What Happens in the Epilogue Chapters for Outlaws of Thunder Junction? 

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Main Takeaways: Jace doesn’t pull out canonically, Loot is the key to new merchandise. Jace’s MOM is the GOAT

The writer for the epilogue was also the one who wrote the absolutely beloved Ixalan storyline! I'm so happy she came back after all these years, this epilogue was so good

Overjoyed that they got Allison Luhrs back to write more Jace/Vraska! My dreams of half-gorgon babies may be dashed, but I will take the cute merchandizable mascot

At the start of the story today I was “done” with Magic story (as someone that read the books in the 90s). I was thinking simple plot armor “oil vanished - Jace and Vraska cured”. But, I actually like how old story elements helped them survive and am pleasantly surprised. I REALLY LIKE the idea of them becoming the new “villains” (depending on viewpoint). Like Ryan says: it’s compelling because of “what are they willing to do?”

You should have noted that Lead Pipe got a story spotlight upside Proft's head!

This epilogue is much better than the main story of the set

I love more than anything that Jace raw-dogging is canon. That was important to know.

Man I absolutely died at the cold brew coffee from Tarkir joke

So Jace’s mom heals using Phoenix down?

i hope we see garruk on strixhaven as a double faced planeswalker with liliana

the "9 years earlier" was a great call back to another banger mtg novel, the Agents of Artifice Fans should give it a go if they can get their hands on the book

I like the direction the story is going. The omen paths are more interesting than I initially thought.

Oh man, we're finally here! I absolutely adored the Epilogue chapters. I think the author did a great job of walking us back through the relevant parts of Jace's history to provide context for the journey she was about to take Jace and Vraska on. I loved how the flashback scenes recontextualized prior scenes from across the past year of Magic's story, and I thought the answers that she provided for most of the big remaining questions, like how Jace and Vraska survived, were interesting and satisfying. But what I loved most about these chapters were how they set up Jace, Vraska, and Loot to be our new Anti-Hero Antagonists. My favorite type of antagonist is "the person who has steadfast, unwavering convictions but who is horribly misguided". The kind of antagonist will genuinely reach out to the heroes with a welcoming hand and an invitation to join them, and who cannot understand when that invitation is rejected. Watching the trio walk off into the sunset with their hearts set on burning everything down to rebuild it to their own standards was such a great ending. I'm genuinely excited to see what happens next!

These are the stories that make me love Jace as a character. He's grown so much from the cocky kid in the artifice books.

I should have known this from her years as a pirate captain, but Vraska really does love seamen

Jace and Vraska being the new villains is cool! I'm just hoping the end of the 'omenpath arc' doesn't actually end with the only people able to traverse the planes being planeswalkers again. Like, Wizards could probably cut down on Thunder Junction-esque "EVERYONE IS HERE!!" sets, but a multiverse where everybody has the possibility to go anywhere is really interesting to me. And also it lets us get Fblthp cameos in non-Ravnica sets.

Remember when a single drop of Phyrexian oil was enough to infect an entire plane? When an ancient golem planeswalker had to be healed by the sacrifice of his friend's life to even have a chance at recovery? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Jace appearing and saying 'Mommy HELP' will forever be burned into my mind🤣🤣

Just gotta say I love these videos. I love the lore but have found it so hard to read the past year or two, so I usually just wait patiently until you post your summaries to keep me informed.

I LITERALLY was asking my friend at church today, "So, how did Jace get uncompleated?" Thanks, my dude.

I really enjoyed these epilogue stories, thanks for covering them!

I love your channel, there's no other talking about the lore like you. It's so enjoyable to watch. Keep the good work 👏🏼

waited for this forever love it keep up the good work this was a great set story

The main story already gave me a "Borderlands" vibe, with the western theme, the vault and it having a powerful creature inside. Now with Tamiyo mentioning that there are several of these vaults, I'm quite sure where the writers got their inspiration from.

Haven't been so interested in a MTG story for quite some time. It's nice to have one like this.

