Sorin is 7000+ years old, he could have easily resurrected Ugin using some form of necromancy.
Sorin as far as we know dosn't have use necromancy outside of turning others into vampires and I don't count that as necromancy since Innistrad vampires are "living" and we don't even know if that work on a spirirt dragon. Plus death strips a planeswalker of thier spark, if Sorin could have brought Ugin back, we just have a planebound Legendary Creature- Spirirt Dragon Zombie, Ugin.
I'm saying consider how long 7000+ years are and how much someone accomplishes in a normal lifespan. They could basically say Sorin knows X and it would be believable. I realize Ugin wouldn't have a spark but at the same time that's not necessarily a bad thing, from what we've seen thus far there's no reason he has to go to Zendikar and personally stop the Eldrazi. He tells Sorin it has to be the original three but he also has no idea what's been going on the whole time he was out. More specifically, he's opperating on knowledge that assumes the Mending didn't happen. Sarkhan could have brought Ugin back, studied under him, and assumed his role. I really got a sense that Sarkhan was going to transform into a much more interesting and pivotal character than he is. Instead it feels like he's going to continue being a follower while saying nothing but, "Dragon dragon dragon dragon. Dragon Dragon?"
The problem is this entire block happened because they felt like doing one where it was Large, Small, Large, and then they'd fit a story around it. If you listen to Maro's podcast he mentions a couple of times that time travel was only introduced because they needed an explaination for why the first and last sets drafted with the middle one. It wasn't that they had this master plan that intended on going into the past to tell a really unique story, they just wanted to do something cool for the limited folks. Sorin is 7000+ years old, he could have easily resurrected Ugin using some form of necromancy. Look at how many times Lim-Dul (a human with no spark) was able to come back from the dead. Unfortunately the plot serves the game and the people managing it aren't all that great to begin with. Things were much better when they had published authors writing the story.
Ok, according to Doug's Tumblr, next week we'll be getting a Tarkir story wrap-up with a "special treat" included? Wonder what that is. And then "far-flung" stories from around the Multiverse until Magic Origins stories begin. Any ideas about what this could all entail?
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. As for far-flung stories: Jace looking for Chandra, Chandra looking for Ramaz, Kiora versus Thasa, Ajani versus Heliod, Sorin looking for Nahiri, Sliver situation on Shandalar, "meanwhile on New Phyrexia", and Ob Nixilis collects more flowers. The Kiora and the Sorin bits definitely need to be resolved before BFZ.
The "special treat" will be an explaination on how Sarkhan went back in time. Ugin seemed pretty confused as to how he would send him back so there's only one other logical explaination, Teferi flying a rebuilt Weatherlight. Seriously WotC, it's about time we found out what happened to Teferi, Jhoira, and Jodah.
I'm saying consider how long 7000+ years are and how much someone accomplishes in a normal lifespan. They could basically say Sorin knows X and it would be believable. I realize Ugin wouldn't have a spark but at the same time that's not necessarily a bad thing, from what we've seen thus far there's no reason he has to go to Zendikar and personally stop the Eldrazi. He tells Sorin it has to be the original three but he also has no idea what's been going on the whole time he was out. More specifically, he's opperating on knowledge that assumes the Mending didn't happen. Sarkhan could have brought Ugin back, studied under him, and assumed his role. I really got a sense that Sarkhan was going to transform into a much more interesting and pivotal character than he is. Instead it feels like he's going to continue being a follower while saying nothing but, "Dragon dragon dragon dragon. Dragon Dragon?"
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. As for far-flung stories: Jace looking for Chandra, Chandra looking for Ramaz, Kiora versus Thasa, Ajani versus Heliod, Sorin looking for Nahiri, Sliver situation on Shandalar, "meanwhile on New Phyrexia", and Ob Nixilis collects more flowers. The Kiora and the Sorin bits definitely need to be resolved before BFZ.
The "special treat" will be an explaination on how Sarkhan went back in time. Ugin seemed pretty confused as to how he would send him back so there's only one other logical explaination, Teferi flying a rebuilt Weatherlight. Seriously WotC, it's about time we found out what happened to Teferi, Jhoira, and Jodah.