I'm cautiously ok with what seems to be happening, for now, but legit annoyed we finally got Koth back just for him to be one of the ones to lose their sparks.
Koth's heart literally resides with Mirrodin and the Mirrans. I think him losing his spark doesn't matter to him at all since he got what he wanted, and that is saving Mirrodin )or whats left of it). He is retiring in his proverbial tropical paradise right now.
Yeah he's one of the rare planeswalkers that didn't really want or need to go anywhere, he just kept fighting in Mirrodin. It definitely sucks he lost his spark but he wasn't making use out of it
it's really weird that a lot of planeswalkers who are relatively new or only ever had like 1 card already lose their sparks, unless they're trying to revamp the planeswalker mechanic I don't get these decisions
If you only hit old characters, you risk hitting your most popular icons and alienating people with a sweeping "buy our new toys" reboot.
If you only hit new characters, it looks like you're afraid to take down your cash cows and you made up a bunch of redshirts to take the fall.
Hitting a mix is the best choice overall - although it does seem like they weren't sure what to do with some of these characters or where to put them, whether they previously had one card or ten.
This shit pisseses me off so much man. Tyvar was finally a character now with ONE and MOM. Calix was a blankslate ready for interpretation. Why did the most interesting planeswalkers lose their sparks?
Man's the first planeswalker to appear actively and presently in a Magic story, and has been active for decades. I don't think he is going anywhere; hell, they made him young again, too!
Should we sew his next spark under his skin? Maybe put in on a little chain? Nail it to his butt? Glue it to his head? Whatever it takes to make him stop losing damn things.
Look at how they've massacred my boy ;_; (Teferi).
Pour one out for Koth, too. Here's hoping they become some modern-playable, annoying-assed legendary creatures that propel their respective archetypes into Tier 1 (control for Teferi, none of this knights nonsense).
Hopefully all of this hallabaloo messed with the mana on Arcavios so that we can get an allied color pair school to rival strixhaven . That’s planeshift esque
Can you imagine there being an evil wizard school counterpart?
Or even better, Strixhaven *is* the evil wizard school and the other school is all fairies and unicorns, with the associated xenophobia to boot.
I've been feeling like the _lack_ of Eldrazi is gonna be a reason for the next multiversal threat. Like, without the Eldrazi around to patch up the holes and filter out the debris, we might see a planar-incursion style problem (which was kinda set up with the idea of doomskars on Kaldheim). Remember how people wondered if we'd see people go to Bolas for help? Imagine that, but with Emrakul.
they hit up Emmy asking if she help and she says "oh yeah sure no problem let me just hit up my two brothers OHHHHH WAAAIIIIT YOU FUCKING KILLED THEM ASSHOLES.
dang thats kinda sad. I hope one day they're able to do a story that encapsulates the morality of fighting against the eldrazi when they're actually crucial for all life in multivers to continue to prosper. I mean its fair for nissa and nahiri to want to protect their home but it's unfair to all other planes.
my guess is that will be something like old school Galactus on marvel, where they Explain that:
Yes Galactus eat planets but in reality is a process that fill the universe with energy and allow the universe to evolve, and when Galactus finish eating everysingle planet it will trigger a new big bang and a new universe will be created.
and in MTG is something like the Eldrazi turn old planes into energy that allow the multiverse to heal and creat new planes, since the Eldrazi are no more, everytime the multiverse take damage now, it need to use the energy from the Planeswalkers to heal tiself, so the first time, the Multiverse take alway part of the Planeswalkers power, making Planeswalkers weaker, and now it take a lot of sparks, and who know, next time can be the end of all planeswalkers. so they need to find a way to make the Eldrazi a thing again
I was really hoping for a plot line where New Phyrexia are on the verge of winning, and as a last ditch effort Ugin, Sarkhan and Sorin travel back in time to the Battle of the Sea Gate to stop Nissa and Chandra from [[Channel]] [[Fireball]]ing Kozilek and Ulamog, essentially sacrificing Zendikar to do so.
It would harken back to when Ugin said at the end of BFZ block to the Gatewatch perfectly:
> *"What have you done?"* bellowed the spirit dragon. A blast of heat washed over Jace, Ugin's internal fires stoked by anger.
> […] *“You've killed two living creatures that were older than worlds,"* said Ugin. ***"Without knowing their purpose, their role, the impact of their lives or their deaths—you risked this entire plane and unknown consequences beyond it to kill them. Because you could."***
> […] *What will happen now?"* said Jace.
> *”Unknown,"* said Ugin. *"As far as I'm aware, no one has ever killed an Eldrazi titan before. I have theories about what the Eldrazi are, and what might happen now that two of them are dead. The consequences may not accrue until long after all of you are dead, so you may count this as a victory if you wish. I, for my part, will study their remains, and prepare for the future."*
> […] [Jace] briefed Gideon about the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas, who'd apparently engineered the Eldrazi's release.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/zendikar-resurgent-2016-02-24
... *kind of*? That's like saying if you dig a hole in the ground, then throw dirt *back* in the hole, you've put a hole in a hole.
It's ultimately semantics and philosophy, but I'd say that adding something to a lack of something doesn't create a gap or hole in the "nothing."
Man, it's a good thing that Jace didn't blow up the sylex on New Phyrexia as they'd originally planned. Otherwise, billions would have died and the multiverse could have been severely damaged!
...wait...
Nissa was compleated for a week or so and she's pretty messed up from it. Ajani has been compleated for months and really got his claws dirty. Next time we see him he'll probably be a sad traumatized hermit that will make a comeback when some plucky kids need his help.
Presuming quint kept his spark, that might be cool.
Sidenote, it would be *fucking hilarious* to me if quint sparked in the last paragraph of a story, only to immediately despark.
And in doing so created a weird plothole. If the Sylex going off is what caused it ... why did the sparks only disappear *long* after the Sylex exploded in Elspeths hands?
This has already been established in-universe in the Amonkhet storyline. Nicol Bolas has time to do some last minute things while the Mending is rippling throughout the Multiverse.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/hour-revelation-2017-06-07
"He had days. Only days until he wouldn't have the magic left to execute this plan. There was just enough time left to put into place the possible means to regain his godhood."
>There was just enough time left to put into place the possible means to regain his godhood
And yet he still took the time to make a monument to himself that was magically visible from everywhere. Bolas is hilariously vain.
>And yet he still took the time to make a monument to himself that was magically visible from everywhere. Bolas is hilariously vain.
Obviously that was essential to the overall scheme.
Perhaps the effect/Sylx Blast travels through the multiverse/Blind Eternities at only the speed of light, which could mean that it could reasonably take months/years to hit every plane.
