An Innistrad farmer gets out of bed, looks out of the window and sees a tide of living metal and corrupted oil rolling over the hills. He sighs, finishes his mornig coffee and goes to grab his favorite pitchfork. "Mondays." he grumbles.

@gex384

2 ай бұрын

Would make a wonderful flavour text for a card

“Tô the rest of the Multiverse the New Phyrexian March of the Machines was an apocalypse. For me, it was a Tuesday.” - Innistrad itself.

I love how it work some of the best horrors know to man. Innistrad: Gothic horror Eldritch moon: Eldritch Horror Crimson Vow: Marriage

@josephwodarczyk977

3 ай бұрын

I'm getting closer to that point in life, and I'm legit scared of the bill.

@bennefib

3 ай бұрын

Duskmourn : Cosmic Horror

"Ugin at this point had already been murdered by his brother Nicol Bolas and thus was not available." Must have been an awkward conversation when Nahiri finally bumped into his ghost.

The name pronunciation throughout the video is mind-boggling.

@Pixelatedude6

3 ай бұрын

Who tf is lilien???

@zerazerazerazerazerazerazera

3 ай бұрын

@@Pixelatedude6 or "Nihir"

@breadgehog

3 ай бұрын

"The Downyard Temple" I genuinely just think it's engagement bait at this point.

I feel like the latter half of the video could've been avoided if Sorin didn't randomly decide to be like, "Agreement? What agreement? Do I even know you, white haired woman?".

@EliTheGleason

3 ай бұрын

XD just ghosts her

@VIixIXine

20 күн бұрын

The entire Eldrazi shitstorm on Innistrad happened because two very mature people were acting very maturely. Seriously, it's like Sorin and Nahiri were trying to one up each other in their stupidity.

Now we know it was Emrakul's intention to wait until MH3.

Ugin is from Dominaria, he is Bolas' twin brother, he may have created Tarkir, as older planeswalkers could create worlds that fit their designs

@U1TR4F0RCE

3 ай бұрын

Originally the lore was ugin was from Tarkir but it got retconned so bolas would be his brother

@jeremyvg1123

3 ай бұрын

He didn't create Tarkir either, he just created the dragons there

@U1TR4F0RCE

3 ай бұрын

@@jeremyvg1123He didn't even mean to create the dragons, Dragon storms that created the dragons just came about by his presence, which lead to him granting boons to the khans to keep the dragons from overwhelming them.

Awesome video! My friend and I made Twin PCs from Innistrad, born about 15 years before Nahiri kicks off the invasion, for a Curse of Strahd (and a sequel campaign). She’s a Wolfir Cleric for Avacyn and I became a vampire Ghost Slayer through the events of CoS.

Shadows over innastrad was the coolest mtg story ever written. Emrakul playing chess with Jace then telling him all of the chess pieces belong to her was sick.

your lore videos are so good. its really hard to follow other channels and not get bored but the fact oyu put the cards up there makes it so much better

Omg yes more vids like this please 🤩

Honestly Sorin's problems started when he began being a dick to Nahiri for literally no reason

@Tinil0

3 ай бұрын

Yeah Sorin is his own biggest problem. There is a reason he is black mana centered even though he has done quite a bit of "good" stuff, he is selfish as fuck and the good stuff he does ultimately benefits himself. Sorta like Liliana obviously, the other big "Sorta sometimes good guy who is also a super selfish dick who causes who her own problems"

@CobaltDraco

3 ай бұрын

To be fair (and something that Logs didn't mention) is that the effort of creating Avacyn left Sorin in a exceptionally weakened state, requiring him to take a very extended rest. This, combined with the protection from Avacyn, had unknowingly blocked her communication to him. While Sorin was a dick to Nahiri, she was also extremely unwilling to understand his desire to protect his plane and felt that she needed to make a show of force to get him to recognize her as worth paying attention to.

@AetherKirin

3 ай бұрын

Also note that Sorin did travel to Zendikar to reinforce the leyline trapping the Eldrazi. Nissa done goof though.

