I hope her art isn't the Tolarian Wizard art. It's too digital. I hope her art is more on the Christopher Moeller side of the spectrum.
And if she is the wizard? I'm not saying she is (especially since she's a rogue, and Academy Journeymage seems a better fit), but if she is?
I wish she had been. Regardless, I strongly detest the digital art. No offense to the artist (Flood of Recollection was nice) but it looks like something off DeviantArt. Digital art can be almost indistinguishable from painted when done right, and in rare cases. But I just don't like it when it isn't.
I love that Jodah will be in the set. Hopefully a big presence in the storyline.
Any reference to Gix I'll take.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Character development, maybe?
Its almost like another story occurred where Teferi grew significantly as a character. The kind of story where he had to deal with the consequences of his previous actions of tucking his tail and running away. Too bad no story like that happened; it would be a great transtion into Teferi playing the hero role in this new story.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Character development, maybe?
Its almost like another story occurred where Teferi grew significantly as a character. The kind of story where he had to deal with the consequences of his previous actions of tucking his tail and running away. Too bad no story like that happened; it would be a great transtion into Teferi playing the hero role in this new story.
That could be what infact happened with him getting his spark back. Something we might learn with the Dominaria set. I hated how he fled during the invasion, but he did help out with the time rifts sacrificing his spark so...
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Character development, maybe?
This. It's generally how stories develop, I'm surprised at how intolerant the MtG community is of this. Everyone seems to just be amping for the destination, not the journey. Character development makes a story good and gives it depth and believability.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
Character development, maybe?
This. It's generally how stories develop, I'm surprised at how intolerant the MtG community is of this. Everyone seems to just be amping for the destination, not the journey. Character development makes a story good and gives it depth and believability.
I'm just going on the fact that he left Dominaria high and dry, not caring for anything but his own people. Now we card a card that he's the hero. Big jump is all. I'm asking about that journey. Just hope its not forced.
I'm just going on the fact that he left Dominaria high and dry, not caring for anything but his own people. Now we card a card that he's the hero. Big jump is all. I'm asking about that journey. Just hope its not forced.
Yeah so do i. I mean he redeemed himself in the Time Spiral lore, but it's still a reasonable jump yeah. I'm more concerned as to how they've written his spark back into the storyline.
I'm loving this set! Although I've read some things in the wiki about most of these past events, I'm still reading Bloodlines, so I don't know most stuff in detail.
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
Also, what was Bolas doing before claiming Madara? Why didn't he take over Dominaria?
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
This, at least I can answer - Tetsuo Umezawa was at one point a manservant to Bolas, and betrayed him. From the same line is Toshiro Umezawa who was allied with the Myojin of Night's Reach during the Kamigawa storyline. The same myojin who allied with Leshrac to fight Bolas, but ended up being narrowly defeatd himself.
As far as the lore goes, you should look at the Archive Trap articles here on MTGS. Jay13x knows his stuff, it's concise, linear, accurate, and well written. There's some speculation as to upcoming lore too - it's generally pretty on point.
I'm loving this set! Although I've read some things in the wiki about most of these past events, I'm still reading Bloodlines, so I don't know most stuff in detail.
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
Also, what was Bolas doing before claiming Madara? Why didn't he take over Dominaria?
Its less about fear and more about sheer hate that only a dragon who spent hundreds of years as a disembodied spirit could feel towards someone and their family. Bolas has a petty streak and is not above vengeance and blood feuds. Of course, it should be noted that Tetsuo didn't kill him through luck, they are a samurai family well trained in the arts of war and magic. Tetsuo Umezawa's strategy is telling of this, using his army to distract Bolas's forces while he personally went to blow up the dragon's main source of mana in preparation for the face off. He knew what he was doing, and if Bolas fears the clan at all it would be for what they know about Bolas's own strategems and his weaknesses when he was at the hight of his power. Those are not things Bolas can allow anyone to know.
As for why Bolas stayed in Madara, nothing is certain, but what is likely is the following:
1) Dominaria is big. Really really big. No, bigger than that. Even bigger. Keep going. More. No, more. Look, we're talking the size of the actual real life Earth, where Lorwynn is literally the size of an island. It is really big!
