7:01 "I trust the narrative team to deliver the kind of emotional suffering that war of the spark should have" monkey paw curls as slobad gets completed

@AsuraBoss

10 ай бұрын

I dunno if this comment was made before it was released but damn was this accurate.

Though I wish I could do more, all of the ad-revenue generated from this video will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross. Bless you all, stay safe, no to war.

@draknusdesderdus7506

2 жыл бұрын

You are incredible no matter how much you give. Thank you.

@maxryan186

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see a good take from the left these days, a weird number of people support Putin for seemingly tankie reasons :/ luv u

@levisavage6568

2 жыл бұрын

Spice, you mad lad....you are appreciated, and admired. On a different note, its bolas. Bolas Compleat

@starmanda88

2 жыл бұрын

You’re the best. I adore you and have been around since early on. The best mtg content period and the best creator. So much love to you spicy

@AClockworkWizard

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Ukrainian and I just want to thank you. All the support I'm seeing makes getting through this all the easier.

I foresee a metallic wasteland, littered with the ravaged corpses of a million elks. Amidst the carnage strides compleated Oko, the Praetor of Format-Warping himself.

@Ekair42

2 жыл бұрын

+1 "compleat a permanent into a 3/3 artifact creature phyrexian elk creature"

@K03LL3W00D

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah please

@Bluecho4

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ekair42 Nonsense. It would be +2.

@oggatog3698

2 жыл бұрын

+3 Target opponent and all of their family and friends becomes 3/3 Elk creatures

@jasondixon1196

2 жыл бұрын

Bold of you to assume he wouldn't turn the Phyrexians into Elks

"If Jaya does end up being compleated, Return to New Phyrexia or whatever is going to be a true nightmare set for Chandra's emotions" We're 2/3 on this one and we're only one set in.

@TheSpearkan

Жыл бұрын

We're actually 4/3 if we count Nissa now.

I'm absolutely convinced of two things: Jaya is gonna get norted. It would just hurt too many characters in universe as well as everyone reading the story for them to not. Chandra won't get hurt at all physically so might as well do as much emotional damage as possible. Ajani is either going to get compleated in the way you said, or have to be the one to end Tamiyo's life before she does something crazy like blow up a plane with the iron scrolls. Then, it's going to be revealed that compleation is reversible somehow, but Ajani will already have killed Tamiyo and it will absolutely destroy him.

@SomeOfTheJuice

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed on Jaya. If Ajani has to kill Tamiyo, I seriously hope he does it in self-sacrifice. Seeing him suffer so much after Elspeth's death, I couldn't bear him suffer even more by having to kill his friend.

@Pistolsatsean

2 жыл бұрын

Wow your version is brutal

@starmanda88

2 жыл бұрын

Dang this is dark

@julesbrass9411

2 жыл бұрын

Hey could we all like leave the big cute fluffy cat gardner grandpa with severe PTSD alone for like 5 minutes? For once in his life? Please?

@seanharp2844

2 жыл бұрын

Haven't watch the video just saying I love that you called it being norted Really pulled me back to "AQUA GOT NORTED" "huh?"

Spice: Jace will be compleated Me: You're tripping! Spice: But then will get better Me: Ah

Okay, so, here's my crackpot theory on Koth. Koth actually does get compleated, but not by Jin. Instead, it turns out he found Urabrask, who, having had his domain destroyed, is now fully against the version of Phyrexia he sees around him. Koth, not seeing any other option for allies, decides to fight alongside Urabrask, and accepts Compleation in order to have the strength to fight Phyrexia alongside the red-aligned Phyrexians. Though, it's also entirely possible this happens without Koth being Compleated, and we get a "Koth, the Incompleat" card or something. That'd be baller too. Okay, I just want Urabrask to come back, that's all.

@starmanda88

2 жыл бұрын

Oooo I love this idea! Very clever.

@rattlesnek3847

2 жыл бұрын

One of koth's powers is the ability to purify metal, and it's implied this is effective against glistening oil- I wonder if we couldn't see a two-face type character where he's partially infected but able to hold it back.

@kobyhaigerty3157

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that urabrask will have to be instrumental in the fight agains't phyrexia, and I love the idea of koth having to become the very thing he despises in order to destroy it

@PokemonKing197

2 жыл бұрын

I just wanna see my hidden boy come back, I really hope something similar to your idea comes to fruition

@jemm113

2 жыл бұрын

Or we see Koth or some other red planeswalker (my money is on Tibalt or Sarkhan becoming a new dragon engine) be installed as the new red praetor!

These predictions aged like a fine wine!

@AM-we1es

Жыл бұрын

No clue on what mtg lore is doing, how did they pan out?

