I'll echo the "I liked it, but the clock's ticking on the plot" crowd. This set's story has been good, but would have been better as a two, or even 3, set block. The crew is interesting but unless the Weatherlight's planes walking ability is restored they are wasted long term. I can accept Belz's rise not being covered in depth due to time constraints, though a planeswalkers guide covering it would have been preferable. The glimpse we got of the Cabal alludes to it, as do character's reactions. It seems that Belz maneuvered his way into power in the weakened organization, relocated to the Stronghold, and began building power under at least partial cover until the organization was both remade in his image and strong enough to be a major threat. It looks like their m.o has mostly been using spies and subterfuge, and that the surrounding nations didn't realize how strong they were getting, or what their aims were, until they were too powerful to stop and could begin expanding outside of Urborg. Even now, they still seem to rely primarily on spies and assassins,and it appears that their turn to outward aggression is what has prompted the action of the current story. Bogardan is right next to Urborg, and Jhoira was able to conduct an excavation and repair of the Weatherlight there with a meager escort, and the only time they were attacked it was by a random Phoenix. If the Cabal was truly a world spanning threat, they would have secured the closest island by now. It seems more like they were more of an annoyance, and known problem but not an existential one, fairly recently, and have only recently become a serious threat in need of a response. Their assault on Benalia seems to be the biggest push they've made so far, and it looks like they are targeting them to take out what would be the heart of any resistance (Its a mono white nation under the mono white Church of Serra, which means they mirror the mono white Order that once stood opposed to the previous incarnation of the Cabal, and they even have Aven Otarians in Benalia now, so it makes sense that they would be an early target of a newly aggressive Cabal, taking out the primary threat first).
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I was super happy to see Slimefoot as the focus of this episode. I really expected him to be less friendly due to the flavor text in the set. The few inconsistencies threw me off a bit but I still liked the story, I just hope we see more of Slimefoot.
I was already excited to build a commander deck for it, but now I'm even more excited.
It kind of makes sense that at least some people would think thallids come from Yavimaya (and fits with the history-as-remembered themes of the story).
Icatians did make it from Sarpadia to Terisiare and I guess we can assume that the Sarpadian Empires volumes still exist since they still getreferenced. However, that knowledge might be lost to many people over 3000 years later (who were your ancestors fighting in 1000 BCE?), so it's natural for them to see lots of them in Yavimaya and speculate that that is their home.
We definitely have thallids in Urborg now and it seems like Llanowar as well.
I guess Nemata, Grove Guardian and Rith, the Awakener were both originally from Yavimaya but ended up in Urborg. Maybe some thallids had made their way to Yavimaya by that time and got transferred to Urborg (Fungal Shambler?), where it would have been a shorter distance and longer time (over 300 years) to spread to Llanowar. There is very little flavor text from Time Spiral block about thallids/saprolings but I thought maybe they left Sarpadia then due to the widespread drought and maybe ended up in Terisiare first, flourishing there after the Mending since there were already saprolings there from at least the Invasion era.
Other interesting Saproling musings:
Weird that Verdant Force alone made them on Rath but I guess it fits in on Dominaria now.
I wonder if the bity insect Saprolings from Invasion died out in favor of the fungusy ones?
I rechecked the story, Thallid Omnivore and Fungal Plots specify Saprolings are food, so I guess the characters (not Slimefoot) referring to them as babies in the story are just making assumptions. kaburi also linked to Ethan saying something like that on Twitter.
I'm very convinced at this point of time that Belzenlok is at best going to be Razaketh-level, getting a few paragraphs' worth of fights and going down. I say at best because Razaketh had some leeway of time since he practically just emerged from the Gate and more or less went straight for Liliana after he did Bolas's task, while it's implied here they're going to have to fight through the Cabal (they could try infiltrating, but given the diverse cast I have a suspension of disbelief if they made it all the way to Belzenlok unnoticed at all).
Perhaps because I'm not as attached to Saproling history, I don't find the "from Yavimaya" statement as glaring (even as I know their true history now) - I'm pretty sure Saprolings are more or less widespread across the plane by now and are defined from where the particular fungus's spore emerged from (Slimefoot surely isn't a thousand-year old fungus), rather than the species' true point of origin. Of course, it's still jarring they're explaining in the way you would expect in a history lesson, so it sets up the exception of the whole history.
