They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though. They doesn't change color distribution but they are changes that should impact the tribal. Like spirits more united with the humans, fewer Angels and vampires etc... Maybe some Spaghetti monster action with Emrakul in the Moon... Who knows.
I would say the killed some important nonwalkers. But we still got all the tribes Innistrad is known for so I wouldn't expect the plane to be all that different.
Still got WereWolves, Vampires, Humans, Demons and Angels and Zombies. And Sanderson seeded some good material for them to mine.
They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though. They doesn't change color distribution but they are changes that should impact the tribal. Like spirits more united with the humans, fewer Angels and vampires etc... Maybe some Spaghetti monster action with Emrakul in the Moon... Who knows.
It's not like they made any changes to the fundamentals, though. We still have the same tribes in the same colors, the same main themes and so on. The overall tone shifted in SOI towards cosmic/body horror, but that's temporary. In fact, they actually unmade an earlier change by killing Avacyn and essentially reverting the Cursemute, so it could be argued that post-SOI Innistrad is actually closer to the original.
If the Gatewatch falters and the Planeswalkers fail, the curtain will fall on the age of heroes—and rise on the infinite reign of Nicol Bolas."
And this here is exactly why Bolas can't possibly win, or the rest of Magic will just be a series of postcard sets called 'Bolas visits Ixalan', 'Bolas visits Innistrad', 'Bolas visits Kaladesh' etc., each featuring a PW card called 'Bolas - God of [plane]', with art depicting him laughing maniacly against an assortment of backgrounds.
Dimir + Golgari = Sultai, with Black Dominant. Both groups like manipulating Death
That's...not what Dimir does. Dimir are more about secrets. They will kill you if you find out the truth about their agenda. At least they will in those stories your Matka told you when you were a child, because House Dimir isn't real. That's just silly. Capisci?
Seleseyna + Orzhov = Abzan, with White Dominant. Both groups are religious/spirtual.
You realize the Orzhov don't actually believe in their gods, that the church is just a front for nefarious activities.
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Dimir + Golgari = Sultai, with Black Dominant. Both groups like manipulating Death
That's...not what Dimir does. Dimir are more about secrets. They will kill you if you find out the truth about their agenda. At least they will in those stories your Matka told you when you were a child, because House Dimir isn't real. That's just silly. Capisci?
This Teyo sounds awfully white. Which probably means Gideon won't get a monowhite card in WAR, unless they're going for a larger-than-average number of planeswalkers in a single set.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I mean I would expect Gideon to be BW anyway thanks to his Blade. Bolas, Lili and Jace you would all expect to get new cards in this sets along with Gideon. Oh and Tezz and that wrecks Color Balance though. Could spark absorption make Bolas 5 Color lol?
Granted everyone not Team Bolas rotates in the Fall.
This Teyo sounds awfully white. Which probably means Gideon won't get a monowhite card in WAR, unless they're going for a larger-than-average number of planeswalkers in a single set.
The Shieldmage from Alara was White/Blue so Teyo could be an Azorius "Good guy" to balance out Dovin (and Azor sort of) being bad guys.
This Teyo sounds awfully white. Which probably means Gideon won't get a monowhite card in WAR, unless they're going for a larger-than-average number of planeswalkers in a single set.
The Shieldmage from Alara was White/Blue so Teyo could be an Azorius "Good guy" to balance out Dovin (and Azor sort of) being bad guys.
Do we need another UW Walker? We got Teferi and Dovin already.
This Teyo sounds awfully white. Which probably means Gideon won't get a monowhite card in WAR, unless they're going for a larger-than-average number of planeswalkers in a single set.
The Shieldmage from Alara was White/Blue so Teyo could be an Azorius "Good guy" to balance out Dovin (and Azor sort of) being bad guys.
Do we need another UW Walker? We got Teferi and Dovin already.
Dimir + Golgari = Sultai, with Black Dominant. Both groups like manipulating Death
That's...not what Dimir does. Dimir are more about secrets. They will kill you if you find out the truth about their agenda. At least they will in those stories your Matka told you when you were a child, because House Dimir isn't real. That's just silly. Capisci?
Seleseyna + Orzhov = Abzan, with White Dominant. Both groups are religious/spirtual.
You realize the Orzhov don't actually believe in their gods, that the church is just a front for nefarious activities.
Meh I was more trying to make the Wedges work.
Fair enough. Now that I think about it, though, Rakdos and Gruul both love violence.
The funny thing is, and are classic pairs in terms of playstyle (+1/+1 counters and reanimator, respectively), as is Aristocrats.
