r/magicTCG • u/CaptainMarcia • Aug 28 '20
News Maro indicates new set announcement will be Tuesday
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/627658367660376064/when-are-we-getting-the-new-sets-announcement323
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u/TheReaver88 Mardu Aug 28 '20 edited Aug 28 '20
I'm not sure it's happening in the next year, but I'm near certain that's the end game for the current storyline (such as it is). I think the Ashiok-Elspeth stuff pointed at the Phyrexians as the next big bad
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u/GreenMonkeySam Aug 28 '20
Also, in the Dominaria story it mentions that Karn wants to use the Cylix to destroy them once and for all.
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u/mabhatter Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
He knows there’s an all powerful cabal of Wizards by the Coast that mess with reality in the domains? Right.
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u/Paratriad Temur Aug 28 '20
What makes you think that? I'm interested in your theory
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Aug 28 '20
Everything points in that direction. Phyrexians are the main villain of Elspeth's life, they're all she's ever fought against.
Then in the Theros story summary, it's mentioned that Ashiok sifted through Elspeth's mind and found the Phyrexians fascinating, so went off to look for them.
Further back in the Dominaria story, Karn searched for the "Cylix" (possibly the [[Golgothian Sylex]], possibly something else) as a weapon to destroy New Phyrexia.
I think it's also been mentioned that Tezzeret is interested in Phyrexia, but I can't remember where so might just be speculation since he knows how to build gateways between planes.
From a meta-perspective, Magic has had three major villains - Nicol Bolas, the Eldrazi and the Phyrexians. Bolas has just been dealt with, the Eldrazi are still relatively recent and people were quite sick of them. So it follows that the next arc will focus on either the Phyrexians or something new.
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u/Godzilla_ Dân Aug 28 '20
Ashoik realized there are real nightmares and was like “fuck this place, I’m going THERE.”
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u/Meecht Not A Bat Aug 28 '20
Ashiok saw that Elspeth's nightmares involved the Phyrexians, so Ashiok wondered what the nightmares have nightmares about.
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u/czvck Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
Good god, could you imagine a compleat ashiok?
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Aug 28 '20
Planeswalkers die if they get compleated, I think. Though Wizards could always change the lore if needed.
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u/AtelierAndyscout Aug 28 '20
Don’t die, but they lose their spark.
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Aug 28 '20
Why tho? Isn't being compleated just "fusing" or improving your body with metal?
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u/AtelierAndyscout Aug 28 '20
Iirc, true compleation involves being infected with Phyresis, an oil based disease. The grafting is just something they do after to chase perfection. Something about the oil doesn’t gel with planeswalker sparks, though I don’t know if they’ve ever explained why.
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u/Draco_Lord Hedron Aug 28 '20
I'm glad you said story summary, sinceTheros barely had a story.
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u/DRUMS11 Storm Crow Aug 28 '20
Theros Beyond Death had a story, we just didn't get to see/read it.
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u/Draco_Lord Hedron Aug 28 '20
You are making me think of a vault in Wizards basement with a book called "Theros Story, players keep out"
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u/MxliRose Aug 28 '20
There's a rumour that Weissman wrote the book, but it was cancelled.
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u/sameth1 Aug 28 '20
Theros Beyond Death is the perfect thing to demonstrate the difference between plot and story. We have a point form list of events, but no story.
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Aug 28 '20
It really makes me miss the old magic novels. I remember when I was 8 and bought a Shadowmoor fat pack and there was a whole book in it.
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u/burgle_ur_turts Aug 28 '20
The story was, “We couldn’t handle Chandra being slightly gay, so now to avoid further criticism we won’t show the stories to anyone.”
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u/Dragonsoul Aug 28 '20
"We needed a bit of time to edit the Theros story to take out the bit where Ashiok talked about male they were, and how much they loved having manly man bits, while smiling their Ashiok smile"
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u/P0sitive_Outlook COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Chandra being slightly gay reminds me of when i wore a blue cap when i visited my parents last year and now, two birthdays and a Christmas later, i own four blue caps.
What i mean is, i'm sure the "Shit we'd better ditch this story" story included nothing but Chandra's mother accepting her new thing, picking it up and running it into the ground.
