EDIT: Just so we're clear, the second card happens in last week's story. After this card, she stabs Vorinclex's arm off. He responds by eating a corpse, growing him arm back, and THEN using the severed one as a club. She could've died several times had the then-disguised Alrund not threatened to vaporize the Phyrexian. Vorinclex is NOT dead. . . then again as a Phyrexian he wasn't alive in the first place.
Now was her chance. Kaya lunged forward, her dagger vibrating with magic, and swiped straight through the monster's trapped arm, lopping it off at the shoulder. Flesh, bone, spirit—if it could be severed, she had severed it.
The arm hit the stone floor of the cavern with a wet thud and began to blacken and crumble to ash where Kaya had cut it. The creature roared again, that bear-sound mingling with something underneath—a noise like the grinding of metal. As it twisted in pain, the dead Omenseeker, still melded to its smaller front claws, flopped about, limp as a fish.
With a motion sickeningly like an embrace, the monster pressed the limp man into its body. He disappeared into the raw pink flesh, slowly absorbed. Then, from the stump where its arm had once been, another began to grow. It happened with remarkable speed—the muscles tying themselves together, the talons hardening from a juvenile translucence to a hard black edge in the few seconds she was held transfixed by the horrid spectacle. Finished, it flexed one complete hand, something quietly popping into place, before turning those empty eye sockets toward her.
Oh, gods and monsters, thought Kaya. Then it charged.
She ducked under its first swipe and turned her torso to ghostly aether so the second passed right through. I can hurt it at least semi-permanently, she thought. That's something. Now she just had to find another opening in which to strike, a moment where she could channel power into one of her blades instead of using her magic to phase out of these ceaseless blows. She danced and weaved, just as quick as her foe.
Suddenly, her heel hit rock. The cave wall. She swore. It hadn't been mindlessly attacking—it had been herding her, driving her into a corner where all her nimbleness would be useless.
The monster drew back one terrible claw just as another prism of blue light sealed around it, trapping the blow mid-air. Inga, from the regrouping Omenseekers, worked that lantern light into another spell of holding. Nice one, Rune-Eyes. Another prism locked the other talon in place. She was holding it, if only for a moment.
Then the monster did something that surprised her: it tore its own arm off, leaving the trapped hand floating in the air, and swung at Kaya with the stump, the muscles twitching and reaching for her.
Don't touch it, she thought. Only one way to go, then.
Kaya fell back into the cave wall, the cold shock of phasing ripping through her entire body. It was only for a moment—but what a long moment it seemed. Her heart stopped. Everything that made her alive, that made her Kaya, gone gray and faded.
Then she was tumbling back onto the cave floor, a few feet to the monster's left. She saw it pivot, those heavy simian legs propelling it toward her, and Kaya fought to restart her lungs. Get up. Get up!
"Enough!" bellowed a voice, echoing off the walls of the cave. To Kaya's surprise and relief, the creature actually slowed, its attention pulled toward the sound for a moment. That was enough; she jammed all the arcane power she could muster into her blade and lunged, cutting low, right through one of the monster's legs.
That voice, she thought, tucking into a roll on the other side of the howling creature, coming up into a fighting stance. It sounded familiar, and yet . . .
It was only then that she noticed the pavonine, shifting radiance that now filled the cave. She looked back at the Omenseekers and saw Asi.
No—not Asi. Not exactly. His hood was thrown back, and from his eyes spilled that strange light illuminating the cavern walls, a shifting pattern of greens and blues and purples. Not just a charming old man, then. Or, not just that.
"Never have I seen such filth dare to desecrate these realms! Even the demons of Immersturm are not so foul."
Unclear, thought Kaya, how much of that was getting through to the monstrosity before them. Its leg gone, crumbling to ash, it had balanced itself on its three remaining limbs while the smaller hands stayed folded up near its chest. Hunched over, it looked even more bestial than before. Kaya was no master hunter, but even she knew that an animal was always at its most dangerous when wounded.
The monster threw itself toward her yet again, but Kaya was ready this time. It was slowing down, now. She could get it on the next pass. One clean swipe through the neck should do it.
Suddenly, the monster crashed into—nothing. It stumbled back, then hurled its weight forward again. There was a deep thrum, and the air rippled where it made contact. A magical barrier, realized Kaya, and a damn strong one at that. Even she would have had trouble phasing through that.
She turned. Behind her, Asi had his arm outstretched, that coruscating energy rippling around his hand. The monster looked between her and Asi with something she thought she recognized as uncertainty. Then, with one more grinding roar, it turned to flee.
Oh phyrexians know shot laugh at death and can resurrect easily and maro confirmed she gets axes later in the story and this does describe the cave she first fought him in and she mentions “one slice through the neck should do it”
and actually now that I think about it even if vorinclex doesn't make it here I think they simply set it up for glissa to become the new green praetor
Oh god is Kaya kill Vorinclex is laughable. At least against the Obzedat she had the "she's the best ghostbuster ever" bull*****, but against Vorinclex? The pinnacle of Phyrexia's brutality killed by a couple of glowy knives?
