The story was good, but it did feel a little irrelevant. I was expecting this time Jace and Liliana spent chatting to lead somewhere but then... Liliana just throws a fit and leaves because Jace gave attention to something else. Between idle chit-chat and the fate of multiple planes, I can't blame Jace for being more interested in the latter.
I suppose the story was called "Catching Up", so its goal was likely to remind us that Jace, Liliana and Garruk all know each other.
The purpose was likely to have Jace and Gideon meet and give Jace reason to be present in BFZ.
Of the titans, Ulamog is a shoe-in because he's the only one left on Zendikar, and they want the story to be more representative of the game these days.
But that's assuming they even want a titan as the face card.
If you stick an Ulamog, it's usually game over.
He might enjoy building things as a form of artistic expression rather than "Look how smart I am" or whatever other things fuel an artificer (money, improvement, etc)
My guess is that next week they go to Atarka lands, find the records the shamans kept on Sarkhan and then Ugin sits all the dragonlords down and puts Sarkhan in charge of the plane.
Seems way too similar to Ravnica; a Planeswalker is put in charge.
Besides, I don't see anything in Sarkhan's personality that leads me to believe he wants to be a leader.
They have more people in creative than they have ever before, and its specifically to deal with the strain of two blocks per year on top of all the other stuff they do.
Killing Planeswalkers is tricky because they are seen as resources.
We were told that they had to get permission to kill Venser, and were allowed to do so because it allowed Karn to come back.
Tezzeret wasn't killed because creative had further plans for him, and those plans didn't involved being killed in a side product that not everyone would see.
It makes me laugh whenever people bring up Najiri's age, considering we just saw a lithomancy-derived cryofreeze that kept Ugin alive well beyond his natural lifespan.
The purpose was likely to have Jace and Gideon meet and give Jace reason to be present in BFZ.
Naw. Ajani inspiring "aethism" on Theros is such an interesting direction.
I can't wait to see where they take it.
The near annihilation of her plane humbled her, imagine that.
Being a character with a real flaw growing beyond that flaw was an inspiration, but now that's apparently going out the damn window.
But that's assuming they even want a titan as the face card.
If you stick an Ulamog, it's usually game over.
No it was always a fight.
He fought against someone he should have lost against and won, and the shock of such a thing triggered his ascension.
He might enjoy building things as a form of artistic expression rather than "Look how smart I am" or whatever other things fuel an artificer (money, improvement, etc)
They could ignore it entirely in favor of more Tarkir stuff, or they'll focus on some MM2 stuff.
Maybe a Zendikar-story since next block is Zen?
Though that does contradict Shards assertion that it had been closer to a century. <_<
I hate Mirrodin so much.
Besides, I don't see anything in Sarkhan's personality that leads me to believe he wants to be a leader.
They have more people in creative than they have ever before, and its specifically to deal with the strain of two blocks per year on top of all the other stuff they do.
We were told that they had to get permission to kill Venser, and were allowed to do so because it allowed Karn to come back.
Tezzeret wasn't killed because creative had further plans for him, and those plans didn't involved being killed in a side product that not everyone would see.