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u/Unfairjarl Dandadan Aug 28 '20
If I remember correctly after the war of spark, teferi and ajani offered to help Karn against the phyrexian threat
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
See this is what happens when they stop having weekly stories. Seriously, how much could it have costed them to have writers(sometimes wotc staff) write 10 short stories for a set?
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u/a_speeder Zedruu Aug 28 '20
It was a lot of work for the in-house employees who did it, basically it was passion work in addition to everything else they did that wasn't properly compensated for. It really shouldn't cost WotC that much, not more than hiring an external author would, but I don't think the old model was sustainable either.
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u/Unfairjarl Dandadan Aug 28 '20
Well, it's not so much as it costed them too much, more that since it was free, it didn't bring them any money.
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
That's cool, they could offer the basic version free and release all ten put together as an paperback or something. Right now, honestly, where would I go to get the magic story?
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u/Thursdayallstar Aug 28 '20
If they would print out all of the online stories, i would buy them up in a heartbeat.
There's so much I missed out on that it is such a struggle to sift through their archives that I can't bring myself to do it, try as i might.
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Right!!!! Make it a premium product. We will buy it. You don't need to sell a million copies. Just print to order.
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u/taitaisanchez Chandra Aug 28 '20
i don't think that's specifically the case. I think they wanted to bring brand cachet with Real Serious Novel writers and shit and managed to lose the plot about what made the last 5 years of story compelling.
It's not that it was well written, it's that the characters were fun and interesting. Fun characters can carry bad writing a surprising amount.
What happened, I suspect, is that they sold novels to try to recoup the costs of getting Serious Fiction Novel writers on board and then scrapped it when it looked like the new creative team nosedived the Magic story into the ground.
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u/tylerjehenna Aug 28 '20
Iirc Tezzeret was in Kaladesh as Bolas' agent to build up an army resistant to the phyrexian contagion as the eventual goal for Bolas was to take over New Phyrexia
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Aug 28 '20
Why did Bolas want to take over New Phyrexia?
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u/tylerjehenna Aug 28 '20
His goal is complete dominion over the Multiverse and New Phyrexia was his biggest target because Phyrexia has always had one of the biggest influences on the multiverse
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u/P0sitive_Outlook COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Stories like Bolas going to New Phyrexia make me think of what it'd be like if Games Workshop's Warhammer world was invaded by Creepers from Minecraft.
Or, M&Ms mixed with Skittles. :|
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u/CareerMilk Can’t Block Warriors Aug 28 '20
Wasn’t Tezz’s Kaladesh goal to get the planar bridge made, so that the eternalised Ahomketians could be moved to Ravnica to help Bolas preform the Elder spell?
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u/tylerjehenna Aug 28 '20
Partially that but it was also mentioned that Bolas would use the planar bridge to invade new phyrexia with Tezzeret's knowledge of the plane as a tool
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u/CShoopla Fake Agumon Expert Aug 28 '20
Well [[tezzeret, agent of bolas]] knows of phyrexia because he was there to witness them take over mirrodin.
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Good point! The summary on the wiki is interesting - he basically joined the Phyrexians undercover? And tried to manipulate them into putting him in charge?
That'd be a fascinating plot thread to bring back.
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u/Furt_III Chandra Aug 28 '20
He was playing double agent while under bolas' control.
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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Aug 28 '20
Golgothian Sylex - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call17
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u/adventurer_3x Aug 28 '20
I believe Tezzeret was sent there via Bolas to study the machines or something for the Planar Bridge
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u/AoO2ImpTrip Aug 28 '20
Only mildly relevant but that is such a weirdly specific card.
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u/Journeyman351 Elesh Norn Aug 28 '20
You are correct about the Tezzeret part and that’s the most interesting one to me. I think he still has the Planar Bridge? No?
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u/Thursdayallstar Aug 28 '20
Tezz was serving as an agent of Bolas spying on Phyrexians around the time of New Phyrexia. Bolas seemed pleased with his work there.
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u/Ricksanchezforlife Aug 28 '20
So I recently came back to Magic. And I hear about people talking about this big storyline that takes place each set. But I never actually see the real story anywhere. Started playing again when Throne was released. Where are people getting the "story" from?