As for the Weatherlight preferring Jhoira instead of Karn, I'm going to write it off as the Weatherlight simply feeling tremendous gratitude for Jhoira making it functional again, although that has implications that it could still "feel" when it was incapacitated underwater all these years (which is terrifying if you think about it, no wonder Karn doesn't matter to it as much anymore, to be fair Karn has been sort of distant for the longest time anyway).
Also, I'm pretty sure Teferi's quest to restore Zhalfir will be a long-term one spanning different other planes/stories. Considering Urza's position as a paranoid planeswalker, I doubt he left all the solutions Teferi wants on a single plane.
Liliana's interactions are admittedly more interesting when she's bewildered by concepts you cannot grasp, but if we don't see changes soon, it will eventually (and quickly) become a overused joke (which doesn't help her position as the cliche-predictable character as far as I'm concerned). I'll be blunt, but it will be really interesting if when Bolas comes to claim his prize and Liliana actually chooses to die when he says "Serve or Die" - I don't mean she chooses to die immediately, but she schemes the same way Tezzeret does under Bolas, except when she's caught for her treachery she reveals that she was prepared for death all the time (insert something concerning the Raven Man maybe) and that usually means the treachery would have a literal greater impact on Bolas (you tend to be more careful and less impactful when scheming "selfish treachery" than "selfless treachery", especially when Bolas is along the same lines of thinking).
Is Teferi ever going to do something in this story that lives up to a title like "Hero of Dominaria" instead of I don't a more standard title like Reignited, Resparked, or the Default Planeswalker Card. Or Just Time Mage. Because smiting Belzenlok who is no name villian we never heard of doesnt really do anything for me. Maybe he wounds Bolas or something?
Is Teferi ever going to do something in this story that lives up to a title like "Hero of Dominaria" instead of I don't a more standard title like Reignited, Resparked, or the Default Planeswalker Card. Or Just Time Mage. Because smiting Belzenlok who is no name villian we never heard of doesnt really do anything for me. Maybe he wounds Bolas or something?
Smiting Belzenlok would make him far more a Hero of Dominaria than doing anything to, even killing, Bolas. Even though the latter would be more impressive as a whole, to Dominaria Belzenlok is more important.
Though with how they handled the obtaining of his spark I have given up hope on any details being good.
Is Teferi ever going to do something in this story that lives up to a title like "Hero of Dominaria" instead of I don't a more standard title like Reignited, Resparked, or the Default Planeswalker Card. Or Just Time Mage. Because smiting Belzenlok who is no name villian we never heard of doesnt really do anything for me. Maybe he wounds Bolas or something?
Smiting Belzenlok would make him far more a Hero of Dominaria than doing anything to, even killing, Bolas. Even though the latter would be more impressive as a whole, to Dominaria Belzenlok is more important.
Though with how they handled the obtaining of his spark I have given up hope on any details being good.
Well my problem is more at this point Belzenlok has not been built up as a threat at all.
Its hard to believe given the previous showings of Lili's Demons that this random no name is really a threat requires Teferi, Karn and Jaya with Lili and Gideon plus others for almost a dozen. Or heck that Jodah shouldn't have gotten off his lazy *** and handled this crap.
Is Teferi ever going to do something in this story that lives up to a title like "Hero of Dominaria" instead of I don't a more standard title like Reignited, Resparked, or the Default Planeswalker Card. Or Just Time Mage. Because smiting Belzenlok who is no name villian we never heard of doesnt really do anything for me. Maybe he wounds Bolas or something?
Smiting Belzenlok would make him far more a Hero of Dominaria than doing anything to, even killing, Bolas. Even though the latter would be more impressive as a whole, to Dominaria Belzenlok is more important.
Though with how they handled the obtaining of his spark I have given up hope on any details being good.
Well my problem is more at this point Belzenlok has not been built up as a threat at all.
Its hard to believe given the previous showings of Lili's Demons that this random no name is really a threat requires Teferi, Karn and Jaya with Lili and Gideon plus others for almost a dozen. Or heck that Jodah shouldn't have gotten off his lazy *** and handled this crap.
