I've read better Fanfiction than this. It started out promising.Quote from Quannage »new comic.
Chandra finds herself unable to walk to ravnica. so she goes to Dominaria to find answers, specifically the stronghold. Why she chose Dominaria I have no idea. but there she crosses paths with tibalt (again) and davriel. they spot her, and Davriel wants to jet, but tibalt wants to fight. and then garruk shows up out of nowhere because he has some unexplained beef with tibalt. tibalt sets a trap on their way out that threatens to bury a village in urborg in a sea of flowstone. Chandra convinces Garuk to help her save the village, and she literally burns out the flowstone. then Niko Aris shows up asking Chandra for help in finding Kaya. but Kaya is on Ravnica. and chandra is blocked from Ravnica.
this comic book is starting to look more and more like a fanfic with each issue.
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Tiro of Meletis posted a message on Magic: The Gathering Comic Book from Boom!Posted in: Magic Storyline -
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Tiro of Meletis posted a message on Magic: The Gathering Comic Book from Boom!Posted in: Magic Storyline
Agreed on all counts. I hope this never becomes lore, except for the Jace/Lage influence. If Marit Lage is ever involved in the genuine lore, I'd love to have her and Jace telepathically linked. That was a compelling story beat for sure.Quote from Quannage »latest issue of the comic came out last week. Spoilers ahead.
The extended Gatewatch of Karn, Teferi, Saheeli, Arwin, Angarth, Chandra and the two Amonkhet walkers are doing their thing to keep the zombies at bay and protect the Guildmaster PWs, Jace and Lili, who have somehow combined their powers to reprogram all the zombies to worship Lage. Still no explanation of how they got Lili to agree tot his, and still no mention of Strixhaven. grr.
So Lage comes down to Amonkhet and all the PWs leave except for Jace. Vraska comes back for him and he reveals that he was lying when he said he had a way to rid himself of Lage's influence. everywhere he goes, Lage will follow, so he has to stay there and be the sacrifice. Vraska decides to stay by Jace's side and die with him in his arms, when Kaya rushes in and scoops Vraska away from the plane just as Lage lands on Jace. n, Seriously, she literally lands on Jace like a boulder would fall on WIle E. Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon (all you young whippersnappers look that up on YouTube if you don't get the reference. Man, I'm old).
All the PWs regroup on Dominaria where Jaya and Ajani are waiting. Vraska is pissed that Kaya didn't let her die with her man, and doesn't want to be friends with her and Ral anymore. So they go back to Rav...only to find that Tezzeret has kinda sorta taken over while they were gone.
and thus ends the first storyarc. I'm kinda disappointed because this story actually got off to a very good start with how they were utilizing the characters and the current continuity. there was a very intriguing mystery with some cool plot twists. But the story completely fell apart once Marit Lage got involved. Even if they had just stopped at Lage being in Jace's head, that is a development they could have mined for some cool new stories and cards. I can imagine a PW card where one of Jace's abilities reflected being under Lage's influence. and storywise, you could follow him across the multiverse as he tries to do good and desperately search for a way to rid himself of the looming threat of Lage. He could have been something similar to the Silver Surfer.
I had high hopes for this comic, and I'm still going to read it and hope the next storyarc is better. But I'm not going to lie: this first arc started off promising and then fizzled. At first I was saying it would be a shame if this weren't canon, but now I'd be kinda glad if it weren't. -
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italofoca posted a message on Urza vs Bolas (It's not what you think)Honestly I don't bother too much about plot holes in this kind of story. For me the most important thing is the game having it's own, cool identity. With old-walkers I felt the story was more unique because it was a weird mix of wizardry fantasy and fictional mythology. Old walkers being god-like was very much in character for the game you cast 'Wrath of God' as a spell and even their inconsistent, fluctuating power levels gave the sense of conflicting sources which is everywhere in non-fictional mythology.Posted in: Magic Storyline
The main thing I don't like about the Gatewatch Saga is how they handled the planeswalkers.
I really don't like each one having a very narrow and distinct set of powers. This was done as mean to set the characters apart. Fostering identity that way is a super hero thing and really lessens the setting imo. I don't mind Jace being specialized in mind magic and illusions but I wish this specialization didn't go as far as to make him more like a x-men then a wizard.
And even the non-wizard pws have this ridiculous narrow but strong set of powers to set then apart from other characters. They felt like a pw archer was not enough for Vivien, so they gave her spirit animal arrows - a power I'm pretty sure no one else in the multiverse has. I think this is really lame and corny.