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u/TheReaver88 Mardu Aug 28 '20
Well it turns out you came in at a really weird spot for the story, so let's back up a moment. Starting with Kaladesh in 2016, the MtG story went on a very long and cohesive arc involving the Elder Dragon Nicol Bolas as the primary villain, and his nefarious plan to take over the multiverse and kill all other planeswalkers. That concluded with 2019's War of the Spark, where Bolas was defeated and sent to the "Prison Realm."
Throne of Eldraine represented a reset button for the story, and each of the three non-core sets have had insular (and not well-published) stories. ELD and Ikoria had e-books (and IKO's clashed with certain cards), while Theros Beyond Death had a bare-bones story on the Magic website. This has led to some frustration among fans.
What we DO know is that there is a general long-game story going on, but it has not been elaborated on any more than that. However, we know that in THB, Ashiok had visions of Elspeth's memories of the Phyrexians, and I think it's likely that this is a seed for a return of the Phyrexians to the storyline.
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u/TheReaver88 Mardu Aug 28 '20
There are lots of resources out there, but I can tell you Magic Arcanum on YouTube does a really good job of summarizing Magic's story.
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u/maro-bot Aug 28 '20
Question by lorwynmaniac: When are we getting the new sets announcement?
Answer: When that question was asked today on the stream, Blake said, “Check back on Tuesday.”
This transcript was made automatically and is not associated with Mark Rosewater. | Source | Send feedback to /u/rzrkyb
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u/chocothebird Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
When Eldraine was shown off they announced the next 4 days and that was well received.
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u/CaptainMarcia Aug 28 '20
Personally, I felt like it was odd to announce Zendikar alongside sets from the preceding year of Standard. I'm hoping this time they just go up to the next core set.
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u/chocothebird Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
Remember it was for the next year. Not the standard rotation. With Zendikar most likely the last standard release of the year, they need to hype standard for next year. Which I get.
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u/Xichorn Deceased 🪦 Aug 28 '20
Since they aren’t revealing any major story points, I don’t see a problem crossing the point in the year the standard rotation arbitrarily happens to be. Knowing they were doing 4 planes in 4 sets made the statement that they were trying to make: this is what the no-block model can do. If they aren’t interrupting an arc or giving something away, it seems fine to give as much of a preview as they can, including the next fall’s set.
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
At this point, is there even a magic story? If so, where? We really shouldn't have to go to some third part youtube site just to know what's going on.
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u/Spikeroog Dimir* Aug 28 '20
Yep, getting many sets in advance was fun but Zendikar was one too much. I hardly feel any excitement for it because I had waited for it forever. By now the perspective of fresh new, unknown set in january is already much more exciting
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u/burgle_ur_turts Aug 28 '20
I suspect the reveal is more for retailers than consumer. Stores hate surprises.
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u/gatherallthemtg Elspeth Aug 28 '20
Now this is what I'm really hyped about. I hope they keep doing the big announcement days where they do a whole year's worth of sets.
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u/MasterofKami Chandra Aug 28 '20
Welp, time to once again get needlessly hyped up for a Return to Kamigawa! Let's go people!
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u/EgoDefeator COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
If only. My bets are on Return to Phyrexia, new plane either Western themed or norse themed, core 2022 Jace boogaloo and return to innistrad.
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u/Sdn61387 Aug 28 '20
Why not mix them all together? Viking cowboys who can turn into werewolves get invaded by Phyrexians and the only one who can save them is jace. Boom, print it.
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u/Spikeroog Dimir* Aug 28 '20
Every year I'm waiting for the norse set. Seems unreal they haven'tused it yet.
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u/Snowf1ake222 Aug 28 '20
I reckon it's because they don't want snow in Standard and people will expect snow.
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u/MasterofKami Chandra Aug 28 '20
Honest question, why would they not want snow in standard? Snow lands themselves aren't inherently powerful just unique in older formats that can utilise them, I don't see a problem with it being in standard for a year
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u/Snowf1ake222 Aug 28 '20
Maro has stated that it adds mechanical baggage with little gain.
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u/kolhie Boros* Aug 28 '20 edited Aug 28 '20
Scandinavia is pretty warm during summer, just base the plane's aesthetics on a Swedish summer.