@rinmathews9337

Жыл бұрын

@@AM-we1es All of his safe planeswalkers 16/16 were correct. For compleated he got 3/10 correct.

@TheThiccestChungus

Жыл бұрын

So far ajani, Jace, lukka, and tibalt getting compleated, additionally, Jaya died and chandra suffered.

"Compleating the mother of all omelettes here, Jace! Can't fret over every fan's heart and hopes for our game's narrative." - Praetor Armstrong

@Bluecho4

2 жыл бұрын

"Phyrexian Oil, son! It counters in response to spells. You can't cast me, Jace!"

Hear me out on an alternative to Arlinn Kord: Sarkhan Vol. He also shapechanges, it would be a Monkey's Paw sort of wish fulfillment if he was permanently shifted into a more draconic form given his love of dragons, and it would be a bit of narrative irony given his willingness to forcibly change entire worlds for dragons. The fact there hasn't been much done with him as of late and that this would give him some way to be meaningfully involved in the story again would be another boon. Also, the bastard deserves it for destroying Better Tarkir!

@mxz1757

2 жыл бұрын

Turn him into the first of a new generation of Ramos-esque Dragon Engines!

@kobyhaigerty3157

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of sarkhan, dragon engine

@firedrake110

2 жыл бұрын

Bring him back, we need to see him die for his crimes (enabling Ugin to be a card lore-wise lol)

@atalhlla

2 жыл бұрын

Sarkhan, Dragon Engine II: 1 Compleation, 2 Hands, 3 Dragons, 4 Phyrexia

@user-ui8nx8ul9d

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, keep my dragon boi intact: he's good at destroying planes, so he needs to be with the Gatewatch

Ashiok's lips : literally the phyrexian mana symbol Spice8 : "I hope they don't tho"

@jazybomber

2 жыл бұрын

I hope they do, phrexian Ashiok would be meta

@GodpraisethePALANTINE

Жыл бұрын

@@jazybomber **Ajani Intensifies**

Another point in Calix’s favour: his life’s purpose is to kill Elspeth, who just happens to be one of New Phyrexia’s greatest enemies and is currently pledged to return to Mirrodin and aid Koth and the resistance. Calix would likely be perfectly willing to co-operate with New Phyrexia to ‘bring her to Justice’ and even become compleated by choice; after all, from his perspective, what does he have to lose? He’s already a singular goal given form. Even if Calix does not choose compleation, his interest in Elspeth’s downfall will make him easier to trap and betray. Calix is also of interest because he’s a synthetic being who possesses a spark, which is usually impossible. How it is that Klothys managed to give him one or how through sheer force of will he ignited what shouldn’t exist would be of great interest to the Phyrexians. Furthermore, if Calix’s spark is in fact Xenagos’s spark that has been repurposed after being salvaged from Nyx (the neatest explanation for why Calix has a spark which also ties into his enmity for Elspeth, as Xenagos was killed by her), then Calix is of even more interest to an Elesh who seeks apotheosis, as part of Calix was once divine.

@bunnyben5607

Жыл бұрын

He's a synthetic being who gained a spark through the realization that his sole lifes purpose (collecting elspeth) was impossible to complete. Klothys didn't give him the spark, and we know that synthetic beings can gain/have sparks given Karn was synthetic. The rest is a good point though, Calix would indeed side with phyrexians out of desire to capture elspeth.

@heathermarshall2508

Жыл бұрын

@@bunnyben5607 both of Karn's sparks came from elsewhere: his first from Urza, and his second from Venser. While synthetic beings can certainly hold sparks, they have never before in lore been created already possessing them, as having a latent spark that a later stress could ignite requires that one be organic. Occam's razor would suggest that it's more likely that Klothys repurposed a spark (which has happened before) than that she was able to make a synthetic planeswalker or that Theros belief magic allowed him to become one.

My called shot: it's the five planeswalkers that are getting chibi art in the new secret lair, likely in the order they appeared in the promotional material. Tamiyo, Ajani, Angrath, Ashiok, Sorin. Four of them have strong bonds to family, so it will feel narratively coherent that they join the phyrexian fold. The last one, Ashiok, likely has awareness of New Phyrexia, by way of Kruphix's awareness of all knowledge held by anyone on Theros (including Elspeth). In the short story "Kruphix's Insight", it is confirmed that they share this knowledge with at least one prophet, Kydelle, which would give Ashiok access to that information. The characters are either well-developed to the point that we will care about them or under-developed to the point that one can justify their only contribution to the overarching plot being that they were compleated. They are all firmly centered in two colors (and therefore can use the "compleated" mechanic). Their colors, taken together, produce a spread of three black 'walkers, one red 'walker, and two of every other color--consistent with the color proclivities of phyrexians. The chibi art is a sendoff/fond farewell for the people who are really attached to those characters. If Ajani is the next one compleated, consider me doubled-down.

