And yep the skin matches the texture pattern of emrakul
I wonder how nerfed the new emrakul card will be on eldritch moon set? (I mean there's no way the new emrakul is going to be that strong.)
The new Ulamog is largely considered to be stronger than the old one, so I wouldn't be surprised if a new Emrakul is close to the same power level as the other. But you can be sure that it won't have Annihilator, which probably nerfs it in a lot of people's minds already, but it may still keep the extra turn clause.
As useless as it might be, It is still notable the fact that in every art, Eldrazi from Emrakul lineage do not have neither eyes nor mouths... So why should creatures that are mutating into Emrakul spawns develop extra mouths and eyes?
I feel like if these changes had been made more obvious and apparent to Emrakul's influence, it would largely defeat the entire mystery theme of the block, especially seeing how many people claimed it was Emrakul so early on. They likely wanted changes that didn't blatantly scream "Emrakul," and probably preferred mutations that would confuse players more, keeping them guessing in order to deepen the mystery of the block.
Of course, I had one of those "shower thoughts," which is: what if a new titan was being summoned, perhaps of Emrakul lineage, on the plane of Innistrad? Doubtful comparatively, especially considering the biological warping being so tied to Emrakul, but technically not impossible.
And yep the skin matches the texture pattern of emrakul
I wonder how nerfed the new emrakul card will be on eldritch moon set? (I mean there's no way the new emrakul is going to be that strong.)
The new Ulamog is largely considered to be stronger than the old one, so I wouldn't be surprised if a new Emrakul is close to the same power level as the other. But you can be sure that it won't have Annihilator, which probably nerfs it in a lot of people's minds already, but it may still keep the extra turn clause.
I guess that's true
Speaking of which I'm glad I got the new Ulamog for 10$ (while people thought the old Ulamog was still better.)
Or maybe the "Remember, there is always three" refers to the fact that there will be a NEW eldrazi titan, one that hopefully has a built in ability that that transforms people into Eldrazi Spawn (like pongify but for spawns). It would also be cool if the villain is a DFC, some sort of human that serves as an eldrazi conduit and transforms into a titan when a certain criteria is matched. I'm still hoping we get some undercosted humanoid Locutus of Eldrazi type character. I would love a colorless EDH deck that isn't just Titans or Karn helmed.
Or maybe the "Remember, there is always three" refers to the fact that there will be a NEW eldrazi titan, one that hopefully has a built in ability that that transforms people into Eldrazi Spawn (like pongify but for spawns). It would also be cool if the villain is a DFC, some sort of human that serves as an eldrazi conduit and transforms into a titan when a certain criteria is matched. I'm still hoping we get some undercosted humanoid Locutus of Eldrazi type character. I would love a colorless EDH deck that isn't just Titans or Karn helmed.
The problem is, we kinda already have that, at least in lore. After all, there's Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim if you want to go down the dogma route, or Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet if you want to go down the "modified" route.
A cheap colorless commander would be neat though.
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If it does end up being Emrakul settling into Innistrad's seas and causing this subtle, mysterious disruption, it would be amusing considering I posted this on January 22nd:
Emrakul seems most likely. This is the first set moving away from a 3 block. As sort of a soft landing, they could be doing a fresh set using an element from the previous block. In terms of mythos, this brings HP Lovecraftian horror to the horror plane. It allows them to explore another dimension of terror not explored with werewolves, vampires, ghosts, demons and mad scientists. It also potentially allows continuation of the colorless mechanic, which likely will remain with magic here on out.
What might be interesting is if Emrakul figures out how to chill and just be part of the landscape. Eldrazis are an interesting concept in the magic multiverse. If Emrakul could find a home and establish a niche in the planes, it would be on Innistrad.
Emrakul to me feels like the true Cthullu. I'd love for her to arrive on Innistrad with only a subtle, but suspicious disturbance noted by the plane. But one that goes largely ignored, yet remembered. Like a strange meteor shower, or an eclipsing red moon one night. Ominous, but could otherwise pass for blasé on a horror plane. She settles into the deep ocean and remains relatively dormant. Then twisted horrors begin to arrive. Then it's Avacyn herself. And now the aberration must be identified, or else. But what could be the source? No one knows, this plane has never encountered Eldrazi. Cue the Planeswalkers.
