#incorrect mtg theory

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Urza didn't create Karn

Many people think Urza created Karn as a time probe for his experiments with changing the past. This is partially correct, he got Karn while researching his time machine, but he didn't actually create him. He retrieved him from another plane that he found that was already resilient to the stress of time travel... This whole time. Karn has actually been a Cyberman from the Doctor Who universe that Urza reprogrammed using Xantcha's heartstone.

The metallic human-ish shape matches, the time travel matches, and then when freed from Urza's commands Karn went to create an entirely metallic world filled with metal golem people like him. When that world got overrun by Phyrexian oil that seeped from him, instead of matching the original Phyrexian ideals of perfection being earned and fought for, those New Phyrexians were dead set on "compleating" and transforming flesh people into more of their own, by integrating more metal into them. This is just the typical Cyberman programming worming its way onto Karn's own Glistening Oil.

Oh, and some people in Karn's original plane haven't forgotten about him!

[mygogglesdosomething]

Look at the lyrics to the song that they didn’t include in the trailer. Time reversal - it’s going to be time travel related somehow

[sorin-prim-nemesis]

Under the Cover of Fog (Magic Story)

I am fairly convinced that “Under the Cover of Fog” is actually THE Dack Fayden origin story, from the point of view of his father. Dack Fayden IS indeed the GREATEST THIEF IN THE MULTIVERSE, and what we know of him as being a native of Fiora is a part of the ruse.

Some considerations: -- He STOLE a fruit from another plane and preserved it while Planeswalking! (Somehow) -- He got GUILDMASTER LAZAV OF HOUSE DIMIR to provide resources for him and his family. -- He got GUILDMASTER LAZAV OF HOUSE DIMIR to Jedi-mind magic the rest of his family into believing that Lazav is his great-aunt. -- We see that he’s descended from many Dimir agents, and thievery runs in the bloodline.

...or that GUILDMASTER LAZAV OF HOUSE DIMIR really just has a soft spot for babies and everyone in the story was actually Lazav trying to appease the baby.

[aleshakills]

My incorrect MTG theory is that Emrakul is gonna bust out of the moon and backhand Elesh Norn with a tentacle

[fatblunt69]

What if Ixalan is a continent in Dominaria?

[noir-selune-and-sombra]

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A thought about Dominaria

So, the Elder Dragons of Dominaria are the origin of all dragons of the plane, right? As a reminder, it’s those five. (Plus Ugin but doesn’t change much).

Lord Windgrace is a panther warrior of Urborg, a species that we know exists on Dominaria even today (even in small numbers).

Additionally, the Nekoru are a type of dragons that exists on Dominaria.

Just a thought.

[flavoracle]

With War of the Spark concluded, I think it's finally time for me to add this one to the list:

Nicole Bolas was behind the Raven Man manipulating Liliana

Now I'm just wondering how long it's going to be until they disprove Angrath coming from a Wild West plane, or the Kenrith twins coming from a Norse-inspired plane...

Incorrect MTG Predictions

I’ve been on Tumblr for a little over three years now, and in that time I’ve made a lot of predictions about Magic: the Gathering cards, sets, and storylines.

Some of those predictions turned out to be true, and plenty of them turned out to be wrong. I thought it would be fun/interesting to start a thread listing off all of the incorrect predictions I could remember making.

Please feel free to add your own Incorrect MTG Predictions to this list!

Note: I’m not including any silly joke predictions (like Nicol Bolas actually being Tibalt with a tennis ball between his horns) because I think this list works better when genuinely looking at what I actually believed at the time, and got wrong.

Nahiri helped Sorin make Avacyn

Contraptions would be like Equipment, but attached to other artifacts instead of creatures and tapping creatures is how players would pay to assemble them

Tarkir would end up better overall with the dragons there

Sorin has turned Nahiri into a vampire

Tezzeret would get a UBW card in Aether Revolt

Dominaria would have Masterpiece cards for legendary permanents

Sorin created the first vampires on Zendikar

Belzenlok would be a 9/9 creature

Samut would become a GRW planeswalker

Azor would be a cool dude

Angrath would be an uncool dude

Amonkhet would be a “planeswalker factory” with the trials set up to ignite latent sparks

Commander 2016 would have double-sided commanders with different two-color pairs on each side

The Amonkhet gods would have three-color identities, and each would have a watermark for the shards

Kaladesh would have Contraptions

Tibalt would be on Ixalan

Ob Nixilis would get a RB planeswalker card for Oath of the Gatewatch

Nissa’s origin story would include more than a couple of hours on Lorwyn

Amonkhet would be an “animal creature types matters” tribal set

Emrakul would be weakened by ghosts on Innistrad (similar to the way Doctor Strange weakened Galactus with ghosts in Marvel comics)

Unstable would include a red legendary Vorthos card and a white legendary Mel card

Marit Lage was responsible for the corruption and eldritch abominations in the Shadows Over Innistrad block

OK, that’s all I can think of for now. Anybody else want to add some of yours?!

