I'd be totally fine with this being true.
Is it possible that The Raven Man's identity won't be revealed until Belzenlok is dead?
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Aug 25, 2017Etherium Sage posted a message on Magic Story: Alara to AmonkhetPosted in: ArticlesQuote from Jay13x »I hope so to. My thinking is that in the wake of his internal epiphany while fighting Bolas, Gideon will start using his hieromancy again. Jace seems primed to make a switch to a much greater use of illusion magic. Chandra I hope discovers new uses of her power - learning to cast something like The Purifying Fire would be an awesome use of her abilities.
Gideon actually using hieromancy would be great. This might be something weird to say, but it might even also pave the way for a Gideon card without the signature "turn-into-a-creature" ability, as he'll focus more on tactics and suppression magic than throwing himself into the thick of things. This would, in turn, broaden the design space for him.
Jace's Ixalan card does suggest that his Illusion magic will be more prominent, but we'll see. I still think that his lost memories of Vryn are the biggest obstacle to his potential, as he basically lost his experiences training under Alhammaret. -
Aug 25, 2017Etherium Sage posted a message on Magic Story: Alara to AmonkhetI hope the Gatewatch starts branching out in terms of the type of magic they use, or be more creative in their usage of said magic. As you said, Chandra's raw flames won't always cut it, which Bolas demonstrated; we know that she can create elementals and phoenixes, as well as use Ghostfire, yes we never saw any of that in her fight against Bolas. Nissa's leyline magic has untold potential, which can be a double-edged sword since it might make her too OP in the story.Posted in: Articles
A number of people think that Bolas is gunning for Dominaria, so it'd be interesting to see what goes on with that. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Hmm, that's true. Also, it would line up with the timeline of events since she went to Razaketh after the Mending, and Bolas was taking over Amonkhet just after the Mending in a hurry before he completely lost his oldwalker powers.
Still, I wonder how long he knew Razaketh.
Well clearly he was there before the place got reduced to just Naktamun, since Liliana noted that the place looked very different from when she paid a visit to get her Razaketh contract.
Ugin seems to be all about doing things for the greater good of the multiverse, which is why he didn't kill the Eldrazi (or at least try to), why he went out of his way to warn Bolas of the dangers of whatever he was planning to do during their muffled conversation on Tarkir, and why he didn't give a hoot about Zendikar being destroyed by Ulamog and Kozilek. If he actually had colours, he'd probably be Bant to directly contrast with Bolas' Grixis (Ghostfire notwithstanding).
He doesn't seem like the type of person to just go to a random backwater plane and wreck stuff, even when he's upset.
They'll also conveniently omit the Grim Striders, zombies, sandwurms and Horrors of the Broken Lands from the planeswalker tourist brochure.
Amonkhet did say that Bolas tried to kill it; on the other hand, I'm not discounting the possibility that Bolas just took advantage of a situation that was already there.
Also, am I the only one wondering about all these worlds Bolas said he created? Liliana thought he created Amonkhet, which turned out to be completely false, but I think it'd be interesting to see some worlds he did actually forge.
On the other hand, if she does too many of them, she risks having her quality decrease.
Also, I don't know if it's been said already, but Alison confirmed on the Reddit for this story that the Hekma and the wastelands outside it were around before Bolas waltzed in. Makes you wonder what happened to make the plane so dead. We knew the Curse of Wandering was a natural phenomenon on Amonkhet (the worldsoul itself said as much).
This is Bolas when he's in a hurry, desperate and has no time to put "Plots that Span Centuries" into motion when he wants to just get something done right quick.
I mirror the opinions of others that this was a great way to start off Hour of Devastation, and I'm actually pleased that they kept Razaketh's appearance. On the other hand, this may sound very cold, but I don't feel an ounce of sympathy for the populace; I feel sorry for the Gods because they were twisted into what they were and had no choice in the matter, but the people still had minds of their own, and had their fair share of dissenters that they made sure to silence at every given opportunity. Now they're starting to see that the dissenters, most notably Samut, were right after all. I'm especially interested in how Djeru is going to take all this in, given everything.
Isn't Kefnet an ibis?
What about Dragons that don't have any red in their mana costs like Ojutai or Dromoka?
What do you mean by "they"? We know that the Horrors in Delight in the Hunt are similar to the Horrors we've seen already. What we're talking about when referring to the former Worthy are Horrors of the variety seen in For Each of You, A Gift and the Horror Tokens. The Horror Token shows a Horror that looks vaguely like a former person, with bandages on their person.
For Each of You, A Gift could be interpreted as Bolas screwing with the minotaur by creating a horror clone of sorts, but it's also possible that the horror used to be an actual minotaur. The broader implication though is that Bolas is the source of these things, including Grim Striders and Horrors of the Broken Lands.
Did you read Jay's post three steps above yours? A few people do seem to think Delight is showing the 3 Gods, but others have pointed to Power Without Equal, and that's definitely way more plausible considering there are exactly three phantom giants depicted in it, and its effect has a theme of three.
If that's the case (and I believe it is), Bolas does grant the Worthy an "afterlife"; it just wasn't the afterlife the poor saps were expecting.