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Chalsis posted a message on Core 2019 General DiscussionI'll be honest, while Bolas certainly seems devious, I'm hard pressed to find anything particularly heinous in this story. His thoughts regarding humans are completely understandable--they've started an entire culture built on killing dragons, and display the corpses of Bolas's own siblings in their architecture. Ugin's sympathy toward these violent bipeds is a lot more difficult to understand than Bolas's malevolence.Posted in: Magic Storyline
We feel horror at Bolas' killing and abuse of humans because we just happen to be humans as well. But Bolas is reacting to the killing and abuse of dragons by humans. He is dominating creatures who he knows would otherwise be happy to hunt him, kill him, drink his blood, and hang his skull above their gate. Nothing about Bolas's response so far seems disproportionate or wanton. If he is "evil" at this point, it's only in a purely subjective sense, and only because humans judge him to be evil from their point of view. And why should he care about their judgment?
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I actually found Bolas somewhat sympathetic. If I saw Wolves kill my sibling I’d like to find a way to kill those wolves and then get them to serve me.
We've been there and done that. That's how we got dogs.
And wolves don't even go out of their way to kill humans, much less build civilizations around murdering us. -
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ChrisBP7 posted a message on Planeswalker death - AjaniPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from yeahfreestuffforme »So now that they are printing Ajani’s Last Stand will this mean that Ajani dies at the end of the Ravnica storyline? Or afterward?
It seems like the writing is on the wall.
Pretty sure that the card depicts the final battle of Ajani against Bolas at the end of Alara (at the Maelstrom Nexus), not a future event. Art and flavor seem to point in that direction as well. Doesn't have anything to do with him dying soon. -
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Flisch posted a message on Core 2019 General DiscussionI don't get the "Ugin doesn't care" vibe at all. All of the points he brought up were valid. And he did care about his brother enough to help and stop him from putting himself in danger, several times.Posted in: Magic Storyline
Ugin doesn't want to kill the Eldrazi, because he fears they might serve a crucial role in the multiverse, a sentiment that we, living in the modern world with the various ecosystems we have messed up due to ignorance, should relate to the most.
He also didn't abandon Azor. Ugin was comatose. (Or even legit dead, in another timeline.) As for why Azor had to borrow his spark? I assume that A) Azor had a closer conenction to the immortal sun, being a hieromancer and all and B) Ugin would have to lure Bolas to Ixalan, which is probably easier if you can still follow Bolas.
I'm not saying Ugin is a nice character. He's an elder dragon and an oldwalker, I think being a bit of a dick comes with the package, but claiming that he doesn't care or is selfish is just... wow. -
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Etherium Sage posted a message on Core 2019 General DiscussionPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from Chalsis »I've been positively glowing about this story all day long. After months of poor to mediocre fiction, this is beyond anything I ever knew I wanted. I haven't been this enthused about the MTG story in years. Things I loved:
- The Elder Dragon eggstones falling to earth like meteors.
- Nicol Bolas not being pure evil from the start. Seeing him show empathy and actually caring about someone else, even as we also glimpse the early seeds of his future savagery. It gives him much-needed layer and nuance.
-Bolas and Ugin starting out as the runts. Bolas experiencing smallness and powerlessness from the very start.
-Seeing the primordial, neolithic Dominaria (I assume it's Dominaria?) It feels like the Elders have fallen right into a Jean M. Auel setting; an ancient, pre-civilized world full of wonder and possibility, where all of history still lies ahead.
-The twin girls paralleling Ugin and Bolas.
-Actually getting our earliest bit of MTG lore. It feels primal and even somewhat sacred; a privileged glimpse of primordial birth and creation. It even seems scriptural at times.
-The beautiful, violent, evocative imagery.
Until today, I had absolutely no curiosity whatsoever about the history of the Elder Dragons and their war. This story did me a 180. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm breathless for more.
This is probably the most positive comment I've seen about this story. I'm also interested to see where they go with this backstory, and this does shed some light on why Bolas thinks and acts the way he does. He clearly had the capacity to care about his family, and we see a lot of the "red" side of him with his impatience, lust for revenge and recklessness. However, as the flashback progressed, we start to see the more calculating and introspective side of him. Instead of just being hellbent on revenge, he stops for a moment and considers that maybe that's just how things are and he just has to be as high in the food chain as possible. This is more like the Bolas we currently know. -
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Jay13x posted a message on Your Magic Author WishlistIn terms of 'Likely to Happen' and 'Already knows a bunch about Magic Lore', I vote Ferret Steinmetz. Writes Magic articles and has few published novels out. His main character is basically an Azorius lawmage already.Posted in: Magic Storyline -
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cyberium_neo posted a message on Core 19 = Fate ReforgedPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from Omnirahk »Quote from Firebead_elvenhair »Quote from cyberium_neo »I hope the story leads to the extinction of dragons on Tarkir, or they had to go back into hiding. It was exceedingly irking to watch them destroy the history and culture of Abzan, Jeskai, and Temur like some colonizers.
