Sorry face it, it is likely the writing will be worse than BFZ then.
Just because you are seriously underestimating them?
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
I wanted so much to follow the MtG story when they announced more story moments in the cards, weekly stories, etc. But between really poor writing and the story department's love of retcons, I just couldn't do it. Reading some of those stories feels like a punishment. A planeswalker battle royale seems cool, but I have doubts about the story leading up to that point.
Also, is Bolas baiting all of the planeswalkers in the multiverse, or just the ones on the stained glass? Will we see the Kenriths, Dack Fayden, or any of the C18 walkers? It's like I kinda care...but not really...but I kinda do.
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Can you name all of the creature types with at least 20 cards? Try my Sporcle Quiz! Last Updated: 6/29/20 (Core Set 2021).
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
I don't even understand what you are saying or how that is remotely related to phyrexians, so no, it won't be good writing
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
I don't even understand what you are saying or how that is remotely related to phyrexians, so no, it won't be good writing
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
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Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
I don't even understand what you are saying or how that is remotely related to phyrexians, so no, it won't be good writing
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
It is much worse than that, Bolas needed the Planar Bridge to work exactly how it does for the plan he created 6 decades ago to make sense, Rashmi forgets to carry the 2 and now the Planar Bridge can transport flesh and non-flesh? Well you wasted the majority of your army by having only 1 Eternal per crop. Rashmi misplaces a decimal point and now it can only take flesh and not non-flesh? Now that Eternal Army is completely useless.
For Phyrexia to be a threat they need to have a perfected Planar Portal, So they either need to just happen to make one in time for them to be "dangerous" or for Tezzeret to simultaneously lose all good sense and give them his if the still has one once War of the Spark is over, then he needs to very suddenly perfect it despite already having months of time to tinker with the thing.
Also don't forget we are in the Post-Mending Era of the game, which came about because they wanted Planeswalkers to be "special" and got rid of things like Planeswalkers being able to take people with them, Planar Bridges and the Weatherlight very much on purpose.
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
Well, that depends on what you mean with "at complete random". I'm restricting myself to the 'New Phyrexia gaining the Planar Bridge'-part since I have not finished reading the story on Kaladesh and cannot comment on how much "luck" there was in that.
Let's look at the pieces right now though, when we are talking about the Planar Bridge and New Phyrexia. There is a single piece connecting the two: Tezzeret. He has connection to New Phyrexia - having been there on orders from Bolas; he is (in possession of) the Planar bridge. How bad is the writing if the story goes something like: Bolas is defeaqted, but his minion with the most efficient means to move things between planes escapes the easiest. But now free from the defeated dragon's influence Tezzeret starts/continues his own scheming and goes decides to use the Planar Bridge as a bargaining tool. Maybe he ouright sells the service of planar travel to New Phyrexia in exchange for a position of power in their hierarchy (or maybe he tries to, but gets proven a fool bargaining with the devil); or maybe he extorts planes by threatening to open portals to a Very Bad Place like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, but he tries that with New Phyrexia once to often and the New Phyrexians grow wise to this after a while.
Is it convenient from the perspective of New Phyrexia to get such an opportunity? Yes. Is it random? No, because in either scenario they come into the plot by a previously established connection (again, not making excuses for past writing, just defending the preemptive dismissal of future writing) and by a decision of a character based on what they are: A scary world conquering power.
Now, there could be very bad chance-driven writing accomplishing the end e. g. "The Planar Bridge gets magicked away from Tezzeret and tumbles through the Blind Eternities randomly landing on... New Phyrexia, OMG!!!" but that's not a given.
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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I fully expect Tezzeret to use the Planar Bridge to transport his Phyrexian minions, but Bolas just did the whole "army of Zombies" thing, so they might shift gears to Ob Nixilis or another villain for a while, letting Tezzeret prepare his plan in the background. Hey, what if the next Core Set is dedicated to showing off a cycle of villain planeswalkers who are stepping up to fill the void left by Bolas? Each villain represents the negative qualities of their respective color:
W A masked Cleric who seeks to convert all civilizations to their cult-like religion U Tezzeret B Ob Nixilis R An Orc warlord who lives for battle and collects trophies from worthy opponents G An Elf elitist who detests artifice and inferior creatures
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
I don't even understand what you are saying or how that is remotely related to phyrexians, so no, it won't be good writing
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
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Looks like the new modern horizons the first modern legal set
Got the phyrexians covered based on the two preview cards
Cabal Therapist is not a phyrexian, but a horror from the Cabal in Otaria (long after old phyrexia was destroyed) and Serra only has a marginal tie to old Phyrexia (and died before the Invasion block).
