Or what if Drazon's Maze is all about 4-color combinations? The Nephilim were four colors, so there is a precedent for Ravnica. Also MaRo said a while back when he was talking about commander (I believe it was then), that one of the things he most wishes is that they had made the Nephilim legendary, so there could be 4-color commanders...
Probably too crazy, but it's never been done before.
Oh oh oh! I got it, I know absoultely nothing of the storyline but... (I have interest, just no idea where to find it.) but... Even though Bolas isn't a part of this! What if its a hint to the next set! (Like Next Block) Bolas somehow attacks Ravnica when it's weakened due to war, and takes it over for himself!
The "puzzle" in Chinese is pretty straight forward, it's just 15 characters on 10 guild gates, 2 of each on RTR gates and 1 of each on GTC gates:
拉尼卡此时空的十公会将同归于尽, literally "The ten guilds on plane Ravnica will perish together".
I'm starting to wonder if the hypothetical Dragon's Maze message is something like, "UNLESS NIV-MIZZET DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT". Dragon's Maze's slogan is "Ten Guilds, One Destination", so presumably, the guilds survive until (and likely into) that set.
maybe lazev is pulling more strings than even we know about (I'm talking about in game. Or am I?)
Na but seriously, what if the secrets that our characters are looking for are bread crumbs to a trap, what if Niv is being influenced, directly/indirectly/replaced by, Lazev?
On top of that, I am thinking that all of this is leading to Szadek in the end. I have a feeling that he will be revealed as the true evil here (I could be wrong though)
I'm starting to wonder if the hypothetical Dragon's Maze message is something like, "UNLESS NIV-MIZZET DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT". Dragon's Maze's slogan is "Ten Guilds, One Destination", so presumably, the guilds survive until (and likely into) that set.
Then again, where would the message show up?
On the five three color Guild gates of course. Or the five three color shock lands
Isn't Niv-Mizzet looking for the power that will help one Guild rule them all? Maybe the gates hint that all the guilds will destroy each other unless they have a guild "standing out" from the rest. I feel like we are missing something...
Niv-Mizzet is aware of a great power that was created before the Guildpact was made that would help one guild to rule over the others. He is in search of this power before the other guilds find out about it so that he can rule. The power is to be found at the end of the maze, which Niv-Mizzet is aware of.
Maybe the storyline in gatecrash will be that the other guilds do find out about Niv-Mizzet's secret Maze to the ultimate power. Dragon maze is about the race to this power hence the "Ten Guilds, one destination" slogan...
Isn't Niv-Mizzet looking for the power that will help one Guild rule them all? Maybe the gates hint that all the guilds will destroy each other unless they have a guild "standing out" from the rest. I feel like we are missing something...
Niv-Mizzet is aware of a great power that was created before the Guildpact was made that would help one guild to rule over the others. He is in search of this power before the other guilds find out about it so that he can rule. The power is to be found at the end of the maze, which Niv-Mizzet is aware of.
Maybe the storyline in gatecrash will be that the other guilds do find out about Niv-Mizzet's secret Maze to the ultimate power. Dragon maze is about the race to this power hence the "Ten Guilds, one destination" slogan...
Just an observation...
The one guild to rule them all!
I think that the secret message for DGM will be " just kidding!"
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If that's your "casual," what on earth is required for "formal," a butler in livery shuffling the decks whilst a pianist plays Brahms in front of a tapestry?
This is really, truly a very cool easter egg. Kudos to WotC for taking the effort to put it in and make it work in all of the printed languages.
I agree that this feels very MaGo...
I hope that Maze will be a 'wedge' themed set. Part of the allure and popularity of Ravnica has been giving a name to the color pairs. Same with Shards. Getting community names for the wedges would be nice and would help counterbalance the disappointment of the guilds being dissensioned. Good stuff going on though.
Someone mentioned four color. I can't imagine that there's a whole lot of GOOD design space in four color. I would love to be proven wrong though.
