Well a few issues come to mind, Ugin maybe unable to now speak between planes post mending, he being unable to go to Ixalan without being trap and the very real possibility Bolas had already in some form killed or got rid of Azor or even Azor dying he was mortal.
When Ugin woke, the first person he saw was Sorin and his news that the Eldrazi was free. It would only be fair to consider the Eldrazi an even bigger threat than even Nicol Bolas.
At any rate, to save Azor Ugin would have to relocate Bolas, inform Azor telepathically Bolas’ new location, then defeat an enemy that NEARLY KILLED HIM. At this point, there really wasn’t a lot of options as far as Azor was concerned.
He was completely unperturbed by the idea of sacrificing his spark to achieve a vaguely conceptualised ‘good’. When that failed, he immediately set about creating law on Ixalan, not because there genuinely was a problem to solve, but because it would satisfy his own ego.
From the way he treated the people on the ‘Palace of Justice’ plane as a conscriptable welcome party he could muster and disperse at a whim, it is clear his actions are motivated more by a desire to BE a a source of ‘good’ than any actual concern for his ‘subjects’. Previous worlds like Ravnica and the plane with the one-handed elf may have been spared the worst because the laws there solved actual problems, others like the ‘Palace of Justice’ plane were purely ego projects with inevitably disastrous consequences.
Could Azor be gradually descending into senility even before Ixalan? It would explain his deteriorating work.
Given the 3 Huatli planeswalkers we have so far, I reckon she will appear on other planes as a creature buffer, not unlike what Garruk used to be before he was corrupted.
The look on Azor’s face when he realised the Guildpact ‘failsafe’ is not on Ravnica ... somehow I think that is not supposed to happen Eye of Ugin style.
so, anyway, nice story aside, how does it coincide with Avacyn's new card? nobody died when Avacyn "flipped" in the story, right?
I don't think the process of becoming mad over several months can be represented in a single card really. The bigger problem story-wise is the transformation-trigger. Saving a little kid is quite different than watching a [any non-angel creature] die. They could have gone a different route with that. Like Origins-Liliana's trigger: Whenever another creature dies, put a 0/1 Whiny Kid creature token into play and transform Avacyn. Of course that wouldn't make much sense, because she'd immediately kill that kid... oh wait!
If whatever is causing Avacyn to go crazy has a ritualistic sacrifice element to it, that could justify the flip trigger.
That said, sometimes the cards and flavor don't match, and...well, that's just how it has to be.
In my opinion, Avacyn's transformation should involve her witnessing an event that convinces her about the imperfection of the humans she was supposed to protect. A trigger based on one of your own creatures transforming. This might be more accurate flavor-wise based on the story we got thus far.
When Ugin woke, the first person he saw was Sorin and his news that the Eldrazi was free. It would only be fair to consider the Eldrazi an even bigger threat than even Nicol Bolas.
At any rate, to save Azor Ugin would have to relocate Bolas, inform Azor telepathically Bolas’ new location, then defeat an enemy that NEARLY KILLED HIM. At this point, there really wasn’t a lot of options as far as Azor was concerned.
He was completely unperturbed by the idea of sacrificing his spark to achieve a vaguely conceptualised ‘good’. When that failed, he immediately set about creating law on Ixalan, not because there genuinely was a problem to solve, but because it would satisfy his own ego.
From the way he treated the people on the ‘Palace of Justice’ plane as a conscriptable welcome party he could muster and disperse at a whim, it is clear his actions are motivated more by a desire to BE a a source of ‘good’ than any actual concern for his ‘subjects’. Previous worlds like Ravnica and the plane with the one-handed elf may have been spared the worst because the laws there solved actual problems, others like the ‘Palace of Justice’ plane were purely ego projects with inevitably disastrous consequences.
Could Azor be gradually descending into senility even before Ixalan? It would explain his deteriorating work.
In my opinion, Avacyn's transformation should involve her witnessing an event that convinces her about the imperfection of the humans she was supposed to protect. A trigger based on one of your own creatures transforming. This might be more accurate flavor-wise based on the story we got thus far.