If you are referring to that human-phyrexian/eldrazi art, may be. But still, the new phyrexian plot is not resolved.
Looks like the new modern horizons the first modern legal set
Got the phyrexians covered based on the two preview cards
Cabal Therapist is not a phyrexian, but a horror from the Cabal in Otaria (long after old phyrexia was destroyed) and Serra only has a marginal tie to old Phyrexia (and died before the Invasion block).
If you are referring to that human-phyrexian/eldrazi art, may be. But still, the new phyrexian plot is not resolved.
That’s not why
Serra has a huge involvement with the phyrexians is why I’m saying this the phyrexians destroyed her home so maybe some phyrexian cards involved
Also maybe we will end up with phyrexian legends we never had as a card before
Belbe
Gix
Volrath (a better one)
Maybe even yawgmoth himself
Looks like the new modern horizons the first modern legal set
Got the phyrexians covered based on the two preview cards
Cabal Therapist is not a phyrexian, but a horror from the Cabal in Otaria (long after old phyrexia was destroyed) and Serra only has a marginal tie to old Phyrexia (and died before the Invasion block).
If you are referring to that human-phyrexian/eldrazi art, may be. But still, the new phyrexian plot is not resolved.
That’s not why
Serra has a huge involvement with the phyrexians is why I’m saying this the phyrexians destroyed her home so maybe some phyrexian cards involved
Also maybe we will end up with phyrexian legends we never had as a card before
Belbe
Gix
Volrath (a better one)
Maybe even yawgmoth himself
Belbe could be a good BG legend.
Also, Serra's Realm was destroyed by Phyrexia because Urza and Xantcha's little visit left Serra's Realm tainted. (Considering that even after her death she accidentally Mirrodin...) It was only after that time period that Serra left and Radiant went cuckoo and one of her angels was destined for love.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
Well, that depends on what you mean with "at complete random". I'm restricting myself to the 'New Phyrexia gaining the Planar Bridge'-part since I have not finished reading the story on Kaladesh and cannot comment on how much "luck" there was in that.
Let's look at the pieces right now though, when we are talking about the Planar Bridge and New Phyrexia. There is a single piece connecting the two: Tezzeret. He has connection to New Phyrexia - having been there on orders from Bolas; he is (in possession of) the Planar bridge. How bad is the writing if the story goes something like: Bolas is defeaqted, but his minion with the most efficient means to move things between planes escapes the easiest. But now free from the defeated dragon's influence Tezzeret starts/continues his own scheming and goes decides to use the Planar Bridge as a bargaining tool. Maybe he ouright sells the service of planar travel to New Phyrexia in exchange for a position of power in their hierarchy (or maybe he tries to, but gets proven a fool bargaining with the devil); or maybe he extorts planes by threatening to open portals to a Very Bad Place like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, but he tries that with New Phyrexia once to often and the New Phyrexians grow wise to this after a while.
Is it convenient from the perspective of New Phyrexia to get such an opportunity? Yes. Is it random? No, because in either scenario they come into the plot by a previously established connection (again, not making excuses for past writing, just defending the preemptive dismissal of future writing) and by a decision of a character based on what they are: A scary world conquering power.
Now, there could be very bad chance-driven writing accomplishing the end e. g. "The Planar Bridge gets magicked away from Tezzeret and tumbles through the Blind Eternities randomly landing on... New Phyrexia, OMG!!!" but that's not a given.
Tezz could offer the Planar Bridge to Jin Gitaxias in exchange for more power. Tezz getting more power by getting phyrexianized in a similar fashion to Mishra?
Looks like the new modern horizons the first modern legal set
Got the phyrexians covered based on the two preview cards
Cabal Therapist is not a phyrexian, but a horror from the Cabal in Otaria (long after old phyrexia was destroyed) and Serra only has a marginal tie to old Phyrexia (and died before the Invasion block).
If you are referring to that human-phyrexian/eldrazi art, may be. But still, the new phyrexian plot is not resolved.
That’s not why
Serra has a huge involvement with the phyrexians is why I’m saying this the phyrexians destroyed her home so maybe some phyrexian cards involved
Also maybe we will end up with phyrexian legends we never had as a card before
Belbe
Gix
Volrath (a better one)
Maybe even yawgmoth himself
Belbe could be a good BG legend.
