If Emrakul gets printed as DFC, it has to be creature or artifact on the front to combo with Nahiri's ultimate, not doing so would be the flavor failure of the decade.
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Legendary artifact
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
Eldrich Moon 1UR
Legendary Enchantment
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
Cool idea though might have to work on the clue making a little as any artifact sac outlet basically makes it insta flip for free... not to mention making a 2 card (well not counting the initial clue) infinite sac outlet. Doubt wizards would do that on purpose
I've definitely not been a proponent of Emrakul, and I still don't like the idea of Emrakul, but it would be really cool if Emrakul were a DFC in Eldritch Moon.
Emrakul herself probably won't be, but considering all the changes, there's probably going to be quite a few DFC cards in EDM that transform into Eldrazis.
I love this so much, oh my god. Emrakul is a corrupting force, so why not use Innistrad's theme of transformations to that end.
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I'm almost positive Emrakul will be a DFC. This will not only fit the flavor of the set, but also its design mechanics. As an added bonus, it makes her much harder to sneak into play off trickery like Goryo's Vengeance in the nonrotating formats, or straight acceleration in Standard.
So.. story point for people disappointed in Emrakul.
There's no telling if Nahiri is really that crazy as to just let an Eldrazi loose. There's a distinct possibility that she found a means of containing Emrakul on the plane, like they had on her plane, and this outcome may make the most sense. HP lovecraft stories were not Kaiju movies. They seemed to be about malevolent forces waiting at the cusp of reality to get loose, but they ended up being muuuuch less about the creatures on the edge of reality and rather about how their influence seeped into our reality. Many of his stories were really about the horror of humanity's degeneration into things that blurred the distinction of man and beasts. Cthulhu never got loose but for one moment of a story. He instead sat in his watery prison of R'ley waiting for an alignment in the stars that never fully came. His only real influence were his cults on earth. Much like CThulhu, the elder gods were rarely if ever overt forces, but toxins that destroyed the body of society.
I suspect that Nahiri is trapping Emrakul on Innistrad, making him slumber in the drown yards. She has setup Innistrad to not die, but live like Zendikar had in constant peril and warped by the dormant malevolent force contained within.
Well the Helvault was supposedly a part of the moon, and it was used as a prison for demons, so it's entirely possible that Nahiri is planning to/has devised a way to use the moon itself to contain Emrakul. The drownyard wouldn't so much act as the prison, as it would the lure to draw Em to Innistrad, same as they used Zendicar's mana to draw the titans there.
If Emrakul gets printed as DFC, it has to be creature or artifact on the front to combo with Nahiri's ultimate, not doing so would be the flavor failure of the decade.
revised:
Paper Moon :cmana::cmana::cmana:
Legendary artifact
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
You forgot protection from squirrels.
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A handful would be fine, just not the hordes we saw on Zendikar. This fits flavor wise, as Emrakul's brood is supposed to be the sparsest. My personal pet peeve with the current set is the lack of one of those awesome Innistradi dragons. If we get one of those in Eldritch Moon, I will be reasonably satisfied with whatever else they do in the set.
That would actually be a really awesome way to implement it. Just imagine, a vamdrazi...
Eldrich Moon 1UR
Legendary Enchantment
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
Cool idea though might have to work on the clue making a little as any artifact sac outlet basically makes it insta flip for free... not to mention making a 2 card (well not counting the initial clue) infinite sac outlet. Doubt wizards would do that on purpose
T1 - Thraben Inspector, get clue token
T2 - Arcbound Ravager/Atog/Krark-Clan Shaman/Grinding Station/Oxidda Daredevil
T3 - Eldritch Moon, begin combo. If playing Arcbound Ravager, Atog, or Grinding Station, continue combo until 20/20 Ravager/Atog or mill opponent to an empty library. If not playing either of those three, flip to Emrakul, the Maddening Moon.
