#MTG Spoilers

[elspeth-tirel]

Whoever designed this card and played into my irrational love of the number 7 I am so grateful for you I am Insane about this

[clingynepenthes]

NANI?!

[rad-roche]

you know, i was ready to be cynical about the fallout mtg crossover, but consider me pleasantly surprised. a lot of thought and care went into it. yes man has my favourite card effect of the bunch

everybody just bosses him around. thrown from player to player. that's so funny

[littjara-mirrorlake]

hi can i marry this card?

congratulations metastatic evangel. welcome to every single one of my decks

[kingthreshie-official]

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

[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-

[snakebun]

I am so mad at how perfect this little piece of shit is.

[creeperman247]

alright, so, we all know that the ending to the whole phyrexian arc was really disappointing, but honestly one of my biggest gripes is what they did with urabrask.

the phyrexian praetors were twists on the stereotypical color roles; elesh norn turned white's order into tyranny, vorinclex turned green's nature into a "perfected" nature, jin-gitaxias turned blue's desire for progress into a desire for progress at any cost, etc. urabrask took reds emotion, most commonly anger, and turned it into emotion, most commonly compassion, which is a super interesting direction to take it. he shut off weapon creation from the rest of the phyrexians, he sheltered the mirrodin rebels, he even went as far as to think that compleation should be a consensual process, that if it truly was perfect, everyone would become willingly compleated eventually, and that the other praetors forcing compleation upon people was a sign they didn't really believe in it. he shows that, unlike what basically everything else would lead you to believe, the phyrexians are not inherently evil. (it is also important to note that despite what wotc seemingly really wants you to think, compleation isn't "a fate worse than death," at least not when consensual, it is shown that compleated people maintain their original personalities and memories.)

so, what did they do with this incredibly unique character (who is my favorite character in the entire lore honestly)? they had him lead a revolt that went nowhere and got him killed, doing nothing in the process. what a massive waste.

so, here's my idea on how the ending should have gone: urabrask leads the revolt but is outnumbered and overpowered. however, instead of being killed, he escapes and flees the plane through the planar gate (perhaps with the help of one of the compleated red planeswalkers.) he ends up hiding and/or on the run for a while, and then the whole "phyrexians invade every plane" thing happens. a bunch of planeswalkers kill elesh norn like in the current story, but this time elesh norn isn't stupid and the phyrexians don't shut down just because she's dead. however, her dying gives the rest of the planes hope that this is a winnable battle, and they begin to push back. this then gives urabrask and the red phyrexians the space to begin fighting alongside the planes to defeat the rest of the phyrexians, and, once the rest of the phyrexians are defeated (obviously over the course of multiple sets with more cinematic battles and such, instead of cramming it all into 1 set) urabrask takes over as the new leader, and ushers the phyrexians into a new age of kindness where they aren't the villains for once. urabrask educates the compleated planeswalkers about compassion and such and undoes the teachings of elesh norn (which really wouldn't be that hard honestly? the planeswalkers don't really have a reason to not believe him, especially more naturally compassionate ones like tamiyo, and even meaner ones would probably listen better once the first few do). if for some reason, people really think important characters like jace being compleated (and otherwise exactly the same) is a bad thing for the story, then there can be come character arcs where some of the planeswalkers realize that they don't actually like being compleated and some people come up with some way to reverse the compleation process, probably with the help of urabrask himself due to the whole consensual compleation ideology. plus, this new story allows for all sorts of followups: instead of the phyrexians just being gone with no chance of coming back because the oil no longer works, you can have the red phyrexians exist as denizens of mirrodin, living alongside the natives, and even as allies in other story things, like having them help fight against emrakul or something. and because the oil still works, there will be leftovers of the other phyrexian factions all over the place, so you could have them reappear occasionally as both major or minor villains.

and of course, make sure to give a few sets that go over the consequences of the multiverse-wide invasion instead of just glossing over them.

[leafdrake-haven]

Lol I love this dumb game

[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

[mollyjames]

Okay, ow

[yellingaboutmasseffect]

Sometimes a family can be a powerful telepath, his dangerous, gorgeous Gorgon assassin wife, his jaded healer mother, their fuzzy, powerful adoptive baby who was locked away in a vault, and the family quest to heal the universe by remaking it.

[magic-crazy-as-this]

a new mtg set just leaked and it's the cutest thing i've seen in my entire life???

I don't even remotely play MTG even a little but also I WOULD LIKE TO FLOAT DOWN A RIVER IN A BOAT WITH A LILY PAD SAIL AND ESCAPE FROM CAPITALISM ALSO

[rad-roche]

my friends: you better not be a cunty ghoulish mayor giving each other creature you control that's a zombie or mutant +X/+X based on your counters

my silly ass:

[littjara-mirrorlake]

THE BLOOMBURROW RATS HAVE BONDED BUG COMPANIONS 😭 as if I needed a reason to love them even more

[memento--moray]

Space Tezzeret doodle