I have a summer cold atm and this time travel stuff is messing with my brain a bit. But yeah, Ugin can't die here. Sorin will arrive and awaken Ugin. I suppose Bolas not being able to kill Ugin here will have something to do with the hedrons or even Ugin's spirit somehow? Maybe he uses Baisha or Yasova as some sort of temporary vessel? If it is indeed the real Bolas, then it would be necessary for the story for him to have his mind wiped somehow at the end of this. Because why wouldn't he just come back later and try to kill him again or be surprised to find out Ugin still being alive?
I would also really like to know when exactly Ugin became "the Spirit Dragon". His encounter with Bolas's army made it appear as if he had already acquired his ghostly form. It's strange that they haven't made that detail clear yet.
Bolas mentions being surprised by the reemergence of Ugin during his little speech during the Hour of Devastation storyline.
But yeah, stakes are definitely low for this storyline because we already know that Ugin lives.
What are you talking about? I don't remember this. In which story does this happen?
Now that you said this, I can't seem to find the story where Bolas was going off on a tirade about how he had the Eldrazi released to see how planeswalkers would react to it. I thought it was during Hour of Devastation, but I haven't been able to find it now. He was basically bragging about how everything that has happened did so by his design, and that the reemergence of Ugin was the only thing that he hadn't planned, but it didn't make a difference in the end or something.
Not sure it made a whole lot of sense him being there though. However, it could set up some foreshadowing regarding Bolas knowing Ugin is alive. Which at this point we haven't had any indication that he does, right?
Bolas mentions being surprised by the reemergence of Ugin during his little speech during the Hour of Devastation storyline.
But yeah, stakes are definitely low for this storyline because we already know that Ugin lives.
What are you talking about? I don't remember this. In which story does this happen?
Now that you said this, I can't seem to find the story where Bolas was going off on a tirade about how he had the Eldrazi released to see how planeswalkers would react to it. I thought it was during Hour of Devastation, but I haven't been able to find it now. He was basically bragging about how everything that has happened did so by his design, and that the reemergence of Ugin was the only thing that he hadn't planned, but it didn't make a difference in the end or something.
It was from the Amonkhet art book, it said was Bolas had released the eldrazi to see how other planeswlakers would react to an multi-planar threat. It then says the events on Zendikar didn't go accouring to Bolas plan because of the return of Ugin (how Ugin ruined things is unknown) but due to Ugins help the Gatewatched formed and gave Bolas a new group of walker to use for his own ends.
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I love Bolas's super creepy appearance here. I'm not worried for Ugin -- but I am worried for all these poor Temur tribe folks! I hope the bond between the twins works out positively, and Naiva withstands the temptation to recapitulate Bolas's story. It could go tragically, though.
Just a quick note that we see Bolas using a form of Ugin's "morph" magic in action here. Great tactic on Bolas's part while we revisit Tarkir.
We'll see how Bolas knows that Ugin isn't dead--unless he just senses it? He left after the battle, but chose to return to see if Ugin actually fell; perhpas it's their twin bond.
I am also suspecting Madara was the location of the birth summit/peak. If the landmass is still devastated by Bolas's duel with the leviation (as stated in the Time Spiral books), most of Madara will sink and the small island will be all that is left--the same island Bolas will return to as Emperor in Legends II.
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Bolas mentions being surprised by the reemergence of Ugin during his little speech during the Hour of Devastation storyline.
But yeah, stakes are definitely low for this storyline because we already know that Ugin lives.
What are you talking about? I don't remember this. In which story does this happen?
Now that you said this, I can't seem to find the story where Bolas was going off on a tirade about how he had the Eldrazi released to see how planeswalkers would react to it. I thought it was during Hour of Devastation, but I haven't been able to find it now. He was basically bragging about how everything that has happened did so by his design, and that the reemergence of Ugin was the only thing that he hadn't planned, but it didn't make a difference in the end or something.
It was from the Amonkhet art book, it said was Bolas had released the eldrazi to see how other planeswlakers would react to an multi-planar threat. It then says the events on Zendikar didn't go accouring to Bolas plan because of the return of Ugin (how Ugin ruined things is unknown) but due to Ugins help the Gatewatched formed and gave Bolas a new group of walker to use for his own ends.
Are the art books canonical? Ugin wiped Jace's memory and forced him to go to Ixalan to stop Bolas from knowing Ugin returned. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work if Bolas already knows that Ugin is back.
