Is there a place to quickly get on top of the story, now that it is ending? I don't have the time to read the novels on the wizards.internet, but it'd be neat to have the slightest idead what the heck has been going on.
On that note: Have they pulled back on the "story is very visible for everyone with spotlights and whatnot"-strategy? I feel like I had some inkling about what happened up until Amonkhet, but since then, I have no idea even who is a good guy or who is a bad guy or why Bolas had anything to do with Ixalan/Ravnica at all.
Is there a place to quickly get on top of the story, now that it is ending? I don't have the time to read the novels on the wizards.internet, but it'd be neat to have the slightest idead what the heck has been going on.
On that note: Have they pulled back on the "story is very visible for everyone with spotlights and whatnot"-strategy? I feel like I had some inkling about what happened up until Amonkhet, but since then, I have no idea even who is a good guy or who is a bad guy or why Bolas had anything to do with Ixalan/Ravnica at all.
Bolas has a secret plan to do something big and exciting. He has spent the last few years worth of sets slowly enacting his plan. All we really know is that he wants to lure as many planeswalkers as possible to Ravnica (hence why he did not kill the Gatewatch on Amonkhet). Bolas will use the Immortal Sun to trap the planeswalkers on Ravnica; he will use the Planar Bridge to bring his army of undead Eternals from Amonkhet to Ravnica; and he will use the Chain Veil (via Liliana) to control the undead army. We do not know the specifics of what Bolas' end game are but, it feels like he wants to kill all of the planeswalkers for some devious plan.
To expand on why we dont know, its because typically we get the store with the block, but for the last 2 sets the stories have been slice of life non-walker inhabitants on Ravnica. They are saving the PW story for the book, so no one really knows the details of his grand scheme until that comes out.
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Is there a place to quickly get on top of the story, now that it is ending? I don't have the time to read the novels on the wizards.internet, but it'd be neat to have the slightest idead what the heck has been going on.
Quick precis:
Tarkir - Sarkhan does timey-wimey stuff to bring Ugin back to life, and therefore all the dragons with him. Only Ugin may have any part in the Bolas storyline (turns out he's Bolas's twin, who Bolas killed. He *may* still think he's dead. More on that later...)
Zendikar 2.0 - Gideon calls his mates, including Jace, to help him rid Zendikar of the Eldrazi titans Ulamog and Kozilek. Jace thinks it would be a good idea to kill them. Ugin thinks that might not be wise. Jace, Gideon, Chandra and Nissa do it anyway and decide to become The Gatewatch because 'look at us, aren't we bloody marvellous?'
Innistrad 2.0 - Jace goes to Innistrad to find Liliana, who he was having dinner with on Ravnica before Gideon interrupted them and dragged him off to Zendikar. Turns out Innistrad's in a mess due to some mysterious force that may or may not be Emrakul. Surprise! It *is* Emrakul. Cue 'Gatewatch Assemble!' Through no actual ability of their own, Emrakul ends up sealed in Innistrad's moon by her own volition. Liliana joins the Gatewatch for purely selfish reasons - so they can help her defeat the remaining 2 demons who contractually have a claim on her soul. As an aside to the main plot, turns out it was all due to Nahiri going mental after a squabble with Sorin. Sorin ends up stuck in a rock.
Kaladesh - The Gatewatch are chilling out on Ravnica wondering what to do now they're an awesome team of superheroes who've (kinda) defeated 3 Eldrazi titans. Dovin Baan turns up and asks them to help him sort out a rebellion problem on Kaladesh. Jace and Gideon says 'nah', but Chandra goes because it's her homeplane, closely followed by Liliana. The Gatewatch end up going after all and sorting things in precisely the way Dovin didn't want them to - by siding with the rebels who are led by Chandra's mum. The guy who really makes them pick a side though is Tezzeret, who's there under Bolas's instruction to see what delightful tricks the Kaladeshi inventors are coming up with. Turns out one is transplanar tech that can teleport non-living stuff through the Blind Eternities. Part one of Bolas's masterwork... The GW 'defeat' Tezz and destroy the Planar Bridge. Kinda. Actually, he just melds it into himself so he can reach through the Eternities and move stuff himself. Ajani was there too; not entirely sure why.
