For me, as a veteran, it is, and always was, about the community, not the name. I'll go where the people I like to talk to, and the staff that did such amazing work, are going.
If the staff moves to Nexus, I'll follow, like I went from News to Sally 14 years ago.
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May 9, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Retrospective by Mark WintersGreat article!Posted in: Articles
Though I am a little sad that after Kelly Digges, I see that another man highly responsible for the gem that is Dominaria left Wizards. -
Apr 9, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Preview - Final PartingCalled it!!! (I mean the Final Parting being Josu + Liliana, not Jodah + dying Jaya).Posted in: Articles
Also, gratz a lot to an official preview card! -
Mar 15, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesPosted in: ArticlesQuote from Formless_One »No, the Baron Sengir and Grandmother Sengir come from Ulgothra. However, Grandmother Sengir is actually a planeswalker named Ravi who knew the Baron when he was young and as I understand it before he was a vampire. Then she went insane after pulling an Urza and blowing up most of Ulgothra. But the plane has a planar portal that most likely connects to Dominaria, and who knows? Maybe the Baron and his "Grandmother" did some traveling around the Multiverse at some point.
The Baron is NOT from Ulgrotha. He is from an unknown plane, he was brought to Ulgrotha by an unknown walker and stranded there. He might be originally from Dominaria, as we seen Sengir vampires there...but there is not enough info either to confirm or dismiss it.
Granny is a former planeswalker and one-time friend of the Baron who had a hand in him becoming vampire. See here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Ravi
More in this 12 years old article from Matt Cavotta: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/royal-bloodline-emphasis-blood-2006-02-15 -
Mar 12, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesYou are welcome. Some more:Posted in: Articles
odah's paragraph is quite wild.
"(Jodah) was also present during the Phyrexian Invasion and helped restore Urza's sanity during that time" - this is wholly incorrect, where you got it?
- one of the primary contributous to Worldspell - not quite, he had to provide his mirror and was forced to utilize (and in the process, consume) the safe havens to distribute the excess energy of the spell to prevent another Sylex Blast.
It is debatable, whether Evra, Halcyon Witness is what we think. After all, we have seen Halcyon Glaze. But using this very particular name on Dominaria and NOT tying it to THE Halcyon would be immensely stupid.
Kolo Meha was above all a Bogardan fire mage, but with ties to Madara, of course.
Gix was not Glacian's kíller. He attacked and wounded him, but Yawgmoth "killed" him by his treattment. -
Mar 12, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesSome minor corrections:Posted in: Articles
- Primevals' rebirth was one of the climaxes of Planeshift,not Invasion
- Karn's Temporal Sundering is probably the time machine explosion also depicted on Sunder, not the Tolarian rift closure.
- Sagas get counters on the beginning of the precombat main phase
- Mirari was just one of Karn's probes, and a faulty one (it shouldn't be leaking power)
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Mar 7, 2018Caranthir posted a message on Ixalan Story Interview with Alison LuhrsLoving it. Amazing read.Posted in: Articles
The most interesting thing for me is the reveal of intentional use of farce structure and themes for the story. It makes PERFECT sense. And explains a lot. -
Feb 11, 2016Caranthir posted a message on Archive Trap: The World of InnistradGreat article, guys. Thanks for summarizing this.Posted in: Articles
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Jan 13, 2008Caranthir posted a message on [Powerfantasy] Some pics of a game...Great pics, James Losing Miles had to hurt, indeed. I like your choice of team....playing with Miles and Phobeya together is one of my preferred combinations. Just add Harass and you got my fav "supervillain" team. But Sil is powerful with any high-damage super character.Posted in: Hydrokinesis's Blog
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If I try to have an open mind and tell myself that this is trying to emulate the typical dime stories, that used to be cheesy, it is borderline acceptable.
It just seems they took a handful of villains across the planes and get them together. No motivations, no reference to previous lives, etc. Just for the cool. Looks to me like the Secret Wars from animated Spider-Man series, when the Beyonder just pulled several villains to his dimension and let them fight Spidey and his friends (to prepare Spidey and co. for their multiverse-saving task).
It really feels like a half-baked fanfic "what would happen if you took the biggest baddies and get them work together". Why the heck would Satoru Umezawa, a pragmatic crime lord, want to leave his world for this? What is the ****ing motivation of these characters to even work together?
It seems to me that they are now using established characters (Vraska, Kaervek) and tossing them around for "cool" short, shallow stories.
The shallowness is, in fact, what bothers me the most here. The previous stories (Eldraine, Ixalan, Karlov Manor) had at least some clear reason and motivations present. This is just "yee haw, boys, let's make Ocean's Eleven in Magic. Wild West time!"
Exactly. Even with the vest and other equipment "to blend in", everybody would kinda see he's not exactly local.
Dunno, but I'd check around for some asbestos-processing textile mill...
IIRC, Malcolm and Breeches were the only ones who faced the Mycotyrant and escaped to tell the tale.
Lectrys, the "the Eyes" epithet has probably the same reasoning why Rakdos is called "the muscle". Malcolm observes, Rakdos bashes.
Malcolm (from Ixalan)
Selvala (from Fiora)
Ghired (from Ravnica)
Kambal (from Kaladesh)
Yeah, serves me right to get this answer when I did not elaborate. This is the very first time we see him without his eye, and we know that he did not lose it in his ignition event. He's already one-eyed in Alara Unbroken.
Maybe we will see the so far unspecified event when he lost it.
Ok, sorry, I have overlooked it then.
The Thunder Junction native woman is caller Annie Flash, the Veteran.
Ral is explicitly said to be there in the otter form. We even have the art for him, and a name. Jace and the other ones are said to be the versions how they would have looked IF THEY VISITED BLOOMBURROW.
I guess that Bloomburrow works like Segovia, having a "morphologic field" that accomodates the visitors. Segovia shrinks, Bloomburrow transforms.
By the way, Coralina seems to be an Ixalan bat. She's called "Cosmos caller", and have the typical violet cosmium energy around her. Ironically, "Cosmos" is in MTG related to Kaldheim, not Ixalan.
Tinybones companion
Card names:
Vraska, the Silencer (clearly at least partially decompleated, the snake-hair have nevertheless metallic sheen and the spiky protrusions towards face are more similar to her Betrayal's Sting version - but the face is un-deformed again. Then again, if Nahiri has back hands instead of swords, this is just a minor technicality)
Oko, the Ringleader
Kellan, the Kid
Heh, so she is not a grandsomething niece, but..just a niece
Proft cosplaying Colombo was quite nice. I was really expecting a "...and just one more thing..." scene.
Not explaining how Rakdos ends up at Thunder Junction is bad. Especially when it seemed that Judith's story set it up.
Also, with her fate uncertain, we do not know what happened to Agrus Kos's spirit afterwards. He might be still imprisoned.
Teysa actually not minding becoming a ghost is not surprising, especially when there were hints that she is easily tired and the age starts to catch up with her.
Given what we know, he most probably did NOT have any progeny Can be a relative, though, a grand-grand-grand....grand-niece or something.
Fun fact: In the vein of Slavic inspired names, Morska means literally "marine", or "sea"(adjective)in Czech (mořská) and Polish.
Hopefully Kos will be released again.
Really interesting twist about Izoni and the Golgari being voluntary pariahs for greater good.
It would be quite cool to have actually Jace and Vraska survive...