@toneinmidnight These are some amazing arts! I love the minimalistic alterations - sometimes only the little things need to be changed. I was wondering if you happened to have the cards above (or maybe more cause I would love to see all like this) is an english version? This kind of work is why I love looking at this forum!
Has anyone gotten around to a fixed version of the monarch status? Very much appreciated! Keep up the good work all. Everyday on here is like finding little treasures!
First, I think at this point it's very unlikely that anything will happen to INN as a plane besides maybe a couple mention cards in commander products but wotc has a ton of planes to "return to x" before we get a third visit. Personally, if I were wotc, I would get a group of 5-6 people, where their job is to just plan out the entire lore of a block. Obviously shown by this thread, people are getting more and more invested into different planes than before. The only time there was ever this interest was about the brothers war/mirrodin. But this is great! Maybe I have the lesser opinion, but I actually like the whole idea of the gatewatch as a driving force to the plot, but at the same time, we don't need every set about them, much less we don't always need a jace/chandra/etc. in all the standards. Additionally, if the only reason we had eldrazi on innistrad was to bring liliana onto the team, there were maaaaaaany other ways to bring her on. I do like the idea of the whole nihiri revenge plot, BUT wizards wasn't very smart about how they executed.
I think nihiri could have tracked sorin to a different plane, maybe alara because lets be honest, that place could use some uniting (if you don't know, Nicol Bolas basically brought a 5 way civil war to the plane with ajani stopping him from stealing the mana from the plane). Also, no one ever said that you had to keep the eldrazi storyline going right away...maybe keep emerakul up in the blind eternities for a couple years, let her marinade. Then you could have a better Innistrad story such as the ones up above (personally I like the witch one, they were kind of going with that in this block and they could have made it much cooler. Plus who doesn't want a reprint of burn at the stake! That combo deck was probably the coolest and most convoluted decks ever.) Anyways that's my opinion and thanks for the stories that obviously took a ton of work!
So I decided to polish up my expedition template and figured this would be a great opportunity to update some really great and creative lands that I felt would have made good additions to the Expedition Lands. I ended up doing 2 Lotus Vale's cause the art was just fantastic, but I think the second one came out better.
I love the artwork but I think something that should be pointed out is the awkwardness of in some of your lands such as gaea's cradle and volrath's stronghold the fact that you used the full art basic land template makes them look quite odd when "legendary" and "land" are separated by the mana symbol. Otherwise I really do like these, especially the urza lands! Now we finally have a oracle text version that looks stunning!
I think nihiri could have tracked sorin to a different plane, maybe alara because lets be honest, that place could use some uniting (if you don't know, Nicol Bolas basically brought a 5 way civil war to the plane with ajani stopping him from stealing the mana from the plane). Also, no one ever said that you had to keep the eldrazi storyline going right away...maybe keep emerakul up in the blind eternities for a couple years, let her marinade. Then you could have a better Innistrad story such as the ones up above (personally I like the witch one, they were kind of going with that in this block and they could have made it much cooler. Plus who doesn't want a reprint of burn at the stake! That combo deck was probably the coolest and most convoluted decks ever.) Anyways that's my opinion and thanks for the stories that obviously took a ton of work!
I love the artwork but I think something that should be pointed out is the awkwardness of in some of your lands such as gaea's cradle and volrath's stronghold the fact that you used the full art basic land template makes them look quite odd when "legendary" and "land" are separated by the mana symbol. Otherwise I really do like these, especially the urza lands! Now we finally have a oracle text version that looks stunning!