If Emrakul gets printed as DFC, it has to be creature or artifact on the front to combo with Nahiri's ultimate, not doing so would be the flavor failure of the decade.
revised:
Paper Moon :cmana::cmana::cmana:
Legendary artifact
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
Last straw to pick that makes sense in terms of "remember this: they came as three" without directly involving Eldrazi...
Ugin, Sorin and Nahiri came as three. At the moment Jace is looking for the second of the three ignoring that the third is on Innistrad causing havock. It is something like "I met the first, I'm looking for the second, but I also found the third... Remember this: they came as three".
A bit convoluted, but still makes sense.
I kind of like this.
There always seems to be a lot of things people try to group in 3s. Like bad luck and death.
I believe there are three main horror tribes on the plane. Zombie, Vampire, and Werewolf. So maybe the originator of each of the 3, or the 3 tribes in general.
I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
Perhaps 3 old ancient monsters in the sea.
I just don't see the sense in taking their best and most fan favored plane and feeding it to a plane eating monster. Also don't see the sense in them wrecking and twisting it either. This is the plane that grabbed them a huge new audience. Why come back to wreck it?
The other thing that doesn't fit is Avacyn being the origin and the vehicle for the madness. Then corrupting the other angels that did show up to the meeting. It seems so much more focused, deliberate, and planned out than an Eldrazi being around.
The other thing that doesn't fit is Avacyn being the origin and the vehicle for the madness. Then corrupting the other angels that did show up to the meeting. It seems so much more focused, deliberate, and planned out than an Eldrazi being around.
Well to be fair we don't know a whole heck of a lot about Emrakul. She had the fewest spawn and can transform the living things of the plane essentially into it's spawn. She also seems to be the slowest and most subtle of the three, with Ulamog being the one who, along with his spawn, just kinda show up and start wrecking everything immediately and Kozilek just starts bending time and space in weird ways (for reasons, I guess). If only Emrakul appeared it would make sense for it to be less of an "Independence Day" style of invasion and more of a widespread version of "The Thing" or maybe "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (maybe something between the two). It would make sense for something like that to start by turning the most powerful creature on the plane and having it spread from there.
Basically, it narrates Jace's investigation throughout Innistrad going off from clues found in Tamiyo's Journal and Markov Manor, enhanced by his telepathic skills. He finds that something is wrong with the sea, with the moon, with the werewolves (who have "a network of tough sinew of varying thicknesses that had grown to such an extent...They connected in some places in thick nodules, clustered together.").
His search leads him to the Drownyard Temple, where a bunch of monoliths are twisting the mana and leylines of the plane to an unknown purpose.
Most interestingly, he finds these pieces of information in the Journal: "Taken in total, the findings presented in this work support the presence of an object of significant mass. Most likely a new astral body, an eldritch moon of sufficient size as to provide a gravitational pull able to disrupt the normal patterns of both the tides and magical energy."
"Recent measurements of moon phase durations have shown asymmetric alterations. The implication is that the moon's orbit itself is being pulled in some direction by a very large, very nearby object still invisible to humanoid eyes."
I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
You forgot Stormkirk - and <Unknown>. We have four families given by name and a clue that implies there is a spot for a fifth (whether that hopeful family actually ever existed or is just an idea is anyone's guess).
Similarly Spirits have been considered a monster tribe on par with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves all the way since the first Innistrad, so that doesn't fit either. Well, at least we know that the fifth and most evil tribe on Innistrad has been Humans all along!!!
The missing angel got referenced with a previously unknown flight. I wonder whether EMN will also go into the fifth family or whether that will be a loose end for our inevitable second return to the plane of Innistrad...
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I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
You forgot Stormkirk - and <Unknown>. We have four families given by name and a clue that implies there is a spot for a fifth (whether that hopeful family actually ever existed or is just an idea is anyone's guess).
Similarly Spirits have been considered a monster tribe on par with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves all the way since the first Innistrad, so that doesn't fit either. Well, at least we know that the fifth and most evil tribe on Innistrad has been Humans all along!!!
