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Could they use another Japanese era?

In theory, but the resonance-over-strict-accuracy thing they started going for after Kamigawa means that it will probably have ninja and samurai regardless.

Like, there's a reason that the Greek plane went for hoplites and satyrs and not, say, the Byzantine or Ottoman periods.

Back in October Wizards registered a bunch of domain names related to Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.

Oh dear. The Kamigawa storyline was set about a thousand years ago - does this imply that we could have a magical cyberpunk adventure?

I may yet eat my words.

Making Magic: Norsing Around, Part 1, previewing Toralf, God of Fury/Toralf's Hammer.

The article also gives brief descriptions of each of the Ten Realms, its primary and secondary color, and its focus creature tribe.

Also, from the last page:

Why not both?

Edited by Lightblade on Jan 11th 2021 at 6:46:27 AM

It fits that this kind of God seems to lack Indestructible. Norse deities were rather more mortal than most pantheons - they even aged normally (they stayed young by eating magical apples).

So it seems that there's some panic setting in about the World Tree's power level. Less the 10 mana ridiculous ability, and more what it will do to a deck's mana base.

Supposedly it'll result in 5 color good stuff piles and octopi wielding Embercleaves.

Kaldheim main story, Episode 2: Awaken the Trolls, by Roy Graham, with contributions from Jenna Helland

It's just Tibalt. He's harmless.

So does the "Trolls" in the title refer to the literal trolls or the figurative one Tibalt?

Here's the Planeswalker's Guide to Kaldheim, Part 2, featuring details of the remaining nine realms of Kaldheim.

I have edited the MTG memes page to incorporate the Colossal Dreadmaw meme. I'm surprised it wasn't there, last years it has been very common.

No intention to offend, but it's just me or the memes listed in that page are nearly all very ancient ones? Or at least, the ratio between recent memes and old ones is very skewed towards the later?

Part 2 of last week's side story is here:

Aim Through the Target, by Setsu Uzume

https://mtgazone.com/card/khm-123-birgi-god-of-tales/

New monored god. You can draw through your whole deck with cantrips, generate mana with kobolds, create infinite ETB triggers with Grinning Ignus and generate more mana off of rituals and eggs.

Two Kobolds and a Cloudstone Curio makes infinite mana with this one to power out a Grape Shot or Fireball.

I also like how the gods in this set aren't all super strong combat monster Physical God types.

^Generally, the Norse gods tended to be a lot more... human, for lack of a better word, than Greek ad Egyptian gods were. Zeus and Horus weren't beings a mortal human was ever going to meet; they were cosmic rulers of immense power and authority, entities entirely beyond the mortal experience. By contrast, Odin and Thor and their lot walked among people, and needed to consume a special fruit to maintain their immortality.

Also, a couple tidbits of note:

One, we now have the general gist of what's going on with Tibalt and Valki.

The card text's in what I think is Portuguese, but the general gist is "Ah, Valki. You disappoint me. How could a god of lies be so naive?"

Second, Coward is now a creature type. I wonder if we'll be seeing errata — my money is on Ironclaw Buzzardiers.

Edited by Theriocephalus on Jan 18th 2021 at 1:11:41 PM

The card artwork for the Craven Hulk is pretty good. It's fitting that at first glance you might not even notice the giant since it's hiding and trying to blend in with the rock.

I guess Coward was a creature type before, just one that could only be imposed by card effects.

When I saw the type line on Craven Hulk as I was browsing the Card Image Gallery for newly previewed cards, I had to stop reading for a few minutes because I was laughing so hard at the type line!

Anyway, here's some more preview articles from the Mothership.

Making Magic: Norsing Around, Part 2, prewiewing Doomskar.

Leading Kaldheim Set Design

One passage in that last article struck me as interesting, under the "Uh-oh! What is this doing here?" section.

I think that's a neat little touch to underscore the threat Vorinclex poses; all of the epic Sagas of the Multiverse are meaningless unless Vorinclex is dealt with.

3 mana wrath is legit

New Kaldheim main story is up.

Episode 3: The Saga of Tibalt, by Roy Graham, with contributions from Jenna Helland

So Vorinclex is the Greater-Scope Villain after all. If I had to guess, after all the fighting's done, he'll be able to pitch his assistance to the elves or something. "You lost today. But if you accept Compleation, you will never be so weak again."

Tibalt being infected makes this fate kind of concerning, to be honest.

I do not think that's Tibalt. Consider the fact there's no story spotlight written on there.