- This would require both of the latter to be somehow magical. The Speed Force itself seems like it would be tied to red mana (which has most "speedy" mechanics); note that, as time goes on, the various Flashes have themselves been acting more red, with Bart the most so.
- This is not to be confused with Sparks from Europa, who can make fantastically-powered abilities while giving others stress.
- This editor would like to point out that Urza survived being decapitated. He was alive long enough for the crew of the Weatherlight to activate the Legacy Weapon and shoot Phyrexia. Not sure what happened to him after that, but he was alive for at least that long after being diced up.
- Urza wasn't a real Planeswalker though, he was just tapping into the power of Glacian, an actual Planeswalker, whose soul was trapped in Urza's eyes- he died when they were removed. The real question, then, is if Glacian would have died if his head had been chopped, an interesting prospect given that by the time his host Urza died, he didn't have an actual body.
- Can you decapitate a gemstone?
- Where do you get your Urza info? I was under the impression that he had his own spark.
- The Thran, which established that Glacian's spark was in the crystal, and simple logic, given that the moment Urza's eyes were removed, he died, and the moment they were installed in Karn, Karn became a mechanical planeswalker.
- I knew that he had the eye stuff. I just don't think that there is any reason to think that he didn't have his own spark.
- He survived their brief removal by Radiant.
- Urza did, indeed, have a spark of his own. However, he had Glacian's spark too, making him even more powerful than a normal planeswalker.
- Urza wasn't a real Planeswalker though, he was just tapping into the power of Glacian, an actual Planeswalker, whose soul was trapped in Urza's eyes- he died when they were removed. The real question, then, is if Glacian would have died if his head had been chopped, an interesting prospect given that by the time his host Urza died, he didn't have an actual body.
- Anyway, unlike a Highlander immortal, decapitating a pre-Time Spiral block planeswalker isn't necessarily fatal. As long as their brain (or equivalent) is intact, they can keep on regenerating the rest of their body until they run out of mana to do it with. (They're kind of like zombies; it takes a Boom, Headshot! to finish one off.)
- Note that in Time Spiral, Teferi was cut apart into multiple separate pieces by Nicol Bolas and primarily took so long to regenerate because he was busy thinking. And Radha stabbed him directly in the head, but he was fine. So it's more like you have to just utterly destroy them on every level or they keep coming back. Like fighting a Q or something.
- After Hecatomb (set on Earth) was canceled, Wizards released the complete text of its never-produced Sangral City set. You can find it here. Now, scroll down to the very last card... We came SO CLOSE to finally seeing what he looks like (apart from the pre-cyborg grey-robed old guy with the Fu Manchu), but no...
- there was an official picture in one of the fat packs he looked more like a proto-Eldrazi.
- According to wizards.com, the Planeswalker Spark appears with a ratio of roughly one per one million intelligent beings. If our universe were part of The Multiverse, we should have about 6000 people with either a latent or an active Spark on Earth alone.
- But of that one-in-a-million, only one-in-a-million ever have that spark ignite: most live their lives and never have it happen. So it's more like one in one trillion.
- Never tell a potential Planeswalker the odds!
- If Earth doesn't exist in the multiverse, then what the Hell was Arabian Nights?
- Arabian Nights took place on Rabiah, not Earth. Rabian Nights.
- That just means that someone from Rabiah went to Earth and told the stories to people in Arabia, and the rest of Earth's history just assumed that the stories originated in Arabia since they don't know about planeswalkers.
- And the silver ranger will be a construct.
- Maybe they are planning to invade Earth first, get the MTG books and then invade Dominaria. In that case, see Nightmare Fuel.
- Each time was when Magic has been severely broken. R&D never screws up, it's just the Phyrexians reasserting their control.
- The first two times, NecroSummer & Combo Winter, the most dominant decks were base black & artifact. And where in the color pie did Phyrexia reside at that time? Seems pretty blatant, right?
- For the most part, each subsequent time they reared their metallorganic heads, the deck to beat seemed less like it was a tool of Phyrexian influence (up until Mirrodin's affinity deck archetype, which was about as blatant as we'd get, until NPH).
- Gleemax is the Phyrexians' agent.
- They've made their presence know outside of Magic as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUBQLnEGHNk
- Apparently, he ran into a revenant once, but that card was printed in Stronghold, and Stronghold takes place more than 2000 years after Ice Age. The only explanation for Hans to have lived so long, and gotten from Dominaria to Rath, would be that he's a planeswalker.
- Saffi Eriksdotter sacrificed herself to save Hans from the Lhurgoyf. Seeing his friend being eaten alive must have been what caused his spark to ignite.
- Alternately, Hans just ran really, really fast. So fast that time began to move significantly slower for him than for the rest of the multiverse as per Relativity, and his great speed somehow enabled him to run between planes. That's just how scary the Lhurgoyf is.
- Compare the WMG at top of page regarding the Speed Force.
- He's not a planeswalker. He's a planesrunner.
- Perhaps she went to Rabiah and got the title there. Rabiah seems to be more likely to give out -i titles, being a plane-wide Quarac.
- Jossed by "The Secrets of Magic" short story anthology. Ravi is from Ulgrotha. She and Baron Sengir were friends as children, even after - and maybe even BECAUSE - she killed his father.
- That's actually not TOO far fetched, although pretty unlikely to be cannon. Yawgmoth is both increadibly powerful and somewhat insane, and so I wouldn't put it past him to plan to annihilate all the planeswalkers. Particularly, since the new breed of planeswalkers are so... inferior... to their forebears, should Yawgmoth return to power, would there be anyone left who could truely challenge him ?
- Well, Avens are anthropomorphic birds, and Griffins are half bird half cat, so logically a hawk, which is a type of bird, is related to them.
- He means Avens / Griffins are more closely related to Suntail Hawk than to four-limbed birds.
- On the original Judgment printing, Eesha is making a comment about the much lesser psychological needs of the aven's forbearers, of which the suntail is presumably one. Since the aven themselves are six-limbed, it makes sense that one of their ancestors was likewise. Suntail=still-extant example of just such an ancestor.
No seriously, any time anyone hears anything about the next set (or the current set. Or the last set.) people scream about how it ruined the game.
- Back in my day, we said the Urza Saga ruined the game, long before these kids and their Planeswalker and Eldrazi rabble even bought their first pack!
- The symbol of the next set is Bolas's head. That's it. MTG is ruined forevah. note
Think about it: there have been sets focusing on Enchantments (Urza Block), Artifacts (Mirrodin), Creatures (Onslaught), and now even lands (Zendikar). The only permanent type left to cover is Planeswalkers, and given the name of the game is Magic the GATHERING, it seems all but set that there will be a multiverse-wide war between the Planeswalkers (possibly involving even some old ones like Serra, though not as actual cards, given their immense power), and a Planeswalker-heavy set depicting that war. The given implications of Common and Uncommon Planeswalkers also means that they would be far more accessible to the general playerbase, as opposed to the Mythic-Only rarity they currently have.
- So... cheaper Planeswalkers, Planeswalkers with less impressive, though still useful, abilities, Protection from planeswalkers, tribal planeswalkers, tutor for planeswalkers, abilities that specifically work against planeswalkers, enchant planeswalkers... did I miss anything?
- Artifact Planeswalkers. (Scars of Mirrodin?)
