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Not only do the angels specifically not come back in the story, Giada joins them in being part of the structure of the city and they seem to accept the status quo of their very essence being the literal stones and metal of the city itself. It's really bad, and the way that Angels are used in the actual set means someone miscommunicated something, because they're clearly meant to be concerning to see back due to the lawless city suddenly having a force for law/order that may in fact be over-zealous. They outright had a mass citywide nightmare of the Angels returning for every future-teller, which clearly made the angels coming back feel like something terrible not good (and my expectation was the Angels would have been all phyrexianised and used to build the city as a one two combo).
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Ixalan, Amonkhet and Kaladesh really benefitted from 2-set blocks with first set showing the world and the second being heavy on story development; all three of those planes got fairly positive response I think. Out of the recent ones I think Ikoria and Eldraine got decent introduction yet were severely hurt in the storytelling-through-cards (Ikoria ones even contradict the official story), Strixhaven and New Capenna are just pure duds with a few strong visual motifs.
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Jul 9, 2022 13:56
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It must be a marketing thing, a lot easier to hype 4 different worlds per year instead of 2 I think the real problem is that no-one gives a gently caress about any of the characters at all so there's nothing really taking you from one set to the next I wouldn't mind going back to 2 set blocks for setting/story but I don't want to do 2 set mechanically linked blocks, having each set be new is way better for limited
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MikeCrotch posted:It must be a marketing thing, a lot easier to hype 4 different worlds per year instead of 2 It's absolutely a business thing and they're open about it. Second sets almost always sold worse (like third sets did before that), so they moved to the current model to see if that changed, and it did. Regardless of how players feel about the effects on the story, WotC have seen a marked increase in sales and so are very happy with the model.
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Definitely feels like they’ve had more misses since the latest “metamorphosis”. Though idk if it’s an inherent problem, or just the planes they’ve decided to go with. Is MtG Hogwarts a deep enough well to build a whole set around?
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I definitely thought there was going to be an “Angels are evil” twist given that there are black-aligned ones; their colours align with the guild whose thing is knowing horrifying secrets. Hopefully there still will be! It would be awesome if Elspeth is a force for OG Phyrexia somehow, and that’s the real reason she is feared by Elesh Norn
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Jul 9, 2022 14:36
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If they're going to keep doing Alchemy sets a few weeks after each set, maybe they could make them "epilogue" sets that show the plane after the main set story
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Barry Shitpeas posted:If they're going to keep doing Alchemy sets a few weeks after each set, maybe they could make them "epilogue" sets that show the plane after the main set story Alchemy showing the real ending to the plot of a set = Palpatine in Fortnite
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LifeLynx posted:Alchemy showing the real ending to the plot of a set = Palpatine in Fortnite What
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Jul 9, 2022 15:08
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The time that Fortnite hosted exclusive SW content that just happened to actually be important to the story of the next (final) film and most people didn’t see it.
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you needed to play Fortnite to get the lore how Palpatine survived to RoS (or poo poo like that)
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A rather significant plot event hand-waved over in the opening crawl of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker were only available if you played Fortnite's Star Wars tie-in event  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0ejXC7kFs
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I never really got why he’d want to send that broadcast in the first place, although I know if you start asking questions about that trilogy you’ll never stop
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lmao every time someone reminds me that really happened
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Yall are massively over selling how important that fortnite event is lmao, it doesnt matter to the movie at all
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Look i hate the 9th movie pls dont make me defend it
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mandatory lesbian posted:Yall are massively over selling how important that fortnite event is lmao, it doesnt matter to the movie at all You can't know that without having seen the event, though, which is the whole point.
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TotalHell posted:The time that Fortnite hosted exclusive SW content that just happened to actually be important to the story of the next (final) film and most people didn’t see it. Lmao
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mandatory lesbian posted:Look i hate the 9th movie pls dont make me defend it Sorry you're a Star Wars YouTube guy now. Here is your beard and baseball cap Sorry I don't make the rules I'm just doing my job
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LifeLynx posted:Alchemy showing the real ending to the plot of a set = Palpatine in Fortnite as opposed to the real ending being in a story on the website or a tie-in novel?