Apparently dragons can do it and get away with it while still being considered by WOTC good guys, while some vampires conquistadores cannot...
How were the dragons good guys on Tarkir?
Ojutai killed off all ghostfire warriors and did an Orwellian retcon of the world's history.
Atarkha holds the threat of death over the clans that once were Temur so that they provide her and her brood with hard earned food.
Dromoka almost annihilated the Abzan without explanation and only stopped when they agreed to abandon their traditions and ancestors.
Silumgar misled Tasigur (leading to the decimation of the khans) and has to be almost constantly appeased by his followers lest he kill his subjects in fits of paranoia.
Really, only Kologhan started off rather 'good,' but is still mentioned as having come to use random violence and cruelty to keep her clan in line.
I suppose one could call present day Dromoka and Ojutai's broods to be decently nice places to live (provided you don't break particular decrees, mind you). Still puts the majority of the dragons firmly in the not-good category at any given time.
I suspect Firebead was being sarcastic, but Tarkir dragons earned quite a few supporters even from this forum. When I voiced my dismay towards the dragons being tyrants, many people jumped out and claimed that "You can't presume they think like human!" "Necromancy is indeed wrong!" etc.
What these people seemed to have ignored was that despite "Dragonlords" were not human, they were very much written by human hands and their strategies echoed that of human dictators and tyrants; erasing of history, killing historians and powerful figures, subjecting the natives to second-class citizenship, etc. Hell, only very recently Belzy attempted to rewrite the history of Dominaria and was branded a villain, yet to some it's ok for Tarkir dragons to do it.
After the dragons "saved" their respective clan they immediately jumped back to war against one another, repeated what the humans were doing all along. Some people really should understand that being powerful and ageless doesn't make one wiser, sometimes it makes one worse, because s/he is given pardonto hypocrisy. -
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Chalsis posted a message on Core 2019 General Discussion"I'm stuck."Posted in: Magic Storyline
Those are Nicol Bolas's very first words. And they're immensely significant; his very first sensations in life are the feelings of being trapped and powerless.
This was a very well-written piece. Easily the best writing we've had all year. It's suitably elegant and poetic, and the brutality is hard-hitting and primal. Dead dogs, the twins cut from their dead mother, stillborn dragons, smashed goblins, the graphic details of the hunt--this is very visceral stuff, and it really drives home the harshness of both worlds--the rugged frontier land and the primordial (Dominaria?) where civilization is just in its infancy.
I loved it. This author has real talent, and I can't wait to read more from her. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I'll drop a recap in a few days of both books.
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Nice quote, but also keep in mind that Bolas is not above blatantly lying and twisting the truth to get what he wants. He may have wanted whoever he was telling that to THINK he wouldn't go after his siblings. That doesn't mean he actually wouldn't if it would serve his ultimate goal.
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Now the party can officially start.
Wow. seems like Gideon knows Lili better than she knows herself. (although that doesn't seem to be much of an accomplishment).
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there's a chance, though, that the choice wasn't his to make.
MTG Creative has made a lot of strides under Digges. He'll be missed.
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It looks like Martha Welles was reading your minds...
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MaRo said that the 2-set paradigm was kind of a fail, so that's part of why they switched to one big set at a time.
HOWEVER, he also said that Creative was no longer beholden to the "New block, new plane" standard. so they do have the freedom to have back-to-back big sets on the same plane, if the storyline dictates. So there is a possibility, however slim, that the next set will still be on Dominaria.
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I'd think for someone unfamiliar with the Weatherlight lore it would be akin to watching a heist movie, at the point where "The team" is assembled. Think films like Inception, Rogue One, Ocean's Eleven and The Great Train Robbery. The mission has specific needs, so you're going to go out and recruit the people you need for the task. Having an angel on the team that is familiar with the ship is useful, so is having a person on the team that is naturally resistant to magic. You wanted a veteran fighter on the team, but instead you get a rookie mage with a demonstrated knack for illusions. that could come in handy at some point in time. and you just happened to luck into a Vampire knight that wants to be part of the team. Vampires are immortal, super strong and are willing to cross lines that normal people wouldn't to get the job done: very useful traits.
if you look at the story that way, then you don't necessarily need to know the histories and lore behind these characters.