They said that next week's story will reveal the winner of the battle based on votes and geocaching results. It's therefore likely that the real clash for Orazca will be shown us at the very end of the narrative arc.
Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/vote-control-golden-city-2018-02-07
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Trinite0 posted a message on Storytelling Critique ThreadPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from Jay13x »
Note that with the shift to the 'Narrative Team' byline, the articles are much more of a collaborative effort.Quote from Trinite0 »1. I'm pretty certain that in the long, plot-heavy stories like these two, Alison Luhrs is not responsible for most of the writing. She (or someone) is putting together an outline, and various writers are filling in sections. You can very obviously see the differences in writing style and quality between sections.
Quite a few creative team members have left in the last year, and those positions haven't been filled :/
Yeah, you can really see the problems of understaffing and excessive workloads taking their toll on the Ixalan stories. I *really* hope they bring some more people on board before Dominaria's release. -
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Etherium Sage posted a message on Ixalan General DiscussionPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from Jay13x »
You're taking this to an extreme. The point isn't that places would have been great if not for Azor, it's that Azor caused as many problems as he solved. It's a common theme for 'good guy' oldwalkers.Quote from NZB2323 »I’m not a fan of Azorius or bureaucracy in general, but I found Azor to be sympathetic. I have a hard time believing that Ravnica and Ixalan would have world peace if not for him. How do we know they wouldn’t be worse off?
It's not even so much that he caused problems in the process of trying to solve other problems, as nobody's perfect.
It's also that he's unable to admit that he caused any problems. I actually felt sorry for him in this story not just because he was schooled by his own magic, but also because he somehow deluded himself in believing his systems were flawless when they in fact were not. He also loves to shift blame, as demonstrated with his wording regarding Ugin when he talks about their plan, and the repeated blaming of the natives on why the systems he established had flaws or loopholes those natives could exploit. -
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Etherium Sage posted a message on Ixalan General DiscussionPosted in: Magic StorylineQuote from Werewolf_Rawr »Yeah, they’re already setting up Jace for his conquering of Azor with the whole being even better than he used to be because now he remembers ALL of his training.
Yeah it looks like the difference between Vryn!Jace and the Jace between Vryn and Ixalan in terms of prowess, was that Alhammaret taught Vryn!Jace theories and best practices where mind and illusion magic was concerned. When he lost his memories and walked to Ravnica, while he still had the magical abilities, he had to start from scratch in learning how to use it and basically wing it, which is why he has been so relatively inefficient with his magic.
I want to see how this, in addition to getting buff on Ixalan, affects his ability to fight his enemies going forward.
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jshrwd posted a message on Rumors of Hasbro prepping Wizards of the Coast for a 2021 saleCan we take a moment to congratulate this thread on being a real and true rumor; the first of its kind in this "rumor mill" in a while.Posted in: Baseless Speculation -
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Tekkactus posted a message on Ixalan General DiscussionThere are four oldwalkers mentioned in this story and every single one of them is a colossal ass.Posted in: Magic Storyline -
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Yatsufusa posted a message on Should Wizards continue to use real-world ancient cultures as inspiration?If you think about it, even Dominaria is a (huge) combination of "generic fantasy" tropes mashed together over time (with a dose of other fantasy tropes like "Alien Hive Mind Experiment gone wrong" Slivers and "Magical Apocalyptic Wasteland" Time Rifts).Posted in: Magic Storyline
I think Magic's actual forte is in combining tropes correctly to give it a fresh flavor (as mentioned earlier combining Vampires and Conquistadors in Ixalan together felt refreshing even if it's quite literally two obvious tropes mashed together). I think culture-inspired backgrounds are important to establish planes apart from the get-go (seriously if Dominaria didn't have that decade of build-up, it and Shandalar would probably be no different from each other) and they're trying to find that split line where they can combine that background with the innovation without completing stifling future developments in innovation when they return to the plane.
I would say the recent two planes were among the more successful ones in doing that - Amonkhet in its entirely is a mashed Egytian-Bolas plane and while Ixalan might be a bit too innovative on the flavor front (Vampires Conquistadors, Merfolk Shamans with Pirates and Dinosaurs), I see it as another attempt of seeing if there were more ways than one to innovate the a plane's culture from the get go as well (as elegant as Amonkhet was, every other plane following the 1+1 plan would go stale pretty fast). -
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void_nothing posted a message on Should Wizards continue to use real-world ancient cultures as inspiration?It's a spectrum. Or, rather, a pair of spectra.Posted in: Magic Storyline
Some worlds have an extreme reliance on IRL mythology or history (Theros) and others are really quite divorced from the real world (Mirrodin).
Some worlds rely on familiar tropes from fiction (Innistrad) and some are high-concept and experimental (Ravnica).
The key for Creative - which they have done - is to mix it up. Ixalan is in the middle of both scales. Amonkhet was pretty far to the Theros end of the first scale and, due to elements like Bolas, the Hekma, the Curse of Wandering, and the three slave-gods, pretty far to the Ravnica end of the second. -
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Arn posted a message on Magic ApparelJace, Cunning Castaway eat your heart out!Posted in: Third Party Products
Got this for Xmas from my awesome cousin who I taught to play when he was 5 years old!
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Here you go, Ethan did a lot of the research for this map. There a whole podcast coming from them on what went into the decisions they made.
Kelly Digges explained the reasoning for using certain costumes when it came to Ensaring Bridge.
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Dakkon Blackblade #1 is dragged into post-revision canon!
Piru is an Elder Dragon!
Dakkon is still a Planeswalker!
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For the Invasion you want Remember the Weatherlight 5a, 5b, and 5c.
I have not seen a good summary of Otaria anywhere, but Multiverse in Review will be covering it soon.
I just published Time Spiral and the Mending here a couple weeks ago.
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There was an assumption that not all Serra Angels were from Serra Planeswalker, and thus the goddess had to be from Dominaria and Serra, too... but I can't find anything to actually support that.
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