"Friendship Makes You Good!" is a popular one, and you could argue it applied to Liliana from the beginning of all of this. Now we get the opposite one "Lack of Friends Makes You Evil!". Going down the super obvious route of Liliana would normally fight back against Bolas's control, but since her bang buddy doesn't like her anymore, now she'll simply leave with Bolas.
*slow clap*
Congrats. You're only doing the same twist done a million times before by a million better storytellers.
Didn't Tezz give us a variant? "Friendship Makes You Soft."
Jace has reason to be cold to Liliana even if he has no clue about her current relationship with Bolas, if one even exists. He has just regained all his memories, and his full personality. He is fully aware of how *****ty she is, even without Bolas or demons in the picture. She's his manipulative, abusive ex. He speaks directly to Gideon, not Chandra or Karn or Teferi or the Weather light crew when warning about Liliana. Gideon, directly, personally. He never even says that the mission is the manipulation, he even agrees that the Cabal needs to be stopped and Belz needs to die, he says that Liliana is manipulating Gideon. This isn't about Amonkhet or the gatewatch or her demons, its about how Liliana treated Jace, how he fell for her, and how he senses Gideon doing the same. Jace fell for her because he needed somebody in his life, because he was as alone as anyone could be, and that was her in. Gideon, OTOH, is exactly the sort of person who could see a glimmer of decency in her, real or illusionary, and think "I can fix her". He's been on that path, letting himself trust her, seeing the " good" in her, feeling for her, all set. He hasn't gotten to a romantic level yet, but I expect Liliana to push him in that direction, because that's what she does. Tragically, it may actually end up being genuine this time before Bolas forces her to his side.
If Liliana isn't there, I garauntee Jace acts differently.
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Jace also may or may not remember seeing the Raven Man. He caught a glimpse of him while he was tripping on Emrakul and fighting Liliana. He could have written it off as a hallucination but if he associated him with Liliana he'd have another reason to be suspicious of her. He certainly doesn't know much at all about him but again, one more reason not to trust her. It would have been nice if they had taken the time to write these things out though. It's strange he's just giving her the silent treatment without explaining his reasoning to Chandra and Gideon; very un-blue.
Guys this definitely going X-Men 1. Bolas (Magneto) has an evil plan using a scifi-device (Veil). Using it will be dangerous, so he lets Lily use it for him.
Best part of Stoory is Jaya and Chandra, Chandra and Multani. They really did chandra a nice one here. Me in real life, when i pass a threshold of patience, i get really really angry. As in real angry, and I really relate well to how Chandra feels, unable to control anger.
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On the whole “Lili is stupid” and “foreshadowing” concept I would just like to add/ask, Does anybody else remember when she saw Razaketh in Amonkhet and he took control of Lili’s body and said “you should read your contracts more, you never know when someone could hide something in it?”. Yeah she definitely didn’t read her contract and is not the smartest planeswalker!
On the whole “Lili is stupid” and “foreshadowing” concept I would just like to add/ask, Does anybody else remember when she saw Razaketh in Amonkhet and he took control of Lili’s body and said “you should read your contracts more, you never know when someone could hide something in it?”. Yeah she definitely didn’t read her contract and is not the smartest planeswalker!
I'd forgotten this was said. It's probably a phrase that will come back to haunt her.
https://twitter.com/EctoCoolerRanch/status/994268309179662336
I tweeted this earlier as a joke, but if you stretch a lot it almost fits; Ashnod did have the Golgothian Sylex for a while after taking it from Feldon's girlfriend Loren or whatever, and Ashnod did have a Cylix of her own, weirdly in Alliances (I guess it turned up with the other Phyrexian stuff uncovered then?). And Ashnod was known to hang out around Zegon which should be roughly where Yavimaya is now.
So continuity backflips that you could do to make this fit:
Ashnod made one or more Cylixes that were like the Sylex during the Brothers' War, an ineffective one showed up in Alliances, and Karn is just unearthing one of them that he expects to work. Original one was destroyed during Planeswalkers' War.
After being maybe destroyed in the Planeswalkers' War, somebody (Kristina?) took it back to Yavimaya and left it there for some reason (safekeeping?). Influenced by literature from/about Ashnod's work, they now call it a Cylix.
Of course, much more likely that the Planeswalkers' War appearance was missed entirely and this is the original Sylex which has also been caught in the "Yavimaya is Argoth even though it is like 100 miles away" error that appeared in Time Spiral regarding the rift location.