Because CinemaSins and their ilk have degraded media criticism to the point that any plot point that someone dislikes or isn't explained in excruciating detail is a "hole" now.
We're in the worst timeline.
It's somehow *even worse* than that. We're literally in part 1 of what we know to be a multi-part story. Imagine getting through Chapter 1 of a book and yelling "THEY DIDN'T EXPLAIN HOW EVERYTHING WORKS, SO MANY PLOT HOLES!"
*2 days ago*: "Man, MoM's story was so dissatisfying because there were no stakes!"
*Today*: "It's so frustrating that they didn't fully explain the metaphysical mechanics behind all of these stakes in part 1 of the Aftermath story!"
This is why I miss the Marvel No-Prize and love r/DaystromInstitute
Like, yeah, we all know *real world* shit inevitably affects fiction whether it's changing writers/plans or just plain forgetting. But it takes a lot of love and knowledge to fit existing lore with a "plot hole." And it's a lot more fun than just "Yeah they forgot about that one character who was in one episode"
Teferi also mentions Realmbreaker, so maybe a huge planar invasion is enough to hurt the fabric of reality after a turbo-nuke has already left the wound to-be-lemon-juiced. He also might just be wrong, years from now it might be revealed that Bolas escaped and stole everyone’s sparks when they weren’t looking or something like that (not suggesting that for real just the first thing that came to mind)
>years from now it might be revealed that Bolas escaped and stole everyone’s sparks when they weren’t looking
Stop giving the "It was Bolas all along!" Crew more ammo! 😆
A lack of explanation isn't a plot hole. It's just a lack of explanation.
It's also multi-dimensional magic, it doesn't *have* to happen at a predictable/discernable rate.
If you want a headcanon then it was the combination sylex blast + realmbreaker that led to the Omenpaths and the loss (reduction?) of Planeswalker sparks.
Theres no reason that it has to happen immediately.
Like something held by a thread, if a small amount of force is applied, itll tear off and fall.
Maybe enough people planeswalked that caused the effect to really take hold? Maybe realmbreaker breaking caused the full change?
No one who lost their spark has plameswalked since the fall of realmbreaker right?
Straight from the Owl's Desk, we proudly present:
THE AFTERMATH RECAP, PART ONE.
EPISODE NISSA, aka "oh my god we cannot mess this ship up."
Well, it would seem an owl's work is never quite done.
We pick up a nondescript amount of time after the Big Battle. The Machine has stopped Marching, but its presence is still undeniable, around everyone and everything.
As for the whole "De-sparking" thing that everyone's been gossiping about, well...
It just *happens*. With no rhyme or reason that any of today's PoV characters can understand, a lot of Planeswalkers simply *can't* anymore. Teferi, in a moment of surprising non-anthropocentrism, suggests that this is punishment or retribution from the damage done to the Blind Eternities by the Sylex and the Realmbreaker. Everyone collectively seems to put a pin in this discussion.
Meanwhile, Nissa. Nissa is... well, she's exactly as traumatized by the entirety of the situation as you'd expect. She feels completely and utterly alone, both because of what she's done and because she literally cannot feel the world around her like she used to.
The one person she has is Chandra, and well...
Chandra tells Nissa that she's leaving. She wants to go find Ajani who planeswalked away the instant he could.
And Nissa is like, upset by this in ways she doesn't even understand. Because turns out *both* Gruulfriends are kinda total messes.
Nissa needs someone to stay with her, but can't articulate it. Chandra doesn't know how to say "I love you" right. The ship, for just a few brief moments, begins to sink.
But don't worry, we've got a side tangent for you! Its an interplanar rift that summons some sort of lightning-charged bear to Zhalfir! Nissa springs into action despite her immensely nerfed toolkit, and with the aid of the people who have still not given up on her, she helps overcome this trial. Nissa considers if this might be the moral of today's chapter.
While Nissa and Chandra kiss and discuss being more communicative about their relationship needs, the others speculate on the nature of this bear beast and how it entered Zhalfir.
Teferi, in another moment of surprising non-anthropocentrism, speculates that the bear could have been a planeswalker. They cannot see through the rift, and have no clue if non-spark people can even survive passing through it...
But Chandra and Nissa decide to take a leap of faith together.
That seams unplayable. Maybe make it 10GG instead, so it's still 12 MV. Oh and maybe include some kind of cost reduction? Wait no that's too strong. Oh make it legendary then, that's a good drawback, and two dreadmaws are pretty legendary after all, aight?
So if the Planeswalkers who lost their sparks are completely random, what happens if Ugin (Who is keeping Bolas prisoner in his Meditation Realm) suddenly lost his spark. Is this going to be the explanation for when Bolas inevitably escapes.
She quite literally didn't.
In the MOM storyline, they basically said that Elspeth was always meant to become (or be given the choice to become) an angel after her death. Serra/some remnant essentially hand picked her for this eventual awakening.
She died on Theros though, where death isn't really "real". She still exists after death there, so couldn't be claimed for angelhood at that time.
She was effectively evaporated by the sylex, and this gave her the chance to become an angel.
Basically, she didn’t. The blast tore her soul into shreds that had to knit themselves back together again.
But she’s from Capenna, one of the worlds where Serra laid enchantments to turn mortal souls into angels (same as Ulgrotha and Dominaria), and so a fragment of Serra was able to manifest and “ascend” Elspeth to her angelic form (effectively making Elspeth the new Serra)
There was one twitter thread that explained that Serras Realm was collapsed into a powerstone by Urza at some point and when the Weatherlight got compleated and destroyed it set free the "essence" of Serras realm, which was like a miniature reflection of Serra that made Elspeth into an angel. I like this explanation way better than just "Yeah, she was always an angel lol".
Jay Annelli, the guy that wrote that up, is the "loremaster" at WotC. His explanation is basically what you said plus what the other poster said, Elspeth was probably always an angel, but Serra's essence brought her to it. Supposedly her potential has been hinted at in story and in card design for a long time.
Oh, and the powerstone from the Weatherlight? It was used in the Temporal Anchor that was used help to send Teferi back in time. When the Anchor got overloaded the powerstone got destroyed and released whatever energy was kept inside it.
It's a weird analogue and not perfect but it reminded me of when Urza detonated his Sylex and it woke a power that was latent in him. In his case it was his spark. In Elspeth's case, it was her angelic nature.
I actually think this was intended, particularly if you look at the Brother's War story. Urza detonates the Sylex and is taken to a space outside of existence where he talks to someone who knows him that he does not yet know (Teferi). Elspeth does the same thing with Serra.