It would be fascinating to see the mysterious, patient undoing of Innistrad from a different angle. Nothing as abrupt and clear-cut as BFZ with the other titans. Which was fine for Zendikar, but something tells me if Kozilek can be as manipulative on Zendikar as he has been, Emrakul with her biology-warping capabilities would be something else entirely. She's clearly demonstrated being the most elusive when she moved off Zendikar entirely, first.
I'm so totally Jenrik. Not to mention Emrakul on Innistrad is horrifying. This is an unprepared plane (assuming the cryptoliths won't serve as hedrons) facing the most powerful, fully recovered Edrazi titan to top them all.
Dude, it's slivers. It's always slivers. Everbody's turning into slivers. Everything's a sliver. The liths are slivers. The moon is a fat and silver eldritch sliver queen. Plus, sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver
I don't think Emrakul is on the plane yet. I think Nahiri is twisting the mana of the plane to draw Emrakul there.
There's a big cult aspect to the set this time. The faith of the sea god is showing up in multiple cards. The symbol of the three tentacles thingy is showing up on clues, cultists and sometimes hiding among the other images. I see two possibilities here. Nahiri is using the faith of the old god and twisting the worship to draw Emrakul or..
We have to remember that the Eldrazi didn't start on Zendikar. They were an intangible force that drew life from planes and subtly twisted them. Sorin's backstory is that his father created vamparism on the plane to overcome a horrible famine. It was Sorin's conversion that lit his spark, and it was later his concern for the welfare of the multiverse that drove him to ally with Ugin and Nahiri to draw the Eldrazi to Zendikar. Well.. what if Emrakul was on Innistrad drawing the life from the plane? It could have been the original cause of the famine and what twisted it into darkness. Sorin's concern for the multiverse might not have been so altruistic but a very characteristic selfish concern for his own plane. The worshipers of the old god may have been the same symptomatic devotees to the eldrazi influence as what was seen on Zendikar. Nahiri is tapping into that old faith and drawing Emrakul back to Innistrad.
Long time ago the Eldrazi invade the multiverse. They're unseen corrupting influences that sap the life from planes while warping the minds of the inhabitants. Emrakul intangibly descends onto Innistrad, creating the great famine.
Sorin's father, worried of extinction by the great famine, learns the secrets of vamparism from a demon. He becomes the first on the plane. He subjects his son, igniting his spark. Sorin becomes a planeswalker, becomes powerful and makes allies. He returns to his home plane and sees the evil corruption destroying his world and threatening to overrun it into madness and darkness. He realizes there is a malevolent being infesting his plane.
Sorin leaves and finds other planeswalkers aware of the eldrazi forces, and he organizes a plan to draw them into a trap. He doesn't do this for the good of the multiverse but rather selfishly for the good of his plane. Sorin, Ugin and Nahiri succeed and draw the eldrazi to Zendikar. There they force them into corporeal forms and trap them in the hedrons. It works, almost. Zendikar becomes devastated over time. The minds of the people warped into devotion to these creatures. They occasionally slip their cages. Meanwhile Nahiri realizes Sorin chose to save his own plane at the expense of hers. She's not impressed.
On Innistrad the worshipers of the old gods recede. The supernatural famine abates. Sorin creates Avacyn and the plane becomes what we know today.
Then the eldrazi escape. Nahiri sees her chance for revenge. She enters Innistrad and creates the cryptoliths. She uses the old cults and the plane's twisted manas to draw the creature nearer back to Innistrad. The plane begins feeling the old corruption, and madness begins to set in.
She's dead. But they had to have mentioned the BW angel in the story for a reason; she has to be related to the plot somehow. We also already know Liliana will be coming to Innistrad in Eldritch Moon. My guess is that Liliana brings her back to life, helping Sorin (or Nahiri) in exchange for their help later on.
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If Emrakul is on the moon, then so are Ulamog and Kozilek. Gods never die, only slumber.
Personally I'd rather Emrakul suck the colored mana left on Dominaria out, which would revive Yawgmoth, because he was killed by all five colors of mana. Yawgmoth would then ride Emrakul to New Phyrexia where he'd become the colorless Father of Machines. Which is the job that Bolas was gunning for, so he'd be mad, and team up with Karn and Ugin and fuse to become Mecha King UgBoKa and they would slaughter all ten Jaces and eat them. That's what I got from Taymiyo's puzzle, anyway.
What I am thinking is the following: Emrakul is not a factor here, and Wizards will put similar easter-egg trailer-like clues (for lack of a better word per-other-settings) in future blocks.