2) Along the same lines, there were a lot of other major planeswalkers on Dominaria in protector roles over their various homelands (e.g. Freyalise and Lord Windgrace), and several others like Taysir who frequently visited and even joined Urza's Nine Titans. Oldwalkers tended to prepare for a duel or a war with another planeswalker decades in advance to give themselves the best chance of winning, which they could afford to do because they were immortal. Bolas's empire was surrounded on both the east and west by civilizations that were allied with Teferi and his mentor Urza, and Bolas was alive during the Antiquities War. He remembered what Urza did to Argoth, and he remembered the Ice Age, so he probably wasn't in a hurry to make the ancient artificer mad. Then to the north there was Windgrace and Freyalise, and both of them joined the Nine Titans, so again, fighting them would likely have gotten Urza involved if only to prove his trustworthiness to people he was making alliances with. And Jaya Ballard, if he took the fight to Freyalise. Barrin, Urza's right hand man, actually did end up entangled in the war with the Keldons for this reason, so it would make sense if that was keeping Bolas in check.
3) OG Phyrexia was still a threat at this time and its likely that Bolas was very well aware of it. Bolas may have been preparing his own defenses, much as Teferi had done, rather than relying on Urza's plans. After all, if Phyrexia won he could simply abandon Dominaria and enjoy his interplanar empires. If Urza won, he could have then overtaken many weakened planeswalkers and their armies. Win win for Bolas. Too bad for him he didn't predict his own samurai would stab him in the tail.
4) He may have been simply too busy doing things on other planes. IIRC, the Legends cycle portrays Bolas as actually being fairly preoccupied and not actually invested in daily governance of Madara. It was even the dishonorable character of one of his most important servants that turned Tetsuo against him in the first place. A servant who was looking to usurp Bolas himself, no less.
I'm loving this set! Although I've read some things in the wiki about most of these past events, I'm still reading Bloodlines, so I don't know most stuff in detail.
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
Also, what was Bolas doing before claiming Madara? Why didn't he take over Dominaria?
It is a very complicated matter, but toctheyounger77 hit some of the basic outline, but effectively Kamigawin magic is sort of funky and instead of directly drawing on mana all magic goes through the spirit realm, when Toshiro (who himself screwed with the balance of cosmic power on Kamigawa in quite a few ways) got sent to Dominaria he brought some of that magic with him so that by the time Tetsuo was born there was a mini spirit realm that had formed, Tetsuo tricked Nicol Bolas in his Old Walker days into that mini realm, Nicol had no experience with it..so Tetsuo managed to trap Nicol Bolas there..until the Timespiral block.
Mostly him going to murder the Umezawa clan was out of pure spite that Tetsuo managed to best him..but the Umezawa clan is 2/2 for outwitting Major Powers in their appearances so another one running around is something any planar power in the Multiverse should at least be aware of.
I wonder if we going to see Oath of Jaya and Oath of Karn/ if we don't why would Teferi join the gatewatch but not them?
Has Teferi ever acted white? I'm not big on older lore but before he's always been mono blue.
He has two cards at least that I remember having white, his moat and something else. I made a Teferi theme deck a year or so ago which is why I recall. I think his moat and the other card have white because of the protective nature, and if he's protecting Dominaria again, I can see white in his cost.
I'm more wondering what's going down with his spark. I'm on the verge of aggravation if Wizards just finds ways to give sparks back to people. Why not Radha??
I'm 99% certain Radha is supposed to have a spark. I don't recall anything in timespiral that said she lost it, it just never fully ignited.
I wonder if we going to see Oath of Jaya and Oath of Karn/ if we don't why would Teferi join the gatewatch but not them?
Has Teferi ever acted white? I'm not big on older lore but before he's always been mono blue.
He phased out two continents due to pragmatic concern. He has always acted with a bit of white in his mostly blue persona. Current theory is Jaya dies, as for Karn. They could refuses for the same reason Narset* refuses, the watch is more dangerous than helpful and he doesn't have the time to babysit when his own problems are spiraling out of control.
