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Having not read the Epilogue, my head cannon is now. Vraska: "I want a baby" Jace: "UGs babies are boring" Vraska: "what about a mythical baby" Jace: "you son of a bitch I'm in"

@bru4773

2 ай бұрын

Having read the epilogues - thats not that far off, lol

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

Why would he call Vraska, who is a WOMAN, a "SON of a bitch"?? Wouldn't Vraska just be... a bitch?! lol

Rakdos in MKM: I sleep Rakdos in OTJ: tinybones funny

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

I feel like Rakdos has been "dumb"ified a tad. Not nearly the character he used to be, in the Magic story...

@joselox0190

2 ай бұрын

@@jacob4920 fr, from the art of the cards I feel like he's how akul is described here, and ends up doing almost nothing

A new Magic Arcanum 'What Happens in' video? This is the real Big Score

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

🤠

@Argenomius

2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the real Big Score was the friends we made along the way 😊

"He planeswalks away before she can finish" is my new favorite line

I love how half of this set's story boils down to "Oko is a shitty absentee father." Lmao

@punahougirl84

2 ай бұрын

Oko needs to get parenting advice from Mando. I mean, Yuma...

Everyone always asking “What in Tarnation” but never “Where is Tarnation” …until now!

This literally sounds like a DnD module. You even have the party being gathered at a bar

@rennac3152

2 ай бұрын

Fuck it, we’ll buy another book

@CasualLoLAddict

Ай бұрын

Funnily enough, I intend to DM a brief adventure in Thunder Junction... Wish me luck, and goddamnit do I wish there were more info out there. Like a setting book!

@rennac3152

Ай бұрын

@@CasualLoLAddict remember to track how many other planes are using this dust ball as an outpost of sorts, and the izzet building literal communication mana towers and infrastructures from ravnica

No, clearly we should be more worried about OKO'S CREW FREEING NICOL BOLAS, baby! I can imagine it now, it'll be just like a "Who's on First?" routine. [Oko slams his fist on a completely blank map that just says "meditation realm" with a couple stick figure dragons scribbled on it] Oko: "Alright gang, now that we pulled off the heist of the century, who's ready for the heist of the millennium? We're busting Nicol Bolas out of prison!" Gisa and/or Geralf: "Who the hell is Nicol Bolas" Kaervek: "Nicol Bolas? That old fairy tale who was defeated by Satoru's cousin? Isn't he made up" Rakdos: "He's not made up, I helped kill him a couple years back" Satoru: "Wait, you knew my cousin?" Kaervek: "Uh... we read stories about tetsuo in jamuraan daycare. My ArCh-NeMeSiS Teferi was obsessed with him" Geralf and/or Gisa: "Wait, you know Teferi?" Kaervek: "Yeah I hated that guy, glad he's- wait, how do *you* know him?" Rakdos: "Oh I remember Teferi! He helped me help kill Nicol Bolas a couple years back" Kaervek: "THEY'VE BOTH BEEN DEAD FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT" Satoru: "Hey tell me more about my famous cousin" Oko: "Right then, good start everyone, how about we take five and come back with some *constructive ideas*" Eriette: "Who the hell is Teferi"

@ELFudgeOreos

2 ай бұрын

This was beautiful

@thatonefirekestral

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Malcolm be like 😑

@zachariahmerry2396

2 ай бұрын

@@thatonefirekestral Unfortunately Malcolm and Breeches were stated to have left the outlaw gang after that initial mission - only being there because Vraska wanted them to

What’s even crazier about the dead being reanimated is..there on a plain where supposedly no one has ever been and the only humanoid creatures we see from the plain are the cactai people. So where’d all the bodies come from in the middle of no where?

Re: why is Thunder Junction wired into the relay network? It has a lot of stable omenpaths, which not all planes can say. Most omenpaths keep going in and out and moving. Because of this stability, it makes it a perfect candidate to connect to other planes.

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

It's a perfect JUNCTION, you might say! Which explains its' inherent importance to the multiverse!