Too bad Kelly and Ethan just commented on this last week and it showed up again anyway.
Concerning Jace's attitude, I have no problems with it. With Lily, he realized that she's not a very good person when he was on Ixalan and might have remembered something about her when he recovered his memories. Right now is too early to say that he shouldn't have given her the cold shoulder like that. With the way he was with Gideon, he just found out that Bolas is planning on using Ravnica as his end game. He most probably has a huge sense of urgency to get back there to save his home world from Bolas.
Concerning Jace's attitude, I have no problems with it. With Lily, he realized that she's not a very good person when he was on Ixalan and might have remembered something about her when he recovered his memories. Right now is too early to say that he shouldn't have given her the cold shoulder like that. With the way he was with Gideon, he just found out that Bolas is planning on using Ravnica as his end game. He most probably has a huge sense of urgency to get back there to save his home world from Bolas.
His adopted home world, you mean. Even Jace admitted in the past, before he regained his memories of Vryn, that Ravnica wasn't where he was from. That doesn't lessen his attachment to Ravnica though.
I can see that I'm not in the majority that's concerned about the retcon of Jace's appearance here, so I'll drop it.
Concerning Jace's attitude, I have no problems with it. With Lily, he realized that she's not a very good person when he was on Ixalan and might have remembered something about her when he recovered his memories. Right now is too early to say that he shouldn't have given her the cold shoulder like that. With the way he was with Gideon, he just found out that Bolas is planning on using Ravnica as his end game. He most probably has a huge sense of urgency to get back there to save his home world from Bolas.
His adopted home world, you mean. Even Jace admitted in the past, before he regained his memories of Vryn, that Ravnica wasn't where he was from. That doesn't lessen his attachment to Ravnica though.
I can see that I'm not in the majority that's concerned about the retcon of Jace's appearance here, so I'll drop it.
Ya I'm aware he's from Vryn, but he does live on Ravnica so it's technically his home world.
I'm happy he finally got some intestinal fortitude concerning Lily
https://twitter.com/EctoCoolerRanch/status/994268309179662336
I tweeted this earlier as a joke, but if you stretch a lot it almost fits; Ashnod did have the Golgothian Sylex for a while after taking it from Feldon's girlfriend Loren or whatever, and Ashnod did have a Cylix of her own, weirdly in Alliances (I guess it turned up with the other Phyrexian stuff uncovered then?). And Ashnod was known to hang out around Zegon which should be roughly where Yavimaya is now.
So continuity backflips that you could do to make this fit:
Ashnod made one or more Cylixes that were like the Sylex during the Brothers' War, an ineffective one showed up in Alliances, and Karn is just unearthing one of them that he expects to work. Original one was destroyed during Planeswalkers' War.
After being maybe destroyed in the Planeswalkers' War, somebody (Kristina?) took it back to Yavimaya and left it there for some reason (safekeeping?). Influenced by literature from/about Ashnod's work, they now call it a Cylix.
Of course, much more likely that the Planeswalkers' War appearance was missed entirely and this is the original Sylex which has also been caught in the "Yavimaya is Argoth even though it is like 100 miles away" error that appeared in Time Spiral regarding the rift location.
Too bad Kelly and Ethan just commented on this last week and it showed up again anyway.
Magic continuity is so tangled up now by retcons and possible mistakes, that we are basically in Blizzard territory now!
"Do you guys still remember the Sylex?! We don't, we forgot it like Metzen forgot the backstory of the Dranaei!"
I don't believe the Cylix is the Golgothian Sylex. I think it's a weapon made by Urza and named after the Golgothian Sylex as it probably has a similar effect. Likely Urza made a new one rather than search for the original. He did make big ass bombs to destroy Phyrexian after all, so making a big ass magic bomb to redo the Sylex blast as a last resort would make sense. Urza wouldn't waste effort searching for something that he has no proof still exists when he can just make a new one, with his own improvements of course. I think the spelling of this artifact is very deliberate and intended to indicate that it is not the original weapon that Urza used on Argoth.
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Urza just happen to bury this artifact in Yavimaya? Close to the site where he ended the Brother's War with the Golgothian Sylex? You know assuming we go with Time Spiral updating the location from Argoth. While slapping a similar name on the object in Question? And said you know what Multani will protect it? That seems like a hell of a stream of coincidences to me.
