"There are three others. Planeswalkers. They're powerful, they're the best there are"
I got a real chuckle out of him hugely overselling the Gatewatch here. I mean like Jace only knows like a dozen planeswalkers, right?
What's more, he's met Ugin and Bolas, both of which could flatten the Gatewatch without batting an eye.
I have to admit, this WAS kind of hilariously overconfident of him. "Let me get my crew. They're the best there is at what they do."
You were a team for five minutes, guys. You immediately left afterwards. This does not an elite fighting force make. Outside of Zendikar, Nissa is just kind of adequate.
I wonder if Nahiri will ever ask where the other two titans are. I doubt her plan was to only call one.
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
I wonder if Nahiri will ever ask where the other two titans are. I doubt her plan was to only call one.
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
As far as I know Jace isn't aware of Emrakul's specific powers and he doesn't know anything about Innistrad (ie he'd never seen werewolves apparently so for all he knows weird mutations are the norm) so its reasonable that an Eldrazi never crossed his mind since this is nothing like what happened to Zendikar. He also spent the plot of SOI focused mostly on things that Emrakul actually wasn't doing.
"There are three others. Planeswalkers. They're powerful, they're the best there are"
I got a real chuckle out of him hugely overselling the Gatewatch here. I mean like Jace only knows like a dozen planeswalkers, right?
What's more, he's met Ugin and Bolas, both of which could flatten the Gatewatch without batting an eye.
I have to admit, this WAS kind of hilariously overconfident of him. "Let me get my crew. They're the best there is at what they do."
You were a team for five minutes, guys. You immediately left afterwards. This does not an elite fighting force make. Outside of Zendikar, Nissa is just kind of adequate.
It leaves me very concerned because that isn't something Jace would say, but is something Creative would.
I wonder if Nahiri will ever ask where the other two titans are. I doubt her plan was to only call one.
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
Why would Jace have suspected Emrakul? There was no reason to suspect that. You're suggesting this in hindsight.
It leaves me very concerned because that isn't something Jace would say, but is something Creative would.
Feels more like something Maro would say, to be honest.
It doesn't seem like Creative actually believes this given that Jace feels guilty when Tamiyo probes his mind and her reaction is "My, now that's a story I'll have to hear." (which suggests she knows they pulled something out of their ass to do it). He oversells because he's nervous.
It doesn't seem like Creative actually believes this given that Jace feels guilty when Tamiyo probes his mind and her reaction is "My, now that's a story I'll have to hear." (which suggests she knows they pulled something out of their ass to do it). He oversells because he's nervous.
In fairness, his only knowledge of Eldrazi-Titan-Slaying is that the Gatewatch has a record of 2 to everyone else's 0. He might not have intended it (being a nervous wreck), but if Tamiyo had an archive of someone else who had a track record of not-zero as well because of his overselling reminding her, he'll probably be open-minded enough to ask "Can you use that scroll/invite that planeswalker over?"
Unless he's confident from solely Liliana's words that Sorin (as Lord of Innistrad) might have the similar knowledge of the leylines (like Nissa) and that all he needs to do is invite Chandra over to burn Emrakul to the ground... and the next plane we're going to is Kaladesh...
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
Jace didn't have most of the clues that we did. Until Emrakul actually appeared, his trip to Innistrad was the equivalent of getting drunk, sending a regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, getting more drunk, sending a more regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, accidentally meeting a local celebrity at a bar and somehow hitting it off, and then leaving with her to check out a heavy metal concert in which the lead singer inexplicably tries to kill her fans before ultimately being killed by her manager.
Where the other titans twist the world into an inhospitable mess or reduce it to meaningless dust, Emrakul leaves behind lifeless effigies frozen in menewsha.
I wonder if Nahiri will ever ask where the other two titans are. I doubt her plan was to only call one.
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
Why would Jace have suspected Emrakul? There was no reason to suspect that. You're suggesting this in hindsight.