@charleswacker7166

2 ай бұрын

I hope, If there are future returns to Thunder Junction, it will play up the trope of it being a place where people and groups can 'start over.' How cool would it be to see outcasts from Tarkir who want to restart the clans under Khans? Would members of the GRUUL clans want to leave Ravnica for a more welcoming environment? I hope there is a lot of possibility in the plane with Omenpaths to get more exploration time. And, the importance of it as a stable Omenpath nexus might get a certain Living Dragon Narcissistic Guildpact all bent out of shape too

@goncaloferreira6429

2 ай бұрын

@@jacob4920 so glad dominaria is the center of the multiverse. wait, no, ravnica is the center of the multiverse...

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

@@goncaloferreira6429 I feel like the Omen Tree rewrote everything (including depriving us of A LOT of Planeswalkers, which still ticks me off!). The new center might be someplace other than those two, just because of what the Omen Tree did. I blame Elesh Norn. It's her fault.

@goncaloferreira6429

2 ай бұрын

@@jacob4920 i blame bad storytelling.

You had me going for a second wtih the Stag bit 😂

Oko upon seeing Kellan: oh im going to emotionally manullate you.

I think what you might have been getting at with how huge Okko’s gang was and how nameless the antagonists were, is something I thought about as well… why not split this team into two and give half to Akul? Then you can even have a thing where you match up both teams in a fight.

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

That would actually require Wizards to have TALENTED writers on their staff. Which I'm not sure is even the case anymore. Maybe it was, at one time, but their story writing since "War of the Spark" leaves a lot to be desired.

Finally my only source for MTG set stories!

@Omegaroth666

2 ай бұрын

I'm certainly not gonna suffer through WoTC's attempts at writing. Ryan presents it so well.

That sponsorship with you dancing is the only ad I will ever watch so good 😂😂😂😂😂👍👍

for me the Fomori Vault shown in the card is the actual result after the fall at the end of the story. with Tarnation Vista crush underneath

I already loved Tinybones since I opened him from the first Jumpstart set. This story finally having him in it as a major player in each of the scenes was just the best. I love the little guy so so much! And then Rakdos is just like “LITTLE CREATURE MAKE ME LAUGH” and he flies off into the sunset with Tinybones on his back (after vehemently saying that no one will ever ride on his back ever again from leaving the vault). I just need some sort of Rakdos and Tinybones misadventures story and I will have had everything I desire.

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

Rakdos almost feels like The Hulk, in how strong/dumb his character seems. I feel like Rakdos used to be utilized better than that.

@charcharmunr

2 ай бұрын

@@jacob4920 Rakdos has basically always been, effectively, a character who shows up to be a big demon that usually jobs to sell the bigger threat (Kraj and whatnot, and Bolas, etc.). This is like the first time in a story he's actually NOT jobbed.

I haven't been following the Magic story closely and was so confused at first when I saw so many random non-planeswalker characters in this set.

I check in on the lore a few times a year and its crazy they never get better at writing.

@primedialga

2 ай бұрын

well, they DID change, just for the worse. maybe once the writer gets too good they fire them and/or they were replaced with AI...

What happens in Outlaws of Thunder Junction? Mark Rosewater picks 50 legendaries out of a cowboy hat and they're the bad guy avengers!

@trumpets101

2 ай бұрын

Instead of bad guy avengers, it’s more like Ocean’s 11 (but we immediately make it Ocean’s 13 when we add Kaervek and Umezawa). Throw in some other heist and treasure movie tropes and send it to print. That’s what this story was like.

Amalia and Eriette are the people who don't help on the group assignment but demand they get an A with the rest of the group

You missed Annie, whose specific power is to see through illusions, not seeing through Ashiok-Jace until convenient for the story.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

Annie has to actually focus and activate her power; it's not running all the time. She had no reason to suspect Ashiok was anyone else. She was more worried about Oko, and watching out for Kellan. Plus, Ashiok isn't around all that much in the story, so it's not like Annie even had many opportunities to look them over.

