It's been a very long while since that thread, and now with our return to Ravnica once again, we now have many new planeswalkers who haven't been 'assigned' guilds yet. And such, I shall so-called revive this thread (as I do not wish to repeat any planewalkers who have been mentioned in the previous thread unless there has been a significant shift)
Again, regarding this shoehorning, this sentence is important to the discussion:
A common misconception is confusing color combination with the guilds. Even MaRo has said that the guilds aren't the definitive combination of those colors.
Also, for now, I'll focus on planeswalkers, ancient or not, who have been seen in a card, although not necessarily as a planeswalker card (This exception applies mostly only to Azor). Also, I think I'll skip a few names if I feel they just kinda exists just because (example, Estrid and Aminatou), but if you'd like to include them in your opinion, go ahead.
With that said, let's begin
Angrath - He is not someone who breaks stuffs for no reasons, so Rakdos is not his guild. My verdict is more Gruul, due to the fact that he very much enjoys freedom. Arlinn Kord - She feels more Boros to me, since she is, if I remember right, fighting for the Innistrad humans, not to mention that she was a cathar or something, I think? Ashiok - Dimir, if because they love being manipulative and nasty. Azor - Ummm, what's his name again? Daretti - I need to read more about him, but his interest in artifices probably makes him an Izzet. Dovin Baan - He is a full-on Azorius, no need to argue about that Freyalise - I'm not sure, Selesnya? Gruul? I suck at really, really old lores, so maybe someone can help me on this? Huatli - Hmm..... she starts off as a soldier of her empire (soldier, as in, a militant who answers to a higher order), which makes her Boros, but now that she's probably a bit of a freelancer.... still Boros? Jaya Ballard - Okay, no clue. Gruul does value freedom, but Jaya's definitely not the "Crush them" kind of lady, so maybe not. Still, I feel like that's the closest compared to the other guilds. Karn - He kinda strikes me as an Azorius, but I can't think of a good explanation why. I need to read more about him, I guess. Kaya - Given her job, I think she's more of a Dimir. Windgrace - A Gruul, perhaps? He does kinda hate artificial stuffs... Nahiri - Early on, I think she fits the Selesnya owing to the fact that she cares about her homeland. Her Harbinger mode... well, Boros seems fitting, what's with their idea of justice and whatever. Narset - Hmmm... her pursuit of knowledge should make her an Izzet, even if she doesn't play with explodey kungfu (as far as I know XD) Ob Nixilis - Schemer, destroyer... I think this guy can't be anything other than Dimir, although his desire for power may give hints of Orzhov too, unless you think I'm crazy thinking about that. Saheeli Rai - Funnily enough, I don't think she fits the Izzet perfectly. She seems more like a perfectionism artist or something, which makes me think she's probably more of a Simic. Samut - No, she's not nature-freak enough to be Gruul. Her desire for turth and all that probably makes her more of a Boros. Teferi - Hmmm... if I conclude correctly that he's a flighty supermage, he can't be an Azorius. I think he's probably more of an Izzet, but I may be way way off. Ugin - I'm voting for Azorius, due to his preference to seeing things at large and planning things for the long run. Xenagos - He's green only because satyrs are nature spirits, sort of. Heck, given that satyrs are revelers, they are Rakdos, Xenagos included, though his megalomania might put him somewhere else. But I still think he's more Rakdos since he at least used to be a party-goer.
In practise the guilds are too tied to colour identity, so if they made planeswalker cards associated with the guilds they'd either match due to guild nuances or shift a colour.
Xenagos is Green, his basic motivation is a Green desire for acceptance of the truth and natural order. He's more hedonistic than the Gruul, but he'd probably side with them on tearing Ravnica's civilization apart.
Arlinn Kord - She feels more Boros to me, since she is, if I remember right, fighting for the Innistrad humans, not to mention that she was a cathar or something, I think?
Second this, and you're right about her connection to cathars, to my recollection.
Daretti - I need to read more about him, but his interest in artifices probably makes him an Izzet.
His character arc into vengeful, selfish, underhanded iconoclast does make his second card being Rakdos fit quite well, though. I'd say the way his emotions and personality have been portrayed strains the Izzet concept, but Niv's a selfish *****head too, so...
