Anowon gives all Rogues a "saboteur" ability. The idea of these abilities is that they reward your creatures for sneaking behind enemy lines. So while Anowon isn't evasive, he rewards evasiveness by painting a target on your opponents. More of a thief lord than just a thief.
Assembled my own red legendary deck with Joven, Chandler and Eron The Relentless. My own three Musketeers of sorts. Except that one of the Musketeers wants to murder the other two. Details.
Eron the Relentless is my first commander. When I started playing Magic I ordered a box of 1000 or so cards, cant remember. One of them was Eron. He's my baby; I always improve him when I can, and I find his lore very fun. Being the Goblin King, I've stuffed him with Gobbos. I have the card I found and now also a Timespiral foil of Eron that pops. Red deck wins
Sakushima's story makes me think of a D&D character I wanted to try and build. A young spell thief who who eventually pursues ur-priest, literally stealing magic from the gods, hoping to one day steal a seat among them to become a god himself.
I am surprised both Tinybones and especially Varrogoth were as high as they were. It still annoys me that Varrogoth would likely be a Demon Berserker if it wasn't for forcing the party mechanic, and even then Demon Warrior would have made more sense for that purpose. Maybe they wanted to avoid making Najeela even more broken though. Oh well.
Sakashima have a whole chapter of lore you can find online in a old wotc website (i think the wiki have a direct link for it) and the chapter is amazing and, imo, heartwarming!
*Distant chanting* ...lins, goblins, goblins, goblins, gobLINS, GOBLINS, GOBLINS, GOBLINS!!! For real though, I love this series, I just binge-watched all of your L.O.R.E. videos and would love one on Goblins.
Love the video! Shouldn't Varragoth's reflection score be higher though? Isn't it supposed to reflect his time teaching and leading the Skelle clan which was the reason Immersturm was locked away?
LOL Chandler after a short career as a bumbling Rogue in MTG he planeswalked, accidentally, to become a star in a hit series called Friends where he had a longer career as a funny bumbling rogue-ish character :P
I’m making a commander deck for each guild color and color combination with rouges. I’m glad to see 4 I have are already made with commanders in this list
So in magic a few things in function to flavor, a deck is your memories, and your hand is like active thoughts, the deck and hand can also symbolize sanity. So discarding cards could be confusing the enemy, making people lose their mind and So on, same kinda goes with Mill effects as stealing thoughts, memories, and sanity. The artifact destruction, on the older cards could be the flavor of stealing, and immediatly selling it. The only flavor loss then is its in the 'yard.
Marrow Gnawer's ability is so flavorful to his lore and I love it. He slew the leaders of the other Nezumi gangs (sacrificing a rat) to take control of thier gang and gain thier followers (creating rat tokens).
That is an interesting way to look at it. I suppose that does represent his story better, but it still doesn't seem like a "rogue" ability, so much as a leadership one.
I might not have been able to draft Remastered today[ it's been 4 weeks since I shuffled cards. I still have cards that I have agreed to trade. Thanks for no escape school, you made my parents keep me home. I'm bored], but at least I got to see my favorite lore teller in the multiverse. It's also been a long time since I opened a pack, now I have to pay $90- $140 for the standard deck I've made.
Really cool that you included Marrowgnawer and all the Kamigawa cards. He had quite a cool role in the Kamigawa novels, as a part of the Hyozan avenger group. Fun and informative video, as usual. Same for including Tetsuko. Does that basically proof that Toshiro Umezawa has been sent to Dominaria, after the events of the novels,since Tetsuko is a char on that plane?
Discarding cards is associated with madness and losing your mind in countless card names and flavor texts, so I'm not surprised that Gwendlyn does it, too. You see, because you "lose your mind" for the sexy girl and you are "crazy about her"...
I thought destroying the artifacts represented the fact that they weren't keeping them but rather selling them away, so neither side gets them. I guess exiling them and making a treasure token would be closer to evoking that if the card were to be made again today
Destroying artifacts specifically always struck me as flavorful on a rogue card because I think of sabotage as up there with stealing or forgery as, "classic job you'd hire a rogue to do."
I for one would like to see a return of Tetsuko, especially given that I'm assuming she wouldn't know what became of Nicol Bolas after War of the Spark.
@@MagicArcanum That seems like a good excuse to become the paranoid Batman of the Magic multiverse. “Oh, he’s dead, huh? I’ll believe it when I see a body.”
@@caseywellington4761 Hell, he came back from being dead already. The reason he's imprisoned is specifically because it's easier to keep track of him when he's imprisoned than when he's dead. Bolas is guaranteed to come back.
for Joven, Chandler, and Tinybones, I'd like to think the reason why they don't take control of permanents is because they take the thing and then sell it for themselves who said your creatures always served you unconditionally?
