Unless Jhiora found a way to Empower a Huge Power stone then no, the Weatherlight shouldn't be able to Planeshift, during Apocalypse The Weatherlight took the Mana from the Null Moon and slammed it into Yawgmoth it burnt out basically everything that the Weatherlight could do.
On the other hand, as someone pointed out last time we saw the Weatherlight it was rapidly sinking into the ocean and deemed by its captain to be unsalveagable. Now its back in the sky. It was known for one thing, and that was traveling between planes; well, two things if you count being a piece of the legacy weapon, as is its power matrix, and the LW supposedly lives on as Karn, who shows up in this set. And Karn created a whole plane of artifice, so who knows what he and Jhoira could do together on a project? Look, all I'm saying is that I wouldn't put it past Wizards to retcon their existing lore to allow it. They've done it before in the not-so-distant past.
I was wondering about Lyra Dawnbringer as well. Since when would an angel have a descendant/family by name? And if it's just an homage, why Reya Dawnbringer of all legendary angels from Dominaria? She was less than a footnote. O_o Bummer because it's probably not relevant enough to have anything to do in the story.
There is an implication in Planeswalker that Serra Angels are 'born'. Not sure if that's going to be walked back or anything, but it IS possible that Lyra is a descendant, or 'Dawnbringer' might be a title, like Urza Planeswalker was.
The idea that Serra's angels are born goes all the way back to the novel Planeswalker, actually, which I'll requote from the Dominaria Spoilers Digest article:
Quote from "Chapter 14 page 212" »
On the twentieth day of forced smiles, Xantcha's conspiratorial campaign achieved its greatest victory when Sosinna confessed that she was in love, perfectly and eternally, with one of her nursery peers: an angel.
"Is that permitted?" Xantcha interrupted before she had the wit to censor herself. The notion of love fascinated her, and spending most of her life in Urza's shadow or hiding her unformed flesh beneath a young man's clothes, she'd had very little opportunity to learn love's secrets. "You don't have wings."
Xantcha's curiosity was ill-timed and rude. It jeapardized everything she'd gained through long days of patient questions, but it was sincere. [...]
But Sosinna surprised Xantcha with a furious blush that stretched from the collar of her white gown into her pale gold hair.
"Wings," Sosinna exclaimed, "have nothing to do with it!" A lie, if Xantcha had ever heard one. "We are all born the same, raised the same. Our parentage is not important to Lady Serra. We are all equal in her service. She encourages us to chrish each other openly and to follow our hearts, not our eyes, when we declare our one true love."
More lies, though Sosinna's passion was real. "Kenidiern is a paragon," she confided in a whisper. "no one serves the Lady with more bravery and vigor. He has examined every aspect of his being and cast out all trace of imperfection. Ther is not one mote of him that isn't pure and devoted to duty. He stands above all the other angels, and no one would fault him if he were proud, but he isn't. Kenidiern has embraced humility. There isn't a woman alive who wouldn't exchange tokens with him, but he has given his to me."
Sosinna removed her veil and, sweeping her hair aside, revealed a tiny golden earring in the lobe of her left ear.
So three things are revealed here:
1) there are apparently male Serran angels, even though the game makes a point of only depicting female angels outside of Amonkhet.
2) Serran angels are indeed born and raised alongside human children. How they are "born" is left up to the imagination, but the text suggests they have parents, and some stuff I left out from earlier in the chapter implies Serra has an almost G ideology concerning the sanctity of life in direct contrast with Phyrexian beliefs or even some of Urza's actions (although Xantcha finds the Serrans to be just as dogmatic as Phyrexians, hence her suspicion in this passage).
3) Serran angels can feel love and are allowed to marry humans. Could explain the flavor of Angelic Destiny! Among other things.
Think it's safe (and sad) to say that none of this is taken into account, as they've repeatedly stated Angels cannot be planeswalkers because of various reasons about them being constructs of mana, and how a being only can hold a spark because of their "natural" biology being fated to have one, exception being Karn of course. If this is a turning point where they suddenly will acknowledge that novel, then joy.