Jace didn't have most of the clues that we did. Until Emrakul actually appeared, his trip to Innistrad was the equivalent of getting drunk, sending a regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, getting more drunk, sending a more regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, accidentally meeting a local celebrity at a bar and somehow hitting it off, and then leaving with her to check out a heavy metal concert in which the lead singer inexplicably tries to kill her fans before ultimately being killed by her manager.
He knew Emrakul wasn't on Zendikar when they killed the other two. He knew there was something huge affecting the tides and the orbit of the moon, an enormous invisible object. He knew there was something out there with mental abilities that apparently dwarfed his own. He knew something was warping mana and life on the plane. He knew "she" was coming, according to the woman at the Drownyard - could've been significant assuming he knew to refer to Emrakul as female (don't know why he wouldn't). He knew Avacyn, despite being insane, was still holding something out of the plane. He had enough to put it together before Emrakul rose.
It's moot now, really. But the mystery shouldn't have been as mysterious to the characters in the story. I guess I'm just disappointed that they dragged it along this far, it turns out to be the obvious thing, but none of the characters involved realized it, especially Jace, until it reaches up and slaps them in the face with a tentacle and repeated distortions of her own name out of everyone's mouths.
Should call her Meme'rakul, Embodiment of the Web. It'd be fitting. Giant invisible presence that takes over your mind and forces you to repeat things.
I had zero qualms with Jace overselling the Gatewatch. In fact, I've been calling out that he's likely been overselling it quite a bit with referring to them as his *friends* when they haven't been friends all that long, plus as Tamiyo demonstrated, Jace's mind is a literal mess. However, the reaction Jace got upon returning to Zendikar makes me feel like they're going to overplay the bond between teammates a little too fast. Hopefully I'm just overreacting.
And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
Jace didn't have most of the clues that we did. Until Emrakul actually appeared, his trip to Innistrad was the equivalent of getting drunk, sending a regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, getting more drunk, sending a more regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, accidentally meeting a local celebrity at a bar and somehow hitting it off, and then leaving with her to check out a heavy metal concert in which the lead singer inexplicably tries to kill her fans before ultimately being killed by her manager.
This is... oddly specific.
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"There are three others. Planeswalkers. They're powerful, they're the best there are"
I got a real chuckle out of him hugely overselling the Gatewatch here. I mean like Jace only knows like a dozen planeswalkers, right?
What's more, he's met Ugin and Bolas, both of which could flatten the Gatewatch without batting an eye.
I have to admit, this WAS kind of hilariously overconfident of him. "Let me get my crew. They're the best there is at what they do."
You were a team for five minutes, guys. You immediately left afterwards. This does not an elite fighting force make. Outside of Zendikar, Nissa is just kind of adequate.
He knew Emrakul wasn't on Zendikar when they killed the other two.
Which means she must be on Innistrad?
He knew there was something huge affecting the tides and the orbit of the moon, an enormous invisible object.
That doesn't equal eldrazi, in fact Jace has only seen the eldrazi effect things in psychical form.
He knew there was something out there with mental abilities that apparently dwarfed his own.
There are a lot of being who are more powerful/equal to Jace. Jace is powerful but he is nothing next to Bolas or some of the dimir.
He knew something was warping mana and life on the plane.
The other two titans don't do that, so how could Jace have known. They wrap/drain the landscape and eat/kill the creatures. Ulamog made the vampires on Zendikar, which I guess is a kind of a mutation but Jace doesn't know that.
He knew "she" was coming, according to the woman at the Drownyard - could've been significant assuming he knew to refer to Emrakul as female (don't know why he wouldn't).
This is 50/50 and an ominous "she" isn't much. This could have been a number of things.
He knew Avacyn, despite being insane, was still holding something out of the plane.
And this could also be any number of things. It could have been Bolas.
He had enough to put it together before Emrakul rose.
