#magic the gathering spoilers

[emerald-observance]

There are a lot of perfectly reasonable complaints to level against Wizards of the Coast, but I legitimately don't think any of them are ever going to supplant "sent the Pinkertons to a guys house".

[etrata]

My beloved child Marketable Plushie he is 10,000 years old from Cryosleep he just woke up and he already has a matching outfit with his dad

[how-masterful]

The magic the gathering Master cards are GORGEOUS!!!!

[berrywinkle]

Is this anything?

[hazel2468]

Okay this is apparently a Magic theory blog now. But I just gotta...

I'm talking with the wifey. About the most recent side story, the Ravnica one. And I simply MUST present my theories about Jace, Vraska, and how Norn is a fucking IDIOT.

Spoilers for March of the Machines, but it's been out for a couple of days now so. If you haven't read it yet, tough tiddies.

Okay. My Theory.

Jace is playing Norn like a fiddle, and he saved Vraska.

Jace ALWAYS has a plan. Always. He doesn't leave things to chance- he's just like that. There's precedence for him preserving his mind in the face of some altering or possessing influence (see what happened with Emrakul, where he created a little mental "safe house" for himself. Also see what happened with Vraska- little mental "safe house" for her). Jace is NOT the kind of person who would go to fight the Phyrexians, knowing he might get Compleated, and not have a plan to preserve his mind. I think that, combined with the fact that he was fucking stabbed with a sword made of fucking HALO, makes a pretty good case for Jace being more himself than Norn would want him to be.

Not to mention the whole bit where he just. Dips before Norn gives him any orders. We see in the chapter that Norn is assuming that he already knows what she wants... But we have also seen that Elesh Norn's biggest weakness is her hubris. The way she is so assured of her own rightness has consistently been her undoing. It cost her Tamiyo, Ixahel is rebellious. Even Atraxa, Norn's own daughter, is not immune to individual thought and feeling (saw art and had an existential crisis there, didn't you, Atraxa?).

So if Jace is himself, if he isn't under Norn's control as much as he should be, or even at all. If Jace is still purely JACE. What do you think this oh-so-smart-but-still-so-stupid lovesick bisexual man is going to do?

The same thing he did before. Go after his fucking girlfriend.

The entire Ravnica story, from Vraska's perspective, demonstrates that some part of her is preserved. Her mind is safe from Norn's corruption (and I am specifically calling it that because I think the idea that phyresis and Phyrexians are inherently corrupting and evil is stupid, tired, and abelist as well). She persists in there and, when she "dies", she is preserved.

So when Jace showed up, at first? Yeah- I thought Vraska was dying, and she was just giving herself the closure she needed. Getting to spend just a little more time with her beloved, even if it wasn't real.

But then shit started jumping out at me. Vraska's mind was in a place that JACE created for her. Everything seemed too real. There was a moment when Vraska experienced their kiss from Jace's perspective- how could a memory in her head do that? The way that Jace reacted to things she said (asking to make it right, a do-over, another chance)....

And then Jace telling her "this part hurts", like he KNOWS. The explosion of white light instead of what I frankly would have expected from her death, a fading into peaceful darkness.

And all of this was purely wishful thinking-

And then her fucking body vanished. Ral fucked up the oil in her, and then her body was GONE.

So, current running theory in this house?

Vraska's mind, her self, was preserved in the mental safe house that Jace made for her. Something we've seen him do in the past for himself in the face of mind-altering forces. Then, Ral fucked up the Phyrexian oil and that really took Vraska apart. But when she went down, she ACTUALLY spoke to Jace. That vision of Jace in her head was the real Jace, communicating with her while he tried to save her. And as for the flash of white light, well, bare with me here...

Halo. Jace was stabbed with a sword made of Halo, and I think its power might have given him the edge he needed to win over Norn's influence. What if he simply did the same thing to her? "This part hurts"- because Jace KNOWS what it feels like for his Phyrexian body to be flooded with Halo.

I could be wrong. I really hope I'm right. Because if WotC gives us this, saves these two, then there is HOPE for Nissa because holy FUCK if they disrespect the fucking gays again with this one... Normally I would say I find it hard to believe that anyone can build up a relationship's significance like Chandra and Nissa's has and then fuck it up, but WotC has done it once.

[yellingaboutmasseffect]

"Elspeth, my friend, the Multiverse has answered my prayers to bring you here so that I may gather you into my pride and forever protect you."

[allhailklisz]

mixed feelings on magic story tbh

on the one hand: GRUULFRIENDS YES YES YES

on the other: kinda bummed that we still don’t really know wtf is going on with the furnace, like, wotc’s basically been flip flopping on urabrask being an antihero (as was implied in new capenna etc, with him being on ‘the side of freedom’) vs just a lesser evil, and now there’s no mention of him being in Zhalfir, and having coreborn Phyrexians there would be uh. kind of a big deal that you’d think would be mentioned. so I can only assume that he, along with the rest of New Phyrexia, is exiled to out-of-time. so rip to chances of getting a cool not-evil Phyrexian Revolution i guess, unless maybe they decide to show that in Aftermath but I’m pessimistic there

[gollumni]

I need to shame my boyfriend in a public forum.

[galician-cheez]

// MTG spoilers probably

NOOOOOOO THEY GOT TO QUINTORIOUS AAAAAH

[raptorix]

[kingthreshie-official]

There could have *at least* been an attempt made.

[etrata]

Made this because of latest story stuff. OG image below the cut

[abz-j-harding]

MTG spoiler.

[mtg-talk]

Not sure if I’m a fan of how these cards look individually, but as collages they sure are pretty!

[toweringclam]

Aurelia: The Rakdos are evil, filthy, disgusting perverts!

Also Aurelia: *shows up at an important meeting walking Massacre Girl on a chain leash*

[emrakuls-spouse]

Oh when Jace and Vraska say they're going to destroy the multiverse and build something new from the ashes it's FINE everyone's "so happy for them" for "Starting a family." But when my wife Emrakul-