@JuniperHatesTwitterlikeHandles

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment about how consistent those colors are with Phyrexia's but I notice you already mentioned that, so I'm just gonna hop in to say this feels like the most likely option to me.

@kashiffarees881

2 жыл бұрын

Ashiok being involved with them is also supported by the phyrexian swamp mentioning something about a nightmare maker.

@mimictavern9593

2 жыл бұрын

I actually really like this idea, except for the fact that Angrath is one of my favorite planeswalkers so him getting completed would hurt like hell

@ARCADEkid55

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck... you're right

@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos

2 жыл бұрын

@MimicTavern That was me with Tamiyo. My deepest sympathies.

Dominaria United- Ajani was Compleated into a Sleeper Agent EDIT 1: The raven Man was revealed and it's Lim-Dul EDIT 2: Jaya was murdered, not Compleated, just murdered EDIT 3: Jace will be compleated in the newest set, All will be ONE

@hnjahnjah

Жыл бұрын

Dude what?! LIM DUL?!

@11epicnoob

Жыл бұрын

@@hnjahnjah that's what I've heard

@Nocturne989

Жыл бұрын

@@hnjahnjah It's not living breathing Lim-Dul, but a fragment of his essance contained within the Ring of Mairsil.

@wesleyackerman8211

Жыл бұрын

Nobody telling spice about the compleation of Slobad???

@11epicnoob

Жыл бұрын

@@wesleyackerman8211 I think he knows already. Mainly keeping the tabs on who he got right. So far though... Ashiok is once again nowhere in sight

Imo, Vivien could also be the pick for Beastmaster as she already has background collecting animals from different planes for her Bow. Also, her Arc with Bolas has already been... Compleated

@fidly4

2 жыл бұрын

Well lo and behold, New Capenna story has just started, but it's pretty clear you're correct.

Good lord I never expected to learn so much about Nic Kelman from a video about a far better topic. I knew his influence on the game was deeply unfortunate, but apparently his entire career has been deeply unfortunate.

Approaching it from a game design space: Tamiyo was turned by Jin Gitaxis and reps blue mana Tybalt fits red mana as you've noted in the video Ashiok fits black mana and visually plays nice with Sheoldred Ajanni fits white mana and the climactic fight between him and Elspeth is Metal Gear out of ten Arlinn fits green mana, HOWEVER, cheap shotting us with a compleated Nissa so that Chandra can save her with power of love is an equally solid pick.

@NemisCassander

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, my belief is that of any Planeswalker that the Phyrexians could want, Nissa would be the most important. Her ability to commune with Worldsouls could easily lead to her ability to hasten the compleation of planes by orders of magnitude.

@origaminosferatu3357

2 жыл бұрын

"Nissa so Chandra can save her with the power of love." Wizards: "But the international market....."

@jemm113

2 жыл бұрын

Listen, I just want Chandra to character-develop into RW, Nissan to groove into Sultai and for them to be on a card together in 5 colors. That’s all I want! Oh and for Tamiyo to be in-compleated, for the love of god don’t take her forever!

@HugBot5000

2 жыл бұрын

Did you mean the power of *FRIENDSHIP*?

We do see a few spirits on Mirrodin-see Emissary of Hope and Emissary of Despair in Darksteel-but they're as affected by the mycosynth as anything else on the plane. It's unclear if fully ephemeral life can be compleated, but those kami Jin was experimenting on sure weren't having a good time... Also, I think we can file Kiora under "definitely safe" just because WotC probably isn't going to compleat two green-blue 'walkers. Also also, as long as your devotion to Phyrexia is less than five, Elesh Norn, God of Unity isn't a creature. _(Each ϕ in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to Phyrexia.)_

I'm pretty certain one of the Kenrith twins is gonna be compleated and the other will have to fight them. Rowan seems like the obvious choice tbh.

@catherinecarmen3194

2 жыл бұрын

The issue is that if only one of them is compleated, then it'd be a waste of time for the Phyrexians. The twins share their spark and can only planeswalk together, so you need to grab both or else all you did was compleat just some random noble kid from fairy tale land.

@reubenfromow4854

2 жыл бұрын

@@catherinecarmen3194 but what if it works differently when one gets compleated?I really want this to happen it would be so cool! Especially because then Garruk would have a reason to join the fight

@Methus3lah

2 жыл бұрын

That’d be really interesting, especially since they share a spark. I could imagine Rowan being dragged through the planar bridge and compleated as Will is desperate to get to her. Compleated Rowan is unable to planeswalk without Will, and Jin-Gitaxias will do torturous experiments to try and solve the issue. Rowan would go on a rampage out of vengeful anger, possibly alongside Urabrask. I don’t know where Will would be trapped, but I think Kaldheim would be an interesting place. He’d perhaps borrow the Omenkeel and try to ride it into the Blind Eternities through the cosmos to look for his sister.

@reubenfromow4854

2 жыл бұрын

@@Methus3lah Will and Kaito team up with Saheeli to modify the Omenkeel with the Kami of the Spark into a ship that can sail the blind eternities to rescue Teferi, Rowan, and the Wanderer

@morriax42

2 жыл бұрын

Parts of Strixhaven foreshadowed Rowan going evil, imo, so I wouldn't be surprised if she joins up voluntarily for more power

Looking back on this after reading chapter 5 of all will be one, damn our spicy boy knocked it out of the park. Also, Chandra is gonna have a rough month this March.

Well that's 1 so far with Ajani

I hate how accurately this video is playing out.

"Five planeswalker get completed" Aged like wine.

Coming back to this video after ONE spoilers is fantastic nice predictions my spicy comrade

On Tamiyo, Completed Sage, there's a keyword description for Compleated that seems to specifically reference the new hybrid Phyrexian mana. That kind of led me to believe that completed walkers would all be 2 colors. Most of the ones you listed already are, but it makes me wonder about Jace, since he has always been mono blue. I got my fingers crossed that one of the Praetors dug up Dack's corpse, would love to have him back if even as a Phyrexian.

@natahliazaring5291

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, with Jace there was initially this whole "he could align with white or black, which will he choose?!?" meta-narrative going on, with Liliana/the consortium on one side, and his role with the Azorius/the guildpact on the other. Due to various shifting within the story department a lot of that thread got dropped, and he remained with the consortium while also aligning with the Azorius and the guildpact, while also never getting a 2 color card. So my point is that they could certainly pick back some of those threads and justify him as UW, UB, or even full Esper (or U with W/B Phyrexian hybrid). I'm not saying they will, ofc, just that the justification to do so technically exists within cannon

@SeanwithanSE

2 жыл бұрын

@@natahliazaring5291 that's a good point. I was just thinking bases on the cards, but storywise that makes sense.

@natahliazaring5291

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeanwithanSE I mean Jace was initially a lot more interesting of a character bc they sorta wrote him to be this piss-boy asshole that the story recognized was an asshole and who was being manipulated by all these wider forces....but then people started to really like Jace and the whole fiasco with Mindsculptor happened and he sorted stumbled into being the face of magic so they quickly decided to make him a bland Everyman with no character traits except "blue mage" and pretend like all the previous lore and the entire book about how much of a shit he was didn't exist...

@TremorRock

2 жыл бұрын

@@natahliazaring5291 i have no idea about the lore aspect of this but a U W/B Planeswalker sounds deliciously disgusting. I love it.

@Kraut108

2 жыл бұрын

@@natahliazaring5291 in the zendikar rising story he is back to being heavily flawed

I want Dak as a phyrexian only because it would mean he has been revived somehow

@pretends2know

2 жыл бұрын

If I remember the reason for his death correctly, only a copyright lawyer can bring him back from the dead.

@basicpigeonbee

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow, Dak has returned

I'm a little concerned for Kaya. Her unique ability to bring non-planeswalkers with her across the multiverse is something the phyrexians would love to study, plus Vorinclex has a score to settle with her. I'm really hoping she doesn't get compleated though, she's one of my favorite planeswalkers and she deserves more development. Also wtf, we had a viashino planeswalker but he was immediately killed off for shock value? Boo, wotc! I want my chaotic lizardboy!

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299

2 жыл бұрын

Kaya also has a special talent with Spirits which Jin might find super useful :P

@j.samuelwaters81

2 жыл бұрын

It would be a Viashino that gets Worfed, though

@joplin4434

Жыл бұрын

well you got your wish, she was not compleated

Nahiri can be a candidate. Story-wise, she did piss a lot of planeswalkers in her previous runs and she have a lot of bones to pick with many them.

Everytime a new lore drops I'm reminded of Theros Beyond Death and all the possibilities of that story and I cry on the inside a little

I think it would be a really interesting move narratively to have the phyrexians invade Theros, and corrupt it into a mechanical Rome type place. They already have slight Roman vibes with the conquest and “Praetor”, and you’d have a real life parallel with the Romans taking the Greek pantheon for themselves. A compleated Heliod is the Jupiter to Zeus.

@Elfarcher73

Жыл бұрын

Well..... you're not that far off

Well, now we know that Ajani is Compleated and they killed off Jaya, giving Chandra motivation to go to war with New Phyrexia

@elegelicaleyes2199

Жыл бұрын

Oh and that The Raven Man is Lim Dul

@elegelicaleyes2199

Жыл бұрын

We also know now that Vorinclex wanted the Tyrite and Sap from Kaldheim to make a World Tree of their own, so that they don’t need to rely on the Planar Gate to move between Planes, aka: faster Compleation of Planes

Notably I don't think any Planeswalker being compleated means they're changed forever, since to preserve the spark they have to keep the soul. Seems like that's leaving a door open for a cure.

@anthonydelfino6171

Жыл бұрын

Curing the mind, probably. Though I do think any planeswalker who is compleated will be permanently changed physcially since a lot of their organic pieces are now gone. Though perhaps we can see some of them getting an assist on Esper or Kamigawa to soften up the appearance with either cyberware or etherium

So if you need another machine-man reference in the future, consider Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Also, dear god, do I not want Ajani to get compleated. Ajani has been my favorite planeswalker for so long and to see him suffer more would just be a death blow for me. I'd much rather see him die trying to stop the Phyrexians than be compleated.

@ArixOdragc

2 жыл бұрын

Ajani has been sidelined and ignored for so long now, not allowed to do anything even in stories he had a direct connection to. Bringing him back only for the purpose of handing him over to Generic Villain Faction #87 would be the worst. And not in an "Oh no how heartbreaking" sense, in a "Welp, this story's stupid" sense.

@sewykik5004

2 жыл бұрын

Ajani’s compleation would hurt so much, but it makes sense for so many reasons: 1.) hes a very dear planeswalker, it would be a massive shock to compleat him (and it would show that wotc means business) 2.) it seems that elspeth might play an important role, given her recent revival, so seeing her former mentor being turned into her worst nightmare would be a huge plot point 3.) similar to point 1, ajani’s compleation would have a profound effect on the gatewatch

@GodpraisethePALANTINE

Жыл бұрын

@@sewykik5004 you are indeed correct.

@sewykik5004

Жыл бұрын

@@GodpraisethePALANTINE love it when wizards makes good story decisions

Major spoilers ahead! Do not click if you want to find out for yourself! Ajani is next to be compleated. There is a Dominaria United lore book released for preorder on Amazon, containing the history of Dominaria and the lore for that set. There were pictures of a couple of the pages, one of which was the page detailing the arc of Dominaria United, showing that a compleated Ajani will kill off a couple of our favorite 'walkers.

I will say I think that (at least from how it was described) the planeswalker's Compleation isn't the same for other creatures, because it's still tamio but like hazed over... Like a filter was put on her that distorted her into phyrexia's side unlike normal Compleation which to me seems more like smashing and rebuilding as a drone

8 months after this upload I want to say that You were right about Ajani, although he has been completed for a bit, because his card was called Ajani, Sleeper Agent. As for the other Planeswalkers, we don’t know yet. Edit: (got to the point in the video where Jaya is brought up) Jaya is freaking dead, Ajani had killed her, and Wizards even put an Obituary to Jaya in their local news paper.

I wonder if Ashiok could, rather be being completed, become a Tezzeret like planeswalker for Phyrexia (serving as an uncompleted agent). Ashiok is visiting New Phyrexia to get some new material to cause nightmares with but maybe once Ashiok see's the utter horrific beauty of New Phyrexia they'll be able to create Phyrexian Nightmares so real they even produce "real" glistening oil. This would also give Wotc an "in" on how to continue the Phyrexian story after New Phyrexia gets bodied because if Bolas is allowed to live in the mtg equivalent of a waiting room then I don't see why Phyrexia wouldn't be either.

I'm surprised how many it's gotten right so far

I want to see the phyrexians vs. Eldrazi.

@noahdepoister5610

Жыл бұрын

Both are all consuming, one for hunger, the other for power.

if the whole tez turncoat and jace gets norted thing happens, i could definitely see Tez sacrificing himself to save jace fully wrapping up their story together

I'd be so psyched to have a ton of walkers get norted and have a shift to a new set of characters. The gatewatch has stayed their welcome and I'm ready for a new set of planeswalkers to be in thr spotlight. That being said I have an attachment to Jace exclusively because I love vraska and she deserves happiness, but hey if they wanna break my damn heart just make her part of that arc it's a win win.

I feel like the cosmos elixir was key to Jin being able to survive the interplanar trip to kamigawa since vorinclex got pretty wrecked by it the first time. We also totally need phyrexians to end up on there's and subconsciously create a God, maybe of Yawgmoth

Having saheeli be compleated would be a great way to pull huatli further into the story (she is the best planeswalker)

Tamiyo getting borgified was so exciting to me, because it's the first time the story team has made me really feel an emotion since roughly Ixalan. I *liked* Tamiyo, but never again shall she exclaim with soft excitement "To the library!" when you plus her on Arena. Good stuff. Alsoooo she still has those scrolls that Emrakul tampered with. That's probably going to matter, right?

