For me, as a veteran, it is, and always was, about the community, not the name. I'll go where the people I like to talk to, and the staff that did such amazing work, are going.
If the staff moves to Nexus, I'll follow, like I went from News to Sally 14 years ago.
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May 9, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Retrospective by Mark WintersGreat article!Posted in: Articles
Though I am a little sad that after Kelly Digges, I see that another man highly responsible for the gem that is Dominaria left Wizards.
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Apr 9, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Preview - Final PartingCalled it!!! (I mean the Final Parting being Josu + Liliana, not Jodah + dying Jaya).Posted in: Articles
Also, gratz a lot to an official preview card! -
Mar 15, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesPosted in: ArticlesQuote from Formless_One »No, the Baron Sengir and Grandmother Sengir come from Ulgothra. However, Grandmother Sengir is actually a planeswalker named Ravi who knew the Baron when he was young and as I understand it before he was a vampire. Then she went insane after pulling an Urza and blowing up most of Ulgothra. But the plane has a planar portal that most likely connects to Dominaria, and who knows? Maybe the Baron and his "Grandmother" did some traveling around the Multiverse at some point.
The Baron is NOT from Ulgrotha. He is from an unknown plane, he was brought to Ulgrotha by an unknown walker and stranded there. He might be originally from Dominaria, as we seen Sengir vampires there...but there is not enough info either to confirm or dismiss it.
Granny is a former planeswalker and one-time friend of the Baron who had a hand in him becoming vampire. See here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Ravi
More in this 12 years old article from Matt Cavotta: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/royal-bloodline-emphasis-blood-2006-02-15 -
Mar 12, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesYou are welcome. Some more:Posted in: Articles
odah's paragraph is quite wild.
"(Jodah) was also present during the Phyrexian Invasion and helped restore Urza's sanity during that time" - this is wholly incorrect, where you got it?
- one of the primary contributous to Worldspell - not quite, he had to provide his mirror and was forced to utilize (and in the process, consume) the safe havens to distribute the excess energy of the spell to prevent another Sylex Blast.
It is debatable, whether Evra, Halcyon Witness is what we think. After all, we have seen Halcyon Glaze. But using this very particular name on Dominaria and NOT tying it to THE Halcyon would be immensely stupid.
Kolo Meha was above all a Bogardan fire mage, but with ties to Madara, of course.
Gix was not Glacian's kíller. He attacked and wounded him, but Yawgmoth "killed" him by his treattment. -
Mar 12, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Dominaria Spoiler Digest - Who's Who and What's What from the Release NotesSome minor corrections:Posted in: Articles
- Primevals' rebirth was one of the climaxes of Planeshift,not Invasion
- Karn's Temporal Sundering is probably the time machine explosion also depicted on Sunder, not the Tolarian rift closure.
- Sagas get counters on the beginning of the precombat main phase
- Mirari was just one of Karn's probes, and a faulty one (it shouldn't be leaking power)
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Mar 7, 2018
Caranthir posted a message on Ixalan Story Interview with Alison LuhrsLoving it. Amazing read.Posted in: Articles
The most interesting thing for me is the reveal of intentional use of farce structure and themes for the story. It makes PERFECT sense. And explains a lot. -
Feb 11, 2016
Caranthir posted a message on Archive Trap: The World of InnistradGreat article, guys. Thanks for summarizing this.Posted in: Articles
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Jan 13, 2008
Caranthir posted a message on [Powerfantasy] Some pics of a game...Great pics, JamesPosted in: Hydrokinesis's Blog
Losing Miles had to hurt, indeed. I like your choice of team....playing with Miles and Phobeya together is one of my preferred combinations. Just add Harass and you got my fav "supervillain" team. But Sil is powerful with any high-damage super character. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
LOL, what else do you think it is? :-))))))
I wonder how many inconsistencies would they serve us in the rest of the stories.
Yeah, the novel pretty much hints that they merged and became something new, namely the new embodiment of the barrier. Michiko ascennded to spirit form clearly, they fought O-Kagachi together and Michiko performed feats that she did not have as a mortal.
Yeah, it would be more of the lines "...whoops, we did not mention that Michiko actually had not become an immortal spirit, or more precisely, we did not explicitly say she did, oh, how sorry we are about you for thinking that...."
Still it sucks.
Eh, please make your proper research before making such comments.
Read Guardian, the only thing we had on this. They were described to join/fuse with Kyodai, intermingle, and then BOTH became recreated as very special spirits, that were able to destroy the manifested O-Kagachi, and then become the new embodiment of the barrier between the worlds.
It is not like they remained a mortal and a kami. There is virtually nothing that supports your theory
I can accept that the sagas (and the articles) are meant to be inaccurate descriptions of what happened on Kamigawa, or precisely, what the denizens THINK that happened.
Of course it is a reference to Michiko and Kyodai, FFS. One has aspects of snake (Kyodai), the other is regal (Michiko). It calls back to the end of Guardian, where they were described (post-ascension) in the very same way. Who else would it be?
Either that, or pulling our leg to prepare for a big revelation that Michiko is the Wanderer.
For the record... the Sisters were seen some decades ago during the temporal crisis. Leshrac encountered them when planehopping and fighting Bolas.
And that was 1000 years after the Kami War, beyond the lifetime of a human.
I call BS.
The article is a pile of utter crap. Contradicting what we knew about her. Or a very brazen retcon.
For Christ's sake... she was SEEN with Kyodai during the fight of Bolas and Leshrac in Future Sight, barring the way to the world.
Not so long ago, about 1000 years after the Kami War.
EDIT: Future Sight, page 242/243
It is an exoskeleton in the bizarre likeness of a kami. Just a very fancy version of the thing that Ripley drove at the end of Aliens.
Vehicle enough for me.
Original Kamigawa block happens around 3206 AR, in the time between Urza's ascension and Tolarian Academy founding, closer to the latter. I.e. about 1300 years in the past from now.
Note that the spark-granting kami was present during the incident between the Emperor and Metal Arm Man ;). Due to Michiko's nature, the attempt to grant her a spark (like it did to Kaito) might result in the specific Wanderer features.
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
More precisely, what became of her.
Indeed, Better than nothing, and his digital-only card just flavorfully works in the way paper one cannot,
But I'd very much like to have a paper Miss Highwater card
Since Niv-Mizzet is a mizzium metal dragon there, no, it is not canon.