"To win the war you must become the war" is only deep if you're in 4th grade. Otherwise it's supid and lazy writing. WotC is gonna mess up the BG3 characters and the game they're developing because they hire horrible writers
This is so much better than the official MTG lore podcast. The two women doing it are so insanely obnoxious. They're either gushing over the women of the story, trying to explain how some of the dumbest writing I've ever heard is actually really deep and they're just generally annoying. Thank you for doing these summaries because if I work to try and read the lore I would probably lose it over the poor writing
Part of Memnarch's history is wrong in this... Karn was still a planeswalker when he created mirrodin. He created it as a perfect plane, free from the problems of normal planes. Everything was made of metal and had geometrically and symmetrically perfect patterns. Memnarch was created originally to follow him around when he visited other planes and collect samples of life. Throughout the Mirrodin saga Glissa has dreams of this abduction. But the lifeforms are put onto mirrodin to populate it. The lifeforms adapted and grew with metal in their DNA. They had to survive things like razorgrass and the tangle, to name a couple deadly hazards. Karn leaves the planet to Memnarch to watch over it and doesnt come back for a VERY long time, in fact, Karn is considered missing during this time period. Memnarch becomes lonely and starts looking for ways to get off the plane and eventually finds out that with this new plane comes a new spark. So he spends generations searching for it with machines like Myr and (cant remember the name of the bulldozer things), as well as using his influence amongst the populations. MEMNARCH HAS NO IDEA WHAT THE OIL IS OR WHAT IT IS DOING UNTIL HE IS ABOUT TO DIE--- i believe its the first chapter of the first book he finds oil and has no clue what it is and shrugs it off.The ending in his lab is where he talks about not paying attention to it. If anything, Geth knows more about the oil than Memnarch ever did. When the story comes to an end, Glissa dies while killing Memnarch who is trying to get the spark he thinks she has. But Slobad is the one ends up with the spark. Karn shows up and shows Slobad what the power of a planeswalker is like, and within a short span of time they experience several other planes and he feels the power of being a planeswalker. When they get back Slobad doesnt care because his best friend (glissa) is dead and Karn tells him that he can give up the spark to bring her back to life and he quickly agrees. Karn apologizes, feels bad, and takes off. He was a PW the entire time, and he brought the oil to Mirrodin where it slowly grew into the threat it became. The metal nature of mirrodin was perfect for it and made the phyrexians that we're so familiar with today. Before mirrodin, phyrexians were not primarily metal (See early phyrexian cards). sorry but Mirrodin was my favorite part of the magic story. Memnarch is truly a fascinating villain, with just about NO CLUE the oil is doing what its doing. He just wanted to get TF off that plane because he was lonely. Literally, because he was going mad from being lonely and injecting himself with serum to try and leave.
I feel like Emrakul was just a message to Izzet players. “I play an eldrazi!” “I counter it” “It has protection from colored spells, in other words, you fucked up”
I don't know if we can say Guff was so powerful. For one, he was destroyed by Yawgmoth. So we can't say he was more physically or magically strong than the Father of Machines. But what about rewriting history? I don't know if that was Guff's ability to do so. The libraray was there before Guff was a Planeswalker--his spark ignites upon discovering the library and the information within. This means some other power created this timeless library and gives the books within the power to dictate reality. Guff merely takes advantage of that power. It'd be like saying Thanos was the strongest because he had the Infinite Gaultlet and I don't think it's that simple.
I love Wrenn, her story, this version is one of my favourite creatures/planeswalkers along with Garruk Apex Predator :). I dont know why, but i absokutely love planeswalkers in general and have way more than the average person does in their commander decks. They work so well with my green and black creatures (mostly elves)... with my other inclusions there is what seems like infinite mana.
You know with the omen pass opening up and making it possible forb lifeforms to go between the plans I'd be surprised if we don't see a converge and of the strongest sliver hive mind and who knows maybe we'll find out that the sliver queen is actually just a planeswalker that's been subservient to the first liver this entire time... All the slivers of all the other high of mines going to the strongest being incorporated into that hive again new bile forms evolving from all the new genetic material could be good...
I will re-summon my commander and .... attacking with a 22/22 hexproof, doublestrike, trample, indestructable giant space hamster and it has lifelink....his name is Boo
Why does he have to give a crap everytime the guild attack eachother, hes neutral. If he show up everytime and McDonald's it then what the point of the guild. might as well join the izzet then.
He could do a Karn and have catched some glistening oil somewhere. and now without his planeswalker spark it grows within him. you know... maybe he begins to abduct people to his realm. and sends out mighty arifact ball out there... lets call it the bolasirari. I mean surely at the moment he really needs some compleation.
Poor Ixhel, I can just imagen her watching the skuttling Vishgraz crawl into the swamps to it's last days of life and her having that moment of despair, like a mother seeing her child for the last time.
My favorite fact about Kraj is that if you look at all the legends in the set* Kraj is in the cycle of guild leaders and Momir is in the cycle of lieutenants. My head canon is that by the start of the block Kraj already exists in some way and is on control of Momir. *There's a slight exception with Savra and the Sisters of Stone Death, because Savra overthrows the Sisters during the block story. I don't think it really counts because she dies by the end, so she isn't the guildmaster at the start or end of the block.
But I'm pretty sure in mtg you could traverse planes if you're a high enough level wizard. However a Planeswalker can do things like enter the blind eternity's Also how would Planeswalker exist in mtg if not all of them are high level mages? Like I think garruk is more warrior than mage And if plane chasing us any indicator then I am pretty sure planeswalkers can instantaneously travel. I don't think they need to take time to travel
This is possible the next big foe eldrazi are forces of nature that eat mana. Yawgmoth who transcended to pure black mana corrupts and takes over an eldrazi something goes wrong and it's hunger jumps to overdrive. We now have an evil corrupted intellectual force of nature with time magic and mastery of magic. With the eldrazi and few drops of yawgmoth he finally got true power very similar to bolas trying to regain his old walker powers except eldrazimoth succeeded. The world now has to contend with the power of an old walker merged in an eldrazi base.
