Behold my legal acumen!
Nahiri never did learn to Never Recycle Your Schemes.
Episode 9: The Old Sins of New Phyrexia
Episode 10 (finale): The Rhythms of Life
We've also gotten our first look at a Battle card
. This one seems to function like a reverse Planeswalker: instead of something you play to the field that other players can choose to attack instead of you, you play a card to another player's field that you can choose to attack instead of them. We don't know if that goes for all Battles, or just the "Siege" type.
Battle — Siege
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and other players can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Zendikar enters the battlefield, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature — Elemental
Vigilance, haste
As long as Awakened Skyclave is on the field, it's a land in addition to its other types.
Tap — Add one mana of any color.
Edited by Blueeyedrat on Mar 28th 2023 at 8:24:05 AM
Giving it a subtype also implies that either now or at some point in the future, they're expecting to make that subtype relevant a la Curses, Gates etc.
That being said, that could be only a few cards in the entire set, also a la Curses and Gates.
(I could see, for example, "this creature gets +1/+1 while attacking a Siege" being on a couple of cards, another with...IDK, Skirmish or Ambush or whatever other subtypes they've got)
Since that Karn gave up Venser's Spark, it seems like he's going to be staying in Zhalfir for good.
So any bets who the next Big Bad will be?
Disgusted, but not surprisedA couple years of Breather Episode sets, and then Emmy decides to end her self-imposed timeout?
Thinking about it, there are a few candidates for who might be the next overarching antagonist.
- Tezzeret — the asshole's a roach who keeps surviving his stints working for other bad guys and keeps getting more powerful. He's got a Planar Bridge and a darksteel body that can handle said Bridge now. And he's the Big Bad of the Boom comics, so we already know he can be Big Bad material if he puts his mind to it.
- Ob Nixilis — He was defeated in New Capenna but he's still lurking around in the multiverse.
- Emrakul — She's chilling in Innistrad's moon, but it was of her own volition. If she ever decides the time is right to emerge, she will.
- Marit Lage — She's the overarching threat in the Boom comics, though her niche kind of overlaps with Emrakul's.
- The Raven Man aka Lim-Dûl — Though he's a rather more personal foe of Liliana Vess as opposed to true Big Bad material.
Joke Entry: Nahiri.
She promptly returns, with a horde of repurposed Phyrexians now sporting Hedron Energy instead of Oil. What is Nahiri's grand plan?
"I will take over an Ancient Kor Superweapon..."
White Phyrexian: Yes?
"And I will use it to conquer all of Zendikar, and then the Multiverse!"
(groans from her followers)
![]()
![]()
Have they checked inside the couch cushions?
Ajani doesn't seem to be one of the cards, meaning he may still have his Spark.
I guess one of the things this set is trying to do is remove a bunch of planeswalkers so they can make some new ones instead, or focus on others that haven't had as much attention.
Edited by M84 on Apr 22nd 2023 at 4:49:47 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI don't follow MTG, but I learned that yesterday some guy had the Pinkertons set on him for posting leaked card info on Youtube. Apparently it was a misunderstanding since the previous set had a similar name, and a friend who got early card stock sold it to him thinking it was the earlier set.
Be careful sharing leaks, everyone!
https://gizmodo.com/magic-march-of-the-machine-aftermath-leak-pinkertons-1850369015
https://mtgrocks.com/wizards-of-the-coast-pushes-back-against-massive-mtg-leaks/
Edited by lalalei2001 on Apr 25th 2023 at 3:22:16 PM
The Protomen enhanced my life.WotC: Okay, so fans have been unhappy with our MtG releases for quite some time, the OGL debacle practically tanked all of our goodwill with the TTRPG community, and the summit was an unmitigated disaster for us! What can we do to endear ourselves to the community again?
Hasbro: SEND THE FUCKING PINKERTONS AT THEM!
WotC: GENIUS!
Edited by ITNW1989 on Apr 25th 2023 at 9:53:38 AM
Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.Here's the first March of the Machine: The Aftermath story.
Among other things, it confirms that Teferi and Koth lost their Sparks too. Chandra and Ajani are also confirmed to have kept their Sparks.
Oh, and portals connecting planes to each other are showing up, probably due to all of the damage Realmbreaker and the Sylex blowing up in the Blind Eternities did to the Multiverse.
Edited by M84 on May 1st 2023 at 8:57:16 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedAlso, a Mark Rosewater article
about Aftermath, confirming that the big changes are most (but not all) Planeswalkers have lost sparks, not just the ones we'll see in this set and Omenpaths (similar to the ones that link the realms of Kaldheim) opening up between different planes, allowing non-Planeswalkers access to other worlds.