- Maybe only colorless Planeswalkers.
- We do have Karn now.
- Artifact Planeswalkers. (Scars of Mirrodin?)
- Mostly confirmed with the Spring 2019 set War of the Spark. Big Bad Nicol Bolas lures an untold number of Planeswalkers to Ravnica, attempting to use their Sparks to return himself to his god-like "Old Walker" power levels. The set has 36 Planeswalkers, including Rares and Uncommons, and have static or triggered effects in addition to loyalty abilities.
- Objection! Australia would never be so wimpy.
- The New Phyrexia trailer suggests this one is true. And it's Karn.
Therefore, a semi-reasonable resolution to the Scars of Mirrodin block may involve Karn coming back (planeswalker card included) and kicking major ass, perhaps with the aid of the Legacy Weapon.
- If he comes back to kick ass, he'll be on the Phyrexian side. He was tainted by Phyrexia - that's where Mirrodin's taint came from, remember - and his spark was holding it back. When Time Spiral messed with that, he hurled himself into the void because it was consuming him. We're not going to see "Karn, Planeswalker"... but we might see "Karn, Father of Machines" ("Father of Machines" being Yawgmoth's title...)
- As of Mirrodin Besieged, he is back. And he's pretty damn Phyrexian.
- Karn is really more of a Zombie Infectee trying to Fight Back The Phlebotinum. How that turns out is probably going to be a major point in the war.
- It's worth noting that the Phyrexian taint, in the form of the transfiguring oil, was there from the very beginning, simply because Urza had used Phyrexian technology to create Karn. Either Yawgmoth or Phyrexia's creator must be the master of the Gambit Roulette (probably the latter). Which leads to...
- Jossed. Karn's back, free from the Phyrexian taint, and kicking ass.
- Then again, was that a corpse...or a dimensional chrysalis? Not that it's necessarily, or even ought to be, Bolas.
- This one might actually make sense if you think about it. In The Thran, Yawgmoth discovers the body of the planeswalker that presumably created the plane that would become Phyrexia, and it was a dragon. We don't know much about what happened to Bolas between his exile from Dominaria at the end of the Elder Dragon Wars (which took place before the Thran even existed), and his reappearance in the Time Spiral and Alara blocks and his plan to absorb the Maelstrom created by the fusing of the shards. It's entirely possible that the "corpse" Yawgmoth discovered was actually Bolas in a state of hibernation or stasis, and that Bolas built the plane that would become Phyrexia himself, it's certainly within his power. Even now, Bolas is likely the most powerful planeswalker in the Magic multiverse, and his plan in the Alara block implied that he was once even more powerful than he already is. Not only that, he seems to have an unusual interest in the forces of New Phyrexia on Mirrodin...
- Actually, shifting from color to color would NOT work the same way as being colorless—you've forgotten to account for "protection from all colors" effects. There aren't a lot of them, but there are a few.
- Then it also is colorless sometimes as well.
- To follow up, there's also the possibility that the Phyrexian oil predated Yawgmoth, a prototype way of further Eldrazi-proofing The Multiverse—he just refined it. It's also possible that Yawgmoth himself was "enslaved" (if that's even the right term, depending on how resonant his and Phyrexia's ideals were at the onset), and that, rather than him ruling over Phyrexia in whole, the plane's essence ruled him. Rather than Phyrexia's archon, Phyrexia's supreme prophet.
- And an even scarier thought has come to mind about what would animate an evil planeswalker to create an Eldrazi-proof plane. Step 1: Create that plane (or commandeer it, if Bolas didn't create the first one; he may just be taking notes from the actual creator). Step 2: Unleash the Eldrazi. Step 3: Hide in Phyrexia. Step 4: Wait for the Eldrazi to eat up every other part of The Multiverse, then die of starvation. Step 5: Step outside and rebuild The Multiverse in your image.
- There will be nothing to rebuild after that.
- Even if it weren't the original intention, it's pretty clear that Bolas' involvement with both New Phyrexia (via Tezzeret)and unleashing the Eldrazi has some sort of connection. This troper's theory is that Bolas hopes to use the Eldrazi as a weapon against Phyrexia, rather than the other way around.
- White/Blue: Becoming an Orwellian dictator enforcing conformity to the community, or
- White/Green: Creating a form of Hivemind for everyone to be subsumed into.
- She could become White/Black by becoming Fascist, submitting herself fanatically to one group while ignoring or even subverting the needs of everyone outside this group.
- Fascism can also work as pure White, if the elitism aspect is very well justified [to her twisted mind]
- She could become White/Black by becoming Fascist, submitting herself fanatically to one group while ignoring or even subverting the needs of everyone outside this group.
- Or just stay white White is the color of dogma and Lawful Stupid, after all.
- Yes, but Lawful Stupid is still not evil. Stupid, yes. But that's not the same as evil.
- White can be completly evil. Communism is identified as the most White of all philosophies, and her turning into an Orwellian Big Brother can work very well as White.
- Mark Rosewater confirmed that Urza was White/Blue. White can be a bastard.
- Communism can be pure White. It can also be White/Red, White/Black, or even White/Green. Maybe even Green/Red. For example, Chavez' version of Communism seems to be dominantly Red at least until now (but YMMV here). But I agree with you, Elspeth turning into an Orwellian Big Brother (or rather Big Sister) could work.
- Even better, this suddenly looks like a viable flaw in the system should the next set be Mirrodin Pure (well, with the recent revelation of New Phyrexia, more like "should the next set have been"), rather than New Phyrexia. With her mind shattered by Phyrexia's sheer relentlessness and ability to taint just about everything (not to mention that a Phyrexian irruption was the thing that wiped out her homeland before Bant), Elspeth takes the reins of finishing the abolition of the taint...and herself ceases to relent. In this scenario, she commandeers the purified Mirrodin, turning it into an anti-Phyrexia of sorts. As in, she binds it to never concern itself with anything but finding and destroying further Phyrexian intrusions in every last reach of Dominia. You want to worry about something else? RUN, INFIDEL.
- I like that. I like that very much.
- Something to note, There was a Pure White bad guy in Torment during Odyssey, named Kirtar, Also there was a Church in the Ice Age storyline that was also White.
- Radiant was also a Pure White bad guy (sort of).
- As was daimyo Konda.
- Come to think of it, "Evil White Elspeth" could probably turn out very similar to the Phyrexian Flesh Singularity cult.
- Your forgot Blue/Green - like Simic, only with sociology.
- Er... What about White/Red?
- Easy. Mark Rosewater identifies V and The Punisher as W/R; all you have to do is imagine Elspeth as similar to them in methods.
- There are analogues to most of these in terms of energy: the ecosystem receives constant energy from the sun, we have ways to invest a small amount of energy to receive a larger amount of energy (like lighting a coal fire with a spark, or splitting atoms for nuclear energy), and if energy isn't put to use or stored, it goes to waste. This doesn't violate the law of conservation, as the energy doesn't actually get created or destroyed; however, its accessibility and usefulness change. The only missing analogy is infinite mana combos...)
- Generally, Magic: The Gathering has happy endings
- Phyrexia getting such a strong foothold again has terrible implications for the whole multiverse.
- Phyrexia winning would be the third time the bad guy's have won since the reforms of the Time Spiral block.