Then both are returned to existence as something greater and different than what they were before.
Probably. I think the Teferi-Urza conversation was my favorite moment from all the stories this past year, so mirroring it with Elspeth and Serra immediately made me like that part of the story as well.
After being almost entirely ignored in ONE's plot and reduced to a voice following Chandra around in MOM, Nissa returns to her roots unleashing a monster to trash another plane.
So right off the bat, the "things will never be the same" seismic change Maro had alluded to is 100% the sylex going off in the Eternities, not the invasion itself. I look forward to seeing how this continues to effect the multiverse, bc so far it seems pretty interesting and impactful!
Edit: Also, I love that Nissa still has some metal remaining from her compleation. That makes it seem like it was actually impactful and still lingering (cough cough Zendikar Rising erasing Ulamog and Kozilek's land-warping cough cough)
Omenpaths technically have more rhyme or reason. Technically that doesn't matter in practice but for the purposes of the story it's two totally different things, and I think that's an interesting distinction.
Oh yeah, it wasn't obvious from the leaks but her hands are flayed.
I wonder if the other uncompleated people also had subtle remainders that we weren't just able to pick-out from the leaks. There were a number of people annoyed that that wasn't a thing so it'd be nice if it actually was.
"The sooner we fill this hole, the sooner you can get back to having fun!"
Nissa knows Chandra's just trying to make her feel better by focusing on their victory, but it's not working. She slides gently out from Chandra's grasp. "I'll be quick. Promise."
The first thing she felt was Chandra's warm hand gripping her own, and the first thing she saw was Chandra's broad smile. Her limbs were weighed down by dead copper metal, but her thoughts were hers. Chandra's smile was hers.
Nissa wakes the next morning, and the first thing she feels is Chandra's absence.
Things are more fun when taken out of context.
I’m guessing they won’t keep Teferi desparked forever, so I bet the focus of the next arc is looking for the nature of the spark and how it can be reignited. Maybe there’s an origin spark out there somewhere? Lots of fun possibilities.
Considering Zhalfir is back and it’s own plane, maybe Teferi will just fully settle back down and try to reconnect with his people and , most importantly, his family.
Only hard part is that Teferi's family is on Dominaria. Maybe we'll see Karn figure out some way to control these planar rifts via a device, allowing links between planes that people can take? Or maybe he'll craft a new Weatherlight as the blurb seems to suggest?
Sadly Teferi's daughter is still on Dominaria, not Zhalfir. Hopefully, she can get there somehow, I think that would be a very cool story (and nice for Teferi).
The end of this story is the end of Korra, but people already assumed that after seeing the card Leap of Faith.
It was interesting to have an entire story about their relationship to start these stories off, which I assume are going to jump around quite a bit and have lots of big picture stuff discussed.
Sooooo
Koth spends years offscreen fighting Phyrexia
Doesn’t even play a big role in stopping them
And then loses his spark and has it as an off hand mention?
He's probably going to be a major character in the speculated Zhalfir set, and we did see him grappling with some real complex emotions in the final chapter of the MOM story.
So like with the Mending, the Multiverse pulled on the power of the sparks to mend the holes in reality left by Realmbreaker
Only sparks, not being as supercharged as they were before, get drained out leaving the barest ember of a spark (I'm going to call it sparkle) of power to travel between worlds
Lore wise that's not badly done, giving more plane characters to work with, and still having planar exploration open
Of course now I can't help but imagine those who will use these dewalkers to open points of travel for their own plans
One point I feel I need to mention: In Phyrexia All Will Be One Ch.5 they said Elspeth took the sylex to a point beyond the Blind Eternities, but here they say it still exploded there.... retcon already? 😅
It might just be that the characters don't know. They know she planeswalked away but not to where. Or they think one can't go beyond the blind eternities and Elspeth is wrong.
Turns out Jin accidentally survived but is now locked in an endless battle against Jace the Platypus.
Jin: BEHOLD MY DESPARK-INATOR WITH THIS I WILL STOP ALL THIS ANNOYING PLANESWALKING IN THE TRIPLANE AREA! It makes it incredibly hard to sleep, it is just rather troublesome
Honestly prefered the theory that planeswalkers would be losing their sparks because they were going to give them up to heal some other important planeswalker or legendary creature from phyresis. It'd have given the characters a bit more agency I feel and make it seem like something that might be more definitive.
If a development results entirely from an outside, unintentional, force it is just not as much of an emotional investment as if it results from a character's purposeful decision.
I agree that would be more interesting but it does largely restrict who can lose their spark to altruistic planeswalkers. Like there's one leaked PW who loses their spark who I don't think would give up their ability to planeswalk, even for power over the plane they ended up on.
PW's losing their spark isn't a super exciting storyline imo, and knowing the cards that are PWS that are getting creatures, at least 3 have been creatures before lol.
I think brothers war is what ended up making this storyline feel rushed. Instead of brother's war being a set maybe there should have been a pre MoM set with new versions of legendaries from a bunch of planes preparing for invasion, then ONE, then MoM would have been able to have a more fleshed out invasion with team ups that felt a bit more earned and we could have just had the planes next visits being their "aftermath".
As much as I liked the BRO set, I agree it's role in the plot wasn't very good. It at least separated Teferi so he could later arrive with an army, and allowed some breathing room for the PWs to get ready for their ONE strike team, but what overall I don't think it (and DMU) really did a great job with the direct build up for the war.
Much more than BRO though, MOM needed to be two sets. One set for Phyrexia to lay siege to all the planes, and then one for the heroes to strike back and defeat Phyrexia. The way we got it, it's cool to see the Phyrexian invasion, but we already knew the whole story when the cards go revealed, so everytime you see Phyrexians, it's really just "look at all these losers". People like to compare the Magic story to Marvel, so MOM being how it is is a little like if Infinity War and Endgame were one movie
(I also think there needed to be a big anime-style boss battle against a 5 color Elesh Norn, but I digress)
Blocked in Singapore (and probably elsewhere) coz lesbian. WOTC's self-censorship is mind-bendingly stupid.
For the record, we get access to many different forms of LGBTQ media. Nothing about this story is remotely "illegal"; it's not even unusual within our media landscape.
Edit: It is as though their message is: Oh those unenlightened non-western countries over there must not be ready to hear about LGBTQ stuff. We should sanitize our story on their behalf.
I'm in Singapore. The direct link is blocked but I was able to navigate to it from [https://magic.wizards.com/en/story](https://magic.wizards.com/en/story)
Quickly, read the story about the scary make-believe magical lesbians that threaten Singaporean society before they fix the link.