Tamiyo*
A bunch of planes walkers joining together to fight inter-planar threats is something Karn might be interested in, though he might ends up like Saheeli and Tamiyo and more an ally then full on join up.
You are right, was Tamiyo. That said I see Karn as "You got your problems, and I've got mine. The first one to fix theirs will help the other." Because I don't see him putting off the phyrexian to fight somebody else's battles regardless how sympathetic they may be.
Karn might also be wise enough to realize he cannot tacke the problem on his own. A group of powerfull individuals setting out to do exactly the thing you need help with is not insensible perse. So far, Phyrexia is contained to one plane, so while he probably wants to reclaim his own place, there's no real rush dangerwise to have to do it.
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
This, at least I can answer - Tetsuo Umezawa was at one point a manservant to Bolas, and betrayed him. From the same line is Toshiro Umezawa who was allied with the Myojin of Night's Reach during the Kamigawa storyline. The same myojin who allied with Leshrac to fight Bolas, but ended up being narrowly defeatd himself.
As far as the lore goes, you should look at the Archive Trap articles here on MTGS. Jay13x knows his stuff, it's concise, linear, accurate, and well written. There's some speculation as to upcoming lore too - it's generally pretty on point.
He writes his columns on Gatheringmagic.com now, not on MTGS anymore. It's indeed very good. Why he is not Wizard's payroll yet is beyond me.
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Karn might also be wise enough to realize he cannot tacke the problem on his own. A group of powerful individuals setting out to do exactly the thing you need help with is not insensible perse. So far, Phyrexia is contained to one plane, so while he probably wants to reclaim his own place, there's no real rush dangerwise to have to do it.
Pyrexia isn't contained to one plane, thats sort of why Karn left New Phyrexia in the first place. He considered it lost and was going to crush the other incursions before they were too far gone. Then he would come back to New Phyrexia. I'm certain Karn would be interested in the help, but I also believe he wouldn't stop his mission of crushing the various phyrexian colonies on various planes to help them deal with Bolas and what ever other problems they have so that they would then help him.
Wait, I’m confused. Even before the leak, this week was gonna be when we got the first part of the story...
...why must we be punished for someone else’s leak?
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“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
What was the other Planeswaker that the Umezawas dealt with besides Bolas?
And, do we have any idea if Urza and Bolas ever met or dealt with each other either directly or by proxy?
In the old days planeswalkers and Eldrazi didn't have quite the monopoly on planar travel that they do now. As someone else said, Moyjin of Nights Reach, one of the Kami (literally "divine spirit"), was the one who brought Toshiro Umezawa to Dominaria. The reason she could do this is... wow, that's a long story, and it starts on neither Kamigawa nor Dominaria. Never mind. It doesn't matter anyway. The point is, Toshiro Umezawa never met a planeswalker, his cosmic encounters were with god-like beings and outsmarting them. Until one of them finally tricked him by offering him a "reward"...
He took it surprisingly well, considering he never actually saw Dominaria.
There is no evidence that Bolas dealt with any other civilization on Dominaria, let alone its other planeswalkers until Time Spiral, but in Time Spiral when Teferi's gang is tricked by Bolas's spirit into resurrecting his body, Teferi does seem to know who Bolas is and even challenged him to a formal planeswalker duel. So Teferi is at least aware of Bolas's existence and significance as a fellow ancient planeswalker, but beyond that little is certain. Keep in mind that a lot of Teferi's own story is untold; all we know is that some time after he graduated from Tolaria and ascended to being a planeswalker, he became a court mage in his home kingdom, got his own island and began independently experimenting with phasing things out of time in preparation for the Phyrexian invasion. Even Urza's own story has gaps in it, like when exactly he approached the other members of the Nine Titans, some of whom were unknown to the audience when Invasion was published.
We do, however, have a map of Dominaria associated with the Weatherlight, but Madara, Sarpadia and Otaria are all missing from the map. From what we know from the Legends books themselves, Madara should be next to the Jamuraan continents relatively near Zalfir where Teferi lived, but whether it was in the Jamuraan sea or on the other side of it (as in some fan interpretations I've seen) is unclear to me. Either way, its plausible that Bolas was afraid of Teferi and almost certain Bolas had heard of Urza because, well, he was a household name on Dominaria.
