they're using Lovecraft as a selling point. "Look, it's Magic's Cthulhu!" Even BASIC comprehension of Lovecraft tells you it isn't about giant space monsters, but what they represent in relation to man: they're the truth, we are insignificant. No, it'd be more like if they said "Theros is a greek set, but, you know, they use lightsabers and spaceships."
If you're gonna say you're referencing something, you can put twists on them, like Theros successfully did, but have to stay true to the thing being referenced. The Eldrazi, as of BFZ, are just tentacle monsters you'd see in any anime.
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UWB Spirit Control
GU Kruphix's "Hug Assassin"
RW Kalemne's "Play Fatties and Hope for the Best!"
BUGW Atraxa's "All counters, all the time"
They seem to be going back and making a lot of changes so this makes sense given that there wasn't a lot to differentiate the Eldrazi titans last time.
But I thought that the Khalni Heart was in Akoum, not in Bala Ged?
http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/73
It is in Akoum.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
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"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
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Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
And my god, nissa is such a pretentious ****. What the hell was the deal with her questioning everyone else's feelings for Zendikar? That was some next leve self-reverance. Apparently, she is so aloof that she thinks no one else can love or fight "For Zendikar" other than her
edit: "...we'll take back Zendikar."
Nissa's breath hitched. She almost spun on the kor, she almost snapped, almost told him that Zendikar wasn't something you could "take back." Zendikar wasn't something that belonged to anyone. Not to the people, not to the Eldrazi, not even to the great Commander-General Jura.
Zendikar, the real Zendikar, was simultaneously bigger than anything they could imagine and so much more intimate than they could ever understand.
She almost told him that when they cried out—"For Zendikar!"—they didn't know what they were saying.
Did anyone else read that as totally unnecessary snobbery? Maybe it was just me. But when I read that it felt so petty. I just didn't understand the point of her attacking and degrading everyone else on the plane.
Oh well, at least Kiora is up next week. Finally.
Basically.
And about time honestly. I really hope Kelly Digges is writing Kiora's story. I haven't liked a single UR so far but this next one has potential. Meanwhile, it could be a century before we hear from Ob.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Maybe that's because they haven't encountered Ugin yet.
Isn't Bala Ged a subcontinent of Akoum? So technically speaking Bala Ged is in Akoum which would mean that Khalni heart is in both Akoum and Bala Ged.
i liked the irony of that when referring to Nissa
My gripe is its the same story every week when we have Nissa-centric story. Nothing ever happens. I enjoyed seeing Munda in this story, but he Was just an aside. It could have been any nameless kor. He wasnt developed at all. Its just another mtg namedrop.
The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
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