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.
I think a better Mishra is possible, based on getting Urza last time.
Rebbec and Glacian got cards in CML, Gix is literally the last prominent character from The Thran left. But I assume they would make his praetor form.
Oldwalkers, including the Titans: Just two in CML was disappointing, but they are apparently saving the juicy ones for future releases. From the 9T, I'd say Taysir or Bo Levar, otherwise Leshrac.
A re-made Weatherlight crewmember is a must. Also missed in CML, so they had to save it for here. I'd also guess Orim, whose original card sucks hard.
New Tetsuo - yes, please. All the Legends II characters are long overdue for new versions. Also Ramses or Xira. And CML failed to deliver Jorgen Hage and Kolo frickin' Meha, despite teasing him by Naru Meha.
I feel this is a problem of all the "new" stories since Zendikar Rising. They are now cramming the story into six episodes, plus some spinoffs. This is just too few. Stories of all three sets - ZRN, Kaldheim and now Strixhaven feel logically rushed then.
Another thing is the pacing. Sometimes a story encompasses just one or two days, but here, if I read it well, we basically skipped several weeks where "nothing happened" and went straight to beginning to the Oriq onslaught.
Similarly - the first Kaldheim story leading to Kaya fighting Vorinclex was excruciatingly detailed, yet the final battle for Bretagard felt like a report from a plane flying above the battlefield.
I precisely remember when I felt cheated by the writer for the first time - when reading Silmarillion. After all these detailed battles in Dagor Bragollach, Nirnaeth Arnodiedad or the fall of Gondolin, including who was injured by what and in what part of body, the fall of Morgoth was described on two pages like - well, the Valar and the Vanyar came from Valinor in force, torn down the gates of Angband, defeated Melkor and imprisoned him, Beleriand fell to the sea, The End.
So it seems that our treefolk legend is this.
Exactly what I meant.
Based on Cram Session's flavortext, I think that Gyome is our promised chef.
I am also missing the lead character on Witherbloom Command. The rest of Commands has the face students there, but not Witherbloom - instead of Dina, it is something like a small treefolk - the closest thing to this is found on Body of Research¨- yet this "Needledeep" (treefolk-hinting name) is apparently a Quandrix member. Dina is not even depicted on the command - there is a troll and an elf in the foreground, and bunch of humans in the background.
Well, they mentioned the "Mage Tower" sport in the twitch preview stream already...
Bolded are new info.
Ugin is outright copy-pasted from original Swanland's art, just flipped horizontally and rotated a bit. From a frigging existing Magic card. At least the Bolas was taken "just" from someone's Deviantart page.
The guy is a f***ing plagiarizer.
Killian Lu, a human mage-student in his second year at the Silverquill College of Eloquence. Handsome features, a sharp jaw and his immaculate midnight black hair might immediately draw the eye - not to mention the always-dashing monotone suit - but his implacable determination and work ethic have engendered him to both his peers and Strixhaven’s faculty.
Some might say that pressure is a direct result of having the Silverquill dean as a father - the master poet is reportedly a stern man who drives his son to graduate at the top of his class. Rigid discipline and an ever-watchful eye catches any of Killian’s mistakes, and his father is quick to remind him of the lineage of inkmasters that comprise the Lu ancestry. Killian’s failures are his father’s failures - and that of the family, by extension. Weakness in any pursuit is simply not an option.
Killian trains in secret to address his shortcomings and only ever displays a detached professionalism for his fellow students and teachers. Whether due to his father’s constant vigil or his own desire to master both the light and dark elements of Silverquill’s trademark magic, Killian vows to only ever make a mistake once. If only he didn’t find the light so difficult to embrace.
He is the central character on Silverquill Command.
Update: It seems all of the face students are being revealed across several pages:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-storyline/820561-stx-strixhaven-school-of-mages-worldbuilding-and?comment=25
He indeed was, we even have a card for him. And he is flesh and blood. No artifact creature.
This is either a f**k-up, or an in advance admitted non-canon story.
I kind of hope that the last side-story addresses this, but it will most probably be centered on Lathril, as the previous one was on Ranar.
Yup, exactly my thought. Warrior makes absolutely zero sense here.
Yeah, thought the same thing when seeing the card.