Jaya Ballard - Okay, no clue. Gruul does value freedom, but Jaya's definitely not the "Crush them" kind of lady, so maybe not. Still, I feel like that's the closest compared to the other guilds.
Personality is Izzet in a lot of big ways, behavior is often more heroic Gruul. I'd lean toward Izzet, of the individualist using explosions with brilliance and panache variety.
Teferi - Hmmm... if I conclude correctly that he's a flighty supermage, he can't be an Azorius. I think he's probably more of an Izzet, but I may be way way off.
Way, way off. Cards pertaining to him being Azorius isn't for nothing, though he's definitely on the fringes - a little too individualistic and motivated by empathy to fit in, but nowhere near enough so for anything red aligned.
Ugin - I'm voting for Azorius, due to his preference to seeing things at large and planning things for the long run.
Generally agree, though we've seen hints that might put him in Orzhov or even Dimir too. He's increasingly showing signs of that classic draconic selfish deviousness.
Windgrace vanished from existence with the rift and he tied his spirit to Urborg. We won’t be seeing him in RTRTR.
And Xenagos' fate has already been deicided. (Geddit?)
Anyway, I would argue that Ugin is Dimir or even Golgari. Sorin is definitely Golgari. Ugin and his acolytes are big on the "balance of life and death" thing philosophically.
Gideon is, of course, Boros.
Liliana would be Orzhov. She cares for the finer things in life, and intends to make her life as long as possible.
Chandra would be Izzet. Inventive and explosive.
I'd argue that Garruk was originally Gruul, but is more and more Rakdos, killing because, hey, it's fun.
Ob Nixilis is more Orzhov than Dimir. Can you really see Ob Nixilis, the multiversal conqueror, the man who has murdered whole planes just because it was Tuesday, being subtle?
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I think Jace is Dimir...his main way of operating fits in well there and a shift in color do to Vraska and Lili into black make sense.
Gideon is Boros.
Liliana is Rakdos...quite frankly she is highly driven by emotions and lacks any long term scheming abilites to be Orzhov. She doesnt study so she is not really a Blue sort.
Chandra based on Dominaria and Nissa I say Gruul, she loves personal freedom.
Jace was more aligned with Dimir, but new Jace might actually be more aligned with Azorius. His behavior after regaining his memories makes me think this. He seemed immediately more concerned with his role on Ravnica and one of his main problems with Azor is his abandoning of his duties. Old Jace was immature, but new Jace seems more grounded, more willing to take his responsibilities seriously, more Azorius. We'll have to see though, he may veer off into yet another direction in the upcoming stories, as he so often does.
Chandra is Boros. She isn't disciplined, but she's trying,and her character arc is basically learning to do so. The Boros do make use of pyromancers and she does like the whole fight for justice thing.
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While I think that the Gruul could be a legitimate fit for her at times, the Boros are as well. Neither are perfect fits, and both have aspects that would greatly appeal to her. She'd like the freedom of the Gruul, but they're brutality and utter lack of sympathy for the weak would turn her off at least as much as the Boros' regimentation. I'd wager more so given that her overall character arc has been about learning to work well with others, to control her impulses, and to respect legitimate authority. The Boros aren't robots, Argus Kos was a great example, and the worst case scenario for her there would be a demotion and an assignment to the warehouse with Aresaan the passive aggressive angel.
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I don't think she can be put into either guild easily but she is more RG in my book then RW if we look beyond the Guilds of Ravnica Color Pair Freedom.
I don't think she can be put into either guild easily but she is more RG in my book then RW if we look beyond the Guilds of Ravnica Color Pair Freedom.
If we don't limit ourselves to the guilds, it actually becomes much easier to fit her into RW over RG, because unlike the Boros, RW in general isn't limited to militaristic regimentation and discipline, and can very, very easily play the righteous fury role, or the zealous crusader role, or the heroic revolutionary role, all if which can fit Chandra. But RG? RG can stand for might makes right, or for savage nature, or for anti civilization, but not for the things that tend to define Chandra. In the roles she's played, and how her character has been depicted, I haven't seen RG at all, except in areas that could just as easily, or more appropriately, be RW. Chandra getting pissed and setting fire to everything could be RG, but it could also be RW just as easily, especially since she's typically getting pissed at injustice. Chandra fighting a revolution on Kaladesh could have been RG if she were trying to overthrow Kaladeshi society, but she wasn't, she was trying to overthrow the corrupt elements, which is much more RW.