- To be symmetrical: Scars of Mirrodin had a 80:20 Mirrodin:Phyrexian ratio, Mirrodin Besieged was 50:50, so New Phyrexia could be 20:80, with Mirrodin Overrun.
- As such major adverasries, allowing Mirrodin to serve as their base would allow Phyrexia to be threatening again.
- Confirmed: "Action" is New Phyrexia.
- In a last desperate act of survival to hold the line, the Mirrin's tear their remaining area away to form a separate plane, a 'Pure Mirrodin'. With the majority of old Mirrodin controlled by Phyrexia, it forms the New Phyrexia, where each color fights to see its own way of advancing the goal win primacy, while the unlucky left behind can not hope to survive.
- This allows Wizards to avoid picking a side, while letting both sides claim to have won. Mirrodin supporters claim the victory of survival, while Phyrexia supporters point out they overran the plane.
- But didn't they say it will be one or the other but not both?
- Shot down. It'll be New Phyrexia.
- Scars of Mirrodin is more of a Remake of Mirrodin set. So it be fiting by have New Kamigawa Setting.
- Please, no. But I could see a New Ravnica setting... with each of the guilds getting into a third color. It would also fit my WMG above about Enemy Color Triples.
- I like to Point that Commander Series have all the Enemy Color Triples in them.
- You Know...
- Please, no. But I could see a New Ravnica setting... with each of the guilds getting into a third color. It would also fit my WMG above about Enemy Color Triples.
- Actually, I can see the potential plot for returning to Kamigawa. It would have to involve the return of Myojin of Night's Reach and her return to kamigawa and adapting to life there after so long.
- Two other Ideas I just though up for bringing back Myojin of Night's Reach: 1. the have a plot for a block which includes her finding her mask and/or beating the shit out of Bolas and 2. In a future plot line, we find out she is a planeswalker.
- Newest blue Planeswalker from Avacyn Restored is a Soratami, so WotC haven't forgotten about Kamigawa, maybe after Return to Ravnica block there will be a set featuring her returning to Kamigawa after solving the mystery of Innistrad's moon. Nichol Bolas will probably be the Big Bad as he has a grudge against the place and once ruled it, Phyrexia and Eldrazi don't feel as "right" as antagonists for the set.
- Nicol Bolas ruled Madara, an island or archipelago (don't remember which) on Dominaria, not Kamigawa. That was always its separate plane, under the purview of O-Kagachi and friends.
- It would be Nice the see the Guilds again.
- And Maybe With each of the guilds getting into a third color.
- That would shift the number of guilds to 8, if my very poor grasp of math is right.
- There are ten possible Three-Mana-Combinations. Five with three neighbouring colors (like the five Shards of Alara) and five with two neigbouring and one opposing color (like in the five Commander sets).
- Oh Yes. It's called Return to Ravnica.
- Ral Zarek from the 2012 Duels of the Planeswalkers game may get printed.
- Confirmed, Ral Zarek will be printed in Dragon's Maze.
- And Maybe With each of the guilds getting into a third color.
- Think about it. Despite being a continent the size of Australia, it was never even mentioned until after the Invasion, and the only major non-Barbarian Tribe human civilization is Black-aligned. It's not naturally part of Dominaria; it was a continent on Rath that became part of Dominaria after the Overlay, much like Skyshroud Forest and the Stronghold.
You just know it well have another UN-Set.
- Nope, 2017 did.
I'm Sorry, It just isn't WMG without One.
- Well, he does look like the Tenth Doctor...
- Mark Rosewater confirms that that's a coincidence.
- Even the fact that Venser's power involves time and space?
- There is NO WAY the parallels between Venser and the Tenth Doctor could be mere coincidence. Just look at their respective deaths. Tenth Doctor: Sacrifices himself to save a friend, subsequently dies of radiation. Venser: Gets sick of Phtisis, which is essentially the Magic: The Gathering equivalent of radiation, then sacrifices himself to save a friend (Karn).
- Nope, it's Jossed as Jossed can be.
- Well, he does look like the Tenth Doctor...
Seeing as, you know, he's actually traveled through time and all.
You know you want it.
- So, Ninjas vs. Phyrexians?...that's AWESOME!
- How about Samurai, Ninjas and Kami Vs. Phyrexians?
- And then, guess who shows up? Toshiro Umezawa. No, wait, he's now going by the name Toshiro the Blind!
- Toshiro is long dead by the current time period since the night that Konda took Kyodai(the real name of that which was taken) was the same night as Urza setting of the Sylex and becoming a planeswalker at the end of the brothers war which is 3300+ (3300 as of time spiral) years ago.
- Either way, Kamigawa might be facing millions upon untold millions of monsters, but those monsters will be facing the gods.
And you so know you want this too.
- Wouldn't be hard either. The plane is tiny and a dollop of glistening oil in the Undercity water supply will turn Golgari, Dimir, and the Gateless into oily thralls overnight.
- That's where we get the big one: The Phyrexians vs. the Eldrazi.
- What would be more plausible is if one of the Eldrazi Titans stumbled into New Phyrexia, being attracted to the five suns of course.
- Very little on Tarkir is automated; the five dragonlords prize strength and survival, and have no idea of machines. Thus begins one of the greatest Flesh Versus Steel wars the Multiverse will see.
Because they want to remake the mirrodin by conquering other plane, and turn it like Mirrodin was before Phyrexians.
Esper would welcome them with open hands. Of course, that could mean if one of them is infected, they could be sowing the seeds of Esper's downfall...
He resents the monolithic and repressive structure of New Phyrexia, and lets the Mirran resistance take up residence in the Furnace Layer, so long as they don't get too uppity. Eventually, one of the other Praetors (possibly Jin-Gitaxias or Sheoldred) is going to call him out on his negligence and non-cooperation, causing Urabrask to turn the wrath of the Quiet Furnace on the other four, ushering in a Phyrexian Civil War.
- I see Jin-Gitaxias and Elesh Norn turning on him, what with being enemy colours to Urabrask's red.
- This suggests that Norn took down him and Sheoldred on her own.
By Mirrans and Karn (who can save Urza with his time-traveling) to fight Phyrexians. And it will be awesome.
- By extension, the Phyrexians will bring back Mishra who was the only person to fight Urza on even terms for a long period, giving us a brother's war on a multiversal scale.
- As of now, Jarad is in command of the Golgari, and he doesn't seem controlled by anybody. If Svogthir is really still there, he doesn't seem to do much.
- Maybe the slivers would like to take Sarpadia from the thrulls first...?
- Last thing the Phyrexians need is a hivemind that brings Urabrask back into line and compels Vorinclex to think about strategy instead of frolicking in the woods.
- Maybe the slivers would like to take Sarpadia from the thrulls first...?
- Alternatively, they have some kind of connection with the Eldrazi. Shandalar drifts through the Blind Eternities and occasionally "bumps" into other planes, as what happened in the Time set. Some wandering Slivers of Dominaria may have slipped into Shandalar, drawn to its rich mana. Notice that there are Slivers manifested from pure Ghost Flame, rendering the swarm to colorless mana. The legendary Hive-Lord of the Skep currently has an affinity for the entire color wheel, though bears resemblance to Ulamog and grants a similar ability.
- Jossed, we know how she disappeared, he's a not in a state to give a damn and Avacyn is coming back with Griselbrand, hence the whole Avacyn Restored set.