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Hold on a second, doesn’t Tibalt have a weird blue glow when he ‘shapeshifts’ or however he’s impersonating the god? Because if Kaya really does off Vorinclex, that probably means that Urabrask and Sheoldred are dead as well, which would make the theory that Tezzeret planeswalked back to new phyrexia become a steel thane or something in Sheoldred’s absence more viable.
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Someone tell Kaya to get off Vorinclex, he barely counts as either alive or dead and she's just going to get compleated from up there.
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Planeswalkers can’t be compleated. Hopefully that’s the end of them messing up this plane.
Can't they? In Mirrodin besiged/new phyrexia (quest for karn ) i was under the impression they needed Melira to actually gain immunity from the oil soo they didn't get sick or eventualy compleated.
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Someone tell Kaya to get off Vorinclex, he barely counts as either alive or dead and she's just going to get compleated from up there.
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Planeswalkers can’t be compleated. Hopefully that’s the end of them messing up this plane.
Can't they? In Mirrodin besiged/new phyrexia (quest for karn ) i was under the impression they needed Melira to actually gain immunity from the oil soo they didn't get sick or eventualy compleated.
if your talking about karn he lost his spark to create Mirridon in the first place he got it back when vensor sacrificed himself to save karn and the phyrexian compleation insantiously disappeared from him
Unless there is a disconnect between the story written and the cards: Kaya was hired to kill a monster on Kaldheim. Turns out said monster is Vorinclex who has been wreaking havoc for awhile now and had been completing the animals and people of Bretagard. She tries to kill Vorinclex but Vorinclex actually gets the upper hand and if it weren't for Alrund, God of the Cosmos stepping in and saving both her and Inga Rune-Eyes from Vorinclex by erecting a barrier, Vorinclex would actually have ended both Igna and Kaya's lives. Vorinclex escapes as a mass of oil and metal to another of Kaldheim's realms. Kaya immediately pursues after him.
(Alrund was traveling with Kaya and Igna while disguised as Asi just as Odin was want to do by disguising himself. So its not like he bopped in out of nowhere.)
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Someone tell Kaya to get off Vorinclex, he barely counts as either alive or dead and she's just going to get compleated from up there.
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Can't they? In Mirrodin besiged/new phyrexia (quest for karn ) i was under the impression they needed Melira to actually gain immunity from the oil soo they didn't get sick or eventualy compleated.
if your talking about karn he lost his spark to create Mirridon in the first place he got it back when vensor sacrificed himself to save karn and the phyrexian compleation insantiously disappeared from him
Karn didn't use his spark to make Mirridon. He literally planeswalked to Mirridon right after he started to lose his mind to corruption and because he was so far gone by the time Venser found him and almost compleated so he had to give Karn his spark to remove the phyrexian influence from him. So yeah, I'm pretty sure the planeswalkers can be compleated if the phyrexian oil fully corrupts them.
don’t tell me we loose another popular villain to Kaya
then again the story mentions she goes for his neck in the first story and alrund stopped her (weirdly)
Here we go again. I'm so tired of Kaya killing off the villains I like. Hell she even killed Brago right as we got to know him.
This is lame as hell. I hope she gets killed.
Based on the story last week, after this scene Vorinclex throws Kaya off, then he rips his entire arm off to use as a club. Kaya almost dies if it weren't for Alrund's intervention.
Olwalkers where "immune" to being completed since they didn't have real bodies. Neo walkers can be since they have typical bodies like anyone else but certain planeswalkers have been given the immunity Melira has. In Quest for Karn (canon up in the air as it omit the praetors and only have Tezzeret and Glissa as leadership) when they found Karn, Melira was able to cleanse a lot of him but couldn't clean his heart was a phyrexia heart stone. Venser then teleported his heart and spark into Karn and let Melira finish cleansing the golem.
Of noted being completed harms the soul in a similar way being killed and turned into a zombie/vampire does. It will fully snuff out a spark and leave the completed being no long a walker.
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You all may want to read the first chapter of the Kaldheim story on the Wizards site, before assuming that this is the moment Kaya kills Vorinclex.
If, in fact, it is a later story moment where she does a move like this to kill Vorinclex, then that is a really really really really bad move for WotC to release this as a preview card so early in the season when he was just introduced and nothing about how they got here has even been explained. It would be like previewing Prison Realm on the second day of WAR previews.
Is it really Vorinclex or just a really good Shapeshifter imitating it?
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You all may want to read the first chapter of the Kaldheim story on the Wizards site, before assuming that this is the moment Kaya kills Vorinclex.
If, in fact, it is a later story moment where she does a move like this to kill Vorinclex, then that is a really really really really bad move for WotC to release this as a preview card so early in the season when he was just introduced and nothing about how they got here has even been explained. It would be like previewing Prison Realm on the second day of WAR previews.
and you know what I just remembered Kaya did get on his back in the story but he threw her off and ripped his arm off for a club (which is probably gonna be regenerated later in his mycologists hideout)
also is vorinclex the most popular because atraxa and elesh norn are the most important ones not to mention urabrask could be popular because he’s the only one that can revolt against the phyrexians
This thread is dipping its toe into a rehash of the Kaya bad threads and I feel like we've already explored all the design space in that area. Plus, this was already known:
Based on the story last week, after this scene Vorinclex throws Kaya off, then he rips his entire arm off to use as a club. Kaya almost dies if it weren't for Alrund's intervention.