Dude, the epilogue sounds dope! I’m def gonna read now-especially interested in Jace and his mom ❤

So a multiverse of posibilities and Jace heals by the combination of wishing really hard to get good and phoenix feather.

You make excellent videos and I must watch your older material

Bro..... Poor garruk he got replaced as THE mono green Planeswalker by both Nissa and Vivian, he was supposedly watching over the kenrith twins (and we saw what a great job Wotc let him do there) and now Jace is stealing his thunder (pun intended) by tracking down oko..... Wotc just let garruk have SOMETHING

I love this story! Thanks Ryan amazing story video for my evening chill!🎉🎉🎉awesome

Don’t remind me of WOTC’s treatment of Garruk. One day he shall return to us.

I had already read and cried about this epilogue and i still wasn't ready to hear it again 😭

great story telling

I’ve honestly loved jace’s growth since gatewatch. Having him and vraska survive was one of the best things from thunder junction.

The epilogue is well worth reading more than once -- been a long long time since any magic lore did that.

6:31 I could have sworn Jace and Vraska went to Vryn following the war of the spark.

This is probably the best part of the whole story

Gotta be honest. I almost cried when I was listening to the epilogue chapters on YT with the whole jace's mom part.

Man, it's really good for the phyrexians that nobody else ever tried thinking really hard about not being infected.

Great telling Ryan. So Vraska and Jace now wants to become Thanos.

If Jace turned out to be some kinda of Phyrexian sleeper agent that set a bunch of stuff into motion behined the scenes when he disappeared I'd be super onboard for all this "let's just pretend all that didn't happen" angle they'e aiming for, but I really don't see that as very likely tbh

I was really curious what lazav, was doing here. Hoping one of these epilogues covered it. Damn him for being so slippery, no wonder Mirko is still foaming at his fangs over this

Great video as always

Well, I’m glad we got to know what happened to Jace and Vraska. Finally. And the story with his mother was a nice touch. And though I don’t like Loots design, it does explain his presence there. Somewhat. It looks like it might be to start of an overarching story. We probably haven’t seen the last of Loot.

My theory is that they arent actually cured of their oil, jace is both cocky and often not as good as he thinks he is, so i could see the oil using him to basically go dormant. With wizards playing the long game and all the plot holes from march being actually relevant for a later storyline. His and vraskas plan seems too phyrexian to me to be their own thoughts and it comes about in an almost body snatcher trance in front of an omenpath.

Hope jace and vraska can remake the multiverse, a soft reboot could be interesting

I'm not going to lie, Jace making a mental bubble to fight of the the virus is the exact defences I imagined for him when he got infected. Him being this super mental mage, to me it might make sence that he would be able to do it. Like if hes able to use his mental prowess to take Controle of someone else's body why couldn't he use his mind magic to take control of his own body.

1) Final Fantasy Phoenix Downs are now canon in MtG 2) I adore that you skirted the detail that Jace & Vraska have been trying to conceive to

Ryan no! The cookie you gave Garruk has first strike!

I actually liked the epilogue chapters covering the events of what happened with Jace and Vraska. Obviously it was on everyone’s minds after March of the Machines ended. The whole bit of them going to Tarkir for some cold brew had me in stitches. 🤣

Good summary

I love how its just a story about 2 lovestruck people who try and push their love away but in the end it takes them dying and coming back to accept the truth, get married, and go on a world travel with their newly adopted kid.

WotC can you make Tarkir Coldbrew a thing?! Like sell them at our locale lgs so we have something themed to drink during game nights!

Hot take: Ashiok is actually Jace in every single story before Thunder Junction, but we will only discover it when time travel becomes a thing in Magic.

Great as always but I miss the mustache minute!! I’m interested in your opinion on this one since I think it was well written even if the “plot “ was somewhat off

Eill power, mind over matter and an army Medic is all it takes to cure Phyresis. Who knew, if only Orim knew we would never have lost Hanna.

Well, I wanted Jace to be the next Big Bad, just didn't expect it to go down like this. Neat!

