In the heart of each Skyclave is this thing called a lithoform, a rock that stores immense power. Nahiri triggered one in the first Zendikar Rising story in her new quest to end the Roil on Zendikar. It killed all Roil activity near Akoum, and the elemental Nissa summoned to help them explore the skyclave. This card implies it also just kills the land in general a la Eldrazi feeding.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Calling it now, Nahiri becomes the big-bad for the next major story arc.
Spreading Seas 2.0. Will it have an impact on the current meta?
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This is much worse than Spreading Seas. Spreading Seas could actually keep your opponent off of a colour, this never does this. Indeed I'm not sure what this meant to actually do, as has been said it turns a land into a better Mana Confluence, why would you want to do that exactly? So it's either a bad fixer on your own land or meant to be used against like Tron but there are much better options than this for that.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Calling it now, Nahiri becomes the big-bad for the next major story arc.
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I get the same sense, maybe it's because the marketing department browbeat us with that trailer. "What this set needs is an unambiguous villain in the trailer. Yes, they have to do something real evil, for practically no reason. We can make a grand story arc out of her being real evil for no good reason! That's what sells."
Maybe it depends a little bit on our reception of Nahiri. I mean, she's always been crazy so at least it's consistent. But as much as I thought Bolas was a shallow, clichéd villain who I genuinely wish to never see again, at least he made sense. Pushing Akiri off the edge of the precipice in cold blood just kind of makes her uninteresting as a villain to begin with, and also feels inappropriate for a RW character. She'd be vastly more compelling if, alternatively, she and Akiri were struggling and Akiri fell by accident... Nahiri is shown grief stricken but, hardened, proceeds as planned. It would show Nahiri is ultimately willing to make sacrifices for her goals that are morally questionable yet actually be conflicted about those sacrifices such that they have dramatic stakes. We're supposed to pay attention to this story about Nahiri because we know who she is, but the other characters who are her victims are much less prominent and so less likely to have meaningful impact. All the more if they don't have a meaningful impact on Nahiri herself, in which case, she doesn't meaningfully impact us either. That might be different if her goal, eliminating the Roil, felt a bit more justified or held more personal significance to her. But instead I just feel like she's shoe-horned into this Roil-eliminating plot because they need some source of conflict in the absence of the Eldrazi. Which is of course literally the reason for the plot, but in this case it's so glaring. An anti-villain who clearly only cares about their ideals right from the get-go might have the potential for character development but there's little the hook the audience as to this possibility, in which case you need other characters to shore up that front. With Nissa as the counterpoint... well this is par for the course for Magic storylines.
All that said, if they add even a little bit of depth to the character (which will be hard to do but not impossible), I'm excited to think about the possibilities of a new story arc. The sooner I can completely forget Bolas was ever a thing, the better.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Calling it now, Nahiri becomes the big-bad for the next major story arc.
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A few people have noted it seems like we might have an anti-gatewatch forming from the last few sets:
Nahiri from this set
Lukka from Ixalan
Ashiok and/or Calix from Theros
Oko from Eldraine
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
I get the same sense, maybe it's because the marketing department browbeat us with that trailer. "What this set needs is an unambiguous villain in the trailer. Yes, they have to do something real evil, for practically no reason. We can make a grand story arc out of her being real evil for no good reason! That's what sells."
