MTG Salvation

The new “Battle” Card type might occupy a similar creative space as ‘plane’ or ‘enchant world’ did, but as a permanent it will offer a mini game of sorts between players that rewards an advantage to the winner(s).


in context of the next set:

Battle for Zendikar (land focused)

Battle for Shandalar (dice/coin-flip/something mercurial)

Battle for Tarkir (dragon and/or enemy, three coloured theme)

Battle for Ravnica (bicolour, or simply multicoloured then)


Battle for Eldraine (…struggling here but you get the picture)


There may even be hints at future settings just as we saw in ‘future sight’.

I suspect we’ll thereafter see ‘battles’ with less ‘generic’ titles; and/or of less cosmological proportion and/or consequence in the sets that follow after MoM.

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Today’s story was the first of the latest Innistrad stories (so far) to not have pacing issues.


The story was good though it didn’t seem to explain why Chandra ‘dressed to kill’ in a formal gown.

If she (as a +1 or small cadre) accompanied Sorin at the festivities in the barely hidden guise of ‘witnessing’ the occasion, then I could be convinced of the change in appearance.


But that’s not what happened, nor has it been explained why or how she got the dress.


If anything, she’s about to lead a bunch of human allies and soldiers into battle.

I mean, who does that IN HEELS??

That and the flavor text with Arlinn being the one to object to the wedding. Having the flavor not match the story is a weird way to avoid spoilers from having the set come out before the story.

RIGHT?!??

This site is dead. I now avoid it except to talk story. The mods insufficiently moderate n be latent hate here.

From the usual customers of course.

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My guess is that it has something to do with the Celestus, since that ***** fixes the balance between day and night. The ritual to bring back the day will probably fail based on Olivia's ambush, but it will generate enough light energy to ressurect Liesa.

I like this theory. It’s simple yet perfectly demonstrates how Green can sometimes infer what problems and solutions are without fully understanding both their details and/or consequences.

So…


*spoilers*

It looks like Olivia wrecks everything by killing the headwitch, then casually invites the cast to her wedding, leading the gang (or at least the story) to the great nuptial celebration/story conclusion.

cuz it’s all about her.


Not gonna lie, I really love to hate that woman.

Just…SOMEBODY STAB HER WITH A STAKE ALREADY!!

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From a creative stand point what a cool way to show a character is undercover.

I do dislike them going on how discard and life drain are suppose to be Dav and Sorins things and like lookingupanddown said where are the zombies? Maybe since she is hiding?

Wonder if we will see another planeswalker since its likely the Kenriths are MDFC.

EDIT- Magecraft is also nifty I like how it includes copies for multiple reasons.

I thought I was gonna take a break for a while but I simply had to log back in and upvote this.

The artwork is superb and I'm glad that she's present but I admittedly wish they'd save more mechanical space for Dav.

Edit:
That dress tho! She clearly has an equivalent PhD in style!

Overcosted for her gameplay effect? Maybe? Hard to tell but aside from my Dav complaint I'm largely impressed with her.

So...I'm done, at least for now.

I've thought it through and I'm taking a break from the game and from the lore for a while.

We'll see how long it lasts as my investment in the game is pretty ingrained by now, but I can't help thinking that I possibly care about and prioritize Magic's setting and storyline at a deeper level than the staff (or at least the upper management) at WotC.

And that's not healthy.

There are loads of other franchises, series, and fandoms that do just as good, if not better jobs at developing engaging and consistent narratives.

Simply put: This game is not for me.

I'm pretty happy with my WB Silverquill faction, and I'd even go so far as to argue that 2021-early 2022 is shaping up to be the best WByear in quite some time.

Kaldheim: WB Kaya
Strixhaven: WB Silverquill
Innistrad: WB Sorin (one of the two sets)

Kinda wish that my work-life situation was a little less hectic these days for me to enjoy it.

Edit: Not that he'd be a perfect fit, but I could definitely see Davriel being a lazy, last-minute/temporary faculty hire much like Slughorn was in the HP novels. Not that it would be wise for WotC to associate itself with HP these days.

Davriel has a sharp wit, an even sharper tongue, as well as a great deal of experience in writing demonic contracts. He's a perfect candidate to manage Silverquill for a bit, even if he leans UB rather than WB.

I too am excited to see the Kenriths and Kasmina again.

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This used to be a community that was well moderated and didn't allow stuff like this, much less allow the same people to say the same bigoted stuff over and over with little to no consequences, but that just isn't the case anymore. If anyone can recommend a community withh plenty of discussion that will actually put their foot down when it comes to bigots peddling hate speech left and right, please let me know because I'd like to join.

^^This.

Is MtGNexus any better? I know several of the Reddit communities are a bit of a mixed bag and I'm not sure how I feel about the thread format but there there's gotta be other communities right?

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Oh you know what tezzert is innocent he’s not involved

a hissing, sparking red glow that began as a single star and spread, slowly, into a circle. The circle widened

It opens as a red portal but look at the planar bridge opened

it’s blue when opened how can it be the planar bridge when the one vorinclex enter to go back was red

it (might) mean(s) either jin-Gitaxas cracked it he may have repaired menarch planar bridge or someone else is father/mother of machines who made it happen

I really wish we could use the colour and shape of the portal to discern who arranged all of this, but I mean, WotC can't even seem to get their Story Spotlights to accurately reflect the story canon as written by the Story Team, so I'm suspicious of the idea that they'd pay any closer attention to finer details such as a portal's pattern and colour.

I hope I'm wrong.

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now here the big question

based on description from the end of the first ixalan story will Thunder Junction be the home place/plane of Angrath? (how his home is described is as if a wild west plane and could be the town blacksmith)

You keep bringing up the blacksmith like it means anything. Blacksmiths are not wild west specific. Blacksmiths have existed (and called that) ever since people started working steel and iron...



I have to admit I am really not feeling this omenpath arc and turning the Wild West plane into a villain gallery feels so... fan-arty. I am curious about the space-opera set and how they itnend to make it still feel like Magic, but I think they simply might not.

Really curious about Lorwyn though. I'd be ecstatic if the whole UB and omenpath business wouldn't smother my excitement for Magic stuff. :/

We got Mercadia!

I'm a bit disappointed exactly one of those lands didn't get flavor text, though Godless Shrine already says it all.

From the story page;

A shadowy organization known as the Oriq is trying to fulfill a prophecy and awaken the legendary Blood Avatar. A group of young mages of Strixhaven must root out the conspiracy before time runs out.

And a few cards say something to the tune of "the elder dragons ended the blood wars/blood age".

If it's Davriel he'd be severely out of character. Better to hope it's Jin or some unknown threat

Why does the description of the bird masked person on the end fit the description pretty well for Jin?

There is a book called Multiversal Metahistories? that would be the most prized book ever. Who wrote that!?!?

First story by Adana Washington;
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-1-class-session-2021-03-25

-Liliana had been to the school as young planeswalker and was in witherbloom.

-New group: Oriq "The school was full of concerned whispers about the secret society of mages, the ones obsessed with forbidden magics and power at any cost. She hadn't expected to see one so soon, though. "

-This is post Kylem for the twins

-The twins and Garruk reunited and Garruk has left them on their own for now. Kasmina then showed up and told the twins to head out to Strixhaven.

-Looks like the twins don't need to planeswalker together and as shown Rowan (at least) will planeswalk and it will drag Will along.

- Kasmina isn't from Arcavios.

-Owl even are called owlin.

-The twins magics isn't working quiet right

-Lukka is found by the Oriq who knows he's a planeswalker from Ikoira. Kasmina sees this through her owl.