Before Toggo created the Rock he created Lightning... Supposedly LOL. I can't wait to brew with Toggo, I thought that card was a joke when they first released it :P
Interesting back story regarding Nevinyrral and his disk! Favorite quote from disentomb: “I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead … why, it’s like my birthday come early.” -Nevinyrral, necromancer
I do like the idea of Prismatic Piper being an almost mythical being, like Bigfoot. Never to play a role in a main story thread. But a whimsical kind of fairytale that ties the planes together.
Wait, so Prismatic Piper is on the same level as the Eldrazi and Ur-Dragon? That's an underwhelming yet on-point card for such an insane being on Magic-verse
I believe the “certain unknown criteria” for the Piper to come to a person’s aid is just a reference to the particular figure having the partner ability, since mechanically, that is how you are able to use him to give a deck another colour, though these characters wouldn’t know that they have this ability given to them to play well in draft, so they just joke about the vague requirements of why these particular characters are chosen
I think it’s unlikely the Prismatic Piper will help out any major characters. If we allow for a bit of poetic license, and assume that there’s a meaningful connection between its in-game function and in-universe function; in the draft, the purpose of the Prismatic Piper is to help out people who don’t have access to mana that they really, really need, and that they’ve built their deck around somewhat. The way I see it, the Prismatic Piper helps mages that aren’t strong enough in the colors they already have a hold on, rather than helping already-strong mages. Obviously there’s a lot of assumptions going into that, and lord knows Flavor and Mechanics don’t match up all that well that often. But regardless, thats my takeaway from the lore until I see anything running counter to it
Cool thing i just noticed about Liesa, Shroud of Dusk and Avacyn, Angel of Hope is that they are in very similar poses, resembling how Avacyn took Liesa's place in a visual sense as well.
Krark wasn't a-LORE-able for you Ryan? He's the coolest goblin besides Daretti? He's a gambler and a religious pilgrim or both or neither! Krark FTW! Badgering aside, I love your content, thank you Ryan and Nicole for all the hard word you guys put into this. Have a great day! :D
Yeah, I cracked up at that. That's probably going to be ingrained into my memory forever now, so if I build a deck with the Piper, I'll be annoying the snot out of my playgroup with "do-de-do-da-do's." Not my fault. Blame Ryan. 😉
My favorites are Rebbec and Glacian. "Before the Brothers' War, before the five colors of magic, before history itself, Dominaria was ruled by the Thran"
That scenario with The Prismatic Piper was great. Though, it does make me think, maybe since the Piper is made up completely of mana scattered throughout the multiverse, it could just give mana out at random to people, so it has no clear goal or specific requirements.
It could, and presumably does, give it to baddies just as often as our heroes too, so that's a fun little wrinkle. Imagine Nicol Bolas just randomly gets access to green and/or white out of the blue, that would be a problem for the Gatewatch I dare say.
@@alexanderforbes1452 Yeah, you’re right. That would be absolutely terrifying. Maybe the Piper is just another Eldritch entity roaming the multiverse through the Blind Eternities.
I think the key to using the Prismatic Piper well is A) to give the Piper a motivation of its own, and B) to make sure that motivation doesn't perfectly align with the protagonists. Basically, make sure that the Piper at least *could* potentially intervene in a way which complicates things, rather than simplifies them.
I gotta say thanks Ryan and Nicole bc I wouldn’t know anything about magic besides from flavor texts. I really appreciate you guys making this videos. Much love guys💕💕
The Prismatic Piper could be a potential servant to a higher being far beyond the entire Multiverse of the magic universe. Think of them like a musical Piper playing his music in order to keep azathoth asleep. Because for as long as the top is sleeping existence is reality.
Prediction: the Piper supercharging people is story problem. What happens when everything in the same city block as Chandra spontaneously ignites and she has no ability to stop it? Or when Nissa accidentally animates some buildings with a grudge against the mansion down the road? Jace accidentally mind wiping everyone nearby? Maybe a set where having too much mana is a thing because it might catch this guy's attention. Might make an interesting theme for a set of someone better at this stuff than I thinks of it.
How they wrote the Prismatic Piper looks more like it's a setup for a future plotline: Perhaps something about the Wanderer, since she has the unique spark that leaves her unmoored in the multiverse.
I can listen to you talk about lore for HOURS! So interesting so cool so many interaction so much history so much nostalgia,i can't wait to see and listen more from all the legends of commander legends!!! Hans! Give us more Hans!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Awesome episode! Llanowar Knight! Invasion... Dismissal, the very first deck I ever played! Oh the memories... I think the Prismatic Piper should make an appearance in Strixhaven. Since it is pure Mana, and the school is all Mana, all the time... it would be perfect if he enters the Lore in that set. Awesome video Ryan and Nicole! Lots of love!!
The Prismatic Piper is effectively a vanilla 3/3 for 5 because its only effects have to be used before the game - whatever that means in lore terms. I could see it being used a McGuffin by someone that wants to try and control a color of magic they usually can't handle in order to achieve some bigger, more important plan. And in the end in either doesn't work or the cost is way to high for the effect - both outcomes would be a nice nod to how underwhelming the Piper is if you ever actually cast it.
From the Dragonlance series, there was a few stories written about someone who travelled back in time to witness events, the main one sticking in my head was the Great Calamity story, when the gods dropped a mountain onto the world. The point to this post is, it'd be cool to see some stories from the Piper's point of view, as if it was an observer to Magic's greatest historical moments, allowing us to see legendary creatures from the past, in moments we wouldn't normally get.
The cool thing about Gideon nearly drowning, is that the Black sorcery Ob-Nixilis was invoking there (Throttle) will actually kill a standard Gideon with it's -4/-4. That's a cool interaction in magic story, you can entirely recreate with cards.
Hey Ryan, love your vids. Minor characters are really interesting and I hope you'll do more, especially the old ones like Marit lage, Maro Braids and others. cheers!
Not really related to the video but the thumbnail made me think about it, would the Piper have been unreasonable if it was essentially an Arcane Signet so long as it was your commander? Like, if it was a 1/1 for 1 generic mana that said "As long as The Prismatic Piper is your commander it has tap: Add one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity." and of course the rest of it's rules text that's already there. I don't think that that would be broken even in the draft format, they might have to bump it up to a 2/2 for 2 instead to incentivize people to not pick it over a different partner you already drafted in the correct colour. As it is there's really no reason to play it in constructed and I think that's a shame because of that awesome Seb McKinnon art.
I’ve heard people say Keleth is from Theros, since the card Sunmane Pegasus exists; while I def think that’s a possibility, I think it’s just as likely that Sunmane is one of those things like Ornithopters, that appear on multiple planes. Similar to how “Emblem of the Warmind” appears in one of Dominaria’s futures, and the Warmind Project exists on Ravnica. A concept that exists across multiple realities, so to speak.
Piper is my favorite card out of the set from an art standpoint. Something about the twisting nature of his body with the different elements all clear in the shape make me want his foil so bad.
I think the prismatic piper could tie back to that plane of planeswalkers that were there since the beginning of time. The ones urza met. They seem to have the omnipotence and vast power to bend magic like that
The prismatic pipers unknown requirement, is probably tied to the partner mechanic as that is the main mechanical purpose of the card, so I think if it ever does make an appearance in the story, it will be tied to a commander related one and to a commander that has partner.
I've said it before and i say it again. This channel is too good to be more popular. To get more recognition, it is not the channel that has to step up. It's people!
Why is Nevinyrral a Wizard not a Warlock? Now there's a missed opportunity! Anyway, great video, and nice explanations! I want to build a five-colour Familiar tribal deck now...
Pretty sure he's a Wizard because he actually learned his magic through orderly study instead of having it just granted to him by some otherworldly patron or power. Nevinyrral is also Blue and White in addition to Black after all, on top of all liches so far being Zombie Wizards--see also: Tormod. So it makes that the game's first (?) lich character would be one too. That said, WotC *has* been weirdly stingy with the new Warlock subtype. Only one old card got backdated with it, and Cuombajj Witches is for some reason *still* a Wizard despite Witch being exactly what Warlock is standing in for due to Wicca. I imagine we get a lot more Warlocks in 2021 with all the _D&D_ stuff, but it's still very odd even if there should still be a few new mono-Black Wizards to represent more classic necromancers. (Even though it's not like Inalla needs anymore help.)
I think the piper wouldn't be so devastating for any plot if it appears on a main set, I actually think it would be pretty cool to have a green-red Nissa or a red-blue Chandra. Wizard must not abuse it for overcoming every obstacle but as a "one time trick" I think it's awesome
Liesa gets to be part of the cycle because she has WWM (where M is the other other color) in her casting cost and an additional evergreen keyword besides flying. This matches the original printing of Gisela, Bruna, and Sigarda. Oh, and the name ends in "a" too.
Okay but imagine a plot with someone trying to take the power of the piper to use for themselves and it’s a chase to find the bad guy and uncover the things needed to solicit its help
I interpreted the piper 's interference as a boost to the magical ability already mastered without adding other colors of mana, providing enchants or unknown spells to the wizard
Prismatic piper wouldn’t be the first out of left field character that pops up from time to time. The raven man comes to mind. But at least PP has a card
My two cents on the Piper: Any being that exists in that manner is bound to be somewhat amoral. Seeing all of time and space doesn't exactly impart a profound sense of worth in a single life. Following this logic, I feel that if ANY being meets its criteria, it might very well be The Dragon formerly named Nicol. Not that I'm wanting to see that black hole of plot and story variance return any time soon but, if Ashiok isn't plotting to remind the multiverse that Nicol "once existed" in some contrived Freddy vs Jason plot, the Prismatic Piper could very well be a gateway to bring him back into the story.
If the Prismatic Piper is everywhere, conected to the Magic, as some kind of not-devourer Eldrazi... I wonder if it could've had Emerge as a mechanic and be like The Matrix's agents, able to take control of anyone that uses magic... ... And suddenly, the guy is the next Big Bad >_
Could the prismatic piper be something akin to the eldrazi but their antithesis? Where the eldrazi are numerous huge and are made of colorless mana could the piper be small alone and all colors at once?
I doubt the piper will ever show up in a set outside of Commander Legends. Though if it is a legend (pun intended) that shows up across planes and time, it would be cool to see references to it. Either there are many separate spirits that have done things which are now attributed to this based on poor documentation or changes in the lore over time, just as how word of mouth lore works in the real world. This could show the influence early planeswalkers had on the places they visited, bringing stories from across realms that coalesced into the legend of the piper. Maybe it is just the planeswalkers themselves turned myth by the people the helped ages ago. Alternatively, we could show people searching for it, studying it, maybe even worshiping it, and then learn it never existed at all, or that it is much less benevolent than we might assume. Maybe some combination of the above. Or maybe its just a Phyrexiansnoweldrazi hybrid.
I don't think the Prismatic Piper will make any further appearance in the story. The only reason it got a story blurb in the first place was because it's a legendary creature, and it needed _some_ justification for being legendary other than "mechanics demand it"
1:00 I'd say that familiars predate European "witches", King Solomon from 'BC olden days' was known to have bound elemental familiars to his servitude.
You're probably right but in Magic they seem to be more about companionship than servitude, so I think the influence is stronger from the European version.
I feel the Piper was only created to fill the draft function of Commander Legends. While yes, it can be used as a deus ex-machina I hope they don't try to retcon story points within the main story of Magic. Like say, undo Gideon's sacrifice so now he is Black White and can summon zombies to fight. But this also means that they could have Teferi splash into other colors as well. That alone makes me worried about the already shaky ground the game is on.
The best thing about the Abomination is that it is literally an elfball.
Nice
I don't get it
@Reid Cameron y did you feel the need to post this?
@@justabeholder4753 this is a spamming comment lets just report it :)
Nahiri: I am a lithomancer! I craft the greatest weapons from sheer stone!
Toggo: _I'm about to end this woman's whole carrer..._
Toggo invented the rock, so...he literaly invented Nahiri magic, and also half of red mana magic XD
@@TioFranTV Yo, and imagine him ending the sentece like supa hot fire: _...But, I'm not a walker."_
Before Toggo created the Rock he created Lightning... Supposedly LOL. I can't wait to brew with Toggo, I thought that card was a joke when they first released it :P
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 toggo, kodama and some land like gruul turf and you have infinite rocks. That's a lot of rocks
Interesting back story regarding Nevinyrral and his disk! Favorite quote from disentomb: “I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead … why, it’s like my birthday come early.”
-Nevinyrral, necromancer
I do like the idea of Prismatic Piper being an almost mythical being, like Bigfoot. Never to play a role in a main story thread. But a whimsical kind of fairytale that ties the planes together.
Wait, so Prismatic Piper is on the same level as the Eldrazi and Ur-Dragon? That's an underwhelming yet on-point card for such an insane being on Magic-verse
I believe the “certain unknown criteria” for the Piper to come to a person’s aid is just a reference to the particular figure having the partner ability, since mechanically, that is how you are able to use him to give a deck another colour, though these characters wouldn’t know that they have this ability given to them to play well in draft, so they just joke about the vague requirements of why these particular characters are chosen
I think it’s unlikely the Prismatic Piper will help out any major characters. If we allow for a bit of poetic license, and assume that there’s a meaningful connection between its in-game function and in-universe function; in the draft, the purpose of the Prismatic Piper is to help out people who don’t have access to mana that they really, really need, and that they’ve built their deck around somewhat. The way I see it, the Prismatic Piper helps mages that aren’t strong enough in the colors they already have a hold on, rather than helping already-strong mages.
Obviously there’s a lot of assumptions going into that, and lord knows Flavor and Mechanics don’t match up all that well that often. But regardless, thats my takeaway from the lore until I see anything running counter to it
Cool thing i just noticed about Liesa, Shroud of Dusk and Avacyn, Angel of Hope is that they are in very similar poses, resembling how Avacyn took Liesa's place in a visual sense as well.
"Bruna, Sigarda, ... and the other one"
I laughed so loud! Hahhahahahahahahhah
Krark wasn't a-LORE-able for you Ryan? He's the coolest goblin besides Daretti? He's a gambler and a religious pilgrim or both or neither! Krark FTW!
Badgering aside, I love your content, thank you Ryan and Nicole for all the hard word you guys put into this. Have a great day! :D
I expect a whole episode about Krark
And throw in Toggo as well. What a beautiful goblin
I have a feeling krark would give you a thumbs up if he could
Krark + Sakashima is probably the most fun i've ever had in commander.
Loved the "Doo de doo de too bit" Awesome episode
Yeah, I cracked up at that. That's probably going to be ingrained into my memory forever now, so if I build a deck with the Piper, I'll be annoying the snot out of my playgroup with "do-de-do-da-do's."
Not my fault. Blame Ryan. 😉
I like the idea of the Piper being a common by virtue of it essentially existing everywhere and everywhen, even if it's normally imperceptible.
My favorites are Rebbec and Glacian.
"Before the Brothers' War, before the five colors of magic, before history itself, Dominaria was ruled by the Thran"
I’m sad that Glacian is kinda terrible, maybe if he was slotted at rare and costed 4cmc...
That scenario with The Prismatic Piper was great. Though, it does make me think, maybe since the Piper is made up completely of mana scattered throughout the multiverse, it could just give mana out at random to people, so it has no clear goal or specific requirements.
It could, and presumably does, give it to baddies just as often as our heroes too, so that's a fun little wrinkle. Imagine Nicol Bolas just randomly gets access to green and/or white out of the blue, that would be a problem for the Gatewatch I dare say.
@@alexanderforbes1452 Yeah, you’re right. That would be absolutely terrifying. Maybe the Piper is just another Eldritch entity roaming the multiverse through the Blind Eternities.
I think the Piper will apear in the Forgotten Realms
I think the key to using the Prismatic Piper well is A) to give the Piper a motivation of its own, and B) to make sure that motivation doesn't perfectly align with the protagonists. Basically, make sure that the Piper at least *could* potentially intervene in a way which complicates things, rather than simplifies them.
Nevinyrral's disc blowing up everything in 10 Miles instead of 10 KM's is also a funny nod towards this set not being in standard. Gottom.
Hah
Petition for a new series or video entitled "Truly Dep-lore-able" about the legends you really wish had lore but currently don't have much at all.
I gotta say thanks Ryan and Nicole bc I wouldn’t know anything about magic besides from flavor texts. I really appreciate you guys making this videos. Much love guys💕💕
I'm very happy with some lore inclusion in this set. In particular, Hans Eriksson from Lhurgoyf and Toggo from Shock.
Came for lore, stayed for EPIC Prismatic Piper cosplay!
Love the art and lore around the Prismatic Piper! Reminds me of the servitors of the outer gods in lovecraft!
6:15 I think its ok to use non-sense unit of measurement for Fantasy, after all, its Fantasy right? :)
My ornithopter gets 40 rods to the hogshead
Great video! So grest that we want more a-lore-able legends please! Krark, Hans Eriksson, Kamahl and so on!
The Prismatic Piper could be a potential servant to a higher being far beyond the entire Multiverse of the magic universe. Think of them like a musical Piper playing his music in order to keep azathoth asleep. Because for as long as the top is sleeping existence is reality.
Prediction: the Piper supercharging people is story problem. What happens when everything in the same city block as Chandra spontaneously ignites and she has no ability to stop it? Or when Nissa accidentally animates some buildings with a grudge against the mansion down the road? Jace accidentally mind wiping everyone nearby? Maybe a set where having too much mana is a thing because it might catch this guy's attention. Might make an interesting theme for a set of someone better at this stuff than I thinks of it.
How they wrote the Prismatic Piper looks more like it's a setup for a future plotline: Perhaps something about the Wanderer, since she has the unique spark that leaves her unmoored in the multiverse.
6:10 I guess it only makes sense for a fantasy setting to use an ancient and outdated measurment system. :D
I can listen to you talk about lore for HOURS! So interesting so cool so many interaction so much history so much nostalgia,i can't wait to see and listen more from all the legends of commander legends!!!
Hans! Give us more Hans!!!!🤣🤣🤣
I love the mental image of Nisaa going all Palapatine 🤣
I got three words for you, four color Bolas. Piper's tunes will reach the blind eternities.
I'm just going to say that I love your Prismatic Piper impression!
Awesome episode!
Llanowar Knight! Invasion... Dismissal, the very first deck I ever played! Oh the memories...
I think the Prismatic Piper should make an appearance in Strixhaven. Since it is pure Mana, and the school is all Mana, all the time... it would be perfect if he enters the Lore in that set.
Awesome video Ryan and Nicole! Lots of love!!
I sincerely doubt the piper will show up anywhere, but it would be cool to see it show up in a crisis moment for a character.
The Prismatic Piper is effectively a vanilla 3/3 for 5 because its only effects have to be used before the game - whatever that means in lore terms.
I could see it being used a McGuffin by someone that wants to try and control a color of magic they usually can't handle in order to achieve some bigger, more important plan. And in the end in either doesn't work or the cost is way to high for the effect - both outcomes would be a nice nod to how underwhelming the Piper is if you ever actually cast it.
From the Dragonlance series, there was a few stories written about someone who travelled back in time to witness events, the main one sticking in my head was the Great Calamity story, when the gods dropped a mountain onto the world. The point to this post is, it'd be cool to see some stories from the Piper's point of view, as if it was an observer to Magic's greatest historical moments, allowing us to see legendary creatures from the past, in moments we wouldn't normally get.
DEUS EX MAGIKA was great!
Love this episode! Imo you could do 2-3 more of these with all the great legendaries from the set.
"aLOREable"
Best joke ever
This.
Personally I was a fan of "deus ex magica"
The cool thing about Gideon nearly drowning, is that the Black sorcery Ob-Nixilis was invoking there (Throttle) will actually kill a standard Gideon with it's -4/-4. That's a cool interaction in magic story, you can entirely recreate with cards.
Hey Ryan, love your vids. Minor characters are really interesting and I hope you'll do more, especially the old ones like Marit lage, Maro Braids and others.
cheers!
I love the Piper’s art, I’d love to use it if it weren’t so bad...
All I know is tormod is going straight into my gisa and geralf deck, straight value
Another awesome video; thank you Ryan and Nicole!
Your Prismatic Piper impression was terrific
This video was a wild ride from start to finish.
Not really related to the video but the thumbnail made me think about it, would the Piper have been unreasonable if it was essentially an Arcane Signet so long as it was your commander? Like, if it was a 1/1 for 1 generic mana that said "As long as The Prismatic Piper is your commander it has tap: Add one mana of any colour in your commander's colour identity." and of course the rest of it's rules text that's already there. I don't think that that would be broken even in the draft format, they might have to bump it up to a 2/2 for 2 instead to incentivize people to not pick it over a different partner you already drafted in the correct colour. As it is there's really no reason to play it in constructed and I think that's a shame because of that awesome Seb McKinnon art.
Hahaha I love that piper part at the end
I want that piper imitation as a ringtone plz and thank you. :)
its friday and magic arcanum uploaded a new video, i love this day already
I’ve heard people say Keleth is from Theros, since the card Sunmane Pegasus exists; while I def think that’s a possibility, I think it’s just as likely that Sunmane is one of those things like Ornithopters, that appear on multiple planes. Similar to how “Emblem of the Warmind” appears in one of Dominaria’s futures, and the Warmind Project exists on Ravnica. A concept that exists across multiple realities, so to speak.
I feel like the whole cycle would be from one place but I guess it's possible they are split up across planes.
That piping sound will haunt my dreams
I hope we get for solos every episode!
Piper is my favorite card out of the set from an art standpoint. Something about the twisting nature of his body with the different elements all clear in the shape make me want his foil so bad.
It is a cool looking card, I have to admit.
I didn't know I needed 14:16 in my life but I sure do now
that prismatic piper impersonation killed me, 10/10
I think the prismatic piper could tie back to that plane of planeswalkers that were there since the beginning of time. The ones urza met. They seem to have the omnipotence and vast power to bend magic like that
I need that flute playing as a text tone
The prismatic pipers unknown requirement, is probably tied to the partner mechanic as that is the main mechanical purpose of the card, so I think if it ever does make an appearance in the story, it will be tied to a commander related one and to a commander that has partner.
Finally subscribed. I love this show.
I've said it before and i say it again. This channel is too good to be more popular. To get more recognition, it is not the channel that has to step up. It's people!
Prismatic Piper has a Tom Bombadil quality that Magic, like Peter Jackson's LOTR movies are probably better off just ignoring.
Do you think those will be the school names in strixhaven
Sunmane, emberclaw, wolvid, shadowcat, and ward wing?
Oh that's an interesting idea! I like that.
Yay!! The most magical moustache in all the planes.
Why is Nevinyrral a Wizard not a Warlock? Now there's a missed opportunity!
Anyway, great video, and nice explanations! I want to build a five-colour Familiar tribal deck now...
That is most likely because Wizards just made the partner mechanic and want's to support that mechanic in EDH.
Pretty sure he's a Wizard because he actually learned his magic through orderly study instead of having it just granted to him by some otherworldly patron or power. Nevinyrral is also Blue and White in addition to Black after all, on top of all liches so far being Zombie Wizards--see also: Tormod. So it makes that the game's first (?) lich character would be one too.
That said, WotC *has* been weirdly stingy with the new Warlock subtype. Only one old card got backdated with it, and Cuombajj Witches is for some reason *still* a Wizard despite Witch being exactly what Warlock is standing in for due to Wicca. I imagine we get a lot more Warlocks in 2021 with all the _D&D_ stuff, but it's still very odd even if there should still be a few new mono-Black Wizards to represent more classic necromancers. (Even though it's not like Inalla needs anymore help.)
The Prismatic Piper can't be any worst than Aminatou who can control what happens to you at a whim, Klothys is somewhere having a stroke
I thought I watched this already. Luckily I watched it now. BUT now I want the pipe solo as a ringtone. :D
No mention of Bell Borca? The Wojek who solved his own murder? What?
I think the piper wouldn't be so devastating for any plot if it appears on a main set, I actually think it would be pretty cool to have a green-red Nissa or a red-blue Chandra. Wizard must not abuse it for overcoming every obstacle but as a "one time trick" I think it's awesome
Here to show love for the awesome doot solo
thank you for that wonderful lesson! I'm assuming you'll soon be starting a new channel to teach flute playing. please give us a link.
Tormod, the Necromancer who loved stealing corpses so much, that when he died he stole his own corpse.
I'm so pumped to build Liesa!
Liesa gets to be part of the cycle because she has WWM (where M is the other other color) in her casting cost and an additional evergreen keyword besides flying. This matches the original printing of Gisela, Bruna, and Sigarda. Oh, and the name ends in "a" too.
I clicked this vid for lore, but I stayed for this 14:19
Okay but imagine a plot with someone trying to take the power of the piper to use for themselves and it’s a chase to find the bad guy and uncover the things needed to solicit its help
I interpreted the piper 's interference as a boost to the magical ability already mastered without adding other colors of mana, providing enchants or unknown spells to the wizard
The card itself adds another color to your partner, though.
@@MagicArcanum indeed, I ended up neglecting what the card does
How lucky! 🍀 I just finished watching the vampire video. Gonna be a good Friday.
14:19 Well, we now know what Prismatic Piper sounds like...
The metric system have miles too, it's 10km, which would make the blast much larger and more impressive, much like the metric system itself :P
Prismatic piper wouldn’t be the first out of left field character that pops up from time to time.
The raven man comes to mind.
But at least PP has a card
"Bruna, Sigarda, and... The other one" as a Gisela player in commander, that hurt
Prismatic Piper is The Wanderer, calling it now.
My two cents on the Piper: Any being that exists in that manner is bound to be somewhat amoral. Seeing all of time and space doesn't exactly impart a profound sense of worth in a single life. Following this logic, I feel that if ANY being meets its criteria, it might very well be The Dragon formerly named Nicol. Not that I'm wanting to see that black hole of plot and story variance return any time soon but, if Ashiok isn't plotting to remind the multiverse that Nicol "once existed" in some contrived Freddy vs Jason plot, the Prismatic Piper could very well be a gateway to bring him back into the story.
If the Prismatic Piper is everywhere, conected to the Magic, as some kind of not-devourer Eldrazi... I wonder if it could've had Emerge as a mechanic and be like The Matrix's agents, able to take control of anyone that uses magic...
... And suddenly, the guy is the next Big Bad >_
Doot doot doot doot do! Now you’re a merfolk, don’t let that puddle get you down.
2:35 you just described Lieutenant
6:00 yes the imperial system should exist only in fiction, they're totally right about that.
Could the prismatic piper be something akin to the eldrazi but their antithesis? Where the eldrazi are numerous huge and are made of colorless mana could the piper be small alone and all colors at once?
Could be! He also seems to be similar to the Ur-Dragon, in a way.
6:50
... the OTHER one?! How dare you forget the name of the best one!
I never knew the story about nev's disk that was so interesting and entertaining
Great video thanks
These are some of my flavor-ite cards from the set
Love your piper playing ability, you should turn professional! Start a band!
Still waiting for someone to talk about Glacian, Powerstone Engineer and Rebbec, Architect of Ascension.
I doubt the piper will ever show up in a set outside of Commander Legends. Though if it is a legend (pun intended) that shows up across planes and time, it would be cool to see references to it. Either there are many separate spirits that have done things which are now attributed to this based on poor documentation or changes in the lore over time, just as how word of mouth lore works in the real world. This could show the influence early planeswalkers had on the places they visited, bringing stories from across realms that coalesced into the legend of the piper. Maybe it is just the planeswalkers themselves turned myth by the people the helped ages ago. Alternatively, we could show people searching for it, studying it, maybe even worshiping it, and then learn it never existed at all, or that it is much less benevolent than we might assume. Maybe some combination of the above. Or maybe its just a Phyrexiansnoweldrazi hybrid.
Bolis comes back with the power of the piper and annihilates everything by accident due to the sheer volume of pure mana. End of magic. Boom!
I don't think the Prismatic Piper will make any further appearance in the story. The only reason it got a story blurb in the first place was because it's a legendary creature, and it needed _some_ justification for being legendary other than "mechanics demand it"
1:00 I'd say that familiars predate European "witches", King Solomon from 'BC olden days' was known to have bound elemental familiars to his servitude.
You're probably right but in Magic they seem to be more about companionship than servitude, so I think the influence is stronger from the European version.
I feel the Piper was only created to fill the draft function of Commander Legends. While yes, it can be used as a deus ex-machina I hope they don't try to retcon story points within the main story of Magic. Like say, undo Gideon's sacrifice so now he is Black White and can summon zombies to fight. But this also means that they could have Teferi splash into other colors as well. That alone makes me worried about the already shaky ground the game is on.