But so is go-wide. That leaves what? control, I guess. Actually, that could work, with Izzet's draw ALL the cards! and Azorius's ruin ALL the fun! mindset.
I got to think a lot about guild synergy after RTR, even more so after the partner Commanders.
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I think Law and Order, for science, and pure chaos work well. The Boros already enforce Azorius laws, the Simic and Izzit are the 2 guilds most like each other, and the Gruul have tattoo artists so they share a love of art as well as chaos, like the Rakdos.
However, I think Orzhov makes more sense with Dimir: they’re both shady, secretive groups that like to control power from behind the scenes.
Selesnya and Golgari aren’t the perfect match, but they both care about feeding people, the environment, and the group. I don’t think the Golgari would buy into the Selesnya religion though and the Selesnya would have issues with some Golgari methods.
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The blackblade was colorless in dominaria so I see no reason for Gideon to be bw.i understand that it was welded by a black character but unless it enabled some dark magic all it does is be stronk.
Shield mage could be Colorless... But maybe that is asking for too much.
The blackblade was colorless in dominaria so I see no reason for Gideon to be bw.i understand that it was welded by a black character but unless it enabled some dark magic all it does is be stronk.
Shield mage could be Colorless... But maybe that is asking for too much.
It drinks souls. Dakkon quenched the Blackblade during the forging process by killing a new slave with it each time he heated it. It is a colorless artifact, but the magic it was made with was pretty damn evil. Wielding it long term could have crazy effects on people. Or even being ok with using a weapon that inherently evil could justify an alignment shift.
I think Law and Order, for science, and pure chaos work well. The Boros already enforce Azorius laws, the Simic and Izzit are the 2 guilds most like each other, and the Gruul have tattoo artists so they share a love of art as well as chaos, like the Rakdos.
However, I think Orzhov makes more sense with Dimir: they’re both shady, secretive groups that like to control power from behind the scenes.
Selesnya and Golgari aren’t the perfect match, but they both care about feeding people, the environment, and the group. I don’t think the Golgari would buy into the Selesnya religion though and the Selesnya would have issues with some Golgari methods.
Orzhov works best with Rakdos, TBH. "A man walks into a talent agency..."
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It wasn't too long ago that the Eldrazi, the other recurring archnemesis, were more or less indefinitely taken care of. I could see an outcome where Nicol Bolas is indefinitely taken care of -- sealed away or incapacitated in a way that the story can leave him alone for a while and when the time comes, becoming archvillain again would require an Ob Nixilis style storyline. I, too, would rather not continually dwell on the gatewatch crew and Bolas.
My guess is that Bolas will be defeated and "destroyed," and then...stinger ending! A shadow or a distant laugh or something like that hinting that he's not really gone for good, and then if they ever decide to reuse him they can, and if they don't, he's still out there in potentia.
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Scorpion stings
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They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though
That is only because they wrote themselves into a corner.
I disagree. It would actually be okay for one of Magic's good female goddess figures to survive (since they pretty much kill and/or fridge every one of them). Especially Avacyn. I'm biased, she was my favorite creature in Magic, and Innistrad was my favorite plane before they ruined it. You have so many more opportunities for conflict, I literally came up with one the instant we heard we were going back to Innistrad.
"Avacyn is back, and the Angels stand guard over humanity. The Cursemute has quelled a lot of monsters but not all—and not the ones in human skin. What happens when tyrannical factions of the Church of Avacyn and other religious orders go to war with one another? Invoking the names of the very guardians who would shield them from each other, these factions now fight for an Innistrad troubled by the oldest of evils. How can the Angel of Hope and her Angelic Flights oppose the very people they've sworn to protect when madness and a lust for power drive a holy crusade that will end in bloodshed and despair?"
Gives Avacyn and the Flights some in-built conflict, because how can they stand against their wards, and yet how can they let these various factions slay each other in the name of power and greed? Shades of gray, room for good and bad on all sides, and kinda puts the Angels in a spot where they can't just come in and smite everything.
For me, this would have been so much better and more rife with storytelling potential than cosmic "horror"—which, to me, is anything but. The Mythos never did anything for me. "Cool. The universe doesn't care about us, these beings are unknowable and we're like ants to them. Yawn. Why should I care, then? We can't kill them, can't defeat them, can't understand them, what's the point?"
They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though. They doesn't change color distribution but they are changes that should impact the tribal. Like spirits more united with the humans, fewer Angels and vampires etc... Maybe some Spaghetti monster action with Emrakul in the Moon... Who knows.
