In The Promised End, we saw the battle of the gatewatch versus Emrakul. Liliana initially managed to hold Emrakul at bay with her powers with the aid of the The Chain Veil, but eventually her powers faded and Emrakul subdued her. We also saw what was a persistent description through Liliana's point of view of Aurora of Emrakul over the members of the gatewatch plus Tamiyo. Also we had Jace's dream which I'm not sure if it is depicted or not with Contingency Plan. In the end they used Tamiyo scroll and Imprisoned in the Moon. Tamiyo described that the scroll binding failed and was she was about to use Planar Outburst, Emrakul took control over her and changed the scroll, but that doesn't make sense at all, if Emrakul was able to keep mutating and transforming the plane into her own likeness she could have changed everything at all
So lets put some things straight
Planeswalkers seem to possess some kind of resistance over Emrakul's Influence, this can be explained further with Spatial Contortion and Slip Through Time, the Titans are physical manifestation of aspects of The Blind Eternities, and the planeswalkers are resistant to both the blind eternities and to the influence of the Titans.
Resistance does not mean Immunity, you can be indestructible, but you can be affected by abilities, sorceries or instants.
This can explain why they didn't mutate at all.
Emrakul could reset everything, but we have to consider her plot-wise, she is a flying creature 13/13 that has protection from instants and can control your enemy for a turn, and lets consider you have all the six planeswalker on the battlefield, you could use only Tamiyo, Field Researcher and don't screw up everything (not benefiting your opponent), you could tap their planeswalkers, but that wouldn't matter at all.
You could use Jace, but we know Jace's pov
Why is that? We know that Emrakul played a chess game and she already knew the outcome, she was controlling them since the beginning, she had the board and the pieces and could use them to her own benefit. How the ending is benefiting for her? What if she didn't actually trapped herself into the moon? What if she was reading their minds to see a suitable vessel? This is implicit in the Lore, the Tamiyo we see is completely unstable, completely different from the Tamiyo we had seen, she had a mind link with Jace and simply it vanished. She was terrified by the thought that the thing used her to her own private schemes. In the end she refers to Emrakul as her, and what if all stories are hers? Did they win?
Is Tamiyo partially or completely corrupted by Emrakul's influence?
"They are all my pieces, Jace Beleren. They always were. I just no longer want to play."
Basically.
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Couple of corrections to the info in the OP: the aura surrounding the gatewatch+Tamiyo was Jace's, not Emrakul's.
The binding didn't fail, it was on the verge of failing. At that point it was Emrakul controlling Tamiyo, not Tamiyo herself, who pulled out the Serra scroll, which she altered to finish powering the faltering binding spell.
The indications are that what we've seen from the Eldrazi is not their actual purpose and that Emrakul knows that she's been lead astray (having been *lured* to both Zendikar and Innistrad) and sees the binding as a way to halt it. She also states that she's incomplete, and that the plane wasn't made ready for her. (edit)This would seem to indicate(/edit) that she knows Ulamog and Kozilek are dead, and that all three are a part of a singular whole or process. It's possible that she intends to lock herself away until Ulamog and Kozilek are replaced, restoring them to their intended purpose.
Short answer, no. I don't think Tamiyo is corrupted by Emrakul, and given how popular she seems to be, I think it would be an extremely poor decision for creative to go down that path.
This indicates that she knows Ulamog and Kozilek are dead, and that all three are a part of a singular whole or process. It's possible that she intends to lock herself away until Ulamog and Kozilek are replaced, restoring them to their intended purpose.
This is a bit preposterous to be introduced by "this indicates". I think this is the truth too, but it's a bit too soon (and we have no certain proof) to say they work together in a bigger plan as servant of cosmic/planar reincarnation/rebirth.
Accepted. Replace "This indicates" with "This hints that" or "This would seem to indicate."
Remember, this all began when Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri decided to interfere the titans normal work and lure them to Zendikar. I'm just going to replace "planeswalkers" with "troublemakers" from now on.
Also, one of my suspicions is that Emrakul is using the moon as a sort of cocoon and isn't really "trapped".
The way I read it, Emrakul realized that whatever was happening on Innistrad was NOT part of what she was supposed to do but she couldn't exactly just leave the plane. So, she took over Tamiyo's turn, and finished the endgame she'd been preparing for with by forcing her to cast a different spell to power up Imprisoned in the Moon rather than devastate the plane with whatever was actually in the scroll originally because she is well aware of what her purpose is and had herself locked away until the time was right.
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So lets put some things straight
Why is that? We know that Emrakul played a chess game and she already knew the outcome, she was controlling them since the beginning, she had the board and the pieces and could use them to her own benefit. How the ending is benefiting for her? What if she didn't actually trapped herself into the moon? What if she was reading their minds to see a suitable vessel? This is implicit in the Lore, the Tamiyo we see is completely unstable, completely different from the Tamiyo we had seen, she had a mind link with Jace and simply it vanished. She was terrified by the thought that the thing used her to her own private schemes. In the end she refers to Emrakul as her, and what if all stories are hers? Did they win?
Is Tamiyo partially or completely corrupted by Emrakul's influence?
Basically.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
The binding didn't fail, it was on the verge of failing. At that point it was Emrakul controlling Tamiyo, not Tamiyo herself, who pulled out the Serra scroll, which she altered to finish powering the faltering binding spell.
The indications are that what we've seen from the Eldrazi is not their actual purpose and that Emrakul knows that she's been lead astray (having been *lured* to both Zendikar and Innistrad) and sees the binding as a way to halt it. She also states that she's incomplete, and that the plane wasn't made ready for her. (edit)This would seem to indicate(/edit) that she knows Ulamog and Kozilek are dead, and that all three are a part of a singular whole or process. It's possible that she intends to lock herself away until Ulamog and Kozilek are replaced, restoring them to their intended purpose.
Short answer, no. I don't think Tamiyo is corrupted by Emrakul, and given how popular she seems to be, I think it would be an extremely poor decision for creative to go down that path.
Accepted. Replace "This indicates" with "This hints that" or "This would seem to indicate."
Also, one of my suspicions is that Emrakul is using the moon as a sort of cocoon and isn't really "trapped".
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