It's almost like I complained about Planeswalkers being Mary Sues in lore that make pushovers out of Legends that should be more powerful, but aren't, because Planeswalkers.
I think it's more akin to the complaints about how snow wasn't in Kaldheim and how the whole plane was ruined. I think it would be better to not jump the gun and complain about things we don't know are confirmed.
lol Kaya kills Vorinclex? Getting a little bit silly now aren't we?
It's almost like I complained about Planeswalkers being Mary Sues in lore that make pushovers out of Legends that should be more powerful, but aren't, because Planeswalkers.
This thread is dipping its toe into a rehash of the Kaya bad threads and I feel like we've already explored all the design space in that area. Plus, this was already known:
Based on the story last week, after this scene Vorinclex throws Kaya off, then he rips his entire arm off to use as a club. Kaya almost dies if it weren't for Alrund's intervention.
It's almost like I complained about Planeswalkers being Mary Sues in lore that make pushovers out of Legends that should be more powerful, but aren't, because Planeswalkers.
I think it's more akin to the complaints about how snow wasn't in Kaldheim and how the whole plane was ruined. I think it would be better to not jump the gun and complain about things we don't know are confirmed.
Yeah, sometimes I wish people actually read and think before falling into their self-ignited pointless tirades.
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I think it's more akin to the complaints about how snow wasn't in Kaldheim and how the whole plane was ruined.
Looks like wotc agreed with us since they did put snow in the set
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Someone tell Kaya to get off Vorinclex, he barely counts as either alive or dead and she's just going to get compleated from up there.
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EDIT: Just so we're clear, the second card happens in last week's story. After this card, she stabs Vorinclex's arm off. He responds by eating a corpse, growing him arm back, and THEN using the severed one as a club. She could've died several times had the then-disguised Alrund not threatened to vaporize the Phyrexian. Vorinclex is NOT dead. . . then again as a Phyrexian he wasn't alive in the first place.
then again the story mentions she goes for his neck in the first story and alrund stopped her (weirdly)
and actually now that I think about it even if vorinclex doesn't make it here I think they simply set it up for glissa to become the new green praetor
Oh god is Kaya kill Vorinclex is laughable. At least against the Obzedat she had the "she's the best ghostbuster ever" bull*****, but against Vorinclex? The pinnacle of Phyrexia's brutality killed by a couple of glowy knives?
Planeswalkers can’t be compleated. Hopefully that’s the end of them messing up this plane.
Oh soo it is Vorinflex the established character Kaya is going to kill this time !
oh, i was worried they would skip the "making fans like the character" part. Oh WotC, i have to trust you more
Here we go again. I'm so tired of Kaya killing off the villains I like. Hell she even killed Brago right as we got to know him.
This is lame as hell. I hope she gets killed.
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Can't they? In Mirrodin besiged/new phyrexia (quest for karn ) i was under the impression they needed Melira to actually gain immunity from the oil soo they didn't get sick or eventualy compleated.
if your talking about karn he lost his spark to create Mirridon in the first place he got it back when vensor sacrificed himself to save karn and the phyrexian compleation insantiously disappeared from him
(Alrund was traveling with Kaya and Igna while disguised as Asi just as Odin was want to do by disguising himself. So its not like he bopped in out of nowhere.)
Karn didn't use his spark to make Mirridon. He literally planeswalked to Mirridon right after he started to lose his mind to corruption and because he was so far gone by the time Venser found him and almost compleated so he had to give Karn his spark to remove the phyrexian influence from him. So yeah, I'm pretty sure the planeswalkers can be compleated if the phyrexian oil fully corrupts them.
Of noted being completed harms the soul in a similar way being killed and turned into a zombie/vampire does. It will fully snuff out a spark and leave the completed being no long a walker.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
If, in fact, it is a later story moment where she does a move like this to kill Vorinclex, then that is a really really really really bad move for WotC to release this as a preview card so early in the season when he was just introduced and nothing about how they got here has even been explained. It would be like previewing Prison Realm on the second day of WAR previews.
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and you know what I just remembered Kaya did get on his back in the story but he threw her off and ripped his arm off for a club (which is probably gonna be regenerated later in his mycologists hideout)
also is vorinclex the most popular because atraxa and elesh norn are the most important ones not to mention urabrask could be popular because he’s the only one that can revolt against the phyrexians
I think it's more akin to the complaints about how snow wasn't in Kaldheim and how the whole plane was ruined. I think it would be better to not jump the gun and complain about things we don't know are confirmed.
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As someone said, this looks like the moment described in the first story (https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-1-travelers-2021-01-07). As was pointed out, Kaya is indeed fighting with knives here, not the axes she is brandishing later.
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Looks like wotc agreed with us since they did put snow in the set