Urgh, I hate the obligatory good guy wins endings. Just like I'm starting to hate the inevitable bad guy wins endings too. Let the goblins win for once!
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Urgh, I hate the obligatory good guy wins endings. Just like I'm starting to hate the inevitable bad guy wins endings too. Let the goblins win for once!
This is why Im rooting for Lazav. I mean Dimir isnt even bad per say when the "good" guild everyone is rooting for is a nature loving cult that is starting to take up arms. I mean realistically its not like once he achieves supreme rule over the guilds he would stop working in secret.
Then again a Fblthp wins ending would make my day.
Urgh, I hate the obligatory good guy wins endings. Just like I'm starting to hate the inevitable bad guy wins endings too. Let the goblins win for once!
Almost all recent (post-neowalkers) sets have ended with either the bad guys winning or at least the good guys not being victorious.
Alara: Bolas eats up the Maelstrom, but at least Ajani gives him the finger.
Zendikar: Oops, here's some Lovecraftian monstrosities to destroy your plane, have fun.
Mirrodin 2: Now under new direction.
Innistrad: Finally! Angels kicking ass!
Correct me if I'm wrong as I have yet to buy the novel.
The maze runs through all the Gates, so the Guild Champions needs to infiltrate every opposing guilds. It's very obvious that battles would occur. Am I the only who thinks that this is a ploy by Niv Mizzet to weaken all the guilds (including his) and in the end turn him the victor. There's no way he'll just give the control of Ravnica to someone else and allow his guild to be attacked just like that. He's the one who engineered this game and there should be something there that would turn him the winner.
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From an actual book-storyline perspective, I have little to offer because I haven't read any but would you think this WPN Prerelease Retail video would support the theory of Jace winning the maze?
The relevant part starts around 2:30. "Players of the guild that was first to the finish line will earn the 'champion of the maze' promo card". The Champion cards picture Jace and the participant cards picture Ral Zarek.
From an actual book-storyline perspective, I have little to offer because I haven't read any but would you think this WPN Prerelease Retail video would support the theory of Jace winning the maze?
The relevant part starts around 2:30. "Players of the guild that was first to the finish line will earn the 'champion of the maze' promo card". The Champion cards picture Jace and the participant cards picture Ral Zarek.
No. The video is referring to the "achievement cards" which aren't actual Magic cards, but cards with codes that can be entered on your Planeswalker Points page to give you the Achievement on your profile. This promotion has NOTHING to do with the actual Storyline.
Correct me if I'm wrong as I have yet to buy the novel.
The maze runs through all the Gates, so the Guild Champions needs to infiltrate every opposing guilds. It's very obvious that battles would occur. Am I the only who thinks that this is a ploy by Niv Mizzet to weaken all the guilds (including his) and in the end turn him the victor. There's no way he'll just give the control of Ravnica to someone else and allow his guild to be attacked just like that. He's the one who engineered this game and there should be something there that would turn him the winner.
Niv didn't build the maze, Azor I (founder of the Azorious) did. The maze only came to light after the fall of the Guildpact because it's a failsafe Azor put in just in case the 'Pact was ever broken.
Azor built in the requirement that a representative from each guild participate; Niv's already had his people (including Ral Zarek) running the maze, but it won't work without full representation of the guilds.
So, Niv did not in fact engineer the game, and it's not a ploy by Niv to weaken the guilds. Could that be a side benefit to the Maze? Sure, and Niv would be glad to exploit it. But despite the set's name, it isn't the Dragon's maze.
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I haven't read a letter of MTG book writing, but here's my idea on this..
Each of the guilds represents one of the many facets of real life society. They are all required for the happy equilibrium of the system. I'm going to guess that there will be some sort of fusion happening at the end.
Azor built in the requirement that a representative from each guild participate; Niv's already had his people (including Ral Zarek) running the maze, but it won't work without full representation of the guilds
To clarify, Ral ran the maze by himself without Niv-Mizzet's knowledge or consent.