@xdavid00

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum I think it's a pretty minor nitpick. Annie was suspicious enough of Oko in disguise when he first showed up. I can't imagine Ashiok showing up being any less suspicious than that. But I think it's a pretty minor oversight, and can be explained away as easily as Jace making Annie feel less suspicious.

@magic_claw

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum c’mon. It’s a crew full of outlaws. She uses her powers the moment she meets Oko. And then innately trusts everybody to never use it again? Supremely convenient to the story like I said. There is a scene where she is introduced to the entire crew including Ashiok.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

She uses them on Oko because he shows up and says he just walked across the whole desert to reach her, and she realizes he doesn't have a speck of dust on him. So, she was suspicious. When Ashiok appears and explains their motives for hiring a team to crack the vault, she has nothing to be suspicious of. Especially because Eriette is there and pretty much vouches for Ashiok, as they have a history. I know it's a gang of outlaws but "honor among thieves" is still a thing and until Annie had an explicit reason to take a closer look at someone, she just wasn't going to. I'm not even sure it would have mattered - if she did use her eye on Ashiok right at the start, she'd know it was somebody in a disguise, but wouldn't have necessarily known Jace. So what would she do? Tell everyone else "this mysterious faceless person who hired us is actually somebody else behind all the smoke?" So long as the money is good, the gang probably still wouldn't care, right?

@xdavid00

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum Good point regarding honor among thieves. My inclination to investigate anyone remotely interesting is certainly a bit meta, from RPG games and stuff. And yeah, I agree I don't think it would have affected the plot meaningfully either.

This channel is the reason I started reading the story chapters as they come out, but I still always have to stop by and hear you go over it in one complete video

I have honestly been really exhausted by mtg, dnd, Wotc. And the whole 9. But gosh i just LOVE your channel. I will spend all my mtg money on patreons and stuff. I love that i can still find easy, fun, enjoyable content on a hobby that makes me otherwise sad. These stories are quite fun tbh

Great video as always. If I could request a topic: the whole 'Jace was always Ashiok' story beat is still very strange. I dont hate it, but this didn't feel like much of a reveal. Would you do a side by side lore recap for Jace and Ashiok where you (attempt to) interpret why Jace acted as Ashiok throughout the story?

@benjabin4268

2 ай бұрын

Like, how was Jace benefitting from spreading nightmares on Theros when we first visited?

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

That was the real Ashiok. Jace only impersonated Ashiok for this story. All will be explained when I recap the two epilogue chapters, which exclusively deal with Jace, Vraska, and Loot.

@benjabin4268

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum I had a feeling I misunderstood. Looking forward to it!

@RibusPQR

2 ай бұрын

Ashiok was Ashiok in Wilds of Eldraine, except at the very end. Jace was the Ashiok who let Eriette out of prison.

@jacob4920

2 ай бұрын

Just Jace doing more "Jace Things" in the Magic story. I roll my eyes whenever he appears in it, because there are always more questions than answers left in the story, when Jace gets done doing his crap. I really wish that character would have died, at the end of the Phyrexian War. But dumb characters in the MtG story are apparently immortal...

I could see this being a fan favorite plane, had they put it across 2 or 3 sets.

The story makes Kelan feel more like the mcguffian than the vault key.

Anybody else mention that Gisa does tell us where the corpses for zombies come from? She says something like "Dang there are a lot of dead people on this plane" or some other character does, my memory is trash.

@Volcano27

2 ай бұрын

can't geralf create zombies? and gisa then reanimates them?

also, don't forget that all of this only happened after the omen paths appeared; so post phyrexia. as the plane was mostly empty before, so they found the vault, build the town, dug a quary, and forgot about it in like 2 years max

Love these recaps, thanks so much!

Oh yess! I was so waiting for this! You guys make it so comprehensive

YUSSS! I've waiting for this one! You are the man!

Always excited for story time.