'...they spend months on vryn healing, talking, and planning.' mhm

Okay, first I’ll say that I didn’t mind the epilogue-I thought it was actually decent…also fantastic video as always…now, I’m not even sure if this is place to make this comment, but I want to say that I personally want to see a storyline that features a regular non-planeswalker (sparked/desparked) non super iconic magical being (Kellen/rakdos/amalia) as a new original baron zemo esq villain who is determined to finish what the multiverse started and end all planeswalkers. I even think it would be the coolest thing ever to have the artists slowly tease the figure in the background of common cards (which can be more easily overlooked) to highlight just how often the little people on the planes of this grand universe are ignored. I just want more grounded villains who are willing to methodically plot to outwit other characters who are most likely way more powerful and threatening…additionally this would prove that not every evil character needs to be a Nicol Bolas, a phyrexian praetor, or a planeswalker duo across sets (because when we often get a villain who doesn’t fit that description they die or are defeated in one set-most recently Akul, who I would argue couldn’t fit my hypothetical villain role anyways but still he was cool and now he’s gone). I don’t know if anyone will read this book of a comment but let me know what y’all think because I’m curious to see what this community wants and feels about the current story’s roots and the direction they seem to be growing towards.

If they use Phoenix feathers to remake the multiverse...Bolas could be hiding the elements of his being in the sparks that he took while on Ravnica. Rebirthing the multiverse with Phoenix magics, gives almost everything a chance to start a new. Say the phased out Phyrexia! Old Phyrexia? Tolarian Academy? Tarkir? Ellicor? Would love to see the Heroes become the villains. Thunder Junction?... Not MTG. They still need to give Arcanis a background story if ya ask me. Favorite card btw.😅

Could you imagine if you could just cure all phyrexian damage with ONE phoenix feather? We get one of those chickens in every single plane why are the phyrexians even a threat at all

Somehow this sounds a bit like the beginning of Jaces Villain arc. Since he sees himself as the one who knows what planes are worth existing.

I think the most important thing we learned from the epilogue before Jace not pulling out is that Tarkir has cold brew coffee

The question is by “rebirthing things” what would that do to to places like where bolas is at and would that effect where emrakul is imprisoned?

Ojutai's cold brew coffee, only available on Tarkir.

The one thing I am questioning is how messed up is Jace still. Annie said even after he “let his illusion down” that he was still messed up before he told her to sleep

The legion forgot complaetion kills the soul to PSA going home to mom. Regardless, omenpaths mean Bolas is free since Teferi's plane was "reached and swapped"

I had the impression that Vraska's locked memories were unlocked during the pre-War of the spark stories by her albino Kraul servant. Which actually, at that point, made the whole Jace's plan of "you re my captain" redundant

12:04 Blimey, so does that means that we'll definitely NOT have a Shandalar set in the future?

In my opinion, I think the epilogue was written better than the main story for Thunder Junction. Because it least the epilogue made sense while also tying up some loose ends from previous sets.

I’m going to say my prediction and leave it at that. Gatewatch Civil War

DAMN RIGHT GARRUK DESERVES MORE RESPECT

Took your advice and read both chapters. I was not disappointed. Thanks!

It's so weird them talking about "Evil not spreading" when there were already evil planeswalkers. Like even if you believe in the balance of good and evil, I don't buy that anything has really changed. Also, the obscene hubris in thinking that you can, let alone should remake the multiverse as you see fit.

Quick question: how did Jace get Vraska to Vryn if she doesnt have a spark. I was under the impression that transporting other living things is extremely rare (Wrenn and Jiang are the only ones i can remember). Is this not rare anymore? Has Jace shown the ability to do this before and i missed it?

This story was fantastic. I do however want more information on Kaito and the Wanderer post-rupture. I wish we could swap out furry plane for more Kamigawa.

Other than the creation of the Javamancers from Tarkbucks, I think these chapters were the best stories we've gotten in years

Getting phyrexianised? Just say no. You can't be turned into a phyrexian without your consent.