I found the blurb: "Bolas hoped that the presence of such a terrible interplanar threat would mobilize Planeswalkers to battle them and he could profit from seeing how a group of Planeswalkers would handle such a threat. Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead. But the events on Zendikar and Innistrad, where one of the Titans had made it's way to-provided Bolas with a lovely gift: a little band of Planeswalkers he could manipulate."
Now I know why people gave this explanation for why Bolas orchestrated the release of the Titans, which I had never read and always seemed weird to me. We do not seem to have a better explanation right now, so I'll just assume he was worried about a rival planeswalker that could stop his plans.
The phrase 'Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead.' makes no sense to me. How did Ugin affect the events on Zendikar (he didn't)? Why is the sentence structure so bad? It is not proper English at all.
For the most part, although several detail and mistake happen due to the timing, the art books are made months before the stories are finished.
Ugin wiped Jace's memory and forced him to go to Ixalan to stop Bolas from knowing Ugin returned. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work if Bolas already knows that Ugin is back.
It was more of a trap it seems, Ugin was maybe hoping Bolas would follow Jace to Ixalan and get himself trapped.
I found the blurb: "Bolas hoped that the presence of such a terrible interplanar threat would mobilize Planeswalkers to battle them and he could profit from seeing how a group of Planeswalkers would handle such a threat. Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead. But the events on Zendikar and Innistrad, where one of the Titans had made it's way to-provided Bolas with a lovely gift: a little band of Planeswalkers he could manipulate."
Now I know why people gave this explanation for why Bolas orchestrated the release of the Titans, which I had never read and always seemed weird to me. We do not seem to have a better explanation right now, so I'll just assume he was worried about a rival planeswalker that could stop his plans.
That was my thought as well, Bolas wanted to see how planeswalker now would react to a multiverse threat.
The phrase 'Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead.' makes no sense to me. How did Ugin affect the events on Zendikar (he didn't)? Why is the sentence structure so bad? It is not proper English at all.
I have trouble trusting this paragraph.
Ugin and Jace met during BtZ and Ugin told Jace about the true nature of the eldrazi and the magic glyph that the gatewatch used to first try and trap the eldrazi, later pulling them in enough to roast the titans and finally it was used to help seal away Emrakul. Without that knowlege its very likely that the eldrazi would have destroyed Zendikar and Innistrad.
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The phrase 'Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead.' makes no sense to me. How did Ugin affect the events on Zendikar (he didn't)? Why is the sentence structure so bad? It is not proper English at all.
I have trouble trusting this paragraph.
I'd say (as a non-native speaker) that the clauses in the sentence may be meant independently, so that Nicol knows that the events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, and we know, that it was because of Ugin, whom he had thought dead.
Anyway, we'll probably see the next week, when Nicol will try to find it out. I am honestly thrilled what will happen, since we know that he cannot kill Ugin.
The phrase 'Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead.' makes no sense to me. How did Ugin affect the events on Zendikar (he didn't)? Why is the sentence structure so bad? It is not proper English at all.
I have trouble trusting this paragraph.
I'd say (as a non-native speaker) that the clauses in the sentence may be meant independently, so that Nicol knows that the events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, and we know, that it was because of Ugin, whom he had thought dead.
Anyway, we'll probably see the next week, when Nicol will try to find it out. I am honestly thrilled what will happen, since we know that he cannot kill Ugin.
The grammar is correct, but there are a couple of confusing factors. The OP might be mistaking the manner in which the word "since" is being used. Here it's being used with the meaning of "after," not "because." And also, "though" is a typo, it should be "thought." So a rephrasing might be:
"Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as {Nicol Bolas} had planned, after the appearance of Ugin, whom {Nicol Bolas} had thought dead."
In other words, Bolas had planned for things on Zendikar to go a certain way, but then Ugin showed up. Bolas didn't expect that, because he though Ugin was dead. Ugin's appearance threw off his plans.
That's still messed up from a continuity standpoint, since in the official stories Bolas still doesn't know that Ugin isn't dead, and he definitely didn't find it out during Battle for Zendikar. Plus yeah, Ugin's appearance didn't seem to do much to change what happened on Zendikar, unless his interference somehow gave Jace and the Gatewatch the idea of how to kill the Eldrazi.