I really need to read the new story. Personally, none of them seem like good canidates. And the image I have is this is more of a race then a maze. Hopefully this isn't true.
You know, I suddenly have the urge to ask this question...
How does Niv announce the race? Personal invitation to each Guild (via his messenger Weirds, maybe?)? Or an all-out megaphoned public announcement from Nivix? I'm rather interested on the consequence of the second choice; If he flat out tells the entire Ravnica about the invitation to the race, the guildless may do something major about this. If it's personal invitations, I'm curious how exactly he sends in the invitations (like, how does he tell Lazav?)
How does Niv announce the race? Personal invitation to each Guild (via his messenger Weirds, maybe?)? Or an all-out megaphoned public announcement from Nivix?
He sent messengers to several prominent locations... and then had them project giant holographic dragon heads of himself into the sky where he announced it to everyone in hearing distance.
Im putting my money on Gideon bumbling around and accidentally finishing the maze. Would be completely priceless having some random dude, not even away accidentally win the maze. The benefit is that now he will have his dudes to help with Zendikar xD.
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Im putting my money on Gideon bumbling around and accidentally finishing the maze. Would be completely priceless having some random dude, not even away accidentally win the maze. The benefit is that now he will have his dudes to help with Zendikar xD.
No. And stop bringing it up man, you're spreading that theory around and there's NO BASIS for it.
I think that Jace will win the maze, according to last week uncharted realms it is really obvious that Jace is trying to solve the maze. Also Jace is being pushed as the face of magic again and it would make sense for wizards to make Jace the leader of Ranvica as a way to achive this goal.
Also Jace is being pushed as the face of magic again and it would make sense for wizards to make Jace the leader of Ranvica as a way to achive this goal.
The problem is that it makes Jace unusable everywhere else. He'd be forever tied to Ravnica, and that's really squandering a resource. Just look at what happened with Ajani, the poor guy.
If the maze's end causes the original Guildpact to be re-established (as hinted at by the guildgate secret code), what will happen to all the planeswalkers? For was it not the original Guildpact which caused Ravnica to be isolated from the rest of multiverse?
If the maze's end causes the original Guildpact to be re-established (as hinted at by the guildgate secret code), what will happen to all the planeswalkers? For was it not the original Guildpact which caused Ravnica to be isolated from the rest of multiverse?
Does this mean they'll kill off Jace? c:
j/k.
But you do have a point. Is that barrier explicitly an effect of the guildpact?
It's sort of funny because I answered this very question earlier over PM.
The short answer is "Yes".
The long answer is "No, but..."
What happened is the fact that the guildpact was such a powerful spell that it interacted with the temporal energies of the time rifts on Dominaria, allowing a bubble to form around Ravnica. It was several hundred years into the guildpact that the bubble became too thick for interplanar travel, and that's also what caused Agyrem to form.
So, the guildpact by itself didn't stop planar travel, but the way it mixed with the time rifts did.
Without the rifts any longer, the guildpact shouldn't impede travel.
If the guildpact is to be restored (per the gate message), that would necessarily mean that the whole "maze winner gets supreme power" thing is a lie. Not really a big surprise there.
What seems most likely at this point is that the maze is set up so that the 10 champions running it is somehow magically equivalent to whatever the original paruns did to establish the guildpact.
Granted, this seems kinda pointless now that it's known how to destroy it.
What's really weird is that the conclusion to the story, whatever it ends up being, doesn't seem to be reflected on any of the cards. Unless we've all missed something.
This is why Im rooting for Lazav. I mean Dimir isnt even bad per say when the "good" guild everyone is rooting for is a nature loving cult that is starting to take up arms. I mean realistically its not like once he achieves supreme rule over the guilds he would stop working in secret.
Then again a Fblthp wins ending would make my day.
Almost all recent (post-neowalkers) sets have ended with either the bad guys winning or at least the good guys not being victorious.