The missing angel got referenced with a previously unknown flight. I wonder whether EMN will also go into the fifth family or whether that will be a loose end for our inevitable second return to the plane of Innistrad...
I figured there was some I was missing. Also I remember people talking about distant shores? Just seems so much more for them to discover and show rather than bring the drama of something else and ignore all this other interesting stuff.
Not really sure if you can count spirits in the big bads. "White spirits represent guardian spirits and blue spirits are ghosts." From a wiki. I will have to look into it more but the guardians represent more of something helpful to me. Though I think they were a mix so maybe a net neutral?
I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
You forgot Stormkirk - and <Unknown>. We have four families given by name and a clue that implies there is a spot for a fifth (whether that hopeful family actually ever existed or is just an idea is anyone's guess).
Similarly Spirits have been considered a monster tribe on par with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves all the way since the first Innistrad, so that doesn't fit either. Well, at least we know that the fifth and most evil tribe on Innistrad has been Humans all along!!!
The missing angel got referenced with a previously unknown flight. I wonder whether EMN will also go into the fifth family or whether that will be a loose end for our inevitable second return to the plane of Innistrad...
On the Vampire Families: according to lore there were 12 vampire bloodlines, sourcing back from Edgar Markov's ritual. Of those 3 have died out fully and five are minor. The four mentioned between you two are the major bloodlines on Innistrad. Would be interesting to see the 5 minor bloodlines merge into one bloodline to become the fifth.
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I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
You forgot Stormkirk - and <Unknown>. We have four families given by name and a clue that implies there is a spot for a fifth (whether that hopeful family actually ever existed or is just an idea is anyone's guess).
Similarly Spirits have been considered a monster tribe on par with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves all the way since the first Innistrad, so that doesn't fit either. Well, at least we know that the fifth and most evil tribe on Innistrad has been Humans all along!!!
The missing angel got referenced with a previously unknown flight. I wonder whether EMN will also go into the fifth family or whether that will be a loose end for our inevitable second return to the plane of Innistrad...
On the Vampire Families: according to lore there were 12 vampire bloodlines, sourcing back from Edgar Markov's ritual. Of those 3 have died out fully and five are minor. The four mentioned between you two are the major bloodlines on Innistrad. Would be interesting to see the 5 minor bloodlines merge into one bloodline to become the fifth.
Yeah, I read that after I was corrected as well. I was wondering if maybe there were 12 people at the ceremony and the bloodline is someone who was turned from some original member of the group? If so then don't think you could merge the lines. Would also maybe allow some distinction as the transformation impacted each original member differently and they pass that along to who is infected from them. If the bloodlines are just the houses and rules they live under then they most certainly can combine.
Pretty sure each lineage is descended from a different one of the 12 at the original ceremony (as envisioned by Jace during his trip to the Manor) - Edgar first, then folks like Olivia, Runo, the Falconer, etc. including 8 we know nothing about. Each line seems to have its own characteristics, dependent on the character of its progenitor - Falkenraths to flight (as befits the line of the Falconer), Stromkirks to mistform (which makes sense, since Runo was a priest of the ancient sea-god), Markovs to psychic abilities etc. I don't think it's possible to merge lineages at all - every vampire is descended from just one of those progenitors, and there has yet to be any indication that you can cross the streams.
Interestingly, during the GP weekend spoilers and clues, we were given an image of five stones, each pertaining to a particular bloodline (see attached). The story is actually following the names of those stones for each of the main lineages - the Markovs are doomed (by Nahiri), the Falkenraths are succumbing to feeding frenzies, and the Voldarens are mobilising for war. Of all the lineages, the Stromkirks seem to have aligned themselves with Nahiri the most by supporting the new cults, so may be attempting to ascend to a type of vampire royalty. And then there is the fifth stone - a green 'Jade of the Hopeful', associated with an unknown fifth lineage. Maybe, with the Markovs decimated, one of the remaining 5 minor lineages might find itself drawn to fill the vacuum and become a new major power? Perhaps even a slightly G-aligned vampire line?