I'm gonna throw out my random thing that just came into mind. Lazav is a shapeshifter, couldn't he secretly be controlling guilds and the members of the guilds never knew? Idek.
I would love to find out that Lazav is actually secretly controlling the other guilds, even though i'm kinda Orzhov at heart.
I'm gonna throw out my random thing that just came into mind. Lazav is a shapeshifter, couldn't he secretly be controlling guilds and the members of the guilds never knew? Idek.
I would love to find out that Lazav is actually secretly controlling the other guilds, even though i'm kinda Orzhov at heart.
I believe you are right I recall reading that he has spies in every guild.
I'm starting to wonder if the hypothetical Dragon's Maze message is something like, "UNLESS NIV-MIZZET DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT". Dragon's Maze's slogan is "Ten Guilds, One Destination", so presumably, the guilds survive until (and likely into) that set.
Then again, where would the message show up?
I think where ever the rest of the message shows up it will say, " AND BECOME ONE"
It spells out "The Guilds of Ravnica will destroy each other."
I sure hope this isn't true. *shudders*
Maybe this is all a big conspiracy theory and we're overreacting? Please?
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Or what if Drazon's Maze is all about 4-color combinations? The Nephilim were four colors, so there is a precedent for Ravnica. Also MaRo said a while back when he was talking about commander (I believe it was then), that one of the things he most wishes is that they had made the Nephilim legendary, so there could be 4-color commanders...
Probably too crazy, but it's never been done before.
I loved the Nephilim and maintain a 5 colour deck just for them. There are few things funner than morbidly Tragic Slipping an Ink-Treader Nephilim in multiplayer.
I would be happy if they put out some more 4 colour cards - and the mana fixing necessary - but happier still if they put out some 3 color wedge cards (Ana, Dega, etc style). Some 5 guild Angry Azorius, Beasting Dimir, Peaceful Rakdos, Tricksy Gruul and Bad Selesnya weirdness.
Personally I think that we'll find out that this is the culmination in a 10000 year plan of Niv-Mizzet to join Bolas and become a Planeswalker. He's been manipulating the Guilds and their wars to create the right conditions.
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I thought I was the only one to notice the originals, and I tried to tell my friends but they also thought it was an error. I feel so accomplished now!
I loved the Nephilim and maintain a 5 colour deck just for them. There are few things funner than morbidly Tragic Slipping an Ink-Treader Nephilim in multiplayer.
I would be happy if they put out some more 4 colour cards - and the mana fixing necessary - but happier still if they put out some 3 color wedge cards (Ana, Dega, etc style). Some 5 guild Angry Azorius, Beasting Dimir, Peaceful Rakdos, Tricksy Gruul and Bad Selesnya weirdness.
Personally I think that we'll find out that this is the culmination in a 10000 year plan of Niv-Mizzet to join Bolas and become a Planeswalker. He's been manipulating the Guilds and their wars to create the right conditions.
I had some similar ideas and some crazy ones. The craziest being Dimir is infiltrating the guilds to eventually destroy all traces of White and Green mana, as part of a plan by Nicol Bolas. Niv-Mizzet and Rakdos aren't real they're just creations made from/by Nicol Bolas.
Guilds like Simic and Golgari will join forces to deal with the dimir. A dimir sleeper agent will use the simic to make himself into a plant zombie (instead of a skeletal type) and gain favor over those guilds.
A Dimir Sleeper agent will die and infiltrate the ghost council. In desperation guilds will start to join forces.
Boros and Azorius to enact divine judgement on the grotesque Simic/Golgari beasts.
Gruul will be targeted by this justice and join forces with selesnya.
Niv will realize a great power is needed to stop this conflict and will join forces with rakdos due to his power. They will be compelled to get a simic mage (Dimir sleeper) to fuse them and unknowingly create an Avatar of Nicol Bolas. Bolas will crush the other guilds.
