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Quote from Deadkitten »Remember way way back when we were asking if Modern was going to be Little Legacy or Big Standard? At this point I think it is fair to say that Modern is Little Legacy. Historic is going to be Big Standard. It will be a lower powered non-rotating format post New World Order.
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Quote from Firebead_elvenhair »Quote from Tears of Tomorrow (post EU) »So uh... Chandra is officially the energetic, endearing, lovable face of the product now? Are we all supposed to pretend that one time when she killed innocent people with no provocation (TWICE!) never happened?
Yup, but I don't know what are you talking about... she is ever been a lovely person, don't let anyone tell you different! u.u
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Quote from Sylphnir »I wonder if "loyality manipulation" will become a recurring part of the red color pie. Even if secondary to GW.
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Quote from Flisch »
"Chandra, Awakened Inferno deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead."
Does this mean the second sentence only applies to creatures, or can planeswalkers die as well? I don't think they've ever used die for planeswalkers.
Quote from AtraxianShade »Thinking about it... This set will most likely have FOUR Chandras.
Don't forget the planeswalkers decks!
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Quote from BlueTronFTW »
I will never understand the appeal of LSV or any of those CFB type dudes. Whatever, one more mystery of life.
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It's likely to be events parallel to the paper Magic plotline. It might well be in the "past", or it could be "current" with a given set - but it will almost certainly not be "current" for long, as paper Magic progresses the timeline much too rapidly.Quote from Evil Never Dies »Quote from Ritokure »That... isn't what a "reboot" means at all. A reboot would imply an all-new continuity. Just like Marvel movies don't "reboot" the Cinematic Universe every time they shift to Ant-Man from Captain Marvel, instead just focusing in a different story in the same universe, this wouldn't be a "reboot" as much as it would be a new story focusing on different characters in the same universe.Quote from Evil Never Dies »
No, not a "separate" storyline as it take place in different worlds but in the same timeline or storyline of the main events, but an all-new storyline which means : A reboot.
Is this going to tell the same story from the card game? No, and that's a good thing. The card game storyline is much bigger than what one could fit into a 20 or even 50 minute episode, and trying to cram in 10+ years of story in such a short timespan always disappoints both old-timers (because the story would lose a lot of the nuance and details that made it interesting in the first place) and newcomers (which would have to "learn" 10+ years of story in a very short timespan). This isn't new, every major expanded universe does this, from the aforementioned Marvel to Star Wars.
They literally said that they will use the same main characters like Jace and Bolas with an all-new storyline. So that means that this series is setted in a near past with totally irrelevants events for the main story until War (so ultraboring and useless spin-off fillers) or, more likely, that they're just going to tell us a completely different story with Jace, Bolas, and so on. Since they just imprisoned Bolas with the premise that was locked forever, you aren't going to say that they just gaves us with such nonchalance the giant spoiler that they will use Bolas again despite we know they can't? Anyway, forgot that this game is actually called "Retcon : the Gathering", if WotC loves to rewrite their own history already in paper magic, you'll see amount of inconsistency fiesta that they'll do here.
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That... isn't what a "reboot" means at all. A reboot would imply an all-new continuity. Just like Marvel movies don't "reboot" the Cinematic Universe every time they shift to Ant-Man from Captain Marvel, instead just focusing in a different story in the same universe, this wouldn't be a "reboot" as much as it would be a new story focusing on different characters in the same universe.Quote from Evil Never Dies »
No, not a "separate" storyline as it take place in different worlds but in the same timeline or storyline of the main events, but an all-new storyline which means : A reboot.
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The golden flash of light isn't actually consistent with the described effect of Bolas planeswalking in the Hour of Devastation story (there, it was described almost like a black void being ripped in reality), but this definitely has the feel of a really big planeswalker appearing in the sky and then descending to earth. And in a story where Bolas is described as "the Second Sun"...well, it would fit.
Why Bolas would take the time to tell his side of the story with someone else's voice, I don't know, but that definitely felt like what was going on to me.
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(It's on the "Preview Cards" page on the Mothership. Should...probably get a thread of its own: would do it myself, but I don't have access to my usual screenshotting app.)
So that makes the RW uncommon #169.
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Winter 2019: [Name of new plane]
Spring 2019: Return to Theros
(Summer 2019: Core 2020)
Fall 2019: Return to Theros part 2
Winter 2020: Ravnica 3
Spring 2020: Ravnica 3 part 2
(Alternatively, Fall 2018 is Dominaria part 2 or a brief Ravnica check-in, and all of the non-core stuff gets pushed back a spot.)
I'm still convinced that the next year or so of unannounced sets will be continuing the current "Gatewatch divided" arc, following the order of their Defeats in the Hour of Devastation story: Jace on Ixalan, Lili on Dominaria, then Chandra, Nissa, and finally Gideon.
Chandra most likely retreated to somewhere familiar to her to heal, and it's way too soon for another Kaladesh set, so taking advantage of the new blockless structure to spend a single set on Regatha makes sense - especially since Dominaria is reintroducing Jaya to the story, making the plane where she has a devout following a logical follow-up.
Likewise, it's still too soon for another Zendikar set, and we don't know much about Nissa's interplanar exploits pre-BFZ, so she's a lot more up in the air: a Lorwyn/Shadowmoor set is possible, but I wouldn't hold my breath. A set featuring a properly new plane would help with the slew of revisit sets to follow.
(Wilder speculation: that new plane will be a Wild West-themed plane...which is also Angrath's home plane. The way the story writers have talked about Angrath make him feel partly like a plant for an already-in-the-works future set to me, and a
cowbullboyman blacksmith would be a perfect fit in the wild west. Nissa's piece of the story is the most "available" piece of story space to follow up on his story.)And then that leaves Gideon. It actually will have been long enough since original Theros for a revisit at that point (six years), and the Amonkhet block story set up a number of plot threads to reconnect Gideon to his home plane: this is the most obvious landing location of any of them. This is also the arc most likely to be its own Thing outside of recovery (especially with the potential for a Heliud/Heliod plot on the heels of a revelation in Regatha), so it's the most likely of the bunch to get two sets.
And, finally, the part where the Gatewatch come back together for the Bolas rematch...all roads seem to be leading to Ravnica at this point. As noted above, it's possible we get a set very soon first, seeing the state the plane is in without the Living Guildpact (focusing on the enemy-colored guilds, probably, since that's where most of the internal strife has been shown so far?), but Ravnica is by far the most likely candidate for where this arc will end.
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(I'm not complaining at all - that's probably my favorite piece of the UB color pie. It's just a bit flavorfully odd.)
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Sweet card. Not my cup of tea from a gameplay perspective (I'm very much a Timmy, though sadly not of the variety that the actual Timmy card satisfies), but she's perfect for what she is.
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"Carefully following the ??? [compass?] Bolas had given her, Vraska ??? ??? [made?] the River [Name] ???."
I'm not 100% sure that that's Vraska's name, but it starts with a V and the penultimate letter is a K, so I'm pretty confident. Bolas's name is clearly visible, though. If it is Vraska following Bolas's instructions, that means that two of the three known Ravnican walkers have a direct connection to him. Not sure if that means anything, but it's interesting.
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(Alternatively, this makes for a really clunky semi-lock with Devastation Tide: 5 mana a turn to clear the board in your draw step every turn, albeit at the cost of not drawing any new cards during your draw steps.)