Jace makes contact with 'her', the shrew in the moon mentioned on the first Mad Prophet's flavor text: 'There's no heron in the moon! It's a shrew, a five-legged shrew, with a voice like whispering thunder!' Several things in the new set have five legs, like the animated lanterns on Bearer of Overwhelming Truths or the Stallion of Ashmouth. The whispering thunder may reference the buzzing thoughts that crowd out one's own. In a couple places it sounds like the angels belong to her (see below).
Given the Ugin quote, 'she' may be Emrakul, or something in addition to Emrakul, i.e., something else in the moon, maybe one of three. It's not exactly obvious. Read and see what you think:
"So...another come to listen to her call, hmm?...She's finally here! Brought her feathered ones from the sky...She's up there now, waiting for us, waiting to take it all away for us, to usher in a new world!...Where does the eye stare? How many eyes? How many legs on the moon shrew—?"
"A nebulous shroud of some...thing hung in the air. No, not something, but nothing. A blind spot in space that seemed to remain no matter how he tried to peer around it...The blind spot in his vision had swelled to become an Object far larger than Jace himself, nearly touching the floor and ceiling of the interior of the dome that trapped Jace like a spider beneath a glass...The Object, now impossibly, menacingly large, stared down at Jace. The smooth walls of the Chamber warped and bent under the Object's pull, then buckled with a loud CRACK. Fragments of the sundered walls tore themselves away and into the Object, revealing a spidery lattice underneath. A myriad of eyes opened, buried within the latticed walls, staring through Jace and the fisherwoman and toward the Object in manic ecstasy. Voices from behind the walls roared with a white noise that pierced through Jace's senses and brought him to his knees. The floor, too, cracked, though he could no longer hear it, but vaguely he knew that it had also given way under his weight, and realized that he was falling—
A blind spot, the Object, loomed in his vision, hovering just above the circle of stones in the distance. It pulsed with power, in time with the lustrous web of veins on the monoliths below it. This was the nexus of Innistrad's redirected leylines, the siphoned center of its energy."
"As Jace turned, something fell onto his head from above and rolled off into the sea. And again. Raindrops? He held out a hand, and grasped at the next as it fell. They were...feathers? Falling from a dense cloud overhead. He squinted. No, it wasn't a cloud, it was made of moving things. Huge winged things. Angels."
"No, a dull, buzzing voice reverberated through his mind. Stop asking. Too many unanswered questions. You don't need the book and its bottomless well of mysteries. They'll drown you. Jace shoved the book away into his robes. You've come this far. You know the answer. Stop searching."
Wouldn't it be great if Jace was actually possessed by Emrakul, and lost his spark and became some grixis legend. With devoid... And we never saw him as a planeswalker again...
If Emrakul gets printed as DFC, it has to be creature or artifact on the front to combo with Nahiri's ultimate, not doing so would be the flavor failure of the decade.
revised:
Paper Moon :cmana::cmana::cmana:
Legendary artifact
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
15/15 "I told you so!" - Abdul, Mad Prophet
Yeah... This is a bit too much. It would be fine in standard, but Modern would explode.
I'd imagine something more like this:
Mysterious Object - 4
When ~ enters the battlefield, investigate.
Whenever you draw your first card in a turn, investigate
Sacrifice 13 clues,
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Emrakrul Reborn
Protection from all colors
Flying, trample
Skip your next turn: Emrakrul Reborn loses protection from all colors. Any player may activate this ability.
13/13
Instead of taking an extra turn, the card makes your opponents skip their turn if they want to block or play a kill spell.
Reading the latest journal, I'd say it's a mix of hints and misdirects, and there's no way to tell one from the other yet. My general feeling is that the illusions hint to it being something that Jace knows, and frankly there are very few things big enough to fit that bill. This level of manipulation is either Bolas or Emrakul. Otherwise it is an unknown agent that's being retconned in. I frankly lean towards Emrakul.
