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Wow true 🤭🤭 That's cool

The Battle's hit points being counters is dumb

@Myojin of Night's Reach I mean it's the only practical way of keeping track. Only other way is for that number to be how much damage you have to deal to it in one turn like a creature. Other than that, the only way to keep track of a changing total (That's not life) over more than one turn is with counters.

​@Myojin of Night's Reach iipp😊i 🎉❤😊😂😂

You're not wrong, just don't know how they would do it another way as fluently though.

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phyrexian human horror- one-ruly mob 1 colorless and 2 phyrexian white for a 1/3 whenever a phyrexian enters the battlefield or a non-phyrexian creature enters the graveyard incubate 1

Did Tamiyo and Anissa not tell Norn about Emrakul?

"Everyone and their mums packing Praetor tribal 'round here." "Like who?" "Commander players." "Who else?" "Commander players Mums."

breathing room is what mtg´s storytelling needs.

@Gonçalo Ferreira and product line

what makes me a little sad is that it is the same thing as "You are already dead"

While the actual story depicts him chopped into fours, the card has him just left limbless, but alive. If anything, that could mean he's the last living praetor, albeit trapped within a phased out new phyrexia.

I believe they're closing Phyrexia's arc for good. That's why all praetors will die.

@Trevor Jamieson Well he wouldn’t be the last left unless Elesh kills Shelly too

@LethaL Norn Killed Shelly.

Specifically, The Ajaninator

So if it helps, Vorinclex, a praetor of New Phyrexia, invaded Kaldheim and in the process infected Tibalt, wounded Esika, and compleated numerous people and animals. The wiki says “the outcome of this interaction has yet to be revealed”. So maybe there’s a possibility they’ll be back? Source: trust me bro (Kidding, MtG Wiki fandom page: “New Phyrexia”, under “Forays to Other Planes”, first and second paragraphs)

same

honestly 😭, they could have had a few more sets to fully depict the story… They’re running out of source material 💀

It is a game after all, and frankly ... we knew these things would happen the immediate moment we get to see the card reveals One can call it rushed sure ... but then one has never actually looked at magic cards during reveal season before "Oh, who is this mysterious entity on Innistrad?" "Emrakul, I mean we knew this was likely what the fate of Innistrad was gonna be when Innistrad revealed itself as a plane the first time around but its nice that all of these 'clues' weren't so much clues as much as a game mechanic since you know, we knew from the other cards immediately what happened with Emrakul" You can extrapolate this to literally 'all' of MTG's storylines - the only difference is that we have had years worth of buildup ever since the defeat of Nicol Bolas, and we got confirmation about this once we saw Vorinclex on Kaldheim ... its hardly been rushed if you go back and actually look at the stuff that built up towards it

@ArgentumEmperio Yes yes, your essay in refute of my single line quip is duly noted.

@SniperDave dude are u only here to stir some kind of commotion x) relax and stop that very passive aggressive attitude, it really does not help anybody, not even yourself xD be more appreciative of how much work goes into all of these cards and this product that we are able to enjoy. some people these days really cannot be satisfied with anything.

GAme of Thrones level bulidup to 2 pump chump resolution

Yup it is bad ass.

6:49

New Phyrexia and Ikoria casually comparing sizes of their monsters

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The text is nice, but Zolortha isn't... 8/8 without trample for this size.🥲

Pretty sure I heard Lady Danger and Joe Johnson as well

@Brian Sterling I was gona say, it sounds like Joe Johnson

If you look at the teferi planeswalker background, its just the flip side, well flipped and pasted teferi on top with a shader for the background. Don't know how to feel of this, just thought it was worth a mention.

@N'Zeezoo Stupid III wow i did not see that, it look wierd. The one I really dislike it is rankle and torbran, looks like videogame picture. What I enjoy the most about magic it is the art, so I hope they dont continue along this path

Remember we’re also gonna be getting the Aftermath story after this set

There are some! A simic Naga cleric just got posted

@Aes ooh

By alot you mean monthly Netflix sub

Solemnity doesn't say battles. Delirium will see battle since it's a card type

They also specifically leave out Walkers

It isn't out yet..

@Joey Joe Joe You're fucking kidding me? They seriously pulled that shit?

@Joey Joe Joe aww... weak... but that cant be true for all Phyrexians, right? Maybe just the white aligned ones? We could always just throw in something about Gitaxian setting up some contingency plans on other worlds, right?

@grim triX New Phyrexia gets swapped with Zhalifir in the multiverse so it's cut off from everything. That all said, yes, there's still tons of oil now across many many planes so someone could always do something with it. If only there were some kind of evil Esper planeswalker just running around unaccounted for, hm.....