- Jossed, in that she's actually an angel...albeit one that Sorin created with his magic!
- Grigori/Watchers are a type of angel. Specifically, they are a group of angels tasked with protecting humanity, but most of whom end up procreating with human women, siring the Nephilim... Other than Avacyn being female, it's not inconceivable that she is an unfallen Watcher, and that in future sets, she will be printed in WB. And, for good measure, she'll have a child with Sorin.
- Except for the whole "angels are made of mana and can't reproduce" and the "Sorin created her" things. Is it that hard to research before posting'
- Or he becomes the first G/B planeswalker?
- Confirmed, Garruk, Apex Predator was released as a G/B planeswalker in M15.
- Or he becomes the first G/B planeswalker?
- For some reason, this makes me think Sorin will turn into a Captain Planet villain.
- Partly Jossed as Sorin is in bad terms with the other vampires and so if Garruk pisses them off he will probably not care much. However, the possibility of Garruk pissing Sorin off in some other way is still open.
- See [1].
- I Knew It!!!!
- A new plane (obviously).
- Or Dominaria, we haven't been back there for a while.
- True, But this troper doesn't think Dominaria would be suited for it, they'll probably return to that plane in another block.
- Or Dominaria, we haven't been back there for a while.
- Old species/subtypes being interpreted as mons.
- As opposed to how players currently interpret and play all creatures as if they were mons?
- I was thinking more of a slavery angle, where one of the races have enslaved all the other races and treats them as mons.
- As opposed to how players currently interpret and play all creatures as if they were mons?
- Each mana color acting as an elemental type.
- Doesn't this already exist to some extent?
- True, this point is redundant, unless they make it to a certain extreme.
- Doesn't this already exist to some extent?
- The return of some older, long forgotton creature subtypes.
- Such as Riggers and Kobolds?
- yes, but mostly species tyes.
- Such as Riggers and Kobolds?
- Possible references from Monster Ranchers, Pokemon and Digimon.
- No Monster Hunter?
- There could be a reference if they wanted it.
- No Monster Hunter?
- You mean Onslaught?
- He meant Monslaught.
- That's so cute!
- So they're Mirrodin's version of Leonard and Penny?
- Confirmed. By killing the demons, she causes her contract to fall under the control of Nicol Bolas.
- The Slivers are back in Magic 2014! ...and thus far the only spoiled ones are in green, red, and white...
- Oh look! Blue and black ones. Sweet. They're not the center of the set, but huzzah for returning slivers!
- The Boros are the likeable sports guys standing up for what's right, with occasionally destructive results.
- More like jerk jocks. These are the guys that, among other things, beat the crap out of bystanders on a whim and want to turn Ravnica into a police state.
- The Boros are really a two-edged sword. On the one hand, there are the constant battles with Rakdos and Gruul where you can easily get the impression that the Boros really are not so different from their enemy (especially with battle-crazed Aurelia now being in charge). On the other hand, there are some true heroes among the Boros ranks, like Agrus Kos and Pierakor. Also, the whole police-state is more of an Azorius thing, apparently now even more so than in the original block and trilogy.
- Actually, it seems to be the other way around now. The Azorius, aside from Vraska's backstory, seem to have mellowed out, while the Boros are in full Knight Templar mode.
- While I agree on Boros, I fail to see how Azorius has "mellowed out". Cards like Martial Law point to the opposite, and cards like Azorius Arrester or Hussar Patrol even imply a militarization.
- More like jerk jocks. These are the guys that, among other things, beat the crap out of bystanders on a whim and want to turn Ravnica into a police state.
- The Dimir are the gossips and rumor mongers, constantly digging up their fellow students dirty secrets for gits and shiggles.
- The Golgari are the creepy bug collectors who everyone else tries to avoid being seen with.
- The Selesnya are wannabe hippies.
- The Orzhov are the snotty rich kids, possibly with mob connections.
- The Gruul are the rough kids with a grudge against society, possibly due to crappy parents.
- The Izzet are the crazy science kids, prone to causing explosions in the science lab.
- The Azorius are the student council desperately trying to maintain some semblance of order on campus.
- The Rakdos are the mean spirited, self-destructive fratboys.
- They're less "popular" and less established though. Also, the typical Rakdos member seems to be from the lower strata of society (mine workers and so on) while the guys you're talking about mostly come from the rich families (at least in the US, it's a bit different in European schools).
- Or, you know, they're the goths, since it's supposedly all about individual self-expression. Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way just doesn't join the Rakdos because she probably thinks they're all posers, since they don't know about Hot Topic or Shark Attack 3.
- Or they might be the Metal guys.
- The Simic are the highly competitive students who view school as a chance to prove themselves better than everyone else. Possibly with some "Darwinistic" leanings.
Adressed now. Among other things, the Rakdos are the theater geeks.
- And Vedalkens and Loxodons will meet their ancestors. The idea is neat, but WotC will unlikely do a major use of a plane which was central only two blocks/years ago.
- This seems to be Jossed anyway. With the third set revealed to be Dragon's Maze, the whole story of the block seems to be about Niv-Mizzet's labyrinth below Ravnica. However, Wizards might still bring the Mirran refugees back later, on a different plane. Ravnica does not really make sense as a destination for the refugees anyway, I guess Elspeth would want to lead them to Alara and Karn might consider Dominaria.
- Looks like that'll never happen. As of this article Mirrodin appears to be completely lost.
- This seems to be Jossed anyway. With the third set revealed to be Dragon's Maze, the whole story of the block seems to be about Niv-Mizzet's labyrinth below Ravnica. However, Wizards might still bring the Mirran refugees back later, on a different plane. Ravnica does not really make sense as a destination for the refugees anyway, I guess Elspeth would want to lead them to Alara and Karn might consider Dominaria.
- Gideon is with Boros, but he's still mono-white. So there's still a possibility that Chandra might be in Gatecrash.
- Jossed. Gatecrash introduces Domri Rade, and Dragon's Maze will feature Ral Zarek.
- While not likely, Dragon's Maze could still feature two red planeswalkers.
- And now it's confirmed that Chandra will be the focus of the M14/Theros storyline.
- Jossed. Gatecrash introduces Domri Rade, and Dragon's Maze will feature Ral Zarek.
- There have been male or at least sexless angels (Gabriel Angelfire and Malach of the Dawn aren't female, sexless angels have been mentioned in the lore), and now there are female archons, so this doesn't hold up.
- Even before Scars we had Time Spiral block, a return to Dominaria, then the intro to Lorwyn/Shadowmoor. And of course, every new plane gives us a new candidate for a revisit. (This might also be the perfect chance to re-do all the black sheep planes (Ulgrotha, Mercadia, Kamigawa) in a more quality fashion)
- Jossed, in September 2014 we head to Tarkir, an entirely new plane.
- As of Born of the Gods, Xenagos is both a Planeswalker and a creature.
- Theros's pantheon is not dertemined by color. She could very well become another White aligned god without anyone needing to die.
- Although given how Heliod's proven to think, one could anticipate Elspeth ultimately deciding that it's not Xenagos who needs to go, but Heliod. One dispatched Heliod later, Elspeth finds herself promoted to god of justice by having delivered proper justice to her less-than-worthy predecessor.
- The preview of Deicide definitely shows Elspeth putting a stop to Xenagos, so she still thinks he needs to go. But this doesn't mean Heliod is safe...
