Assuming the cards are real (that still doesn't look like Ral Zarek), Ral, Monsoon Mage has an immediate home in the scant few remaining Modern UR Storm builds (sadly, this Ral can't also be your starting engine because he needs at least 6 instants/sorceries in the same turn in order to flip profitably), and the rest...yeah, I can't figure it out, sorry. BG Yawgmoth wants the immediacy of the first Grist...
The claimed "Ral" doesn't facially look like Ral Zarek. (The closest may be Ral, Izzet Viceroy, but why is this Ral's face so long?)
Is teenage/young adult Sorin really white-haired, or is that a wig? The former is hard to believe, especially before he got sired into the vampire ranks.
Man, I want a Grist card in Modern Horizons 3 to be real, though. The mothership promised she'd be showing up later in the lore, and she hasn't shown up elsewhere yet other than in the comics...
Well, WHY NOT, every franchise needs a Grogu, doesn't it?
Honestly I feel like thats the idea
loot = Gorgu
jace = Din Djarin / The Mandalorian
Vraska = Bo-Katan Kryze
Maybe even Niv-mizzet = Moff Gideon (if he finds out the entire omenpath system map is within loot he want loot to take advantage of his plans to make every single omenpath connect to ravnica.)
Here goes, I was thinking the Loot situation and the Yuma-and-Kirri situation also reminded me of The Mandalorian...and then I realized that The Mandalorian was probably also influenced by westerns.
Given the doubtful response on whether Loot is actually a Fomori in https://vorthosjay.tumblr.com/post/746678058136862720/just-to-check-with-you-and-obviously-i-dont, it would be funny if Loot's species is actually Firbolg instead (and the Firbolg were traditional allies of the Fomori). The Fir Bolg are traditionally associated with the Fomorians (or at least aren't as aggressive towards them as the Tuatha De Danann are) in Irish mythology, and some media like Warcraft depict the Fir Bolg as beastfolk.
Preliminary testing of Memory Vessel in Modern indicates that it can't keep a UR Storm combo turn going, unlike Past in Flames. At least you can use it with Karn, the Great Creator and Drannith Magistrate to lock your opponent out of playing most spells for multiple turns while getting access to a boatload of cards and sanding off their library at the same time.
Okay, that was really really good. Consider some of my faith in the writing team restored.
However, I feel like I missed something because I thought we would finally get to know what Jace needed from Proft, but then it wasn't explained? Or did I miss something?
Anyone else getting big "Uh oh" vibes from Jace and Vraska's new mindset? One doesn't exactly start talking about Multiversal rebirth and burning things down while expecting things to be happy and sunny.
I'm not sure we're supposed to think Jace and Vraska are the good guys here after they ominously said they're going to fix everything.
We gonna casual skim over that jace and vraska have had so much unprotected seggs that she should have been pregnant already? Maybe gorgon conception takes longer than a humans? But hey, they adopted a League Of Legends gremlin together, so thats cool~.
Honestly that part got me a bit confused. If all gorgons are female, then shouldn't they require males of other species to reproduce? Like isn't that supposed to be how it works? Or is Vraska genuinely surprised it didn't work, because normally should, hinting at either of them being infertile?
Not a big fan of Loot to be honest. I genuinely dislike "aggressively cute" designs. Why does it have to look like a pokemon and can't, you know, look like a real thing?
It's possible that MTG Gorgons work like the Gerudo - (pretty much) 100% female, still need to sexually reproduce, stuck mating with compatible non-members (in the Gerudo's case, the rest of humanity) to produce offspring. Turns out that humans and gorgons aren't compatible. Makes sense.
Having memorized the over 1000 Pokemon and hundreds of Digimon, I say Loot still looks more like a League of Legends Yordle than he resembles any of those.
Here goes - the closest today's story gets to revealing the location of the Big Score (and its Torpor Orb, etc.) is its claim from Tamiyo that Maag Taranau isn't the only Fomori vault in the multiverse, and Thunder Junction isn't the only plane with a Fomori vault. Boo, I want a third story that exposes the location of the component pieces of the Big Score!