Thanks for the coverage and commentary!

Best Into the Am ad I’ve seen yet.

For a barren world, Thunder Junction is sure packed with people.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

It is supposed to mimic the American West and the gold rush, in which a "new" territory was flooded by people looking to take advantage of the resources and trade opportunities.

Love that you include the cards. I watched the video for that even though I read everything!

Thank you for the recap :D

Awsome video, thank you! Would like to see more about oko's outlaws in near future to come

Great work as always

I love to read the story as it comes out, and i really enjoyed this one! I also really enjoy watching your "What happens in _____" videos, even though i already know the story. Your videos are what got me started understanding the lore of Magic, and I've been watching since before you had your own channel. So glad this channel exists!

FINALLY WOOOOOO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR TWO WEEKS

"Somehow Jace has return"

@rennac3152

2 ай бұрын

And every other Phyrexian planeswalker that wasn’t scrapped

Thanks guys!

I love that this whole time Rakdos was more than capable of just soloing the Hellspurs and their boss but didn't, probably enjoying all the Chaos, I don't know if they specifically mention it in the story, but I doubt he's there for some monetary reward, Rakdos is 100% only there for fun.

Thanks for the great story telling and for the subtitles, they help many of us who arent native english speakers follow up!

Great video as always

I have been looking forward to this video since the new set was discussed

In terms of the floating vault Vs the art... Well the prison is mentioned being at the bottom of a quarry, and if you look at the art the vault does seem to be free standing over a huge pit except for a single bridge. My guess is Tarnartion is built into the quarry that is *under* the vault, thus the vault is floating over the town.

HELL YEAH NEW ARCANUM VIDEO!

I really appreciate your summary! It was well told and easy to follow.

@MagicArcanum

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Loveee story time! 🔥🔥🔥

Finally! thank you for a great video again! I am feeling conflicted about much of what WoTC is doing with the story... like, Oko loved his human wife so much he did all that crap in Eldraine and now just backstabs his kid? I mean, sure, Kellen is a bit too "human" with all the empathy and crap, but still... I also agree with the amount of legendaries in this set... what the hell is Marchesa doing there? did something happen in FIora? Can Rakdos just LEAVE Ravnica?! Eriette is there, then where is the true Ashiok?! sigh...

@charcharmunr

2 ай бұрын

I mean, the point of Oko is that he's changed and gotten harsher over time to the point that he's resembling the very people he once railed against.

@zachariahmerry2396

2 ай бұрын

@@charcharmunr Yeah, both his appearances include him going "Hmm... Am I the bad guy? Eh, who cares" whilst his mention in WOE where Kellan's mom talks about him has her go "He wanted to do good, but he was so filled with hate and wish to burn the world down it overpowered it" (and that was a long while before we get to the present where he reached full blown "I'll just do whatever I want even if it's pretty much entirely unrelated from my original goals")

@robjohnsonmusicandgaming

Ай бұрын

Oko took his employment very seriously; he felt any personal issues to be resolved would have to wait til he was off the clock. When he says he will come back for Kellan, while he clearly doesn't want to, I don't think he was lying about it. On some level he did want to connect with the boy, but also had no intention of ever helping him or bailing him out, and absolutely not at the cost of mission success. Kellan to Oko was a stranger with a connection that made him curious, and the potentiality to prove his usefulness. He expected Kellan to be useful and self sufficient, and then would consider opening up to him. Kellan wanted the kind of unconditional devotion that comes naturally to him from his father, something Oko is probably not even capable of. That mismatch, compounded with the opposition of their moral alignments was a recipe for interpersonal disaster between them. Oko lied to, used, and manipulated Kellan just the same as he would anyone else, but didn't denounce him until Kellan directly attacked him. Had Kellan just waited to be rescued, I think Oko would have returned to free him eventually and although he absolutely would have continued to use, deceive, and manipulate him, over time maybe Kellan could have reawakened some shred of empathy in Oko. We'll never know now though.

