I think my favorite part of this story was Harald's speech. "Warriors!" Harald calls. The sigils and guides along the sides of the ship begin to glow. "Our grudges are ancient. A single battle shall not wipe clean the slate of old wrongs. When the morrow comes, all of us will once more be enemies!" "But that is only if we live to greet the morrow, my brothers and sisters in arms. Today, the valkyries will have their choice of heroes; today is a day the skalds shall sing of for centuries. Will your descendants name you a hero, or a coward?" "If Kaldheim survives, let it survive because we fought! If it dies, let it die a warrior's death, axe in hand, a boast on its lips, and mead in its belly!"
I feel a little bad for Atraxa. I feel like her reaction has something to do with the Angel she used to be before she was bastardized into what she is. It's easy to forget she was compleated only because she chose to cover the escape of a bunch of Mirrodins, essentially sacrificing herself.
@Raider Devellian she was a nameless mirridon angel that defended her people escaping from an army of phyrexians. She was captured and then given power by the 4 corresponding colored praetors
@@NexusVFD yup. NGL, I've always found Nissa a bit hypocritical, and Vivien is just discount Nissa. Tho I've found Tyvar a bit annoying at first, but his growing on me, as long as he grows too. Freyalise is still top badass elf, for me.
"Warriors!" Harald calls. The sigils and guides along the sides of the ship begin to glow. "Our grudges are ancient. A single battle shall not wipe clean the slate of old wrongs. When the morrow comes, all of us will once more be enemies!" "But that is only if we live to greet the morrow, my brothers and sisters in arms. Today, the valkyries will have their choice of heroes; today is a day the skalds shall sing of for centuries. Will your descendants name you a hero, or a coward?" "If Kaldheim survives, let it survive because we fought! If it dies, let it die a warrior's death, axe in hand, a boast on its lips, and mead in its belly!" That speech had me ready to charge into battle to either save a world or die a glorious death.
Yeah I think they're winning in that one, they have an important new planeswalker there and have literally prepared for millenia to deal with an interplanar invasion. We saw a giant Toski in the art, he was either compleated too, or he's already chewing on the root of the Phyrexian tree
My only problem with all these planes getting attacked is that you could do entire sets on each plane and with it would come entire sets of stories. Could have been way bigger of a story.
@@StealthNinja4577 They've tried extended Phyrexia before and it could only go so far. We've been building up for this for 3 years now. They have to turn the page sonner rather than later. That said, I'd rather have had a more spaced out build up.
I can see them doing this event and later releasing some kind of "memories" sets and books. So they avoid spending too much time on this and still milking it all the way.
oh yeah, no, I wish it was something along the lines of one battle per set, because this means that Kaldheim has gotten the shaft twice now, once when it's once set just... didn't flesh anything out, and a second time when it'll be lumped in with all the other random phyrexian battles
I think it’s going to have something to do with the Eldrazi. This incursion into the blind eternities also affect them as much as the planes. Also remember how Emarkrul sees herself as. She sees herself as an angel when Jace saw within her mind. Emarkrul is probably talking with Elspeth.
I’m pretty sure we will see them again. Wizards put out an animated trailer for March of the Machines and for a couple brief seconds you see Eldrazi. They might even be bringing Ulamog back because his iconic split arms erupt out of the ground. Plus they already confirmed they are releasing a colorless Eldrazi preconstructed commander deck with that set.
I was hoping to hear Urabrask confronting the invasion force on New Capenna. Unless he’s left the plane already and failed to recruit the old Phyrexians.
1 phrase "it's not time yet" and "it's not my time not yet" and the angel emeria, I'm thinking emrakul was released from the moon of innistrad after tamaios death and now she's on the plane with some of the most powerful angels looking at another extremely powerful angel
Wait, good point- without Tammy's magic binding her there, emrakul is totally free to ravage the plane. Wait, does this mean we get a phyrexians vs eldrazi arc?