It's not like they made any changes to the fundamentals, though. We still have the same tribes in the same colors, the same main themes and so on. The overall tone shifted in SOI towards cosmic/body horror, but that's temporary. In fact, they actually unmade an earlier change by killing Avacyn and essentially reverting the Cursemute, so it could be argued that post-SOI Innistrad is actually closer to the original.
They could have done this so much better, though. The arrival of a new power, like an ancient demon, a god, a planeswalker, something to show up and break the Cursemute but without fridging Avacyn. She had so much potential for storytelling. I keep hoping (and tweeting Wizards) that they'll bring her back somehow, even though I know it's not really gonna happen. But I don't give up easily. Even now I can think of some cool storyline ways to bring her back and still keep Innistrad as a plane rife with potential, but at this point, I have no faith in WOTC to do anything interesting with it.
Cosmic horror + giving Angels Raid Boss Disease + a non-solution to the Eldrazi was probably the most predictably boring thing they could have done with the plane.
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They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though
That is only because they wrote themselves into a corner.
I disagree. It would actually be okay for one of Magic's good female goddess figures to survive (since they pretty much kill and/or fridge every one of them). Especially Avacyn. I'm biased, she was my favorite creature in Magic, and Innistrad was my favorite plane before they ruined it. You have so many more opportunities for conflict, I literally came up with one the instant we heard we were going back to Innistrad.
"Avacyn is back, and the Angels stand guard over humanity. The Cursemute has quelled a lot of monsters but not all—and not the ones in human skin. What happens when tyrannical factions of the Church of Avacyn and other religious orders go to war with one another? Invoking the names of the very guardians who would shield them from each other, these factions now fight for an Innistrad troubled by the oldest of evils. How can the Angel of Hope and her Angelic Flights oppose the very people they've sworn to protect when madness and a lust for power drive a holy crusade that will end in bloodshed and despair?"
Gives Avacyn and the Flights some in-built conflict, because how can they stand against their wards, and yet how can they let these various factions slay each other in the name of power and greed? Shades of gray, room for good and bad on all sides, and kinda puts the Angels in a spot where they can't just come in and smite everything.
For me, this would have been so much better and more rife with storytelling potential than cosmic "horror"—which, to me, is anything but. The Mythos never did anything for me. "Cool. The universe doesn't care about us, these beings are unknowable and we're like ants to them. Yawn. Why should I care, then? We can't kill them, can't defeat them, can't understand them, what's the point?"
They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though. They doesn't change color distribution but they are changes that should impact the tribal. Like spirits more united with the humans, fewer Angels and vampires etc... Maybe some Spaghetti monster action with Emrakul in the Moon... Who knows.
It's not like they made any changes to the fundamentals, though. We still have the same tribes in the same colors, the same main themes and so on. The overall tone shifted in SOI towards cosmic/body horror, but that's temporary. In fact, they actually unmade an earlier change by killing Avacyn and essentially reverting the Cursemute, so it could be argued that post-SOI Innistrad is actually closer to the original.
They could have done this so much better, though. The arrival of a new power, like an ancient demon, a god, a planeswalker, something to show up and break the Cursemute but without fridging Avacyn. She had so much potential for storytelling. I keep hoping (and tweeting Wizards) that they'll bring her back somehow, even though I know it's not really gonna happen. But I don't give up easily. Even now I can think of some cool storyline ways to bring her back and still keep Innistrad as a plane rife with potential, but at this point, I have no faith in WOTC to do anything interesting with it.
Cosmic horror + giving Angels Raid Boss Disease + a non-solution to the Eldrazi was probably the most predictably boring thing they could have done with the plane.
An ancient demon/god/planeswalker as an antagonist? I know just the guy.
Boom. Right there, bringing back a relatively obscure piece of lore, turning it into something cool. Heck, it would have made a great two-set item, and could have kept the investigation into mystery theme. First set: the Church of Avacyn and other factions go to holy war with one another. There seems to be some hidden power fanning these flames of corruption. Second set: Either they were being influenced by this powerful being from another world, or he was only pulling strings that already existed. Either way, now the Angels have their real enemy, and so do the people of Innistrad. Can they find a common ground for peace in time to fight off the invaders?
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They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though
That is only because they wrote themselves into a corner.
I disagree. It would actually be okay for one of Magic's good female goddess figures to survive (since they pretty much kill and/or fridge every one of them). Especially Avacyn. I'm biased, she was my favorite creature in Magic, and Innistrad was my favorite plane before they ruined it. You have so many more opportunities for conflict, I literally came up with one the instant we heard we were going back to Innistrad.