- Unfortunately, Heliod gets away scottfree at the end of the second part of Godsend. To add insult to injury, he kills Elspeth and mocks her.
- As of the Ajani's Vengeance story in the Uncharted Realms column, Ajani has been roaming the streets of Meletis preaching to the people to abandon their gods. And it seems to be working. He's also been telling the story of Elspeth's journey into Nyx and her betrayal by Heliod. The door is still open, if and when they make another Theros block, for Elspeth's spirit to return as an eidolon and to possibly ascend to godhood. This would be a logical progression both for Elspeth as a character and for Theros as a setting, turning its hero into a Crystal Dragon Jesus to challenge its pseudo-Greco-Roman pantheon of Jerkass Gods.
- Theros's pantheon is not dertemined by color. She could very well become another White aligned god without anyone needing to die.
- Jossed: The Cursemute suppressed the taint but did not remove it, and Garruk is currently descending further into predation and barbarism.
- A mana bond with Mirrodin's core gets you access to every color of mana, allowing you to set up further spells that get you lands. As for the timeframe, Memnarch appears to favor blue, (both his abilities require blue mana to cast) which just so happens to be the color of telepathy and mind magic. All he needs to do is set up a few stable-breeding populations, and then wipe their mental histories such that they forget their homelands. Also, he's the Mirari, and his delusions set up a defacto planar ban. He definitely has the power to do this. How fast may be a different story.
- Pretty much outright stated here and via Word of God at the end of this video. The first link even implies that she'll Come Back Strong:
- Or instead of Sarkhan, it could be Chandra who already knows how to use the Ghostfire. She was also one of the three who unleashed the Eldrazi in the first place, so if she learns about what she did, she might decide to help.
- As of Fate Reforged we met the Lithomancer and Ugin comes back to life, so the original trio will be back together. They might get new allies, though (Nissa is looking for Sorin to bring him back against the Eldrazi, and Gideon is looking for a way to defeat them too).
- There's already two czech movies that depict exactly that.
- Confirmed. In direct contrast to the other khans of the original timeline, who are now The Dragon (figuratively speaking, of course) to each brood's leader, Narset is instead branded as a heretic by her faction, and is presumed dead. In her place, it is Taigan who holds the position of second-in-command under Ojutai instead. Whether or not Narset is actually dead as he says or alive despite this remains to be seen (it should be noted that Taigam says she was persecuted, but never outright states her to be dead but only "long gone" and "no more", it has to be seen if it's because she actually planeswalked away and he doesn't want to admit his failure and/or ignorance or just an instance of Never Say "Die").
- And now a story has confirmed that she's a planeswalker who ignited her spark.
- Bolas did not create Phyrexia. Its creator was a (now very dead) human planeswalker that liked to assume a draconic form. See The Thran for more details.
- Umm... They already have that technology; it was used as recently as the invasion of Dominaria. Now, the trick may since have been lost to the ages, but it's not impossible to believe that they still have it, as well.
- Mark Rosewater has stated numerous times that Phyrexians don't have the means to travel between planes. The devices they used have also been stated to be Lost Technology in the Kaladesh story.
And we'll see the remains of the previous shards now years in the future.
Bant: Bant, due to the influence of Red and Black Mana, will have degenerated into a kingdom of Knight Templars, hunting the dragons of Jund out of sport and prejudice (as the shards were nearly destroyed by a dragon previously) and will issue orders banning the practice of Red and Black magics within their areas, beginning a crusade against the remnants of Grixis out of fear of another Nicol Bolas rising.
Esper: The new emotions brought on by Green and Red Mana will bring one new emotion with it: fear. In order to preserve their way of life, the Esper will begin to expose members of other shards to the etherium in order to begin controlling and brainwashing them ala Phyrexia. They will invade Jund territories in order to obtain sangrite, and begin creating ether-dragons to combat the attacks of Jund.
Grixis: Grixis will be positively influenced by the Green and White Mana, although they will be splintered, divided into factions by the attacks of Bant and the disdain from the other shards due to the chaos created by Nicol Bolas. The most powerful faction will still be the Cult of Nefarox, but splinter factions will be attempting to create their own plans and goals, attempting to bring chaos to the shards.
Jund: While more educated thanks to Blue and White Mana, Jund will become Chaotic Neutral, becoming a danger to the four other shards, but moreso to the Esper above all. Out of hatred of the dragons, the Esper and Bant will begin hunting them down. The shaman of Jund will institute churches to worship the beasts, and use fear of their power to gather people to their survival of the fittest goals.
Naya: With the intelligence of Blue comes the selfishness of Black, with Naya taking on a darker role of protectors of the wilderness, seeking to claim the wilds of Alara for themselves and driving out any of the occupying Jund. They will be opposed to all the other shards, out of fear of oppression from the Bant and Esper, and attempting to reclaim the wilds from the cults of the Jund and Grixis.
There will also be new "Shardless" creatures, formed from the remnants of all five shards trying to form new lives, who will be forced to pick sides in an upcoming conflict.
There will also be new three colored Planeswalkers like Nicol Bolas, for the four other shards (and possibly another one for Grixis)Elspeth may become the Planeswalker for Bant, having been brought back to life from the underworld, but in doing so has been revived without a soul, becoming full on Light Is Not Good territory.Tezzeret may return as Esper's Planeswalker again, although there might be a new one as well, possibly originating from Mirrodin and influenced by Phyrexia.There will be a new Planeswalker for Jund, probably originating from Jund itself.Ajani will return to Alara once again as the Naya Planeswalker, and become horrified at what his home has become. He will attempt to return Elspeth's soul back to her, probably through a "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight.
There were a number of events outside of Tarkir that Sarkhan was involved with in the main timeline. But since he no longer exists in the new timeline, that could conceivably mean that he could not take part in those events either. As a result, Narset could have taken Sarkhan's place in these events, for both better or for worse...
- Jossed. The time travel only affected Tarkir. However, a new theory rises:
- Jossed. In new timeline, he wasn't born at all and became a living paradox.
- When the Mending happened, Sorin briefly panicked about the fact that Nahiri would be mortal and therefore able to die from old age when they might need her to help keep the Eldrazi sealed (Ugin, being an ancient dragon, was less of a worry for Sorin, who didn't know that he was dead at the time). So, he sought out Nahiri and turned her into an Innistradi vampire, thereby making her as immortal as himself and, by not killing her, letting her keep her Spark. Nahiri could not forgive this moment of panic and has estranged herself from both Zendikar (where vampires are hated) and Sorin.
- Jossed. Nahiri wasn't vampirized. However, this does create a new theory:
- Sorin and Nahiri fought at the Helvault not long after the first loosening of the Eldrazi's chains, something Nahiri was unable to manipulate with her lithomancy, and Sorin was assisted by Avacyn, whom he had just created. It's possible that Nahiri was, accidentally or purposefully, sealed in the Helvault, and was released at the same time as Avacyn. She would have felt the Eldrazi's seal was broken once freed, and so believes Zendikar is lost.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed. Ob Nixilis used the Aligned Hedron Network to reignite his Spark.
- My logic behind this is as follows:
- Shadows of Innistrad is named after Shadow Over Innsmouth, which was written by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Lovecraft is well known to have written about Eldritch Abominations, which the Eldrazi are.
