Everything's a microorganism when compared to Emrakul
Kidding aside, I really forgot about all of them (only recalled the Blinkmoths)... but now that you've mentioned them, besides the Myojin (which we haven't even cleared up if all of them could move between planes as well, since Night's Reach outright mentioned she was able to because O-Kagachi wasn't watching but didn't indicate if that was the sole factor involved), the others seem to have relations to the cosmic/eldritch. If planeswalkers aren't the catalysts for evolving to an Eldrazi, these are still prime candidates as well.
When a Plane evolves to a certain point, it attracts the eldrazi; maybe the Plane has outlived its purpose, maybe it has gone sour, but something about it will lure the Eldrazi.
Ulamog shows up first, and draws in all the mana, all the power of the plane, killing all life there effectively.
Kozilek shows up next/during and warps the Plane. Something about the old plane made it go bad, Koz shakes up the fundamentals of the plane so hopefully it can get a fresh, clean start.
Finally Emrakul shows up and spawns new life on the Plane. What life spawns is as random as what Koz left behind, but she'll make it interesting.
It does make me wonder if New Phyrexia was on their To Do list after they woke up.
About the stories, I, like most of the rest of us, loved the last story. My only disappointment is we're probably not getting a Coda story to wrap things up, and the last story and a half (I do NOT count last week as a full story) was purely Jacetus League.
I really wish we had a chance to see more of the Innistrad legendaries, since other than Arlinn we're not likely to see them again for a long time. Since they were in Thraban, they should have been the ones to protect the Gatewatch at first, and then Liliana saves the day with the Zombies.
Or, another story route they could've gone down would be to continue the Legendaries story to the end. After defeating Brisela and after Emrakul showed up, show them reacting (or just going crazy) for a few paragraphs, until finally they see Emrakul go for her Moonwalk. Then have their own "We won?... We won!" type moment, all in Episode 6. Then Episode 7 and 8 can roll back the timeline to cover the Gatewatch and show HOW and WHY Emrakul was put back to bed.
So yeah, they had a SOLID landing with a great unexpected twist... but the overall EMN story is a bit unsatisfying for me. Maybe if there's an Ep 9 Coda to wrap things up and give us a hint of the new status quo it can be redeemed more; but I'm not holding my breath.
Best story of the entire Eldrazi Arc (including BFZ/OGW) by far. The only one that got us some actual insight to what the Eldrazi might really be (Ugin's speculations are all worthless if they're only speculations). I knew persisting on that the Eldrazi are "Natural Planar Cleansers" would eventually pay off (well, it hasn't actually, but this is a major step forwards, although I think we're be on this step for a long time).
"There should be blossoms, not barren resentment. The soil was no receptive"
We all know Emrakul twists biology. But what if Emrakul doesn't actually do that normally - what if the planes she arrives on were barren of life in the first place and she actually creates life ("World-Creator" being one of her titles). She only twists biology if there was biology in the first place... which there shouldn't be by the time Ulamog and Kozilek were done with their business. A plane devoid of life will blossom in her presence, but one already containing biology will show nothing but resentment for her "evolution" (technically its mutation... but we did get Eldritch Evolution...).
"It is not my time. Not yet."
This could mean the Eldrazi Titans worked in sequence. They can be lured to a plane via Leylines (for whatsoever reason), but at least Emrakul can realize when a plane was not wrecked enough for her to grant life to it (although she can't control those powers). Emrakul is probably aware of the sequence and realizes Innistrad wasn't wrecked by Ulamog and twisted by Kozilek for cleansing before her arrival. Which could explain why she left Zendikar first (Ulamog and Kozilek might actually be able to conduct double-duty at the same time, only Emrakul can't). Emrakul might also be specifically aware of Ulamog and Kozilek's demise... hence...
"This is all wrong. I am incomplete, unfulfilled, inchoate."
Emrakul refers to "I", but I wouldn't rule out that she's aware that she's part of the trio (as a complete process-being) and two pieces are already gone. To Emrakul, their absence is unnatural... but not irredeemable, hence her own efforts to get herself sealed implies that Ulamog and Kozilek can either resurrect themselves from nothingness/aether eventually, or new replacements would be created in their place of function, hence she deems it necessary for herself to enter slumber once more.
