#MTG story

[xantchaslegacy]

yet another round of MtG story assessments

[ernstiggroteadelaar]

MTG LORE FANS, please tell me about (random) characters from mtg stories you're obsessed with/a fan of/you just think they're neat, i'm trying to find the most fun bits of mtg lore

[sylvan-librarian]

[transitranger327]

Vraska/Jace/Ral/Tomik polycule is this anything?

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[planeswalker-umbral]

Something that rustles my jimmies is that in the Novel Planeswalker, we get a history of rhe early life of Xantcha, the Phyrexian Sleeper Agent turned traitor and companion to a very insane Urza.

And a scene early in her life is meeting another Sleeper Agent Identical to her. Now all the Sleeper Agents were based of a set amount of people and didnt really age (hence how mortals would eventually catch on). In order to tell each other apart, Xantcha changes her hair while the other Agent dyes hers Red. This act of rebellion sees both of them punished, but eventually the gate to Dominaria in Koilos reopens and a bunch of Sleeper Agents are sent out, including the red headed one. Years later as Xantcha is about to be sent out, the gate closes and the Dominarian Sleeper Agent program is abandoned. Gix, head of this plan and Praetor ruling over Xantcha is punished.

But in The Brother's War there is a red haired girl, with no morals that comes out of nowhere and is skilled in artifice. A girl who does not age no matter how long the war goes on.

Ashnod. Who was not printed as a Phyrexian on either card. Is this a retcon, red herring, coincidence or oversight?

[chronovus]

I love these horrid people SO MUCH

[tanknspank]

I know some people aren't as keen on MTG story as they once were, but the writers are definitely having a lot more fun these days.

[snakebun]

Ral Zarek thinks about Jace in the shower and while in bed with his husband.

[7h1ef0fr05e]

my favorite part of the mtg stories is that they can never commit to actually deal with a threat efficiently, they have to have it in the backburner in case they need to sell more cards or cant think of a villain

Emarkul ? put in the freezer (moon) for later

Kozilek and Ulamog ? Leyline bondage

The nameless dragon formerly known as Nicol Bolas ? In the backrooms with his brother

The phyrexians ? Shoved in a glorified bag of holding for the inevitable set in 5 years "new neo phyrexian, all will br Juan".

Even Valgavoth starts in a convinient prison realm of his own, how is Valgavoth even a threta bro just close the door.

Funily enough, the one bad guy they managed to kill and make never xome back is Urza

[revanezendikar]

Happy Pride Month ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Saheeli x Huatli💙💚

(My second favorite MTG couple 😍)

[toweringclam]

You know what, this one's on me. I should've known better than to expect that, just because he's on his villain arc, Jace would suddenly become competent.

[ernstiggroteadelaar]

Saw someone on youtube open some Bloomburrow play boosters and when they pulled Ygra, Eater of All, they said: "Is this the villain? I don't actually know who the villain of the set is."

and now I cannot stop thinking about why people we see a wild animal that can be dangerous and immediately assume it evil and out to get the heroes. And how the story actually very much tells us that we should learn to see that some natural circumstances that at first glance seem just dangerous and unideal to live with are actually worth our protection

[sylvan-librarian]

It’s been six months already, but I’m still annoyed at how many people dogpiled on the March of the Machine story because Nissa and Ajani being cured of their phyresis apparently, somehow, meant that the entire saga had no stakes. It’s such a stupid hill to die on: “I won’t be happy with the sci-fi war story in my CHILDREN’S CARD GAME unless it ends in a mountain of named characters’ corpses.” 

Ending such a dark, oppressive story with a small glimmer of hope was a beautiful way to wrap up the Phyrexian arc, and it opened up the doors for more interesting stories to be told down the road. With Nissa and Ajani specifically, both are genuinely good, kind people who now have to live with the unbearable trauma that they were the Phyrexians’ most powerful, blunt tools in the terror they unleashed on myriad worlds upon millions of people; and furthermore, the two of them also have to live with the memories of the things they were thinking and feeling and seeing and doing at the time. Isn’t that a more interesting way to explore the consequences of this (fantasy) war than simply an endless pile of dead characters? 

As a librarian by trade with two (too many) English degrees, I want Magic story to be good like the rest, but I’m not expecting Macbeth out of it; I don’t want Magic Story to be Macbeth because I love Magic Story for what it is: fun, snappy, campy, sometimes inconsistent, but always full of characters I love going on adventures to interesting places with their friends, lovers, and allies… 

I’d rather not end a story with most of them dead to satisfy some misguided attempt to transform serialized Magic the Gathering web fiction into some kind of gritty Pulitzer-Prize winning literary masterpiece.

[subbyfoxelf]

since we're nearing the end of the year, i'm rereading all the official mtg story so i can do a dumb year-end top 5 or 10 stories no one but me will care about, and

i somehow forgot that proft actually kinda rules as a character

(as for why i'm doing an end of the year list for mtg story, i used to do lists like that for movies on letterboxd and other media types like comics or books or whatever on other blogs and i like having an excuse to reflect on a year of stuff i've enjoyed. but mtg official story is literally the only thing i'm current on. i wouldn't even feel comfy doing a similar list for something as narrow as "star trek episodes" since i haven't seen any of prodigy. so i'm just going to satisfy the dumb part of my brain that likes making lists of things i like using mtg official story.)

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]