I'd say that's partly down to the lack of "Show, don't tell". We keep seeing lines about killing/destroying Belzenlok, but we've never been properly introduced to the Big B himself. We've never been shown what he can actually do, his thoughts or personal perceptions, or how he managed to gain this much power in the first place. Regarding the latter, actual backstory would definitely help in explaining what his motives are or where he came from.
I will say that Belzenlok seems to be more of a mastermind-type demon than a raw powerhouse demon the likes of Griselbrand or Razaketh. Even his card kinda reflects that IMO, since his stats aren't as buff as Griseldaddy or Razaketh, but his card advantage abilities can make up for that. That can ultimately be more dangerous than the raw powerhouse category, and with how much apparent reach Belzenlok has gained throughout Dominaria, that seems to be the case here.
Well sure I like masterminds but it tends to make the final fight which we are rushing towards the least interesting part.
Masterminds are good cause of they usually have to be hunted down or the heroes have to build a case against them.
Here we already know Belzenlok is the big bad and we know where he is and they don't need to take him alive which gets rid of all the good parts.
Wasn't Belzi background all about him hiding while Dominara had bigger fishes and now he's stealing the evil feats of the one that overshadowed him to look powerful and dangerous. TLDR: He's not dangerous at all just some dude you need to get rid of before everybody thinks he's invicible?
Wasn't Belzi background all about him hiding while Dominara had bigger fishes and now he's stealing the evil feats of the one that overshadowed him to look powerful and dangerous. TLDR: He's not dangerous at all just some dude you need to get rid of before everybody thinks he's invicible?
He's the leader of the Cabal, which is a sizable death cult that wants to murder people wherever it goes. To say he's not "dangerous at all" is pretty false.
Wasn't Belzi background all about him hiding while Dominara had bigger fishes and now he's stealing the evil feats of the one that overshadowed him to look powerful and dangerous. TLDR: He's not dangerous at all just some dude you need to get rid of before everybody thinks he's invicible?
That was just AUTUMNTWILIGHT trying to give their option as fact. Creative have said he was trapped in the Abyss of Dominaria until the Cabal freed by summoned him looking for Kuberr.
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That was me giving my opinion I never stated it as fact and would appreciate you not misrepresenting me. I don't resort to such behavior when it comes to you, I appreciate the same courtesy.
As for dangerous...dangerous is relative. By not feeling dangerous. I mean there is nothing to suggest that Belzenlok should be any threat to a team of say Teferi, Jhoira, Jodah, Jaya and Karn much less a team of Teferi, Jhoira, Karn, Jaya, Gideon, Lili, Chandra and the new Weatherlight Crew. If the currently assembled team cannot roll over Belzenlok then they have no business fighting Bolas and his team since the named characters here will form a large amount of the characters fighting Bolas on Ravnica.
That was me giving my opinion I never stated it as fact and would appreciate you not misrepresenting me. I don't resort to such behavior when it comes to you, I appreciate the same courtesy.
As for dangerous...dangerous is relative. By not feeling dangerous. I mean there is nothing to suggest that Belzenlok should be any threat to a team of say Teferi, Jhoira, Jodah, Jaya and Karn much less a team of Teferi, Jhoira, Karn, Jaya, Gideon, Lili, Chandra and the new Weatherlight Crew. If the currently assembled team cannot roll over Belzenlok then they have no business fighting Bolas and his team since the named characters here will form a large amount of the characters fighting Bolas on Ravnica.
Have any of Lilies demons felt like a threat? Kothophed killed like some chump after asking for jewellery. Griselbrand hid the moment he caught wind of what was going on, was killed without a fight. Razaketh, performed a single act of impressive magic, actually used the contract she signed, then was stomped by the watch without really killing anyone. Belzenlok being unimpressive and disappointing seems par for the course. I would be more shocked if any of Lilies demons ever actually accomplished anything significant.
I don't disagree the difference is though none of Lili's other demons were not built up as a major threat to their plane (Dominaria is like 2 to 2.5 x Earth Size) or had Elder in their title. So Belzenlok needs to live up a higher standard or its just super dumb that none of the Legendary Heroes on Dominaria bothered to smite Belzenlok.
I don't disagree the difference is though none of Lili's other demons were not built up as a major threat to their plane (Dominaria is like 2 to 2.5 x Earth Size) or had Elder in their title. So Belzenlok needs to live up a higher standard or its just super dumb that none of the Legendary Heroes on Dominaria bothered to smite Belzenlok.