I know this is veering off to speculation once again, but I seriously doubt we'll getting more information about the Eldrazi for years to come and had to pour out the freshest (but still logical) possible conclusions from what little, but the most direct evidence we have towards to true purpose of the Eldrazi.
After I read the story, my mind started swirling with very similar thoughts. You put this in words better than I ever could.
Ulamogg devours old planes; brings us back to the primordial building blocks of the (a) universe.
Kozilek warps physical reality... For those scientifically inclined, he consumes and warps the very fabric of spacetime, perhaps resetting the natural constants (+/- leylines of mana)
Emrakul sparks life.
Ugin obviously had some sense of this, he figured he'd trap them for a few thousand years and see if anything bad happened. What if the whole time spiral story arc is a direct cause of eldrazi imprisonment? I don't know the details of TS novels very well, as I was on a break from magic at that time. Ugin was dead/recouperating, Nahiri was trapped in the helvault, and Sorin really only cared about Innistrad and may have felt that they were safe from the events of TS. So no one to link the two together.
Maybe what eldrazi do is... reverse entropy? "Let there be light." Anyway, I'll stop before I tread more into speculation
I also got a vibe that Night's Reach might be involved and that she is who Tamiyo was referring, but I don't think that makes much sense...
I don't really know what would make sense at this point. Why would someone make her pay for using that scroll, when she didn't even use the spell that it was supposed to be? Is it because the story she recorded is now lost forever? That would be interesting, because who would that incur such wrath from... And we already know that the scroll was supposed to contain the collapse of Serra's Realm, so who would have been the one to tell Tamiyo of that story, and have her swear to never use it? ...
I can only really think of a few entities that she might consider herself answerable to:
The Soratami (collectively, or perhaps a superior/mentor)
The Myojin (she still upholds and honors many of Kamigawa's traditional beliefs)
The Sisters of Flesh and Spirit (the end-all-be-all of Kamigawa's authority)
Any of those she could resonably avoid by simply avoiding Kamigawa(some of them she could probably defeat/destroy id it came down to it) but she seems the type to hold herself accountable, even if there was no way that THEY could.
I can only really think of a few entities that she might consider herself answerable to:
The Soratami (collectively, or perhaps a superior/mentor)
The Myojin (she still upholds and honors many of Kamigawa's traditional beliefs)
The Sisters of Flesh and Spirit (the end-all-be-all of Kamigawa's authority)
Any of those she could resonably avoid by simply avoiding Kamigawa(some of them she could probably defeat/destroy id it came down to it) but she seems the type to hold herself accountable, even if there was no way that THEY could.
Tamiyo is a mother and has a close family so I think she'd want to return home at some point.
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I can only really think of a few entities that she might consider herself answerable to:
The Soratami (collectively, or perhaps a superior/mentor)
The Myojin (she still upholds and honors many of Kamigawa's traditional beliefs)
The Sisters of Flesh and Spirit (the end-all-be-all of Kamigawa's authority)
Any of those she could resonably avoid by simply avoiding Kamigawa(some of them she could probably defeat/destroy id it came down to it) but she seems the type to hold herself accountable, even if there was no way that THEY could.
Tamiyo is a mother and has a close family so I think she'd want to return home at some point.
There is that, too.
I wasn't really suggesting avoidance as a course of action, just acknowledging its possibility. Really I was more attempting to emphasize that she would likely hold herself accountable even towards planebound beings that themselves had little or no means of holding her to her word. (assuming she doesn't have some kind of contractual binding like Liliana)
First, the Jace-and-"Emeria" scene really reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion. In both of them at one point, an inscrutable, rather alien "Angel" who physically looks nothing like an angel makes mental contact with a human. In the human's mind, the "Angel" has to represent itself as someone the human recognizes. And, in both cases, the human and "Angel" are opponents, the human believes that the "Angel" and its entire species are destructive, and the "Angel" is probably not entirely evil.