@CobaltDraco

3 ай бұрын

@@AetherKirin True, but she was in the helvault at the time and would only have Sorin's word on it, so I don't hold it against her with the circumstances.

"The Countless Apocalypses of Innistrad" [Laughs in Dominaria]

Innistrad isn't just Germany it is rather in general Gothic Horror. Also it draws a lot of inspiration from Eastern Europe too.

My boy Odric was done dirty. Got turned into a vamp and didn't even participate in the final battle.

A funny memory I have with the Avacyn Restored set is I was introduced to the song "Europa" by Globus because someone used an instrumental of that song as the theme for a fanmade trailer for the set.

Wasnt the reason sorin didnt respond to nahiris call was because he was in the hellvault for a bit

Innistrad holds a special place in my heart, because its the first set when I got into Magic! And I love vampires, so it was my favorite. So I was glad we returned to it a few years ago, and probably going to return again since Emmy herself is biding her time. I'm looking forward to the next time we go back to Innistrad, probably after the Phyrexian invasion that we just had. Just sad how they did my lovely Avacyn dirty!

This was great. Would love to see the lore of Lorywn

Sweet video, hope you do top 10 4 mana commanders some day soon 😄

God.... You tell the story so we'll that I wonder some if you made part of it up! Lol. It's almost like wizards use to give a crap about magics story! :p

One thing that still bothers me, is if all the planes are p much one plane, or whatever it is now that the Invasion Tree defiled the Blind Eternities (or whatever) then when are we going to have to worry about the Sliver Hives again? All these slivers, together in one place. It can only be bad news

21:25 this is a surprise tool that will help us later

Amazing!🎉

How does 'Angel of Hope' Avacyn fit into the plot? I thought she was the direct opposite of Gislebrand as an '8/8 for 8'?

To be more precise, what angered Nahiri was not that Sorin didn't care about Eldrazi (as he did, since he did come back to stop the Eldrazi in the Zendikar block), but his lack of effort and foresight. Sorin was a friend and mentor to Nahiri before that, he was the one who showed her the ropes and accompanied her, and the two tried to stop the Eldrazi even before meeting Ugin (although it was later retconned in them somehow never wanting to kill the titans), but Sorin had an aloof and somewhat cruel nature. He accompanied her, but never put too much effort (one example was the fact he never told her about the fact that, back then, planeswalkers could reform their bodies at will, because it simply never occurred to him to). When the Eldrazi were almost liberated, Nahiri herself had been getting more aloof, but the almost literal wake-up call convinced her to look for her old friend, and rescue him from his cold attitude. When she arrived Sorin was recovering from the creation of Avacyn and the Hellvault (and him being still weakened was the reason Nahirii was a tough fight for him), which weren't just meant to protect Innistrad's humans but use what he had learned to shield the plane from Eldrazi (it was a deliberate effect, and the reason Emrakul couldn't appear as long as Avacyn was around and Nahiri, no longer god-like after the mending, corrupted her so that Sorin would have been forced to unmake her). However, while hiding to recover he had unwittingly left himself deaf to any eventual warning from Zendikar. It was that Sorin didn't care about the Eldrazi in general, he had seen Nahiri come with the situation already resolved so didn't see anything to worry about and, what actually angered Nahiri into attacking, he candidly admitted that he just didn't think about the consequences of making himself unavailable, reminding her of the times he had shown that same attitude in their time traveling together.

I'm hoping the story keeps visiting other planes rather than going back to the same few, like Innistrad, Ravnica, and Dominaria. There's a whole multiverse out there with a limitless amount of planes to go to.