Potentially, I mean emrakul and elesh norn both want follows and both corrupt to get them, they're very similar if you think about it. One wants follows in support of the one and the other wants followers of joyous song and not resentful screams. Imagine a phyrexian eldrazi
I think emrakul was a weapon made by the watchers that was released too early or escaped to help destroy the phyrexians, thats why emrakul was the promised end
Amonkhet is probably the plane I'd like to see revisited the most. What's happening there after Hour of Devastation and War of the Spark? Has Hazoret managed to rebuild? I really hope we return soon.
Great way to start the week! a holiday and a video from my fav channel. I'm with you on the Huatli's reference, was nice to have her throgh Saheeli's work. And of course the stranger's voice has to be Elspeth 'Ascendant'.
I'm almost half expecting Bolas to make an appearance, or will Emrakul be freed on Innistrad. Where is Ugin whilst all of this is happening. I believe he would be a great help against New Phyrexia.
Ugin is bound to the Meditation Plane. Like he said, no one can leave or enter. He isn't an exception to that- both he and Bolas (if Bolas is even still around, he is literally just and average dragon now with no unique features to speak of, he could've died from old age for all we know). Bolas isn't coming back, and sadly neither is Ugin. Not unless someone on the outside went to them, but no one else knows of the Meditation plane, nor could they, since it's now permanently cut off.
@@theoutspokentheorist9578 bolas isn't a normal dragon though, he's still an elder dragon, all they did was seal his power. His mind however, is still not a joke
With the story being multiplaner, what a perfect opportunity to reprint all the good land cards that are limited to specific planes, like the triomes and lairs and castles etc. But with Phyrexian invasion art.
Aetherborn would make for a brilliant defensive army for Kaladesh against any invasion, if they could be made on mass. They're born with basically all the knowledge they need to fight, and they can't be compleated because they're not flesh and they turn to dust when they die. You might as well try to compleate a ghost.
@@TheBlindEternitiesheliod at least gives a plausible explanation on the card- since gods on Theros are shaped by belief, by compleating most of the population you change their faith. The compleating of Lukka also implies it's not just contact with the Oil that transforms you, as he started turning due to his mindbonding with the phyrexian beast
@@darkgloomie He didn't start getting compleated until he told the beast to help him stay on it. Then it genuinely trying to him stabbed him and infected him.
Elesh Norn: What happened to our forces in New Capenna! Arrives a package with a fish enveloped with a newspaper and a note "The Don sends his regards".
Side thought. After Karn build Mirrodin, Memnarch brought creatures from other planes to inhabit it. And Atraza was an angel brought to the world, perhaps she was originally from Capaena. We know they had run ins with Phyrexia in the past.
@@a_fuckin_spacemarine7514 Nonsense, then how would they know about Phyrexians during it's story? Why would Halo have any effect on something they don't even know exists? Why would the angels and demons of the plane lie about all of that?
This background noises made me believe my headphones were malfunctioning, damn Phyrexians... I do hope those staticy noises were indeed on the background...
I feel like it is Elspeth asking the questions, but I don't think it's the Angels of new Capenna responding. I think it's the same "watchers" we saw at Vess manor and they're watching things go down on all the planes. Since Elspeth took the sylex to the blind eternities, I'm thinking it could be the eldrazi who basically exist out there most the time, but there are theories that it could be a DEEP lore callback that is the ancients of Equilor, which is supposedly the oldest plane in Magic. Idk that they'd bring back something so obscure like that though. So many questions!
Trying to unite the 5 colors of mana and all that they represent is doomed to fail. Urabrask already acting out, Sheoldred is toast, just waiting for the next one to fall. Her ambition will be her downfall.