Second, Emrakul, Ulamog, and Kozilek are starting to resemble Hinduism's Brahma, Shiva, and the-opposite-of-Vishnu, respectively. Brahma creates (and Emrakul is starting to look like a creator figure). Shiva and Ulamog both destroy, and both have the ability to purge entire worlds. And, while Vishnu preserves, Kozilek relentlessly modifies. (And no, none of the Hindu gods I mentioned are depicted as evil.) An even stranger parallel--just like some of us speculate that all the Eldrazi Titans are extensions of a single entity, there are some circles of Hinduism that believe two of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are extensions of the third. And Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva could each be that third entity.
When Tamiyo comes to Jace mentioning about Avacyn's method of "What cannot be destroyed must be bound", is it really her who say that? Tamiyo clearly told Jace after the sealing that at one point Emrakul possessed her and rewrote her apocalypse spell into a sealing spell... so is the one who tells Jace to seal in the moon Tamiyo herself, or already Emrakul-as-Tamiyo?
When Tamiyo comes to Jace mentioning about Avacyn's method of "What cannot be destroyed must be bound", is it really her who say that? Tamiyo clearly told Jace after the sealing that at one point Emrakul possessed her and rewrote her apocalypse spell into a sealing spell... so is the one who tells Jace to seal in the moon Tamiyo herself, or already Emrakul-as-Tamiyo?
She's still Tamiyo at that time, I believe. They made a point of it that Jace's mind link with her "went dark" right before she pulled out the Iron Scroll. That seems like moment in which Em took over.
What if the whole time spiral story arc is a direct cause of eldrazi imprisonment? I don't know the details of TS novels very well, as I was on a break from magic at that time.
Nope. The dilemma of Time Spiral came as a result of a series of cataclysmic events on Dominaria that caused rifts in the space/time continuum, starting with Bolas killing a Leviathan planeswalker and possibly the Elder Dragon wars, continuing through Urza leveling Argoth with the Sylex and Freyalise's Worldspell, and culminating with the obliterate-tion of Tolaria and the destruction of Yawgmoth via the legacy artifacts. That had absolutely nothing to do with the Eldrazi. Urza and Yawgie were big enough problems without them getting involved.
What if the whole time spiral story arc is a direct cause of eldrazi imprisonment? I don't know the details of TS novels very well, as I was on a break from magic at that time.
Nope. The dilemma of Time Spiral came as a result of a series of cataclysmic events on Dominaria that caused rifts in the space/time continuum, starting with Bolas killing a Leviathan planeswalker and possibly the Elder Dragon wars, continuing through Urza leveling Argoth with the Sylex and Freyalise's Worldspell, and culminating with the obliterate-tion of Tolaria and the destruction of Yawgmoth via the legacy artifacts. That had absolutely nothing to do with the Eldrazi. Urza and Yawgie were big enough problems without them getting involved.
I wonder though, if the Eldrazi could have repaired the rifts.
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I wonder though, if the Eldrazi could have repaired the rifts.
Nah, I think the Eldrazi would've just razed the source of the problem before all the rifts threatened the multiverse. if ANY plane needed some Eidazi-ing, it would be Dominaria.
It's interesting that Emrkaul re-wrote the scroll. Presumably to change the spell, but could this have larger implications? That the Eldrazi can re-write realities? Serra's Realm is a plane that catastrophically ended. But Emrakul re-wrote the scroll and clearly the effects of the scroll did not end Innistrad. So Emrakul re-wrote the story in such a way that Serra's Realm does not end catastrophically, presumably. Since the Eldrazi are presumed to be involved with planar destruction and, theoretically, renewal, what does this say about their function now that Emrakul is figuratively re-writing the fate of one on Tamiyo's scroll?
I wonder if the Eldrazi would have eventually turned their attention to artificial planes like Serra's realm, Old Phyrexia and Mirrodin.
they suposedly represent the cycle of death and rebirth, but does that apply to planes that aren't "Natural"?
It's interesting that Emrkaul re-wrote the scroll. Presumably to change the spell, but could this have larger implications? That the Eldrazi can re-write realities? Serra's Realm is a plane that catastrophically ended. But Emrakul re-wrote the scroll and clearly the effects of the scroll did not end Innistrad. So Emrakul re-wrote the story in such a way that Serra's Realm does not end catastrophically, presumably. Since the Eldrazi are presumed to be involved with planar destruction and, theoretically, renewal, what does this say about their function now that Emrakul is figuratively re-writing the fate of one on Tamiyo's scroll?