That's still messed up from a continuity standpoint, since in the official stories Bolas still doesn't know that Ugin isn't dead, and he definitely didn't find it out during Battle for Zendikar. Pule yeah, Ugin's appearance didn't seem to do much to change what happened on Zendikar, unless his interference somehow gave Jace and the Gatewatch the idea of how to kill the Eldrazi.
There is no indication in the official story that Bolas doesn't know Ugin is alive or when he might have found out. Prior to Ugin's resurrection he is supposed to believe he is dead because for all intents and purposes he was in fact dead. If these stories resolve with Bolas 'knowing' that Ugin is alive then we have a continuity problem but until then its just an oddity that Bolas went back to check on Ugin at which point he should leave believing he killed him.
Ugin's role in the Zendikar plot line was the single most significant event. Without Ugin the eldrazi remain unknowable untouchable beings. The gatewatch may or may not form but regardless the resistance is dealt a crushing defeat as they have no actual means of fighting the titans. Also Ob Nixilis probably doesn't respark, though that's less important. The repercussions for Innistrad are equally sever.
I would not necessarily interpret that sentence as Bolas knowing that Ugin was involved. He may know that things didn't go as he had planned, which doesn't make much sense because his plan was just to see how walkers would react, but he doesn't necessarily know the full extent of why. We do which is why that intervening clause was put in.
Now at the end of the upcoming stories Bolas doesn't believe that he finished the job there's a problem.
Edit: At the very least he may find that he can't do anything to Ugin's cocoon and leave. By the end of hour he may just not know that Ugin has emerged from the cocoon.
I think it would be interesting if Bolas sabotages Ugin somehow in his cocoon, with magic or whatever, and then pretends he has no idea Ugin lives. That way he'd catch literally everyone, except for the audience, off guard. Probably won't happen, though.
Considering Bolas' supposedly extensive network of spies across the planes, I find it hard to believe Ugin's reappearance would be hidden from him for long.
Having that said, I don't believe creative planned for Bolas to be aware of Ugin at this point. It seems like a pretty big deal to have as some offscreen relevation.
Considering Bolas' supposedly extensive network of spies across the planes, I find it hard to believe Ugin's reappearance would be hidden from him for long.
Having that said, I don't believe creative planned for Bolas to be aware of Ugin at this point. It seems like a pretty big deal to have as some offscreen relevation.
How long has it been since Ugin woke to Belzenkoks defeat? A matter of months? A year? 2? It doesn't seem like it's been all that long, and Ugin has decidedly been laying low, basically staying in his gorge on Tarkir that everyone avoids before travelling to the Eye on Zendikar and meeting only Jace, with his only major appearance being showing up after the Eldrazi are defeated to chew out the gatewatch. We dont know where he goes after this. Given the small number of people who have seen Ugin, it wouldn't be surprising for Bolas not to find out. Liliana is likely his best bet, assuming the rest told her about Ugin.
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Considering Bolas' supposedly extensive network of spies across the planes, I find it hard to believe Ugin's reappearance would be hidden from him for long.
Having that said, I don't believe creative planned for Bolas to be aware of Ugin at this point. It seems like a pretty big deal to have as some offscreen relevation.
How long has it been since Ugin woke to Belzenkoks defeat? A matter of months? A year? 2? It doesn't seem like it's been all that long, and Ugin has decidedly been laying low, basically staying in his gorge on Tarkir that everyone avoids before travelling to the Eye on Zendikar and meeting only Jace, with his only major appearance being showing up after the Eldrazi are defeated to chew out the gatewatch. We dont know where he goes after this. Given the small number of people who have seen Ugin, it wouldn't be surprising for Bolas not to find out. Liliana is likely his best bet, assuming the rest told her about Ugin.
Ugin has not really laid low on Zendikar. He was pretty open with the Zendikari about studying the eldrazi corpses even going as far as warning them not to interfere with his doings when he confronted the gatewatch. Realistically I would assume Bolas to plant some spies on Zendikar, simply to continue monitoring events in case the gatewatch decided to stay on Zendikar for a while. Though again, there might be some realism/narration disconnect. Bolas would probably quickly trip up on Ugin sightings, but it's probably bad form doing so off-screen. :T
Considering Bolas' supposedly extensive network of spies across the planes, I find it hard to believe Ugin's reappearance would be hidden from him for long.
Having that said, I don't believe creative planned for Bolas to be aware of Ugin at this point. It seems like a pretty big deal to have as some offscreen relevation.