[oldtumblhurgoyf]

Fblthp saves the day in War of the Spark

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[dyslexian-obliterator]

@incorrect-mtg-theories Fblthp is Borborygmos’ runaway emo son.

[incorrect-kkc-theories]

@halfthealphabet asked: Where did the idea from the blog come from?

I had an old coworker who ran an incorrect theories blog for Magic the Gathering, @incorrect-mtg-theories. I kind of assumed for a while that someone had already made an incorrect theories blog for kkc, because it was perfect! But then i asked you if such a thing existed and you said no. And the rest is history.

[chelsea-beleren-vess]

Thank you @incorrect-mtg-theories for letting me know I truly belong in the Izzet League now that Niv Mizzet is the Raven Man

[incorrect-mtg-theories]

Ashiok’s identity

(original idea from @goblins-choose-to-live)

Ashiok is our favorite nightmare planeswalker, and is wrapped in mystery (and black smoke). Little is known about Ashiok’s origin, age, exact abilities,... Nearly nothing, in fact, except that Ashiok deals in Nightmares and fears.

But what if, akin to the Raven Man, Ashiok might be a character that we already know, changed from their original incarnation by time and trauma?

What if Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver is none other than Chainer?

First of all, who’s Chainer? Some of you might not know him, he was a character in the Odyssey storyline, an apprentice then master of Dementia Magic within Otaria’s Cabal, and as such capable of summoning Nightmares from reality and imagination, and often a mix of both. He was also the person who first discovered the Mirari and started a chain of event that would forever change the face of Otaria, and later Dominaria itself.

The Mirari responded to him like no other, and with it, he grew in power tremendously... And slipped more and more into dementia. In the end, he was able to collect the Nightmares of all of Otaria’s dementia casters as his own, and create Nightmares undistinguishable from reality. He accessed his dementia space by surrounding himself by a black smoke, which doesn’t mean anything but is certainly a nice touch.

And then... Chainer died. Consumed by the Mirari’s power and fighting the barbarian Kamahl, Chainer transformed himself into one of his Nightmare, finishing as little more than a black puddle. He was still conscious enough to entrust the Mirari to his friend, Kamahl, as his lucidity came back to him in that state, then perished as Kamahl left him in a corridor of Cabal City.

Or did he?

The Mirari was a probe made by Karn, a planeswalker. Planeswalkers’ spark are ignited by a traumatic event, generally of tremendous magical importance when it comes to oldwalkers. They could also shape their body, and survive almost anything. What if the Mirari called Chainer because it recognized a planeswalker spark within him? What if, as he turned himself into a Nightmare, his spark started igniting, and when Kamahl left him behind, was transported to another plane and reborn as a nightmare never to be seen on Dominaria again?

What if he took a new name, and learned more and more with the next centuries.

What if Chainer became... Ashiok?

[apocalypticvalraven]

OH! So I thought about this earlier, but had to leave for work.

About Nicol Bolas and body plans...

Here’s a representative image of Nicol Bolas:

MaRo says that Bolas is not humanoid, despite constantly being posed in bipedal stances, and likens it to a bear standing on their rear legs.

Here is a bear on their rear legs, with their arms outstreched to about their limit-

There is a stark difference in Bolas’ shoulders and a bear’s shoulders.

Even feline shoulders don’t act like Bolas’-

You can see the limited range of motion in a quadruped carnivora’s skeleton-

(Domestic cat skeleton)

The shoulder blades are too perpendicular to the rib cage.

But there’s an animal that mostly moves on all fours, but has a much larger range of motion in their shoulders, and stands on their rear legs with a similar bend as Bolas’ legs.

Here’s their skeleton-

Do you know what that is?

It’s a squirrel.

Nicol Bolas is a giant, scaly, winged squirrel. Your move, squirrel-hating, pastry-ignorant people on the Magic Creative Team.

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Incorrect mtg theory: it was ACTUALLY the snalcons that saved Zendikar from the Eldrazi, they just let the Gatewatch take credit.

Behold…

Snail falcons. A snalcon, if you will.

[vorthosjay]

Was tezzeret actually flirting with Venser in quest for karn? Or is it just bad writing???? I just saw what Incorrect MTG Theories posted

Tezzeret was trying to convince them he was on their side.I’m... not sure he was actually flirting with Venser in the bowels of New Phyrexia with a pack of Phyrexians at his back.