"Choose! Cake or Death!?"
He should have chosen the chicken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVH0gZO5lq0&ab_channel=EddieIzzard
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Enchantment
When ~ enters the battlefield draw a card for each tapped creature you control.
Discard a card: Untap target creature.
(Interestingly, this also interacts positively with Icy Winds.)
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Honestly I expect nothing less from (a member of) the Gatewatch.
Blindly stumbling on the answer to their problems has been their modus operandi from day one.
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(emphasis mine)
Occam's Razor would suggest that simply taking the stories in chronological order (with the timelines of Jhoira's recruitment mission and Tiana/Arvad's story overlapping) puts the delivery of the Blackblade to Belzenlok 2-3months ago, which is a good amount of time for Thom to know about it before infiltrating Tolaria West (particularly given that Belzenlok definitely doesn't seem the type to hide that he has it in his possession).
The artifact Thom was stealing reasonably was the thus-far-unnamed wand. Because again, if Thom has succeeded in his mission of stealing Blackblade from Tolaria West why would he come back?
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Except Thom never left the tower after he snuck in (and if he was there to steal the Blackblade, and had managed to do so, why on earth would he come/be sent back?).
Beyond that Episode One of the Domianria story specifies that Needle (the agent who brought the Blackblade in) was infiltrating New Argive, not Tolaria West.
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Fairly certain on these changes.^^
No clue on the last one, but it starts with a T (compare to Tolaria). Tavidor? Teridour? I'm not that familiar with the specifics of the Dominaria storyline as I started playing with OG Mirrodin.
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Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee Frye). Yeah, that was my impression of her as well.
And yeah, Arvad's kinda lookin daddy af. I get the vague, speculative and totally unfounded feeling than he and Tiana might be a thing. (I hereby christen thee, the good ship Arvana.)
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1) I think Jhoira* is holding off on approaching Teferi and/or Jodah until she actually has the Weatherlight up an running. It seems pretty clear that her relationship with them isn't what it used to be, and she likely thinks it'll be easier to sway them if she's already got the ball rolling.
1a) To this end, I don't really think Raff is meant to be "the mage" rather he's only there to fill in the role of "the Capashen" because big sis said no. Jhoira wasn't there to recruit him, and honestly didn't even seem to be aware of his existence until he inserted himself into the situation. She likely has/had every intention to recruit Teferi or Jodah as her magic expert.
2) As far as the New Crew's relation to the Old Crew, Ajani fills Orim's role. While many people (myself included) tend not to think of him as such, Ajani IS a healer. That was his role from conception, his card art and story appearances simply tend to portray him more as a fighter who can heal, than as a healer who can fight. (There was a rather lengthy hubbub about this on MaRo's blog. Word of God is Ajani is a healer first and foremost.)
3) Just how many people (planeswalkers) does Ajani know? This old cat sure gets around.
4) Tiana = Kaylee. (Just the general vibe I get from her.) Also, I'm pretty sure she's at least part human. We know that Serra angels had relations with humans in Serra's Realm, and it's implied that they were also born just like humans, so I'm kinda feeling like she's maybe actually only half-Angel? (Hence her unsuredness in her angelic ability.)
*Somehow, for years and years and YEARS, until literally like a month ago, I've managed to read Jhoira's (Joy-ra) name as Jhoria (Jor-ee-ah). I've been mispronouncing her name for years despite it being literally right in from on me this whole time.
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True, but Gids would be kind enough to let you take him down.
On topic, the pacing IS fast, but I'll attribute that to the format. I'm really enjoying the exploration of Liliana's character.
Edit: So, are we going back to weekly updates after this (Only getting two stories this week cause they held back last week's)? Or is it continuing on an irregular schedule?
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I don't think people necessarily want death, exactly, but rather lasting and impactful consequences for character actions. Far too often in media characters experience horrific situations, trauma and/or injuries... that ultimately mean nothing, and come next week/book/episode/installment they're not only completely recovered, but it's as if the past events never happened. No scars, no anxieties, nothing to indicate anything was ever anything but sunshine and roses. That's simply not realistic, and while yes, fantasy settings can get away with a certain degree of that, it all too often becomes immersion breaking.
Khaladesh was frankly terrible for this. Literally NONE of the protagonists suffered any sort of appreciable harm or risk of harm that wasn't magic'd away by next chapter during an armed insurrection with an oppressive totalitarian government. That's just laughably kid-gloved.
Killing off all your characters leads to people not investing in them, because they're just going to die.
Plot armoring them leads to people not investing in them because they're not "real." There's no tension, and even in situations that readers could plausibly find themselves in, those characters don't act/react/experience it in reasonable or realistic ways, so you still can't relate to them.
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IIRC, before Urza collapsed Serra's Realm into the powerstone he evacuated many of the plane's citizens to Dominaria. As a result even if Serra had never been to Dominaria, there would be Serra Angels there.