- AND
- The trailer ends with a statue of Avacyn's crest being warped.
- Of the Eldrazi, Emrakul's passive aura warps the environment.
- As well, maybe Emrakul somehow remembers Sorin's role in sealing her away six thousand years ago, and is seeking revenge by attacking his home plane.
- Judging from the leaks, It seems Nahiri is the one responsible.
- But the two views aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Nahiri wants revenge on Sorin for leaving her homeworld to be ravaged by the Eldrazi, so it would make a lot of sense for her to be trying to summon the Eldrazi to ravage Sorin's homeworld.
- As Chas Andres points out, three of the primary visual motifs in Shadows Over Innistrad art are tentacles, a sort of spongy latticework, and odd pink-and-purple colors: the same three things that the original Rise of the Eldrazi style guide confirmed were the visual hallmarks of Emrakul and its brood lineages.
- But a lot of the cards and themes have 'Marit Lage' written all over them. The ocean is acting strangely, complete with kraken-like tentacles. Marit Lage is a kraken. She's also one of the few non-Planeswalkers that can move between planes. Not to mention that Thing In The Ice/Awoken Horror is basically mini-Lage, as Marit Lage uses ice magic and also is a giant sea creature frozen in ice.
- Yes, it's Emrakul. Garfield help Innistrad.
- Jossed. By the end of the Shadows Over Innistrad block, Sorin is stuck in the rock.
- Chandra might be too, since during her POV, she mentioned how soft Nissa's skin is.
- As many people have noted, the Gatewatch is currently missing a black-aligned walker. Given that Wizards has been very careful over the years to show that black is as capable as any other color of goodness and heroism, it seems very unlikely that this will be permitted to persist. Moreover, Liliana is one of the Origins 5, and it was stated that those five were to be the primary protagonists of Magic for the time being. Since the Gatewatch was created to act as the unifying thread for Magic's storylines in the immediate future, Lili will either have to join the Gatewatch or become one of their recurring enemies if she is to be involved in the plot from here on out.
- Just to really complete the cycle.
- Kaya makes a living of sending ghosts to their proper rest. Teysa wants to overthrow the Obzedat, Orzhov's Ghost Council. As Kaya is a Planeswalker, it would only take her running into someone who knows of the issue (as Jace would, having been in Teysa's head during the event that made him the Guildpact) for her to be hired to take down the Obzedat.
- While trying to understand something as alien as an Eldrazi is, at best, pointless, essentially sealing oneself away is a particularly baffling move. This leads to one of two or a combination of both, as her motives.
- She was aware of the demise of her fellow Titans, but Ugin is correct, and they aren't truly gone, just forced to regenerate. She finds sealing away preferable to having to also regenerate, knowing they will be along soon (in a timeless entity's time frame, anyways) to spring her.
- She needs more time in Innistrad. Her comment about finding a barren field when expecting her corruption to have taken full root may be her hinting that she just needs more time to exert influence...influence she may still be able to use from within the moon.
- Or Emrakul wants to be able to move through the planes without leaving a trail of lattices and tentacles behind her.
- Return to Theros:
- Ajani, whom we last saw attempting to start a religious revolution against the gods of Theros, has now been sighted on Kaladesh and has bumped into the Gatewatch.
- Moreover, just as Chandra needed to return to Kaladesh to confront her inner demons, Gideon may need to return to Theros to resolve some of his own baggage.
- Return to Kamigawa:
- It's been noted repeatedly that though Kamigawa's mechanics were a colossal failure, its flavor was surprisingly popular. A new Kamigawa set might offer a chance to build a block worthy of the plane's flavor.
- A block set on Vryn:
- Of the ten worlds featured in Origins, Vryn is the only one that we haven't yet had a block set on. And like Gideon and Chandra, Jace has certain issues to resolve that can best be dealt with by returning to his home plane.
- It should probably be mentioned that Jace no longer remembers that he came from Vryn. His mental duel with Alhammarret either destroyed or buried all his memories of that time. Still, that could certainly be an interesting story.
- Of the ten worlds featured in Origins, Vryn is the only one that we haven't yet had a block set on. And like Gideon and Chandra, Jace has certain issues to resolve that can best be dealt with by returning to his home plane.
- And on a colossal scale. Two points Ajani hammered on were that Amonkhet is Bolas' own artificial plane and that "people will die." A defeat against the Gatewatch is one thing, but with a name of a second Block like Hour of Devastation, one has to wonder...what if Bolas, either as an act of spite or in being cornered, pulls the thread on his plane, leading to it unmaking? Such an act would be more of a shake to the Gatewatch than simply being defeated.
- Considering spoilers for Hour of Devastation reveal defeats of each member of the Gatewatch and many cards showing how Bolas slowly destroys the world, we can consider this very much confirmed.
- Innistrad's moon is made entirely out of silver, so if Karn got just a drop of oil on it it wouldn't take long to be compleated. When Avacyn went crazy, she heard the moon talking to her, and her eyes turned black. She was saying things like "Are you pure?" that could just as easily come from New Phyrexians, and the black eyes were reminiscent of the way an infected person looks. When the oil corrupted Mirrodin, it started with Memnarch, who was the guardian of the plane just like Avacyn was to Innistrad. The moon also, according to Tamiyo, affects the ferocity of werewolf and vampire feeding frenzies. Since the moon was just one solid block of silver it probably wasn't intelligent, even with the oil, but now that Emrakul is in it she's probably taken control of the whole thing. At some point she'll cause it to rain oil (tempered with eldrazi essence so that it looks like blood) on the plane below, turning everyone into monstrous eldrazi/phyrexian hybrids. Once Emrakul escapes from the moon, probably by controlling Tamiyo again, she could travel to multiple planes, spray them with blood, and turn the whole population into phydrazi much faster than she corrupted Innistrad, probably too quickly for the Gatewatch to save a given plane. They'd have to predict her next destination and try to stop her there.
- Just look at it.
- Ma Ro keeps mentioning that they mostly avoided the "Dry Dead" side of Ancient Egypt when making Amonkhet in favor of focusing on the "Sunny Living" side, but what if they're just saving it for a future block?
- And the storyline of Amonhkhet very conspicuously ended with Hazoret and a chunk of Nakhutam's population escaping into the deserts. Moreover, the last paragraph of the story sounded like a quote from a far-future legend, implying that these refugees will survive and rebuild their civilization. Perhaps the return block will revolve around them attempting to find a new home for themselves?
- She has received a great deal of focus in the Amonkhet storyline, more than quite makes sense for a one-off character. Moreover, she has exactly the kind of personality you'd expect from a nascent 'walker: a drive to explore and the courage to break free of the culture in which she grew up. And finally, Ma Ro has confirmed that there's an Amonkhet-native 'walker who will be showing up in Hour of Devastation.
- Confirmed, spoilers for Hour of Devastation revealed a Planeswalker card Samut the Tested.
- Sarkhan would probably join just to get a chance at Bolas. O
- Dovin Baan: Tezzeret was able to win him over before, and now he almost certainly hates the Gatewatch after they overthrew the consulate.
- Garruk Wildspeaker: Probably the least likely to join other Planeswalkers, since he has plans to kill everyone, but he probably hates Lilliana more than most because she cursed him.