He also was going nuts 3.5/6 stories he was in (in you don't count his first meeting with Lilian as he being mad yet).
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He knew Emrakul wasn't on Zendikar when they killed the other two. He knew there was something huge affecting the tides and the orbit of the moon, an enormous invisible object. He knew there was something out there with mental abilities that apparently dwarfed his own. He knew something was warping mana and life on the plane. He knew "she" was coming, according to the woman at the Drownyard - could've been significant assuming he knew to refer to Emrakul as female (don't know why he wouldn't). He knew Avacyn, despite being insane, was still holding something out of the plane. He had enough to put it together before Emrakul rose.
It's moot now, really. But the mystery shouldn't have been as mysterious to the characters in the story. I guess I'm just disappointed that they dragged it along this far, it turns out to be the obvious thing, but none of the characters involved realized it, especially Jace, until it reaches up and slaps them in the face with a tentacle and repeated distortions of her own name out of everyone's mouths.
I feel like the mystery was forced because of the themes of Innestrad and the integration of clues. You can paint it so that the situation was disorienting to the characters, especially with Eldrazi involved, but as a player, the encouragement to unravel a transparent mystery is a bit bizzare. Maybe it would have been better if they introduced compelling distractions.
I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
He knew Emrakul wasn't on Zendikar when they killed the other two. He knew there was something huge affecting the tides and the orbit of the moon, an enormous invisible object. He knew there was something out there with mental abilities that apparently dwarfed his own. He knew something was warping mana and life on the plane. He knew "she" was coming, according to the woman at the Drownyard - could've been significant assuming he knew to refer to Emrakul as female (don't know why he wouldn't). He knew Avacyn, despite being insane, was still holding something out of the plane. He had enough to put it together before Emrakul rose.
It's moot now, really. But the mystery shouldn't have been as mysterious to the characters in the story. I guess I'm just disappointed that they dragged it along this far, it turns out to be the obvious thing, but none of the characters involved realized it, especially Jace, until it reaches up and slaps them in the face with a tentacle and repeated distortions of her own name out of everyone's mouths.
I feel like the mystery was forced because of the themes of Innestrad and the integration of clues. You can paint it so that the situation was disorienting to the characters, especially with Eldrazi involved, but as a player, the encouragement to unravel a transparent mystery is a bit bizzare. Maybe it would have been better if they introduced compelling distractions.
I guess they were banking on Phyrexia, Marit Lage and perhaps Stromkirk to distract us, but those weren't really good distractions in the end (Marit Lage came closest I would say).
Also, we don't know how Emrakul works other than inducing madness - her mutations were subtle before her actual arrival and seems to be full-blown after it... along with almost everyone of those chanting her name. At this point of time I wouldn't be surprised if those mutated were actually those close to figuring out that Emrakul was nearby (whether they knew her specifically or not). The only reason why Jace didn't mutate was because of the spark and Avacyn only went mad because Sorin's power also holds a similar property to that of spark... and by her "network", the angels had better resistance to it. Now that Avacyn is gone, well, we saw what happened to Gisela and Bruna...
Remember, Kozilek also warps the mind, but through external factors. Emrakul probably induces it through internal factors, one of them simply being the knowledge/awareness of her possibility/existence in the first place... which makes Emrakul more terrifying than the other two Titans. The exact battles on Zendikar involving her probably didn't show, but Eldrazi Conscription and Near-Death Experience probably displayed how easily Emrakul "won" by converting everything to herself simply from their knowledge of her existence.
I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
I could not disagree more. Emrakul is a fantastic villain, and I want her to threaten a plane with her noodly appendages once every few years or so. I think you are suffering from Eldrazi fatigue, but they got rid of the other two titans, so now its just Emrakul. If we had two straight blocks with Bolas, you'd probably be sick of him too.
Shadow of Innistrad has shown us that humans, angels, demons, vampires, and werewolves are affected by Emrakul's presence. But have we seen any zombie/ghost that got affected by Emarkul? I guess Emrakul having power over biology will be countered by the powers of the undead and that would make Liliana a very powerful piece to the story.
