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Sorry, I should have said “All of the old web fiction that was canon is still canon”

But I’m pretty sure Too Many Eyes was just an AU Ugin anyway. Didn’t it come out with Future Sight?

Do you know if the old Savor the Flavor story articles are considered canon? They seem to have been lost to the big website updates, so it's hard to reference anything found in them.

Availability of a text does not affect canon, although it can affect how much something is referenced.

All of the old Magic web fiction is still canon, even if you have to use Archive.org links to read it.

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Do you know if the old Savor the Flavor story articles are considered canon? They seem to have been lost to the big website updates, so it's hard to reference anything found in them.

Availability of a text does not affect canon, although it can affect how much something is referenced.

All of the old Magic web fiction is still canon, even if you have to use Archive.org links to read it.

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Does Bloomburrow have invertebrate animalfolks as well, or should I look for other planes? (crab, insect, jellyfish, octopus, spider, etc.)

It could, but maybe we haven’t seen it yet.

That said I think insects are generally the stand in for smaller animals, so it’s unlikely that insects will be a bloomsona, but I think crabs or octopi could be in a beach biome. Maybe.

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Do you think that the color balance in magic has caused restrictions in storytelling? As compared to other media where usually keeping to multiples of five is nonexistent?

No, not really.

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I was looking at the Gideons sacrifice card and the lore bit on it got me thinking. would it have been possible to somehow transfer the cost of Liliana's betrayal to Nicol Bolas onto Nicol Bolas through some spell trickery? i mean if they had the time to think of it.

I mean, maybe? But Bolas would probably have safeguards in place.

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OH. It took me a minute. They’re talking about the USG Land cycle as planets in EOE, not anything lore-based.

Evendo is a Gaea’s Cradle, Uthros is a Tolarian Academy, they’re asking about that.

When or if: the 'missing' "Serra's Sanctum planet", perhaps in a Modern Horizons style supplemental set?

Missing?

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Wooo woo I finally finished some EoE fanart!!!

Wanted to try painting faces and also playing with weird lighting. Definitely a very frustrating process but I’m proud of myself for finishing it!

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Edge of Eternities is the first in-universe set since Universes Beyond has been added to the standard rotation, and EoE also features a robust story (even simply looking at wordcount) and plenty of worldbuilding articles. All awesome things, but it has me curious if the two are connected. With the lack of a story to develop, does the story team contribute to UB sets in other ways, or does the gaps left by UB sets allow for more time to work on story elements for in-universe sets?

I’m not clued into budget changes except how it affects my pay, but I believe it was planned to be this long before the change was made. They wanted to hook people.

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Are we going to see more of Teyo? I love the concept of a Shieldmage

It's been long enough that I should mention again that I can't comment on Magic's future, other than to say, maybe! He's not dead.

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Are you “one-dimensionally evil” characters like Tibalt a thing of the past? I was always hoping he’d reincarnate with no memories as a “one-dimensionally benevolent” character.

I think there's always space for some bastard who is just in it for love of the game.

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Now that Tezzeret is taking over for karn as the colorless artifact planeswalker with that shiny new darksteel body, is he joining the no-color-and-no-clothes club? More importantly, if he spacewalks in the edge, does he just need a fishbowl on his head akin to buck rodgers era sci-fi?

That last one is a good question, I imagine they’re gonna keep from drawing Space Beleren comparisons when possible. They wanted to avoid the Un-iverse version of space.

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Is glistening oil nutritionally compleat?

I’m a certain point of view

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About a month ago, you were asked what Ugin thought of Urza. What's the inverse; what would Urza have thought of Ugin and things like his rivalry with Bolas, his imprisoning of the Eldrazi (with Sorin and Nahiri), his shaping of Tarkir, etc.?

Urza would have thought it all irrelevant to his own goals, and not given it any more thought.

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Do you think the compleated gods of Theros exist anymore? If enough of their followers were compleated to change them, and all those followers are now in stasis, what happened to them?

Those followers are dead, not in stasis. The gods are also very likely dead, and we just haven't gone back to confirm how many and which ones yet.

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Do you consider Ravnica to be urban fantasy?

Urban Fantasy doesn't just mean 'Fantasy in a city', it specifically means a contemporary urban setting. So by that definition, no.

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Do you think all the different slivers taste different from each other, or do you think they all taste kind of the same? Like if I threw some sliver steaks on the grill for a while would they all kind of taste similar? Also as important, where do you think the best barbecue sauce is on Dominaria? No rush but I kinda need answers ASAP.

I’m sure they taste similar 🤣

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I thought the multiverse was infinite. Give it has an edge, is it only infinite in one direction (like an infinitely long line could still have a start at one end, extending infinitely away from it) or am I misremembering that detail?

The multiverse this isn’t an infinite “parallel worlds” multiverse. The Blind Eternities is uncountably vast, like even Bolas would have trouble seeing everything, but not infinite no.