What you listed were a bunch of cool ideas (and I enjoy those aspects of Ixalan) but they're not what I consider coherent or strong worldbuilding.
we agree to disagree. And apparently lots of players agrees with me too.
I mean surely Ixalan had its flaws, but they could do many great things with that plane.
Artifact with colored abilities are pretty board term. My favourite one is vector asp.
This one as flavor of augmenting himself, becoming some sort of megazord.
I thought a megazord-like artifact that used equipments:
The Golden Golem1WRU
Legendary Creature - Golem
Lifelink, First strike U, t, unattach one equipment from The Golden Golem: draw two cards 1W, t, unattach three equipment from The Golden Golem: return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. 2R,t, unattach five equipments from The Golden Golem: The Golden Golem deals 10 damage to any target.
3/3
I was a bit surprised by Ixalan. I personally found the world to be almost... sterile. Like, there was so little meat on its bones. You can sum up the world in four sentences and you pretty much have heard everything.
I mean really?
We had aztec humans riding dinosaurs
The dinosaurs were quetzalcoatl referenece and the descendant of an herald of the threefolded sun.
There may be more dinosaurs we don't know about
The merfolk were tropical and vibrant, with a good green aspect
We had pirates, made of thieves, assassins, explorers and thinkerers
We had vampires... kinda dull these ones, i guess.
Other aspects of the plane we haven't see: other sun-related creatures (like the phoenixes), the night-related creatures like the demons and the Bat God, the Grim Captain and her armies of undead, sea monsters and tropical versions of established fantasy creatures (like the parrot griffin of resplendent griffin)
There is still a lot to show if they want
Well, if Kaya and Rade are the two walkers in the next set, I can officially say that Simic is now the most bad ass bunch of mad scientists on Ravnica. They don't care about the equivalent of Tiamat coming from space when they can make their own organic version of Godzilla!
Seems like some of our more beloved planes flavor-wise aren't quite as beloved as we thought...
Which ones? Ulgrotha?
I'm really really really really happy that Ixalan is a 4. We'll go back to it someday.
I'm surprised with Zendikar at 2. Better than Theros, really?
I think more of what makes it weird is Bolas is doing this all subtle. It be one thing for Bolas to obviously show up takeover and put his own people in charge with him simply appointing Kaya and Dovin outright.
You think that Bolas can face Aurelia, Rakdos, the Obzedat, Niv-Mizzet, Mat'selesnya and the whole Ravnica all alone?
Unless there’s something from the original Ravnica block that indicates otherwise I don’t think the Obzedat was ever previously undefeatable. And they’re literally bringing in someone who’s power set is incredibly specific for this exact task. Get over yourself.
I mean, they just ruthlessly governed for 10k or even more years, sure they aren't frail.
With Brago, things went like this:
- Brago is untouchable mostly because he's a ghost
- Kaya shows up, she can kill ghosts
- Brago is screwed
but really, the Obzedat have no tricks in their sleeve besides being ghosts? They are not skilled magicians or something like that? They can't use their numbers to stand against a human with a knife?
If they all die with a stab, that will be extremely disappointing.
By the way, why does everyone think Jarad is alive? Why would Vraska spare him? Especially pre-Jace Vraska.
Kaya likes getting paid and putting Tyrants in Power apparently. I wonder if she and Tesya will be BFFs or bitter enemies.
Bitter enemies i guess. An outsider with morals besides "i'm a mercenary and i hate ghosts" shows up and steal your guild?
And at the end she will just be a minion for another invader, even more dangerous.
My guess is that Teysa will help her to keep guild stable, but she will betray Kaya when Bolas shows up
Honestly, while i loved Ixalan's world building, i disliked the story. And i don't agree with a loth of things she said in the interview. I'm starting to think there is something wrong with me.
4. Jeremy has a point: Sprankly DID dress provocatively to get attention and money. Sorry you do not agree.
Sorry but how so? From what i saw she did pretty tame cosplay. She didn't do the "i have a red bikini, i'm Charmender!" thing. She did 1:1 representation of the characters on the cards. She is provocative when she is dressed like Liliana because Liliana is provocative. If you don't agree with cosplay of Liliana, you don't agree with the way the character is presented by the game itself.
So to hold your point, you should say that game itself is being provocative to get attention and money and should criticize it too. Jeremy should do the same... otherwise you may sound a little... hypocritical
we agree to disagree. And apparently lots of players agrees with me too.
I mean surely Ixalan had its flaws, but they could do many great things with that plane.
Technically, they should. But neowalkers have plot armor, if they can incinerate titan, they can surely do something about the Sisters too.
This one as flavor of augmenting himself, becoming some sort of megazord.
I thought a megazord-like artifact that used equipments:
The Golden Golem 1WRU
Legendary Creature - Golem
Lifelink, First strike
U, t, unattach one equipment from The Golden Golem: draw two cards
1W, t, unattach three equipment from The Golden Golem: return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
2R,t, unattach five equipments from The Golden Golem: The Golden Golem deals 10 damage to any target.
3/3
I mean really?
We had aztec humans riding dinosaurs
The dinosaurs were quetzalcoatl referenece and the descendant of an herald of the threefolded sun.
There may be more dinosaurs we don't know about
The merfolk were tropical and vibrant, with a good green aspect
We had pirates, made of thieves, assassins, explorers and thinkerers
We had vampires... kinda dull these ones, i guess.
Other aspects of the plane we haven't see: other sun-related creatures (like the phoenixes), the night-related creatures like the demons and the Bat God, the Grim Captain and her armies of undead, sea monsters and tropical versions of established fantasy creatures (like the parrot griffin of resplendent griffin)
There is still a lot to show if they want
We need Bio Niv-Mizzet
Which ones? Ulgrotha?
I'm really really really really happy that Ixalan is a 4. We'll go back to it someday.
I'm surprised with Zendikar at 2. Better than Theros, really?
You think that Bolas can face Aurelia, Rakdos, the Obzedat, Niv-Mizzet, Mat'selesnya and the whole Ravnica all alone?
I mean, they just ruthlessly governed for 10k or even more years, sure they aren't frail.
With Brago, things went like this:
- Brago is untouchable mostly because he's a ghost
- Kaya shows up, she can kill ghosts
- Brago is screwed
but really, the Obzedat have no tricks in their sleeve besides being ghosts? They are not skilled magicians or something like that? They can't use their numbers to stand against a human with a knife?
If they all die with a stab, that will be extremely disappointing.
By the way, why does everyone think Jarad is alive? Why would Vraska spare him? Especially pre-Jace Vraska.
Bitter enemies i guess. An outsider with morals besides "i'm a mercenary and i hate ghosts" shows up and steal your guild?
And at the end she will just be a minion for another invader, even more dangerous.
My guess is that Teysa will help her to keep guild stable, but she will betray Kaya when Bolas shows up
Use rampant growths instead of mana dorks
Wait a second...
Gost Dirk
Dirk Gently...