I know it’s been a while since they came out but I’d really like to see a history video for the Aetherborn. I think they look amazing and like watching Magic Arcanum.
"Legendary... this will probably favor newer characters.." Top 10 includes 3 older characters with a lot of story and 3 newer characters with little story.
I understand that neither Dack Fayden and Oko have rogue creature types (since, you know, they're Planeswalkers) but there's a rather strong argument that they are indeed rogues. Could've been worth an honorable mention, I guess
I've decided planeswalkers don't get mentioned in these videos, as they are supposed to about the legendary characters. Planeswalkers get plenty of coverage in the story recaps and I thought folks could use a break from seeing them from time to time. But yes, Dack and Oko would have been worthy inclusions.
Because silver boarder cards aren't officially ranked I have taken it upon myself to rank Frankie Peanuts Legendary: He is a pretty powerful crime boss who can to bend people to his will. He doesn't seem to really have much else going for him other than the fact he is on a plane with murfolk. I give him a 3. Otherworldly: He is a Elephant in a dapper pinstripe suit with a walking cane. 8 Reflection: he has no story outside of his card. 10 Evasiveness: He clearly manages something with the planes law enforcement so his manifold crime manage to go unpunished but also he is a stinking great elephant. 2 L:3 O:8 R:10 E:2 Total=23
Didnt Anowon guide a planeswalker (not sure which) to the Eye of Ugin, indirectly being responsable for the release of the Eldrazi? That's a pretty big inpact in the story.
On the subject of aetherborn, has anyone read Walter John Williams' Metropolitan / City on Fire? I see the aetherborn as analagous to the Hanged Men. Both live in the city's currents of aether/plasm and are otherworldly strange creatures with terrible powers. I dunno.
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For most demons yes, but Varragoth seems to be obsessed with just causing death and destruction. He doesn't have the materialistic desires of his demon cousins. The humans of Bretagard still refer to winter as "Bloodsky" season in memory of how much suffering Varragoth inflicted. Honestly I feel like he should have gotten the boast ability that wound up on Eradicator Valkyrie.
I generally avoid mentioning planeswalkers in videos that are dedicated to legendary characters because they are in a lot of their own videos and I think they deserve a break.
are u saying u faced a deck like that at least 83 times in one day? GG My only deck to win a game after they use the TT combo & turn 2 something was 3 doomskar & realm cloaked Giant, mixed with bounce & ascent of the worthy to bring back a giant to then return it to my hand & have access to more wipe or discard the giant to get it for 3 with a bit of time, even had room for some discard but did not use it vs the 2 decks that used the combo & I survived, mostly thanks to doomskar
Sakashima is a good number 1, buuuuut... everyone knows that if he had a creature card, number 1 would easily be Dack Fayden! He's literally got the title of "Greatest Thief in the Multiverse"!
"The aetherborn are something that could only really exist in the Magic: the Gathering multiverse." What about the ethereals from World of Warcraft? They're so similar to the aetherborn that I'd hazard to guess that they were an inspiration for the aetherborn.
The unique part of Aetherborn is that they are a byproduct created by the harvesting of aether, which comes from the Blind Eternities (the space between planes.) As such, their forms are unstable, and they are 'born' knowing exactly how long they have until they will 'die,' with their body crumbling to pieces the entire time. Some Aetherborn are able to delay this process by absorbing the life force from other creatures - the game treats them as vampires. So while at first glance they may look similar to the Ethereals from WoW, I believe the Aetherborn have several characteristics that do make them a uniquely Magic property.
@@MagicArcanum The way they were created are less similar, though Ethereals did come from being exposed to the twisting nether, so both did come from an energy, though Aetherborn came fully from it to be fair. Though their cultures are similar (both mercantile and illegal endeavors are pursued heavily) and their abilities seem sort of similar (both have a subset who can feed off the life energies of others). The major difference is that Ethereals were originally a people before being turned into that form and are held together magically, as far as I can tell Ethereals "live" essentially forever and Aetherborn for months or years, Aetherborn were also completely created, as you pointed out, rather than being turned into a new being.
@@opalescent4694 IIRC, when WotC creative was building Kaladesh, one of the biggest issues was how to integrate the color black in a way that fit the idealistic and inventive tone of the plane. They came up with the Aetherborn as an entire species of "born consumers". A species with no time to worry about long-term relationships or legacies, so every moment is spent trying to enjoy themselves through luxuries and commodities. I really love the Aetherborn.