On another topic, unless the Fomori are born as beasts and grow up into giants (the mythical Fomorians are often described as misshapen (e.g. Balor's infamous giant evil eye) but do have some handsome members such as Elatha and Balor's daughter), I doubt Loot is Fomori. Loot seems pretty likely to be from the same plane as the Fomori (Ir), though, and I suspect the Fomori decided to plant their ally Loot in Maag Taranau to guard it.
Today's epilogue story does, maybe shockingly, answer the question of why Jace was doing an Ashiok impression for so long - strangers don't ask Ashiok questions and purposefully try to not deal with that planeswalker. Shame that I still think that asking for heists of material goods as Ashiok is a bad idea the moment Jace encounters someone who knows Ashiok slightly better.
This epilogue also pretty much confirms that it was Jace who knocked out Proft last round and rummaged through the detective's mind.
We still might never read justification for why Jace tried to disguise himself as Ashiok while demanding access to material goods...
He needed someone who was still a planeswalker after the Great Desparking whose powers he could easily copy.
I guess Kellan didn't get to know Ashiok long enough, but I suspect Elspeth would have immediately smelled a rat at "Ashiok"'s identity at the same initial Thunder Junction meeting. Ashiok is pointedly a lot more interested in "treasures of the mind" than in material treasure, to the point where I'm still surprised Jace thought he could get away with an Ashiok impression while asking for stuff Ashiok probably doesn't want.
I was worried they'd put both epilogue stories in the same day. This is a nicer distribution and fixes the plot semi-hole of how Jace stopped being aligned with Phyrexia, although it sounds like the plot hole of the Big Score will have to be fixed tomorrow. We still might never read justification for why Jace tried to disguise himself as Ashiok while demanding access to material goods...
Remember folks, Laughing Jasper Flint is an outlaw, so he alone exiles a card off the top of your opponent's library every upkeep and nabs it for you. If only he'd be able to survive until my upkeep in Modern...this is kinda hard when he dies to Bolt and he's often still in Prismatic Ending range.
I thought Viashino were dragonfolk, shockingly close to the dragonborn of D&D. This change doesn't ring right to me, to the point that I thought Laughing Jasper Flint isn't a Viashino (it also doesn't help that he doesn't look like a Viashino).
Is teenage/young adult Sorin really white-haired, or is that a wig? The former is hard to believe, especially before he got sired into the vampire ranks.
Man, I want a Grist card in Modern Horizons 3 to be real, though. The mothership promised she'd be showing up later in the lore, and she hasn't shown up elsewhere yet other than in the comics...
Here goes, I was thinking the Loot situation and the Yuma-and-Kirri situation also reminded me of The Mandalorian...and then I realized that The Mandalorian was probably also influenced by westerns.
...unless they're trying to market this plushie as having "an attachable tail ball"?
It's possible that MTG Gorgons work like the Gerudo - (pretty much) 100% female, still need to sexually reproduce, stuck mating with compatible non-members (in the Gerudo's case, the rest of humanity) to produce offspring. Turns out that humans and gorgons aren't compatible. Makes sense.
Having memorized the over 1000 Pokemon and hundreds of Digimon, I say Loot still looks more like a League of Legends Yordle than he resembles any of those.
On another topic, unless the Fomori are born as beasts and grow up into giants (the mythical Fomorians are often described as misshapen (e.g. Balor's infamous giant evil eye) but do have some handsome members such as Elatha and Balor's daughter), I doubt Loot is Fomori. Loot seems pretty likely to be from the same plane as the Fomori (Ir), though, and I suspect the Fomori decided to plant their ally Loot in Maag Taranau to guard it.
Today's epilogue story does, maybe shockingly, answer the question of why Jace was doing an Ashiok impression for so long - strangers don't ask Ashiok questions and purposefully try to not deal with that planeswalker. Shame that I still think that asking for heists of material goods as Ashiok is a bad idea the moment Jace encounters someone who knows Ashiok slightly better.
This epilogue also pretty much confirms that it was Jace who knocked out Proft last round and rummaged through the detective's mind.
I guess Kellan didn't get to know Ashiok long enough, but I suspect Elspeth would have immediately smelled a rat at "Ashiok"'s identity at the same initial Thunder Junction meeting. Ashiok is pointedly a lot more interested in "treasures of the mind" than in material treasure, to the point where I'm still surprised Jace thought he could get away with an Ashiok impression while asking for stuff Ashiok probably doesn't want.