I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
I agree with Northjayhawk. We've had enough Eldrazi for now. Lock her in the moon, then revisit her in six or seven years, after everyone has forgotten her.
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I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
I agree with Northjayhawk. We've had enough Eldrazi for now. Lock her in the moon, then revisit her in six or seven years, after everyone has forgotten her.
Wrong poster, I like the eldrazi. I neither hate nor love them, but I like them. But I do LOVE Emrakul, so this set is awesome to me. So to all the haters out there, I have no sympathy at all, this is going to be a rich, flavorful, awesome set and I pity you for your short-sighted refusal to being able to appreciate this wonderful set for what it will be.
I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
I agree with Northjayhawk. We've had enough Eldrazi for now. Lock her in the moon, then revisit her in six or seven years, after everyone has forgotten her.
Wrong poster, I like the eldrazi. I neither hate nor love them, but I like them. But I do LOVE Emrakul, so this set is awesome to me. So to all the haters out there, I have no sympathy at all, this is going to be a rich, flavorful, awesome set and I pity you for your short-sighted refusal to being able to appreciate this wonderful set for what it will be.
You misunderstand me. I also love the Eldrazi, especially with how beautifully they are doing Emrakul this time around. I just don't want them around all the time. Magic is a game of variety, and I want to see the other awesomeness the Multiverse has to offer.
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I really hope they find a way of dealing with Emrakul this set. Seriously. I don't want to see this on any other planes. Most horrifying titan and all of this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention Eldrazi fatigue. Granted this is them done right, but let's finish it off with a bang and leave them behind. Thank Thassa that Theros has enough going for it in lore to avoid needing anything like Phyrexia or Eldrazi to intervene. The sheer fact Innistrad is as creepy as it is without Emrakul only makes her being there all the more terrifying tbh. How Tamiyo manages to keep her cool amid all this ominous unravelling is beyond me.
I agree with Northjayhawk. We've had enough Eldrazi for now. Lock her in the moon, then revisit her in six or seven years, after everyone has forgotten her.
Wrong poster, I like the eldrazi. I neither hate nor love them, but I like them. But I do LOVE Emrakul, so this set is awesome to me. So to all the haters out there, I have no sympathy at all, this is going to be a rich, flavorful, awesome set and I pity you for your short-sighted refusal to being able to appreciate this wonderful set for what it will be.
You misunderstand me. I also love the Eldrazi, especially with how beautifully they are doing Emrakul this time around. I just don't want them around all the time. Magic is a game of variety, and I want to see the other awesomeness the Multiverse has to offer.
Oh, fair enough, I would probably be annoyed if Emrakul appeared every year. I don't count BFZ as an Emrakul appearance, yeah, I guess those were titans, but whatever, they weren't Emrakul. So, I don't want her to be destroyed, and if we see Emrakul again 2 or 3 years from now in any plane, I'm fine with that.
Preference: Innistrad annihilated... We've been here twice and makes Emrakul a totally badass end boss for the jacetus league to fight in 6 or 7 years
Prediction: Arlinn, Odric and Thalia with their patron Sigarda fight the forces of Emrakul with the Gatewatch ... They get beaten back till Lilliana goes full veil psycho and fights zombies vs mutants. Nahiri comes to confront Liliana and Sorin steps in saying please may I have this dance. Vampire vs Rock ... Nothing beats rock... As Sorin gets incapacitated by Nahiri she screams 'For Zendikar' at which Nissa goes 'home gurl' and Jace mindshares Ulamog and kozileks defeat. Nahiri full of remorse reverses the polarity of the cryptoliths and pushes Emrakul into the heron moon then planeswalks away. Liliana claims Innistrad as her own... Emrakul continues to exert minor influence on Innistrad and maintains the horror plane. Chandra says I miss my mummy turns to Gideon and says hey hot-stuff wanna come back to my place... Jace says I'm up... Nissa screams "Road trip". SCENE
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You were a team for five minutes, guys. You immediately left afterwards. This does not an elite fighting force make. Outside of Zendikar, Nissa is just kind of adequate.