@BeaglzRok1

3 ай бұрын

Same. Dominaria has been considered well-traveled even fifteen years ago. Ravnica has had to deal with the Decamillennial, the Dragon Maze, the mistake known as the War of the Spark, and the Phyrexian invasion. Innistrad has had to deal with everything in the video, and I'll say that Shadow Over Innistrad/Eldritch Moon weren't executed well. Even Zendikar has had three sets that are basically "Zendikar: Rise of the Eldrazi," "Zendikar 2: Eldrazi Boogaloo," and "Zendikar 3: Aftermath," when it was supposed to be the D&D-adventuring plane like Shandalar from the 90's computer game. They know they can come up with new ones like with Amonkhet, Ixalan, Ikoria, and Kaldheim, but Creative doesn't seem to be very good at making a planar setting that isn't just a single city or country that's supposedly the standard for the entire plane that is also appealing to their audience. Like my DM did in our Ravnica game, sure District 10 is the central city where every faction is headquartered and represented, but what about somewhere a several dozen kilometers away? Say on the opposite side of Utvara, where the guilds might not be so balanced. Doesn't really check out, logistically, that it'd be EXACTLY the same there, so in the campaign, following the Decamillennial two districts (which we called District 3 and District 4) effectively polarized. D3 has all of the Black-aligned guilds (plus the neutral-Blue guilds like the Simic and Izzet) that's fairly chaotic on account of rampant selfishness and ambition, to the point where everyone figured they should just kick out the Orzhov in their own self-interest. Meanwhile, D4 is all four White guilds in a regimented block of order, most notably "led" by the Orzhov bankrolling the majority of services with a chip on their shoulder from what happened in D3. Everything's still there, but there's a fresh dynamic to it that isn't "everyone has to team up to fight the outside force because friendship and diversity."

@NeufAtora

3 ай бұрын

@@BeaglzRok1 I completely agree, man. I'll go along with planes that are entirely one city since, as far as I'm aware, we don't know how big these planes are, so ones like Ravnica could just be pretty small comparatively. To be honest, I think War of the Spark was handled much better than the latest Phyrexian invasion. It wasn't good of course, and I really hate how Nicol Bolas was taken down because Gideon believed in the goodness of Liliana's heart. At the very least she should've died, but nope, good ol' Super Boy Scout to the rescue. My favourite planes are Theros and Alara, and a big portion of that enjoyment comes from having just a block or two of really good storytelling, rather than a bunch of blocks and sets using the same characters in the same locations.

I would like to see the life and history of Garruk and his battle with Liliana , plus it appears that Garruk ate Syr Ginger boyfriend and I wish to know if that was cannon as well

Very nice concept of video, learned a lot about Innistrad, so thanks for that

Can we have a video about ravnica pls?

The fact this dropped the day after the mh3 leaks is a little to coincidental...

LilianA*

Well, with Modern Horizons 3 giving us a new Emrakul, it's safe to say that the next set might take place in Innistrad, and have her breaking free from the moon to wreak havoc once more.

@magic_claw

3 ай бұрын

Nah. MH3 does not progress the story and can pick cards from anytime in Magic history. No planned Innistrad visits have been announced for the near future except Innistrad remastered. That said, the Eldrazi are coming back at some point, certainly.

My idea for the next Innistrad set -- bare with me -- is to make it the Steampunk set. Hear me out. From a literary perspective there is precedent for this. Authors' of gothic horror like Bram Stoker and Robert Stevenson were contemporaries of writers in the scientific romanticism genre. You have elements of scientific romanticism in Innistrad like with the necro-alchemists and thermo-alchemists. This is important because steampunk was influenced by scientific romanticism. Much like you have you have these genres leading into each other over the course of literary history when we next return to Innistrad we see the plane changed. As a source of consistency though everyone can keep the same hats they have always worn. The lore reason for this is that humans were the faction that emerged the strongest after the Phyrexian invasion. The undead were one of the most successful forces against the Phyrexians so by extension human necromancers became crucial to the planes defense as seen the March of Machine storyline. Liesa who has returned to the plane seeing this effectiveness helped broker peace between different human factions of humans with her sister Sigarda. Necromancers of both varieties no longer have to rob the graves of the deceased for raw material instead using the many bodies of the now deactivated phyrexians. The necro-alchemists use this new source of advanced technology on dead phyrexians to reverse engineer new technologies and use that research in the rebuilding of Innistrads' cities. Humans who formerly lived in rural towns destroyed by the invasion flood into the cities providing the labor needed to construct new metropolitan expansion and factories. The dark forces of Innistrad -- also devastated by the Phyrexians -- find their original human prey more fortified and united than ever before. For the first time in Innistrad's history humans are now the dominant force on the plane. The steampunk aspect comes in from the technological advancement originating from the Phyrexians. Massive factories dot Innistrad's cities. Lantern lit cobblestone roads no longer connect Innistad's human settlements having been replaced by gaslights and iron rails. Every technology is now powered by industry, steam, and captured lightning. Werewolves are now captured and held in Barnum-esque circuses with other beasts of Innistrad to be gawked at instead of feared. Vampires are forced to risk preying only on the dregs of human society -- I'm thinking of Vampire Jack the Ripper. Zombies now perform much of the dangerous labor in cities with their population being kept in check by dangerous industrial accidents like getting crushed in giant machine cogs and walk the streets as a working class (as a joke there can be a zombie suffrage movement). Necromancers are civil servants using their powers to supply a cheap source of labor. Fewer spirits exist due to the improved quality of life and renewed faith in the Church of Sisters. Innistrad's old horrors are gone. Forgotten by the progress of technology. However, the body of an unknown sea creature is exposed on the shores of Nephalia due to the unexplained behavior of Innistrad's tides. It's wounds too large to be made by werewolf or demon. Innistrad's new crown jewel -- a massive submersible vessel is tasked to explore the deep and unexplored depths of Innistrad's oceans in search of an answer. All the while the silver moon lusters ominously above.

i really don't get sorin's reasoning for locking up Nahiri, it seems like being a massive dick for no reason

@thek838

3 ай бұрын

It's pretty simple she threatened him.

The real issue with the larger 'balance' of Innistrad is that there are only Humans and Less Limited Humans meaning conflict is inevitable with Muggles at the bottom of the food chain, while the true Non-Humans that rise on the plane from time to time don't tend to coexist with those two groups. Sustainability was never an option at least not permanently.

Duskmourn was orginally innistrad i feel, emerakul was clearly siphoning the moons power , and her new card being called " emerakul , the world anew" with the moon cascading voer her, its clear she has fully taken over the plane. Modern horror is cosmic horror, whoch fits the bill, im going to assume the new eldrazi cards will give some since to that Also explains why we get innistrad remastered shortly after.

Letsbgo

This is not really the unknown side of MTG more the known side of MTG lol Unlike yugioh Unknown ones were people learn about things that just aren't known, this was just a retelling of the main and known story of Innistrad.

"Promosm" ✨

its sad we may never see another set as good as innistrad. wizards is too busy making marvel crossovers

like the content but please please learn to read names

i love innistrad but i hate how wizard milk the last bastion of good lore with cheep stories....all the last pyrexian arc is a shit show

If you're going to make videos about magic, at least learn how to pronounce the names.

From now on I will dislike every video where you misspronounce on purpose. Unsubscribe

@thek838

3 ай бұрын

Welp either this is a good joke or you be dumb since disliking and giving a view still helps him lol.

Avacyn was benevolent, not altruistic. Altruism is pure evil. Very informative video. Thank you very much! I loved it.

@TheMinskyTerrorist

3 ай бұрын

What?

Probably the worst plane to visit

@kdash2657

3 ай бұрын

Probably the worst comment on this vid.

@svenornitier

3 ай бұрын

Worst plane to visit if you are human* Because essentially, we're livestock in this plane.

@emiliatuominen3785

3 ай бұрын

I'd say new phyrexia is worse tbh

@svenornitier

3 ай бұрын

@@emiliatuominen3785 at least in New Phyrexia, you are rejuvenated with glorious purpose. Glory to phyr-- what are we talking about again?

@finedecision5639

3 ай бұрын

@@kdash2657 I meant to live in*