I have the time to ready it but im not interested enough to do it, thank god your videos though. Thanks Ryan!

Why do I feel Kellen going be the new weather light caption one day

There are but a few MtG videos I always look forward to when a new edition is released, this is one of them

I had a question while reading the story. What happened to Kellan's Wicker Hilts that he used to use as his weapons? In the story they say he can just conjure weapons and vines of magic, so clearly he doesn't use them anymore, but that growth is never actually referenced in story. On his card art and promotional images he uses very similar weapons that seem to be made of the same material as the Thunder Rifles across the plane, but he also never picks those up either. It just seems strange to me that the items so synonymous with his character design that were a gift from a fae lord on his home plane were something he'd just... toss aside with no explanation. If they're trying to go for a whole "he's strong enough now that he doesn't need them" then there are two instances in the story where we see Kellan's abilities develop, the duel with Akul and the escape from the vault. In both of these places he could have lost his weapons then developed the ability to fight without them at the same time he began cultivating his hypnosis.

I know a lot of fans of magic aren't very happy with the theme of this set and plane, but I love it more than any other I've experienced. I'm from Arizona and hearing some other creators refer to the plane as a joke or a meme really bothers me. Magic's planes are almost always based in a real culture. Khalidesh is like India, Amonkhet is basically Egypt, etc. But for the first time, now an environment and culture unique to my home is in magic, and it feels like having this culture and heritage be recognized and legitimized in a way. It is a unique and specific culture and setting, just as much as British Isles inspired Eldraine or Norse inspired Kaldheim, but many people treat it like it's just a cosplay or a meme. This set meant a lot to me, and really made me feel at home. In a game that seems to ever increasingly cater to people other than me, that was really refreshing. I also really loved this story, and it got me back into mtg lore, which was what led me here. It was a highly enjoyable adventure, without agendas or some social message, and it turned out to be centered indirectly around the character I most enjoy and idenitfy with. I will always look back fondly on this expansion. I love Thunder Junction.

Absolutely LEGENDARY recap! As silly as the story got, it had me smiling and laughing at the hijinks. Hands down, yee haw!

LET’S GOOOO! It’s story time!

One thing I don't get - why the double cross at the end? Vraska is both a successful pirate captain and a former queen. _She can afford to pay people for a job._ In fact, Ixalan makes a big deal about how well she treats her people. Also lost locations are bizarre to me, since this place apparently had no civilization before the Omenpaths (given that the vault is the ONLY structure from before then). How is there a town people have forgotten the location of with an old abandoned quarry? I know they're was a time skip, but it wasn't 10+ years.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

Vraska knew it was Jace the whole time and they were working together to get what was in the vault. The "betrayal" part of the story spotlight was that she wasn't loyal to Oko, who thought he was calling the shots but was in fact being manipulated by Jace and Vraska the whole time.

@sethb3090

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum I'm aware of that, but I'm just saying I'm pretty sure they could have just paid the gang for the job. Hey, the thing in the vault isn't for you, but we do have money.

@colinbamsey5262

2 ай бұрын

@@sethb3090 you could make an argument that them paying a group of villains would probably have consequences, because those villains will likely use that money for villainy but also, dunno how wise it is to start out your new life as parents with a group of motivated super murderers plotting to come after you, probably not great parenting putting your kid in the middle of that

Tinybones was the star of the stories for me. Basically every interaction with him and especially rakdos was great. Rakdos telling Tinybones one last ride was great.

It's my favorite time of set release!

My favorite lore creator ❤

Woo! Story time!!!! You missed a bunch of Wot in Tarnation puns tho lmao

Been a while since I was so early!

Oko seeing Kellan: Oh sh*t, child support has catch up to me.

I love that flavourful shirt 😂 #Elk #Abs for Oko 😂 Thanks Ryan these video alwais make my day so much better!

All this talk of vaults and keys makes me want a Borderlands UB set

This is how I engage with the magic story. Keep up the great work. Edit: New Ral could have been sweet.