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And how did Jace NOT know? How was Emrakul not his first (and only) guess to "Well, what's going on here?" especially after coming from Zendikar after just trapping the other two titans. The idea that Emrakul went to some other plane had to have crossed his mind, and then he gets to Innistrad and weird things are happening, and he doesn't think once it might be Emrakul? (I know the answer is "Plot" but even still, it would be nice to see it addressed, a real reason given... something.)
As far as I know Jace isn't aware of Emrakul's specific powers and he doesn't know anything about Innistrad (ie he'd never seen werewolves apparently so for all he knows weird mutations are the norm) so its reasonable that an Eldrazi never crossed his mind since this is nothing like what happened to Zendikar. He also spent the plot of SOI focused mostly on things that Emrakul actually wasn't doing.
It leaves me very concerned because that isn't something Jace would say, but is something Creative would.
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Feels more like something Maro would say, to be honest.
It doesn't seem like Creative actually believes this given that Jace feels guilty when Tamiyo probes his mind and her reaction is "My, now that's a story I'll have to hear." (which suggests she knows they pulled something out of their ass to do it). He oversells because he's nervous.
In fairness, his only knowledge of Eldrazi-Titan-Slaying is that the Gatewatch has a record of 2 to everyone else's 0. He might not have intended it (being a nervous wreck), but if Tamiyo had an archive of someone else who had a track record of not-zero as well because of his overselling reminding her, he'll probably be open-minded enough to ask "Can you use that scroll/invite that planeswalker over?"
Unless he's confident from solely Liliana's words that Sorin (as Lord of Innistrad) might have the similar knowledge of the leylines (like Nissa) and that all he needs to do is invite Chandra over to burn Emrakul to the ground... and the next plane we're going to is Kaladesh...
Jace didn't have most of the clues that we did. Until Emrakul actually appeared, his trip to Innistrad was the equivalent of getting drunk, sending a regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, getting more drunk, sending a more regrettable text message to his ex-girlfriend, accidentally meeting a local celebrity at a bar and somehow hitting it off, and then leaving with her to check out a heavy metal concert in which the lead singer inexplicably tries to kill her fans before ultimately being killed by her manager.
Nah, Emrakul leaves behind cartoon forums.
He knew Emrakul wasn't on Zendikar when they killed the other two. He knew there was something huge affecting the tides and the orbit of the moon, an enormous invisible object. He knew there was something out there with mental abilities that apparently dwarfed his own. He knew something was warping mana and life on the plane. He knew "she" was coming, according to the woman at the Drownyard - could've been significant assuming he knew to refer to Emrakul as female (don't know why he wouldn't). He knew Avacyn, despite being insane, was still holding something out of the plane. He had enough to put it together before Emrakul rose.
It's moot now, really. But the mystery shouldn't have been as mysterious to the characters in the story. I guess I'm just disappointed that they dragged it along this far, it turns out to be the obvious thing, but none of the characters involved realized it, especially Jace, until it reaches up and slaps them in the face with a tentacle and repeated distortions of her own name out of everyone's mouths.
Should call her Meme'rakul, Embodiment of the Web. It'd be fitting. Giant invisible presence that takes over your mind and forces you to repeat things.
This is... oddly specific.
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Which means she must be on Innistrad?
That doesn't equal eldrazi, in fact Jace has only seen the eldrazi effect things in psychical form.
There are a lot of being who are more powerful/equal to Jace. Jace is powerful but he is nothing next to Bolas or some of the dimir.
The other two titans don't do that, so how could Jace have known. They wrap/drain the landscape and eat/kill the creatures. Ulamog made the vampires on Zendikar, which I guess is a kind of a mutation but Jace doesn't know that.
