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very quick magic thoughts turned into a whole thing :D. I'm not super deep into magic lore so this could be like. super wrong.

I posted about this over on bluesky but the monoists from edge of eternities really feel like a Jace cult given what we know about his fate in tarkir dragonstorm. That being; he fell into the meditation realm chaos while it was collapsing. The wording of the last story gave the implication that he was trapped somewhere where he could reflect for a long time. I'd argue that he was sent back in time in the meditation realm, which would allow him to enact a new version of his plan using the Monoists as a vessel.

Seeker and the Well feels like an apt description for the events leading up to the climax of tarkir dragonstorm, as Jace's plan was around finding the meditation realm to enact his plan to overwrite the multiverse by making an illusion real

The Zero Point feels very similar to the description of the meditation realm, given that the meditation realm the center of the planar multiverse and is connected to every plane, vs the zero point being the centre of "point prime" and reflected in every supervoid.

INEVITA being known as the Next Eternity rings reminicient of Jace's plan to "reboot the multiverse" and him calling his plan inevitable feels like something that lines up with his self confidence as a character. Additionally the religion being described as a death cult would also match up with one of the things that Jace's plan to reboot the multiverse was implied to do; that being essentially kill everyone already around.

Jace's character is also brought up later on in one of Tezzeret's notations in the document. This feels like a deliberate nod to his character and pointing him out to the reader.

There's probably a bunch more that I've missed given that I'm not super caught up with all of magic's lore but it feels like Jace is meant to be the immortal faller here.

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Edge of Eternities | Episode 1 by Seth Dickinson

Introducing the Edge. Two scoundrels look for a cat.

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note! Noble specifically references events of the BOOM! comics canon. that's not a problem for me though because i love the BOOM! comics timeline.

The announcement of Untold Stories has me looking into the past of Magic's comics a bit more and while I knew that BOOM! had made a lot, I didn't realize they were not canon. Do you know why that is? I'm not familiar with the story they wrote so maybe it did necessitate a separate continuity, but as an outside observer I don't understand why it couldn't have been set in the "main" continuity instead of changing things.

The story they wanted to tell and characters they wanted to use (Marit Lage, robot Niv-Mizzet, taking a more 'comic book' approach) necessitated it. It was also developed during the in-between period where web fiction was back with Studio X but Franchise was still developing outside stories.

Personally, I think outside of the mainline of comics, the specials (Ajani, Nahiri, Noble and Notorious) could all be canon.

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Happy birthday ✨️

You said you wanted your own trivia to know what affected your question marks the most.

And i think it's got to be you answering a question and showing Yuma as a trans character.

It's nice to be seen, and even though things are rough, and a lot of things can feel very corporate, characters like yuma and Alesha are really nice to have.

So thank you for reminding us they exist

Always happy to help people felt seen.

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Today’s “Making Magic” is the first n a five-part series I will be doing during 2025. In each, I let a color talk about their philosophy in their own words. It’s based off a similar series I did on “Drive to Work”. The series starts with White.

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Can Valgavoth stretch out time for himself? You said in the LRR interview with Kathleen that he can make the survivors not get as hungry, or as dirty as they should be by rip van winkle-ing time.

If he can make more time for himself, would that mean he can heal faster than he should be able to?

I would say yes, absolutely, but I can't, because I don't know what he is or is not doing in story right now. On Duskmourn, when I'm writing him, yes, he can, and while he could use that to heal more quickly, it would present other problems that he might or might not feel like dealing with. Sometimes you just have to deal with the sucking chest wound normally.

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Glistener's Guide to New Phyrexia: Preview Edition is now LIVE!

The 43-page Preview includes:

New playable species including the 5 Mirran humans, Viridian elves, myr, and core-born Phyrexians

A modular Phyrexian modification system

Core rules for phyresis, compleation, and ichor magic (also known as "Phyrexian mana")

New feats, spells, and magic items inspired by the iconic mechanics and cards of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia

30+ monster and NPC stat blocks, largely concentrated at lower tiers of play, plus some named legendary hard-hitters

The goal of this preview is to allow for simple games to be run in the world of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia, introducing tables to core mechanics and gaining playtest data as I work toward releasing the full-length supplement. (Consider this its "Unearthed Arcana" stage of development.) I look forward to hearing your feedback and gameplay stories, and hope you enjoy bringing this setting to life as much as I have!

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If or when: A war between two (and only two) planes?

If, but close to a when.

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I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but I find the beetle imagery/motifs common in New Capenna (particularly the vehicles) very interesting. Is it just a common style at the time, a holdover from some part of Old Capenna's culture, or something else? Either way, it's given me something to think about with the world.

I've been thinking a lot lately about Old Capenna's gods, the archdemons, and other beings of power in the setting, so my current theory about this is that whatever god of wealth/prosperity used to exist was associated with beetles, given how all of the beetle imagery in the set is used with status symbols (cars, jewelry, a robot butler, etc.). That cultural influence from Old Capenna showing up within the lives of New Capennan elite makes a lot of sense to me.