Is it possible that Atraxa becomes “un-compleated”? With the Halo, I’m hoping it changes her back, or at LEAST changes her enough to no longer be Phyrexian
Why do I feel like the big conclusion to this is them going to release the eldrazi from there prison since there technically the only ones who can fight on an even playing field
I bet they will flood the Tower of New Capenna with Halo once all the phyrexians are in place to wipe them all out at once also imagine what would happen if they pumped all the halo in to realmbreaker
I don't know why but i feel atraxa is gonna go through an arc like Robocop Trying to regain the ... "humanity" She once had as an angel. And her reaction has made cracks in herself like her scion which could lead to rebellion. Honestly It'd probably be best if elesh quietly invaded enticing people to convert and spreading the good work of machines LIKE A ACTUAL CHURCH, but no that yawgmoth in her says invade and slaughter. And if most of the forces were converted like atraxa that would be a problem for ms protractor head but then again mindless drones while obedient are simple minded
Sorry if this has been answered many times already, but I'm wondering if the story somehow explained why compleating the other worlds was able to occur so quickly. Compared to the original Dominarian saga where Gix pulled some strings during the brother's war and the invasion fended off by Gerrard and crew a millenia later, I didn't get the impression that there was ever a rapid planar compleation process that March of the Machine portrays. As for Mirrodin, I've always felt that its metallic nature was what allowed most of the plane to eventually become compleated with a few drops of oil, which isn't a characteristic that most of these other planes have (exceptions could be the Esper section of Alara, and to a lesser extent Kamigawa and Kaladesh). I suppose that there could be an argument that underground compleation started ever since the new praetors began visiting other planes, but I still don't get the impression that it'd lead to sudden mass compleation (using Dominaria as an example again, underground Phyrexian influence has existed there for millenia, which didn't cause mass planar compleation pre-invasion era...even the Rathi overlay plan didn't lead to that).
There are two posibilities: - 1°: The phyrexians got bettee technology over the years and they are just more efficient rn -2°: A magician did it (like every story WotC does tbh)
I believe some of it is do to the improvement to the oil and them having a large fleet of soldiers anyway also its possible that for several pre visited planes some seeds were planted like how in the story of kailhiem voricelx was able to escape and travel using liquid metal veins they also could have corrupting phyrexian units to speed it up kinda like how the nercomophs do it.
Perhaps the Phyrexia of the brother's war was imperfect, only wanting one world to fall. This incarnation wants the multiverse as a whole, and had the time from the genesis of Mirrodin until the march to develop this brutal efficiency.
It is more likely a testament to how OP the Oldwalkers are that it takes Yawgmoth's full attention to conquer a single plane and Dominaria seems to have had a LOT of Oldwalkers compared to other planes.
I hated on Tyvar when he first dropped cuz he was golgari instead of jund or Rock/abzan but him and Ajani have quickly become two of my fav chars in all of MTG. Just compleated my Elesh Norn, Mom deck that's basically infect super friends to act as a parallel to my mono white Elspeth decks for this homebrew Phyrexia format (not that shit format that wizards just dropped). Till All Are One, stay well Aether Hub.
@@oliveromarsson4189 Freyalise was red aligned up until her spark ignited the real reason she shifted to green was because it was a green spell that awakened her spark so she became fascinated with it.
Get the shotguns and napalm ready folks, *FOR THE OIL SHALL BURN!!* (My resistance rally cry) Another heart stopping reading, things are getting hectic to a peak!
Ugh this story has become so stupid. Glad you are enjoying it, but there is a total dissociation in story telling since bolas became someone who feared phyrexia but then sends the Tez to them out of cowardly intrigue.
Bolas didn't outright fear the Phyrexians, but was wary of them, knowing they might be a wrench in his plans and something which would draw too much of his resources and attention in case those pesky phyrexians thought to expand beyond the plane of mirrodin. In the end, he was right though and with him not having gained his original godlike power, phyrexia is all the more difficult to stop.
@@TheChill001 What you wrote while I understand to you doesn't seem like outright fear did present itself to me after reading both the source material and your comment was certainly in my opinion outright fear. Not only that, but bolas was a millennia old strategist who, again to me, was retconned into a lesser force than the phyrexians due to the displeasure from the war of the spark and a need to show that he wasn't the actual threat to the multiverse. This feels very much like marvels problem after the avengers finally assembled, every threat is an avengers level one. and that is a pretty boring world, in my final opinion. No hate though I can understand why we don't see it the same way.
Thanks, I didn't know about this side story this far, it's great to get to get to know characters also on an emotional level. And the letters of Huatli fit very nicely into the Lore of the "Warrior Poet". I love Magic for these little things.
