Wait, so is the Gem of Becoming supposed to be a portable version of Bolas' previous Imperial Shrine on Madara? When that thing broke, the elder dragon got dragged back to his Meditation Plane from being way too powerful for the plane to handle.
Of all the uncommon planeswalkers this is by far the most powerful of all, at least as a hoser in multiplayer EDH.
on a side note: Anyone has an idea of why he feel so pleasantly delighted to be in the Bolas Medition Realm and why is there in the first place?
I theorize that after Bolas fall, Ashiok may actually take that as his personal home. But I wonder how it managed to get there.
I assume Ashiok was invited by Ugin on the pretense of harvesting Bolas' brain for all the nightmare fuel in it. Bolas is an extremely sadistic dragon, so there's a lot of material there for Ashiok to use later on.
Well, glad his death got so many cards.
Sad thing is that dack is dead and didn’t even got a card(hope wotc does some shenanigans to revive dack)(he deserves better) (instead of killing Jace, Chandra , liliana, Nissa... they go and kill dack and Gideon that imo are better characters to drive stories(outside of alread opened plots)(that Gideon had))
are we sure dack is dead ? do u just go by the trailer or is this confirmed somewhere ?
cause that would really make me wonder, why not give a planeswalker a last card if he is a casuality to the war
He is one of the 3 deaths also one of the protagonista of the novel aparently.
Why no card for hin (maybe) I would guess someone in R&D and the story line department don’t like hin or there was some shenanigans later, or they don’t give a crap (I could see the last being truth)
I suppose there is some room left for a secret card :/
The writer of the novel added him last minute, way after anyone at Wizards could add an actual Dack card.
Ravnica is awakening to stop the unnatural threat of Bolas. Shock and awe! The writing is bumming me out. The big reveal is slowly losing the hope I had.
Anyways, red card is good.
Ilharg is basically the Gruul apocalypse. Who said he was on Ravnica's side?
Tomik just seems strange. Not sure anyone really wanted/needed this, but cool I guess? Did we really need to hose specifically Crucible and Muldrotha?
His preview article says he's meant to be a way to stop those two just in case, but was built more for Dark Depths and (previously unbanned) Deathrite Shaman in Legacy.
Looks like each color, two-color combination, and colorless have at least two walkers each. The rest are Bolas and maybe some tricolor walkers? Maybe a five-color one? Here's a hypothetical list, based on existing cards, the stained glass art, and a lot of speculating:
I know the cost would be prohibitive if it happened, but seeing the art (of many people) I really wished it somehow affected each opponent instead since this card reminds me of EDH as a vanity show (of what your deck can do) where your opponents are the audience. But as it is, it's a really powerful political tool (especially with the zombie mode there) to use against a dominant player (since the other opponents are inclined to help protect it as well). It's just the art and flavor feels at odds with its single player impact (I know I could interpret the audience as the player's creatures, but even with that it still doesn't feel quite right in the context of multiplayer EDH to me, flavor-wise).
I wonder if surprised Pikachu is somewhere in the audience...
I was under the impression everyone except the chosen opponent was the audience, and the poor sap who gets this is the reason everyone else is watching.
Last time it was break Imperial Shrine, so maybe Bolas needs to learn to hide those things and not display it in front of everyone.
With Karn around, I'm sure the Phyrexians deserve a turn as the main villains this time around.
I assume Ashiok was invited by Ugin on the pretense of harvesting Bolas' brain for all the nightmare fuel in it. Bolas is an extremely sadistic dragon, so there's a lot of material there for Ashiok to use later on.
The writer of the novel added him last minute, way after anyone at Wizards could add an actual Dack card.
Probably not the most broken, but Davriel and Jaya first came to mind for Limited.
Ilharg is basically the Gruul apocalypse. Who said he was on Ravnica's side?
Hopefully not right now. They have bigger problems to worry about.
His preview article says he's meant to be a way to stop those two just in case, but was built more for Dark Depths and (previously unbanned) Deathrite Shaman in Legacy.
Hazoret is still alive though, so that last one's probably Rhonas
W: Gideon
U: Jace
B: Liliana, Ob
R: Chandra, Jaya
G: Nissa, Vivien, Jiangg Yanggu
WU: Teferi, Dovin, Narset
UB: Ashiok, Davriel
BR: Tibalt, Angrath
RG: Samut, Domri, Arlinn
GW: Ajani, Huatli (maybe)
WB: Sorin
UR: Ral, Saheeli
BG: Vraska
RW: Nahiri, Huatli (maybe)
GU: Kiora
Colorless: Karn, Ugin
Everyone else: Bolas (Grixis), Tamiyo (Bant), Teyo Verada (???), unknown shepherd lady (???), unknown hat lady (???), Sarkhan (???, needs to have red)
I was under the impression everyone except the chosen opponent was the audience, and the poor sap who gets this is the reason everyone else is watching.
Maybe the Nephilim?