Disclaimer: this is ultimately speculative due to a lack of actual information.
I don't think so - Tamiyo's scrolls were basically spells enhanced with "lessons learnt from history", using "flashbacks" to teach the user a lesson and allowing him/her to understand the basis of the spell and utilize it better. Emrakul didn't "rewrite" history, Emrakul literally just created a new pocket dimension of "alternate history" that never happened until now (but when it existed it was already a thing of the past). In fact I didn't think the story changed directions, if anything, Emrakul probably aggravated the destruction of Serra's Realm so more "waste energy" is generated and Emrakul can utilize that energy to power up the sealing which Nissa couldn't provide (weren't they already on their way to sealing, just without enough power?) I would think Tamiyo would be more traumatized by Emrakul's ability to aggravate what was probably one of the most devastating stories known to her to date rather than the other way round.
Makes you wonder… did all of this occur because it's the first time Emrakul has had contact with a telepath? Let alone being in Jace's mind himself, a member of the Gatewatch that killed Ulamog and Kozilek. Was Emrakul waiting, then, for the other titans to arrive, only to learn in Jace's mind that she was incomplete? I don't know. Either way, she now knows of the planes, like Serra's Realm, that they've visited, presumably.
I wonder if the Eldrazi would have eventually turned their attention to artificial planes like Serra's realm, Old Phyrexia and Mirrodin.
they suposedly represent the cycle of death and rebirth, but does that apply to planes that aren't "Natural"?
After this last story, I actually want to see Emeria versus New Phyrexia. Maybe the plane is barren enough that when she arrives, she immedately kick starts the ecology and starts restoring life on the plane, giving the Mirrans a fighting chance.
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People are talking about how the eldrazi are part of this big cycle of rebirth, but we know what happens when a plane ends. It's torn to shreds and becomes an empty white void. That said it remains a plane of existence, or else we wouldn't be able to learn that knowledge. So what of Kozilek's role in that case. Does he create geometry from nothing, not merely warp what is there?
Also curious if the multiverse is actually infinite. There is a center as well as planes on the edge, even if those may just be on the edge what exists and not on what can exist. If it's not infinite is there empty space? How else would a planeswalker create a plane a la Serra's Realm. Are created planes within the scope of the Eldrazi?
What determines of a plane is ready to be reborn? I've seen talk about New Phyrexia possibly being an Eldrazi target but that type of corruption and devastation means nothing to the Eldritch minds we speak of here. Just some interesting musings I had floating around.
Quick edit actually. I didn't specifically talk about this story yet.
I really enjoyed this one. They did a great job on Jace and Liliana here. The trip through Jace's mind was certainly something different and interesting. Length made up for the rather lacking episode we had last week. They actually did something horrific with the Eldrazi in this block and I appreciate it. The body horror was a very interesting way to utilize Emrakul and worked quite well. Was sufficiently creepy and enthralling.
Everything's a microorganism when compared to Emrakul
Kidding aside, I really forgot about all of them (only recalled the Blinkmoths)... but now that you've mentioned them, besides the Myojin (which we haven't even cleared up if all of them could move between planes as well, since Night's Reach outright mentioned she was able to because O-Kagachi wasn't watching but didn't indicate if that was the sole factor involved), the others seem to have relations to the cosmic/eldritch. If planeswalkers aren't the catalysts for evolving to an Eldrazi, these are still prime candidates as well.
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Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
When a Plane evolves to a certain point, it attracts the eldrazi; maybe the Plane has outlived its purpose, maybe it has gone sour, but something about it will lure the Eldrazi.
Ulamog shows up first, and draws in all the mana, all the power of the plane, killing all life there effectively.
Kozilek shows up next/during and warps the Plane. Something about the old plane made it go bad, Koz shakes up the fundamentals of the plane so hopefully it can get a fresh, clean start.
