Three Sets for the Old Blocks under old style,
Seven sets the eternal formats, their cards stand-alone,
Nine sets duel decks with room to grow,
One set for the for the God-Pharoh to return home,
To break apart the gatewatch, and set-up their rise.
One set to highlight them all, One set to find them,
One set to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of tarkir where Elder Dragons die.
Are you saying that Tarkir will be important to the Gatewatch in the future?
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I honestly doubt it'll take another 5 years to see Ravnica again.
With so many plot threads tied to Ravnica (Ral being an agent of Bolas, Teysa vs Obzedat, Vraska's hostile take-over of the Golgari and Jace not being there for so long), I think it should be after Dominaria.
I sincerely expect Ravnica 3, and 4, within the next 5 years.
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I know he thinks I'm impressed by a 102 MPH fastball in the 9th inning... Ok, I'm impressed, but that doesn't mean I can't crush it.
Beyond that there wasn't really any way to know for certain that Jace would end up walking there. Jace could have gone to any other plane in the multiverse, or Bolas could have simply killed him. In fact, if the goal was control of Ravnica killing him would have made more sense.
Bolas doesn't work in absolute certainties though, just likelihoods and eventualities. We saw this when he sent Sarkhan to the eye in order to release the Eldrazi. He set things up so that Chandra would end up at the eye, but simply had to gamble on a third planeswalker showing up.
We don't see it, as his plane there was successful, but it is fairly likely that he had other plans to release the Eldrazi if his plan with Sarkhan had failed. I suspect it is a similar case here (Bolas sets it up so that it is fairly likely that Jace ends up on Ixalan, but has alternate plans for the other planes Jace is most likely to have retreated to).
So what ever happened to the "storyline" of Nissa staying on Amonkhet and helping the people recover after Bolas's destruction of Naktamun? Was/is that even a thing? I only read Hour of Devastation lately and skipped some stories before that, maybe it came up somewhere. It certainly seems to be implied on cards like Beneath the Sands or Sidewinder Naga.
It was also in the art book IIRC, but I'm not entirely sure what to think about that at this point, especially since Nissa's tone shortly before she abandoned ship implied that she gave up on Amonkhet.
"Well, I can't cure that."
—Rick Sanchez
Seriously, my thought was maybe Amonkhet died, or maybe her connection to Amonkhet was severed, so she thinks Amonkhet is dead. The people would still be alive, like little E. coli (really, any symbiotic bacteria, but we'll limit ourselves to E. coli here) in a dead host. They'll eat the host's corpse from within, until either running out of food (and facing the oxidative stresses of the outside world) or being transplanted to a new host when a scavenger eats the corpse.
It's difficult to know, we don't know what a dying plane actually looks like, other than presumably heat death or big crunch/rip, or the two ways a plane has died that we've personally witnessed. I'll exclude Serra's Realm because it's an artificial plane that was held together only by Serra's will and later Radiant's poor imitation of that, before being euthanized by Urza. The Eldrazi are more complicated, because, if the Eldrazi are a cosmic recycling bin (and the weird anti-Trimurti of destruction, nonexistence, and rebirth would suggest so), then obviously not only do we not know what a dying plane looks like, but Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri are also clueless; otherwise, they would've never imprisoned the Eldrazi in the first place.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I'm at work and I can't give my parodies the effort they deserve.
I sincerely expect Ravnica 3, and 4, within the next 5 years.
Bolas doesn't work in absolute certainties though, just likelihoods and eventualities. We saw this when he sent Sarkhan to the eye in order to release the Eldrazi. He set things up so that Chandra would end up at the eye, but simply had to gamble on a third planeswalker showing up.
We don't see it, as his plane there was successful, but it is fairly likely that he had other plans to release the Eldrazi if his plan with Sarkhan had failed. I suspect it is a similar case here (Bolas sets it up so that it is fairly likely that Jace ends up on Ixalan, but has alternate plans for the other planes Jace is most likely to have retreated to).
"Well, I can't cure that."
—Rick Sanchez
Seriously, my thought was maybe Amonkhet died, or maybe her connection to Amonkhet was severed, so she thinks Amonkhet is dead. The people would still be alive, like little E. coli (really, any symbiotic bacteria, but we'll limit ourselves to E. coli here) in a dead host. They'll eat the host's corpse from within, until either running out of food (and facing the oxidative stresses of the outside world) or being transplanted to a new host when a scavenger eats the corpse.
It's difficult to know, we don't know what a dying plane actually looks like, other than presumably heat death or big crunch/rip, or the two ways a plane has died that we've personally witnessed. I'll exclude Serra's Realm because it's an artificial plane that was held together only by Serra's will and later Radiant's poor imitation of that, before being euthanized by Urza. The Eldrazi are more complicated, because, if the Eldrazi are a cosmic recycling bin (and the weird anti-Trimurti of destruction, nonexistence, and rebirth would suggest so), then obviously not only do we not know what a dying plane looks like, but Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri are also clueless; otherwise, they would've never imprisoned the Eldrazi in the first place.
On phasing: