What Happens in Zendikar Rising?
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2020
- Two planeswalkers face off to decide the fate of Zendikar, an adventure world still trying to recover from the Eldrazi presence.
Will Nahiri bring back the rock-steady stability she remembers from a thousand years ago, or will Nissa defend the wild and unstable landscape that dominates the present?
Also, Jace is there.
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Inistrad: i am a plane that is full if your worst nightmares
Ikoria: i am a plane full of powerfull beasts
Zendikar: lands
Zendikar: Lands that have contained all that shit, and More!
Inistrad: I am a land of nightmares
Ikoria: I am a land of powerful beasts
Zendikar: I am a land of lands
You can steal that if you want
Zendikar: i am a plane by turn 4
Ravnica: I am a land of confusion
Omnath appears in my favorite story called "banlist".
"You made enemies again today, Jace. But that's your nature, isn't it? Whenever you try to do good, it just makes things worse." Is the best discrimination of jace I've heard
Probably one of the better lines from the whole thing. I also could not believe he attempted mind control on Nissa.
But isn't that kinda how most smart people end up? They try doing good, but good to them is by any means necessary because they think... well it's the best possible outcome because of the numbers.
Defiantly though, a good description of Jace lol.
@@MagicArcanum To be fair... SHE HAD HIM PINNED DOWN
Won't that apply to Nissa as well? She literally freed the Eldrazi thinking they'd bugger off
@@shiranui498 Honestly, sometimes characters talk to others when talking to themselves. I think that's what Nissa has been struggling internally with for many sets now.
"mana is abundant on Zendikar", little did we know that the current state of standard was in fact for maximum immersion
Lmao this comment is too funny.
Super underrated.
Nissa, Jace, Akiri and every other living being: No, Nahiri. Don't use the core. It would kill us all.
Nahiri: Yeah, Yeah... But these stones tho
No nahiri the engine is dangerous dont do it.
Nahiri: hehe engine go brrrrrr
I would like to point out that Nissa is also acting accordingly with Golgari ideals of letting nature recycle itself and bring itself back to life.
Yeah, that's why I thought she was B/G. Golgari is the most "Let nature do what Nature do" color pair. I mean, you can pretty much get that from G alone, but G/B wouldn't hate the idea.
@@azuman7 Green is just: "Grow". Black+Green is more like Circle of life: "Die, Fertilize, Grow".
That is very true
“Nahiri expresses her anger and frustration to Jace”
I haven't read the story yet, but I imagine this as Jace getting punched.
This should’ve been broken into 2 sets. Another reason why the Ixalan story was so good. Space to breath and flesh out characters. Man, I miss that plane and that story. It was so underrated.
I mean literally nothing happened though here. Absolutely no need to make this in to two sets and i often felt like last few sets really needed it (especially Theros). Totally agree with Ixalan though.
Ixalan gets a lot of crap for being underpowered but personally it was my favorite setting in years
Got some crazy good edh stuff.
I find it funny that Jace has been called to plane and just got rag-dolled by everyone else and left to rot like no one cared about him. I normally don't like him and blue mages in general, but you gotta feel sorry for him this time.
Jace, the Simp-walker
Everyone hates blue or red unless that's what you're playing
so true lmao
@Matata McClesky y also.very true
I love jace and yeah I felt bad for him getting caught in the middle of this
It's a shame that they didn't call it the Lithoform Engine in the short stories to match the card because hearing the words kor and core made it a bit funny to listen to whenever Nahiri uses the core's powers. I can't help but imagine Nahiri swinging an entire other kor to beat Nissa's elementals.
I believe that they are two separate things though because from the card art it would seem that possibly the core would go into the engine as maybe a constant source of power for the plane rather than using nissa as the mode of delivery in a sudden burst of energy. Just my thought on the subject because the card art is not an orb as Ryan explained it to be and the engine itself doesn’t seem to be a movable object especially after he said that the place on the skyclave to insert the core was crushed......just my opinion though
I believe that the Core is the power source for the Engine. The Engine is never referred to by name in the story, but it's the structure at the heart of the singing city that Nahiri intends to put the Core into (this fits with the Lithoform Engine card, which can't do anything on its own, but can amplify pretty much anything, while the Core seems to be quite powerful by itself). However, Nissa gets there first and destroys it before Nahiri can use it.
The dig on Omnath had me lmao.
The Green Tupperware Cup of Biting Commentary strikes again! I love small themes like that.