This is quite possibly - and perhaps I am wrong here - to show a) the interplanar impact of the passing of 2/3 Eldrazi (as other planes will have such "clues" scattered about), and/or b) to set up for a movie spot with the Gatewatch v. Emrakul. Or did we all forget there's a movie coming about in the future? I have a good feeling here about this.
So, I'm trying to figure out if MaRo gave us a clue when he said the following in today's article:
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In the story, it has become clear that Avacyn has gone mad and she is harming Innistrad. Jace figures out that Avacyn is the cause of the madness and has to be stopped. Unfortunately, he's no match for Avacyn. The day is saved by Sorin, who has to unmake the creation he made so many centuries ago. [emphasis added]
A couple of thoughts here. First, Avacyn could be so intricately tied to the plane that her madness is corrupting everything else, even warping it. Second, on the other hand, why is Avacyn going mad? In the Magic Fiction on March 9th, the story of Avacyn going mad demonstrated that something outside of Avacyn was affecting her.
Satisfied her work was done, [Avacyn] began her ascent back to her mountainous retreat. A violent shimmer wracked her body, shaking her vision.
Everything in front of her doubled. The trees, the mother and child, each blade of grass. Doubled, and then doubled again. A pounding ache ran through her head and she dropped to the ground, crumpled in pain. A field of white flashed through her eyes, followed by an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...and then a normal scene resumed in front of her. Avacyn whipped her gaze around to identify the source of the attack. Few vampires had ever been powerful enough to launch such an assault. A demon lord, perhaps...
There was a soft buzzing in her ears. A constant low hum that neither raised nor lowered in volume. It was just...there, an off-tonal accompaniment to the prayers whispering in her head. The back of Avacyn's neck felt tight, and occasional involuntary shivers would shoot up from her neck through the rest of her head, as if in alarm to an attack. But no attack came. She shook her head in the hope it would clear the buzzing, but it remained in the back of her thoughts.
So it could be that there is one source of Avacyn's corruption, and that Avacyn's corruption is leading to the corruption of the plane. This kind of targeted strike is not Eldrazi-esque, as they were identified by Ugin as being mindless in their consumption, hence why the Gatewatch plan worked to lure them into a trap. I'm not saying I have the answer for who the big bad is, but Emrakul seems like a stretch, no matter the "code" people have found among the clues.
In the story where Sigarda is called to meet the other Angels, I thought that it was heavilly implied that whatever happened to corrupt them happened at that meeting. Sigarda missed it and was thus unaffected.
To me, that implied a more... subtle touch than a giant Elrazi Titan floating by. I imagined it as a human (or human-looking) presence at the meeting doing some kind of witchery to twist these powerful Angels.
I still hope that Emrakul is a red herring. Give up a purely Innistradian cause of it all. Old forgotten Sea God for example?
It's pretty clear that Nahiri did whatever she did to the angels. But angels not important.
So, I'm trying to figure out if MaRo gave us a clue when he said the following in today's article:
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In the story, it has become clear that Avacyn has gone mad and she is harming Innistrad. Jace figures out that Avacyn is the cause of the madness and has to be stopped. Unfortunately, he's no match for Avacyn. The day is saved by Sorin, who has to unmake the creation he made so many centuries ago. [emphasis added]
A couple of thoughts here. First, Avacyn could be so intricately tied to the plane that her madness is corrupting everything else, even warping it. Second, on the other hand, why is Avacyn going mad? In the Magic Fiction on March 9th, the story of Avacyn going mad demonstrated that something outside of Avacyn was affecting her.
Satisfied her work was done, [Avacyn] began her ascent back to her mountainous retreat. A violent shimmer wracked her body, shaking her vision.
Everything in front of her doubled. The trees, the mother and child, each blade of grass. Doubled, and then doubled again. A pounding ache ran through her head and she dropped to the ground, crumpled in pain. A field of white flashed through her eyes, followed by an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...and then a normal scene resumed in front of her. Avacyn whipped her gaze around to identify the source of the attack. Few vampires had ever been powerful enough to launch such an assault. A demon lord, perhaps...
There was a soft buzzing in her ears. A constant low hum that neither raised nor lowered in volume. It was just...there, an off-tonal accompaniment to the prayers whispering in her head. The back of Avacyn's neck felt tight, and occasional involuntary shivers would shoot up from her neck through the rest of her head, as if in alarm to an attack. But no attack came. She shook her head in the hope it would clear the buzzing, but it remained in the back of her thoughts.