Personally The fact that he doesn't actually pose a threat is the reason none of the important people on Dominaria acted. Then before they knew it his organization was large enough to terrorize a large(it's hard to tell how large) portion If the world. As fir the elder title/type, it's more grandstanding, he isn't important which is why he wears so many important titles.
Really though what is he threatening? Urborg, Benalia, a Tolarian academy; that doesn't sound like a global threat. They don't even seem like an actual threat to anyone but Benalia, certainly their operatives are spread far and wide, maybe?, but it doesn't sound like anyone else is really troubled by them.
So the strike team certainly seems too large for the job of Smiting some random warlord. The fact that they might have to fight an entire countries military makes bringing the big guns make more sense. They don't want to slog through the entire Cabal to get to Bel they want to fly in get the job done and fly out.
Teferi resparks off screen...SMFH. They really don't plan to explain anything about this.
Karn doesn't know how big of threat Bolas is? What?
And yeah this is going to be one rushed conclusion (or the last chapter is going to be super long)... we didn't even get to Belzenlok in this Chapter....SMFH.
The story is the story, so I, and we, have to take it as it's given to us. Would I have changed a lot of things so far? Without a doubt. But I'm not blown away. I don't want to be considered a whiner, so I won't dive deep into the areas of my disappointment.
Instead: I would have liked to have seen Slimefoot interact some way with the shred of Lord Windgrace's soul that he imbued Urborg with before he took on the Urborg rift. Not a conversation, but like a general sense. From Slimefoot's piece of the story, I wouldn't be surprised if that Urborg maro sorcerer thing took out Yargle in the next story.
Also, I thought Windgrace was the last of Urborg's panther people. I may be wrong, and cat people could have emigrated to Urborg from other areas. Not a big deal.
What is with the Thran structures all over Dominaria? The Thran were an empire, but not across the entire plane. There were several city states, but Halcyon was the pinnacle of Thran power and artifice. I have zero recollection of huge Thran structures all over the plane at any other point in time. Koilos is the graveyard of Halcyon, and barely anything was left when Urza came around. Shiv had the their factory, but that was well-maintained through the ages. As a history buff, it boggles my mind that in the descriptions, the Phyrexian wrecks and Thran structures seem to have the same amount of wear and tear. They are thousands of years removed from each other. But that's nitpickiness on my part.
Otherwise, story could always be better. I don't think Wizards did Wells any favors.
I don't get why Thran artifacts and megastructures are suddenly visible all over Dominaria...that was never a thing before was it?
Ah well I suppose the Thran built things better.
I don't think medium is the issue. Maybe the page count but I think this story is overstuffed and I disagree with a great deal of the character choices and plotting. I mean Karn doesn't want to talk to Jhoira cause of Venser? Ignoring me not thinking Venser was all that important to the Tolarian Trio...the relationship seems back to normal pretty easily so why Karn was worried about who knows? Teferi and Karn seem to get along like old times and yet never collaborated while digging up Urza Artifacts? When did Jaya and Karn meet? When did Jhoira get Teferi's spark and why did Teferi take decades to think about raiding Urza Vaults? Why did Jhoira think Teferi wouldn't want his spark back? He seems pretty happy to help if you ask me.
Finally, is Teferi going to do anything more impressive then mass time stopping some elementals? I mean the card is Hero of Dominaria I expect to see some impressive feats. Not Just, Teferi, Resparked. I mean I guess the card is living up to its name in game terms.
yeah I think the "hero of Dominaria" basically just means he'll be the hero representing Dominaria going forward, not that he did anything super-special to earn the title.
Welles is certainly making an effort to inform us that Liliana has changed and Gideon sees some good in her. It's almost like something bad is going to happen to her so we're supposed to feel some sort of sympathy. maybe I'm off-base.
and yes, we're almost at the end of the Dominaria story and the demon is still not presented as a serious threat. heck, the frog demon thing seems like a bigger challenge right about now.
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Icatians did make it from Sarpadia to Terisiare and I guess we can assume that the Sarpadian Empires volumes still exist since they still get referenced. However, that knowledge might be lost to many people over 3000 years later (who were your ancestors fighting in 1000 BCE?), so it's natural for them to see lots of them in Yavimaya and speculate that that is their home.