This made me think are their any major villains who were trapped on a plane that can now wreak havoc? I don’t know enough about magic history to know myself but can nicol bolas escape now? Or what about the slivers?

Maybe there will be a Ravnica vs Guildpact storyline...

These 2 epilogue has far better written than all set after ONE. The writing is pretty good (judging from the mess element and plot that they got in hand) prolly except that coffee party tho , that one just...wait they have coffee??! Loool

Prediction: Jace and Vraska will do the thing with the thing to "fix" the multiverse. And, in so doing will also release Nicol Bolas from his prison and he will of course inevitably regain his spark and his former power because he's super smart and crafty. This will also something something the leylines and mana in the multiverse and Emrakul will realize that now it's time to leave her slumber in the moon over Inistrad. And bing bang boom we've got not one but two big bads lined up for the next couple years.

If I wanted to read all of the stories where would I? I am a newer player & I have watched people recap the stories but I have always wanted to read it myself!

Considering he was the actual benefactor of this round-up gang, maybe Jace will be the tournament organizer for the death race.

I think Jace should have snail eyes forever

I'm curious of Ashiok's thoughts on another using their visage to manipulate others. It sou ds like something they'd get a kick out of.

A plane where no one will see them coming... Persona 5 reference

I remember when Jace was the annoying too cool for school protag now he feels like an old friend and mistakes or not Im rooting for him.

I have kind of a bad feeling of Jace and Vraska will only get a slap on the wrist despite planning something huge. Because it sounds like they are planning to do what the sylex was origi ally meant to do except instead of a 50% percent of the multiverse gone, thwy want to wipe out *everything* and have no idea what kind of consequence that would bring.

So is Jace ashiok the entire wilds of eldraine story or just that one prison part and this set?

I still want to know what happened to the Planeswalker sparks.

Big fan of the omenpaths as a piece of the story. It has hamstrung the story and design of the game for years to have this artificial barrier that prevents X plane/character from interacting with Y character/plane. That doesn't make sense when the underlying premise of the game is literally "magic."

Wait, Jace's mom literally used Phoenix Down on them? Fitting given that we are getting Final Fantasy.

The Mending 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Allison Luhrs thank you for good stories for jace and varaska and setting cool concepts but not gonna lie loot and his normal art weird the alter art makes him better

It might be stupid, but only Jace except Ugin knows that Bolas is inprisoned on Meditation Realm, and Loot is Key to Everything, so….. maybe they will finally show still kicking Bolas some spotlight? Like, what is more destructive force to destroy the Multiverse (in order to allow it’s rebirth) than one of the Elder Dragons, and probably the most powerfull one alive? I would love if they unleashed him, or at least stop pretending „well, he’s nowhere to be seen, so he must be dead”.

Speaking of Garruk: why is wizards so averse to bringing him back? We haven't seen hide nor hair of him since original Eldraine. Ixalan (or even Wilds of Eldraine) would've been great moments to reintroduce Garruk to the story! I hope we see him soon because I miss my boy. Dude got cured of the chain veil curse then seemingly dematerialized.

So I guess Jace and Vraska are villains (again)? I know they see themselves as doing the right thing, but their plan definitely sounds like a lot like Cyrus from Pokemon: destroy the world and remake it how I think it should be, etc etc. I definitely do not trust Jace and Vraska to decide what the "bad" parts of the multiverse are and only get rid of that, ya know?

I find it funny that the biggest complaint in the comments about this epilogue is a decision that was already made in Magic's story. Like Nahiri litterally just woke up and chose not to be phyrexianized anymore; compared to that, this story puts in a lot of justification as to why they could try to survive it. Halo/burned phyrexian oil; mind controlled to attack their own body about it; and magic about litterally coming backing to the dead by a good healer. I get the frustration about the oil not being treated with storyline continuity in MoM, but I would think it worse if they got more inconsistent with it by just flip-flopping after it's not the focus of the story anymore.