Also, Serra's Realm was destroyed by Phyrexia because Urza and Xantcha's little visit left Serra's Realm tainted. (Considering that even after her death she accidentally Mirrodin...) It was only after that time period that Serra left and Radiant went cuckoo and one of her angels was destined for love.
Or maybe we finally get an Urza planeswalker card? They made one for Serra, so maybe they could make one for Urza as well.
Yeah, I remember. Phyrexians started attacking Serra's Realm because Urza was there. And eventhough the phyrexians were defeated, the place was still doomed. Flavor text of Absolute Grace.
Serra has a huge involvement with the phyrexians is why I’m saying this the phyrexians destroyed her home so maybe some phyrexian cards involved
Also maybe we will end up with phyrexian legends we never had as a card before
Belbe
Gix
Volrath (a better one)
Maybe even yawgmoth himself
That is pretty much wishful thinking and speculation at this point.
Saying that having Serra means we have Phyrexians is the same as saying we will have revamped legends from Homelands like a new Baron Sengir or a new Gabriel Angelfire because the Serran religion clashed with the Angelfire religion for supremacy in early Benalia.
Or that having a creature from the Otarian Cabal means we will have new slivers because the riptide project revived them during the events of the Onslaught block.
I'm not saying it is not going to happen (and would be happy if it happened), I'm saying that using Serra as evidence is flimsy at best.
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
Old Phyrexia was an interplanar threat
The Mirari was kinda like an interplanar threat
The rifts were an interlanar threat
The eldrazi were an interplanar threat
Bolas is an interplanar threat
But having New Phyrexia as an interplanar threat is forced?
This is magic the gathering. The whole game is about things going from a plane to another plane.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
And just as Bolas was about to deliver the fatal blow to the Gatewatch Garruk showed up and wrecked everyone and everything in his path. The End.
Haha, that would be the surprise end. Seriously speaking though, it seems there is no update on Garruk anymore. We don't know if he turned into a demon already or was cured?
And just as Bolas was about to deliver the fatal blow to the Gatewatch Garruk showed up and wrecked everyone and everything in his path. The End.
Haha, that would be the surprise end. Seriously speaking though, it seems there is no update on Garruk anymore. We don't know if he turned into a demon already or was cured?
They won't be using him anymore since that card was printed wich showed him overpowering Lilliana. This caused such a backlash from the snowflake community that they abruptly stopped Garruk storyline.
They also want Lilly to be redeemable. What she did to Garruk would make her unredeemable. So that was another nail in Garruk's coffin.
They even printed a female version of him to fill his planeswalker niche, namely Vivien Reid.
And just as Bolas was about to deliver the fatal blow to the Gatewatch Garruk showed up and wrecked everyone and everything in his path. The End.
Haha, that would be the surprise end. Seriously speaking though, it seems there is no update on Garruk anymore. We don't know if he turned into a demon already or was cured?
They won't be using him anymore since that card was printed wich showed him overpowering Lilliana. This caused such a backlash from the snowflake community that they abruptly stopped Garruk storyline.
They also want Lilly to be redeemable. What she did to Garruk would make her unredeemable. So that was another nail in Garruk's coffin.
They even printed a female version of him to fill his planeswalker niche, namely Vivien Reid.
And yet years later after the backlash he got a whole core set, promo material and a nerf toy focused on him.
The only think the backlash did was have them give new art to the card.
EDIT: The Planeswalker poster also shows that they also have art of him we have yet to see.
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Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
Well, that depends on what you mean with "at complete random". I'm restricting myself to the 'New Phyrexia gaining the Planar Bridge'-part since I have not finished reading the story on Kaladesh and cannot comment on how much "luck" there was in that.
Let's look at the pieces right now though, when we are talking about the Planar Bridge and New Phyrexia. There is a single piece connecting the two: Tezzeret. He has connection to New Phyrexia - having been there on orders from Bolas; he is (in possession of) the Planar bridge. How bad is the writing if the story goes something like: Bolas is defeaqted, but his minion with the most efficient means to move things between planes escapes the easiest. But now free from the defeated dragon's influence Tezzeret starts/continues his own scheming and goes decides to use the Planar Bridge as a bargaining tool. Maybe he ouright sells the service of planar travel to New Phyrexia in exchange for a position of power in their hierarchy (or maybe he tries to, but gets proven a fool bargaining with the devil); or maybe he extorts planes by threatening to open portals to a Very Bad Place like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, but he tries that with New Phyrexia once to often and the New Phyrexians grow wise to this after a while.