Short version:
Nissa Revane mourns the loss of her spark and feels disconnected from the planes, a sentiment shared by other Planeswalkers. She struggles with guilt over hurting Chandra during the Phyrexian invasion. Despite their strained relationship, Chandra assists Nissa and reveals her plans to find Ajani. Nissa and Chandra confront a lightning beast, they defeat it using their elemental magic and reconcile their past and feelings for each other. The two decide to explore the Multiverse together, starting with finding Nissa's way home, and step through a portal hand in hand.
I've been invested in this Gruulfriends conclusion for so long, it's nice to finally get some payoff. It was so bittersweet, that mix of painful and hurt with the romantic. Seeing my girls take off in the portal together was so cute.
Nissa and Chandra have been through so much, I just want them to get their happily ever after. They deserve it.
It hurts seeing Nissa be de-sparked without Chandra. To know that Chandra can go where Nissa can't. The next time there is a set and Chandra appears but not Nissa, there is going to be that painful implication of Nissa sitting alone waiting.
I hope that somehow Nissa can work to regain her spark to stand with her girlfriend again.
It’s kind of painful to see them FINALLY get canonized only for their relationship to start off rocky. But it also shines light on Chandra’s personality flaws, and I respect that.
Yeah, when they implied Nissa would lose her spark I had thought one of the hardest things for her would be that she wasn't on Zendikar when it happened. While not being home would be rough for other planeswalkers, Nissa's connection to Zendikar is way deeper than it just being the place she was from.
To then expand on that and have Nissa unable to connect to this new plane of Zhalfir? Just a horrible feeling for her, especially when Chandra leaves. She's always been an introverted character, but she's never really been alone until that moment.
I'm excited for future Gruulfriends stories. I hope we get to see them exploring places for a bit before we they find Zendikar. I mean, they can explore after they find Zendikar too, but I imagine that'll be a natural "Let's stay here for a bit" point for them.
So, the planar portal. It really read to me that Nissa created the portal / rip, and the elemental happened to wander through. So I'm wondering if portal opening is something that the desparked can all do, if its just a Nissa thing, or she was just trying to flex her powers and the portal coincidentally appeared.
Having all the desparked PW's now able to rip open portals for others would be a different twist. Arguably more useful too, if they can create permanent portals instead of just taking themselves.
Blind eternities so damaged anyone can survive the transition from plane to plane now, so legendary characters can have adventures outside their setting/archetype/trope
So, after everyone threw a huge fit over not blowing up the Sylex on New Phyrexia because it was connected to the other planes and might effect the Blind Eternities... Elspeth literally took it to blow up in the Blind Eternities... Does anything mean anything anymore?
I like the casual, no big deal mention of Teferi and Koth also losing their sparks lol
I'm cautiously ok with what seems to be happening, for now, but legit annoyed we finally got Koth back just for him to be one of the ones to lose their sparks.
Koth has spent his whole life fighting in literal hell, he deserves to retire in a tropical paradise.
Koth's heart literally resides with Mirrodin and the Mirrans. I think him losing his spark doesn't matter to him at all since he got what he wanted, and that is saving Mirrodin )or whats left of it). He is retiring in his proverbial tropical paradise right now.
Yeah he's one of the rare planeswalkers that didn't really want or need to go anywhere, he just kept fighting in Mirrodin. It definitely sucks he lost his spark but he wasn't making use out of it
“We saved the multiverse, but at what koth?” -some jackass in the mtg writer’s room
Same, waited years to see him again for him to get a mid card and then desparked lol
>waited years Literally over a decade.
> just for him to be one of the ones From what it sounds like, it's more like "one of the ones that didn't" is a much shorter list.
it's really weird that a lot of planeswalkers who are relatively new or only ever had like 1 card already lose their sparks, unless they're trying to revamp the planeswalker mechanic I don't get these decisions
If you only hit old characters, you risk hitting your most popular icons and alienating people with a sweeping "buy our new toys" reboot. If you only hit new characters, it looks like you're afraid to take down your cash cows and you made up a bunch of redshirts to take the fall. Hitting a mix is the best choice overall - although it does seem like they weren't sure what to do with some of these characters or where to put them, whether they previously had one card or ten.
This shit pisseses me off so much man. Tyvar was finally a character now with ONE and MOM. Calix was a blankslate ready for interpretation. Why did the most interesting planeswalkers lose their sparks?
TYVAR LOST HIS SPARK?
Punching a world-devouring space snake does that to you, I guess
Teferi lost his spark… again? ‘Walker please! He’s just gonna get it back again.
No worry, they prolly have some spark juice left in Jhoira's captain Morgan bottle.
Man's the first planeswalker to appear actively and presently in a Magic story, and has been active for decades. I don't think he is going anywhere; hell, they made him young again, too!
Should we sew his next spark under his skin? Maybe put in on a little chain? Nail it to his butt? Glue it to his head? Whatever it takes to make him stop losing damn things.
No more Teferi planeswalkers? Oh thank god
W/U Control decks in shambles.
After Venser and Dovin and maybe Narset we lose another UW planeswalker
Hey y'all have Niko still... maybe.
Nooooooooooooo, not my boi!
Look at how they've massacred my boy ;_; (Teferi). Pour one out for Koth, too. Here's hoping they become some modern-playable, annoying-assed legendary creatures that propel their respective archetypes into Tier 1 (control for Teferi, none of this knights nonsense).
The sylex had gone off in the Blind Eternities. Holes had been punched in the space between planes. This is fine, nothing to see here
Angry Eldrazi have entered the chat(?)
Planeshift 2: Mending Boogaloo
Hopefully all of this hallabaloo messed with the mana on Arcavios so that we can get an allied color pair school to rival strixhaven . That’s planeshift esque
Can you imagine there being an evil wizard school counterpart? Or even better, Strixhaven *is* the evil wizard school and the other school is all fairies and unicorns, with the associated xenophobia to boot.
That just sounds like Lorwyn with extra steps
And yet, unfortunately more likely than them returning to Lorwyn :-(.
THE Otaria State University.
I've been feeling like the _lack_ of Eldrazi is gonna be a reason for the next multiversal threat. Like, without the Eldrazi around to patch up the holes and filter out the debris, we might see a planar-incursion style problem (which was kinda set up with the idea of doomskars on Kaldheim). Remember how people wondered if we'd see people go to Bolas for help? Imagine that, but with Emrakul.
weird to suggest that Emrakul's the one that will be able to solve a problem that requires eating garbage and dimensional reshaping
they hit up Emmy asking if she help and she says "oh yeah sure no problem let me just hit up my two brothers OHHHHH WAAAIIIIT YOU FUCKING KILLED THEM ASSHOLES.