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[quote from="AUTUMNTWILIGHT »" url="/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-storyline/798529-if-we-were-to-shoehorn-planeswalkers-into-ravnican?comment=13"]Chandra fighting a revolution on Kaladesh could have been RG if she were trying to overthrow Kaladeshi society, but she wasn't, she was trying to overthrow the corrupt elements, which is much more RW.
I'd debate that. The enemy she was fighting was not a black-aligned tyranny, but a Blue/White aligned bureaucracy, Chandra's exact opposite colours and mentality. Mindful that the renegades themselves were largely Red and Green aligned, with Black more so taking advantage of both sides war than really siding with either.
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You might want to go back and check the cards in aether revolt. There were a LOT of white cards aligned with the renegades. RW can easily go against UW, black doesn't need to be in the picture, and the conflict was largely between the R side and the U side, with W and black being split between the two, and G being split between unaligned and supporting the renegades. W and G had an equal number of cards with the "revolt" keyword, which was solely associated with the rebels. The only Boros card in aether revolt is explicitly aligned with the renegades, and the only Gruul one is just a dumb animal. White actually has as many renegade flavored cards as Green does. To say that the revolution on Kaladesh was more Gruul than Boros is completely baseless.
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I don't think she can be put into either guild easily but she is more RG in my book then RW if we look beyond the Guilds of Ravnica Color Pair Freedom.
If we don't limit ourselves to the guilds, it actually becomes much easier to fit her into RW over RG, because unlike the Boros, RW in general isn't limited to militaristic regimentation and discipline, and can very, very easily play the righteous fury role, or the zealous crusader role, or the heroic revolutionary role, all if which can fit Chandra. But RG? RG can stand for might makes right, or for savage nature, or for anti civilization, but not for the things that tend to define Chandra.
Green is also the colour of accepting yourself the way you are. Couple this with red's desire for freedom and you get an outlook that's potentially very far from the savage brute stereotype.
Having that said, I believe trying to shoehorn Chandra into any colour combination is destined to fail, because she was literally designed to serve as the "archetypical" or purest incarnation of Red.
According to Creative the Consulate is White/Blue foremost. I agree that they are overrepresented in the cards by the Blue side, but most of their iconic, plot relevant cards like Captured by the Consulate, Authority of the Consuls and Consulate Surveillance are White. Their conflict is the archetypical Red vs its enemy colours.
Chandra as a whole is just mono-Red, with maybe Red/Green in the sense that she feels constrained by society and hates the Consuls' artificiality.
[quote from="AUTUMNTWILIGHT »" url="/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-storyline/798529-if-we-were-to-shoehorn-planeswalkers-into-ravnican?comment=13"]Chandra fighting a revolution on Kaladesh could have been RG if she were trying to overthrow Kaladeshi society, but she wasn't, she was trying to overthrow the corrupt elements, which is much more RW.
I'd debate that. The enemy she was fighting was not a black-aligned tyranny, but a Blue/White aligned bureaucracy, Chandra's exact opposite colours and mentality. Mindful that the renegades themselves were largely Red and Green aligned, with Black more so taking advantage of both sides war than really siding with either.
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You might want to go back and check the cards in aether revolt. There were a LOT of white cards aligned with the renegades. RW can easily go against UW, black doesn't need to be in the picture, and the conflict was largely between the R side and the U side, with W and black being split between the two, and G being split between unaligned and supporting the renegades. W and G had an equal number of cards with the "revolt" keyword, which was solely associated with the rebels. The only Boros card in aether revolt is explicitly aligned with the renegades, and the only Gruul one is just a dumb animal. White actually has as many renegade flavored cards as Green does. To say that the revolution on Kaladesh was more Gruul than Boros is completely baseless.
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I wouldn't say baseless, only misunderstood. It seems your knowledge on that part of the Gatewatch's story is much better than mine, so I'm happy to point to this as a more definitive answer as to where Chandra would lie. However, the one thing I do query is in that the revolt on Ravnica is largely by the Golgari and Gruul (to my understanding). Where do the Boros stand on this? Are they fighting against these forces or sympathetic to them, as I'm not sure that Chandra would oppose such a revolt unless it was causing unnecessary civilians casualties.