- Nahiri: Bolas can recruit her by telling her that two of the Gatewatch was two of the ones that released the Eldrazi from their prison, without letting her know that he was the one that tricked them into doing so.
- Sorin Markov: While he couldn't have both him and Nahiri, Sorin might go along with Bolas' plans to get the pre-mending power back so he can restore Avacyn, and bring some order back to Innistrad.
- Ral Zarek: Bolas has namedropped him, implying he is already being involved with Tezzeret or Bolas himself somehow.
- Even better would be if the Gatewatch's Final Battle with Bolas has each member getting into a 1v1 duel with a member of Bolas' team.
- Jace has now barely escaped two Mind Rape attacks, each at the cost of leaving him totally amnesiac. It's all but certain that he will regain the memories he lost to Bolas's attack; WOTC has put too much effort into integrating him into the story to just throw that away now, but what if whatever restores his more recent set of memories also restores the memories he lost to Alhammaret's attack?
- Confirmed.
- Alright, Bolas told Vraska that she could only leave Ixalan once she'd retrieved the Immortal Sun, implying that it's what is powering the planar binding on Ixalan. Additionally, the aetheric compass seems to be sensitized to planeswalking, since it guided Vraska to Jace. (This also explains why it's giving such inconsistent readings: Even if Bolas set it up to ignore Vraska, there's at least three other walkers on Ixalan plus the Sun, so it's trying to track four things at once).
- Even if Bolas plans to leave Vraska there, whoever he has pick up the sun for him has to leave the plane themself, so it's possible whichever planeswalker holds the sun is the only one able to planeswalk away.
Now that she is forced to work for Bolas it would fit the theme of his corruptive influence on other Planeswalkers, dragging them towards his own color combination. While Liliana is already mono-Black, she might also pick up Red, to emphasize her hedonistic qualities escalating, or Blue, to show her becoming more cold and calculating.
- Red would be the most appropriate. Not only would it represent her yearning for freedom, but with it, Bolas would have three two-color Planeswalker servants, each with a different combination of his three colors, like with the Gods.
Because out of all evil Planeswalkers he is the one least likely to bow to Bolas and has his own plans for Multiversal conquest and is arrogant enough to challenge the dragon.
- Going off the above WMG that we will be seeing each member of the Gatewatch separately before they reunite, a steampunk world is a logical place to encounter Chandra.
- Mark is on record as trying to integrate some of Magic's newer developments into Unstable, possibly including Planeswalkers.
- Given that Unstable seems to have a coherent (if silly) world, having a coherent story connected to the main storyline would not be that big a stretch.
- The Un-sets are all about breaking rules. What about breaking the rule that black and silver borders aren't supposed to mix?
- If each of the Gatewatch is getting the spotlight for a couple of sets following the Hour of Devestation, we could caannonically pass over Chandra, since she had the Kaladesh block. But maybe some time in a unofficial set could happen. But I was hoping for Tezzeret to show up as the Comically Serious on a world too crazy to control and too powerful to destroy.
In a lot of ways, Nahiri is a Shadow Archetype for Nissa, even if neither of them have met yet. Both are Zendikar natives who fought against the Eldrazi. Both care about Zendikar more than anything. Both wield magic that directly interacts with the land and its influence on mana. Both made an alliance with, and were abandoned by Sorin Markov. Both went Knight Templar for a while. Both had very lonely pasts.
The only difference is that Nissa found friends like the Gatewatch and Yahenni, whereas Nahiri remained alone. Nahiri is a very dark example of what Nissa could've been like under other circumstances, and encountering her, seeing how deranged she's become and learning about her part on Innistrad? That would be the perfect catalyst to make Nissa rethink her decision to leave the Gatewatch.
And if we get some new Duel Decks out of the deal, well that's just icing on the cake, isn't it?
- Confirmed! In fact, their differing ideologies in what Zendikar should be is the driving conflict of the story of Zendikar Resurgent.
Because let's face it, as great a villain as Bolas is, he's been Big Bad for a while now, and Arc Fatigue is gonna set in pretty soon. The New Phyexians have been playing Orcus on His Throne for years.
- If Lilliana acts against Bolas's interests, it will break the contract that keeps her young and she will age to dust. But that might still let her get in one blow before the contract takes effect, and one blow in the right place and time could be enough to tip the scales of a great war. It would fit nicely in both as the culmination of Lilli's Character Development for her to reach the point where she is willing to die to save her friends. Furthermore, Bolas's Fatal Flaw is supposed to be his fear of death and powerlessness, and it would fit that flaw for him to not see a Heroic Sacrifice coming from Lilli.
- Seems to be confirmed by the War of the Spark trailer, though the outcome is anyone's guess.
- There are enough Planeswalkers in enough color combinations Planeswalking to Ravnica that, should the Gatewatch prevail, they'll each find themselves at the head of a Guild. Contenders?
- Teferi = Azorius
- Dack Fayden = Dimir
- Saheeli Rai = Izzet
- Nissa = Simic
- Huatli = Boros
- Kaya = Orzhov
- Ajani = Selesnya
- Vivien Reed = Gruul
- Vraska = Golgari
- And of course, Tibalt = Rakdos
- Two of those are on the mark.
- Samut: Dies/Tied to Bolas' fate. Samut's story is tied directly to that of Bolas. Once Bolas is dealt with, there's nowhere for her to go but back to Amonkhet.
- Nicol Bolas: Dies/Imprisoned. Nicol has been the big bad or The Man Behind the Man for the past 10 years in Magic's history. His arc is finished. All that's left to decide is who get's the final blow.
- Ashiok: Lives or Dies, it doesn't change much about them...
- Kasmina: Lives. Kasmina is a new Planeswalker, probably just beginning her narrative arc.
- Domri: Dies. His narrative is tied to Bolas' as one of his willing minions, and Ruric Thaur does want vengeance for losing the duel they fought.
- Teyo the Shield Mage: Lives. Teyo is a new Planeswalker, probably just beginning his narrative arc.
- Ral Zarek: Dies. Even if he turns on Bolas, Niv-Mizzet isn't likely to forgive Ral for supplanting the Dracogenius...
- Tamiyo the Moon Sage: Tells the story.
- Karn: Toss up. If Karn dies, it will likely be part of Narratively Passing the Torch to the new 'walkers, and they'll carry on his mission to destroy New Phyrexia. If he lives, he'll still go to New Phyrexia and blow it up with a magical bowl.
- Jaya: Dies. She's an old and beloved 'walker, but in the narrative there's not much left for her to do except go and be worshiped at her monastary, but that's not really her cup of tea. Plus she's the Luke Skywalker to Chandra's Rey.
- Tibalt: Lives. Unfortunately. He's been seen in Chandra's comic book series which canonically takes place after the War.
- Mystery Woman/The Wanderer(?): Lives. Whether this is an entirely new 'walker or someone in disguise, they'd both be at the beginning of their narrative arc.
- Kiora: Lives. If the game is returning to Theros, then Kiora will likely be in that story, as she was a major player last time.
- Sorin: Dies. Likely at the hands of Nahiri.
- Teferi: Lives/Tied to Bolas' fate. Whatever happens to the Old Walkers (Karn, Jaya, Bolas, etc.) Teferi will likely be caught up in it, but his story is still tied to Jamuraa and he still plans to undo what he did.