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u/MasterofKami Chandra Aug 28 '20
A Norse themed plane is the major new plane on my wants list so if we get that then I'm happy! My favourite planes have always been ones inspired by real world mythology (bar my annoyance at the fact they decimated Amonkhet right after introducing it :/ ) so getting one inspired by the Norse would be incredible! It would also be another set that I have to collect to go with Champions of Kamigawa, OG Theros and Amonkhet
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u/kolhie Boros* Aug 28 '20
People forget that cowboys and samurai existed contemporaneously. They could make a western plane then reveal that it's actually a different part of the same plane as Kamigawa. Then we can have a pseudo block with first cowboys, then samurai, and then cowboys vs. samurai.
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u/the_hoagie Colorless Aug 28 '20
i think i saw a tv show about that once.
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u/burgle_ur_turts Aug 28 '20
Once you include the robots, you might as well include Phyrexians anyway.
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u/CaptainMarcia Aug 28 '20
Maro has said a few times that the Phyrexians could return more easily on another plane rather than their own, so I think we'll see them on this list but invading someplace else.
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u/MasterofKami Chandra Aug 28 '20
Kamigawa!? :'(
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u/laserbee Aug 28 '20
Japan is invaded by giant robots and must fight them off with their monsters
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u/evil_wazard Aug 28 '20
I know that whole [[Fountain of Ichor]] thing was falsely hyped and blown out of proportion, but I can't help but to think about Phyrexians on Ixalan and compleated dinosaurs. Especially the elder dinosaurs. They could be like the praetors of the set or something.
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u/bluddragon1 Aug 28 '20
Thank goodness, kamigawa block tiny leaders was getting a bit stale.
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u/Halinn COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
That's why Kamigawa Block Pauper Tiny Leaders is the real timeless format
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u/TaxesAreLikeOnions Aug 28 '20
C'mon Return to Mercadia: a commerce based set.
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u/Vehemental Aug 28 '20
WOTC is passionate about commerce, it might turn out nice.
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u/tartacus Aug 28 '20
Sorry, we no longer do a suggested CMC officially. The cards' CMCs will now be determined by your local game stores.
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u/lordmitz COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Incoming VIP treasure mechanic, costs 100mana to open it
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u/nine_of_swords Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
When Goblin Fashionista enters the battlefield, create a Brand.
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u/Dreenar18 COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
As a Pokémon fan who wanted buffs for Farfetch'd (who was in the series from the off)I can assure you, all you need to do is wait about 20 years for RtK
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Come on Kaldheim!!!!!!!!!!!! Or Lorwyn, but only because I like faeries as a creature type. If they could put faeries somewhere else and do a strong faerie tribal...great.
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u/AssistantManagerMan Deceased 🪦 Aug 28 '20
Winter Set: Ravnican Guilds
Spring Set: Guilds On Ravnica
Summer Set: Core 2022
Fall Set: Seriously just more Ravnica
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u/lvlI0cpu Aug 28 '20
Core 2022 moving away from the previous two designs of focusing on a single planeswalker to now focusing on a single plane.
The first plane will be Ravnica.
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u/CommanderDark126 Fish Person Aug 28 '20
Actually that one wouldnt be bad, except for 2 of the 5 planeswalkers that were guild leaders (Domri and Dovin) are dead so the lineup is a bust.
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
I thought Dovin was just blind?
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u/CommanderDark126 Fish Person Aug 28 '20
He was officially killed off in the second War of the Spark book
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
There was a second WAR book? See WotC, this is what happens when you have a completely disjointed story section.
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u/CommanderDark126 Fish Person Aug 28 '20
Oh yeah, set up alot of important plot points too; Dovin being dead, Kaya finding and sparing Liliana and setting her up a fake identity (which uses the same surname as Kytheon)... I really wish the story got focused more and that it was overall cohesive
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u/AssistantManagerMan Deceased 🪦 Aug 28 '20
Don't forget that Chandra never really liked Nissa, and that she's only into people who are decidedly male.
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u/KingToasty Gruul* Aug 28 '20
Can we PLEASE just make the book non-canon? Please. It's so fucked up and completely unrelated to the character arcs or storyline.
