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She's a speedster.

Define speedster? I seem to remember Sorin moving so fast Nahiri couldn't actually follow his moves. We talking that fast or are we talking something closer to the speed of Cheetah.

I mean that she can augment her running speed. Think the Flash, but not as overpowered.

No I get that she can augment her speed. I am asking more if she can pull off the old speedblitz ala Sorin or if she is a generic Super Soldier type like Captain America or Black Panther.

I'm leaning more towards the latter for now, but she's just been introduced to the story, so she might end up doing more with her speed whenever we see her again.

Lol good luck with that I don't expect to see her any time soon although she does have more reason to want Bolas dead then anyone not named Umezawa. I rather see her get to stab Bolas with the Blackblade then Gideon. The worse thing Bolas has ever done to Gideon is play basketball.

Exile any creature for a mere -1 and you pick the target? That seems overpowered.

She really does seem like a Pokemon trainer...I wonder how long it takes her to resummon a summon that dies? faints?

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What if it's from one of the new commander decks

Well she is not on Dominaria and seems unlikely for Coreset so she could be next major set, commander set or Battlebond? She is not one of the China Specific. The last time we did Walkers for Commander we did have one brand new walker so that is possible.

But yeah seems Garruk replacement...looks human and summons spirit animals instead of actual animals. Looks Green with Black and/or White.

I just can't get over the power loevel of the characters. Urgoros and Yargle were incredibly OP for the feats they performed. I think the Oldwalkers should have gone with Liliana and basically helped by wrecking the cultists while The Weatehrlight crew dealt with Urgoros and actually beat him by combining their strentgh. Tis way the Oldwalkers aren't treated like weaklings and gives the new crew a cool fight wich they won with the combined team work, while beating a tough enemy. Instead we got an incredibly overpowered character that was holding suposedly top tier characters by himself and only got defeated because Belzenlok died. Thats insane really. They really should recruit urgoros to fight against Bolas because that guy was so OP

I honestly think the writer was rushed to finish epic of Dominaria with 12 short chapters, which is why so many things don't make sense.

1) Old Walkers power, even no where near godly, should've been more powerful than their display here. I groaned when Jaya couldn't burn Yargle into crisp.

2) Two uncommon legends causing trouble for Weatherlight crew + walkers.

3) Radha here? Seems like they're just adding characters for extra elements. I'm sure there's a backstory on why she's here, and her reunion with Teferi should be a lot more wordy, but alas, 12 chapters.

4) I think there's the intent of developing Liliana as the centric character of this story just to invoke further shock factor of Bolas owning her, but a lot of people thirsty for Domnaria lore want to see more older character/walker in action. Again, I can't help it but feeling that the writer was not only put under the stress of finishing the story in 12 chapters, she was also required to diminish many characters to put Liliana on the front. Not saying I dislike Liliana, but I want Jaya with more sassy quotes, Karn with more "world shaking power", and Teferi's wily self with Jholra and "Arty Shovelhead".

The entire operation was lynchpinned around Teferi stopping time (which is why they got him in the first place), but sure, he didn't do anything of note.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-12-2018-05-30?A

It was okay, atleast we got muldrotha, but I have a few things that bug me.

• The general use of the term Lich still bothers me
• Karn was doing nothing, with the flavor text of Argentum Armor in mind it feels really wrong
• Urobos is the second example of them getting a character wrong from what we first heard of them. On their character "vignettes" he was a human turned nightmare, here he is a thing that was never human to begin with. The first time they did that was with slimefoot, who turned from a grumpy sanitor to a lovely little guy (which is great)
• Where and why did Radha got captured? What is she even doing there?
• They could have done more with Teferi

Looking at those lands, I'm starting to put the flavor of this set together. Is Battlebond just a giant arena with shifting terrain, a la Pokemon Stadium in Super Smash melee?

Niv doesn't know about the existence of walkers though.... I thought that was confirmed. Sure, he's gone toe to toe with various strong individuals on Ravnica. We have a story about post-Mending Bolas kicking the ever-living shyzah out of the eight gods of Amonkhet, in a weakened state, and then proceed to go all Thanos on the plane and kill of everyone over a certain age, then reshape the entire structure of the plane in his image. All while still reeling from having just lost godhood. The dude is so friggin powerful, and has since that date regained some of his power in the Alaran confluence. If he ends up being defeated, there better be a damn good plot explanation, more than "the plane let us make a really big fireball."

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Eh with the Gatewatch I have trouble telling the difference between character traits and color stereotypes so quiet, lack of sleep, constant apprehension, etc all seem pretty Blue when facing massive threats all the time and trying to hold Ravnica together.

Or perhaps you don't really understand the characters beyond their surface portrayal?

To be fair, there was a real stretch when the characters really were just their surface portrayals, due to poor writing and characterization. It wasn't until halfway through Shadows block that the quality picked up enough for the story to be able to effectively work in layers.

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They went too far with the masterpieces by putting them into every set, so they pulled back and decided to save them for special occasions. Here we are, special occasion central. Magic's home plane on its 25th anniversary.

That plan worked well...

I think that by "special occasions" they actually mean "whenever we need an otherwise bad set to sell better", which is definitely not Dominaria.

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Flavor text is nice I would have taken off 1 mana cost.

Phenomenal for a common as it is. Give the thing hexproof and Mechanized Production, and you have an insane amount of mana (not to mention a win-con).