@robjohnsonmusicandgaming

Ай бұрын

He's an otter planeswalker next set

@tersecwalsingham5778

Ай бұрын

@@robjohnsonmusicandgaming I think that's just an old ral skinned as an otter. They're in MH3 tho. 👍

Wait, so Annie and Oko work together, and the girl's a sharpshooter... Would you call their duo: "Annie Oko-ley"? Huh? Huh?

@rennac3152

2 ай бұрын

….and I thought the jokes from the Rakdos guild were forced

Annie Flash: I can see through illusions . Jace illusioned as Ashiok: No you can't.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

Annie has to activate the eye. It's not running all the time. She had no reason to be suspicious of Ashiok so she never took a close look at them (not that they were in the same room very often anyway)

This was probably the funniest sponsor segment i've ever seen thanks to the "look ať my pants" dance.

Story Timeeee!!! :D I wish we have a weekly story time vid :

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

For like three years I tried to do weekly story time videos (or at least 2-3 per month) and I quickly used up interesting topics without getting a lot of views. It was a fast track to burn-out, so now I focus on the big story recaps for each main set, and fill the other weeks with other content that is still story-driven (like my new series The Question, where I usually share a fun and thematic deck idea based on some element of the story or events happening in my own life)

@furiouschicken1

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum I gotchu. :< Its just that, its my selfish wish to have a weekly arcanum story. or even a daily 30 second story bites. I like your narration style a lot. :(

Jace and Veraska being back just like null and voids the struggles of March of the Machines

@thebigbucktheory5488

2 ай бұрын

Isn't ashiok Jace?

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

You might want to hear the recap for the epilogue chapters before you decide that.

Can we all agree that regardless of what it is or how it happened, the Wild West theme of the setting demands that the phenomenon that gave us Jace/Ashiok can only be called Reintarnation?

It sure is a good thing for annie and kellan that there arent any tree monsters on thundernjunction considering that there are lots of inkeepers

I think it would have been cool and added to the menace of Akul if the city used to be the city build by these dragon scorpions, and they were supposed to defend the vault, but he got rid of them and took the city. But yes, pretty basic story, but I fell the set is cool, hope the pre release is fun! Thanks for the resumed story!

Would love to get another video talking about how you would have written this story

This is the only way I consume magics story

The story was okay, but now I have no more roots left to toot and I'm ready for a serious set again.

Theirs a lot of hints it's actually Jace. I was cool to look back and look for the clues.

I'm a little sad it didn't turn out that Jace was still compleated and planeswalking around the multiverse gathering or tending to glistening oil remaining in each plane. Could've been a way to bring the phyrexians back as an ominous background threat.

Also, super missed opportunity, not having Annie Flash tutor for Fortune. That would a great Lone Ranger homage.

Tinybones was in the set, 10/10

Hopefully in the epilogues they explain how Vraska and Jace are even alive and normal, given they needed to sacrifice someome to bring Ajani back to normal.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

Yes, that's what the epilogue chapters are all about, and I'll cover them in a future video.

@isaakhyde8327

2 ай бұрын

@@MagicArcanum awesome, thanks man! Meant it as a critique of Wizards, not the video!

Live for the moustache minute

WotC: "There are too many Legendary Creatures in every set. We should chill with that." OTJ comes out, and 43 out of 271, a full 15.9% of the set are Legendary Creatures, and that's not counting the 8 legendary non-creatire cards.

@andrewfornes5320

Ай бұрын

Their current work is 4 years in the future. When they realize something is a problem and say they are going to change it.. it takes a while for the changes to happen. Like, the set you will play 3 or so years from now, is the set that Wizards are currently working to create.