The interesting bit I read from here was actually Tamiyo's entry about the cryptoliths. She hinted at an ancient crystalline structure from deep within the planet. I've held a theory that Innistrad is one of the worlds that Emrakul had visited before Zendikar, and that she was the cause of the ancient famine that caused the vampire syrum to be created. If Emrakul has the same reality distortion ability that warps landscapes like the other eldrazi, this buried substance might be a hint of Emrakul having warped the landscape previously to suck out the lifeforce.
Well, emrakul doesn't affect non-living things, but it might have affected the plant life. I actually think Thraben Inspector is investigating infected moss. Even if Nicol Bolas is involved, though, there's no reason to believe most of the stuff is tied to the dragon. It could very well be that bolas has a role, though. He does mind tricks and he wanted to free the eldrazi for some reason. It also has to be something rediculously huge like Emrakul or Marit Lage to affect the moon's gravity. Nicol Bolas is big, but not THAT big. It has to be stupid big like Krakens and Dreadnoughts for jewelry.
The last article is almost leading me to believe there is no big bad. That it really is an actual moon slowly being pulled out. A moon like the current silver one but where all the positive effects turned more negative. Like what if Innistrad originally had 2
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Paper Moon :cmana::cmana::cmana:
Legendary artifact
Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate.
If you sacrifice ten or more clues in a turn, transform Eldrich Moon
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Emrakul, the Maddening Moon
Legendary Creature
Flying
Indestructible
When Emrakul attacks, target player discards their hand and puts all cards in their library into their graveyard.
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I think it would be cooler if it was "Whenever you sacrifice a clue, investigate twice." With every answer we find multiple questions!
Why not three times? As she writes on the cryptoplyth clue token: "For every answer, three questions."
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I love this so much, oh my god. Emrakul is a corrupting force, so why not use Innistrad's theme of transformations to that end.
Generals meant to be drafted first in a single pack of 6 cards.
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Well the Helvault was supposedly a part of the moon, and it was used as a prison for demons, so it's entirely possible that Nahiri is planning to/has devised a way to use the moon itself to contain Emrakul. The drownyard wouldn't so much act as the prison, as it would the lure to draw Em to Innistrad, same as they used Zendicar's mana to draw the titans there.
You forgot protection from squirrels.
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T1 - Thraben Inspector, get clue token
T2 - Arcbound Ravager/Atog/Krark-Clan Shaman/Grinding Station/Oxidda Daredevil
T3 - Eldritch Moon, begin combo. If playing Arcbound Ravager, Atog, or Grinding Station, continue combo until 20/20 Ravager/Atog or mill opponent to an empty library. If not playing either of those three, flip to Emrakul, the Maddening Moon.
Very much broken.
Yea it's fine but
I don't emrakul is going to get a Jace, The Mind sculptor like attack ability.
But probably a ability simular to Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger
And emrakul does not have indestructible it's protection from colored spells Emrakul, the Aeons torn
I kind of like this.
There always seems to be a lot of things people try to group in 3s. Like bad luck and death.
I believe there are three main horror tribes on the plane. Zombie, Vampire, and Werewolf. So maybe the originator of each of the 3, or the 3 tribes in general.
I think there are 3 vampire houses/clans. (Falkenrath, Voldaren, Markov)
Perhaps 3 old ancient monsters in the sea.
I just don't see the sense in taking their best and most fan favored plane and feeding it to a plane eating monster. Also don't see the sense in them wrecking and twisting it either. This is the plane that grabbed them a huge new audience. Why come back to wreck it?
The other thing that doesn't fit is Avacyn being the origin and the vehicle for the madness. Then corrupting the other angels that did show up to the meeting. It seems so much more focused, deliberate, and planned out than an Eldrazi being around.
