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* TooGoodToBeTrue: In ''Dissension'', a Simic Combine representative meets with Jarad to try to sell him on cytoplastic enhancements for the Golgari Swarm. Not only is the representative going to give him the cytoplasts for free, but he's effectively going to pay Jarad millions of zinos to take them. Jarad finds the whole deal incredibly suspicious, especially since the representative keeps raising the amount of money being offered, and eventually he throws the rep out. His suspicions are later proven correct: had he accepted, all the cytoplasts would have ripped themselves off their hosts when Momir Vig initiated Project Kraj.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Over the twelve-year TimeSkip between ''Ravnica'' and ''Guildpact''[=/=]''Dissension'', Fonn and Jarad got married, had a kid, realized that they couldn't make their marriage work due to scheduling conflicts and incompatible worldviews, and split up. Then their son is kidnapped by the Cult of Rakdos. The two immediately put aside their differences and storm the cult's headquarters to save their son, [[spoiler:with Jarad dying in the process]].
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* {{Synchronization}}: Izolda's ritual to take control of Rakdos makes her suffer any injuries that the demon-god receives. This presents a massive problem when Rakdos is engulfed by a colossal, acidic BlobMonster. Izolda is quickly overwhelmed by the pain of her sympathetic injuries and collapses, at which point the other cultists [[DevouredByTheHorde eat her alive]].
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* KidWithTheLeash: In ''Dissension'', the young Myc ends up with a PsychicLink to the demon-god Rakdos due to an ImperfectRitual. This gives Myc a measure of control over the demon's actions. Rakdos does not appreciate this in the slightest, as he doesn't like having a small child in his mind controlling his actions, and he warns Myc that he will destroy him as soon as he can figure out how to do so without potentially harming himself. Sure enough, once the link is broken, Rakdos immediately tries to kill Myc.
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* ImperfectRitual: In Dissension, the Rakdos priestess Izolda performs a dark ritual that will awaken Rakdos the Defiler from his slumber and give her control over the demon-god. The ritual goes awry when Jarad shoots the ceremonial bowl out of her hands with an arrow, making the blood and dragon cerebrospinal fluid it contained splash onto his son Myc. This creates a PsychicLink between Myc and Rakdos and gives the boy a (small) measure of influence over the demon's actions.
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* ImperfectRitual: In Dissension, ''Dissension'', the Rakdos priestess Izolda performs a dark ritual that will awaken Rakdos the Defiler from his slumber and give her control over the demon-god. The ritual goes awry when Jarad shoots the ceremonial bowl out of her hands with an arrow, making the blood and dragon cerebrospinal fluid it contained splash onto his son Myc. This creates a PsychicLink between Myc and Rakdos and gives the boy a (small) measure of influence over the demon's actions.
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* ImperfectRitual: In Dissension, the Rakdos priestess Izolda performs a dark ritual that will awaken Rakdos the Defiler from his slumber and give her control over the demon-god. The ritual goes awry when Jarad shoots the ceremonial bowl out of her hands with an arrow, making the blood and dragon cerebrospinal fluid it contained splash onto his son Myc. This creates a PsychicLink between Myc and Rakdos and gives the boy a (small) measure of influence over the demon's actions.
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* OhMyGods: Characters frequently invoke the name of the goblin deity Krokt as a mild curse.
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* OffscreenRomance: Over the twelve-year TimeSkip between books 1 and 2, Fonn and Jarad got married, had a kid, and got divorced.
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* {{Irony}}: In Ravnica, people who die sudden, violent deaths tend to become woundseekers, vengeful ghosts that lash out at the living in a blind fury. The sole exception seems to be members of the Cult of Rakdos: these murderous psychopaths ''expect'' to die suddenly and violently, so their ghosts tend to be as placid as they come.
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* {{Irony}}: In Ravnica, people who die sudden, violent deaths tend to become woundseekers, vengeful ghosts that lash out at the living in a blind fury. The sole consistent exception seems to be members of the Cult of Rakdos: these murderous psychopaths ''expect'' to die suddenly and violently, so their ghosts tend to be as placid as they come.
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* RoyalInbreeding: The families that make up the leadership of the Orzhov Syndicate have kept their magical bloodlines pure through a lot of incest. This results in many of them having weak constitutions and congenital birth defects, such as Teysa Karlov's limp or the boatload of health problems that "Uncle" Karlov had at the end of his incredibly long life.
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* {{Irony}}: In Ravnica, people who die sudden, violent deaths tend to become woundseekers, vengeful ghosts that lash out at the living in a blind fury. The sole exception seems to be members of the Cult of Rakdos: these murderous psychopaths ''expect'' to die suddenly and violently, so their ghosts tend to be as placid as they come.
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* PossessingADeadBody: The taj are ghostly Orzhov assassins who specialize in killing people and possessing their corpses to create what are essentially super-zombies, which they then use to kill more people.
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* InertiaIsACruelMistress: When the white dragon tackles the blue dragon head-on, stopping its forward momentum, Hauc is flung off the blue dragon's shoulders and crashes headfirst into a cliff at breakneck speed.