Meanwhile Teferi had to go tomb raider for his artifact. I said Urza's last defense wasn't Oldwalker Proof but this one especially was not at all. You think Urza would put more protection on device capable of at least according to Karn destroying an entire plane.
Maybe this Cylix was the weapon decapitated Urza head was thinking about when he suggested the Weatherlight crew blow up half the plane to kill Yawgie?
Urza just happen to bury this artifact in Yavimaya? Close to the site where he ended the Brother's War with the Golgothian Sylex? You know assuming we go with Time Spiral updating the location from Argoth. While slapping a similar name on the object in Question? And said you know what Multani will protect it? That seems like a hell of a stream of coincidences to me.
Meanwhile Teferi had to go tomb raider for his artifact. I said Urza's last defense wasn't Oldwalker Proof but this one especially was not at all. You think Urza would put more protection on device capable of at least according to Karn destroying an entire plane.
And don't forget, Autumn, This Cylix was buried in Yavimaya, under the direct protection of Multani. without the help of two pyromancers and a time mage, Karn's attempts to get the Cylix would have been just as futile as Teferi's attempts to get his Urza artifact.
That assumes whoever coming from this artifact is liable to hold back.
My point is these protections don't matter if the person coming to collect doesn't mind nuking the whole forest.
And I expect better security then that on an artifact capable of destroying a whole plane by itself.
The last Urza artifact at least had puzzles to solve along with guardians to walk through this one just requires digging while fending off some guards.
That assumes whoever coming from this artifact is liable to hold back.
My point is these protections don't matter if the person coming to collect doesn't mind nuking the whole forest.
And I expect better security then that on an artifact capable of destroying a whole plane by itself.
The last Urza artifact at least had puzzles to solve along with guardians to walk through this one just requires digging while fending off some guards.
The last artifact seemed to be intended for Urzas use alone. A secret, last ditch weapon would need to be quickly accessed possibly without urzas help. The blast it produces will be catastrophic like the Sylex blast was, but like the Sylex blast wouldn't destroy the plane. Something that devastating could destroy the artificial New Phyrexia however, its much less stable. Given a choice between Phyrexian victory and Ice Age part two, Multani may have even been the one to pull the trigger. And Urza wasnt terribly concerned about casualties so long as his actions led to Phyrexians defeat. He'd rather risk somebody accidentally activating it and ushering in a new ice age than risk his allies not being able to activate it in time.
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The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
I think Bolas will actually arrive, retrieve Lilliana and depart for the final fight and arrive with her on his team to face Jace and Ajani, who have been preparing during this time, only to have Gideon and Chandra (perhaps Nissa) have no choice but to follow up with Jace and join the fight (once Lilliana is wisked away), albeit in a delayed but still efficient timeframe.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
I think Bolas will actually arrive, retrieve Lilliana and depart for the final fight and arrive with her on his team to face Jace and Ajani, who have been preparing during this time, only to have Gideon and Chandra (perhaps Nissa) have no choice but to follow up with Jace and join the fight (once Lilliana is wisked away), albeit in a delayed but still efficient timeframe.
I agree that is most likely. I am just saying Jace and Ajani are acting like the fight against Bolas is happening at the same time as any fight against Belzenlok.
They are like super gungho and acting like they don't have time at all to mop up Belzenlok before fighting Bolas.
I think Occam's Razor is our best bet: Urza used the Golgothian Sylex, it was left behind after it's explosion, gets tossed around, buried, and Karn uncovers it.
Yes, Ravidel retrieved it prior to the Planeswalker War and Jared and Kristina destroyed it. However, the Planeswalker War is not 100% canonical at this point (and hasn't been since the late 1990s), so I think we need to revert back to where the Sylex left off in Revisionist History (on Argoth). This pains me of course, but it is the cleanest current explanation.
I think it is safe to say Karn as the Sylex. The spelling is indifferent, and is far less severe than Lin Sivvi/Liin Sivi and Jolrael/Jolrael from Nemesis and Prophecy.
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The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It was a little weird. The only explanation I can see is Jace thinking 'well, she's got her claws in here, I don't trust her and she doesn't know she's a pawn of Bolas, there's no way I'm explaining this all to her - I'm out'. To me, it's a reasonable assumption. Without a perspective from Jace though, it didn't really come across in the story. But that's the thing about a multi-faceted story, such as this. You don't always immediately get granted every perspective, which can be good in terms of plot suspense and twists. It's just not conducive to clear motivations for every character.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
4/6 for the RIX story.