Is it convenient from the perspective of New Phyrexia to get such an opportunity? Yes. Is it random? No, because in either scenario they come into the plot by a previously established connection (again, not making excuses for past writing, just defending the preemptive dismissal of future writing) and by a decision of a character based on what they are: A scary world conquering power.
Now, there could be very bad chance-driven writing accomplishing the end e. g. "The Planar Bridge gets magicked away from Tezzeret and tumbles through the Blind Eternities randomly landing on... New Phyrexia, OMG!!!" but that's not a given.
Tezz could offer the Planar Bridge to Jin Gitaxias in exchange for more power. Tezz getting more power by getting phyrexianized in a similar fashion to Mishra?
He is immune to Phyresis, that is how he could spy on them for Bolas in Scars.
Old Phyrexia was an interplanar threat
The Mirari was kinda like an interplanar threat
The rifts were an interlanar threat
The eldrazi were an interplanar threat
Bolas is an interplanar threat
But having New Phyrexia as an interplanar threat is forced?
Old Phyrexia was a threat because they had Planar Bridges, it was something we were introduced to when we were first introduced to them.
The Mirari was not remotely an inter-planar threat, it wasn't even a world ending threat. Karona was a Planetary Threat, However she wasn't actually created by The Mirari..she was created when Kamahl killed Phage/Akroma/Zangora all at once, in what was stupid moment, but Legions and Scourge are as bad as Agents of Artifice.
The Rifts were kind of Stupid, The ones because of the Explosion of Tolaria and Teferi's Phasing made sense, The Overlay spots had the problem of the Overlay not being localized like that, as the entire plane of Rath got overlaid and was the same size of Dominaria at the time of Overlay so all of Dominaria should have had a rift above it.
The Nicol Bolas one and the Karona one were dumb though, If Karona's creation made "The biggest" Rift..then where is the one from The first time it happened? And Planeswalker Slap fights happen all the time without tearing the fabric of space time, but Nicol Bolas vs Un-named Leviathan did?
Bolas himself is an Evil Planeswalker, that makes him an Inherent Planar Threat. However his Plan with the Eternals does make zero sense, and he lucked out with Tezzeret tripping over Rashmi randomly.
The Eldrazi are C'thulu Ripoff Spiders that live in the Blind Eternities, they are an Inherent Planar Threat.
New Phyrexia requires them to re-use the same one in a hundred trillion shot that happened with the Planar Bridge for Bolas, except it is even more of a stretch because it not only requires someone to invent a better Planar Bridge than Rashmi, it someone inventing it on that specific Plane. Nicol Bolas hitting the Lottery was a huge stretch, but hey the Multi-verse is a big place so I could let it slide.
Nicol Bolas AND the Phyrexians hitting that same Lottery, in Back to Back Storylines? No that is cheap.
Not only that, some of the art in the windows looked like art that is already on planeswalker cards from other sets. I’m not sure all 36 of these are new art.
I have read that caim multiple times recently, but at least for more than half a dozen there is a clear theme of "planeswalker stands on stairs" that suggests new art with a certain style guide and I couldn't find any poses that coouldn't easily be distinguished from more recent prints. Nevertheless if anyone has any input on this, I'd be interested to read about it.
New Phyrexia requires them to re-use the same one in a hundred trillion shot that happened with the Planar Bridge for Bolas, except it is even more of a stretch because it not only requires someone to invent a better Planar Bridge than Rashmi, it someone inventing it on that specific Plane. Nicol Bolas hitting the Lottery was a huge stretch, but hey the Multi-verse is a big place so I could let it slide.
This is patently false. Even if the Planar Bridge gets right now destroyed forever and never reaches New Phyrexia, there are two paths open to make Phyrexia an interplanar threat:
They have direct access to what is left of a former planeswalker who was working on a project creating vessels capable of interplanar travel.
They are Phyrexian. If Old Phyrexia found out the path to interplanar travel, so can New Phyrexia. After all they developped their own improved Phyrexian Negator.
But that doesn't even include that no one needs to invent a better Planar Bridge if there is an existing one already owned by a planeswalker with established connection to New Phyrexia. New Phyrexia coming onto planar travel technology is seeded far better than Nicol Bolas. Complaining about the convenient timing of him getting stuff together seems reasonable from what I know, but New Phyrexia literally gets access to the technology of Old Phyrexia through established means as well.