Fix Zendikar; ban Omnath 😅
@@nickbalmes6640 You can't he is the set poster child, but yes he should be ban
Everybody fighting over a magic ball that can grant wishes represented by a card that copies spells. Hmmm...feels familiar...
Poor chainer
From a meta perspective I quite liked the Zendikar Rising story. I really didn't know which side would win and the outcome really changes the future path Zendikar as a whole takes.
Hopefully we will see even more elementals when we next return to the plane as a nod to this story.
It's pretty interesting that both Garruk and Nissa temporarely shifted from green to green/black but for wildly different reasons. Goes to show that black isn't simply "evil magic" - although the designers and writers seem to forget that from time to time.
It would be interesting if more people in Zendikar follow Nissa's path and start to see elementals as friends and not only foes.
Maybe having humanoid dcreatures (Humans, Elves, Merfolk, Vampires, Goblins) having a bonus for how many elementals you have on play
I appreciated that the antagonist's motives aren't inherently "evil" and either side of the conflict could be seen as the "good" one depending on your perspective.
on a gameplay standpoint; Nissa winning is more ideal for future mechanics.
Nahiri's version of Zendikar would be boring.
It'll be interesting to see if Nissa's next printing retains it, especially if it's a Sultai card.
I do not understand how people could trash Eldraine but praise this. I feel that literally nothing happened in this set🤔
My favorite card from the set is definitely Forsaken Monument. It's a throwback to Eldrazi monument, and like you said, one of the only references to the Eldrazi in the entire set.
Plus, it's a good fit for my Eldrazi edh deck :)
I'm not sure if it's actually made clear if his body is totally incinerated by Chandra's literal fire (what a creative way to save the day), but I like to imagine that it wasn't, and forsaken monument is actually the remains of Ulamog's corpse. I thought at first it was just the ruins of what's depicted in Eldrazi Monument, but looking at the spines on the shoulders and the shape of the face I think it is meant to be Ulamog. Pretty cool stuff
I kinda thought that the reason the key, core, and socket were in different locations was because they weren’t unique. The lithoform core is described as the LAST one, so the parts may have been “scattered” because they each used to have their own set, but because of the roil and the churn of ages, are the last remaining.
My theory for why Nissa had black was because black also represents self-interest, and Nissa is pursuing her own interests, that is protecting her elemental "family".
As for card that I liked the most from the set, it was Nissa. A turn 5 cheat spell is too good to pass up xD Pay 4, play Nissa, play land for turn (thus up-ticking Nissa), use her -5, cheat out a 5-drop, still have 1 mana open for a 1 drop instant!
I actually got her in the first pack I opened. That made my day!
EDIT: Oh yeah! Forgot to mention that there was a foreshadowing of the end result in the first chapter of the story!
When Nissa mentions the key/core to Jace, he says, "huh, I wonder if it's user based?"
"Zendikar had an extreme immune response to Nissa and Sorin letting out the Eldrazi."
Nissa: "I like elementals. They're cool. Let's make this destructive and hostile state the new normal!"
The funny thing is that it was Nissa who did the releasing, while Sorin was doing the sealing.
3:30 I'm here for the lore, not to be reminded of my lower back pain & reminded I'm dying sooner than later!
Sorry friend but misery LOVES company so if I have to suffer through it, so do you ;-)
perfect early morning treat before the grind
It's like noon tho. At least in my timezone lol.
I think that the story ended up somewhat lackluster because I felt that they didn't gave room for the conflict between Nissa and Nahiri to develop; by saying Nissa was right all along in the end and emphasizing the ruthless character of Nahiri. Overall it's a story of how to cope with trauma, of what to do after a catastrophe; Nahiri clings to an idealized past, Nissa wants to let time/nature run it's course. It's also about generational conflict, family, and responsability... But these thematic threads are mostly gone once Nahiri wants to commit elemental (and merfolk?) genocide, and tries to kill a helpless Akiri. "Of course she's shortsighted, look how brutish she is!". I know that this personality has already been stablished in her violent spree through Innistrad, but I was hoping that they'd be able to present their contradiction in other ways.
So was it going to kill only elementals because if so thats a acceptable loss 🤔
There's an excellent exchange between Nissa and Nahiri that also demonstrates why Nissa is currently black alligned.
"Broken doesn't mean weak, Nahiri," replied Nissa. "Broken doesn't mean that there isn't beauty or redemption."
"So says the broken planeswalker," retorted Nahiri, "who destroys everything she touches."
"Broken doesn't mean a life is not worth living," Nissa said, standing tall, staring straight at the lithomancer. "You are what Zendikar once was, Nahiri. I am what it is now."
In other words, at the climax of Nissa's story in this set, her core themes are death and rebirth. Putting together what once was broken. this is, imo, why she has landfall storywise- given that, in general you aren't literally creating land when you place lands, her landfall is flavored as more of a renewal. It would've probably been more flavorful if it triggered after lands untapped, but it would've been even more broken than omnath
The last line is also interesting- "You are what zendikar once was, I am what it is now." Nahiri represents the skyclaves, a regimented life of military service and social structure, fitting the motifs of boros as a pair being soldiers and armies (most obviously on Ravnica, but also in places like Drannith on Ikoria and Akros on Theros), while Nissa represents the renewal and regeneration of the plane after its many, many, *many* catastrophes.
Nissa is not putting together what once was broken, though. She is letting it to be broken, even more than before, 'cause she likes it broken, that's why she is black. Nissa represents a forced acceptance on chaotic diversity, even if that means all other non-chaotic people on the plane has to suffer the consequences, while Nahiri represents a severe traditional and stable social structure, where all other people on the plane can prospere, even if that means no chaotic diversity to be ever seen again.
@@GranMaese I think the core itself refutes this. It itself says that it's made to fix "damage". When used, though, it only fixes the Eldrazi's corruption, because it would never hurt a part of Zendikar. Golgari as a pair represents death leading into new life. Fungus, rot, etc are easy targets for this, since they're decomposers, but they are still life from death.
meanwhile... I think that the story itself shows that a world of order and structure doesn't let everyone prosper. One of the side stories is literally about escaping a skyclave because the main character feels suffocated. ultimately, any more order than they already have wouldn't be *bad* per se, but not at the cost of the soul of zendikar.
@@GranMaese oh nvm I read down you think that this is some sort of political statement from wotc lmao you're not worth my time conservative
God, nissa is an entitled little b
I just realized how much they had to shove into one set. Now, I have a theory that Standard has been so bad because (1) Wizards is trying to pack entire stories into 1 set and (2) doing so creates too many pushed cards and different mechanics shoved together
1 set stories means all big characters need cards and those generally end up being pretty good. Some are even great and broken - see Omnath/Uro/Oko. Throw together 3 jam packed sets into a block with a multitude of mechanics is asking for broken cards, combos and interactions.
nah, zendikar rising is just weird. It's not broken because there's a lot of story to cover, it's broken because it has like 9 different archetypes. I mean, party itself is 5, then you have landfall with and without black for nissa, simic kicker, aggro... I mean, there's a reason that there's only five guilds in any given ravnica set.
@@pandoragoldspan7012 OG Ravnica, even, only had 3-4 guilds per set, iirc
This, so much this. I know not everyone liked 3-set blocks, but it gave wotc time to establish the story and world build much better. It's really annoying that wizards keeps visiting planes for 1 set and introducing characters we don't see too much, while simultaneously rushing through story.
@@Skydrawill48 two set blocs was the best compromise.
Or just do sometimes two when it is needed and sometimes filler set.
@@Skydrawill48 I agree. The last standard I really enjoyed was khans block.
Oh new video, I stopped whatever I was doing and started watching
I've been real busy and need to catch up on a few episodes but I just wanted to say I'm so glad you made your own channel. These things are so soothing and fun.
Sadly I lost my interest in playing magic with the last year or so of craziness (Arena doesn't do it for me), but the stories of magic will always be my jam.
(And a little whisper, if you haven't read the Kamigawa books I highly recommend them!)
In another five years, we'll have already revisited Innistrad two times and Ravnica three more times before returning to Zendikar.. Again. Not gonna lie, would absolutely love to see a return to Kamigawa, maybe Tamiyo would be coming home to study all her findings during her travels, Lili might even come with her.
The back pain comment was hilarious! I hope it's not too bad. I completely understand the feeling
that outro is soooo satisfying. love how the name puzzles the planeswalkers together
Thanks! I'm really proud of how it turned out.
Now that I'm teaching school again I barely have time to play MtG, let alone keep up with the lore. You're doing Urza's work by making these videos I can watch on my lunch break. Thank you so much!
Finally a story that make sense and actually good given the short nature of it. Hopefully future set will be better. (Game balance be damn btw, almost every set after WAR need a ban /sad)
The Old Kor society was quite heavy handed, which lead to eventually war against the people of Zendikar.
The Lithoform pieces must have been put in different places once the old war went bad for the Kor. As far as I can remember.
To answer the question: everybody gets milled
I was super bummed when we didn't see a new Anowon card in the base set because it meant he didn't make an appearance for the past two returns to Zendikar. Plus, I used to use his name as my username for everything so it super sucked to not see him again. Then I saw he was the commander for one of the side decks and just about fell out of my chair. Was super excited to see his return and then he got his own little side story. The coolest thing to happen this year.
Could we ever get a talk about Chandra and Nissa? I’m still slightly confused about their relationship
I cover it a bit in "What Happens in War of the Spark Forsaken?" but in short, they flirted with each other for a while, and seemed to be on the path to forming a genuine romantic relationship, before Chandra suddenly and abruptly declared she only liked Nissa as a friend, and that her interests had always been "big burly men like Gideon."
Fans of the pair felt that they had been misled, and proponents of diverse relationship representation saw this as WotC bowing to Chinese influence (can't have gay main characters! bad for business!) WotC has tried to walk it back and has suggested that they will "do better" to show the connection between these characters, but we're still waiting for any meaningful developments on that front.
@@MagicArcanum Cheers for that clarification. Keep up the amazing content!
@@MagicArcanum When I rode it ,That was fuck up to ruin relationship after all.
@@MagicArcanum R u think this is the end of Nissa/Chandra romantic relationship?
And I love how it's the Eldrazi Monument from Zendikar, just sunken. Awesome.
Zendikar doesnt seem very broken well aside from Omnath. Well played sir I tip my hat to you.
great video like always also we have been blessed with double upload this week
Been waiting! Love to see this up.
Brilliant video, thank you!
Nahiri's Lithoforming could be when she closed the entrance of the singing city.
Nissa's Zendikon could be what she was spamming the entire fight... she has like 10 of those in her hand or sumtin :p
I love how they portrayed Jace in this set. The boy tries so so hard, but through his own arrogance doesn’t actually help as much as he wants. I disagree that he makes everything worse, but Nahiri definitely gave him a boot to the face. Although I fully believe the mind capturing thing he attempted to do toward Nissa was a snap judgment thing that backfired horribly. He needs to find what can stabilize his personality. I hope he won’t become the antagonist before he finds his fulfillment.
Also Nissa is still in love with Chandra! She mentioned regretting missing her love. The ship is still sailing y’all.
Edit: My favourite card is actually General Tazri. The party mechanic is basically a refinement of the Ally system, and the General is the pinnacle of gathering parties together to help her city. I also like that she was on an adventure in the background. Also the flavour win of a human wearing an angel’s halo is just choice.
Love these! Thanks!
By God, that mustache looks more and more glorious with every video.
Also, thanks for the videos: this is how I keep up with what's happening in Magic and I love these.
Thank you for the good explanation. I think this is the best story and representation of it in cards at least since I am playing the game with onslaught. And you did a fantastic job with the video ☺️
I've been looking forward to this video for a few days
Great mustache minute. Lots of great remarks and good questions ^^
You had me at The Chulane Intro!!
My favorite card of this set is all of the spell lands. Great vid!
Ive been subscribed since the TCGPlayer days, but haven’t really watched you at all. In the middle of a move this week and I have no PC, so I’ve been watching a lot of UA-cam and I’m really appreciating your storytelling. Thanks for keeping me company the past few days.
Oh shit, this episode came out on my birthday! Guess that means I need to go back and watch... all the episodes to make up for mixing it.
These videos always make my day better. "Awwwwww hell yeah- its STORY TIME"
Been looking forward to this!!
You can’t run this time dooku
I'm always happy when it's story time again.
There was so much good content in this video that if it was released 20 years ago it would have been a 2 CD set. Phenomenal work!
This is a great video. I love the explanation of everything, but honestly I think I missed a lot of it, cause I was distracted by that fantastic mustache!
Zendikar seems like an ideal setting for a MtG DnD sourcebook, incorporating lots of exploration, traps, and dungeoneering on top of fighting monsters and getting loot. It would be more akin to Gygaxian DnD, but the different dungeon setting where 3Dimensionality and bent laws of nature and gravity can make for quite an interesting play IMO
As a returning Magic player, this set was great with Lore. I loved the stories they were posting, with cards shows stuff that happened in the story, tying up all the lore.
Thanks for the insight on the angels, i was wondering why all their art was like that!
I just came back to magic after like 10 years, and finally i have someone who can explain the lore, that's something that when i was 12 i always wanted to know but never could sooo thanks. Also that's some fancy mustache
Scuuuuuuuuuuute Swaaaaaaaaaarm is my boi. Also loving my Phylath commander deck. Sad they didn't get a story.
As always I could listen to all the stories from my favourite loremage Ryan! Thank you very much! :D
"Zendikar doesn't seem very broken right now... aside from Omnath *takes sip*" Oh snap xD
I really like the adventure feel of Zendikar Rising and I can't wait for the cards and stories of KALDHEIM!
I hope they go all out on the flavour of the plane, that's what I enjoy the most!
Magic Arcanum upload == me happy
I haven't stopped since I got hooked playing it for the first time
Waited for this
I love these videos. I had hoped they would have had more story but I’m still happy they finally had a writer that gave a crap and brought back a lot that wise man ruined. I would love to see a video of what cards you’d use to depict the main story for the old stories pre mending
this is so great!!!
Catching up late as i usually do, but there's a couple videos youtube didnt notify me about, even though i have the bell clicked to notify me of all videos
(21:50) Mine will be a little more tricky seeing that I've put in some Exile, to counter graveyard recursion. Including Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger and some eldrazis with Ingest. I also included Arcane Adaptation so those Eldrazis are now rogues, so I can mill and Exile in a single attack.😎👍
Another masterpiece
I think Nissa is golgari colors because they are typically about death not being an end, its about the cycle of life which Nissa in a way represents now.
But are we not going to talk about the bomb Jace thought? He literally acknowledged that it is only a matter of time until Nicol Bolas comes back as he will regain his spark according to Jace and Ugin. Like that's a big deal!
I've been playing since hours of devastation, thank you so much for catching me up! I would really like it if you uploaded the audio to Spotify. Just a suggestion. Thank you again :) love listening to the stories with my kids.
Glad we got some lore
I love your voice.lIt's very mesmeric and gets me right into a mood for L O R E. Keep up the great work
I thought the anticognition art is nahiri getting mindblasted by jace, but it was about some fella named Flekon and random kor
also, great video!
"Convenient treasure troves" and the use of "Skyclave shade" are just *chef's kiss* brilliant
I think the lithoform engine is supposed to be the mechanism that spreads the power of the core, while the core is the purple thing we saw in the trailer.
The story describes that mechanism as being crushed under a fallen stone temple, so Nahiri never gets to see it. In that case, the card still wouldn't make sense.
Linvala was also Tazri's number one supporter in reuniting the towns to rebuild the seagate
Tazri being the beacon of unity is my favorite card. For all the crazy she endured it's nice seeing good things are happening in her neck of the woods.
I absolutely love that this is about rebuilding zendikar and healing the plane. I've been saying I wanted this set for years.
Eldrazi are awesome, but so is Zendikar independent of the Eldrazi. I'm glad its got to shine again for the 1st time since worldwake.
I wish they didn't water it down with the party mechanic though. That seems better suited for the D&D set next year.
Love the video but I think I can provide a tiny bit of context on the Skyclaves. As you said, they're ancient kor cities and outposts. It's hinted in the first story that old Zendikar had large cities with commerce where Kor would travel to hone their crafts and show off their wealth. Nahiri grew up in this era of the Kor, and again it's hinted that there wasn't any roil to worry about. The roil didn't come later until after the eldrazi were imprisoned. While Nahiri slept and watched over the eldrazi, she wasn't keep up with current events. She didn't know the vampires had starting worshiping the eldrazi as gods, so it's not unreasonable to think she didn't notice the roil ruining those big cities over thousands of years. So flat out the adventures are raiding the ruins of ancient Kor society destroyed by the roil thousands of years ago. That's why there's treasure and ruins for them to take.
I like the +1+1 counter deck style of the green black decks.
So...this was kinda a fight for the Tesseract from that Captain America movie? Wow, glad to know that Nahiri lost. Green triumphs once again...with a help of blue
As for my favorite card, it's not a card, but more of a sequence represented in the cards. The "mini story" that "begins" in Adventure Awaits and ends in Spoils of Adventure is quite heartwarming. Could be inspiration for a D&D campaign set on zendikar (which btw, has support on the planeshift expansions for D&D made by wizards of the coast)
Omnath has always been one of my favorite characters. I just loved seeing his progression and was so excited to see what he would be like this set.................... I guess it's an understatement to say he exceeded any expectations I had for him.... far far exceeded.