Amonkhet - Yeah! The Gatewatch think they're seriously kick-ass now and merrily launch themselves to another plane, mainly because it's where the 3rd of Lili's demons resides. Confident they can beat anyone, they lose emphatically to Bolas, who's been manipulating the whole plane to get himself an army of virtually indestructible undead soldiers called Eternals, coated in a substance called Lazotep that means they can pass through the Blind Eternities. Wonder what he wants with those...?
Ixalan - In losing to Bolas, Jace's mind was being destroyed and it triggered a failsafe Ugin had put there to keep knowledge of his resurrection from Bolas (see? Told you we'd get back to that.) Jace is whisked off to Ixalan - a plane Ugin knows because it's where he and Azor - the sphinx oldwalker who founded the Azorius - had planned to trap Bolas a long time ago using a piece of tech called the Immortal Sun that stops walkers from walking. It cost Azor his spark to make it, but Bolas knew what they were up to, never fell for the trap, and Azor's been stuck there ever since. Jace arrives with virtually no memories, ends up getting on rather well with Vraska who's been sent to Ixalan by Bolas to locate the Immortal Sun, then eventually gets *all* his memories back, making him probably more powerful than he's ever been. He and Vraska realise Bolas is up to something and it involves Ravnica, and agree to find a way to stop him, which means Jace locking away all Vraska's memories of him ever being there until some future time when it might be useful to unlock them again. They find the Sun; Vraska send a signal to Tezz who reaches through the Eternities and pulls the Sun away from Ixalan for Bolas to use somewhere else in the future (*cough* Ravnica *cough*), and Jace walks away to...
Dominaria - to find what the rest of the Gatewatch have been up to while he's been plane-wrecked on Ixalan. Turns out Nissa has quit, Chandra has gone back to Regatha (for a bit - she returns later, finding Jaya), but Gideon and Lili have been finding Karn, Jhoira and Teferi and helping defeat Belzenlok - the last of Lili's demons. Jace flashes in, says Lili can't be trusted, and flashes out again. Gideon is grumpy because he and Lili have been getting on rather nicely ifyouknowwhatImean. But Jace is right. With the end of all Lili's demon contracts, Bolas appears and informs her that the contracts therefore default to him, so he basically owns her now. She reluctantly goes with him, leaving Gideon saaad. Ajani was also here as well; equally not sure why.
Which brings us back to Ravnica, where we've had 2 sets of going, 'Hey look! Ravnica! Just how you remember it.' Except 5 of the Guilds are now run by Bolas's lackeys - Dovin, Domri, Kaya, Vraska and Ral Zarek. But all that is just a prelude to War of the Spark, where Bolas will use Tezz's Planar Bridge capacity to bring in his army of Amonkhet Eternals controlled by Liliana. He's also set a Planeswalker beacon of some kind that looks like it'll cause a whole bunch of walkers to go 'Hmm. That's odd. I must go to Ravnica and see what this is all about' just at the saem time as he brings the Immortal Sun to trap them all there. Whatever could he want them all for...
And that's where we are, via the last 16 expansions.
To point out something, Ravnica has become the “focal point” for Planeswalkers. In a story prior to Zendikar, Ral Zarek and Niv developed technology that was able to track planeswalkers who arrived on Ravnica. That is most likely how Bolas will know when enough PWs are there
is seriously no-one talkinga bout the fact that we are going to have three different types of boosters?
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is seriously no-one talkinga bout the fact that we are going to have three different types of boosters?
It's "booster products", so if they are selling the normal boxes (for "competetive players"?) as usual and the Mythic Edition with unique illustrations on the planeswalkers (for "collectors"?) that's already two products - despite the fact that they (mostly) contain normal booster packs (except the ones that contain guaranteed promo planeswalkers).
So even if your reading about three different kinds of products is correct (and that's a fair assumption, though it could be any number N of products as long as they can argue that these three classes of players are well-served by the products), even then, the products might not hold distinct types of booster pack, but just Standard Edition boosters packed with different peripherals e. g. rules for the Booster Cracking Drinking Game TM (C) (R) for "social fans".
Just to clarify and help modulate your expectations.
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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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"new booster products for X, Y, & Z" - that could be a single product type which is designed to appeal to all three categories. booster products sounds like a multiple different products but it could simply mean multiple products.