One of my big concerns about Magic storytelling going forward is fueled by the Omen Paths and exemplified with Thunder Junction. What Characters and plots contained within Thunder Junction itself are we interested in coming back to? Most of the cast of characters are from elsewhere in the multiverse and not contained in this world. Their grudges or motivations are led elsewhere which means if we come back to this plane its like starting from square one. I compare this to a plane like Zendikar. First time we were there we saw the devastating impact of the release of the Eldrazi. We came back and saw what had happened as a result of their release and what happened to the characters we were first introduced to amongst the chaos. Then on a third visit we see the world healing and how those characters have moved past the events. Thunder Junction just feels like a pitstop for characters and stories. Perhaps I am being short sighted but I dont see the potential excitement for a story on Thunder Junction again. :(

@colinbamsey5262

2 ай бұрын

thunder junction is just that, a junction it exists to have all the main characters pass through (in rootin' tootin' cowboy outfits)

@Hundo_Mo

2 ай бұрын

@@colinbamsey5262 clever with the play on words there

The plothole that bothes me the most is what's Oko paying his team with to convince them to work for him. Most of the crew doesn't come off as "working for someone" type and even then it's not like there is some universal multiverse currency they would be in need of.

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

We know he promises Satoru technology unlike anything found on Kamigawa, and he hyped up how much of an adventure it would be for Rakdos (who was mostly bored with life on Ravnica anyway and wanted something new to do). For the others it is less clear. Presumably Geralf is there to study bodies and get new ideas for his own stitching, and Gisa came to make sure he doesn't die where she can't play with his corpse. Malcolm and Breeches are "in" because they genuinely like working with Vraska. Eriette owed Ashiok for getting her out of prison. Kaervek might have been hired for actual money since he's low on resources but high on ambition.

I kind of get most of these B-listers being part of the group. but Rakdos is a parvn and Kaervek is like an ancient dominarian evil guy.

I, as a lot of people out there, was turned off by the goofy nature of the set aka "let's put everybody in a cowboy hat for no reason" and "let's bring these people totally not connected to each other just because". So I didn't read it. But it turns out, the story is even not that bad (still far from perfect, but beggars can't be choosers in Magic lore community). Thank you for covering this story

@robjohnsonmusicandgaming

Ай бұрын

Thunder Junction is a plane based on the Old American West. When a character goes to Kaldheim, does anyone complain about them wearing thick furs or a helmet the way a Viking would? Dressing in the style of the plane is a totally normal thing in mtg. If your plane is the wild west, why would your characters choose to wear their normal clothes and look like an obvious interplanar visitor? This is just an example of people not recognizing the American West as a legitimate and respectable culture. It's not a meme. It was once a way of life, and still lives in the culture of the region.

At this point I've accepted that there's going to be plot holes in every set's sorry. Ranging from tiny and negligible, to gigantic and obvious.

In the middle of this insanity, there are a few lines from Gisa (can't remember if such was from the main story or Team Innistrad's side story) indicating that there are a "surprising amount of bodies." Whatever was on Thunder Junction prior to the Omenpaths (very likely the Fomori), they were prob so terrifying that the plane ultimately became uninhabitable. Jace and Vraska are playing with some serious power rn.

@zachariahmerry2396

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, in that case, I believe the amount of bodies was specifically just folks who got moved to the plane for the whole corpsipide thing.

More concerned with Jace. Why does he need Loot? Will this be related to Nicol Bolas? Like what if he wants to get his spark back so he wants to know how Bolas would have done it? Wild.

So do we even know how Vraska and Jace are no longer phyrexianized?

@MagicArcanum

2 ай бұрын

That's explained in the epilogue chapters which come after this story and I will recap in a future video.

I quite enjoyed the story - it was nothing exceptional but I found it pretty fun to read and compact, although I share the problem with the size of Oko's gang. I especially liked Kellan's interactions with his dad, I'm almost wandering if he couldn't have gone from Eldraine right to Thunder Junction (with the two other sets still in between, they would just focus on the actual planes and not Kellan, who from what I've heard didn't do anything significant there) and it would have felt more coherent. The epilogues though... Oh my, those were beautiful.

I love to think that Oko just doesn't want to pay child support.

Maybe the real Big Score was the gang of enemies we made along the way...