So, Rakdos' motivation was that he was wanting to brawl with someone? What about the PHYREXIANS less than 2 years ago?
Thats the point, from the legends bio for MKM;
Rakdos is the demonic head of the Rakdos Cult. Since the glorious carnage and destruction of the invasion, none of the usual amusements staged by his followers have managed to rouse his interest. Plagued with boredom, he allowed himself to fall into a deep slumber, where he relives the chaos of the invasion while he waits for something new to pique his interest.
and here we go, Oko or Ashiok/Jace promised him something different/fun to fight on Thunder Junction.
And why the hell Geralf is fighting hand-to-hand with scalpels? He is a stitcher! He BUILDS stuff to fight for him!
The story points out a few times he is out of viscus vitae which lets him built his zombies.
And wow amazing how waiting for the later chapters explained the motivations of the crew, who could have seen that coming.
Given the track record? Nobody. Have people already forgotten the writing of ONE and MOM? And honestly Caverns of Ixalan too?
Also they weren't explained for all characters. A tiny bit of faith restored (plus the fact they didn't completely forget about Amalia) but not much, to be honest.
Me about this topic;
That said there is more story and/or maybe a legends articles that can explain this and I'm gonna wait before saying if things works.
and shout out to Melkor who was right that most of the crew didn't want money.
I can see not having faith in wizards, on the other hand, we had seven more stories at that point left to explain stuff, and we ended up being told or given enough info to infer about the crew motivations except for Kaervek (and we still might get a legends article).
The Annie thing imo is a bigger plot hole. The story implies she dose need to manually activate her sight but I think its odd she didn't do it to give the rest of the crew a look over. I think I'm gonna look back and see how much the two interact, though I did notice a bit that Ashiok wasn't hanging out a lot with the crew.
I agree that it probably has to do with the offspring mechanic making token copies (maybe even the 1/1 part)
Ohh, I think you might be onto something. Kind of like how embalm creates a copy but changes some characteristics around, this mechanic creates a copy but makes it 1/1. Looking at the art, the bunny does look a bit like a child, like the weapon and clothes are too big for it.
They also noted that Embalm/ Eternize tokens do have a "mana cost/vaules" (since they fully copy the creature) but the official tokens lacked a mana cost to not confuse players into thinking they had to cast the token/the token was a real card and putting reminder text like this would be a good way to show that as there are cards that info with maybe less confusion.
Nope, embalm and eternalize remove the mana cost from the tokens they create.
Squad tokens, on the other hand, do have a mana cost that just isn't on the token.
Ah the removing of mana cost with Embalm/ Eternize might have been with the confusion with the tokens. Still same kinda point that putting it in the reminder text lets you make token copies with less risk of confusion.
I agree that it probably has to do with the offspring mechanic making token copies (maybe even the 1/1 part)
Ohh, I think you might be onto something. Kind of like how embalm creates a copy but changes some characteristics around, this mechanic creates a copy but makes it 1/1. Looking at the art, the bunny does look a bit like a child, like the weapon and clothes are too big for it.
They also noted that Embalm/ Eternize tokens do have a "mana cost/vaules" (since they fully copy the creature) but the official tokens lacked a mana cost to not confuse players into thinking they had to cast the token/the token was a real card and putting reminder text like this would be a good way to show that as there are cards that info with maybe less confusion.
Ofc it was Jace I wonder if it was him on Eldraine too. Kinda brutal too that Kellan went and killed Akul like that.
And wow amazing how waiting for the later chapters explained the motivations of the crew, who could have seen that coming.
So real question is what is that baby Jace got, maybe a child Fomori? Seemly the Fomori also have been living in stasis pods as Quint also found the one pod on Ixalan.
The Gisa and Geralf was neat in that it explores mana bonds and possibly why phyrexia and omenpath travelers might end up having issues (with some unable/not know how to form new bonds with the lands and needing to draw on the lands from their home plane). Also nicely re-shows why planeswalkers have an advantage as their mana bonds stay with them as they planeswalk.
I really enjoyed this story, I like how we can see the mini-conflict of Neon Kamigawi as Nashi learned that he can best express his story magic through modern tech vs Tamiyos traditional methods and how he takes her past knowelege and refines it to work better for him.
Also good to show that even if Tamiyo has an AL second life.
Yeeeaaaah, we're getting into the territory where the story kind of falls apart. I can buy some of the characters being here, but some are just very forced. Why is Rakdos here? Eriette? Satoru? Gisa and Geralf? Even Breeches and Malcolm are such random inclusions.
Kaervec only works until you realize that he probably wouldn't join such a "small time crime" team given his power and ambition before he was imprisoned. It's like putting Bolas here, or Baron Sengir. I do have to say I actually enjoy the idea that he uses archaic speech, but that's just a little gimmick.
As always, it could be made to work, to give each character a reason to be here, but Magic stories never have the scope for that so I think this story would have been served better to have most of the characters be new ones. Eh, whatever.
Malcom and Breeches can be explained with Vraska being there. That said there is more story and/or maybe a legends articles that can explain this and I'm gonna wait before saying if things works.
thats Actually a power suit from the fomori this is revealed from unused concept art of caverns of ixalan so they was three cards that were gonna mention the formori in Caverns of Ixalan.
Give me an example of a transsexual woman-turned-man who has a moustache. (Note the moustache in Yuma's art.) My searches only resulted in transsexual men-turned-women.
What the absolute ****? Really get the **** out of here with that.
Thats the point, from the legends bio for MKM;
and here we go, Oko or Ashiok/Jace promised him something different/fun to fight on Thunder Junction.
The story points out a few times he is out of viscus vitae which lets him built his zombies.
Me about this topic;
and shout out to Melkor who was right that most of the crew didn't want money.
I can see not having faith in wizards, on the other hand, we had seven more stories at that point left to explain stuff, and we ended up being told or given enough info to infer about the crew motivations except for Kaervek (and we still might get a legends article).
The Annie thing imo is a bigger plot hole. The story implies she dose need to manually activate her sight but I think its odd she didn't do it to give the rest of the crew a look over. I think I'm gonna look back and see how much the two interact, though I did notice a bit that Ashiok wasn't hanging out a lot with the crew.
Ah the removing of mana cost with Embalm/ Eternize might have been with the confusion with the tokens. Still same kinda point that putting it in the reminder text lets you make token copies with less risk of confusion.
They also noted that Embalm/ Eternize tokens do have a "mana cost/vaules" (since they fully copy the creature) but the official tokens lacked a mana cost to not confuse players into thinking they had to cast the token/the token was a real card and putting reminder text like this would be a good way to show that as there are cards that info with maybe less confusion.
And wow amazing how waiting for the later chapters explained the motivations of the crew, who could have seen that coming.
So real question is what is that baby Jace got, maybe a child Fomori? Seemly the Fomori also have been living in stasis pods as Quint also found the one pod on Ixalan.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-6-the-ballad-of-thieves-and-thunderslingers
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-5-high-moon
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-4-finding-tarnation
Vraskas card in the set will be a creature card so I'm calling it, shes been desparked.
Also good to show that even if Tamiyo has an AL second life.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-3-a-train-to-prosperity
Malcom and Breeches can be explained with Vraska being there. That said there is more story and/or maybe a legends articles that can explain this and I'm gonna wait before saying if things works.
The concept art;
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0xRmiwPWKW/?img_index=2
What the absolute ****? Really get the **** out of here with that.