Thanks for letting me know not to read it. They managed to make Huatli incredibly uninteresting. And after Arlinn Kord, Saheeli Rai, etc. I've learned to not have any interest in the 'native' walkers. Dovin Baan is the only one I can remember that we've actually seen off-world in story, aside from their first walks. I could very well be wrong, though I stand by my initial assertion that native walkers are among the most boring characters in the stories.
7.2. Shiny blue metal = lazotep. Through streets = Ravnica. Giants = maybe some of the Gruul, maybe Nephilim. Given that gods don't seem to be able to planeswalk (no scarab god), I'd find it unlikely that Bolas would personally eternalize members of the Gruul. Knowing that the Nephilim absorb that which they eat, I'd guess that more of them are released and they eat some eternals before continuing to rampage.
Please oh please oh please let it be the Nephilim! I'm in the "Nephilim should have been legendary" camp. MaRo said he regrets not making the original Nephilim legendary, maybe we'll get some legendary lazotep Nephilim! I know its a stretch and that I'll never be able to officially use Ink-Treader as a commander but a dude can dream.
I hope we get to meet Nancy Beleren (or whatever Jace's mom's name turns out to be).
The thing from the story that I'm stuck on is the reason behind Ugin sending Jace to Ixalan. Is it coincidence that it is where Bolas sent Vraska? Could Ugin be trying to cover his own tracks in case Jace ran into Bolas? Does Ugin know something specific that Jace doesn't? This mystery is more intriguing than Shadows over Innistrad/Eldritch Moon, probably because the twist in the latter was obvious. I still like where the story is going because it isn't totally predictable.
Bolas is probably looking for someone, maybe another planeswalker in hiding. Or maybe he's trying to find a way to break into a plane. I remember reading something back during Alara(?) when Bolas was in the Blind Eternities and came upon a plane that had these two ladies that appeared to be sisters or something. Anyway, they bar Nicol Bolas from entering the plane. I could be just imagining this because I didn't find anything on the wiki.
I'm not sure about themes, or if someone else has already posted something similar, but I have an idea involving partner commanders. If they were to make a commander set with 5 decks, each deck could have 3 potential commanders with partner; two two-color and one mono color. Decks would be allied colors, bringing the total count of partner commanders available to 30, with 2 partner commanders in every two color combo, and one in each color. This would make all sorts of new options, especially for building 3 color decks with partner commanders.
I just hope they don't start changing the card backs. It would just look really terrible if you're playing without sleeves (or clear sleeves) to have a deck with mostly the old back and a few with new backs, your opponents would know which cards you're holding.
Please oh please oh please let it be the Nephilim! I'm in the "Nephilim should have been legendary" camp. MaRo said he regrets not making the original Nephilim legendary, maybe we'll get some legendary lazotep Nephilim! I know its a stretch and that I'll never be able to officially use Ink-Treader as a commander but a dude can dream.
The thing from the story that I'm stuck on is the reason behind Ugin sending Jace to Ixalan. Is it coincidence that it is where Bolas sent Vraska? Could Ugin be trying to cover his own tracks in case Jace ran into Bolas? Does Ugin know something specific that Jace doesn't? This mystery is more intriguing than Shadows over Innistrad/Eldritch Moon, probably because the twist in the latter was obvious. I still like where the story is going because it isn't totally predictable.