"Avacyn is back, and the Angels stand guard over humanity. The Cursemute has quelled a lot of monsters but not all—and not the ones in human skin. What happens when tyrannical factions of the Church of Avacyn and other religious orders go to war with one another? Invoking the names of the very guardians who would shield them from each other, these factions now fight for an Innistrad troubled by the oldest of evils. How can the Angel of Hope and her Angelic Flights oppose the very people they've sworn to protect when madness and a lust for power drive a holy crusade that will end in bloodshed and despair?"
Gives Avacyn and the Flights some in-built conflict, because how can they stand against their wards, and yet how can they let these various factions slay each other in the name of power and greed? Shades of gray, room for good and bad on all sides, and kinda puts the Angels in a spot where they can't just come in and smite everything.
For me, this would have been so much better and more rife with storytelling potential than cosmic "horror"—which, to me, is anything but. The Mythos never did anything for me. "Cool. The universe doesn't care about us, these beings are unknowable and we're like ants to them. Yawn. Why should I care, then? We can't kill them, can't defeat them, can't understand them, what's the point?"
They made some permanent changes to Innistrad though. They doesn't change color distribution but they are changes that should impact the tribal. Like spirits more united with the humans, fewer Angels and vampires etc... Maybe some Spaghetti monster action with Emrakul in the Moon... Who knows.
It's not like they made any changes to the fundamentals, though. We still have the same tribes in the same colors, the same main themes and so on. The overall tone shifted in SOI towards cosmic/body horror, but that's temporary. In fact, they actually unmade an earlier change by killing Avacyn and essentially reverting the Cursemute, so it could be argued that post-SOI Innistrad is actually closer to the original.
They could have done this so much better, though. The arrival of a new power, like an ancient demon, a god, a planeswalker, something to show up and break the Cursemute but without fridging Avacyn. She had so much potential for storytelling. I keep hoping (and tweeting Wizards) that they'll bring her back somehow, even though I know it's not really gonna happen. But I don't give up easily. Even now I can think of some cool storyline ways to bring her back and still keep Innistrad as a plane rife with potential, but at this point, I have no faith in WOTC to do anything interesting with it.
Cosmic horror + giving Angels Raid Boss Disease + a non-solution to the Eldrazi was probably the most predictably boring thing they could have done with the plane.
One thing I'll say is, changing Ravnica into a wedge plane is a bad idea. Most likely after a return to Tarkir, it'll be a wedge plane with dragons, after Ugin restores balance.
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If the Gatewatch falters and the Planeswalkers fail, the curtain will fall on the age of heroes—and rise on the infinite reign of Nicol Bolas."
And this here is exactly why Bolas can't possibly win, or the rest of Magic will just be a series of postcard sets called 'Bolas visits Ixalan', 'Bolas visits Innistrad', 'Bolas visits Kaladesh' etc., each featuring a PW card called 'Bolas - God of [plane]', with art depicting him laughing maniacly against an assortment of backgrounds.
Consider me the 19th person who liked your post. Had a good laugh at that.
That is only because they wrote themselves into a corner.
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Still got WereWolves, Vampires, Humans, Demons and Angels and Zombies. And Sanderson seeded some good material for them to mine.
It's not like they made any changes to the fundamentals, though. We still have the same tribes in the same colors, the same main themes and so on. The overall tone shifted in SOI towards cosmic/body horror, but that's temporary. In fact, they actually unmade an earlier change by killing Avacyn and essentially reverting the Cursemute, so it could be argued that post-SOI Innistrad is actually closer to the original.
I can live with that!
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So do Dimir and Simic. So?
That's...not what Dimir does. Dimir are more about secrets. They will kill you if you find out the truth about their agenda. At least they will in those stories your Matka told you when you were a child, because House Dimir isn't real. That's just silly. Capisci?
Boros doesn't love violence so much as they love order. They use violence to enforce said order.
If the Gruul are willing to forgive the Simic for all the times the Simic experimented on them.
You realize the Orzhov don't actually believe in their gods, that the church is just a front for nefarious activities.
On phasing:
Meh I was more trying to make the Wedges work.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Granted everyone not Team Bolas rotates in the Fall.
The Shieldmage from Alara was White/Blue so Teyo could be an Azorius "Good guy" to balance out Dovin (and Azor sort of) being bad guys.
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Do we need another UW Walker? We got Teferi and Dovin already.
Do we need another UW Walker? We got Teferi and Dovin already.
Still a shield mage does sound WU or WG to me.
Fair enough. Now that I think about it, though, Rakdos and Gruul both love violence.
The funny thing is, and are classic pairs in terms of playstyle (+1/+1 counters and reanimator, respectively), as is Aristocrats.