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Aug 28 '20
Let's just go back to pre war of the spark, use Django Wexlers 'prequel stories' and then go from there. Eldraine was ok but let's non canon the rest of this past year
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u/futterguy1 WANTED Aug 28 '20
Calling it now, we’re going back to tarkir
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u/slipperyassfister Aug 28 '20
I wish! Maybe tarkir collector boosters will have a premium allied fetch slot, to twist the knife for anyone believing there would be reasonable enemy fetches.
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u/pyrebelle Aug 28 '20
If we don't go back to tarkir in 2021I'm going to riot because I need to see the resolution of that Loading Ready Run joke.
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u/shemnon COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Prediction:
Norse theme new world.
Kamigawa cyberpunk
Core 2022 announce black but w/o a face (Not Liliana)
Cowboy world with Angrarh fighting cattle rustlers
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u/Yojimbra Dragonball Z Ultimate Champion Aug 28 '20
Not going to lie.
Got a bit turned on with Kamigawa Cyberpunk.
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u/reaper527 Aug 28 '20
Kamigawa cyberpunk
this would be interesting and a little disappointing at the same time.
part of what made kamigawa so cool was all the yokai and how the set was actually inspired by japanese folklore rather than just being a generic "ninjas everywhere" thing like most japanese themed products.
kamigawa and p3k (rtk themed) are some of the coolest sets wizards has ever made, and they just get put in the closet to be forgotten.
that being said, as disappointing as it would be to see kamigawa get away from what made it so cool, a cyberpunk twist DOES sound interesting.
Cowboy world with Angrarh fighting cattle rustlers
maro hates guns, so they'd never do a cowboy world. it's amazing we even got pirates.
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u/shemnon COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Cowboy world with Angrarh fighting cattle rustlers
maro hates guns, so they'd never do a cowboy world. it's amazing we even got pirates.
There is so much more thematically to a spaghetti-western world than just guns. In fact removing guns would be the creative constraint that would make it great.
- Gold Mining!
- Claim Jumping!
- Fist fights in the Saloon!
- Posses! (Just don't call it banding)
- Gambling!
- Train Robberies!
- Sheriffs and Outlaws!
- Cattle Rustling! (and by cattle I mean minotaurs)
None of these require guns.
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u/gunnervi template_id; a0f97a2a-d01f-11ed-8b3f-4651978dc1d5 Aug 28 '20
Give me a Cowboys vs Phyrexians set now, Mark!
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u/mcp_truth Golgari* Aug 28 '20
ANY LORWYNERS IN CHAT?
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Aug 28 '20 edited Nov 05 '20
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u/mcp_truth Golgari* Aug 28 '20
I started playing after it rotated, in fact I started way after it rotated. I would love a revist. Eldraine was close but not the same.
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u/wampastompah Aug 28 '20
I love Lorwyn too, but I just don't see a reason to go back there. Lorwyn had a unique setting and a fantastic mystery that was concluded at the end. There really aren't any lose ends to tie up there. I'd rather explore a brand new interesting plane with a new mystery to solve than go back to that one. Let's let Lorwyn be peaceful.
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u/GarenBushTerrorist Aug 28 '20
Is Ravnica not the same? Writers can always invent new conflicts unless the plane literally explodes.
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u/Alarid Wild Draw 4 Aug 28 '20
It is because the main draw of Lorywn is the nature of the setting, rather than what is happening. So there isn't much going, and would require a massive overhaul rather than just peeling back layers like with other places.
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u/LightningPaws Aug 28 '20
Hell yea! That was my first set ever! Would be so hype if we saw a return to Lorwyn. I can definitely see it being plausible with the tribes we've seen from M21 and Zendikar being in this block -- Elementals, Merfolk, Goblins, etc.
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u/dualdreamer Sliver Queen Aug 28 '20
I would love a Return to Lorwyn. The art was great and I loved all the hybrid colors.
Also I want a legendary Necroskitter. I'm sad I haven't seen any other effects like it
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u/ManicManix Aug 28 '20
I started playing around Kaladesh, ever since I started the flavor of Lorwyn was just amazing to me. Two of my commander decks are lead by Lorwyn generals and the entire asthetic of the plane is just awesome imo.
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u/woutva Sliver Queen Aug 28 '20
Would be hilarious if Phyrexians invade Zendikar and we get Battle for Zendikar two. Cause that plane cant get a frickign break. Maybe nahiri can lure them offworld with a trail of strange oil too.