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Toshimo posted:You can't know that without having seen the event, though, which is the whole point. Yes you do, bc it doesnt come up in the movie except as an aside, letting you know it doesnt matter
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Barry Shitpeas posted:as opposed to the real ending being in a story on the website or a tie-in novel? you are on the same side, it should be in the cards themselves not in fortnite or novels etc
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mandatory lesbian posted:Yes you do, bc it doesnt come up in the movie except as an aside, letting you know it doesnt matter Can't wait for the Mt:G equivalent of "Somehow, Palpatine has returned." Assuming it hasn't happened multiple times already, I don't follow the goofy MTG story.
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TotalHell posted:Can't wait for the Mt:G equivalent of "Somehow, Palpatine has returned." Assuming it hasn't happened multiple times already, I don't follow the goofy MTG story. Tbf, in legends canon palpatine comes back like a billion times. To be unfair, disney explicitly said legends wasnt canon, and gently caress them for that
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Palpy's Back, Baby! [Dread Return] Sorcery — 2BB Return target creature card from the graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. "No one's ever really gone."
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mandatory lesbian posted:Note, i did literal zero math so im making a guess its supposed to be parodying yorion decks A burn deck getting locked behind its eidolons but the opposing combo player being scared to pull the trigger because they would get blasted in response is very funny to me. I appreciated that at the end of the match he showed that someone on Twitter called the winning line of play which he wasn't able to see because he got tilted that his obvious outs were literally at the bottom of the deck
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mandatory lesbian posted:Tbf, in legends canon palpatine comes back like a billion times. To be unfair, disney explicitly said legends wasnt canon, and gently caress them for that Oh yeah I know he popped up a bunch in Legends with like cloning and other nonsense, but yeah. We won’t derail into how great it is from a storytelling perspective to just say “uhhh remember the big bad from back when? Yeah he’s back now. No we didn’t build to this.”
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kalel posted:Palpy's Back, Baby!
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TotalHell posted:Can't wait for the Mt:G equivalent of "Somehow, Palpatine has returned." Assuming it hasn't happened multiple times already, I don't follow the goofy MTG story. Somehow, Yawgmoth has returned.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Somehow, Yawgmoth has returned. I kinda think this will happen if brothers war is a time travel story as rumored
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kalel posted:boshnroll is the platonic ideal of MTG content creators imo. it helps that legacy is so powerful and has such a vast card pool that brews are much more likely to be viable than in other formats Nah, it's just that so few people pay legacy at really competitive level nobody care about breaking the meta and you can even play weak poo poo.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Somehow, Yawgmoth has returned. I really miss that guy. 
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:A burn deck getting locked behind its eidolons but the opposing combo player being scared to pull the trigger because they would get blasted in response is very funny to me. Wait for storm(?) to cast blue spell, blow up eidolons, blast the blue combo piece, bolt 3 goblins, put down the other swiftspear and wait 5 turns? I'm not sure I'm parsing it right, but that is 5 cards left in his opponent's library right?
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TotalHell posted:Can't wait for the Mt:G equivalent of "Somehow, Palpatine has returned." Assuming it hasn't happened multiple times already, I don't follow the goofy MTG story. It did with Niv-Mizzet, except they didn’t put out the story where he died and so his being resurrected was confusing
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mandatory lesbian posted:I kinda think this will happen if brothers war is a time travel story as rumored Oh God this just gave me a dire premonition that The Brothers' War story is gonna go just like the awful Warlords of Draenor story in WoW, with Yawgmoth as Gul'Dan.
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Mishra got printed in Time Spiral.
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Algid posted:Wait for storm(?) to cast blue spell, blow up eidolons, blast the blue combo piece, bolt 3 goblins, put down the other swiftspear and wait 5 turns? It was Ad Nauseam Tendrils, they waited until they had 1 card left to do the combo. Brian had drawn a second Fireblast and could have done this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAS7ocuOZto
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I think Brothers War is just going to be a retelling of the existing story. It never got a set and there are plenty of characters to make legends out of. I'm not sure what Dominaria United will be, Apocalypse block was already Dominaria united against the Phyrexians so doing it again just seems weird.
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I found a bunch of collector's and draft boosters of Double Masters in Target today, so knowing that it's hitting the big box stores makes me hopeful that singles prices will go down a good bit, at least for rares.
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The Shortest Path posted:Oh God this just gave me a dire premonition that The Brothers' War story is gonna go just like the awful Warlords of Draenor story in WoW, with Yawgmoth as Gul'Dan. care to do the needful for us non-wow nerds
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