1) Tamiyo is a very interesting character. I like that she utilizes old lore to weave her spells. I also enjoyed that she seems to have her eye on longer goals rather than just running from one crisis to the other. Now I want Tamiyo to meet up with Narset. I think they'd both bring a lot to the table.
2) Serra is my favorite, so I was completely happy with a name drop in the story. One of the things I've hated the most with the new stories is that it felt like they needed to bury the older lore and pretend it didn't happen. With Serra's Realm being mentioned, I hope we get a Serra Planeswalker card in the Commander sets.
These are my favorite MtG stories. I love it when we focus on the Planes natural inhabitants. I love seeing Thalia, Odric, and I especially love when we get more lore on recurring characters like Saint Traft. I can't stand the Planeswalker soap opera that shoehorns it's way into the storyline.
It's certainly possible for Avacyn to protect the plane from extraplanar forces, such as other Planeswalkers. Nahiri was a competent fighter so she wasn't overwhelmed by Avacyn, but a less experienced Planeswalker would have been killed. She could have also eventually led hosts of angels in an attack, this was probably before all the angel hosts aligned themselves with Avacyn. Radiant, who was created by Serra, was able to hold her own against Urza.
I doubt she was created to fight Eldrazi. You also had Phyrexian sleeper agents popping up on Planes. Maybe Avacyn was anti-Phyrexian.
It's bizarre how it escalated so quickly. Like, Sorin could have basically said he was in a lack-of-mana-coma from creating Avacyn and that's why he didn't show up. That could have been the end of their disagreement.
I don't think that she wanted to hear that he didn't fulfill his promise to protect her world (which he helped put in harm's way) because he was mana-napping from a long day of protecting his world.
It's still understandable. It's not like he pulled an Urza who straight out told Serra that he was "too tired" to fight the Phyrexians he brought to her Realm. Should Sorin have setup a Planeswalker answering machine for her call? Sure. But it's not like he flat-out ignored her.
It's bizarre how it escalated so quickly. Like, Sorin could have basically said he was in a lack-of-mana-coma from creating Avacyn and that's why he didn't show up. That could have been the end of their disagreement.
Maybe the mutations depicted on the cards aren't actually happening? Maybe we, the viewer, are slipping into madness and we think there are mutations, tentacles, and extra appendages, but in reality none of it is happening. It's all just the madness warping our minds.
Some madness inducing being is causing us and the denizens of Innistrad to go all crazy.
It reminds me of an Alpha version of Nevinyrral's Disk. It's not Emrakul it's a The Magic Goes Away homage set:
The Warlock, whose actual name is both unknown and unpronounceable,[2] is a powerful sorcerer in excess of 200 years of age.[3] He observes that when he stays in one place too long, his powers dwindle and will return only when he leaves that place.[4] Experimentation leads him to create an apparatus (now known as the Warlock's Wheel) consisting of a metal disc enchanted to spin perpetually.[5] The enchantment eventually consumes all the mana in the vicinity, causing a localized failure in all magic.[6] The Warlock realizes that magic is fueled by a non-renewable resource, which would cause great concern among the magicians, as it was through their magic that nations enforced their wills both internally and abroad. The widespread diminishing of magical power in The Magic Goes Away triggered a quest on the part of the most powerful of the magicians of the time to harness a new source of magic (the Moon), resulting in the events described in the book.
It was eventually discovered (in The Magic May Return) that mana was originally carried to Earth and the other bodies of the solar system on the solar wind, replenishing mana slowly over time. However, at some point in the "recent" past (a few thousand years ago) a god created an invisible shield between Earth and Sun that intercepted the solar mana and caused the eventual decline of magic on Earth.
Nahiri is using the cryptoliths at the Downyard to create a mana vacuum to absorb the plane's mana which she intends to funnel back to Zendikar. Other Eldrazi are drawn to the mana but it's revealed they are more interested in devouring dying Planes as they are the carrion vultures of the Blind Eternities. Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri interfered with the Eldrazi causing them to go berserk on Zendikar because of their confinement. Eldrazi's true purpose is to devour the dead/dying planes so that the mana can return to the Blind Eternities which will create a new Plane.
I like Creeping Dread. I've always enjoyed me some Discard type strategies. The fact that it can randomly do 3 damage is fun for some casual play too, especially that moment before everyone reveals. I live for those types of moments.
1) Tamiyo is a very interesting character. I like that she utilizes old lore to weave her spells. I also enjoyed that she seems to have her eye on longer goals rather than just running from one crisis to the other. Now I want Tamiyo to meet up with Narset. I think they'd both bring a lot to the table.
2) Serra is my favorite, so I was completely happy with a name drop in the story. One of the things I've hated the most with the new stories is that it felt like they needed to bury the older lore and pretend it didn't happen. With Serra's Realm being mentioned, I hope we get a Serra Planeswalker card in the Commander sets.
I doubt she was created to fight Eldrazi. You also had Phyrexian sleeper agents popping up on Planes. Maybe Avacyn was anti-Phyrexian.
It's still understandable. It's not like he pulled an Urza who straight out told Serra that he was "too tired" to fight the Phyrexians he brought to her Realm. Should Sorin have setup a Planeswalker answering machine for her call? Sure. But it's not like he flat-out ignored her.
"Entry 653: There's more to Avacyn's madness..."
Some madness inducing being is causing us and the denizens of Innistrad to go all crazy.
It reminds me of an Alpha version of Nevinyrral's Disk. It's not Emrakul it's a The Magic Goes Away homage set:
It was eventually discovered (in The Magic May Return) that mana was originally carried to Earth and the other bodies of the solar system on the solar wind, replenishing mana slowly over time. However, at some point in the "recent" past (a few thousand years ago) a god created an invisible shield between Earth and Sun that intercepted the solar mana and caused the eventual decline of magic on Earth.
Nahiri is using the cryptoliths at the Downyard to create a mana vacuum to absorb the plane's mana which she intends to funnel back to Zendikar. Other Eldrazi are drawn to the mana but it's revealed they are more interested in devouring dying Planes as they are the carrion vultures of the Blind Eternities. Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri interfered with the Eldrazi causing them to go berserk on Zendikar because of their confinement. Eldrazi's true purpose is to devour the dead/dying planes so that the mana can return to the Blind Eternities which will create a new Plane.
Tamiyo and Narset can figure out a way to outwit Nicol Bolas.