MTG Salvation

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Goodness its almost as though he's a character encountering people to who he has a deep emotional connection rather than a detached observer. I'm sure they'll get right on fixing that.

He has to be pretty naive to let himself get carried away like that. Even as he decided to alter the past, it should be pretty obvious that he'd have written himself out of those people's lives, no matter how attached he is to them. It's the kind of reasoning I'd expect from a character in a kid's cartoon, not from stories aimed at young adults. And even then, the "lovingly holding an attacking globin" thing is just plain ridiculous for a non-comedy, even if it's aimed at kids.

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(And to get a sense of your perspective, when did the Magic storyline stop holding appeal for you?)

The last physical books I purchased were the ones from the original Ravnica block. I got very disillusioned at all the retconning and deus-ex machinae during Time Spiral, and have been more of a casual observer since them (by contrast, I was very heavily invested in the game's lore before then).

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I seriously don't understand how this time traveling is supposed to make any sense. I can accept that Sarkhan gets back to the present. What I can't accept is that the timeframe gets just perfectly altered so that we will have different versions of past characters.

I can't think of any story involving time travel where it doesn't work like that.

That's because those stories don't generally go back in time a THOUSAND years. Way too many variables in such a large amount of time. There's no way those exact same people would be there with such an extensive lenght to a butterfly effect; chances are none of them would.

And yes, I understand they're playing to expectations; people naturally want to see how characters changed in response to the altered events of the past. For me, however, the required suspension of disbelief is so massive ends up ruining any natural expectations I might have had about that. It's basically a saturday morning cartoon plot, but presented with a straight face.

EDIT: And the way Sarkhan not only expected those same people to be there, a thousand years later, but also expected them to recognize him, going so far as to enthusiastically hold a goblin that was in fact attacking him... it's too much, man. Can't take that stuff seriously. That's a comedy scene right there.

Quote from TerrorKingA »

Sarkhan: "Screw this world I've always wanted! One person that I barely know may or may not be dead in it! SCREW IT, I say!"

I mean what lol. Tarkir is such a dumb place. Let's just hurry up and get to Magic Origins stuff, because Tarkir's story is nonsensical.

You know, I haven't enjoyed Magic storyline in a big way for quite a while now, but this is the single time I thought one of their plots was unequivocally, eye-rollingly, FUNDAMENTALLY bad. This last Uncharted Realms requires such an astonishing level of disbelief suspension that I just can't do it.

I'm not a fan of straight-faced time travel in general, mainly because in the end I haven't ever seen anyone make it truly believable. But this goes beyond even my worst expectations for this block.

Blah. I hate to be a naysayer, but man, this was BAD.

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Also, does anyone else find it pretty ironic that both the Heartpiercer Bow and the Vial of Dragonfire are invented by Jeskai and used by Mardu/Kolaghan?

Speaking of irony, there's one thing that I find somewhat staggering. If you look at the homelands of each of the clans, most of them actually live in the regions associated with the colour they have lost.
The Jeskai live in mountains, the Sultai in the jungle and the Mardu on the open plains.

Only the Temur and Abzan are living in a habitat that makes sense for the reduced colour-pairs, though a desert seems a bit more black to me than green, but at least the white fits.

The deserts of the Abzan seem more white, but they could be construed as black too, I think. As for the Temur, I think their tundras are certainly blue (or at least blue-white). It's an interesting tidbit anyway, and I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

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Theros faces a crisis like none before. The gods have turned against humanity.

Where have I heard this before? Oh right, that was the plot of Kamigawa block.

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Remind me again why people are trying to argue against the Sliver's evolution in a fantasy-based universe with real world science?

Because it ends up going against my suspension of disbelief as to what differentiates each species within the this fantasy world. Despite the fact that this all exists in a crazy fantasy world filled with magic it still needs to run on internal logic that makes sense to people. If every time we had re-experienced Slivers they were given a radically different look to show how they evolved in the environment you wouldn't have people mad about this iteration because there was precedent that they dramatically changed form every time they came back, although I would question the choice of name if this were the case.

Instead we have had 3 different iterations of Slivers that all used a basic body shape to represent themselves so people have a specific look in their mind as to how they are supposed to be represented. In addition, since the Sliver's revival by the riptide project it was 200 years before we saw them again and in that time they continued to have have a unique, consistent body shape in all that time. Now you may be saying well those are the Slivers from Rath, these are the Slivers from Shandalar. To which I say that if the species has diverged this much they have ceased to belong to the same species at this point (it doesn't help that the name no longer makes any sense in the context of their new form).

This isn't even mentioning that these creatures seem to lack any internal consistency between each other to the point that I wouldn't even place them as being part of the same species. Oh yes there is supposed to be moving exoskeleton parts that allow them to reshape their bodies or something like that. Well that should have been more obviously clear because I wasn't able to see that at all just looking at them.