It'd be awesome if they did.
I mean, in a way, they already did that with vampires. Vampires are normally considered undead, and thus can't have a planesalker spark, then we get an vampire planeswalker, which is "ok" because Innistradi vampires are cursed/transformed humans, rather than undead.
If they really wanted to allow an angel planeswalker (which is something many players has asked for/about) then this would be the way to go, right?
Unless Jhiora found a way to Empower a Huge Power stone then no, the Weatherlight shouldn't be able to Planeshift, during Apocalypse The Weatherlight took the Mana from the Null Moon and slammed it into Yawgmoth it burnt out basically everything that the Weatherlight could do.
On the other hand, as someone pointed out last time we saw the Weatherlight it was rapidly sinking into the ocean and deemed by its captain to be unsalveagable. Now its back in the sky. It was known for one thing, and that was traveling between planes; well, two things if you count being a piece of the legacy weapon, as is its power matrix, and the LW supposedly lives on as Karn, who shows up in this set. And Karn created a whole plane of artifice, so who knows what he and Jhoira could do together on a project? Look, all I'm saying is that I wouldn't put it past Wizards to retcon their existing lore to allow it. They've done it before in the not-so-distant past.
I was wondering about Lyra Dawnbringer as well. Since when would an angel have a descendant/family by name? And if it's just an homage, why Reya Dawnbringer of all legendary angels from Dominaria? She was less than a footnote. O_o Bummer because it's probably not relevant enough to have anything to do in the story.
There is an implication in Planeswalker that Serra Angels are 'born'. Not sure if that's going to be walked back or anything, but it IS possible that Lyra is a descendant, or 'Dawnbringer' might be a title, like Urza Planeswalker was.
The idea that Serra's angels are born goes all the way back to the novel Planeswalker, actually, which I'll requote from the Dominaria Spoilers Digest article:
Quote from "Chapter 14 page 212" »
*BOOK EXCERPT HERE*
So three things are revealed here:
1) there are apparently male Serran angels, even though the game makes a point of only depicting female angels outside of Amonkhet.
2) Serran angels are indeed born and raised alongside human children. How they are "born" is left up to the imagination, but the text suggests they have parents, and some stuff I left out from earlier in the chapter implies Serra has an almost G ideology concerning the sanctity of life in direct contrast with Phyrexian beliefs or even some of Urza's actions (although Xantcha finds the Serrans to be just as dogmatic as Phyrexians, hence her suspicion in this passage).
3) Serran angels can feel love and are allowed to marry humans. Could explain the flavor of Angelic Destiny! Among other things.
Yes, Kenidern, YES~! For years, even before Amonkhet came about, I've been brandishing him when people go against the idea of male angels. I mean, what more than from the planeswalker who's greatly associated with angels and all~!
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I just had a thought...
What if the reason that Lyra Dawnbringer has the Dawnbringer name (other than the reason that Creative is going, "HEY GUISE~! Look at this reference! That would be unfortunate...) was because it was passed to her after Reya Dawnbringer, who became sort of an important figure of the Serran faith through Time Spiral, or presumably becoming The New Order of Serra leader after the Invasion, was killed? (maybe either from sacrificing herself so that Benalia gets those Serra's Realm-ish structures floating again, or being killed in a battle against Belzenlok...)
EDIT: Never mind, got it. It was the dragon that the blade killed, right?
Heeheheh, it would be funny if Piru became a card...
Piru is a coloquial word in Brazilian portuguese to the male genitalia.
Bolas in portuguese means "Balls". Piru and Bolas in the same set would make a lot of brazilian players chuckle... =P
I liked the preview. It was a bit exposition-y, but it's cool seeing new names connected to old places. Really brings home the feeling of "this world has a long and deep history".
Hmmm so a blade that can slay an elder dragon huh? Wonder why Belzenlok would want that.
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
-Jhoira is going to raise the weatherlight from its water home
-The gatewatch after Jace, all make it "safe" to Dominaria.