Finally Emrakul shows up and spawns new life on the Plane. What life spawns is as random as what Koz left behind, but she'll make it interesting.
It does make me wonder if New Phyrexia was on their To Do list after they woke up.
About the stories, I, like most of the rest of us, loved the last story. My only disappointment is we're probably not getting a Coda story to wrap things up, and the last story and a half (I do NOT count last week as a full story) was purely Jacetus League.
I really wish we had a chance to see more of the Innistrad legendaries, since other than Arlinn we're not likely to see them again for a long time. Since they were in Thraban, they should have been the ones to protect the Gatewatch at first, and then Liliana saves the day with the Zombies.
Or, another story route they could've gone down would be to continue the Legendaries story to the end. After defeating Brisela and after Emrakul showed up, show them reacting (or just going crazy) for a few paragraphs, until finally they see Emrakul go for her Moonwalk. Then have their own "We won?... We won!" type moment, all in Episode 6. Then Episode 7 and 8 can roll back the timeline to cover the Gatewatch and show HOW and WHY Emrakul was put back to bed.
So yeah, they had a SOLID landing with a great unexpected twist... but the overall EMN story is a bit unsatisfying for me. Maybe if there's an Ep 9 Coda to wrap things up and give us a hint of the new status quo it can be redeemed more; but I'm not holding my breath.
After I read the story, my mind started swirling with very similar thoughts. You put this in words better than I ever could.
Ulamogg devours old planes; brings us back to the primordial building blocks of the (a) universe.
Kozilek warps physical reality... For those scientifically inclined, he consumes and warps the very fabric of spacetime, perhaps resetting the natural constants (+/- leylines of mana)
Emrakul sparks life.
Ugin obviously had some sense of this, he figured he'd trap them for a few thousand years and see if anything bad happened. What if the whole time spiral story arc is a direct cause of eldrazi imprisonment? I don't know the details of TS novels very well, as I was on a break from magic at that time. Ugin was dead/recouperating, Nahiri was trapped in the helvault, and Sorin really only cared about Innistrad and may have felt that they were safe from the events of TS. So no one to link the two together.
Maybe what eldrazi do is... reverse entropy? "Let there be light." Anyway, I'll stop before I tread more into speculation
I don't really know what would make sense at this point. Why would someone make her pay for using that scroll, when she didn't even use the spell that it was supposed to be? Is it because the story she recorded is now lost forever? That would be interesting, because who would that incur such wrath from... And we already know that the scroll was supposed to contain the collapse of Serra's Realm, so who would have been the one to tell Tamiyo of that story, and have her swear to never use it? ...
The Soratami (collectively, or perhaps a superior/mentor)
The Myojin (she still upholds and honors many of Kamigawa's traditional beliefs)
The Sisters of Flesh and Spirit (the end-all-be-all of Kamigawa's authority)
Any of those she could resonably avoid by simply avoiding Kamigawa(some of them she could probably defeat/destroy id it came down to it) but she seems the type to hold herself accountable, even if there was no way that THEY could.
Tamiyo is a mother and has a close family so I think she'd want to return home at some point.
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There is that, too.
I wasn't really suggesting avoidance as a course of action, just acknowledging its possibility. Really I was more attempting to emphasize that she would likely hold herself accountable even towards planebound beings that themselves had little or no means of holding her to her word. (assuming she doesn't have some kind of contractual binding like Liliana)
First, the Jace-and-"Emeria" scene really reminded me of Neon Genesis Evangelion. In both of them at one point, an inscrutable, rather alien "Angel" who physically looks nothing like an angel makes mental contact with a human. In the human's mind, the "Angel" has to represent itself as someone the human recognizes. And, in both cases, the human and "Angel" are opponents, the human believes that the "Angel" and its entire species are destructive, and the "Angel" is probably not entirely evil.
Second, Emrakul, Ulamog, and Kozilek are starting to resemble Hinduism's Brahma, Shiva, and the-opposite-of-Vishnu, respectively. Brahma creates (and Emrakul is starting to look like a creator figure). Shiva and Ulamog both destroy, and both have the ability to purge entire worlds. And, while Vishnu preserves, Kozilek relentlessly modifies. (And no, none of the Hindu gods I mentioned are depicted as evil.) An even stranger parallel--just like some of us speculate that all the Eldrazi Titans are extensions of a single entity, there are some circles of Hinduism that believe two of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are extensions of the third. And Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva could each be that third entity.