Mind you, part of the reason that the Legends books and their story feel a bit disconnected to other Dominarian lore is that the early sets were not designed in-house by Wizards, they were designed by contractors. This ended because Homelands was such a catastrophe that Wizards decided to rethink that policy. Anyway, we know that the people who designed Legends based every legendary creature in the set on characters from their personal D&D campaign. For instance, someone in the design team played a samurai character named Tetsuo Umezawa after the protagonist of the anime Akira, so that character was put into the set. This is also why there is a card in Magic named Ramses Overdark, because 90's era D&D was shamelessly cheesy (and still is ). So you have to give the author of the novels major kudos for making the story make sense when all he had to go by was a bunch of names generated by some DM many years prior, some art assets in the form of the cards, and a mandate by Wizards to somehow connect the Umezawa character to the protagonist of their newest block, Kamigawa. Its probably because of him that a dragon serving as a villain in some DM's private D&D campaign became the main villain of the world's premier TCG. No doubt the easiest way to make it work though was to make it self-contained and reference as little as possible to the Antiquities saga or the Weatherlight saga that connects most of the other Dominaria stories in some way (eg. like how the Ice Age saga is a consequence of Urza's earliest act as a planeswalker).
Thanks a lot. I've read the Artifact Cycle starting at The Thran, and I'm currently at Bloodlines. Still have much to go! Is there any youtube channel or text summary of the Invasion, Otaria, and Time Spiral storylines?
Mind you, part of the reason that the Legends books and their story feel a bit disconnected to other Dominarian lore is that the early sets were not designed in-house by Wizards, they were designed by contractors. This ended because Homelands was such a catastrophe that Wizards decided to rethink that policy. Anyway, we know that the people who designed Legends based every legendary creature in the set on characters from their personal D&D campaign. For instance, someone in the design team played a samurai character named Tetsuo Umezawa after the protagonist of the anime Akira, so that character was put into the set. This is also why there is a card in Magic named Ramses Overdark, because 90's era D&D was shamelessly cheesy (and still is ). So you have to give the author of the novels major kudos for making the story make sense when all he had to go by was a bunch of names generated by some DM many years prior, some art assets in the form of the cards, and a mandate by Wizards to somehow connect the Umezawa character to the protagonist of their newest block, Kamigawa. Its probably because of him that a dragon serving as a villain in some DM's private D&D campaign became the main villain of the world's premier TCG. No doubt the easiest way to make it work though was to make it self-contained and reference as little as possible to the Antiquities saga or the Weatherlight saga that connects most of the other Dominaria stories in some way (eg. like how the Ice Age saga is a consequence of Urza's earliest act as a planeswalker).
This makes sense and I never knew it. You learn something new every day.
I hope her art isn't the Tolarian Wizard art. It's too digital. I hope her art is more on the Christopher Moeller side of the spectrum.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
And if she is the wizard? I'm not saying she is (especially since she's a rogue, and Academy Journeymage seems a better fit), but if she is?
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Any reference to Gix I'll take.
Why is Teferi the hero of Dominaria? No way! How could this little 'let tuck my tail between my legs and take my phased out homeland away and hide' become the hero? No way not buying it.
They hate us cause they ain't us.
Character development, maybe?
That could be what infact happened with him getting his spark back. Something we might learn with the Dominaria set. I hated how he fled during the invasion, but he did help out with the time rifts sacrificing his spark so...
They hate us cause they ain't us.
This. It's generally how stories develop, I'm surprised at how intolerant the MtG community is of this. Everyone seems to just be amping for the destination, not the journey. Character development makes a story good and gives it depth and believability.
I'm just going on the fact that he left Dominaria high and dry, not caring for anything but his own people. Now we card a card that he's the hero. Big jump is all. I'm asking about that journey. Just hope its not forced.
They hate us cause they ain't us.