True. And it was heavily foreshadowed in the last episode. Bolas wouldn't go all Satanic Verses on us for lulz; Bolas is subtle and calculating, sure, but not when doing things for lulz. (Though, if he had gone back to Tarkir to make sure, the dragons' survival would've given him a huge hint. Remember, he wasn't lying to Yasova; we have the luxury of seeing a world where their plan succeeded.)
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It's a shame that they retconned the whole "Elder Dragons can walk the planes like walkers without a spark and rivaled them in strength part"....
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Indeed they have really nerfed Elder Dragons. Course we should have known that was coming when a Dragon got waxed by some primitive humanoids with pets...although they did have mounted horses already so yeah....
As for planning its clear WOTC runs the MAGIC Storyline more like the DCEU in the movies and less like the MCU, there is no plan according to MARO. Since the reason Ugin doesn't have card is because he was a last second story decision. You would think Ugin being twin brother to Bolas would not be a last second story decision that seems like a pretty significant recton but what do I know. I don't have a degree in Lit.
Honestly, when Ugin was first spoiled, his appearance made some form of relation to Bolas inevitable. (For the record, I was among the people who commented on them looking so similar. One point to dumbledore.) I'm not sure if it was planned from the start, but it would've been even dumber, if he wasn't Bolas' twin/brother/whatever.
I would also really like to know when exactly Ugin became "the Spirit Dragon". His encounter with Bolas's army made it appear as if he had already acquired his ghostly form. It's strange that they haven't made that detail clear yet.
Now that you said this, I can't seem to find the story where Bolas was going off on a tirade about how he had the Eldrazi released to see how planeswalkers would react to it. I thought it was during Hour of Devastation, but I haven't been able to find it now. He was basically bragging about how everything that has happened did so by his design, and that the reemergence of Ugin was the only thing that he hadn't planned, but it didn't make a difference in the end or something.
Not sure it made a whole lot of sense him being there though. However, it could set up some foreshadowing regarding Bolas knowing Ugin is alive. Which at this point we haven't had any indication that he does, right?
It was from the Amonkhet art book, it said was Bolas had released the eldrazi to see how other planeswlakers would react to an multi-planar threat. It then says the events on Zendikar didn't go accouring to Bolas plan because of the return of Ugin (how Ugin ruined things is unknown) but due to Ugins help the Gatewatched formed and gave Bolas a new group of walker to use for his own ends.
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2. Kinda cool finding out that Ugin IS in fact the original Planeswalker
3. Weird wibbly wobbly timey wimey Nicol stuff? If we didn't know Ugin survived this point would be way better.
4. Maybe Ugin and Nicol will end up fused ala Karona at the end of Ravnica, or at the very least a potential Ugin card IN the 3rd part?
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We'll see how Bolas knows that Ugin isn't dead--unless he just senses it? He left after the battle, but chose to return to see if Ugin actually fell; perhpas it's their twin bond.
I am also suspecting Madara was the location of the birth summit/peak. If the landmass is still devastated by Bolas's duel with the leviation (as stated in the Time Spiral books), most of Madara will sink and the small island will be all that is left--the same island Bolas will return to as Emperor in Legends II.
And to think his whole character was pretty much born out of a single flavor text from Future Sight … talk about a career!
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Yep, it seems they don't have those powers anymore... unless only the Elders surviving the war got them at a later time...
Are the art books canonical? Ugin wiped Jace's memory and forced him to go to Ixalan to stop Bolas from knowing Ugin returned. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work if Bolas already knows that Ugin is back.
I found the blurb:
"Bolas hoped that the presence of such a terrible interplanar threat would mobilize Planeswalkers to battle them and he could profit from seeing how a group of Planeswalkers would handle such a threat. Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead. But the events on Zendikar and Innistrad, where one of the Titans had made it's way to-provided Bolas with a lovely gift: a little band of Planeswalkers he could manipulate."
Now I know why people gave this explanation for why Bolas orchestrated the release of the Titans, which I had never read and always seemed weird to me. We do not seem to have a better explanation right now, so I'll just assume he was worried about a rival planeswalker that could stop his plans.
The phrase 'Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, since the appearance of Ugin, whom he had though dead.' makes no sense to me. How did Ugin affect the events on Zendikar (he didn't)? Why is the sentence structure so bad? It is not proper English at all.
I have trouble trusting this paragraph.
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For the most part, although several detail and mistake happen due to the timing, the art books are made months before the stories are finished.
It was more of a trap it seems, Ugin was maybe hoping Bolas would follow Jace to Ixalan and get himself trapped.
