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Spoilers from the Ixalan World Guide: The Sun Empire is defending their home from the Legion of Dusk (Vampire Conquistadors) who comes from another continent, in the name of the Queen Miralda and the church of Torrezon. The vampires are there to get more slaves to serve and feed their empire. Ixalan is the name of the island.

Conquering the Design of Ixalan, featuring Conqueror's Galleon/Conqueror's Foothold

Bit of an on-the-nose way to represent Imperial Europe's influence on South America but not an inaccurate one. I can get behind this.

Yeah, making the Imperial European analogues predatory bloodsucking monsters with a veneer of civilization does seem a bit on the nose...but it fits.

edited 5th Sep '17 7:09:59 PM by M84

Also, the vampires are like a privileged class within the conqueror's society, right? Rather than whole shiploads of vampires, it might be, like, a vampire priesthood and a bunch of lackeys.

Jace, alone. New story. Finally.

edited 6th Sep '17 10:42:50 AM by googlebot

A Royal Recipe for Dinosaur Tribal, featuring Regisaur Alpha and a list of the older cards that are getting errata-ed into Dinosaurs.

I don't normally like amnesia plots, but I'm enjoying this concept. Jace is a great character to do this with. I just hope he doesn't get things under control too quickly. I feel like you could get a whole story out of this premise of Jace alone and forced to survive while in the company of incredible telepathic abilities that are constantly misfiring, while also having to find a way to decode the complex, labyrinthine structure that is Jace's mind.

edited 6th Sep '17 5:17:31 PM by TobiasDrake

Maybe this is a lead in to something. What if, when Jace gets his memories back, he gets all of them back?

That would give us a logical lead-in to a future Vryn block, which I'm pretty sure is on the cards at some point. Also, that pun was not deliberate, I'm just leaving it in because I'm awful.

Going back to the Planeswalker changes, one thing I love about that article is the edit saying that you can't use them as your Commander even though they're Legendary.

You just know that somebody rushed to make a Jace, the Mind Sculptor deck right away.

Wonder if this means Jace will become an example of Came Back Strong after this ordeal via relearning how to use his powers without a manipulative mindraping sphinx sabotaging his training.

I never got why there was a confusion about that. EDH generals has always been Legendary Creatures. No one has ever asked about using Legendary enchantments, artifacts or lands as the general.

Actually, that one already happened to Jace after defeating said sphinx. After planeswalking to Ravnica as a clean slate, he learned to use his powers from scratch. I'm not a Jace lore expert, but, his... finesse... dropped after that battle. So a theory is that by regaining his Vryn memories he will get a powerup.

• Everything You Need to Know about ''Magic: the Gathering Arena''
• Enraptored, featuring;
  • Ravenous Daggertooth
  • Ranging Raptors
  • Raptor Hatchling

As for that last one, with the right preparation, you can now make a token-making engine that is Powered by a Forsaken Child...

I would say it is if anything a very un-forsaken child, given the number of family members who will show up to protect it!

Why We Make Hate Cards, featuring Rampaging Ferocidon.

Some posts from the Mothership and the Magic Tumblr;

• Iconic Masters Full Card Image Gallery
• Making Magic: Just for Ix(alan), Part 2, featuring Dowsing Dagger/Lost Vale
• Behold, the gorgeous borderless John Avon lands in Unstable!

New story.

I like Huatli. ^.^

Also, I expected Angrath to be a Planeswalker but wasn't expecting that. Weird that he seems to have two special properties. Walkers usually have one special planeswalker gift, like Jace's mentalism, Gideon's barrier, or Chandra's pyromancy, that they can learn how to use in various ways.

I speculate that Angrath's chains are his special gift, while the burning heat is a special Minotaur trait from whatever plane he originates on. I'm guessing Regatha.

One other interesting thing I noticed about him; his name sounds like it could be an anagram of Tahngarth, who was also a minotaur (But it isn't actually. Tahngarth has two more letters than Angrath). The Weatherlight Saga was too far before my time for me to know much more about Tahngarth, but could there be a connection there?

edited 13th Sep '17 5:50:56 PM by Lightblade

I hope Huatli joins the story circle.

Tahngarth officially survived, and literally sailed off into the sunset in search of more adventure. If his spark ignited later, he could have been doing almost anything; and would be an interesting return to a very old character.

I'm thinking about making a Red and Blue deck as an experiment.

Got any suggestions?

Use good cards.

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Sorry, you're going to need a few more parameters for a deck design before anything more specific can be offered.