Yeah so do i. I mean he redeemed himself in the Time Spiral lore, but it's still a reasonable jump yeah. I'm more concerned as to how they've written his spark back into the storyline.
Why is it that Nicol Bolas fears the Umezawa name so much? Wasn't it just one guy who had a lot of luck and managed to kill him? Speaking of that, how did all-so-wise-and-mighty-Lord-Nicolas allow himself to be killed by this one human?
Also, what was Bolas doing before claiming Madara? Why didn't he take over Dominaria?
This, at least I can answer - Tetsuo Umezawa was at one point a manservant to Bolas, and betrayed him. From the same line is Toshiro Umezawa who was allied with the Myojin of Night's Reach during the Kamigawa storyline. The same myojin who allied with Leshrac to fight Bolas, but ended up being narrowly defeatd himself.
As far as the lore goes, you should look at the Archive Trap articles here on MTGS. Jay13x knows his stuff, it's concise, linear, accurate, and well written. There's some speculation as to upcoming lore too - it's generally pretty on point.
Its less about fear and more about sheer hate that only a dragon who spent hundreds of years as a disembodied spirit could feel towards someone and their family. Bolas has a petty streak and is not above vengeance and blood feuds. Of course, it should be noted that Tetsuo didn't kill him through luck, they are a samurai family well trained in the arts of war and magic. Tetsuo Umezawa's strategy is telling of this, using his army to distract Bolas's forces while he personally went to blow up the dragon's main source of mana in preparation for the face off. He knew what he was doing, and if Bolas fears the clan at all it would be for what they know about Bolas's own strategems and his weaknesses when he was at the hight of his power. Those are not things Bolas can allow anyone to know.
As for why Bolas stayed in Madara, nothing is certain, but what is likely is the following:
1) Dominaria is big. Really really big. No, bigger than that. Even bigger. Keep going. More. No, more. Look, we're talking the size of the actual real life Earth, where Lorwynn is literally the size of an island. It is really big!
2) Along the same lines, there were a lot of other major planeswalkers on Dominaria in protector roles over their various homelands (e.g. Freyalise and Lord Windgrace), and several others like Taysir who frequently visited and even joined Urza's Nine Titans. Oldwalkers tended to prepare for a duel or a war with another planeswalker decades in advance to give themselves the best chance of winning, which they could afford to do because they were immortal. Bolas's empire was surrounded on both the east and west by civilizations that were allied with Teferi and his mentor Urza, and Bolas was alive during the Antiquities War. He remembered what Urza did to Argoth, and he remembered the Ice Age, so he probably wasn't in a hurry to make the ancient artificer mad. Then to the north there was Windgrace and Freyalise, and both of them joined the Nine Titans, so again, fighting them would likely have gotten Urza involved if only to prove his trustworthiness to people he was making alliances with. And Jaya Ballard, if he took the fight to Freyalise. Barrin, Urza's right hand man, actually did end up entangled in the war with the Keldons for this reason, so it would make sense if that was keeping Bolas in check.
3) OG Phyrexia was still a threat at this time and its likely that Bolas was very well aware of it. Bolas may have been preparing his own defenses, much as Teferi had done, rather than relying on Urza's plans. After all, if Phyrexia won he could simply abandon Dominaria and enjoy his interplanar empires. If Urza won, he could have then overtaken many weakened planeswalkers and their armies. Win win for Bolas. Too bad for him he didn't predict his own samurai would stab him in the tail.
4) He may have been simply too busy doing things on other planes. IIRC, the Legends cycle portrays Bolas as actually being fairly preoccupied and not actually invested in daily governance of Madara. It was even the dishonorable character of one of his most important servants that turned Tetsuo against him in the first place. A servant who was looking to usurp Bolas himself, no less.
It is a very complicated matter, but toctheyounger77 hit some of the basic outline, but effectively Kamigawin magic is sort of funky and instead of directly drawing on mana all magic goes through the spirit realm, when Toshiro (who himself screwed with the balance of cosmic power on Kamigawa in quite a few ways) got sent to Dominaria he brought some of that magic with him so that by the time Tetsuo was born there was a mini spirit realm that had formed, Tetsuo tricked Nicol Bolas in his Old Walker days into that mini realm, Nicol had no experience with it..so Tetsuo managed to trap Nicol Bolas there..until the Timespiral block.