We definitely have thallids in Urborg now and it seems like Llanowar as well.
I guess Nemata, Grove Guardian and Rith, the Awakener were both originally from Yavimaya but ended up in Urborg. Maybe some thallids had made their way to Yavimaya by that time and got transferred to Urborg (Fungal Shambler?), where it would have been a shorter distance and longer time (over 300 years) to spread to Llanowar. There is very little flavor text from Time Spiral block about thallids/saprolings but I thought maybe they left Sarpadia then due to the widespread drought and maybe ended up in Terisiare first, flourishing there after the Mending since there were already saprolings there from at least the Invasion era.
Other interesting Saproling musings:
Weird that Verdant Force alone made them on Rath but I guess it fits in on Dominaria now.
I wonder if the bity insect Saprolings from Invasion died out in favor of the fungusy ones?
I rechecked the story, Thallid Omnivore and Fungal Plots specify Saprolings are food, so I guess the characters (not Slimefoot) referring to them as babies in the story are just making assumptions. kaburi also linked to Ethan saying something like that on Twitter.
Perhaps because I'm not as attached to Saproling history, I don't find the "from Yavimaya" statement as glaring (even as I know their true history now) - I'm pretty sure Saprolings are more or less widespread across the plane by now and are defined from where the particular fungus's spore emerged from (Slimefoot surely isn't a thousand-year old fungus), rather than the species' true point of origin. Of course, it's still jarring they're explaining in the way you would expect in a history lesson, so it sets up the exception of the whole history.
As for the Weatherlight preferring Jhoira instead of Karn, I'm going to write it off as the Weatherlight simply feeling tremendous gratitude for Jhoira making it functional again, although that has implications that it could still "feel" when it was incapacitated underwater all these years (which is terrifying if you think about it, no wonder Karn doesn't matter to it as much anymore, to be fair Karn has been sort of distant for the longest time anyway).
Also, I'm pretty sure Teferi's quest to restore Zhalfir will be a long-term one spanning different other planes/stories. Considering Urza's position as a paranoid planeswalker, I doubt he left all the solutions Teferi wants on a single plane.
Liliana's interactions are admittedly more interesting when she's bewildered by concepts you cannot grasp, but if we don't see changes soon, it will eventually (and quickly) become a overused joke (which doesn't help her position as the cliche-predictable character as far as I'm concerned). I'll be blunt, but it will be really interesting if when Bolas comes to claim his prize and Liliana actually chooses to die when he says "Serve or Die" - I don't mean she chooses to die immediately, but she schemes the same way Tezzeret does under Bolas, except when she's caught for her treachery she reveals that she was prepared for death all the time (insert something concerning the Raven Man maybe) and that usually means the treachery would have a literal greater impact on Bolas (you tend to be more careful and less impactful when scheming "selfish treachery" than "selfless treachery", especially when Bolas is along the same lines of thinking).
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Though with how they handled the obtaining of his spark I have given up hope on any details being good.
Well my problem is more at this point Belzenlok has not been built up as a threat at all.
Its hard to believe given the previous showings of Lili's Demons that this random no name is really a threat requires Teferi, Karn and Jaya with Lili and Gideon plus others for almost a dozen. Or heck that Jodah shouldn't have gotten off his lazy *** and handled this crap.
I'd say that's partly down to the lack of "Show, don't tell". We keep seeing lines about killing/destroying Belzenlok, but we've never been properly introduced to the Big B himself. We've never been shown what he can actually do, his thoughts or personal perceptions, or how he managed to gain this much power in the first place. Regarding the latter, actual backstory would definitely help in explaining what his motives are or where he came from.
I will say that Belzenlok seems to be more of a mastermind-type demon than a raw powerhouse demon the likes of Griselbrand or Razaketh. Even his card kinda reflects that IMO, since his stats aren't as buff as Griseldaddy or Razaketh, but his card advantage abilities can make up for that. That can ultimately be more dangerous than the raw powerhouse category, and with how much apparent reach Belzenlok has gained throughout Dominaria, that seems to be the case here.
Masterminds are good cause of they usually have to be hunted down or the heroes have to build a case against them.