So it could be that there is one source of Avacyn's corruption, and that Avacyn's corruption is leading to the corruption of the plane. This kind of targeted strike is not Eldrazi-esque, as they were identified by Ugin as being mindless in their consumption, hence why the Gatewatch plan worked to lure them into a trap. I'm not saying I have the answer for who the big bad is, but Emrakul seems like a stretch, no matter the "code" people have found among the clues.
an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...
For all we know, neither Emrakul nor any other titan displayed any kind of proficiency with hedrons. The fault for Avacyn's madness is squarely on Nahiri's shoulders.
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an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...
Hedrons. Very obviously.
It's Nahiri or Emrakul, that much is clear.
Let's assume Emrakul for a second. If it were Emrakul, why would she flash an image of Hedrons, the very form of her imprisonment, before Avacyn? What purpose would it serve? It's not an easter egg, a clue that Wizards is dropping to us the reader. It's a story, and the image has a purpose, otherwise it wouldn't be written. Emrakul would have no reason to show Avacyn the means by which she was previously imprisoned, lest Avacyn try to resist her and deduce that the Hedrons are means of imprisoning her.
Now let's assume Nahiri. If, as some have postulated, that Nahiri is trying to bring Emrakul to Innistrad, then again, what's the point of flashing the Hedrons before Avacyn? Does Nahiri even have this kind of power? I wasn't aware that a Lithomancer could generate mind-altering magic (she's not Blue).
I agree with you that the image is suspiciously similar to Hedrons in description. But all we can deduce is that the image was the beginning of the madness. Perhaps the floating obelisk stones are part of a ritual being done by the minions of a some evil mastermind and they harness some kind of power to drive things insane. During the process, it is possible that the image is brought to bear and it sets in the minds of those going insane. Or it's possible that Avacyn is so powerful she had a premonition of the ritual as they were beginning to affect her. There's a dozen other possible explanations other than a story just recently told (Eldrazi ruining a plane). Just like Wizards doesn't (typically) print the same Planewalker twice in a row, I don't see them telling the same bad guy story twice in a row.
For all we know, neither Emrakul nor any other titan displayed any kind of proficiency with hedrons. The fault for Avacyn's madness is squarely on Nahiri's shoulders.
That depends on your idea of proficiency. And if Nahiri brings an Eldrazi to a plane and the Eldrazi causes the madness, then the fault still lies with Nahiri. I don't see what you are arguing here.
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So, I'm trying to figure out if MaRo gave us a clue when he said the following in today's article:
Quote from MaRo »
In the story, it has become clear that Avacyn has gone mad and she is harming Innistrad. Jace figures out that Avacyn is the cause of the madness and has to be stopped. Unfortunately, he's no match for Avacyn. The day is saved by Sorin, who has to unmake the creation he made so many centuries ago. [emphasis added]
A couple of thoughts here. First, Avacyn could be so intricately tied to the plane that her madness is corrupting everything else, even warping it. Second, on the other hand, why is Avacyn going mad? In the Magic Fiction on March 9th, the story of Avacyn going mad demonstrated that something outside of Avacyn was affecting her.
Satisfied her work was done, [Avacyn] began her ascent back to her mountainous retreat. A violent shimmer wracked her body, shaking her vision.
Everything in front of her doubled. The trees, the mother and child, each blade of grass. Doubled, and then doubled again. A pounding ache ran through her head and she dropped to the ground, crumpled in pain. A field of white flashed through her eyes, followed by an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...and then a normal scene resumed in front of her. Avacyn whipped her gaze around to identify the source of the attack. Few vampires had ever been powerful enough to launch such an assault. A demon lord, perhaps...
There was a soft buzzing in her ears. A constant low hum that neither raised nor lowered in volume. It was just...there, an off-tonal accompaniment to the prayers whispering in her head. The back of Avacyn's neck felt tight, and occasional involuntary shivers would shoot up from her neck through the rest of her head, as if in alarm to an attack. But no attack came. She shook her head in the hope it would clear the buzzing, but it remained in the back of her thoughts.
So it could be that there is one source of Avacyn's corruption, and that Avacyn's corruption is leading to the corruption of the plane. This kind of targeted strike is not Eldrazi-esque, as they were identified by Ugin as being mindless in their consumption, hence why the Gatewatch plan worked to lure them into a trap. I'm not saying I have the answer for who the big bad is, but Emrakul seems like a stretch, no matter the "code" people have found among the clues.
an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...
Hedrons. Very obviously.
It's Nahiri or Emrakul, that much is clear.