Well to be fair we don't know a whole heck of a lot about Emrakul. She had the fewest spawn and can transform the living things of the plane essentially into it's spawn. She also seems to be the slowest and most subtle of the three, with Ulamog being the one who, along with his spawn, just kinda show up and start wrecking everything immediately and Kozilek just starts bending time and space in weird ways (for reasons, I guess). If only Emrakul appeared it would make sense for it to be less of an "Independence Day" style of invasion and more of a widespread version of "The Thing" or maybe "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (maybe something between the two). It would make sense for something like that to start by turning the most powerful creature on the plane and having it spread from there.
Basically, it narrates Jace's investigation throughout Innistrad going off from clues found in Tamiyo's Journal and Markov Manor, enhanced by his telepathic skills. He finds that something is wrong with the sea, with the moon, with the werewolves (who have "a network of tough sinew of varying thicknesses that had grown to such an extent...They connected in some places in thick nodules, clustered together.").
His search leads him to the Drownyard Temple, where a bunch of monoliths are twisting the mana and leylines of the plane to an unknown purpose.
Most interestingly, he finds these pieces of information in the Journal:
"Taken in total, the findings presented in this work support the presence of an object of significant mass. Most likely a new astral body, an eldritch moon of sufficient size as to provide a gravitational pull able to disrupt the normal patterns of both the tides and magical energy."
"Recent measurements of moon phase durations have shown asymmetric alterations. The implication is that the moon's orbit itself is being pulled in some direction by a very large, very nearby object still invisible to humanoid eyes."
Confirmed enough?
You forgot Stormkirk - and <Unknown>. We have four families given by name and a clue that implies there is a spot for a fifth (whether that hopeful family actually ever existed or is just an idea is anyone's guess).
Similarly Spirits have been considered a monster tribe on par with Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves all the way since the first Innistrad, so that doesn't fit either. Well, at least we know that the fifth and most evil tribe on Innistrad has been Humans all along!!!
The missing angel got referenced with a previously unknown flight. I wonder whether EMN will also go into the fifth family or whether that will be a loose end for our inevitable second return to the plane of Innistrad...
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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I figured there was some I was missing. Also I remember people talking about distant shores? Just seems so much more for them to discover and show rather than bring the drama of something else and ignore all this other interesting stuff.
Not really sure if you can count spirits in the big bads. "White spirits represent guardian spirits and blue spirits are ghosts." From a wiki. I will have to look into it more but the guardians represent more of something helpful to me. Though I think they were a mix so maybe a net neutral?
On the Vampire Families: according to lore there were 12 vampire bloodlines, sourcing back from Edgar Markov's ritual. Of those 3 have died out fully and five are minor. The four mentioned between you two are the major bloodlines on Innistrad. Would be interesting to see the 5 minor bloodlines merge into one bloodline to become the fifth.
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
Yeah, I read that after I was corrected as well. I was wondering if maybe there were 12 people at the ceremony and the bloodline is someone who was turned from some original member of the group? If so then don't think you could merge the lines. Would also maybe allow some distinction as the transformation impacted each original member differently and they pass that along to who is infected from them. If the bloodlines are just the houses and rules they live under then they most certainly can combine.
Interestingly, during the GP weekend spoilers and clues, we were given an image of five stones, each pertaining to a particular bloodline (see attached). The story is actually following the names of those stones for each of the main lineages - the Markovs are doomed (by Nahiri), the Falkenraths are succumbing to feeding frenzies, and the Voldarens are mobilising for war. Of all the lineages, the Stromkirks seem to have aligned themselves with Nahiri the most by supporting the new cults, so may be attempting to ascend to a type of vampire royalty. And then there is the fifth stone - a green 'Jade of the Hopeful', associated with an unknown fifth lineage. Maybe, with the Markovs decimated, one of the remaining 5 minor lineages might find itself drawn to fill the vacuum and become a new major power? Perhaps even a slightly G-aligned vampire line?
