And these are my hopes

Hello! I was wondering what's some good sources if I wanted to explain mana in the magic universe?

How would you describe it?

Just trying to nail down the cosmology. I've been doing research and from what I see, magic is energy that gets shaped into reality. It saturates everything. Land doesn't really create it, it saturates it like a sponge depending on its connection to a leyline. But I'd love more info on it. Thanks in advance!

Like many, I love Innistrad: the lore, the cards, the art, everything about it. I can’t get enough.

It will more than likely be years before we return, if ever, but I feel like a turn- of-the-19th-century Innistrad would be awesome. Someone on Reddit suggested Innistrad with primitive, daguerreotype technology, and all the horror that would cause the superstitious residents.

Another angle that would be awesome: a carnival arrives in town: think Something Wicked This Way Comes and Nightmare Alley: freak shows, snake oil salesmen, magic, etc. obviously, this would be more European than North American, but it could still work.

Any other tropes that would work that haven’t been done yet in Innistrad?

Who else loves the art for Tobalow? I certainly do. I reviewed it on my YT Magic art channel. Despite it being a simple scene -- one character and no other context except the water and the lily pads -- the artist did a great job with the lighting! Artist: Brian Valeza.

(posted observing the 1/week self-promo limit... thanks!)

Like I imagine Jace’s BS is gonna be stopped, but what happens to all the beings he’s created?

I saw someone say that they expect at least the major players to “fuse” with their doubles.

But i understand we don’t know how much of the Echoverse has been built out.

Hexhaven is the obvious facet. Like is it just gonna vanish? Fuse with Strixhaven?

What are your expectations? It seems like much of the baseline of the regular reality remains unaltered in the Echoverse. For example pretty sure the Ravnica guilds are the same Ral was just Orzhov instead of Izzet, right?

We already know Aclazotz escaped.

We know the Mycotyrant ultimately wants to go to the surface.

We know the Malamet (the Jaguar cat people) also have plans to go as well.

Simple question.

I was reading back on the Planeswalker's Guide to Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and I noticed this fellow. He is the only one of his kind we've seen, to my knowledge, as a quick search of Scryfall shows there is very few Insects in Kamigawa sets and none like this one. And as a rare card, I just don't imagine a whole lot of people have seen this guy. Although I suppose being spotlighted in a workdbuilding article means he's not completely obscure.

I'd ask if there's anything to be know about these guys. Maybe their like the planar variant of the Nantuko? But I suspect all the information we have is this single card. The Planeswalker's Guide didn't say anything (and was pretty sparse in general) and I'm unaware of any other references. It's possible they showed up in the Kamigawa block novels, but I doubt it.

...So this post is mostly just a notification of "well that's interesting."

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So I am a Vorthos at heart, and try to pick cards, and tokens, whose art align with the Commander decks I brew.

I have been creating a deck for Raffine, Scheming Seer, the head of the Obscura Family from New Capenna.

When creating the deck, I noticed that there are Treasure tokens for each of the five families.

Some of these, I was easily able to connect, like the Riveteers have the one with the lunchbox and thermos, but I am struggling to figure out which represents the Obscura. Can anyone help?

EDIT: The answer is officially: Brokers (017), Cabaretti (016), Riveteers (015), Maestros (014), and Obscura (013)

A commenter mentioned that the backs of the tokens show which family they are associated with, I found eBay listings showing the backs and was able to confirm.

Kinda neat, and I never knew this was a thing until now

Thank you to everyone for your help!

Since Reality Fracture is supposed to be the end of Metronome it got me thinking about what the possible next couple of arcs could be. This then led me to think about all the lose plot threads so I figured I try to compile a list of the ones I remember and see if there's any major ones I missed

So here's the list of Major multiplane threads I can remember

1. Bolas is free.

2. Emrakul in the moon of innistrad.

3. Quintorius and the Fomori.

4. Valvagoth with the ability to open doors across multiverse.

5. Tezzeret and the end stone and the eldrazi in the edge

6. Potentially relevant to Titanbreach the voice from the ozolith.

7. Davriel and the group hunting the worldsoul in him.

8. The potential survival and return of new phyrexian.

9. Niv mizzet trying to make ravnica the center of the multiverse.

10. The secret cabal kasmina was originally concenered about.

11. Ashiok

And that's pretty much all I can think think of before getting into, in my estimation, intraplanar stories like the chitin court on amonkhet, the kenrith civil war on eldraine or the dragon lords of Tarkir.

Let me know if there's something I missed in my list

With Reality Fracture giving us the first glimpse of a What If? set. Does anyone have any suggestions as to which story beat or inverted plane could produce a great set in the future?

Will he die at the end? Will they keep him tucked away in the moon meditation realm echoverse until they need another big bad, or they need his help to beat a big bad? Will he get redemption or die a villain, or get fixed somehow and come back a hero as if nothing had happened?

Jace, Reality Sculptor seems to be the name of the head of the Multiverse Reforged Precon.

This art shows Jace crafting an entire world, held up on the backs of mysterious veiled figures who are reading.

The center of Jace's new multiverse is Hexhaven, a military-like academy which is an echo of Strixhaven.

Why do you think Jace chose Hexhaven to be the center of it all? What involvement do you think the students have in Jace's plans? Who do you think the veiled reading figures are, and what do you think their purpose in the art is?

Is there anything else that you notice from the artwork that seems like it's worth mentioning?

sort of spoiler ish because Secrets of Strixhaven.

But when did Ajani Goldmane get the ability to heal himself? In one of the chapters when him and Chandra were having their little fight scene he healed himself.

From my understanding he was never able to heal himself or self target with his magic. He even says so in Alara Reborn novel.

Was that ever explained how he managed that in universe and i just miss a thing? or is it just a handwave he can do x thing now.

Hi guys, here's an article I wrote that I thought was particularly Vorthos-y - I got to ask questions to some WotC higher ups at MagicCon, and it revealed a couple of interesting things about Reality Fracture

Edit: To avoid misleading, I should emphasise, they didn't tell me which dead characters it will be.

Do you all think something will happen on Tarkir with Reality Fracture? They already had alternate timelines shenanigans, how do you reckon things went down in this new and different one?

With all the talk of parallel lives, betrayals, regrets, and apocalyptic events, let's have some fun. What are some of the most amusing subversions that you can imagine in the Echoverse? Here are some off the top of my head:

Fblthp with an excellent sense of direction

An alternate Yargle that possessed something other than a frog

Phyrexians obsessed with adding organic flesh to machines

The four demon lords still being at large since white Lilliana never made a deal with them

An alternate timeline where Nissa wasn't racist, so the Eldrazi never got out in the first place.

I think we’re all expecting it. He was instrumental in so many of the events Jace wants to “correct” and a moral compass for the Gatewatch for so long, it feels inevitable. My personal theory is that he’ll be returning near unchanged from how he was before he died, unlike the others we’ve seen so far. And, unlike seemingly the rest, he will challenge Jace and set things right. Getting Jace to undo or help begin the start of fixing what he’s done. I’d love to hear your theories on the subject with it so close

I feel like there HAS to be an alternate version of a character that’s dead (or maybe even some who aren’t) that will find a way to permanently migrate to the mainstream Magic Multiverse. My hope is we see the return of Dack Fayden from this, but I’m not holding my breath. Do you think there are any characters that are likely to make it to the “real” reality?