You really want to reach that there are zero possible answers, but that’s more about your lack of imagination as opposed to any reasonable stance. *shrugs* It’s moot though.
All that means is there would need to be an explanation for why they didn’t do anything. Seriously, mountains out of molehills.
MtG is a fictional fantasy story. They can explain literally everyting with magic.
And yet, curiously, that does not necessarily make for good worldbuilding or a compelling story.
We are speculating about something that may not even happen, and you’re preemptively deciding it’ll be bad. The answer could be as simple as “Yawgmoth was being fought by them indirectly, and they couldn’t act directly because of him”, problem solved then. Or “they are recent Gods”, or any number of arbitrary things, depending on how they decide to approach it.
Yes, implying you have standards while anyone who disagrees with you does not is a good way to prove your point. You’re also jumping to a bunch of conclusions.
There is no story implications because being a God does not inherently mean something. You keep saying that there is some big, huge travesty, but in the end you haven’t given any reasonable answer for it.
"hey god please, there are thousands of people/worshippers dying in this catasthrophe, the whole plane is actually risking to get destroyed or completely changed, can you come and help us?"
"STFU i'm a god, i have no implications and i'm not required to do anything. I'll just sit back and do nothing. Now excuse me while i'm showing up centuries later for the first time to partecipate in this minor event with my new friends the neowalkers"
***** storytelling is ***** storytelling. You can gobble on that or not understand it but it will still be ***** storytelling.
All that means is there would need to be an explanation for why they didn’t do anything. Seriously, mountains out of molehills.
Let's go retcons!
If you can't understand the story implications of having gods on Dominaria and how it doesn't make sense it's not my fault.
Can't wait to see Gaea not showing up for the phyrexian invasion but showing up because Jace asked pretty please.
There is no story implications because being a God does not inherently mean something. You keep saying that there is some big, huge travesty, but in the end you haven’t given any reasonable answer for it.
And Demons were a big deal for a bit too. They still moved away from it for a reason. They eventually moved back but that doesn’t change that MtG explicitly tried to remove Demons as a type for a bit.
In the end the argument you’re trying to put forth doesn’t exactly equal “there are no Gods on Dominaria”. Especially if they didn’t have a card to boot, such as Gaea. The way the game represents things also changes through the years, which is the key point for my examples. Things change.
Considering we've only had one Dominaria set released after the God type was introduced, I don't think we can say "it never worked like that" (it may very well have worked like that if the God type had existed at the time).
I wonder why the god type didn't exist back then and was introduced only in Theros.
Oh yeah because there were no real gods on Dominaria.
Or, they felt like having God as a type would be unwise. The logic you’re using also suggests Dominaria had no Humans back then. Also likewise suggests no Phyrexians ever showed up there too.
If Dominaria has Gods that might give me something to look forward to. Two sets on probably the least interesting plane is a lot, but that would be at least some cards I could look forward to. Given the precedent of Kamigawa, Theros, Kaladesh, Ravnica, and Amonkhet we already know Gods don’t have to be omnipotent. I always felt like the God type was mostly that they felt comfortable doing it after so much time, as before it could have been that whole silly Christian panic over the game would get worse if they did otherwise.
I really wish I could be excited for things. All of the crossover stuff is just a no. So that crosses out a good chunk of things on the list. Secret Lairs aren't my thing either, and they're just reprints anyways, so at most sometimes there is art to look at. Commander Legends is DnD (we just had it), zero interest in more of it especially with such a tight turn around (and it's still a crossover). I don't really know what Double Masters is for, but looking at the old one I don't exactly see a ton of interest. Which then leaves the planes. Two Dominaria, neither of which interest me (I get that it's for the 30th anniversary but still), especially as the latter is Artifacts. Kamigawa, except that they likely lost the entirety of why I liked about it given what it looks like and is called. And New Capenna which... isn't to my liking either (mildly miffed too that they're giving demons their own plane while angels still haven't had one). So it's really... blah.
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We are speculating about something that may not even happen, and you’re preemptively deciding it’ll be bad. The answer could be as simple as “Yawgmoth was being fought by them indirectly, and they couldn’t act directly because of him”, problem solved then. Or “they are recent Gods”, or any number of arbitrary things, depending on how they decide to approach it.
All that means is there would need to be an explanation for why they didn’t do anything. Seriously, mountains out of molehills.
There is no story implications because being a God does not inherently mean something. You keep saying that there is some big, huge travesty, but in the end you haven’t given any reasonable answer for it.
In the end the argument you’re trying to put forth doesn’t exactly equal “there are no Gods on Dominaria”. Especially if they didn’t have a card to boot, such as Gaea. The way the game represents things also changes through the years, which is the key point for my examples. Things change.
Or, they felt like having God as a type would be unwise. The logic you’re using also suggests Dominaria had no Humans back then. Also likewise suggests no Phyrexians ever showed up there too.