@lot5448

2 жыл бұрын

This comment has already been buried but I just wanted you to know that when you said "...it's the first time the story team has made me really feel an emotion since roughly Ixalan." I *felt* that

@endermeap6488

2 жыл бұрын

The eldrich moon story did set up Emrakul knowing about phyrexia and tamiyo’s future completion super well. I can definitely imagine her having a hand in defeating the phyrexians.

@firetarrasque4667

2 жыл бұрын

@@endermeap6488 I suppose that they are kind of competing predators, in a way. Phyrexia and the Eldrazi both rapidly consume the materials of the Planes, but Phyrexia does it via corruption and the Eldrazi just eat people. I wonder if Phyrexian Mana is even edible to the Eldrazi. Maybe it's poisonous to them.

@jakubremes7602

2 жыл бұрын

I have two things to say. First about a the emotionality. I discovered Tamiyo's compleation by opening Tamiyo's compleation the card from booster. It really got me. The other one is about her scrolls. Didnt she say, thaz she has scrolls with the power to destroy worlds, but is unwilling to use them. Without will of her own it seems like a recept for calamity

@knightofsteel2783

Жыл бұрын

@@jakubremes7602 see the terrifying thing is that she seems to be herself but devoted fully and utterly to Phyrexia beyond even her own family. She says in the story thing on the website that she'd do anything for family, that the Phyrexians are her only family and that if she was asked by the Phyrexians she would use those scrolls. That's the scary part. Asked. At least that's how I saw it.

After a year pretty good predictions

I saw a theory suggesting that the upcoming The Brother's War set is about the Phyrexians compleating Teferi, and then time travelling back the the Brother's War, to try to turn the war in Mishra's favor, instead of Urza's, and thereby allowing Phyrexia to be the victors. Seems like it holds a decent amount of merit.

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see Mishra finally get a card :P

@danvellone4053

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Mishra, Artificer Prodigy: "Am I a joke to you?"

@firetarrasque4667

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Mishra technically wouldn't get a card. The robot replacement Mishra would be the one getting a card. Mishra will be scorned forever, even though he has done nothing wrong but trying to stop the single most evil Planeswalker in the history of the multiverse.

You can't just hit me out of the gate with that Nic Kelman dig, Spice baby. You can't just do that!

@Spice8Rack

2 жыл бұрын

I can, and I never won't!

Thank you again spice lad for another great vid.

@Spice8Rack

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Holy crap you got so much of it right.

I was watching an Elden Ring play through but I immediately stopped and came here when I saw the push notification

@Spice8Rack

2 жыл бұрын

What a COMPLIMENT!

@S...O___S...

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spice8Rack And I have finished! I can easily say that the time was well spent over here! ... Although... If you'd like I can offer some insight into Lukka's character if you'd like... Lukka is my favorite Walker and I even dressed as him last Halloween (My Fiancé made a homemade Mila suit to go with it, and of course our cat was the Patagia tiger, pose and everything :)). Lukka's character hasn't been handled... great but there's a lot of pathos and potential there. His tl;dr is this, Lukka got mind-controlled on his homeplane of Ikoria and almost took over the world Skeletor-style until Vivian stopped him and booted him across the blind eternities. Lukka wakes up in Strixhaven and is immediately jumped by a bunch of students, barely getting saved by Mila the fox. Pretty much over the whole 'human' thing, he sides with Voldermort and gets thwarted in his evil plans again. My reading is that Lukka has three options of plot progression: A: (the boring) Lukka is cured of his more evil tendencies by the cuteness of Mila, becomes a Boros mage and sacrifices himself heroically. B: (the better) Lukka only has philosophical issue with the humans of the multiverse, not machines, and also has thus far treated animals as any Pokémon trainer would, a tool for battle. So he willing solicits the help of the Phyrexians as a way to power up his animal companions by the Compleation of Mila tugs at his heartstrings enough to get him to turn on the Preators and now he walks the multiverse as a half-compleated and broken man, seeking redpetion. C: (Fingers Crossed): Lukka's always been a big picture kinda guy and is 100% the MTG Version of Animal Man. My hope is that WotC leans hard into the metatexual stuff Grant Morrison hit on in his legendary Animal Man run, and Lukka, seeing the devastation wrought by Physis and the Planeswalkers (including himself) and sees that interdimensional itself has allowed ungodly powerful beings to uproot the lives and existence of indigenous inhabitant for their own game of cosmic chess. Thus Lukka's goal and motivation is to seal up the blind eternities and let each universe be, which leads us into the next chapter of the Eldrazi storyline.