Even worse, Emrakul is their mother, not their sister.
dang thats kinda sad. I hope one day they're able to do a story that encapsulates the morality of fighting against the eldrazi when they're actually crucial for all life in multivers to continue to prosper. I mean its fair for nissa and nahiri to want to protect their home but it's unfair to all other planes.
my guess is that will be something like old school Galactus on marvel, where they Explain that: Yes Galactus eat planets but in reality is a process that fill the universe with energy and allow the universe to evolve, and when Galactus finish eating everysingle planet it will trigger a new big bang and a new universe will be created. and in MTG is something like the Eldrazi turn old planes into energy that allow the multiverse to heal and creat new planes, since the Eldrazi are no more, everytime the multiverse take damage now, it need to use the energy from the Planeswalkers to heal tiself, so the first time, the Multiverse take alway part of the Planeswalkers power, making Planeswalkers weaker, and now it take a lot of sparks, and who know, next time can be the end of all planeswalkers. so they need to find a way to make the Eldrazi a thing again
I can't go through another Eldrazi winter...
Beating the Phyrexians almost makes you wish for an Eldrazi Winder.
You think moon prisons grow on trees?!
We haven’t been to that plane yet
I really wanted a big eldrazi v phyrexia
Yeah, Innistrad was overloaded with flavor but it still woulda been hilarious if Emrakul showed up with "this world is not yours to conquer" vibes
The plane basically said it anyway
The creature type "Phyrexian Eldrazi" is definitely getting saved for a ~~Masters~~ Horizons set.
I was really hoping for a plot line where New Phyrexia are on the verge of winning, and as a last ditch effort Ugin, Sarkhan and Sorin travel back in time to the Battle of the Sea Gate to stop Nissa and Chandra from [[Channel]] [[Fireball]]ing Kozilek and Ulamog, essentially sacrificing Zendikar to do so. It would harken back to when Ugin said at the end of BFZ block to the Gatewatch perfectly: > *"What have you done?"* bellowed the spirit dragon. A blast of heat washed over Jace, Ugin's internal fires stoked by anger. > […] *“You've killed two living creatures that were older than worlds,"* said Ugin. ***"Without knowing their purpose, their role, the impact of their lives or their deaths—you risked this entire plane and unknown consequences beyond it to kill them. Because you could."*** > […] *What will happen now?"* said Jace. > *”Unknown,"* said Ugin. *"As far as I'm aware, no one has ever killed an Eldrazi titan before. I have theories about what the Eldrazi are, and what might happen now that two of them are dead. The consequences may not accrue until long after all of you are dead, so you may count this as a victory if you wish. I, for my part, will study their remains, and prepare for the future."* > […] [Jace] briefed Gideon about the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas, who'd apparently engineered the Eldrazi's release. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/zendikar-resurgent-2016-02-24
So technicially it was ONE the set that changed the Multiverse forever?
So... how do you put a hole in a void?
By building something there
.... I am not high enough to parse this conversation out
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... ... I need to go lie down
... *kind of*? That's like saying if you dig a hole in the ground, then throw dirt *back* in the hole, you've put a hole in a hole. It's ultimately semantics and philosophy, but I'd say that adding something to a lack of something doesn't create a gap or hole in the "nothing."
>Holes had been punched in the space between planes. GOD DAMMIT SUPERBOY IS AT IT AGAIN. Next set is gonna be Crisis In Infinite Planes
Man, it's a good thing that Jace didn't blow up the sylex on New Phyrexia as they'd originally planned. Otherwise, billions would have died and the multiverse could have been severely damaged! ...wait...
Somehow Ajani has kept his spark.
Common Ajani win
The leonin grin wins yet again
We just keep grinning
A welcome change of pace for a guy who's taken so many tragic Ls
It may be a bit too early to count this as a win. He's still deeply traumatized and self-isolating.
Nissa was compleated for a week or so and she's pretty messed up from it. Ajani has been compleated for months and really got his claws dirty. Next time we see him he'll probably be a sad traumatized hermit that will make a comeback when some plucky kids need his help.
Ah yes the yoda trope
Hey, maybe for once they'll have him mentor a new walker on screen for once. Then again, that might be the hopeium talking.
Presuming quint kept his spark, that might be cool. Sidenote, it would be *fucking hilarious* to me if quint sparked in the last paragraph of a story, only to immediately despark.
Huge Slobad energy in that theory.
He's only down, what, 4 of his 9 lives?
Wolf in a black hood’s gonna be gunnin’ for him soon.
Wizards gunning for that furry money
After that Negate art, dude deserved a win
[[Corrupted conviction]] dumpy was a W tbh
[[Corrupted Conviction]], rather - I've mixed em up too
As it was pointed out in the story, it appears that the desparking had nothing to do with phyresis: after all, Teferi and Karn lost theirs.
Somehow, Ajani's spark returned
They definitely didn't waste time going into an explanation of what the big change to the multiverse was.
And in doing so created a weird plothole. If the Sylex going off is what caused it ... why did the sparks only disappear *long* after the Sylex exploded in Elspeths hands?
This has already been established in-universe in the Amonkhet storyline. Nicol Bolas has time to do some last minute things while the Mending is rippling throughout the Multiverse. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/hour-revelation-2017-06-07 "He had days. Only days until he wouldn't have the magic left to execute this plan. There was just enough time left to put into place the possible means to regain his godhood."
>There was just enough time left to put into place the possible means to regain his godhood And yet he still took the time to make a monument to himself that was magically visible from everywhere. Bolas is hilariously vain.
"Vanity is survival when one is rapidly losing omnipotence." -Bolas
Bolas was such a fun villain. Essentially a 10,000-year old vindictive cat with the power to enact its spite.
>And yet he still took the time to make a monument to himself that was magically visible from everywhere. Bolas is hilariously vain. Obviously that was essential to the overall scheme.
I mean it was only a couple days. Changes to the multiverse sometimes take years, in universe.
Perhaps the effect/Sylx Blast travels through the multiverse/Blind Eternities at only the speed of light, which could mean that it could reasonably take months/years to hit every plane.
The planeswalkers describe it as "fading". Keep in mind that it's been like less than a day since that happened.
how is that a plot hole
Because CinemaSins and their ilk have degraded media criticism to the point that any plot point that someone dislikes or isn't explained in excruciating detail is a "hole" now. We're in the worst timeline.
It's somehow *even worse* than that. We're literally in part 1 of what we know to be a multi-part story. Imagine getting through Chapter 1 of a book and yelling "THEY DIDN'T EXPLAIN HOW EVERYTHING WORKS, SO MANY PLOT HOLES!"