When Tamiyo comes to Jace mentioning about Avacyn's method of "What cannot be destroyed must be bound", is it really her who say that? Tamiyo clearly told Jace after the sealing that at one point Emrakul possessed her and rewrote her apocalypse spell into a sealing spell... so is the one who tells Jace to seal in the moon Tamiyo herself, or already Emrakul-as-Tamiyo?
She's still Tamiyo at that time, I believe. They made a point of it that Jace's mind link with her "went dark" right before she pulled out the Iron Scroll. That seems like moment in which Em took over.
Nope. The dilemma of Time Spiral came as a result of a series of cataclysmic events on Dominaria that caused rifts in the space/time continuum, starting with Bolas killing a Leviathan planeswalker and possibly the Elder Dragon wars, continuing through Urza leveling Argoth with the Sylex and Freyalise's Worldspell, and culminating with the obliterate-tion of Tolaria and the destruction of Yawgmoth via the legacy artifacts. That had absolutely nothing to do with the Eldrazi. Urza and Yawgie were big enough problems without them getting involved.
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I wonder though, if the Eldrazi could have repaired the rifts.
"You say 'learn from history,' but that does not mean 'learn the same bull***** the people in history learned alongside phrenology and alchemy.'" - The Blinking Spirit
Nah, I think the Eldrazi would've just razed the source of the problem before all the rifts threatened the multiverse. if ANY plane needed some Eidazi-ing, it would be Dominaria.
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they suposedly represent the cycle of death and rebirth, but does that apply to planes that aren't "Natural"?
Click the pic for more info.
Disclaimer: this is ultimately speculative due to a lack of actual information.
I don't think so - Tamiyo's scrolls were basically spells enhanced with "lessons learnt from history", using "flashbacks" to teach the user a lesson and allowing him/her to understand the basis of the spell and utilize it better. Emrakul didn't "rewrite" history, Emrakul literally just created a new pocket dimension of "alternate history" that never happened until now (but when it existed it was already a thing of the past). In fact I didn't think the story changed directions, if anything, Emrakul probably aggravated the destruction of Serra's Realm so more "waste energy" is generated and Emrakul can utilize that energy to power up the sealing which Nissa couldn't provide (weren't they already on their way to sealing, just without enough power?) I would think Tamiyo would be more traumatized by Emrakul's ability to aggravate what was probably one of the most devastating stories known to her to date rather than the other way round.
Did Tamiyo planes walk away?
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Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Jace was the only one affected by the scroll that Emrakul rewrote. She seems to have a thing for him.
After this last story, I actually want to see Emeria versus New Phyrexia. Maybe the plane is barren enough that when she arrives, she immedately kick starts the ecology and starts restoring life on the plane, giving the Mirrans a fighting chance.
"You say 'learn from history,' but that does not mean 'learn the same bull***** the people in history learned alongside phrenology and alchemy.'" - The Blinking Spirit
"Emrakul does not grant wishes. Desires simply align to her will."
R Citizen Cane (Feldon of the Third Path)
Also curious if the multiverse is actually infinite. There is a center as well as planes on the edge, even if those may just be on the edge what exists and not on what can exist. If it's not infinite is there empty space? How else would a planeswalker create a plane a la Serra's Realm. Are created planes within the scope of the Eldrazi?
What determines of a plane is ready to be reborn? I've seen talk about New Phyrexia possibly being an Eldrazi target but that type of corruption and devastation means nothing to the Eldritch minds we speak of here. Just some interesting musings I had floating around.
Quick edit actually. I didn't specifically talk about this story yet.
I really enjoyed this one. They did a great job on Jace and Liliana here. The trip through Jace's mind was certainly something different and interesting. Length made up for the rather lacking episode we had last week. They actually did something horrific with the Eldrazi in this block and I appreciate it. The body horror was a very interesting way to utilize Emrakul and worked quite well. Was sufficiently creepy and enthralling.