"Where will you go after it's gone?" she asked, nodding up at the Immortal Sun.
Jace stood. "I need to meet my friends on Dominaria."
"To recruit them?"
"Mostly to apologize for being absurdly late."
"At least you have a good reason." Vraska shrugged.
"I won't stay on Dominaria after I find them, though." He went strangely quiet. A little crease was cut between his eyebrows. "The Guildpact belongs on Ravnica. I don't want to be like Azor."
Vraska understood why he would have that fear, holding the title he did. She nodded, and her mind wandered as Jace went quiet again.
With the follow-up being 6/6 for RIX story.
He couldn't delay any longer.
Planeswalking was a tricky business; it was imperfect, and destinations could usually only be reached if one had been there before. More often than not, traveling to a new plane was achieved by focusing on a familiar Planeswalker. Jace's first instinct was to reach his friends on Dominaria by focusing on Liliana, but the thought of her gave him pause. What he felt for her now wasn't anything resembling affection. It felt more sickly than that. An anemic, old, anxious tether between them that felt more like dread than tenderness. The entire notion of her was unsettling him, so he focused on the others instead.
The bright, brilliant goodness of Gideon shone across the Blind Eternities like a searchlight, so Jace decided to aim for that.
Why not explain to the group even with telepathy? Clear as day really. Jace remembered about the event with Nicol Bolas and one of Azor's advisors. Which the elf, under duress and pain by Nicol Bolas, gave away information Bolas wanted. Now mix that with the fact you have an abusive ex you really hate and can't trust and don't want to risk the lives of people you actually care about. Yes Jace trusts Chandra and Gideon more than he does Liliana. Let that sink in.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
Because Nicol Bolas plans on invading Ravnica with his undead army (Invocation ver) through the use of a planar bridge. He will then employ the immortal sun to trap all planeswalkers on Ravnica so they can't just escape. Nicol Bolas is literally building a murder box for the heroes.
The only thing I found awkward about Jace was why he wanted them to rush and leave right then. Or why he departed so rapidly without explaining anything. Urgency and stoicism felt natural here, but he was in and out without any clarification that I was confused. And he couldn't know Lilliana did not read her contract, so his repulsion is justified as well. I do think it foreshadows In Bolas's Clutches. It's too bad Jace is gone before warning her about it. At least Gideon's instincts are on point, even without telepathy himself.
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
Because Nicol Bolas plans on invading Ravnica with his undead army (Invocation ver) through the use of a planar bridge. He will then employ the immortal sun to trap all planeswalkers on Ravnica so they can't just escape. Nicol Bolas is literally building a murder box for the heroes.
Seems kinda brilliant. Use plane with high PW traffic. Trap with Sun, use Undead Army to murder them all, capture the most powerful Necomancer capable of controlling said undead with a contract in default. No wonder he formed the Gatewatch. He wanted them to group against him and fall into the Ravnica trap.
Didn't Tezz give us a variant? "Friendship Makes You Soft."
If Liliana isn't there, I garauntee Jace acts differently.
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Best part of Stoory is Jaya and Chandra, Chandra and Multani. They really did chandra a nice one here. Me in real life, when i pass a threshold of patience, i get really really angry. As in real angry, and I really relate well to how Chandra feels, unable to control anger.
I'd forgotten this was said. It's probably a phrase that will come back to haunt her.
I tweeted this earlier as a joke, but if you stretch a lot it almost fits; Ashnod did have the Golgothian Sylex for a while after taking it from Feldon's girlfriend Loren or whatever, and Ashnod did have a Cylix of her own, weirdly in Alliances (I guess it turned up with the other Phyrexian stuff uncovered then?). And Ashnod was known to hang out around Zegon which should be roughly where Yavimaya is now.
So continuity backflips that you could do to make this fit:
Of course, much more likely that the Planeswalkers' War appearance was missed entirely and this is the original Sylex which has also been caught in the "Yavimaya is Argoth even though it is like 100 miles away" error that appeared in Time Spiral regarding the rift location.
Too bad Kelly and Ethan just commented on this last week and it showed up again anyway.