Because it is good writing to have the Planar Bridge that the badguys require for the plot too work to just suddenly fall into their lap at complete random and then have it happen again in the very next "major story arc"
Dragons of Legend, Lead by Scion of the UR-Dragon
The Gitrog Monster
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Shogun Saskia
Hive World
Atraxa hates fun
Abzan
Also, is Bolas baiting all of the planeswalkers in the multiverse, or just the ones on the stained glass? Will we see the Kenriths, Dack Fayden, or any of the C18 walkers? It's like I kinda care...but not really...but I kinda do.
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I don't even understand what you are saying or how that is remotely related to phyrexians, so no, it won't be good writing
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
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It is much worse than that, Bolas needed the Planar Bridge to work exactly how it does for the plan he created 6 decades ago to make sense, Rashmi forgets to carry the 2 and now the Planar Bridge can transport flesh and non-flesh? Well you wasted the majority of your army by having only 1 Eternal per crop. Rashmi misplaces a decimal point and now it can only take flesh and not non-flesh? Now that Eternal Army is completely useless.
For Phyrexia to be a threat they need to have a perfected Planar Portal, So they either need to just happen to make one in time for them to be "dangerous" or for Tezzeret to simultaneously lose all good sense and give them his if the still has one once War of the Spark is over, then he needs to very suddenly perfect it despite already having months of time to tinker with the thing.
Also don't forget we are in the Post-Mending Era of the game, which came about because they wanted Planeswalkers to be "special" and got rid of things like Planeswalkers being able to take people with them, Planar Bridges and the Weatherlight very much on purpose.
Dragons of Legend, Lead by Scion of the UR-Dragon
The Gitrog Monster
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Shogun Saskia
Hive World
Atraxa hates fun
Abzan
Well, that depends on what you mean with "at complete random". I'm restricting myself to the 'New Phyrexia gaining the Planar Bridge'-part since I have not finished reading the story on Kaladesh and cannot comment on how much "luck" there was in that.
Let's look at the pieces right now though, when we are talking about the Planar Bridge and New Phyrexia. There is a single piece connecting the two: Tezzeret. He has connection to New Phyrexia - having been there on orders from Bolas; he is (in possession of) the Planar bridge. How bad is the writing if the story goes something like: Bolas is defeaqted, but his minion with the most efficient means to move things between planes escapes the easiest. But now free from the defeated dragon's influence Tezzeret starts/continues his own scheming and goes decides to use the Planar Bridge as a bargaining tool. Maybe he ouright sells the service of planar travel to New Phyrexia in exchange for a position of power in their hierarchy (or maybe he tries to, but gets proven a fool bargaining with the devil); or maybe he extorts planes by threatening to open portals to a Very Bad Place like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, but he tries that with New Phyrexia once to often and the New Phyrexians grow wise to this after a while.
Is it convenient from the perspective of New Phyrexia to get such an opportunity? Yes. Is it random? No, because in either scenario they come into the plot by a previously established connection (again, not making excuses for past writing, just defending the preemptive dismissal of future writing) and by a decision of a character based on what they are: A scary world conquering power.
Now, there could be very bad chance-driven writing accomplishing the end e. g. "The Planar Bridge gets magicked away from Tezzeret and tumbles through the Blind Eternities randomly landing on... New Phyrexia, OMG!!!" but that's not a given.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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W A masked Cleric who seeks to convert all civilizations to their cult-like religion
U Tezzeret
B Ob Nixilis
R An Orc warlord who lives for battle and collects trophies from worthy opponents
G An Elf elitist who detests artifice and inferior creatures
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
He’s saing it bad writing if they make Phyrexia the next threat because....
Bolas needed a planar transportation device for his end-game.
Phyrexia needs a planar transportation device to enact their conquest.
It would be recycling the same plot device right next to each other.
BAfter the lights go out on you, after your worthless life is through. I will remember how you scream...B
Got the phyrexians covered based on the two preview cards
Cabal Therapist is not a phyrexian, but a horror from the Cabal in Otaria (long after old phyrexia was destroyed) and Serra only has a marginal tie to old Phyrexia (and died before the Invasion block).
If you are referring to that human-phyrexian/eldrazi art, may be. But still, the new phyrexian plot is not resolved.
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Serra has a huge involvement with the phyrexians is why I’m saying this the phyrexians destroyed her home so maybe some phyrexian cards involved
Also maybe we will end up with phyrexian legends we never had as a card before
Belbe
Gix
Volrath (a better one)
Maybe even yawgmoth himself
Belbe could be a good BG legend.