In response the remaining (blackness) guilds will join forces to create a being to destroy the avatar. They will get a simic to fuse many strong members of those guilds creating a 5-color Nephilim (Avatar of Ravnica?). It will throw Bolas' avatar into the void but drain many ravnican's to the point of death.
The guilds are now finished as the beast drains anyone who uses mana.
Then I remembered that the nephilim regained their power by eating dragons under the city. The Dragon's Maze probably refers to something like this rather than a crazy Nicol Bolas Plan.
Then I remembered that the nephilim regained their power by eating dragons under the city. The Dragon's Maze probably refers to something like this rather than a crazy Nicol Bolas Plan.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this. Perhaps the mystical aura or nexus lured Niv, but he knows of what happened to the other dragons down there, so he has devised a plan to go and check it out. Maybe to stop the Nephilim once and for all? He needs the other guilds help, and even though most of them disagree with one another, it will take all ten guilds to solve the ___ and stop the ___ in the one destination. The dragon's maze.
Hopefully we see new legendary Nephilim. Too cool of a concept / Commander target to miss, especially since we have seen a lot of cards that seem dedicated towards Commander so far.
Hopefully we see new legendary Nephilim. Too cool of a concept / Commander target to miss, especially since we have seen a lot of cards that seem dedicated towards Commander so far.
Nephilim Overlord: Legendary Creature - WURBG
Protection from Dual-colored
When Nephilim Overlord enters the battlefield you gain control of all Nephilim in play.
WURBG: Search target library or graveyard for a Nephilim creature and put it into play. Shuffle all libraries.
P/T: 5/5
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So 10 guild champions trapped together in a "cunning" maze / arena thing Fighting to the death to determine which guild will lead the others into the future but they just end up messing everything up.
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NEW RAVNICA: It's Bolas Country out there!
(I'm talking out my backside honestly.)
Everyone else is talking conspiracy theroies...
Just noticed that in the Portuguese flavor text, in gatherer, they have the letters from the messaged capitalized.
拉尼卡此时空的十公会将同归于尽, literally "The ten guilds on plane Ravnica will perish together".
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Then again, where would the message show up?
Na but seriously, what if the secrets that our characters are looking for are bread crumbs to a trap, what if Niv is being influenced, directly/indirectly/replaced by, Lazev?
On top of that, I am thinking that all of this is leading to Szadek in the end. I have a feeling that he will be revealed as the true evil here (I could be wrong though)
On the five three color Guild gates of course. Or the five three color shock lands
Niv-Mizzet is aware of a great power that was created before the Guildpact was made that would help one guild to rule over the others. He is in search of this power before the other guilds find out about it so that he can rule. The power is to be found at the end of the maze, which Niv-Mizzet is aware of.
Maybe the storyline in gatecrash will be that the other guilds do find out about Niv-Mizzet's secret Maze to the ultimate power. Dragon maze is about the race to this power hence the "Ten Guilds, one destination" slogan...
Just an observation...
The one guild to rule them all!
I think that the secret message for DGM will be " just kidding!"
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Mythic rares are fine.
I agree that this feels very MaGo...
I hope that Maze will be a 'wedge' themed set. Part of the allure and popularity of Ravnica has been giving a name to the color pairs. Same with Shards. Getting community names for the wedges would be nice and would help counterbalance the disappointment of the guilds being dissensioned. Good stuff going on though.
Someone mentioned four color. I can't imagine that there's a whole lot of GOOD design space in four color. I would love to be proven wrong though.
Phyrexians are behind the plot to destroy ravnica eh?
I would love to find out that Lazav is actually secretly controlling the other guilds, even though i'm kinda Orzhov at heart.
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I believe you are right I recall reading that he has spies in every guild.
I think where ever the rest of the message shows up it will say, " AND BECOME ONE"
Really hope WoTC doesnt screw things
I sure hope this isn't true. *shudders*
Maybe this is all a big conspiracy theory and we're overreacting? Please?
