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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, 2018Caranthir 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. -
Apr 9, 2018Caranthir 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, 2018Caranthir 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, 2018Caranthir 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, 2018Caranthir 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, 2018Caranthir 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, 2016Caranthir 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, 2008Caranthir 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.
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And if MotM is about showing various worlds fighting againts Norn's forces, I hardly expect it to be played more there.
Killing Karn after Invasion means negating the Otarian arc, Mirari, Jeska, Karona...and without Jeska, the Mending cannot happen, etc...
Cleansing him might work.
Preventing the Planar Bridge from being invented would lock them. Maybe. But it also negates War of the Spark.
I know, Flisch. I was saying it myself from the beginning.
What I wanted to say is that with each additional more or less irreversible event presented to us, the " the only way to repair it is to make sure it did not happen" resolution jumps in probability.
I just wonder what could be changed. Go back to Thran era and killing Yawgmoth? Intefere with the Brothers' War? Preventing Karn from infecting Mirrodin? Prevent the compleation of walkers? Kaldheim mission? ... many options.
In Tezz's story, there is said that many of the planes already succumbed to the invasion, including some named ones from the prerevisionist era (Mirrankkar, Ilcae, Cabralin).
In Teferi's story, the mightiest chronomancer in the Multiverse we know of just became really pissed, speaking the words "it is not too late".
March of Machines: Days of Future Past. I call it now.
Agreed. We thought War of the Spark to be the Magic's IW/E, but in retrospect, that was just the Avengers battling Loki during the Battle of New York. This is the real McCoy.
This ****ing mess of a "darker than the darkest hour" cannot be undone by other way than a ****ing Teferi-facilitated time travel and ensuring it **** ING never happened.
Like, I am sure she is not dead...but this is really a joke.
Though I must admit, the "we cannot blow the sylex up because we would blow up the Multiverse" was something I did not expect.
Tibalt is not a shapeshifter.
Seedcore is a callback to Pendelhaven.
5C, I fully know about these three leaked cards as well as the spoiled rare sheet that shown us exactly who is safe.
I just say these ones everybody comments about are the manga alternate "What if" treatments. These arts are not identical to the leaked ones, despite both being black and white.
I am not quite sure that the What if versions show the actual likeness of the walkers.
On the other hand, does The Filigree Sylex show what I think? Compleated Jace?
And Geth
Interesting with Venser making a legendary golem token. Probably the one he is hanged inside.
Melira has grown a "little".
The history of the brothers:
Apprenticeship to Tocasia until her death
- Tocasia's Dig Site
- Tocasia's Welcome
- Stern Lesson
- Take Flight
- Meticulous Excavation
- Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
- Mishra, Excavation Prodigy
- Splitting the Powerstone
- Sibling Rivalry
- Brotherhood's End
- Overwhelming Remorse
( last one is Mishra running after the previous event cost Tocasia her life)Urza's time in Kroog:
Mishra's time in the desert and joining the Fallaji:
The Yotia-Fallaji War begins...
..and transforms into the Brothers' War, as Mishta becomes the qadir and Urza takes over as Yotia's tuler when both the old adir and Yotia's Warlord are killed.
The Fall of Kroog
Mishra has nightmares of Phyrexia,..
Urza's son Harbin discovers Argoth by accident:
Shoot Down
(and a very old card Crosswinds)
The brothers start plundering Argoth. Argoth defends itsslf:
Mishra in desperation seeks other sources of power and fall deeper into the influence of Gix:
The war rages and the Terisia City, haven to scholars of the Third Path, is also destroyed
Ashnod, Mishra's second in command, falls in love with Tawnos, Urza's assistant, when he is captured. She is dismayed with Mishra apparently falling under the sway of the Gixians. She helps him to escape and later, after she captured and tortured Loran who escaped from Terisia with the sylex, she hands over the sylex to Tawnos and tells him what Urza should do with it (the info what she got from Loran, who translated the glyphs).
It all comes to the final showdown on Argoth:
Urza triggers the Sylex Blast. He ascends:
One with the Multiverse
Related cards:
Urza's Ruinous Blast
Terisiare's Devastation(CMD)
Tawnos built a stasis coffin, originally meant for capturing Mishra. Thanks to it, he survives.
The Stasis Coffin
Tawnos, Solemn Survivor (CMD)
Urza observes the aftermath
Calamity's Wake
Life goes on...
Kayla's Reconstruction
Present:
Good to see Rusko as well. I really hoped he'll get a card in the main set.