24:37 Spice8Rack: Those are my predictions... Dominaria United: 1. Ajani Sleeper Agent - Compleated 2. Jaya - Ded Phyrexia: All Will Be One (Compleated): 1. Tibalt (In the Narrative) 2. Jace, the Perfected Mind 3. Lukka, Bound to Ruin Did not predict but Compleated 1. Nissa, Ascended Animist 2. Vraska, Betrayal's Sting 3. Nahiri, the Unforgiving

“Imagine a fully compleated purpheros” pretty close there spicy boy

I had no idea the writing was handled by only one dude. That feels like a recipe for disaster unless you have absolute faith in the writer. Also, really happy to see you’re doing lore again! They’re probably my favorite type of videos you make up there with that sweet, scintillating, ludonarrative…

I'm fully convinced that we're going to see Teferi compleated in New Capenna. My prediction is that the upcoming Brothers' War set is not going to be a throwback, but that we will actually be revisiting the battle between Urza and Mishra. New Phyrexians with knowledge of the events of the Brother's War will compleat Teferi and use him to go back and try to prevent the destruction of Old Phyrexia in the hopes of having better odds of taking control of the multiverse by never suffering such a massive setback. Less likely, but crazy enough to work, is the idea that the Eldrazi will tag along on this mission. I think it's significant that the first planeswalker to be compleated is the same one that sealed Emrakul away in Innistrad's silver moon. Giving further ties to Urza, we know that he made Karn from silver due to its usefulness in his time travel experiments. So if the praetors are indeed planning to travel back to the Brothers' War, it may be relevant that an eldritch horror with unknown goals allowed herself to be sealed away in a sphere made of time travel material by a planeswalker who is now aligned with those time travelers. Maybe I've got too much yarn and too many pushpins, but I think Brothers' War is going to have Urza, Mishra, Phyrexians, and Eldrazi all fighting it out for their vision of the multiverse.

I love that your example for the pre-WAR story peak was Rivals of Ixalan. I've been catching up on the story recently, reading the pre-WAR stories to catch up for Zendikar onwards, and when I got to The Flood... oh man. Literally cried. It sours it a little bit knowing that Vraska and Jace don't amount to anything, but it's still a legitimately great story on its own right. If Magic lore is back up to that level, I am stupidly hyped. And side note: I do get being burned by Magic lore. Slobad knows that reading Jace and Vraska's bittersweet amnesia ending knowing that it gets retconned hard enough to revive Uncle Ben requires some aloe. But I'm glad you're doing lore videos again. It's what pulled me in, and damn, are you good at them. Blend them with the politics by all means - the Yawgmoth video is still easily my favourite - but I just love to see your takes on the story behind our wizard squares.

If Jace does get compleated, i expect him to make a last-minute decision on whether or not he should induce amnesia onto himself like what happened in ixalan, or for him to wipe his entire memories completely before his compleation. Having him induce amnesia on himself would get us some spicy spicy angst-driven story about vraska/nissa/chandra rallying the gatewatch to bring him back or something like that

@Drilling4mana

Жыл бұрын

see, there's a problem with 2 of those 3 characters trying to bring him back now

@blucrustt_

Жыл бұрын

@@Drilling4mana Angst-driven story about jace trying to uncompleat the compleated planeswalkers via anti-hero-esque arc is still possible. Please let me huff this copium 🥹

Few points: 1) I have been wondering about Koth and I feel like his fate has been capture with his spark being slowly siphoned off and shaved off for use in experiments by Jin G. Probably used in the use of a new ingredient mixed into the oil for planeswalkers to directly go against the way that Karn was liberated from Phyrexia. 2) I feel like Tezzeret wants to be a phyrexian and he is being led on by Norn in a way that a familiar is to a vampire. 3) I feel like few Red Aligned planeswalkers will be compleated given the color identity of Atraxa. While Norn is the bad bitch, Atraxa is a decent screenshot of the color identities of phyrexia in general. 4) I agree with Ajani being compleated solely to see Elspeth's first meeting with him post theros would be her seeing the kitty mech. 5) I feel like Kasmina will be safe, but impactful in the story of the fight. 6) I can't help but agree with Aether Hub's vid on Teferi with him being used to go back and change outcome of Brothers War, but with that compleating Urza and to go back further to bring Yawgmoth to the present (so you have to do another video as Yawgmoth). 7) I have a terrible feeling (as in I don't want this) that Elish Norn will try to go WotS Bolas and become a planeswalker by harvesting sparks. Or weirder still, I have a feeling that theres a chance the praetors will go megazord and combine in the final fight and in that final form become a planeswalker. I really don't want this, it'd be naratively cheep and I'm not sure if I'd be surprised. 8) Arlinn makes tons of sense, but also I feel like its only one of her forms that will be fully compleated and she is trying to keep the non-phyrexian form (likely human form) to avoid corruption going into the noncomeated form.