That was my thought as well, Bolas wanted to see how planeswalker now would react to a multiverse threat.
Ugin and Jace met during BtZ and Ugin told Jace about the true nature of the eldrazi and the magic glyph that the gatewatch used to first try and trap the eldrazi, later pulling them in enough to roast the titans and finally it was used to help seal away Emrakul. Without that knowlege its very likely that the eldrazi would have destroyed Zendikar and Innistrad.
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I'd say (as a non-native speaker) that the clauses in the sentence may be meant independently, so that Nicol knows that the events on Zendikar didn't unfold as he had planned, and we know, that it was because of Ugin, whom he had thought dead.
Anyway, we'll probably see the next week, when Nicol will try to find it out. I am honestly thrilled what will happen, since we know that he cannot kill Ugin.
The grammar is correct, but there are a couple of confusing factors. The OP might be mistaking the manner in which the word "since" is being used. Here it's being used with the meaning of "after," not "because." And also, "though" is a typo, it should be "thought." So a rephrasing might be:
"Events on Zendikar didn't unfold as {Nicol Bolas} had planned, after the appearance of Ugin, whom {Nicol Bolas} had thought dead."
In other words, Bolas had planned for things on Zendikar to go a certain way, but then Ugin showed up. Bolas didn't expect that, because he though Ugin was dead. Ugin's appearance threw off his plans.
That's still messed up from a continuity standpoint, since in the official stories Bolas still doesn't know that Ugin isn't dead, and he definitely didn't find it out during Battle for Zendikar. Plus yeah, Ugin's appearance didn't seem to do much to change what happened on Zendikar, unless his interference somehow gave Jace and the Gatewatch the idea of how to kill the Eldrazi.
Ugin's role in the Zendikar plot line was the single most significant event. Without Ugin the eldrazi remain unknowable untouchable beings. The gatewatch may or may not form but regardless the resistance is dealt a crushing defeat as they have no actual means of fighting the titans. Also Ob Nixilis probably doesn't respark, though that's less important. The repercussions for Innistrad are equally sever.
Now at the end of the upcoming stories Bolas doesn't believe that he finished the job there's a problem.
Edit: At the very least he may find that he can't do anything to Ugin's cocoon and leave. By the end of hour he may just not know that Ugin has emerged from the cocoon.
Having that said, I don't believe creative planned for Bolas to be aware of Ugin at this point. It seems like a pretty big deal to have as some offscreen relevation.
How long has it been since Ugin woke to Belzenkoks defeat? A matter of months? A year? 2? It doesn't seem like it's been all that long, and Ugin has decidedly been laying low, basically staying in his gorge on Tarkir that everyone avoids before travelling to the Eye on Zendikar and meeting only Jace, with his only major appearance being showing up after the Eldrazi are defeated to chew out the gatewatch. We dont know where he goes after this. Given the small number of people who have seen Ugin, it wouldn't be surprising for Bolas not to find out. Liliana is likely his best bet, assuming the rest told her about Ugin.
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Ugin has not really laid low on Zendikar. He was pretty open with the Zendikari about studying the eldrazi corpses even going as far as warning them not to interfere with his doings when he confronted the gatewatch. Realistically I would assume Bolas to plant some spies on Zendikar, simply to continue monitoring events in case the gatewatch decided to stay on Zendikar for a while. Though again, there might be some realism/narration disconnect. Bolas would probably quickly trip up on Ugin sightings, but it's probably bad form doing so off-screen. :T
True. And it was heavily foreshadowed in the last episode. Bolas wouldn't go all Satanic Verses on us for lulz; Bolas is subtle and calculating, sure, but not when doing things for lulz. (Though, if he had gone back to Tarkir to make sure, the dragons' survival would've given him a huge hint. Remember, he wasn't lying to Yasova; we have the luxury of seeing a world where their plan succeeded.)
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Indeed they have really nerfed Elder Dragons. Course we should have known that was coming when a Dragon got waxed by some primitive humanoids with pets...although they did have mounted horses already so yeah....
As for planning its clear WOTC runs the MAGIC Storyline more like the DCEU in the movies and less like the MCU, there is no plan according to MARO. Since the reason Ugin doesn't have card is because he was a last second story decision. You would think Ugin being twin brother to Bolas would not be a last second story decision that seems like a pretty significant recton but what do I know. I don't have a degree in Lit.