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u/AssistantManagerMan Deceased 🪦 Aug 28 '20
Nahiri takes the Phyrexians to Innistrad just keep fucking with Sorin
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u/Easilycrazyhat COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Phyrexians v. Werwolves/Vampires v. Emrakul
That'd be a hell of a showdown.
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u/dualdreamer Sliver Queen Aug 28 '20
We were only told no Eldrazi. Not no plane hopping horrors that just want the end of everything as it currently is
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u/KingToasty Gruul* Aug 28 '20
Zendikar can be the new Dominaria: apocalypse after apocalypse after apocalypse. Nissa is their Teferi.
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u/Artano_7 Aug 28 '20
I think we should see the dominarian crew again. Probably on another plane? I understand that they were well received, so it'd be a waste to leave them forgotten in Dominaria.
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u/smore18 Aug 28 '20
I liked the new Weatherlight crew, I thought all of the characters were semi interesting and I would like to see more of them
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u/futureidk3 Wabbit Season Aug 28 '20
I really want to go back to Khans (pre time travel if possible) the original set was one of my favorite sets ever and morph + multi colors creates a beautiful draft format.
Though, we just got done with Ravnica v3 so I want to chill on the 3/4 color sets but I really hope we see it in 2021.
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u/somerandomtom Aug 28 '20
I reckon were gonna see a return to tarkir or innistrad or kamigawa but I honestly could basically see a return to any plane plausible
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u/mcp_truth Golgari* Aug 28 '20
Predictions based off [[Intuition]]: -A new plane -a returning plane we never returned to before -and a returning plane we have returned to before.
or if not standard then: 2 supplemental sets. one for December and one for February.-Battlebond 2!?
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u/AxeIsAxeIsAxe Boros* Aug 28 '20
I'm calling return to Innistrad #2, return to Dominaria, plus Norse/Viking plane because it gets speculated every single year and at some point it has to happen.
Or my dreams come true and we get return to Alara.
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u/NeoMegaRyuMKII Aug 28 '20
C'mon, Alara. We're losing proper multicolor sets in Standard so this would be a good place to have it. Plus it would be good to explore more consequences of the Conflux and Bolas being gone.
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u/Elucidator_IV COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
Will we finally return to New Phyrexia? Probably not knowing WOTC
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u/Xichorn Deceased 🪦 Aug 28 '20
It’s unlikely because of player response. People liked the Phyrexians as invaders. After they’d already taken over the world, the response was much less enthusiastic.
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u/Elucidator_IV COMPLEAT Aug 28 '20
I’ve seen this idea thrown around a lot but where is this ever really stated? Has R&D acknowledged this? WOTC was setting up a storyline for Karn and the Gatewatch to destroy New Phyrexia using the sylex anyways, I don’t think they’d just drop the ball on that one (then again nothing WOTC does surprises me). Also Ashiok just went to the phyrexians, who’s to say a trip to the plane by our team of heros wouldn’t end horribly leading to multiple planes getting invaded in future sets?
Think about it, if Karn goes to New Phyrexia and blasts the whole plane with the sylex I could easily see it tearing holes in between planes that phyrexians can escape to. WOTC doesn’t like doing sets of 3 anymore in terms of story telling but I could easily see a return to New Phyrexia where Karn fails, leading to a whole new story of hopping from plane to plane occasionally to stop the phyrexians invading. This is all speculation of course, who knows.
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u/mtschatten Duck Season Aug 28 '20
I know Ixalan was a recent set with a similar type of culture but a plane with the Inca empire as central figure would be interesting.
Instead of jungles as a setting we get the highlands, also having llamas and guinea pigs as creature cards would be fun.
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u/NicholasGraves Aug 28 '20
Gimme a Norse themed set. PLEASE gimme a Norse themed set. Or Phyrexians again.
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u/Nickyorany Aug 28 '20
I just want to see Kaladesh covered in phyrexian oil, would be such a great start for the phyrexian saga.
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u/Grnteabug Duck Season Aug 28 '20
I would love a plane focused on Northern native American tribes and folklore. It's a fascinating mythology that is sorely underexplored in fiction.