The problem I saw when it came to Avacyn was that she seemed to have had almost NO good personality. More so, she was like a slave to Sorins rulings.
If tou look at the description of how Avacyn is, she is said to barely interact with anyone else, even Sorin HIMSELF.
If Avacyn had a good personality, her judgement would have been better to not as easily get corrupted by Nahiri's work. I think Sorin did not even feel like giving her a personality, but more if making her obey him and not go for something fun or even interact with people in a fun way. She almost looks bored during the day, not even knowing what to do.
When Sorin created her, he messed her up from the beginning. And why connect her to the mana lines? If Avacyn was not connected to the mana lines, then she would have not gotten on Emrakuls hold of her mind. So Sorin made a very bad error, which later led to a heavy amount of failure. Emrakul may still be locked up in Innistrads Silver moon, but Emrakul is smarter than thought, and is wanting revenge for Nahiri's betrayal. So what jf Emrakul got sneaky and found a different way to get back on Innistrad? Where js Avacyn to take of the problem? Avacyn is dead due to Sorin making a bad mistake that led to it.
As a huge Avacyn fan I wanted respond to your post.
Of course I respect the point of view of other people, but I see Avacyn as a tragic heroine. Wizards missed the chance to do something great with this very popular character and instead simply killed her off. When I read the part of the story in SOI before she gets attacked by Nahiri, she is described like a very benevolent angel. It is described that she feels very satisfied when she and her angels saved another life. She hears every plea and every prayer but she just knows that she cannot be everywhere at the same time because that would be just impossible, even for an angel. Also in the moment before Sorin kills her off, she has a moment of clarity as she is able to reflect what she did during her corruption. And she feels guilty and sad for that she had and she is very sad that she failed to do what she always wanted to do. To save people and protect them. Also as she casted the cursemute she decided not to kill the werwolves but gave them the chance to serve and fight for good because she still knew about the human part in their werwolve beings.
Avacyn of course was created by Sorin mainly for the purpose to secure the vampires source of food. But this does not change the fact that she was an angel with a benevolent and good character.
I still hope she will come back one day, no matter the plane or how. I am even running a gofundme campaign for her to bring her back in the hope that many players set a sign for wizards that they want her back. also I donate all the earnings from this campaign to unicef, so no matter what happens, it will be something good :).
And I do not see a reason why an Angel should not be a planeswalker in MTG. I know about all this, they are not born they are made.. but for me a soul is also made of good thoughts and benevolent acts its the behaviour of a person and not just the fact that somebody was born or made. And angels behave well and they reflect what they are doing. So in some way they have souls.
Avacyn I hope you are comming back I am waiting for you, angel of hope
Avacyn is my fave character too, because she was corrupted by an outside power, that changed who she was. A very dark story that a lot of of people complained about, but one that I thoroughly enjoyed.
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As a huge Avacyn fan I wanted respond to your post.
Of course I respect the point of view of other people, but I see Avacyn as a tragic heroine. Wizards missed the chance to do something great with this very popular character and instead simply killed her off. When I read the part of the story in SOI before she gets attacked by Nahiri, she is described like a very benevolent angel. It is described that she feels very satisfied when she and her angels saved another life. She hears every plea and every prayer but she just knows that she cannot be everywhere at the same time because that would be just impossible, even for an angel. Also in the moment before Sorin kills her off, she has a moment of clarity as she is able to reflect what she did during her corruption. And she feels guilty and sad for that she had and she is very sad that she failed to do what she always wanted to do. To save people and protect them. Also as she casted the cursemute she decided not to kill the werwolves but gave them the chance to serve and fight for good because she still knew about the human part in their werwolve beings.
Avacyn of course was created by Sorin mainly for the purpose to secure the vampires source of food. But this does not change the fact that she was an angel with a benevolent and good character.
I still hope she will come back one day, no matter the plane or how. I am even running a gofundme campaign for her to bring her back in the hope that many players set a sign for wizards that they want her back. also I donate all the earnings from this campaign to unicef, so no matter what happens, it will be something good :).
And I do not see a reason why an Angel should not be a planeswalker in MTG. I know about all this, they are not born they are made.. but for me a soul is also made of good thoughts and benevolent acts its the behaviour of a person and not just the fact that somebody was born or made. And angels behave well and they reflect what they are doing. So in some way they have souls.
Avacyn I hope you are comming back I am waiting for you, angel of hope
They really do need to bring Avacyn back. Innistrad was one of my favorite planes, but once they killed Avacyn I lost interest and don't even like thinking about it anymore.
I believe she was "unmade" by Sorin, not killed. So bringing her back is possible. I almost want to say the story almost writes itself. There are either enough people left on Innistrad that believe in her and that wills her back into existence or she reconstitutes herself and becomes a planeswalker in the process (some kind of Dr. Manhattan level nonsense). I always remember the quote from Aetherize when I think about her being unmade, "You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."
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If tou look at the description of how Avacyn is, she is said to barely interact with anyone else, even Sorin HIMSELF.
If Avacyn had a good personality, her judgement would have been better to not as easily get corrupted by Nahiri's work. I think Sorin did not even feel like giving her a personality, but more if making her obey him and not go for something fun or even interact with people in a fun way. She almost looks bored during the day, not even knowing what to do.
When Sorin created her, he messed her up from the beginning. And why connect her to the mana lines? If Avacyn was not connected to the mana lines, then she would have not gotten on Emrakuls hold of her mind. So Sorin made a very bad error, which later led to a heavy amount of failure. Emrakul may still be locked up in Innistrads Silver moon, but Emrakul is smarter than thought, and is wanting revenge for Nahiri's betrayal. So what jf Emrakul got sneaky and found a different way to get back on Innistrad? Where js Avacyn to take of the problem? Avacyn is dead due to Sorin making a bad mistake that led to it.
Of course I respect the point of view of other people, but I see Avacyn as a tragic heroine. Wizards missed the chance to do something great with this very popular character and instead simply killed her off. When I read the part of the story in SOI before she gets attacked by Nahiri, she is described like a very benevolent angel. It is described that she feels very satisfied when she and her angels saved another life. She hears every plea and every prayer but she just knows that she cannot be everywhere at the same time because that would be just impossible, even for an angel. Also in the moment before Sorin kills her off, she has a moment of clarity as she is able to reflect what she did during her corruption. And she feels guilty and sad for that she had and she is very sad that she failed to do what she always wanted to do. To save people and protect them. Also as she casted the cursemute she decided not to kill the werwolves but gave them the chance to serve and fight for good because she still knew about the human part in their werwolve beings.
Avacyn of course was created by Sorin mainly for the purpose to secure the vampires source of food. But this does not change the fact that she was an angel with a benevolent and good character.
I still hope she will come back one day, no matter the plane or how. I am even running a gofundme campaign for her to bring her back in the hope that many players set a sign for wizards that they want her back. also I donate all the earnings from this campaign to unicef, so no matter what happens, it will be something good :).
And I do not see a reason why an Angel should not be a planeswalker in MTG. I know about all this, they are not born they are made.. but for me a soul is also made of good thoughts and benevolent acts its the behaviour of a person and not just the fact that somebody was born or made. And angels behave well and they reflect what they are doing. So in some way they have souls.
Avacyn I hope you are comming back I am waiting for you, angel of hope
"If you don't hit your adversaries wile they're down, they might get up again." --Whipkeeper
"Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared." -- Lay of the Land
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||