Unless you guys are looking at a different image than I am that is CLEARLY Lili. Shoulderless black dress, gold headdress, clearly Lili. Nothing about that hints at Elspeth.
Lower part looks a little like Elspeth, but the head is clearly Liliana's. You can see her golden tiara.
I r/woooosh you once, I r/woooosh you twice, I even r/woooosh you thrice.
So, we have Bolas under The Immortal Sun, and the archetypal "each side lined up perfectly against the other because that's basic tactics right there" shot.
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Unless you guys are looking at a different image than I am that is CLEARLY Lili. Shoulderless black dress, gold headdress, clearly Lili. Nothing about that hints at Elspeth.
Lower part looks a little like Elspeth, but the head is clearly Liliana's. You can see her golden tiara.
I r/woooosh you once, I r/woooosh you twice, I even r/woooosh you thrice.
So, we have Bolas under The Immortal Sun, and the archetypal "each side lined up perfectly against the other because that's basic tactics right there" shot.
Those are all Eternals. On both sides. There's no faction based 1v1 lineup at all in that image.
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On that note: Have they pulled back on the "story is very visible for everyone with spotlights and whatnot"-strategy? I feel like I had some inkling about what happened up until Amonkhet, but since then, I have no idea even who is a good guy or who is a bad guy or why Bolas had anything to do with Ixalan/Ravnica at all.
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Bolas has a secret plan to do something big and exciting. He has spent the last few years worth of sets slowly enacting his plan. All we really know is that he wants to lure as many planeswalkers as possible to Ravnica (hence why he did not kill the Gatewatch on Amonkhet). Bolas will use the Immortal Sun to trap the planeswalkers on Ravnica; he will use the Planar Bridge to bring his army of undead Eternals from Amonkhet to Ravnica; and he will use the Chain Veil (via Liliana) to control the undead army. We do not know the specifics of what Bolas' end game are but, it feels like he wants to kill all of the planeswalkers for some devious plan.
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Quick precis:
Tarkir - Sarkhan does timey-wimey stuff to bring Ugin back to life, and therefore all the dragons with him. Only Ugin may have any part in the Bolas storyline (turns out he's Bolas's twin, who Bolas killed. He *may* still think he's dead. More on that later...)
Zendikar 2.0 - Gideon calls his mates, including Jace, to help him rid Zendikar of the Eldrazi titans Ulamog and Kozilek. Jace thinks it would be a good idea to kill them. Ugin thinks that might not be wise. Jace, Gideon, Chandra and Nissa do it anyway and decide to become The Gatewatch because 'look at us, aren't we bloody marvellous?'
Innistrad 2.0 - Jace goes to Innistrad to find Liliana, who he was having dinner with on Ravnica before Gideon interrupted them and dragged him off to Zendikar. Turns out Innistrad's in a mess due to some mysterious force that may or may not be Emrakul. Surprise! It *is* Emrakul. Cue 'Gatewatch Assemble!' Through no actual ability of their own, Emrakul ends up sealed in Innistrad's moon by her own volition. Liliana joins the Gatewatch for purely selfish reasons - so they can help her defeat the remaining 2 demons who contractually have a claim on her soul. As an aside to the main plot, turns out it was all due to Nahiri going mental after a squabble with Sorin. Sorin ends up stuck in a rock.
Kaladesh - The Gatewatch are chilling out on Ravnica wondering what to do now they're an awesome team of superheroes who've (kinda) defeated 3 Eldrazi titans. Dovin Baan turns up and asks them to help him sort out a rebellion problem on Kaladesh. Jace and Gideon says 'nah', but Chandra goes because it's her homeplane, closely followed by Liliana. The Gatewatch end up going after all and sorting things in precisely the way Dovin didn't want them to - by siding with the rebels who are led by Chandra's mum. The guy who really makes them pick a side though is Tezzeret, who's there under Bolas's instruction to see what delightful tricks the Kaladeshi inventors are coming up with. Turns out one is transplanar tech that can teleport non-living stuff through the Blind Eternities. Part one of Bolas's masterwork... The GW 'defeat' Tezz and destroy the Planar Bridge. Kinda. Actually, he just melds it into himself so he can reach through the Eternities and move stuff himself. Ajani was there too; not entirely sure why.