-Nissa pulls a Jon Snow and ends her watch as a gatewatch member which is why she isn't in the story this time. I'm guessing her leaving is the first story spotlight card, since it shows her breaking her oath.
-Chandra leaves but to get stronger, setting up her and Jaya meeting I hope
-Maybe this how Jaya gets in the story? If she is mother Luti and Chandra goes to tell her about Bolas and Dominaria might be the reason Jaya/Luti goes home
-Gideon is helping Liliana since he wanted to keep her as an ally against Bolas
-Gideon and Liliana are on the old Vess lands and tells Gideon this was her home.
-Belzenlok has turned Josu into a lich, enslaved him (at least thats what Liliana thinks, wasn't like he was the happiest to see her) to be the cabals general. It also looks like Belzenlok is grown in power since Liliana said he hadn't had that much power around 60 years ago.
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
“There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't seem to grow a full mustache"
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
-Nissa pulls a Jon Snow and ends her watch as a gatewatch member which is why she isn't in the story this time. I'm guessing her leaving is the first story spotlight card, since it shows her breaking her oath.
Makes perfect sense. In the same time, they state that Chandra will be aiming to bring her back.
Notably, Liliana said the great structures (seen on some images) are "old Thran ruins".
Caligo and the Vess manor are located in Benalia...
Not 100% sure how I feel about the writing style. Having dialogue begin mid sentence is jarring, and prefacing dialogue with He said etc must be some modern thing. The story is cool, has some nice vibes, just not entirely sure about the style of it. Perhaps I need to warm up to it, or the writer is warming up to the franchise with this first story.
Much of the structure feels a bit "phoned in". I hope we don't rely on nostalgia alone to drive this story a la The Force Awakens, but rather the story draws upon fresh characters and builds some meaning behind them.
EDIT: Also, is everybody in the story conveniently forgetting that Liliana basically agreed to serve Bolas before they all escaped? I feel like that was kind of a big thing that the rest of the Jacewatch would be fairly mad about...
really impressed with the writing. there's an obvious difference in the quality of writing between the inhouse guys (Jenna notwithstanding because she rocks) and having a real pro and vet writing these stories.
I didn't expect the Gatewatch to reconvene that quickly, and I was VERY surprised at their reactions to their defeat. I actually expected Nissa to react the way Chandra did and vice versa. and Gideon trying to be the voice of reason was also a surprise. But I can dig it.
It'd be awesome if they did.
I mean, in a way, they already did that with vampires. Vampires are normally considered undead, and thus can't have a planesalker spark, then we get an vampire planeswalker, which is "ok" because Innistradi vampires are cursed/transformed humans, rather than undead.
If they really wanted to allow an angel planeswalker (which is something many players has asked for/about) then this would be the way to go, right?
Yes, Kenidern, YES~! For years, even before Amonkhet came about, I've been brandishing him when people go against the idea of male angels. I mean, what more than from the planeswalker who's greatly associated with angels and all~!
___________________________________________________
I just had a thought...
What if the reason that Lyra Dawnbringer has the Dawnbringer name (other than the reason that Creative is going, "HEY GUISE~! Look at this reference! That would be unfortunate...) was because it was passed to her after Reya Dawnbringer, who became sort of an important figure of the Serran faith through Time Spiral, or presumably becoming The New Order of Serra leader after the Invasion, was killed? (maybe either from sacrificing herself so that Benalia gets those Serra's Realm-ish structures floating again, or being killed in a battle against Belzenlok...)
Serra Stan - Angel Enthusiast - Garruk and Tyvar thirsty follower - Flavor and Art Enthusiast
I definitely think this is the year we're getting Serra in C18.
I do hope we touch on the realm, Serra, her angels, etc. in the story. I think we will.
|| 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 am guessing at least Serra as white, Urza as U/R artifacts matter at least.
Dragons of Legend, Lead by Scion of the UR-Dragon
The Gitrog Monster
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Shogun Saskia
Hive World
Atraxa hates fun
Abzan
Dakkon Blackblade #1 is dragged into post-revision canon!