Maybe it depends a little bit on our reception of Nahiri. I mean, she's always been crazy so at least it's consistent. But as much as I thought Bolas was a shallow, clichéd villain who I genuinely wish to never see again, at least he made sense. Pushing Akiri off the edge of the precipice in cold blood just kind of makes her uninteresting as a villain to begin with, and also feels inappropriate for a RW character. She'd be vastly more compelling if, alternatively, she and Akiri were struggling and Akiri fell by accident... Nahiri is shown grief stricken but, hardened, proceeds as planned. It would show Nahiri is ultimately willing to make sacrifices for her goals that are morally questionable yet actually be conflicted about those sacrifices such that they have dramatic stakes. We're supposed to pay attention to this story about Nahiri because we know who she is, but the other characters who are her victims are much less prominent and so less likely to have meaningful impact. All the more if they don't have a meaningful impact on Nahiri herself, in which case, she doesn't meaningfully impact us either. That might be different if her goal, eliminating the Roil, felt a bit more justified or held more personal significance to her. But instead I just feel like she's shoe-horned into this Roil-eliminating plot because they need some source of conflict in the absence of the Eldrazi. Which is of course literally the reason for the plot, but in this case it's so glaring. An anti-villain who clearly only cares about their ideals right from the get-go might have the potential for character development but there's little the hook the audience as to this possibility, in which case you need other characters to shore up that front. With Nissa as the counterpoint... well this is par for the course for Magic storylines.
All that said, if they add even a little bit of depth to the character (which will be hard to do but not impossible), I'm excited to think about the possibilities of a new story arc. The sooner I can completely forget Bolas was ever a thing, the better.
Forgetting everything previously established so that characters can become whatever they need to be in order for the plot to work, continuity be damned? Eschewing any hint of nuance or compelling narrative possibilities in favour of shallow, by the book formulas? Yup, that's Magic.
This is much worse than Spreading Seas. Spreading Seas could actually keep your opponent off of a colour, this never does this. Indeed I'm not sure what this meant to actually do, as has been said it turns a land into a better Mana Confluence, why would you want to do that exactly? So it's either a bad fixer on your own land or meant to be used against like Tron but there are much better options than this for that.
Sure, Spreading Seas it is not. But it's a pseudo Spreading Seas for nonbasics with abilities other than adding mana (and there's more of those across formats than just Tron lands), that can also be a pseudo Mana Confluence for you if you need it, that also cantrips. It might be weaker than Seas, but it has more utility. Not the most exciting card ever, but also not something that should be dismissed right away.
Also, if Ashaya decks ever become a thing, this could be a neat response. (A big if, perhaps, but I felt it's worth mentioning.)
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What's the most resilient parasite? An idea.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities.
An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules...
Spreading Seas 2.0. Will it have an impact on the current meta?
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#BLM
#DefundThePolice
This is much worse than Spreading Seas. Spreading Seas could actually keep your opponent off of a colour, this never does this. Indeed I'm not sure what this meant to actually do, as has been said it turns a land into a better Mana Confluence, why would you want to do that exactly? So it's either a bad fixer on your own land or meant to be used against like Tron but there are much better options than this for that.
Against Tron, Lithoform Blight can be undone by opposing Oblivion Stone and Wilt, but it also can importantly be cast on Turn 2 on the draw and still prevent the Turn 3 Tron on time (unlike, say, Fulminator Mage). Also being a poor man's Arcum's Astrolabe or Prophetic Prism also helps it be maindeckable.
This and the red card are extremely equivalent. Was R&D anticipating Field of the Dead becoming a problem in standard?
I was thinking that Lithoform Blight and Cleansing Wildfire are quite similar, too: both can disrupt opposing lands at the cost of (potentially) colour-fixing them, both can help you colour fix, and both are 2-mana cantrips. Cleansing Wildfire can be cast through Blood Moon no matter what, and it's a sorcery instead of an enchantment (so Snapcaster Mage, Bedlam Reveler, Chandra, Acolyte of Flame, etc. can take better advantage of it), but Lithoform Blight can be blinked by Yorion, Sky Nomad and forces pain every time the opponent wants coloured mana out of that land.
A few people have noted it seems like we might have an anti-gatewatch forming from the last few sets:
Nahiri from this set
Lukka from Ixalan
Ashiok and/or Calix from Theros
Oko from Eldraine
Vraska and Tezzeret? Dunno, what are the goals of the anti-gatewatch?
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Nahiri goes overboard AGAIN, and black gets more land hate.