Amonkhet - Yeah! The Gatewatch think they're seriously kick-ass now and merrily launch themselves to another plane, mainly because it's where the 3rd of Lili's demons resides. Confident they can beat anyone, they lose emphatically to Bolas, who's been manipulating the whole plane to get himself an army of virtually indestructible undead soldiers called Eternals, coated in a substance called Lazotep that means they can pass through the Blind Eternities. Wonder what he wants with those...?
Ixalan - In losing to Bolas, Jace's mind was being destroyed and it triggered a failsafe Ugin had put there to keep knowledge of his resurrection from Bolas (see? Told you we'd get back to that.) Jace is whisked off to Ixalan - a plane Ugin knows because it's where he and Azor - the sphinx oldwalker who founded the Azorius - had planned to trap Bolas a long time ago using a piece of tech called the Immortal Sun that stops walkers from walking. It cost Azor his spark to make it, but Bolas knew what they were up to, never fell for the trap, and Azor's been stuck there ever since. Jace arrives with virtually no memories, ends up getting on rather well with Vraska who's been sent to Ixalan by Bolas to locate the Immortal Sun, then eventually gets *all* his memories back, making him probably more powerful than he's ever been. He and Vraska realise Bolas is up to something and it involves Ravnica, and agree to find a way to stop him, which means Jace locking away all Vraska's memories of him ever being there until some future time when it might be useful to unlock them again. They find the Sun; Vraska send a signal to Tezz who reaches through the Eternities and pulls the Sun away from Ixalan for Bolas to use somewhere else in the future (*cough* Ravnica *cough*), and Jace walks away to...
Dominaria - to find what the rest of the Gatewatch have been up to while he's been plane-wrecked on Ixalan. Turns out Nissa has quit, Chandra has gone back to Regatha (for a bit - she returns later, finding Jaya), but Gideon and Lili have been finding Karn, Jhoira and Teferi and helping defeat Belzenlok - the last of Lili's demons. Jace flashes in, says Lili can't be trusted, and flashes out again. Gideon is grumpy because he and Lili have been getting on rather nicely ifyouknowwhatImean. But Jace is right. With the end of all Lili's demon contracts, Bolas appears and informs her that the contracts therefore default to him, so he basically owns her now. She reluctantly goes with him, leaving Gideon saaad. Ajani was also here as well; equally not sure why.
Which brings us back to Ravnica, where we've had 2 sets of going, 'Hey look! Ravnica! Just how you remember it.' Except 5 of the Guilds are now run by Bolas's lackeys - Dovin, Domri, Kaya, Vraska and Ral Zarek. But all that is just a prelude to War of the Spark, where Bolas will use Tezz's Planar Bridge capacity to bring in his army of Amonkhet Eternals controlled by Liliana. He's also set a Planeswalker beacon of some kind that looks like it'll cause a whole bunch of walkers to go 'Hmm. That's odd. I must go to Ravnica and see what this is all about' just at the saem time as he brings the Immortal Sun to trap them all there. Whatever could he want them all for...
And that's where we are, via the last 16 expansions.
Wow, super. Thanks a lot!
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It's "booster products", so if they are selling the normal boxes (for "competetive players"?) as usual and the Mythic Edition with unique illustrations on the planeswalkers (for "collectors"?) that's already two products - despite the fact that they (mostly) contain normal booster packs (except the ones that contain guaranteed promo planeswalkers).
So even if your reading about three different kinds of products is correct (and that's a fair assumption, though it could be any number N of products as long as they can argue that these three classes of players are well-served by the products), even then, the products might not hold distinct types of booster pack, but just Standard Edition boosters packed with different peripherals e. g. rules for the Booster Cracking Drinking Game TM (C) (R) for "social fans".
Just to clarify and help modulate your expectations.
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So, we have Bolas under The Immortal Sun, and the archetypal "each side lined up perfectly against the other because that's basic tactics right there" shot.
On phasing:
Wait wait wait
What are you talking about
They ended different boosters in pre-rerelease limited were gonna get 6 war of the spark packs in limited
Those are all Eternals. On both sides. There's no faction based 1v1 lineup at all in that image.