Just to remind avacyn is corrupted yes?
You guys are aware emrakul is known as Titan of corruption right?
Maybe the mutations depicted on the cards aren't actually happening? Maybe we, the viewer, are slipping into madness and we think there are mutations, tentacles, and extra appendages, but in reality none of it is happening. It's all just the madness warping our minds.
Some madness inducing being is causing us and the denizens of Innistrad to go all crazy.
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The new Ulamog is largely considered to be stronger than the old one, so I wouldn't be surprised if a new Emrakul is close to the same power level as the other. But you can be sure that it won't have Annihilator, which probably nerfs it in a lot of people's minds already, but it may still keep the extra turn clause.
I feel like if these changes had been made more obvious and apparent to Emrakul's influence, it would largely defeat the entire mystery theme of the block, especially seeing how many people claimed it was Emrakul so early on. They likely wanted changes that didn't blatantly scream "Emrakul," and probably preferred mutations that would confuse players more, keeping them guessing in order to deepen the mystery of the block.
Of course, I had one of those "shower thoughts," which is: what if a new titan was being summoned, perhaps of Emrakul lineage, on the plane of Innistrad? Doubtful comparatively, especially considering the biological warping being so tied to Emrakul, but technically not impossible.
I guess that's true
Speaking of which I'm glad I got the new Ulamog for 10$ (while people thought the old Ulamog was still better.)
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E Titans are not the only thing that comes as three
So do sets why was there only 2 parts in battle for zendikar when every other set had 3 (ps dragons of tarkir is part 3 of khans of tarkir.)
And Nahiris anger toward sorin is very likely because the 3 Titans escaped and ruined zendikar again
Maybe she lead emrakul to innistrad
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I'm so totally Jenrik. Not to mention Emrakul on Innistrad is horrifying. This is an unprepared plane (assuming the cryptoliths won't serve as hedrons) facing the most powerful, fully recovered Edrazi titan to top them all.
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Dude, it's slivers. It's always slivers. Everbody's turning into slivers. Everything's a sliver. The liths are slivers. The moon is a fat and silver eldritch sliver queen. Plus, sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver sliver
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I don't think Emrakul is on the plane yet. I think Nahiri is twisting the mana of the plane to draw Emrakul there.
There's a big cult aspect to the set this time. The faith of the sea god is showing up in multiple cards. The symbol of the three tentacles thingy is showing up on clues, cultists and sometimes hiding among the other images. I see two possibilities here. Nahiri is using the faith of the old god and twisting the worship to draw Emrakul or..
We have to remember that the Eldrazi didn't start on Zendikar. They were an intangible force that drew life from planes and subtly twisted them. Sorin's backstory is that his father created vamparism on the plane to overcome a horrible famine. It was Sorin's conversion that lit his spark, and it was later his concern for the welfare of the multiverse that drove him to ally with Ugin and Nahiri to draw the Eldrazi to Zendikar. Well.. what if Emrakul was on Innistrad drawing the life from the plane? It could have been the original cause of the famine and what twisted it into darkness. Sorin's concern for the multiverse might not have been so altruistic but a very characteristic selfish concern for his own plane. The worshipers of the old god may have been the same symptomatic devotees to the eldrazi influence as what was seen on Zendikar. Nahiri is tapping into that old faith and drawing Emrakul back to Innistrad.
Long time ago the Eldrazi invade the multiverse. They're unseen corrupting influences that sap the life from planes while warping the minds of the inhabitants. Emrakul intangibly descends onto Innistrad, creating the great famine.
Sorin's father, worried of extinction by the great famine, learns the secrets of vamparism from a demon. He becomes the first on the plane. He subjects his son, igniting his spark. Sorin becomes a planeswalker, becomes powerful and makes allies. He returns to his home plane and sees the evil corruption destroying his world and threatening to overrun it into madness and darkness. He realizes there is a malevolent being infesting his plane.
Sorin leaves and finds other planeswalkers aware of the eldrazi forces, and he organizes a plan to draw them into a trap. He doesn't do this for the good of the multiverse but rather selfishly for the good of his plane. Sorin, Ugin and Nahiri succeed and draw the eldrazi to Zendikar. There they force them into corporeal forms and trap them in the hedrons. It works, almost. Zendikar becomes devastated over time. The minds of the people warped into devotion to these creatures. They occasionally slip their cages. Meanwhile Nahiri realizes Sorin chose to save his own plane at the expense of hers. She's not impressed.
