Ropes in the showcase depiction make me a little smile... Nahiri doesn't climb rocks, she SWIMS into them!
For the regular art, I appreciate such an iconic background for Zendikar's protector on her first home appearance in a Standard set.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if the above art is a new eldrazi titan.
You have got to be kidding me
Eldrazis don’t have leaves plus I see eyes and mouth on the human part eldrazis are faceless
That could be gaea
The art seems too vertical to be a creature. It might be a planeswalker. Maybe it's a freaky Tezzeret? Or some other unknown planeswalker from ye olden days.
Eldrazis use vertical arts.
After the events of Eldrich Moon there was this theory in the Vorthos community, according to which the Titans, Kozilek and Ulamog in particular, would be living beings biologically mutated by the influence/power/will of Emrakul.
The being in the picture reminds me a little of Ulamog, humanoid prominence and lacking of tentacles apart. A young Ula? An unknown Titan? I don't think that Eldrazi theory have to be dismissed so easily here.
If you havent done research on the deck, its not my problem. The deck has a lot of utility inbuilt, besides one day wizards might print an artifact with ''you can have any number of _____ in your deck''. Possibility Storm lets you chain artifacts and blood funnel reduce your mana cost, the deck usually runs this and Null profusion easentially storming off.
Of course it's not your problem, World doesn't spin around you. Besides, how good your Mishra deck is or will eventually be, that's off-topic. We've got is a thing, idtapthatformana kindly explained it, but you missed my whole point, expressed in my last post and related to the upcoming C18 products.
Useless ability? WHAT? Mishra is a very good grixis commander. He has many combos.
How? Is you don't get that many copies of a single card in commander.
I can't remember how they do it, but Mishra actually works in Commander. There's a weird ruling about the timing or whatever.
It uses Nether Void type cards to stack the trigger where you counter what you cast 1st then use Mishras ability to get it from the graveyard into play. Thus breaking the symmetry. Works very with Possibility Storm.
I wasn't aware of it, but outside of a dedicated deck Mishra's ability is nonetheless wasted as you can't benefit of those stack shenanigans. A legendary artificer creature that cares about artifacts in a different way and bears that name would be far more appreciated by the community, I think, and this is a good chance to do it.
I'd really like to see Mishra in the UR deck as a legendary creature. Time Spiral Mishra has a basically useless ability for Commander, time for a new one.
That's great! Time for a Dakkon Blackblade planeswalker (or new card)? They've just reintroduced the Blackblade and made an in-story reference after all.
In my opinion the format in which Rector will shine is exactly Legacy. I'm thinking about some Deadguy Ale or Wb D&T shell, wherever Cabal Therapy is a thing anyway. Not really a Legacy player though.
About the Emrakul thing, I really don't know, but, based on her "conversation" with Jace, she doesn't seems like a vindictive being.
About the present whereabouts of Nahiri, it seems very likely to me that she went off chasing Ugin in search for explanations - like she did with Sorin - or, alternatively, back to Zendikar, where her storyline will entwine with Nissa's.
100% Nahiri. I've started playing with Mercadian Masks, but never really dug into that "golden era" lore. Then Commander 2014 happened, bringing along "The Lithomancer" and "Stirring from Slumber". Zendikar 1.0 was one of my favourite sets flavor-wise, so meeting the legendary still-living-but-disappeared artificer of the hedron-net (although a retcon) was a blast - and a very very pleasant lecture by the way, superb chapters. The epic tale of the first coming of the Eldrazi on Zendikar, Nahiri's imposed role of Eye's lone-watcher, the doubts, the fear, the effects of immortality on an oldwalker's mind, her final inner reborn... don't know, they immediately caught me.
You can only imagine how happy I was when she popped-out in Innistrad 2.0's arc (more than Innistrad's protector and inhabitants anyway), which I also enjoyed very much and, more than everything, took off the veil of mistery on her fate. Now I'm really curious to discover the path she took after Eldrich Moon's events: will we see her chasing Ugin or meeting up with Nissa on Zendikar? Both hypothesis are plausible, I'll have to encase me in a stone cocoon and wait.
Did we? Last I remember, he was a "mere" zombie, not a lich, much less a lich knight, much less WEARING THE CABAL'S INSIGNA. Unless I missed some recent publication, this card is gigantic news. Plus, it's the sheer awesome factor of having him as a card, now I really need to finish that Liliana tribal EDH I had in mind.
Yes, we did. And he's already gone.
From Episode 2:
"As he strode forward, she could see nothing of his face. The magic that had transformed him from a mindless undead remnant into Belzenlok's lich general had covered his shape with dark metal armor. Sharp spikes stood up from his shoulders and back, and the heavy helm concealed his features. He stopped in the center of the grassy mound that had been the house's forecourt. So it is you, sister".
For the regular art, I appreciate such an iconic background for Zendikar's protector on her first home appearance in a Standard set.
Like the Ancients theory.
Is it part of the previous storyline and I missed it or is it new?
Eldrazis use vertical arts.
After the events of Eldrich Moon there was this theory in the Vorthos community, according to which the Titans, Kozilek and Ulamog in particular, would be living beings biologically mutated by the influence/power/will of Emrakul.
The being in the picture reminds me a little of Ulamog, humanoid prominence and lacking of tentacles apart. A young Ula? An unknown Titan? I don't think that Eldrazi theory have to be dismissed so easily here.
Of course it's not your problem, World doesn't spin around you. Besides, how good your Mishra deck is or will eventually be, that's off-topic. We've got is a thing, idtapthatformana kindly explained it, but you missed my whole point, expressed in my last post and related to the upcoming C18 products.
I wasn't aware of it, but outside of a dedicated deck Mishra's ability is nonetheless wasted as you can't benefit of those stack shenanigans. A legendary artificer creature that cares about artifacts in a different way and bears that name would be far more appreciated by the community, I think, and this is a good chance to do it.
About the present whereabouts of Nahiri, it seems very likely to me that she went off chasing Ugin in search for explanations - like she did with Sorin - or, alternatively, back to Zendikar, where her storyline will entwine with Nissa's.
You can only imagine how happy I was when she popped-out in Innistrad 2.0's arc (more than Innistrad's protector and inhabitants anyway), which I also enjoyed very much and, more than everything, took off the veil of mistery on her fate. Now I'm really curious to discover the path she took after Eldrich Moon's events: will we see her chasing Ugin or meeting up with Nissa on Zendikar? Both hypothesis are plausible, I'll have to encase me in a stone cocoon and wait.
Yes, we did. And he's already gone.
From Episode 2:
"As he strode forward, she could see nothing of his face. The magic that had transformed him from a mindless undead remnant into Belzenlok's lich general had covered his shape with dark metal armor. Sharp spikes stood up from his shoulders and back, and the heavy helm concealed his features. He stopped in the center of the grassy mound that had been the house's forecourt. So it is you, sister".
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-2-2018-03-22.