And in 5 years we will find out why Jace had that alter art card of him giving out heavy Tibalt vibes. I thought it could be the effect of the maddening cacophony twisting his perceptions or the orb influencing his judgement and turning him - if momentarily - into a darker version of himself.
Hey, for your lower backproblems: I had a lot of usefulness from Athlean-X's channel, using the exercises to stretch certain (hip) flexors, which were tight from too much time sitting in chairs, pulling my hips into a bad position. Could also be a weak core muscle thing.
But the one thing that solved a lot of my back problems was getting a stiffer and metter matrass. Soft matrass => relying on your lower back muscles to keep your spine straight while you sleep, so they're always fatigued, which weakens them long-term.
Sometimes I wish UA-cam had a second bigger "heart" button just for comments like this.
@@MagicArcanum
I don't know if you're going to see this comment after 4 days of the video being published, but the story spotlight card Nissa's Zendikon is placed at the beggining of the fight against Jace and Nahiri in the last chapter, when she is rallying all her elemants to the fight. The chapter mentions an "eagle shaped vines" emerging behind Nissa, just as its depicted in the card, and then it even grabs Nahiri up in the air with it's talons. I do agree with you, with Nahiri's Lithoforming not being as well placed as the others, and with your idea of it being a card to just leave us guessing of what happens. I admit they got me good during all the time the story was being released.
Engagement for the algorithm!
Fortunately the channel is still small enough that I can read every comment. I've seen people argue just as strongly that Nissa's Zendikon is near the end of the battle, with the 4/4 haste lands being bigger than her usual 3/3 showing the "enhanced strength" they got from her use of the Lithoform Core.
So, it could be either!
Wow this is so good so amazing!!! Best time before closing my evening!!! Thank you!!!
Great to have cards and new graphics effect on the screen!
I lost it 2 time in this video
1 LANDSSSSS!!!!!🤣
2 It doesn't seem much broken...well aside from...OMNATH!🤣🤣🤣
NICE NICE NICE!
I love how Zendikar is the most D&D plane of MTG
@Magic Arcanum, thank you so much for this very very cool video my king 😁🙏👑 I am so glad that I am your loyal servant and great fan. It was so cool to watch 😁👍🏾 exellent job my King 😎👑
I hope you doing well?
Do a video on the different thought processes/tendencies of each color please!
I'll put that on my list :-)
Forsaken Monument, hands down. Can't wait to let my Eldrazi get their tendrils on that little gem.
A great lunch time treat!
My guess, from hearing it out loud so many times, was that "Lithoform Core" had too much linguistic overlap with the "Kor" people, so they swapped the homophonic "Core" for the unlikely-to-cause-confusion "Engine".
The back pain thing had me laughing cuz i can sooooo relate lol
Nissa's nature vs. Nahiri's technology. Very beast machines.
I love story time!
I have some...thoughts on many of your Mustache Minute thoughts.
Nahiri claims that there were once many Lithoform Cores. The Singing City probably had a Lithoform Core at some point, but it was likely destroyed or used up during or soon after the fall of Kor civilization. When the Singing City became...haunted?...the remaining Kor probably sealed away the remaining Core and hid away the key in another skyclave to protect it from interlopers, since they could no longer safely use it.
Not much to say about traps, you're right there.
The lack of Nulls may have something to do with the diminished vampire population, and the prior corruption of many vampires by the Eldrazi. Possible that there aren't enough vampires that know how to safely make Nulls anymore.
I agree on the Eldrazi corruption. Would have been nice if one of the skyclaves had been over a ruined Bala Ged, where the Planeswalkers had to contend with some of Yarok's anguished friends. Havining Bala Ged be lush and green when it was still a distorted wasteland in M19 just seems too abrupt to me.
Definitly gona need a dnd book for this set
It doesn't seem very broken, well except for Omnath. This slayed me!
10:00 Ok Jace is no Urza but you can't deny he's got some style.
Aside of Omnath... Haaaaahahahaha!
Man! I loved this video! Good to see you're both ok. Lots of love from Lima, Perú. Keep safe.
P.S.: Really really REALLY LOVED the Dragon Shield story!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
If I remember Zagras got a little character introduction, hes part of Drana Party and searching the method to create more Bloodchief as Rogue and kill opposing adventuring party sometimes