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Right now, the Boros are just trying to maintain security on the plane, particularly for the gateless (those unaligned with any guild). The role of the Boros within Ravnican society is to act as the police and the military, maintaining order and pursuing justice on the small scale and the large. They tend to be opposed to the Gruul, Golgari, Rakdos, and Dimir for various reasons and to various extents. The Golgari, for instance, they have little problem with except on the occasions that the Golgari go on the offensive. Under Jarad, who maintained the Golgari as a rather peaceful guild, the Boros had little conflict with them. They will end up fighting the Golgari under Vraska because Vraska's goal is to overthrow the government of Ravnica, and the Boros' role is to defend it. The Boros come into conflict with the Gruul when they riot or break the law. Lots of small scale interactions between the Wojeks (Boros cops) and petty Gruul criminals, and occasionally the Boros conduct larger police actions against Gruul riots or even military actions against Gruul raiders. Its all reactive though, the Boros don't go after the Gruul, they just respond when the Gruul do things that harm innocents. They don't go into Gruul territory just to crack skulls, for instance. The Dimir and the Rakdos are a different story, and the Boros are actively fighting both of those guilds on the regular. The Dimir corrupt and undermine, and most Boros counter intelligence operations are focused on them, as are many murder investigations. The Boros actively work to root out Dimir cells and arrest Dimir agents. The Rakdos, meanwhile, are so destructive that the Boros actively try to keep their numbers down and prevent them from establishing a foothold outside of their territory. Rakdos gangs are incredibly violent and the Boros prioritize dealing with them.
Ironically, with Bolas coming the Boros and Dimir will definitely be on the same side against him, and its looking like the Rakdos will be on their side as well. Bolas is trying to corrupt all the guilds, but has failed with the Selesnya, Boros, and Dimir, and the guess is he'll also fail with the Rakdos and Simic. He's going to take over the Azorious by having Isperia (the current leader) murdered, and install a puppet, similar to how he used Vraska's internal revolution to depose Jarad and take over the Golgari, and used Ral to sideline Niv Mizzet from the Izzet. He's trying to sow xenophobia amongst the Boros, but Aurelia isn't falling for it and maintains control over most of the guild. She will lead them in defense of the Guildpact when the war begins. He's also currently trying to overthrow Lazav because Lazav is too clever to be manipulated and recognizes that something is up.
Green is also the colour of accepting yourself the way you are. Couple this with red's desire for freedom and you get an outlook that's potentially very far from the savage brute stereotype.
This from Flisch is actually a good argument for Chandra fitting RG. Its almost never depicted in stories, but RG can definitely fit that description, and I overlooked it.
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It's been a very long while since that thread, and now with our return to Ravnica once again, we now have many new planeswalkers who haven't been 'assigned' guilds yet. And such, I shall so-called revive this thread (as I do not wish to repeat any planewalkers who have been mentioned in the previous thread unless there has been a significant shift)
Again, regarding this shoehorning, this sentence is important to the discussion:
A common misconception is confusing color combination with the guilds. Even MaRo has said that the guilds aren't the definitive combination of those colors.
Also, for now, I'll focus on planeswalkers, ancient or not, who have been seen in a card, although not necessarily as a planeswalker card (This exception applies mostly only to Azor). Also, I think I'll skip a few names if I feel they just kinda exists just because (example, Estrid and Aminatou), but if you'd like to include them in your opinion, go ahead.
With that said, let's begin
Angrath - He is not someone who breaks stuffs for no reasons, so Rakdos is not his guild. My verdict is more Gruul, due to the fact that he very much enjoys freedom.
Arlinn Kord - She feels more Boros to me, since she is, if I remember right, fighting for the Innistrad humans, not to mention that she was a cathar or something, I think?
Ashiok - Dimir, if because they love being manipulative and nasty.
Azor - Ummm, what's his name again?
Daretti - I need to read more about him, but his interest in artifices probably makes him an Izzet.
Dovin Baan - He is a full-on Azorius, no need to argue about that
Freyalise - I'm not sure, Selesnya? Gruul? I suck at really, really old lores, so maybe someone can help me on this?