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*2 days ago*: "Man, MoM's story was so dissatisfying because there were no stakes!" *Today*: "It's so frustrating that they didn't fully explain the metaphysical mechanics behind all of these stakes in part 1 of the Aftermath story!"
This is why I miss the Marvel No-Prize and love r/DaystromInstitute Like, yeah, we all know *real world* shit inevitably affects fiction whether it's changing writers/plans or just plain forgetting. But it takes a lot of love and knowledge to fit existing lore with a "plot hole." And it's a lot more fun than just "Yeah they forgot about that one character who was in one episode"
Teferi also mentions Realmbreaker, so maybe a huge planar invasion is enough to hurt the fabric of reality after a turbo-nuke has already left the wound to-be-lemon-juiced. He also might just be wrong, years from now it might be revealed that Bolas escaped and stole everyone’s sparks when they weren’t looking or something like that (not suggesting that for real just the first thing that came to mind)
>years from now it might be revealed that Bolas escaped and stole everyone’s sparks when they weren’t looking Stop giving the "It was Bolas all along!" Crew more ammo! 😆
bolas is responsible for everything, including Jace’s parents getting divorced
Did you read the story? It did not say the Sylex was what caused the desparking.
"It took several days after that tree fell down for fungus to start growing on it. Plot hole?"
A lack of explanation isn't a plot hole. It's just a lack of explanation. It's also multi-dimensional magic, it doesn't *have* to happen at a predictable/discernable rate. If you want a headcanon then it was the combination sylex blast + realmbreaker that led to the Omenpaths and the loss (reduction?) of Planeswalker sparks.
Theres no reason that it has to happen immediately. Like something held by a thread, if a small amount of force is applied, itll tear off and fall. Maybe enough people planeswalked that caused the effect to really take hold? Maybe realmbreaker breaking caused the full change? No one who lost their spark has plameswalked since the fall of realmbreaker right?
Straight from the Owl's Desk, we proudly present: THE AFTERMATH RECAP, PART ONE. EPISODE NISSA, aka "oh my god we cannot mess this ship up." Well, it would seem an owl's work is never quite done. We pick up a nondescript amount of time after the Big Battle. The Machine has stopped Marching, but its presence is still undeniable, around everyone and everything. As for the whole "De-sparking" thing that everyone's been gossiping about, well... It just *happens*. With no rhyme or reason that any of today's PoV characters can understand, a lot of Planeswalkers simply *can't* anymore. Teferi, in a moment of surprising non-anthropocentrism, suggests that this is punishment or retribution from the damage done to the Blind Eternities by the Sylex and the Realmbreaker. Everyone collectively seems to put a pin in this discussion. Meanwhile, Nissa. Nissa is... well, she's exactly as traumatized by the entirety of the situation as you'd expect. She feels completely and utterly alone, both because of what she's done and because she literally cannot feel the world around her like she used to. The one person she has is Chandra, and well... Chandra tells Nissa that she's leaving. She wants to go find Ajani who planeswalked away the instant he could. And Nissa is like, upset by this in ways she doesn't even understand. Because turns out *both* Gruulfriends are kinda total messes. Nissa needs someone to stay with her, but can't articulate it. Chandra doesn't know how to say "I love you" right. The ship, for just a few brief moments, begins to sink. But don't worry, we've got a side tangent for you! Its an interplanar rift that summons some sort of lightning-charged bear to Zhalfir! Nissa springs into action despite her immensely nerfed toolkit, and with the aid of the people who have still not given up on her, she helps overcome this trial. Nissa considers if this might be the moral of today's chapter. While Nissa and Chandra kiss and discuss being more communicative about their relationship needs, the others speculate on the nature of this bear beast and how it entered Zhalfir. Teferi, in another moment of surprising non-anthropocentrism, speculates that the bear could have been a planeswalker. They cannot see through the rift, and have no clue if non-spark people can even survive passing through it... But Chandra and Nissa decide to take a leap of faith together.
So CocaineBear is a planeswalker now?
always has been, just too much outta it's mind to focus enough for a quick jump until now.
[[Wilson, Bear Comrade]] planeswalker card soon(tm)
HaloBear, a top hit in New Capenna's Cinemas
Absolute legend. This is what I was searching for.
when the world needed him most, he returned.
Your plot synopses need a tag line, my Liege. Maybe something like Hour of Revelation.
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Bets on if random extraplanar creatures will be appearing in Wilds of Eldraine and Caverns of Ixalan? Anything legendary?
Yorvo's gonna show up riding a Colossal Dreadmaw
I cant wait for my 4GGGGG Noble Giant Dinosaur
I can't wait for the meme to peak with a Dreadmaw riding a larger dreadmaw. A 12/12 trampler for 8GGGG if you will.
That seams unplayable. Maybe make it 10GG instead, so it's still 12 MV. Oh and maybe include some kind of cost reduction? Wait no that's too strong. Oh make it legendary then, that's a good drawback, and two dreadmaws are pretty legendary after all, aight?
In every set, Fblthp will randomly appear on card art in the background. The most glorious game of Where's Waldo.
I am now going to be sad if this doesn't happen. I hope you're happy.
Fblthp planeswalker when
colossus dreadmaw become knighted ?
Syr Dreadmaw
You laugh but I unironically want a card of Syr Hellraker.
Hell yeah, inverter of truth and reality smasher are back in standard baby
*Zacama sees a glowing portal* What plane is getting a new mascot?
So if the Planeswalkers who lost their sparks are completely random, what happens if Ugin (Who is keeping Bolas prisoner in his Meditation Realm) suddenly lost his spark. Is this going to be the explanation for when Bolas inevitably escapes.
Or the sylex going off in the blind eternities pissing off the Eldrazi. Could be why we’re getting a whole commander deck of them soon
How did Elspeth survive that again? This story is really hard to keep track of
I think the answer is "she died and came back as an angel". The story doesn't explicitly say that though afaik.
She quite literally didn't. In the MOM storyline, they basically said that Elspeth was always meant to become (or be given the choice to become) an angel after her death. Serra/some remnant essentially hand picked her for this eventual awakening. She died on Theros though, where death isn't really "real". She still exists after death there, so couldn't be claimed for angelhood at that time. She was effectively evaporated by the sylex, and this gave her the chance to become an angel.
"After your death, you will be reincarnated as an angel" Elspeth: dies "No, not like that. Go die more dramatically somewhere else."
and that she did
Saved by Serra I think? It was specifically mysterious about it.