Jace makes contact with 'her', the shrew in the moon mentioned on the first Mad Prophet's flavor text: 'There's no heron in the moon! It's a shrew, a five-legged shrew, with a voice like whispering thunder!' Several things in the new set have five legs, like the animated lanterns on Bearer of Overwhelming Truths or the Stallion of Ashmouth. The whispering thunder may reference the buzzing thoughts that crowd out one's own. In a couple places it sounds like the angels belong to her (see below).
Given the Ugin quote, 'she' may be Emrakul, or something in addition to Emrakul, i.e., something else in the moon, maybe one of three. It's not exactly obvious. Read and see what you think:
"So...another come to listen to her call, hmm?...She's finally here! Brought her feathered ones from the sky...She's up there now, waiting for us, waiting to take it all away for us, to usher in a new world!...Where does the eye stare? How many eyes? How many legs on the moon shrew—?"
"A nebulous shroud of some...thing hung in the air. No, not something, but nothing. A blind spot in space that seemed to remain no matter how he tried to peer around it...The blind spot in his vision had swelled to become an Object far larger than Jace himself, nearly touching the floor and ceiling of the interior of the dome that trapped Jace like a spider beneath a glass...The Object, now impossibly, menacingly large, stared down at Jace. The smooth walls of the Chamber warped and bent under the Object's pull, then buckled with a loud CRACK. Fragments of the sundered walls tore themselves away and into the Object, revealing a spidery lattice underneath. A myriad of eyes opened, buried within the latticed walls, staring through Jace and the fisherwoman and toward the Object in manic ecstasy. Voices from behind the walls roared with a white noise that pierced through Jace's senses and brought him to his knees. The floor, too, cracked, though he could no longer hear it, but vaguely he knew that it had also given way under his weight, and realized that he was falling—
A blind spot, the Object, loomed in his vision, hovering just above the circle of stones in the distance. It pulsed with power, in time with the lustrous web of veins on the monoliths below it. This was the nexus of Innistrad's redirected leylines, the siphoned center of its energy."
"As Jace turned, something fell onto his head from above and rolled off into the sea. And again. Raindrops? He held out a hand, and grasped at the next as it fell. They were...feathers? Falling from a dense cloud overhead. He squinted. No, it wasn't a cloud, it was made of moving things. Huge winged things. Angels."
"No, a dull, buzzing voice reverberated through his mind. Stop asking. Too many unanswered questions. You don't need the book and its bottomless well of mysteries. They'll drown you. Jace shoved the book away into his robes. You've come this far. You know the answer. Stop searching."
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Yeah... This is a bit too much. It would be fine in standard, but Modern would explode.
I'd imagine something more like this:
Mysterious Object - 4
When ~ enters the battlefield, investigate.
Whenever you draw your first card in a turn, investigate
Sacrifice 13 clues,
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Emrakrul Reborn
Protection from all colors
Flying, trample
Skip your next turn: Emrakrul Reborn loses protection from all colors. Any player may activate this ability.
13/13
Instead of taking an extra turn, the card makes your opponents skip their turn if they want to block or play a kill spell.
Reading the latest journal, I'd say it's a mix of hints and misdirects, and there's no way to tell one from the other yet. My general feeling is that the illusions hint to it being something that Jace knows, and frankly there are very few things big enough to fit that bill. This level of manipulation is either Bolas or Emrakul. Otherwise it is an unknown agent that's being retconned in. I frankly lean towards Emrakul.
The interesting bit I read from here was actually Tamiyo's entry about the cryptoliths. She hinted at an ancient crystalline structure from deep within the planet. I've held a theory that Innistrad is one of the worlds that Emrakul had visited before Zendikar, and that she was the cause of the ancient famine that caused the vampire syrum to be created. If Emrakul has the same reality distortion ability that warps landscapes like the other eldrazi, this buried substance might be a hint of Emrakul having warped the landscape previously to suck out the lifeforce.