His adopted home world, you mean. Even Jace admitted in the past, before he regained his memories of Vryn, that Ravnica wasn't where he was from. That doesn't lessen his attachment to Ravnica though.
I can see that I'm not in the majority that's concerned about the retcon of Jace's appearance here, so I'll drop it.
Ya I'm aware he's from Vryn, but he does live on Ravnica so it's technically his home world.
I'm happy he finally got some intestinal fortitude concerning Lily
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Meanwhile Teferi had to go tomb raider for his artifact. I said Urza's last defense wasn't Oldwalker Proof but this one especially was not at all. You think Urza would put more protection on device capable of at least according to Karn destroying an entire plane.
And don't forget, Autumn, This Cylix was buried in Yavimaya, under the direct protection of Multani. without the help of two pyromancers and a time mage, Karn's attempts to get the Cylix would have been just as futile as Teferi's attempts to get his Urza artifact.
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My point is these protections don't matter if the person coming to collect doesn't mind nuking the whole forest.
And I expect better security then that on an artifact capable of destroying a whole plane by itself.
The last Urza artifact at least had puzzles to solve along with guardians to walk through this one just requires digging while fending off some guards.
The last artifact seemed to be intended for Urzas use alone. A secret, last ditch weapon would need to be quickly accessed possibly without urzas help. The blast it produces will be catastrophic like the Sylex blast was, but like the Sylex blast wouldn't destroy the plane. Something that devastating could destroy the artificial New Phyrexia however, its much less stable. Given a choice between Phyrexian victory and Ice Age part two, Multani may have even been the one to pull the trigger. And Urza wasnt terribly concerned about casualties so long as his actions led to Phyrexians defeat. He'd rather risk somebody accidentally activating it and ushering in a new ice age than risk his allies not being able to activate it in time.
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|| 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 ||
It almost feels like Bolas will show up for the "In Bolas's Clutches" fresh off of crushing the Ajani & Jace Team offscreen and then will fill in his victory later. Cause yeah Jace and Ajani both seem to be acting like the final fight against Bolas is right away.
|| 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 ||
I agree that is most likely. I am just saying Jace and Ajani are acting like the fight against Bolas is happening at the same time as any fight against Belzenlok.
They are like super gungho and acting like they don't have time at all to mop up Belzenlok before fighting Bolas.
Yes, Ravidel retrieved it prior to the Planeswalker War and Jared and Kristina destroyed it. However, the Planeswalker War is not 100% canonical at this point (and hasn't been since the late 1990s), so I think we need to revert back to where the Sylex left off in Revisionist History (on Argoth). This pains me of course, but it is the cleanest current explanation.
I think it is safe to say Karn as the Sylex. The spelling is indifferent, and is far less severe than Lin Sivvi/Liin Sivi and Jolrael/Jolrael from Nemesis and Prophecy.
It was a little weird. The only explanation I can see is Jace thinking 'well, she's got her claws in here, I don't trust her and she doesn't know she's a pawn of Bolas, there's no way I'm explaining this all to her - I'm out'. To me, it's a reasonable assumption. Without a perspective from Jace though, it didn't really come across in the story. But that's the thing about a multi-faceted story, such as this. You don't always immediately get granted every perspective, which can be good in terms of plot suspense and twists. It's just not conducive to clear motivations for every character.
Jace stood. "I need to meet my friends on Dominaria."
"To recruit them?"
"Mostly to apologize for being absurdly late."
"At least you have a good reason." Vraska shrugged.
"I won't stay on Dominaria after I find them, though." He went strangely quiet. A little crease was cut between his eyebrows. "The Guildpact belongs on Ravnica. I don't want to be like Azor."
Vraska understood why he would have that fear, holding the title he did. She nodded, and her mind wandered as Jace went quiet again.
Planeswalking was a tricky business; it was imperfect, and destinations could usually only be reached if one had been there before. More often than not, traveling to a new plane was achieved by focusing on a familiar Planeswalker. Jace's first instinct was to reach his friends on Dominaria by focusing on Liliana, but the thought of her gave him pause. What he felt for her now wasn't anything resembling affection. It felt more sickly than that. An anemic, old, anxious tether between them that felt more like dread than tenderness. The entire notion of her was unsettling him, so he focused on the others instead.
The bright, brilliant goodness of Gideon shone across the Blind Eternities like a searchlight, so Jace decided to aim for that.
|| 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 ||