This is 50/50 and an ominous "she" isn't much. This could have been a number of things.
And this could also be any number of things. It could have been Bolas.
He also was going nuts 3.5/6 stories he was in (in you don't count his first meeting with Lilian as he being mad yet).
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I feel like the mystery was forced because of the themes of Innestrad and the integration of clues. You can paint it so that the situation was disorienting to the characters, especially with Eldrazi involved, but as a player, the encouragement to unravel a transparent mystery is a bit bizzare. Maybe it would have been better if they introduced compelling distractions.
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I guess they were banking on Phyrexia, Marit Lage and perhaps Stromkirk to distract us, but those weren't really good distractions in the end (Marit Lage came closest I would say).
Also, we don't know how Emrakul works other than inducing madness - her mutations were subtle before her actual arrival and seems to be full-blown after it... along with almost everyone of those chanting her name. At this point of time I wouldn't be surprised if those mutated were actually those close to figuring out that Emrakul was nearby (whether they knew her specifically or not). The only reason why Jace didn't mutate was because of the spark and Avacyn only went mad because Sorin's power also holds a similar property to that of spark... and by her "network", the angels had better resistance to it. Now that Avacyn is gone, well, we saw what happened to Gisela and Bruna...
Remember, Kozilek also warps the mind, but through external factors. Emrakul probably induces it through internal factors, one of them simply being the knowledge/awareness of her possibility/existence in the first place... which makes Emrakul more terrifying than the other two Titans. The exact battles on Zendikar involving her probably didn't show, but Eldrazi Conscription and Near-Death Experience probably displayed how easily Emrakul "won" by converting everything to herself simply from their knowledge of her existence.
I could not disagree more. Emrakul is a fantastic villain, and I want her to threaten a plane with her noodly appendages once every few years or so. I think you are suffering from Eldrazi fatigue, but they got rid of the other two titans, so now its just Emrakul. If we had two straight blocks with Bolas, you'd probably be sick of him too.
I agree with Northjayhawk. We've had enough Eldrazi for now. Lock her in the moon, then revisit her in six or seven years, after everyone has forgotten her.
"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
Wrong poster, I like the eldrazi. I neither hate nor love them, but I like them. But I do LOVE Emrakul, so this set is awesome to me. So to all the haters out there, I have no sympathy at all, this is going to be a rich, flavorful, awesome set and I pity you for your short-sighted refusal to being able to appreciate this wonderful set for what it will be.
You misunderstand me. I also love the Eldrazi, especially with how beautifully they are doing Emrakul this time around. I just don't want them around all the time. Magic is a game of variety, and I want to see the other awesomeness the Multiverse has to offer.
"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
Oh, fair enough, I would probably be annoyed if Emrakul appeared every year. I don't count BFZ as an Emrakul appearance, yeah, I guess those were titans, but whatever, they weren't Emrakul. So, I don't want her to be destroyed, and if we see Emrakul again 2 or 3 years from now in any plane, I'm fine with that.
Prediction: Arlinn, Odric and Thalia with their patron Sigarda fight the forces of Emrakul with the Gatewatch ... They get beaten back till Lilliana goes full veil psycho and fights zombies vs mutants. Nahiri comes to confront Liliana and Sorin steps in saying please may I have this dance. Vampire vs Rock ... Nothing beats rock... As Sorin gets incapacitated by Nahiri she screams 'For Zendikar' at which Nissa goes 'home gurl' and Jace mindshares Ulamog and kozileks defeat. Nahiri full of remorse reverses the polarity of the cryptoliths and pushes Emrakul into the heron moon then planeswalks away. Liliana claims Innistrad as her own... Emrakul continues to exert minor influence on Innistrad and maintains the horror plane. Chandra says I miss my mummy turns to Gideon and says hey hot-stuff wanna come back to my place... Jace says I'm up... Nissa screams "Road trip". SCENE