Huatli - Hmm..... she starts off as a soldier of her empire (soldier, as in, a militant who answers to a higher order), which makes her Boros, but now that she's probably a bit of a freelancer.... still Boros?
Jaya Ballard - Okay, no clue. Gruul does value freedom, but Jaya's definitely not the "Crush them" kind of lady, so maybe not. Still, I feel like that's the closest compared to the other guilds.
Karn - He kinda strikes me as an Azorius, but I can't think of a good explanation why. I need to read more about him, I guess.
Kaya - Given her job, I think she's more of a Dimir.
Windgrace - A Gruul, perhaps? He does kinda hate artificial stuffs...
Nahiri - Early on, I think she fits the Selesnya owing to the fact that she cares about her homeland. Her Harbinger mode... well, Boros seems fitting, what's with their idea of justice and whatever.
Narset - Hmmm... her pursuit of knowledge should make her an Izzet, even if she doesn't play with explodey kungfu (as far as I know XD)
Ob Nixilis - Schemer, destroyer... I think this guy can't be anything other than Dimir, although his desire for power may give hints of Orzhov too, unless you think I'm crazy thinking about that.
Saheeli Rai - Funnily enough, I don't think she fits the Izzet perfectly. She seems more like a perfectionism artist or something, which makes me think she's probably more of a Simic.
Samut - No, she's not nature-freak enough to be Gruul. Her desire for turth and all that probably makes her more of a Boros.
Teferi - Hmmm... if I conclude correctly that he's a flighty supermage, he can't be an Azorius. I think he's probably more of an Izzet, but I may be way way off.
Ugin - I'm voting for Azorius, due to his preference to seeing things at large and planning things for the long run.
Xenagos - He's green only because satyrs are nature spirits, sort of. Heck, given that satyrs are revelers, they are Rakdos, Xenagos included, though his megalomania might put him somewhere else. But I still think he's more Rakdos since he at least used to be a party-goer.
There. Feel free to drop your opinions
Xenagos is Green, his basic motivation is a Green desire for acceptance of the truth and natural order. He's more hedonistic than the Gruul, but he'd probably side with them on tearing Ravnica's civilization apart.
Second this, and you're right about her connection to cathars, to my recollection.
His character arc into vengeful, selfish, underhanded iconoclast does make his second card being Rakdos fit quite well, though. I'd say the way his emotions and personality have been portrayed strains the Izzet concept, but Niv's a selfish *****head too, so...
Gruul or Golgari, I'd say. There's a lot of commonality of character with Jarad, narratively.
Personality is Izzet in a lot of big ways, behavior is often more heroic Gruul. I'd lean toward Izzet, of the individualist using explosions with brilliance and panache variety.
Way, way off. Cards pertaining to him being Azorius isn't for nothing, though he's definitely on the fringes - a little too individualistic and motivated by empathy to fit in, but nowhere near enough so for anything red aligned.
Generally agree, though we've seen hints that might put him in Orzhov or even Dimir too. He's increasingly showing signs of that classic draconic selfish deviousness.
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Anyway, I would argue that Ugin is Dimir or even Golgari. Sorin is definitely Golgari. Ugin and his acolytes are big on the "balance of life and death" thing philosophically.
Gideon is, of course, Boros.
Liliana would be Orzhov. She cares for the finer things in life, and intends to make her life as long as possible.
Chandra would be Izzet. Inventive and explosive.
I'd argue that Garruk was originally Gruul, but is more and more Rakdos, killing because, hey, it's fun.
Ob Nixilis is more Orzhov than Dimir. Can you really see Ob Nixilis, the multiversal conqueror, the man who has murdered whole planes just because it was Tuesday, being subtle?
On phasing:
Gideon is Boros.
Liliana is Rakdos...quite frankly she is highly driven by emotions and lacks any long term scheming abilites to be Orzhov. She doesnt study so she is not really a Blue sort.
Chandra based on Dominaria and Nissa I say Gruul, she loves personal freedom.
Chandra is Boros. She isn't disciplined, but she's trying,and her character arc is basically learning to do so. The Boros do make use of pyromancers and she does like the whole fight for justice thing.