Piru is an Elder Dragon!
Dakkon is still a Planeswalker!
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[Primer] Krenko | Azor | Kess | Zacama | Kumena | Sram | The Ur-Dragon | Edgar Markov | Daretti | Marath
EDIT: Never mind, got it. It was the dragon that the blade killed, right?
Heeheheh, it would be funny if Piru became a card...
Piru is a coloquial word in Brazilian portuguese to the male genitalia.
Bolas in portuguese means "Balls". Piru and Bolas in the same set would make a lot of brazilian players chuckle... =P
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[Primer] Krenko | Azor | Kess | Zacama | Kumena | Sram | The Ur-Dragon | Edgar Markov | Daretti | Marath
Into post revision only to be revised out of Dominarian history by the Cabal.
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I liked the preview. It was a bit exposition-y, but it's cool seeing new names connected to old places. Really brings home the feeling of "this world has a long and deep history".
I wish it gave Trample then it would be perfect for Gitrog Monster..
Dragons of Legend, Lead by Scion of the UR-Dragon
The Gitrog Monster
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Shogun Saskia
Hive World
Atraxa hates fun
Abzan
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
PLOT TWIST: Belzenlok releases Lili from her contract in exchange for her, and the gatewatch's, help dealing with Bolas.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-1-2018-03-21
I'll read it later.
But for now: Big (and complete!) map of Dominaria!
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-1-2018-03-21
Lo and behold...THE MAP OF DOMINARIA
Notable facts:
Tamingazin is a neighbor of Otaria (!!!)
Zhalfir is not back, there is a "Zhalfirin Void"
Madara is NOT a part of Jamuraa, but an island west of it. (This is a friggin' RETCON)
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-1-2018-03-21
-Jhoira is going to raise the weatherlight from its water home
-The gatewatch after Jace, all make it "safe" to Dominaria.
-Nissa pulls a Jon Snow and ends her watch as a gatewatch member which is why she isn't in the story this time. I'm guessing her leaving is the first story spotlight card, since it shows her breaking her oath.
-Chandra leaves but to get stronger, setting up her and Jaya meeting I hope
-Maybe this how Jaya gets in the story? If she is mother Luti and Chandra goes to tell her about Bolas and Dominaria might be the reason Jaya/Luti goes home
-Gideon is helping Liliana since he wanted to keep her as an ally against Bolas
-Gideon and Liliana are on the old Vess lands and tells Gideon this was her home.
-Belzenlok has turned Josu into a lich, enslaved him (at least thats what Liliana thinks, wasn't like he was the happiest to see her) to be the cabals general. It also looks like Belzenlok is grown in power since Liliana said he hadn't had that much power around 60 years ago.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Makes perfect sense. In the same time, they state that Chandra will be aiming to bring her back.
Notably, Liliana said the great structures (seen on some images) are "old Thran ruins".
Caligo and the Vess manor are located in Benalia...
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Interesting, i thought Gideon would be really mad at Liliana but i supsoe their defeat agaisnt Boals humbled him.
Much of the structure feels a bit "phoned in". I hope we don't rely on nostalgia alone to drive this story a la The Force Awakens, but rather the story draws upon fresh characters and builds some meaning behind them.
EDIT: Also, is everybody in the story conveniently forgetting that Liliana basically agreed to serve Bolas before they all escaped? I feel like that was kind of a big thing that the rest of the Jacewatch would be fairly mad about...
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really impressed with the writing. there's an obvious difference in the quality of writing between the inhouse guys (Jenna notwithstanding because she rocks) and having a real pro and vet writing these stories.
I didn't expect the Gatewatch to reconvene that quickly, and I was VERY surprised at their reactions to their defeat. I actually expected Nissa to react the way Chandra did and vice versa. and Gideon trying to be the voice of reason was also a surprise. But I can dig it.
this must be the scene for the Broken Bond card.
Click the pic for more info.