- Angrath: Dies. We just met him and he was reunited with his family, seemingly bringing his character arc to a close. It'd be cruel for Wizards to kill him after his happy ending, but the playerbase also said Mirrodin wouldn't lose to the Phyrexians, look how that turned out...
- Dovin Baan: Dies. Kaladesh is free and not going back to the rule of the Consulate anytime soon. Ravnica is likely the last safe place for Dovin in the multiverse with this many Planeswalkers showing up to fight Bolas.
- Ajani Goldmane: Toss Up. The defeat of Bolas is the end of his character arc, started so long ago in Shards of Alara. But then again, Heliod is still on his Shit List...
- Arlinn Kord: Lives. Innistrad is too popular a plane in the Magic Community, and Sorin has become something of joke for being an all-powerful ancient vampire that's been stuck in a rock. Arlinn was barely introduced in the metaplot, and may be a key element in a post-Eldrazi Innistrad visit.
- Demonic Walker/Ob Nixilis(?): Lives. Ob was barely introduced into the setting and has evil plans of his own. And if this is a new 'walker, that would mean their story is just beginning.
- Jiang Yanggu: Lives/Tied to Mu Yanling. Jiang is a pretty new 'walker created to appeal to the Chinese player base. Whether for narrative or business reasons, Wizards isn't likely to let either of these characters die. Plus he brought his dog!
- Huatli: Lives. If we go back to Ixalan, Huatli is our ticket there. Plus she'll likely have a mecha-dinosaur watching her back, courtesy of her new best friend Saheeli.
- Sarkhan: Dies/Tied to Ugin's fate. Sarkhan's story is wrapped up in that of Bolas and Ugin. Used by Bolas, redeemed by Ugin, all that's left for Sarkhan is to join in the battle royale to bring down Bolas.
- Saheeli Rai: Lives/Tied to Huatli's Fate. Saheeli is an optimistic, hopeful force in the Mt G narrative. If we ever go back to Kaladesh, she'd be the one to take us there. Plus she's got Huatli watching her back...
- Narset: Lives. Narset is much beloved by the Mt G community for being someone many can relate to on the Autism Spectrum. Plus, if we were to ever return to Tarkir, she'd likely be the narrative tour guide.
- Nahiri: Dies. Likely at the hands of Sorin for corrupting Avacyn, unleashing the Emrakul on Innistrad, and trapping him in a rock.
- Ugin: Fate Tied to Bolas. The two elder dragons came into this world together, they'll likely die/be sealed away together.
- Shadowy Masked Planeswalker: Lives. Whoever this is, they'll likely survive if only to be a storyteller in Magic's next grand arc.
- Vraska: Opposite fate of Liliana. If Vraska betrays Bolas and lives, she'll likely take Liliana's place as Jace's significant other and the two will live happily ever after on Ravnica, with Jace taking his Guildpact duties seriously. If she betrays Bolas and dies, it'll be to give Jace the extra emotional push to take his Guildpact duties seriously and finish off Bolas.
- Kaya: Dies. Whether she'll be betrayed by Teysa for releasing the Orzhov Syndicate's indebted ghosts, by Bolas because he's a Bad Boss, or by the Gatewatch because she's working for Bolas, Kaya isn't likely to survive this one.
- Jace: Lives. Jace is likely to survive, look at what has happened to Ravnica because he couldn't take his duties as Guildpact seriously, and finally put down roots. Also would allow Wizards to pass the narrative torch to a new Gatewatch after 10 years with the current characters.
- Gideon: Lives. Gideon has unfinished narrative business on Theros. Plus he has the Blackblade on Dominaria, a weapon capable of killing an Elder Dragon- like, say, one Nicol Bolas.
- Liliana: Opposite fate of Vraska. Either Liliana betrays Bolas and dies, giving the Gatewatch an opening to destroy Bolas, or she betrays Bolas and lives, and learns the value of friendship when the Gatewatch saves her from Bolas.
- Nissa: Lives. There's a bit of Ho Yay brewing between Chandra and Nissa ever since Kaladesh, and Chandra doesn't seem too upset in her post-War comic series.
- Chandra: Lives. She's in a comic that takes place post-War so... duh.
- Vivien Reid: Dies/Fate Tied to Bolas'. Vivien's home plane is a desolate wasteland thanks to Bolas, and her entire personal mission is tied to his destruction. If she doesn't land the killing blow on Bolas, she'll be instrumental in creating that opening. But after that... maybe she can take up gardening to pass her time?
- Elspeth, resurrected as per Mythic Edition suggestion? Has a similar costume to what Elspeth used to wear but has the wrong hair colour.
- A resurrected Serra? OK, so we're seeing Serra in Modern Horizons, so it's not necessarily likely they'll bring her back but hasn't stopped some people from suggesting it.
- Someone totally new? Perhaps most likely, but...
- This last one appears to be confirmed: her name is Kasmina.
- Confirmed. Gideon sacrifices himself to save her life.
- Jossed by the Chandra comic though, in which Tibalt appears and yet his card only has down abilities.
- Plus of course the fact that what you have on a planeswalker card is called 'loyalty counters' not 'life'- when they reach zero it's probably less "dead" as much as Screw This, I'm Outta Here
- Jossed by Mark Rosewater here.
- Jace Belern. Very popular and powerful.
- Nicol Bolas. An excellent villain.
- Liliana Vess, as a mildly sympathetic villain.
- Sorin Markov. A very complex character tragic story.
- Elspeth Tirel. Another tragic story.
- Tezzeret, bringing in a Phyrexian storyline.
- Tibalt, our faithful Chew Toy.
What's more, Teferi has very good reason to seek her out during his recon operation, as she and Loran are the two resident experts on the Sylex, with Ashnod having had even more time to analyze it after dispensing her decoys. While there's a question of how he would know Ashnod had it for so long (chancing to hear Urza grumbling about the decoy he received while at the Tolarian Academy?), it's not out of the realm of possibility that he'd be looking for her one last time for a few details, only to not only walk in on her fight with Gix, but be targeted by Gix himself as a threat. However Ashnod sparks during the two-on-one fight, she doesn't get the chance for an initial walk before Teferi returns to the present and inadvertantly drags her with him, potentially from Saheeli's system unable to tell that two sparks so close together aren't actually one, or him returning right as Ashnod sparks and she's basically caught in the temporal flow.
- Jossed: Canonically, Ashnod survives and founds the Conclave of Mages with Tawnos after the war's end.
Those, plus plenty of other possible directions, will keep Phyrexia alive as a faction. It will remain alien to many, but will offer at least the potential for peaceful coexistence for some, but still leave the potential for the villianous nature we all know and love.
- Related: Karn will eventually claim the title of Father of Machines in order to keep the other Phyrexian factions in line.
- A prehistoric plane — Muraganda, most likely — of cavemen, dinosaurs, and untamted primordial nature.
- An oceanic plane.
- A plane in the sky, with floating landforms and massive weather phenomena serving as lands.
- A space fantasy plane similar to Spelljammer or Treasure Planet, with Space Sailing, star dragons, robot monsters, Wizards from Outer Space, and of course lots of prairie, ocean, swamp, volcanic and forest planets.
- A plane based on Slavic/Russian myth and folklore.
- A plane set inside a larger organism. While it will still feature fantasy staple races like humans, elves, etc, there will also be non-token Germ creatures, new Cell types, and mites representing parasites.