Mostly him going to murder the Umezawa clan was out of pure spite that Tetsuo managed to best him..but the Umezawa clan is 2/2 for outwitting Major Powers in their appearances so another one running around is something any planar power in the Multiverse should at least be aware of.
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...why must we be punished for someone else’s leak?
Feeling blue.
The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
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Man the anticipation is revving up like the Weatherlight herself 8). I can wait for the Masters 25 air to clear.
What was the other Planeswaker that the Umezawas dealt with besides Bolas?
And, do we have any idea if Urza and Bolas ever met or dealt with each other either directly or by proxy?
While not a planeswalker, the Myojin of Night's Reach has proven to be a being capable of travelling between planes at will without a spark.
In the old days planeswalkers and Eldrazi didn't have quite the monopoly on planar travel that they do now. As someone else said, Moyjin of Nights Reach, one of the Kami (literally "divine spirit"), was the one who brought Toshiro Umezawa to Dominaria. The reason she could do this is... wow, that's a long story, and it starts on neither Kamigawa nor Dominaria. Never mind. It doesn't matter anyway. The point is, Toshiro Umezawa never met a planeswalker, his cosmic encounters were with god-like beings and outsmarting them. Until one of them finally tricked him by offering him a "reward"...
He took it surprisingly well, considering he never actually saw Dominaria.
There is no evidence that Bolas dealt with any other civilization on Dominaria, let alone its other planeswalkers until Time Spiral, but in Time Spiral when Teferi's gang is tricked by Bolas's spirit into resurrecting his body, Teferi does seem to know who Bolas is and even challenged him to a formal planeswalker duel. So Teferi is at least aware of Bolas's existence and significance as a fellow ancient planeswalker, but beyond that little is certain. Keep in mind that a lot of Teferi's own story is untold; all we know is that some time after he graduated from Tolaria and ascended to being a planeswalker, he became a court mage in his home kingdom, got his own island and began independently experimenting with phasing things out of time in preparation for the Phyrexian invasion. Even Urza's own story has gaps in it, like when exactly he approached the other members of the Nine Titans, some of whom were unknown to the audience when Invasion was published.
We do, however, have a map of Dominaria associated with the Weatherlight, but Madara, Sarpadia and Otaria are all missing from the map. From what we know from the Legends books themselves, Madara should be next to the Jamuraan continents relatively near Zalfir where Teferi lived, but whether it was in the Jamuraan sea or on the other side of it (as in some fan interpretations I've seen) is unclear to me. Either way, its plausible that Bolas was afraid of Teferi and almost certain Bolas had heard of Urza because, well, he was a household name on Dominaria.
Mind you, part of the reason that the Legends books and their story feel a bit disconnected to other Dominarian lore is that the early sets were not designed in-house by Wizards, they were designed by contractors. This ended because Homelands was such a catastrophe that Wizards decided to rethink that policy. Anyway, we know that the people who designed Legends based every legendary creature in the set on characters from their personal D&D campaign. For instance, someone in the design team played a samurai character named Tetsuo Umezawa after the protagonist of the anime Akira, so that character was put into the set. This is also why there is a card in Magic named Ramses Overdark, because 90's era D&D was shamelessly cheesy (and still is ). So you have to give the author of the novels major kudos for making the story make sense when all he had to go by was a bunch of names generated by some DM many years prior, some art assets in the form of the cards, and a mandate by Wizards to somehow connect the Umezawa character to the protagonist of their newest block, Kamigawa. Its probably because of him that a dragon serving as a villain in some DM's private D&D campaign became the main villain of the world's premier TCG. No doubt the easiest way to make it work though was to make it self-contained and reference as little as possible to the Antiquities saga or the Weatherlight saga that connects most of the other Dominaria stories in some way (eg. like how the Ice Age saga is a consequence of Urza's earliest act as a planeswalker).
This makes sense and I never knew it. You learn something new every day.