Yeah, she's my favorite too, and while it wouldn't surprise me if they killed her off or worse in an ignoble way, it would be extremely infuriating since they already got Tamiyo.
With any luck at all, War of the Spark 2: Phyrexian Boogaloo will be next year, so we at least don't have to suffer through a few more years of this garbage.
I've seen so many monkey's paws in MTG lately. I hope for a fairy planeswalker and get a psychopath, I hope for Tamiyo to show up on her own plane and she's Phywrecked. I'm calling it right now: In 2023, the Phyrexians will invade Kaladesh. It would be the perfect crap cherry to top this crappy, insulting travesty of a storyline. Take something I loved and ruin it for cheap shock value.
I totally agree with you. It just is a slap in the face on so many levels. First and foremost Tamiyo is the planeswalker who could so easily be the Saga matters planeswalker. And not only that she is a pacifist. I just want to be done with this story so bad wake me up in three years I guess lol.
I want to go back in time, find whoever came up with the idea of Phyrexia, and get them stuck in a traffic jam or accident or something so that they miss their interview and never work for Wizards of the Coast.
On the one hand, another story arc with a new big bad is kind of neat. On the other, I hate the "oh, this character you loved? They're brainwashed and evil now" thing. I honestly would've preferred Tamiyo to die. WotC's anti-human bias also continues to show - why not have one of the random human planeswalkers suffer this fate, I'm sure we have over a dozen of them at this point.
The boring part about an established character (human or not) becoming compleated is that it basically removes all nuance from them. Once they're Phyrexian, they are nothing more than a "doing evil things for the sake of being evil" type of caricature.
This is also crappy storytelling. The Phyrexians were always OP, but their one weakness was the inability to planeswalk. So what do the writers do as soon as they bring them back? Make that no longer apply, so now they can brainwash and conquer anyone and anything they want with little recompense. As if having plot armor thicker than the Antarctic ice caps weren't enough. So I think I officially don't care about the lore anymore, and with it, possibly not any future sets (except maybe Un-sets). Have they ever heard of Too Bleak; Stopped Caring?
Okay, I either want to punch the entire story team in the face or sell off my collection now. Possibly both. Tamiyo was one of my favorite characters in the game, I can't stand the Phyrexians and wish they would all die a horrible death, and this is the most insulting story beat I've seen since Animorphs ended. I wanted Tamiyo to come back and get a new card, but NOT LIKE THIS. I guess it's a good thing that I hadn't gotten around to the first four stories yet, because now I don't need to bother with them.
I actually have a deck very similar to this, at least in terms of being a RW deck that uses copious small, cheap creatures to gain a lot of ETB triggers. Mine focuses less on the lifegain, though. (I have nothing against lifegain, but it wasn't really the point of that particular deck.) I don't have Norin or Purphoros (though I want to get both eventually) nor much in the way of good dual lands, but I do have Impact Tremors, Mentor of the Meek, Massive Raid, Cloudgoat Ranger, Outpost Siege, Cathars' Crusade, Hellrider, Anointed Procession, Twilight Drover, and I did include Burn at the Stake as well. I doubt it's competitive for Modern, but I only ever play casual anyway. Other cards I've considered for it or a similar deck include Auriok Champion, Call for Unity, Eerie Interlude, Elemental Mastery, Foundry Champion, In the Web of War, Jinxed Idol, Path of Bravery, Saltskitter, Springjack Shepherd, and Thraben Doomsayer.
I've been waiting so long for this...
Yeah, she's my favorite too, and while it wouldn't surprise me if they killed her off or worse in an ignoble way, it would be extremely infuriating since they already got Tamiyo.
And I don't recall ever complaining about the stakes being too low in War of the Spark.
Right?