Alara: Bolas eats up the Maelstrom, but at least Ajani gives him the finger.
Zendikar: Oops, here's some Lovecraftian monstrosities to destroy your plane, have fun.
Mirrodin 2: Now under new direction.
Innistrad: Finally! Angels kicking ass!
The maze runs through all the Gates, so the Guild Champions needs to infiltrate every opposing guilds. It's very obvious that battles would occur. Am I the only who thinks that this is a ploy by Niv Mizzet to weaken all the guilds (including his) and in the end turn him the victor. There's no way he'll just give the control of Ravnica to someone else and allow his guild to be attacked just like that. He's the one who engineered this game and there should be something there that would turn him the winner.
The relevant part starts around 2:30. "Players of the guild that was first to the finish line will earn the 'champion of the maze' promo card". The Champion cards picture Jace and the participant cards picture Ral Zarek.
No. The video is referring to the "achievement cards" which aren't actual Magic cards, but cards with codes that can be entered on your Planeswalker Points page to give you the Achievement on your profile. This promotion has NOTHING to do with the actual Storyline.
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Niv didn't build the maze, Azor I (founder of the Azorious) did. The maze only came to light after the fall of the Guildpact because it's a failsafe Azor put in just in case the 'Pact was ever broken.
Azor built in the requirement that a representative from each guild participate; Niv's already had his people (including Ral Zarek) running the maze, but it won't work without full representation of the guilds.
So, Niv did not in fact engineer the game, and it's not a ploy by Niv to weaken the guilds. Could that be a side benefit to the Maze? Sure, and Niv would be glad to exploit it. But despite the set's name, it isn't the Dragon's maze.
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I haven't read a letter of MTG book writing, but here's my idea on this..
Each of the guilds represents one of the many facets of real life society. They are all required for the happy equilibrium of the system. I'm going to guess that there will be some sort of fusion happening at the end.
To clarify, Ral ran the maze by himself without Niv-Mizzet's knowledge or consent.
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How does Niv announce the race? Personal invitation to each Guild (via his messenger Weirds, maybe?)? Or an all-out megaphoned public announcement from Nivix? I'm rather interested on the consequence of the second choice; If he flat out tells the entire Ravnica about the invitation to the race, the guildless may do something major about this. If it's personal invitations, I'm curious how exactly he sends in the invitations (like, how does he tell Lazav?)
He sent messengers to several prominent locations... and then had them project giant holographic dragon heads of himself into the sky where he announced it to everyone in hearing distance.
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No. And stop bringing it up man, you're spreading that theory around and there's NO BASIS for it.
It's not even a theory. It's closer to inane rambling.
At the very latest on May 21st when the Secretist part 3 comes out.
Here's a link to the article about jace researching the maze.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ur/243
The problem is that it makes Jace unusable everywhere else. He'd be forever tied to Ravnica, and that's really squandering a resource. Just look at what happened with Ajani, the poor guy.
Does this mean they'll kill off Jace? c:
j/k.
But you do have a point. Is that barrier explicitly an effect of the guildpact?
The short answer is "Yes".
The long answer is "No, but..."
What happened is the fact that the guildpact was such a powerful spell that it interacted with the temporal energies of the time rifts on Dominaria, allowing a bubble to form around Ravnica. It was several hundred years into the guildpact that the bubble became too thick for interplanar travel, and that's also what caused Agyrem to form.
So, the guildpact by itself didn't stop planar travel, but the way it mixed with the time rifts did.
Without the rifts any longer, the guildpact shouldn't impede travel.
What seems most likely at this point is that the maze is set up so that the 10 champions running it is somehow magically equivalent to whatever the original paruns did to establish the guildpact.
Granted, this seems kinda pointless now that it's known how to destroy it.
What's really weird is that the conclusion to the story, whatever it ends up being, doesn't seem to be reflected on any of the cards. Unless we've all missed something.
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