@Tony Smith the story is really bad. Makes War of Spark look good by comparison.

Well they are permanents, and they are not lands, so yeah.

I want to art of ajani

seems like a solid card and really i just want to keep seeing that art of karn holding norn's head over and over

It's a planeswalker you give to someone and then "liberate" by beating the shit out of them

@MarineS0n2 seems reasonable enough

WotC has been terrible at story since a couple of years back

@Myojin of Night's Reach I haven't actually read the stories for most sets or anything but the buildup to the payoffs seem alright... its just the execution that's awful. Like slowly introducing all the components of Bolas' plan over the years and having one phyrexian per set (from Kaldheim to Dominaria United (I guess Brother's War technically had Gix)) was done well, but both endings were just garbage. Especially this one imo.

​@Myojin of Night's Reach I really wish they did a block for this event. Like 3 sets. 2 of which could have been focused on the beginning of the event amount different planes. The last one could have been the magnum opus of the event

Some people had really low expectations to the story. What Wotc did? They turned it reality. Absolutely awful in so many levels.

Considering most of the flip-sides are bombs; it might be worth it in limited. That being said, I think removal, above everything, is a necessity.

They're pretty much sorceries but better in every way. As far as we've seen, they're all on rate for the sorceries they copy.

@MetalHev ...I'm call them more a cross between Planeswalkers and enchantment/sorceries.

@Dana Bell the whole point is that they do something when they etb. If the front side is bad by itself, the card is pretty much unplayable.

I'm not sure if he's gone. Just "repurposed". Considering what happens in the rest of the story, I hope he gets to carry the torch of Phyrexia in some shape or form, or maybe even give his power to Atraxa.

​@Justin Andersonatraxa got part of a city dropped on her and died

Same reason you would pump an opponent's creature in Commander. Politics and threat assessment

@The Real Deal Collin Beal makes sense, thanks

Oh compleat means nothing. Hooray uncompleat!

Well, Lukka dies. Wrenn dies. Karn gives up Venser's spark. Atraxa dies. Tibalt died last set. Tamiyo becomes a force-ghost. Meliria dies. Nahiri is buried under a bunch of rocks on Zendikar. All the praetors die. Millions across several planes die. Vraska and Jace are still both MIA and dealing with the fallout of phyresis/compleation. It beats War of the Spark, but, yes, I was hoping that this would be the end of one of the Lorwyn 5 (or even at least Nissa). Not quite the reset button I was hoping for, but let's be honest--the first time that Phyrexia invaded they were beaten because Urza shot Yawgmoth with a big laser beam. Teferi and Wrenn pulling a temporal inversion and Koth, Karn, and Elspeth kill and unmake Norn is absolutely a more satisfying conclusion, though the whole 'all the phyrexians shut off like robots and the oil is now useless!' aspect of it does feel like a cop-out. At least we're getting an aftermath set.

@Laurent Robitaille It's the getting there that's interesting. Besides, maybe she won't and the image is literally just there to deceive you. Folks are quick to deride WotC for presenting plots too much like Marvel and this is a fairly common strategy they employ in their trailers.

The MtG story in recent years is just a bad copy of MCU. Awful.

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But he's a planeswalker...

@Darksora you gotta read the story my dude.

@Darksora not anymore. the story explains it.

Ah, that explains it. I thought it was a new character.

Its anticlimactic really. The killer of planes, the completer of planeswalkers, dies to one sword swipe. From an angle nevertheless (if you know some lore, angles and demons cant be planeswalkers, but here we are). Love the set and phyrexians, just don't love the execution of a possible godly story and set(s).

Tamiyo was already dead and ajani was kinda there i guess xd

People are crying about how phyresis and compleation could be reversed and it's like Yeah, by the only person in the multiverse naturally immune to it, who dies immediately after curing it in two people, and also by The most powerful time wizard in the multiverse Another planeswalker giving up their spark Kind of a high cost, especially given there could have been way easier cop-outs with Halo.

Yeah, it should be some kind of reward for the attacking forces.

And so are DC's lawyers, Elspeth is literally Wonder Woman.

@Dargkkast nah. She's more like Hawkgirl than Wonder Woman

Lol yeah the armored rhino was probably a poor decision. Otherwise it could definitely be pure coincidence.

MtG should stop emulating MCU.

@Dargkkast Netflix She-Ra

no that's omanth from the looks of it

@DangerousHydra I can see where your coming from but I thought omnath went five color and it looks nothing like that.

@DangerousHydra def not omnath lmao