MTG Salvation

Michiko apparently needs to die for the spirits to be satisfied (if even that). Mabye she ascends right then.

Tefiri is from Zhalfir, a land of white mana. He now protects it. There are alot of arguements to link him to Blue, so mabye he is Blue/White? Since he's a 'walker, he could be anything I guess.

Since the block takes place in a huge city, and green loves nature instead of culture, you may see an emphasis on green cards. Whether they are powerful enough to warrant such a card is even more speculative, but if so, the card could be in flavor.

Well, the white element of the storyline could be the antagonist, and it wouldn't be the first time. In Kamigawa, the white humans (Konda's folk) are responsible for the spirit war. In the Ice Age block books (which apparently includes elements from The Dark), the white enitities persecute anyone who uses magic. Radiant wouldn't let Urza close the plane even though it was doomed because it was against her orders from Serra (the flavor text from that set indicates that she challenged Serra because Serra was violating the orders she had given Radiant).

So anyways, white can never be evil, because like rancored_elf said, if they were evil then they would be black. They can, however, be the entity that causes the problems in the storyline, such as having cruel justice, unfair laws, religious persecution etc.

Edit: And by the way, I don't know when you came back to the forum, but welcome back from me to you anyways.

Edit #2: Boy do I feel dumb. Good thing no one reads page 2 of a 5 page post.

Originally, his ability was a reflecting on him being lucky. He always escapes from danger.
When on Weatherlight, he notices an imminent danger and somehow manages to shoot it just in time to save the crew.
When in Mercadia, the time he ever stood up for his crew, he threw a fruit at some kind of huge monster thug (a Mercenary), and as luck would have it, Goblins are the ruling-class race of the city.

So far, both story-line Goblins (Squee and Slobad) have had this lucky ability.

Anyways, when Squee got captured, Yawgmoth granted Squee the ability to always be resurrected when he dies. Ertai, the Corrupted kills him a whole bunch of times in succession towards the end. Squee experiences some kind of after-life each time. Finally he manages to kill Ertai.

Later, Gerrard tries to convince Crovax's army (after he kills Crovax) that he is an ally. Squee agrees to allow Gerrard to kill him (with his sword). Squee is killed, but later comes back to life.

Mabye Squee became a Planeswalker somehow during that whole ordeal, but was too dumb to figure it out. If so, he would definately appear in the block of 2006-2007. However, if so, Urza would have sensed it long ago. Too bad King couldn't find enough space to elaborate on such a bizarre issue.

HOWEVER:
Remember that, except for (possibly) Squee, Yawgmoth never truely ever raised anybody from the dead. Hannah was an illusion, and the dead plants and such were just being animated.

Edit: The Planeswalker Dyfed told Yawgmoth that he wasn't a Planeswalker in the Thran book, so it is assumed the Yawgmoth is not a Planeswalker.

Except for the new card-face...

The COTD of 3/8/05 states that card Vulshock Sorceror has a gender non-specific name, and that they can give it male or female art in the future.

This should not be considered speculation because the hint is so obvious.

Ravanous Baloth would be very nice

Or mana can be drawn from the guilds or cults. Each color would have its share of the balance of power, a home base, a few leaders, but would probably have to work indirectly since they all would be so closely tied. It would be factional warfare.

Or mabye... All of the houses would work together due to some kind of invasion. Some evil force would planeshift into ravinica and try to cause an apocalypse.

We don't know the timeline of Ravnica, and the plane has never been mentioned in a novel, so none of the known characters, except possibly Bo Levar, are likely to show up. If Ravnica is indeed a hub of the planes, Bo Levar fits in very well, while none of the others are particularly qualified.


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Bo Levar is the Blue-aligned planeswalker depicted on Planeswalker's Mischeif. He is a smuggler who travels from plane to plane mercantiling. He survived the apocalypse.

The theme decks from seventh edition show the expansion symbol, but the eighth and ninth edition decks do not. I bet the ninth edition symbol will be awesome, and the tenth edition will (I guess pretty obviously) be a X

This is speculation.

Recently, WOTC has templated creatures so that they are Creature - Race Type. We all know that this block is about a plane that is covered by a city. Guilds, marketplaces, crowds.

What if Ravnica is a planar hub? The major theme will be Humans. Creature - Human Demon, Creature - Human Goblin Cleric, Creature - Robot Pirate Ninja. The list goes on!
This seems flavorful for the plane (where you could meet everyone, and regular Creature - Human would be a strange minority). Regardless, there is no doubt that Wizards will do this to creature types some day (remember Goblin Merfolk and Zombie Cleric from Invasion block?).

Also, there could be many planeswalker call-backs.

Any other Human related themes you might think of?