Also, Serra's Realm was destroyed by Phyrexia because Urza and Xantcha's little visit left Serra's Realm tainted. (Considering that even after her death she accidentally Mirrodin...) It was only after that time period that Serra left and Radiant went cuckoo and one of her angels was destined for love.
On phasing:
Tezz could offer the Planar Bridge to Jin Gitaxias in exchange for more power. Tezz getting more power by getting phyrexianized in a similar fashion to Mishra?
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Or maybe we finally get an Urza planeswalker card? They made one for Serra, so maybe they could make one for Urza as well.
Yeah, I remember. Phyrexians started attacking Serra's Realm because Urza was there. And eventhough the phyrexians were defeated, the place was still doomed. Flavor text of Absolute Grace.
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Saying that having Serra means we have Phyrexians is the same as saying we will have revamped legends from Homelands like a new Baron Sengir or a new Gabriel Angelfire because the Serran religion clashed with the Angelfire religion for supremacy in early Benalia.
Or that having a creature from the Otarian Cabal means we will have new slivers because the riptide project revived them during the events of the Onslaught block.
I'm not saying it is not going to happen (and would be happy if it happened), I'm saying that using Serra as evidence is flimsy at best.
Old Phyrexia was an interplanar threat
The Mirari was kinda like an interplanar threat
The rifts were an interlanar threat
The eldrazi were an interplanar threat
Bolas is an interplanar threat
But having New Phyrexia as an interplanar threat is forced?
This is magic the gathering. The whole game is about things going from a plane to another plane.
I don’t think 36 walker cards is so far fetched anymore
Haha, that would be the surprise end. Seriously speaking though, it seems there is no update on Garruk anymore. We don't know if he turned into a demon already or was cured?
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They won't be using him anymore since that card was printed wich showed him overpowering Lilliana. This caused such a backlash from the snowflake community that they abruptly stopped Garruk storyline.
They also want Lilly to be redeemable. What she did to Garruk would make her unredeemable. So that was another nail in Garruk's coffin.
They even printed a female version of him to fill his planeswalker niche, namely Vivien Reid.
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And yet years later after the backlash he got a whole core set, promo material and a nerf toy focused on him.
The only think the backlash did was have them give new art to the card.
EDIT: The Planeswalker poster also shows that they also have art of him we have yet to see.
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He is immune to Phyresis, that is how he could spy on them for Bolas in Scars.
Old Phyrexia was a threat because they had Planar Bridges, it was something we were introduced to when we were first introduced to them.
The Mirari was not remotely an inter-planar threat, it wasn't even a world ending threat. Karona was a Planetary Threat, However she wasn't actually created by The Mirari..she was created when Kamahl killed Phage/Akroma/Zangora all at once, in what was stupid moment, but Legions and Scourge are as bad as Agents of Artifice.
The Rifts were kind of Stupid, The ones because of the Explosion of Tolaria and Teferi's Phasing made sense, The Overlay spots had the problem of the Overlay not being localized like that, as the entire plane of Rath got overlaid and was the same size of Dominaria at the time of Overlay so all of Dominaria should have had a rift above it.
The Nicol Bolas one and the Karona one were dumb though, If Karona's creation made "The biggest" Rift..then where is the one from The first time it happened? And Planeswalker Slap fights happen all the time without tearing the fabric of space time, but Nicol Bolas vs Un-named Leviathan did?
Bolas himself is an Evil Planeswalker, that makes him an Inherent Planar Threat. However his Plan with the Eternals does make zero sense, and he lucked out with Tezzeret tripping over Rashmi randomly.
The Eldrazi are C'thulu Ripoff Spiders that live in the Blind Eternities, they are an Inherent Planar Threat.
New Phyrexia requires them to re-use the same one in a hundred trillion shot that happened with the Planar Bridge for Bolas, except it is even more of a stretch because it not only requires someone to invent a better Planar Bridge than Rashmi, it someone inventing it on that specific Plane. Nicol Bolas hitting the Lottery was a huge stretch, but hey the Multi-verse is a big place so I could let it slide.
Nicol Bolas AND the Phyrexians hitting that same Lottery, in Back to Back Storylines? No that is cheap.
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I have read that caim multiple times recently, but at least for more than half a dozen there is a clear theme of "planeswalker stands on stairs" that suggests new art with a certain style guide and I couldn't find any poses that coouldn't easily be distinguished from more recent prints. Nevertheless if anyone has any input on this, I'd be interested to read about it.
This is patently false. Even if the Planar Bridge gets right now destroyed forever and never reaches New Phyrexia, there are two paths open to make Phyrexia an interplanar threat:
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