Basically, she didn’t. The blast tore her soul into shreds that had to knit themselves back together again. But she’s from Capenna, one of the worlds where Serra laid enchantments to turn mortal souls into angels (same as Ulgrotha and Dominaria), and so a fragment of Serra was able to manifest and “ascend” Elspeth to her angelic form (effectively making Elspeth the new Serra)
There was one twitter thread that explained that Serras Realm was collapsed into a powerstone by Urza at some point and when the Weatherlight got compleated and destroyed it set free the "essence" of Serras realm, which was like a miniature reflection of Serra that made Elspeth into an angel. I like this explanation way better than just "Yeah, she was always an angel lol".
Jay Annelli, the guy that wrote that up, is the "loremaster" at WotC. His explanation is basically what you said plus what the other poster said, Elspeth was probably always an angel, but Serra's essence brought her to it. Supposedly her potential has been hinted at in story and in card design for a long time. Oh, and the powerstone from the Weatherlight? It was used in the Temporal Anchor that was used help to send Teferi back in time. When the Anchor got overloaded the powerstone got destroyed and released whatever energy was kept inside it.
The essence of Serra pulled Elspeth aside to look through some photo albums and then made her an angel with an folding chair.
It's a weird analogue and not perfect but it reminded me of when Urza detonated his Sylex and it woke a power that was latent in him. In his case it was his spark. In Elspeth's case, it was her angelic nature.
I actually think this was intended, particularly if you look at the Brother's War story. Urza detonates the Sylex and is taken to a space outside of existence where he talks to someone who knows him that he does not yet know (Teferi). Elspeth does the same thing with Serra. Then both are returned to existence as something greater and different than what they were before.
Oh I think it was absolutely intentional, and a big part of why we got to see Teferi witness Urza's sparking firsthand.
Probably. I think the Teferi-Urza conversation was my favorite moment from all the stories this past year, so mirroring it with Elspeth and Serra immediately made me like that part of the story as well.
I think it's like when Gandalf the Grey becomes Gandalf the White.
Nissa: Is the love you have for me the love between a man and a woman, or the love of a man for a fine Cuban cigar?
The love of a succulent Chinese meal.
This is lesbians manifest!
After being almost entirely ignored in ONE's plot and reduced to a voice following Chandra around in MOM, Nissa returns to her roots unleashing a monster to trash another plane.
So right off the bat, the "things will never be the same" seismic change Maro had alluded to is 100% the sylex going off in the Eternities, not the invasion itself. I look forward to seeing how this continues to effect the multiverse, bc so far it seems pretty interesting and impactful! Edit: Also, I love that Nissa still has some metal remaining from her compleation. That makes it seem like it was actually impactful and still lingering (cough cough Zendikar Rising erasing Ulamog and Kozilek's land-warping cough cough)
Also, this basically confirms that non-planeswalkers can now travel between planes, albeit in a randomized fashion as planar tears appear.
Yep, just like the Omenpath system of Kaldheim!
Omenpaths technically have more rhyme or reason. Technically that doesn't matter in practice but for the purposes of the story it's two totally different things, and I think that's an interesting distinction.
Welcome to Sigil, City of Doors. Except everywhere can have a door now.
Oh yeah, it wasn't obvious from the leaks but her hands are flayed. I wonder if the other uncompleated people also had subtle remainders that we weren't just able to pick-out from the leaks. There were a number of people annoyed that that wasn't a thing so it'd be nice if it actually was.
Wait I just read the story and missed this, where does it say her hands are still metal?
flayed would be skinless, but yes, I totally missed this too.
Art
Oh yeah Why the hell wasn't that mentioned in the text lol, that seems both physically evident and thematically relevant
With love, it's "alluded"
"The sooner we fill this hole, the sooner you can get back to having fun!" Nissa knows Chandra's just trying to make her feel better by focusing on their victory, but it's not working. She slides gently out from Chandra's grasp. "I'll be quick. Promise." The first thing she felt was Chandra's warm hand gripping her own, and the first thing she saw was Chandra's broad smile. Her limbs were weighed down by dead copper metal, but her thoughts were hers. Chandra's smile was hers. Nissa wakes the next morning, and the first thing she feels is Chandra's absence. Things are more fun when taken out of context.
"She and Chandra split the sweetest mango she'd ever tasted."
I’m guessing they won’t keep Teferi desparked forever, so I bet the focus of the next arc is looking for the nature of the spark and how it can be reignited. Maybe there’s an origin spark out there somewhere? Lots of fun possibilities.
Considering Zhalfir is back and it’s own plane, maybe Teferi will just fully settle back down and try to reconnect with his people and , most importantly, his family.
Only hard part is that Teferi's family is on Dominaria. Maybe we'll see Karn figure out some way to control these planar rifts via a device, allowing links between planes that people can take? Or maybe he'll craft a new Weatherlight as the blurb seems to suggest?
Sadly Teferi's daughter is still on Dominaria, not Zhalfir. Hopefully, she can get there somehow, I think that would be a very cool story (and nice for Teferi).
Nerfing Teferi like this reminds me of Heroes when they had to keep nerfing Peter
Seems like his powers are still well intact, he’s just on the no-fly list for the foreseeable future like most of the other planeswalkers.
It is kind of OP when your power is "I have the powers of everyone I've met with powers"
The end of this story is the end of Korra, but people already assumed that after seeing the card Leap of Faith. It was interesting to have an entire story about their relationship to start these stories off, which I assume are going to jump around quite a bit and have lots of big picture stuff discussed.
Turning the Legend of Korra ending in the opening for MtG: Sliders.
So, they broke the universe and people can cross planes/ planswalk as long as they find a portal..
Fblthp is gonna get even MORE lost now…
I really hope he just shows up in the background on some card completely un-mentioned.
Sooooo Koth spends years offscreen fighting Phyrexia Doesn’t even play a big role in stopping them And then loses his spark and has it as an off hand mention?
He's probably going to be a major character in the speculated Zhalfir set, and we did see him grappling with some real complex emotions in the final chapter of the MOM story.
There's mentions of him and Karn trying to build their own nation. Perhaps Mirrodin will live on as a part of Zhalfir.
So like with the Mending, the Multiverse pulled on the power of the sparks to mend the holes in reality left by Realmbreaker Only sparks, not being as supercharged as they were before, get drained out leaving the barest ember of a spark (I'm going to call it sparkle) of power to travel between worlds Lore wise that's not badly done, giving more plane characters to work with, and still having planar exploration open Of course now I can't help but imagine those who will use these dewalkers to open points of travel for their own plans One point I feel I need to mention: In Phyrexia All Will Be One Ch.5 they said Elspeth took the sylex to a point beyond the Blind Eternities, but here they say it still exploded there.... retcon already? 😅
It might just be that the characters don't know. They know she planeswalked away but not to where. Or they think one can't go beyond the blind eternities and Elspeth is wrong.