Here we already know Belzenlok is the big bad and we know where he is and they don't need to take him alive which gets rid of all the good parts.
He's the leader of the Cabal, which is a sizable death cult that wants to murder people wherever it goes. To say he's not "dangerous at all" is pretty false.
That was just AUTUMNTWILIGHT trying to give their option as fact. Creative have said he was trapped in the Abyss of Dominaria until the Cabal freed by summoned him looking for Kuberr.
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As for dangerous...dangerous is relative. By not feeling dangerous. I mean there is nothing to suggest that Belzenlok should be any threat to a team of say Teferi, Jhoira, Jodah, Jaya and Karn much less a team of Teferi, Jhoira, Karn, Jaya, Gideon, Lili, Chandra and the new Weatherlight Crew. If the currently assembled team cannot roll over Belzenlok then they have no business fighting Bolas and his team since the named characters here will form a large amount of the characters fighting Bolas on Ravnica.
Really though what is he threatening? Urborg, Benalia, a Tolarian academy; that doesn't sound like a global threat. They don't even seem like an actual threat to anyone but Benalia, certainly their operatives are spread far and wide, maybe?, but it doesn't sound like anyone else is really troubled by them.
So the strike team certainly seems too large for the job of Smiting some random warlord. The fact that they might have to fight an entire countries military makes bringing the big guns make more sense. They don't want to slog through the entire Cabal to get to Bel they want to fly in get the job done and fly out.
Besides Karn is probably got enough Artifacts to hold off some fodder.
Karn doesn't know how big of threat Bolas is? What?
And yeah this is going to be one rushed conclusion (or the last chapter is going to be super long)... we didn't even get to Belzenlok in this Chapter....SMFH.
Instead: I would have liked to have seen Slimefoot interact some way with the shred of Lord Windgrace's soul that he imbued Urborg with before he took on the Urborg rift. Not a conversation, but like a general sense. From Slimefoot's piece of the story, I wouldn't be surprised if that Urborg maro sorcerer thing took out Yargle in the next story.
Also, I thought Windgrace was the last of Urborg's panther people. I may be wrong, and cat people could have emigrated to Urborg from other areas. Not a big deal.
What is with the Thran structures all over Dominaria? The Thran were an empire, but not across the entire plane. There were several city states, but Halcyon was the pinnacle of Thran power and artifice. I have zero recollection of huge Thran structures all over the plane at any other point in time. Koilos is the graveyard of Halcyon, and barely anything was left when Urza came around. Shiv had the their factory, but that was well-maintained through the ages. As a history buff, it boggles my mind that in the descriptions, the Phyrexian wrecks and Thran structures seem to have the same amount of wear and tear. They are thousands of years removed from each other. But that's nitpickiness on my part.
Otherwise, story could always be better. I don't think Wizards did Wells any favors.
Well, at least it will conclude. One way or another.
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I don't get why Thran artifacts and megastructures are suddenly visible all over Dominaria...that was never a thing before was it?
Ah well I suppose the Thran built things better.
I don't think medium is the issue. Maybe the page count but I think this story is overstuffed and I disagree with a great deal of the character choices and plotting. I mean Karn doesn't want to talk to Jhoira cause of Venser? Ignoring me not thinking Venser was all that important to the Tolarian Trio...the relationship seems back to normal pretty easily so why Karn was worried about who knows? Teferi and Karn seem to get along like old times and yet never collaborated while digging up Urza Artifacts? When did Jaya and Karn meet? When did Jhoira get Teferi's spark and why did Teferi take decades to think about raiding Urza Vaults? Why did Jhoira think Teferi wouldn't want his spark back? He seems pretty happy to help if you ask me.
Finally, is Teferi going to do anything more impressive then mass time stopping some elementals? I mean the card is Hero of Dominaria I expect to see some impressive feats. Not Just, Teferi, Resparked. I mean I guess the card is living up to its name in game terms.
Welles is certainly making an effort to inform us that Liliana has changed and Gideon sees some good in her. It's almost like something bad is going to happen to her so we're supposed to feel some sort of sympathy. maybe I'm off-base.
and yes, we're almost at the end of the Dominaria story and the demon is still not presented as a serious threat. heck, the frog demon thing seems like a bigger challenge right about now.
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