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I really adore this description of Sorin’s spark ignition from the MH3 bundle insert.

I just love the irony of The Markov’s being willing not only to sacrifice their own humanity and the lives of countless people, but their own child in pursuit of immortality and power, only for their cruelty to awaken a power in Sorin that they could never have or otherwise take from him. It’s a classic trope, but still a fun one.

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How widespread is the Avishkar tv network? I ask because the stories said "multiverse wide" but Ravnica a few sets ago was still setting up its own comms network. Does this ean Innistrad has televsion? Thanks for answering. :)

I believe the broadcast was to places that were participating in the GGP and had the infrastructure for it, so like, Kylem and Alacria.

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Had the omenpath between Tarkir and the Meditation Realm always been there or was it a result of Realmbreaker?

That's certainly an interesting question. The temple in the dragonstorm is a mystery for another day.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm | Episode 7: Return

By Cassandra Khaw

The Meditation Realm is shattered. The dragonstorms rage. And Sarkhan comes to finish his foes, on wings of vengeance.

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How much of the "Sorin spends all his days moping around" stuff is legitimate versus just am internet meme?

This is a very good question, and I think the answer is that it really depends.

We are meant to believe that a Pre-Zendikar Sorin is actually a very active and busy person. He travels the multiverse to learn, explore, and generally act as a positive presence on the plane; we don’t know a lot of details about what exactly he did that was good, but his Planeswalker bio and several other lore documents want us to believe that he has a long history of helping other planes aside from Innistrad and Zendikar (as much as you can call what he did there “help”.

Sorin does avoid helping with a lot of the main conflicts for a lot of the Eldrazi arc though. He is still out doing things that could help (resurrecting Ugin for example), but he is very much on the side and not exactly improving the situation beyond that. During SOI he even acts as an active detriment to the saving of Innistrad by killing Avacyn (a good choice for her, but really bad for the people of Innistrad) and choosing to fight Nahiri instead of Emrakul, considering Innistrad a lost cause to be avenged. He is active and doing things, but they’re not always the most helpful-

A Post-War of the Spark Sorin is a very different story.

Sorin was left in a deep depression after the death of Avacyn, and spent the next two years grieving and sulking in the ruins of his family home. He did not do anything to stop eternal night from falling on Innistrad despite not actually wanting it to fall, and when The Gatewatch + Adeline and Arlinn came to ask him to lend them an artifact that would help them put a stop to it, he refused to allow them to borrow it and was very much unhelpful, even attacking Arlinn for mentioning Avacyn’s name. He actively tried to prevent them from doing something he wanted done.

By the time Crimson Vow rolls around (about one month after eternal night fell at the end of Midnight Hunt) Sorin seems to be motivated enough to at least ask his grandfather for advice on how to help the plane, and with the motivation of The Gatewatch and being forced to confront his past and the trauma that led him to that behavior to begin with he seems to develop into a character who does want to help people and do things again by the end of VOW.

We haven’t seen him on screen since the end of the wedding, but in that time he has gone out of his way to take the sick and injured into his home so he could care for them, team up with Arlinn Kord to prepare Innistrad for the Phyrexian invasion, and went out of his way to warn a few of the necromancers of Innistrad of the Phyrexians, possibly because of the undead’s resistance to the oil.

TLDR: Sorin was a very active character to both good and bad ends before Innistrad was invaded by Emrakul, but ended up in a grief induced sulk until the beginning of Crimson Vow (a set released five years after Eldritch Moon and taking place about 2 years after in universe) to the point where he would actively prevent other people from doing things that he wants done. I think the whole joke originates from that, and from the fact that Sorin has generally just proven not to always be the most helpful character around despite how insanely powerful he is and how much potential he has to help other people.

Thankfully it looks like Crimson Vow really did help him grow as a character, and it seems like he is going to be more helpful than ever before considering he finally has a support group and cut off his shitty family. What we have seen of him since then all looks to be a massive shift and character and it’s all looking up from here :D.

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Hey, so I know this is an extremely out of season question, but as someone who's researching thunder junction I really can't find much info on the cactusfolk at all. Like what does it mean that they awoke to sentience recently, wasn't thunder junction completely barren before the omenpaths opened?

Cactus folk started animating as the Omenpaths opened up and people arrived.

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It was really cool to learn more about biànliǎn from your reblog about Dragonstorm episode 1! Cassandra Khaw described it so vividly, it really felt like I was right there watching it too.

yay! it's so awesome to learn new things from Magic Story!!

yeah i loved that whole scene. brought back some fun memories, and honestly i've never heard it described in such a cool way :)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm | Temur: Together Survives the Pack

By K. Arsenault Rivera

A horrible curse threatens the Temur clan. Together, Eshki Dragonclaw and Alniul, the Twice Whisperer journey to discover its source—and encounter a foe they never expected.