On Innistrad the worshipers of the old gods recede. The supernatural famine abates. Sorin creates Avacyn and the plane becomes what we know today.
Then the eldrazi escape. Nahiri sees her chance for revenge. She enters Innistrad and creates the cryptoliths. She uses the old cults and the plane's twisted manas to draw the creature nearer back to Innistrad. The plane begins feeling the old corruption, and madness begins to set in.
She's dead. But they had to have mentioned the BW angel in the story for a reason; she has to be related to the plot somehow. We also already know Liliana will be coming to Innistrad in Eldritch Moon. My guess is that Liliana brings her back to life, helping Sorin (or Nahiri) in exchange for their help later on.
That is funny. Are those testicles it has instead of cheeks?
Personally I'd rather Emrakul suck the colored mana left on Dominaria out, which would revive Yawgmoth, because he was killed by all five colors of mana. Yawgmoth would then ride Emrakul to New Phyrexia where he'd become the colorless Father of Machines. Which is the job that Bolas was gunning for, so he'd be mad, and team up with Karn and Ugin and fuse to become Mecha King UgBoKa and they would slaughter all ten Jaces and eat them. That's what I got from Taymiyo's puzzle, anyway.
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What I am thinking is the following: Emrakul is not a factor here, and Wizards will put similar easter-egg trailer-like clues (for lack of a better word per-other-settings) in future blocks.
This is quite possibly - and perhaps I am wrong here - to show a) the interplanar impact of the passing of 2/3 Eldrazi (as other planes will have such "clues" scattered about), and/or b) to set up for a movie spot with the Gatewatch v. Emrakul. Or did we all forget there's a movie coming about in the future? I have a good feeling here about this.
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But anyone else get that vibe?
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A couple of thoughts here. First, Avacyn could be so intricately tied to the plane that her madness is corrupting everything else, even warping it. Second, on the other hand, why is Avacyn going mad? In the Magic Fiction on March 9th, the story of Avacyn going mad demonstrated that something outside of Avacyn was affecting her.
So it could be that there is one source of Avacyn's corruption, and that Avacyn's corruption is leading to the corruption of the plane. This kind of targeted strike is not Eldrazi-esque, as they were identified by Ugin as being mindless in their consumption, hence why the Gatewatch plan worked to lure them into a trap. I'm not saying I have the answer for who the big bad is, but Emrakul seems like a stretch, no matter the "code" people have found among the clues.
It's pretty clear that Nahiri did whatever she did to the angels. But angels not important.
an image of many floating stone obelisks with intricate runes carved into their sides, moving in concert with each other...
Hedrons. Very obviously.
It's Nahiri or Emrakul, that much is clear.
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Let's assume Emrakul for a second. If it were Emrakul, why would she flash an image of Hedrons, the very form of her imprisonment, before Avacyn? What purpose would it serve? It's not an easter egg, a clue that Wizards is dropping to us the reader. It's a story, and the image has a purpose, otherwise it wouldn't be written. Emrakul would have no reason to show Avacyn the means by which she was previously imprisoned, lest Avacyn try to resist her and deduce that the Hedrons are means of imprisoning her.
Now let's assume Nahiri. If, as some have postulated, that Nahiri is trying to bring Emrakul to Innistrad, then again, what's the point of flashing the Hedrons before Avacyn? Does Nahiri even have this kind of power? I wasn't aware that a Lithomancer could generate mind-altering magic (she's not Blue).
I agree with you that the image is suspiciously similar to Hedrons in description. But all we can deduce is that the image was the beginning of the madness. Perhaps the floating obelisk stones are part of a ritual being done by the minions of a some evil mastermind and they harness some kind of power to drive things insane. During the process, it is possible that the image is brought to bear and it sets in the minds of those going insane. Or it's possible that Avacyn is so powerful she had a premonition of the ritual as they were beginning to affect her. There's a dozen other possible explanations other than a story just recently told (Eldrazi ruining a plane). Just like Wizards doesn't (typically) print the same Planewalker twice in a row, I don't see them telling the same bad guy story twice in a row.
That depends on your idea of proficiency. And if Nahiri brings an Eldrazi to a plane and the Eldrazi causes the madness, then the fault still lies with Nahiri. I don't see what you are arguing here.
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Just to remind avacyn is corrupted yes?
You guys are aware emrakul is known as Titan of corruption right?
Some madness inducing being is causing us and the denizens of Innistrad to go all crazy.
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