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Caw Blade is based on the ancient powerful strategy of equipping Storm Crow with Worldslayer, blowing everything up, punching your opponent in the face, stealing his cards, and running away. This new deck is a mere shell of the original caw blade's power.
I loved the Nephilim and maintain a 5 colour deck just for them. There are few things funner than morbidly Tragic Slipping an Ink-Treader Nephilim in multiplayer.
I would be happy if they put out some more 4 colour cards - and the mana fixing necessary - but happier still if they put out some 3 color wedge cards (Ana, Dega, etc style). Some 5 guild Angry Azorius, Beasting Dimir, Peaceful Rakdos, Tricksy Gruul and Bad Selesnya weirdness.
Personally I think that we'll find out that this is the culmination in a 10000 year plan of Niv-Mizzet to join Bolas and become a Planeswalker. He's been manipulating the Guilds and their wars to create the right conditions.
EDH: GW Sisay, UB Wrexial, WR Anax and Cymede (Coming soon)
Casual: GW Elephants
I thought I was the only one to notice the originals, and I tried to tell my friends but they also thought it was an error. I feel so accomplished now!
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Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
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Commander: Allies & Adversaries
I had some similar ideas and some crazy ones. The craziest being Dimir is infiltrating the guilds to eventually destroy all traces of White and Green mana, as part of a plan by Nicol Bolas. Niv-Mizzet and Rakdos aren't real they're just creations made from/by Nicol Bolas.
Guilds like Simic and Golgari will join forces to deal with the dimir. A dimir sleeper agent will use the simic to make himself into a plant zombie (instead of a skeletal type) and gain favor over those guilds.
A Dimir Sleeper agent will die and infiltrate the ghost council. In desperation guilds will start to join forces.
Boros and Azorius to enact divine judgement on the grotesque Simic/Golgari beasts.
Gruul will be targeted by this justice and join forces with selesnya.
Niv will realize a great power is needed to stop this conflict and will join forces with rakdos due to his power. They will be compelled to get a simic mage (Dimir sleeper) to fuse them and unknowingly create an Avatar of Nicol Bolas. Bolas will crush the other guilds.
In response the remaining (blackness) guilds will join forces to create a being to destroy the avatar. They will get a simic to fuse many strong members of those guilds creating a 5-color Nephilim (Avatar of Ravnica?). It will throw Bolas' avatar into the void but drain many ravnican's to the point of death.
The guilds are now finished as the beast drains anyone who uses mana.
Then I remembered that the nephilim regained their power by eating dragons under the city. The Dragon's Maze probably refers to something like this rather than a crazy Nicol Bolas Plan.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this. Perhaps the mystical aura or nexus lured Niv, but he knows of what happened to the other dragons down there, so he has devised a plan to go and check it out. Maybe to stop the Nephilim once and for all? He needs the other guilds help, and even though most of them disagree with one another, it will take all ten guilds to solve the ___ and stop the ___ in the one destination. The dragon's maze.
Hopefully we see new legendary Nephilim. Too cool of a concept / Commander target to miss, especially since we have seen a lot of cards that seem dedicated towards Commander so far.
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries
Nephilim Overlord: Legendary Creature - WURBG
Protection from Dual-colored
When Nephilim Overlord enters the battlefield you gain control of all Nephilim in play.
WURBG: Search target library or graveyard for a Nephilim creature and put it into play. Shuffle all libraries.
P/T: 5/5
EDH: GW Sisay, UB Wrexial, WR Anax and Cymede (Coming soon)
Casual: GW Elephants
Decks used- GGarruk vs LilianaB, WElsepth vs TezzeretU, WGKnights vs DragonsR
WGRAjani vs BolasRUB, WUVenser vs KothR, RUIzzet vs GolgariGB.
WBSorin vs TibaltBR, WRHeros vs Monsters RG
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