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If we don't limit ourselves to the guilds, it actually becomes much easier to fit her into RW over RG, because unlike the Boros, RW in general isn't limited to militaristic regimentation and discipline, and can very, very easily play the righteous fury role, or the zealous crusader role, or the heroic revolutionary role, all if which can fit Chandra. But RG? RG can stand for might makes right, or for savage nature, or for anti civilization, but not for the things that tend to define Chandra. In the roles she's played, and how her character has been depicted, I haven't seen RG at all, except in areas that could just as easily, or more appropriately, be RW. Chandra getting pissed and setting fire to everything could be RG, but it could also be RW just as easily, especially since she's typically getting pissed at injustice. Chandra fighting a revolution on Kaladesh could have been RG if she were trying to overthrow Kaladeshi society, but she wasn't, she was trying to overthrow the corrupt elements, which is much more RW.
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You might want to go back and check the cards in aether revolt. There were a LOT of white cards aligned with the renegades. RW can easily go against UW, black doesn't need to be in the picture, and the conflict was largely between the R side and the U side, with W and black being split between the two, and G being split between unaligned and supporting the renegades. W and G had an equal number of cards with the "revolt" keyword, which was solely associated with the rebels. The only Boros card in aether revolt is explicitly aligned with the renegades, and the only Gruul one is just a dumb animal. White actually has as many renegade flavored cards as Green does. To say that the revolution on Kaladesh was more Gruul than Boros is completely baseless.
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Green is also the colour of accepting yourself the way you are. Couple this with red's desire for freedom and you get an outlook that's potentially very far from the savage brute stereotype.
Having that said, I believe trying to shoehorn Chandra into any colour combination is destined to fail, because she was literally designed to serve as the "archetypical" or purest incarnation of Red.
Chandra as a whole is just mono-Red, with maybe Red/Green in the sense that she feels constrained by society and hates the Consuls' artificiality.
Right now, the Boros are just trying to maintain security on the plane, particularly for the gateless (those unaligned with any guild). The role of the Boros within Ravnican society is to act as the police and the military, maintaining order and pursuing justice on the small scale and the large. They tend to be opposed to the Gruul, Golgari, Rakdos, and Dimir for various reasons and to various extents. The Golgari, for instance, they have little problem with except on the occasions that the Golgari go on the offensive. Under Jarad, who maintained the Golgari as a rather peaceful guild, the Boros had little conflict with them. They will end up fighting the Golgari under Vraska because Vraska's goal is to overthrow the government of Ravnica, and the Boros' role is to defend it. The Boros come into conflict with the Gruul when they riot or break the law. Lots of small scale interactions between the Wojeks (Boros cops) and petty Gruul criminals, and occasionally the Boros conduct larger police actions against Gruul riots or even military actions against Gruul raiders. Its all reactive though, the Boros don't go after the Gruul, they just respond when the Gruul do things that harm innocents. They don't go into Gruul territory just to crack skulls, for instance. The Dimir and the Rakdos are a different story, and the Boros are actively fighting both of those guilds on the regular. The Dimir corrupt and undermine, and most Boros counter intelligence operations are focused on them, as are many murder investigations. The Boros actively work to root out Dimir cells and arrest Dimir agents. The Rakdos, meanwhile, are so destructive that the Boros actively try to keep their numbers down and prevent them from establishing a foothold outside of their territory. Rakdos gangs are incredibly violent and the Boros prioritize dealing with them.
Ironically, with Bolas coming the Boros and Dimir will definitely be on the same side against him, and its looking like the Rakdos will be on their side as well. Bolas is trying to corrupt all the guilds, but has failed with the Selesnya, Boros, and Dimir, and the guess is he'll also fail with the Rakdos and Simic. He's going to take over the Azorious by having Isperia (the current leader) murdered, and install a puppet, similar to how he used Vraska's internal revolution to depose Jarad and take over the Golgari, and used Ral to sideline Niv Mizzet from the Izzet. He's trying to sow xenophobia amongst the Boros, but Aurelia isn't falling for it and maintains control over most of the guild. She will lead them in defense of the Guildpact when the war begins. He's also currently trying to overthrow Lazav because Lazav is too clever to be manipulated and recognizes that something is up.
This from Flisch is actually a good argument for Chandra fitting RG. Its almost never depicted in stories, but RG can definitely fit that description, and I overlooked it.
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