But so is go-wide. That leaves what? control, I guess. Actually, that could work, with Izzet's draw ALL the cards! and Azorius's ruin ALL the fun! mindset.
I got to think a lot about guild synergy after RTR, even more so after the partner Commanders.
On phasing:
I think Law and Order, for science, and pure chaos work well. The Boros already enforce Azorius laws, the Simic and Izzit are the 2 guilds most like each other, and the Gruul have tattoo artists so they share a love of art as well as chaos, like the Rakdos.
However, I think Orzhov makes more sense with Dimir: they’re both shady, secretive groups that like to control power from behind the scenes.
Selesnya and Golgari aren’t the perfect match, but they both care about feeding people, the environment, and the group. I don’t think the Golgari would buy into the Selesnya religion though and the Selesnya would have issues with some Golgari methods.
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Shield mage could be Colorless... But maybe that is asking for too much.
It drinks souls. Dakkon quenched the Blackblade during the forging process by killing a new slave with it each time he heated it. It is a colorless artifact, but the magic it was made with was pretty damn evil. Wielding it long term could have crazy effects on people. Or even being ok with using a weapon that inherently evil could justify an alignment shift.
Orzhov works best with Rakdos, TBH. "A man walks into a talent agency..."
On phasing:
My guess is that Bolas will be defeated and "destroyed," and then...stinger ending! A shadow or a distant laugh or something like that hinting that he's not really gone for good, and then if they ever decide to reuse him they can, and if they don't, he's still out there in potentia.
Pleasure and pain
Scorpion stings
Pretty things
and the flames of Phoenix wings
—Michelle Schaper
I disagree. It would actually be okay for one of Magic's good female goddess figures to survive (since they pretty much kill and/or fridge every one of them). Especially Avacyn. I'm biased, she was my favorite creature in Magic, and Innistrad was my favorite plane before they ruined it. You have so many more opportunities for conflict, I literally came up with one the instant we heard we were going back to Innistrad.
"Avacyn is back, and the Angels stand guard over humanity. The Cursemute has quelled a lot of monsters but not all—and not the ones in human skin. What happens when tyrannical factions of the Church of Avacyn and other religious orders go to war with one another? Invoking the names of the very guardians who would shield them from each other, these factions now fight for an Innistrad troubled by the oldest of evils. How can the Angel of Hope and her Angelic Flights oppose the very people they've sworn to protect when madness and a lust for power drive a holy crusade that will end in bloodshed and despair?"
Gives Avacyn and the Flights some in-built conflict, because how can they stand against their wards, and yet how can they let these various factions slay each other in the name of power and greed? Shades of gray, room for good and bad on all sides, and kinda puts the Angels in a spot where they can't just come in and smite everything.
For me, this would have been so much better and more rife with storytelling potential than cosmic "horror"—which, to me, is anything but. The Mythos never did anything for me. "Cool. The universe doesn't care about us, these beings are unknowable and we're like ants to them. Yawn. Why should I care, then? We can't kill them, can't defeat them, can't understand them, what's the point?"
They could have done this so much better, though. The arrival of a new power, like an ancient demon, a god, a planeswalker, something to show up and break the Cursemute but without fridging Avacyn. She had so much potential for storytelling. I keep hoping (and tweeting Wizards) that they'll bring her back somehow, even though I know it's not really gonna happen. But I don't give up easily. Even now I can think of some cool storyline ways to bring her back and still keep Innistrad as a plane rife with potential, but at this point, I have no faith in WOTC to do anything interesting with it.
Cosmic horror + giving Angels Raid Boss Disease + a non-solution to the Eldrazi was probably the most predictably boring thing they could have done with the plane.
Pleasure and pain
Scorpion stings
Pretty things
and the flames of Phoenix wings
—Michelle Schaper
https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Arzakon
Boom. Right there, bringing back a relatively obscure piece of lore, turning it into something cool. Heck, it would have made a great two-set item, and could have kept the investigation into mystery theme. First set: the Church of Avacyn and other factions go to holy war with one another. There seems to be some hidden power fanning these flames of corruption. Second set: Either they were being influenced by this powerful being from another world, or he was only pulling strings that already existed. Either way, now the Angels have their real enemy, and so do the people of Innistrad. Can they find a common ground for peace in time to fight off the invaders?
Pleasure and pain
Scorpion stings
Pretty things
and the flames of Phoenix wings
—Michelle Schaper
One thing I'll say is, changing Ravnica into a wedge plane is a bad idea. Most likely after a return to Tarkir, it'll be a wedge plane with dragons, after Ugin restores balance.
On phasing:
Consider me the 19th person who liked your post. Had a good laugh at that.
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