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This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
|| 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 ||
The trailer demonstrates what she's up too she wants the roil dead and see her world as a child
This is what the lithomancer does ps it will be. A matter of time before we see the mythic rare artifact
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This is much worse than Spreading Seas. Spreading Seas could actually keep your opponent off of a colour, this never does this. Indeed I'm not sure what this meant to actually do, as has been said it turns a land into a better Mana Confluence, why would you want to do that exactly? So it's either a bad fixer on your own land or meant to be used against like Tron but there are much better options than this for that.
I get the same sense, maybe it's because the marketing department browbeat us with that trailer. "What this set needs is an unambiguous villain in the trailer. Yes, they have to do something real evil, for practically no reason. We can make a grand story arc out of her being real evil for no good reason! That's what sells."
Maybe it depends a little bit on our reception of Nahiri. I mean, she's always been crazy so at least it's consistent. But as much as I thought Bolas was a shallow, clichéd villain who I genuinely wish to never see again, at least he made sense. Pushing Akiri off the edge of the precipice in cold blood just kind of makes her uninteresting as a villain to begin with, and also feels inappropriate for a RW character. She'd be vastly more compelling if, alternatively, she and Akiri were struggling and Akiri fell by accident... Nahiri is shown grief stricken but, hardened, proceeds as planned. It would show Nahiri is ultimately willing to make sacrifices for her goals that are morally questionable yet actually be conflicted about those sacrifices such that they have dramatic stakes. We're supposed to pay attention to this story about Nahiri because we know who she is, but the other characters who are her victims are much less prominent and so less likely to have meaningful impact. All the more if they don't have a meaningful impact on Nahiri herself, in which case, she doesn't meaningfully impact us either. That might be different if her goal, eliminating the Roil, felt a bit more justified or held more personal significance to her. But instead I just feel like she's shoe-horned into this Roil-eliminating plot because they need some source of conflict in the absence of the Eldrazi. Which is of course literally the reason for the plot, but in this case it's so glaring. An anti-villain who clearly only cares about their ideals right from the get-go might have the potential for character development but there's little the hook the audience as to this possibility, in which case you need other characters to shore up that front. With Nissa as the counterpoint... well this is par for the course for Magic storylines.
All that said, if they add even a little bit of depth to the character (which will be hard to do but not impossible), I'm excited to think about the possibilities of a new story arc. The sooner I can completely forget Bolas was ever a thing, the better.
Looking at the artwork for Jace, maybe he's gonna be the bad guy.
Older Magic as a Board Game: Panglacial Wurm , Mill
A few people have noted it seems like we might have an anti-gatewatch forming from the last few sets:
Nahiri from this set
Lukka from Ixalan
Ashiok and/or Calix from Theros
Oko from Eldraine
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Sure, Spreading Seas it is not. But it's a pseudo Spreading Seas for nonbasics with abilities other than adding mana (and there's more of those across formats than just Tron lands), that can also be a pseudo Mana Confluence for you if you need it, that also cantrips. It might be weaker than Seas, but it has more utility. Not the most exciting card ever, but also not something that should be dismissed right away.
Also, if Ashaya decks ever become a thing, this could be a neat response. (A big if, perhaps, but I felt it's worth mentioning.)
An idea.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities.
An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules...
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Against Tron, Lithoform Blight can be undone by opposing Oblivion Stone and Wilt, but it also can importantly be cast on Turn 2 on the draw and still prevent the Turn 3 Tron on time (unlike, say, Fulminator Mage). Also being a poor man's Arcum's Astrolabe or Prophetic Prism also helps it be maindeckable.
I was thinking that Lithoform Blight and Cleansing Wildfire are quite similar, too: both can disrupt opposing lands at the cost of (potentially) colour-fixing them, both can help you colour fix, and both are 2-mana cantrips. Cleansing Wildfire can be cast through Blood Moon no matter what, and it's a sorcery instead of an enchantment (so Snapcaster Mage, Bedlam Reveler, Chandra, Acolyte of Flame, etc. can take better advantage of it), but Lithoform Blight can be blinked by Yorion, Sky Nomad and forces pain every time the opponent wants coloured mana out of that land.
Vraska and Tezzeret? Dunno, what are the goals of the anti-gatewatch?