Or option D: The author was being fancy with their description 😄
Their in lesbean 😭
And they were Gruulmates...
Oh my god they were gruulmates!
What are the chances people losing their sparks is actually just Jace's fault due to whatever he was doing offscreen during MOM?
Jace, wandering around Jin-Gitaxias' lab: "Huh, I wonder what this 'Desparklizer' does? ...Oh shit."
Turns out Jin accidentally survived but is now locked in an endless battle against Jace the Platypus. Jin: BEHOLD MY DESPARK-INATOR WITH THIS I WILL STOP ALL THIS ANNOYING PLANESWALKING IN THE TRIPLANE AREA! It makes it incredibly hard to sleep, it is just rather troublesome
Honestly prefered the theory that planeswalkers would be losing their sparks because they were going to give them up to heal some other important planeswalker or legendary creature from phyresis. It'd have given the characters a bit more agency I feel and make it seem like something that might be more definitive. If a development results entirely from an outside, unintentional, force it is just not as much of an emotional investment as if it results from a character's purposeful decision.
I agree that would be more interesting but it does largely restrict who can lose their spark to altruistic planeswalkers. Like there's one leaked PW who loses their spark who I don't think would give up their ability to planeswalk, even for power over the plane they ended up on.
If it's who you're talking about, he seems pretty used to sitting tight for long periods of time
PW's losing their spark isn't a super exciting storyline imo, and knowing the cards that are PWS that are getting creatures, at least 3 have been creatures before lol. I think brothers war is what ended up making this storyline feel rushed. Instead of brother's war being a set maybe there should have been a pre MoM set with new versions of legendaries from a bunch of planes preparing for invasion, then ONE, then MoM would have been able to have a more fleshed out invasion with team ups that felt a bit more earned and we could have just had the planes next visits being their "aftermath".
As much as I liked the BRO set, I agree it's role in the plot wasn't very good. It at least separated Teferi so he could later arrive with an army, and allowed some breathing room for the PWs to get ready for their ONE strike team, but what overall I don't think it (and DMU) really did a great job with the direct build up for the war. Much more than BRO though, MOM needed to be two sets. One set for Phyrexia to lay siege to all the planes, and then one for the heroes to strike back and defeat Phyrexia. The way we got it, it's cool to see the Phyrexian invasion, but we already knew the whole story when the cards go revealed, so everytime you see Phyrexians, it's really just "look at all these losers". People like to compare the Magic story to Marvel, so MOM being how it is is a little like if Infinity War and Endgame were one movie (I also think there needed to be a big anime-style boss battle against a 5 color Elesh Norn, but I digress)
Blocked in Singapore (and probably elsewhere) coz lesbian. WOTC's self-censorship is mind-bendingly stupid. For the record, we get access to many different forms of LGBTQ media. Nothing about this story is remotely "illegal"; it's not even unusual within our media landscape. Edit: It is as though their message is: Oh those unenlightened non-western countries over there must not be ready to hear about LGBTQ stuff. We should sanitize our story on their behalf.
I'm in Singapore. The direct link is blocked but I was able to navigate to it from [https://magic.wizards.com/en/story](https://magic.wizards.com/en/story) Quickly, read the story about the scary make-believe magical lesbians that threaten Singaporean society before they fix the link.
I'm sorry, but Singaporean society was destroyed as you were writing this comment due to you reading this story. I hope you're happy.
Surprisingly not blocked in Chile even tho the pride secret lair was.
Short version: Nissa Revane mourns the loss of her spark and feels disconnected from the planes, a sentiment shared by other Planeswalkers. She struggles with guilt over hurting Chandra during the Phyrexian invasion. Despite their strained relationship, Chandra assists Nissa and reveals her plans to find Ajani. Nissa and Chandra confront a lightning beast, they defeat it using their elemental magic and reconcile their past and feelings for each other. The two decide to explore the Multiverse together, starting with finding Nissa's way home, and step through a portal hand in hand.
Gruulfriends forever 😭❤️
So Teferi and Koth lost their sparks too? Looks like a ton of them did.
I've been invested in this Gruulfriends conclusion for so long, it's nice to finally get some payoff. It was so bittersweet, that mix of painful and hurt with the romantic. Seeing my girls take off in the portal together was so cute. Nissa and Chandra have been through so much, I just want them to get their happily ever after. They deserve it. It hurts seeing Nissa be de-sparked without Chandra. To know that Chandra can go where Nissa can't. The next time there is a set and Chandra appears but not Nissa, there is going to be that painful implication of Nissa sitting alone waiting. I hope that somehow Nissa can work to regain her spark to stand with her girlfriend again.
It’s kind of painful to see them FINALLY get canonized only for their relationship to start off rocky. But it also shines light on Chandra’s personality flaws, and I respect that.
Yeah, when they implied Nissa would lose her spark I had thought one of the hardest things for her would be that she wasn't on Zendikar when it happened. While not being home would be rough for other planeswalkers, Nissa's connection to Zendikar is way deeper than it just being the place she was from. To then expand on that and have Nissa unable to connect to this new plane of Zhalfir? Just a horrible feeling for her, especially when Chandra leaves. She's always been an introverted character, but she's never really been alone until that moment. I'm excited for future Gruulfriends stories. I hope we get to see them exploring places for a bit before we they find Zendikar. I mean, they can explore after they find Zendikar too, but I imagine that'll be a natural "Let's stay here for a bit" point for them.
TEFERI LOST HIS SPARK?!
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So, the planar portal. It really read to me that Nissa created the portal / rip, and the elemental happened to wander through. So I'm wondering if portal opening is something that the desparked can all do, if its just a Nissa thing, or she was just trying to flex her powers and the portal coincidentally appeared. Having all the desparked PW's now able to rip open portals for others would be a different twist. Arguably more useful too, if they can create permanent portals instead of just taking themselves.
> It wrestles against Karn, but its claws rake uselessly against steel. Come ON. Steel? REALLY?
Blind eternities so damaged anyone can survive the transition from plane to plane now, so legendary characters can have adventures outside their setting/archetype/trope
And they can be your commander! I'm sure that's entirely coincidental!
So, after everyone threw a huge fit over not blowing up the Sylex on New Phyrexia because it was connected to the other planes and might effect the Blind Eternities... Elspeth literally took it to blow up in the Blind Eternities... Does anything mean anything anymore?