@ThePaultism

2 жыл бұрын

Tldr: 1) Koth may be a spark in bag for JG 2) Tezzeret is Guillermo in What We Do in the Shadows 3) doubt on Jaya being Roboticized 4) Agree but add in a level of hurt feeleys 5) But what about Kasmina? 6) Teferi Robo Doctor Who Nonsense feat. A Eugenicist and Someone who thinks he's Eugenicist but needs a dictionary and a nonkink spanking. 7) Megazord Norn 8) another level on Arlinn

@ThePaultism

2 жыл бұрын

Also, I do box so the wrestling thing was ficking brilliant in a shit way

@ThePaultism

2 жыл бұрын

Gg, made laugh. Fun times had by all but Tamiyo

@origaminosferatu3357

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't even thought about the fact that Phyrexian arc means a potential return of Atraxa! Who wants to vote they put her on another commander deck?

@TheKingNaesala

2 жыл бұрын

I hope Tezz/Elesh Norn have the same dynamic as Guillermo/Nandor from what we do in the shadows.

Just gonna point out that the whole reason gin could complete tamiyo is because he spent so much time studying spirits on kamigawa. Dude spent an absurd amount of time slicing and dicing kami up so I really don't think Ugin is safe because he's a ghost. I think Ugin is safe because the writers don't think he's interesting.

@mangohub3252

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I don’t think we will see ugin completed because I’m willing to bet money we get a Bolas Ugin flip Walker card

Tezzeret having his own plans he's been weaving this entire time would be pretty legenndary. And I mean evil plans too. If hes been playing 4D chess this whole time with some of the greatest villians to benefit his own plans would be dope.

Came back to this vid after All will be One released. They were suprisingly close. Good stuff, spice.

I have been a tezzeret fan since his introduction on alara, and the story arc you outlined for him has been exactly what I've been hoping for since we wrapped up war of the spark. I love the idea of him either being played by norn/gitaxias and having to skip town and reluctantly side with the folks he's been working against for a while, or perhaps, since he is a relatively smart guy, I love the idea that he's been (in his opinion) playing the phyrexians from the beginning as a means to some larger end. Perhaps he's been working with urabrask this whole time to subtly undermine norn's efforts while waiting for the perfect moment to betray them and aid in their ultimate defeat? It may be giving the story team too much credit, but a long since disillusioned vorthos can hope can't they?

@luizhenrique4967

2 жыл бұрын

It's possible he just want to starscream the phyrexians, but he probably is already regretting that because of what happened with tamiyo.

@rennac3152

2 жыл бұрын

Was hoping to see Tezzy do more on a tech focused plane rather than just play errand boy again. I can’t see them doing him justice, even on Ravinica

The compleation process has been stated to now work on planeswalkers because they found a way to avoid removing the soul (which also removed the spark) when performing it. My hot take is that, regardless of who gets converted, this whole process is going to end up changing Phyrexia in unexpected ways. Note we still have the whole Urabrask issue floating around. By spreading out into the color pie and now doing this, they've ironically opened themselves up to "corruption" too.

@atalhlla

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been wondering that too. It’s fine that Jin can be all big brain and theorize but implementation of new things always turns up surprises. Or at least it ought to.

@joebobby8371

2 жыл бұрын

It seemed to infer thst they need the chip thing to do so as it steady the soul in one place to prevent wanderer from randomising and idk

Amazing video. I was unaware of your channel, but your appearance in a recent Tolarian Community College video helped me find your channel. Keep up the good work.

Yooo he done got one character correctly guessed, so far

From how the Compleating of a Planeswalker is described, I don't think you can really classify them as "dead", as it sounds like they actually arn't completely unsavable, given they keep their sparks. I know you aknowleded this, but still, much of the discussion here was based around the 'Compleation = Death' interpretation, and I think meta-wise, it's obviously a reversable process, but for who and for how long is what's gonna be the question. That, and it's been shown that red mana consistently can resist Phyrexia's influence, if not the Compleation process itself, and not lose what emotions and personality they once had as a result. The goblins, Imps, and devils of mirrodin still act much like they did beforehand, Urabrask resisted Norn's orders and will until Norn got sick of that and destroyed his and Sheoldred's realms for insubordination, and Koth has been chilling on phyrexia for years. (Plus, they added red mana to Gerrard, the surviving members of the weather light were all red-alligned, and Norn is mono-white, so to me, it seems like they're trying to retcon the whole "Eugenics good" thing the old story implied. Instead stating that Gerrard was, by Urza's standards, a *compleat* failure by not being pure mono-white-alligned, but being the one to save the day none the less, and that the white-alligned Eugenics actually aligned with phyrexia, making Urza play right into yawgmoff's hands (or whatever he has now). Basically undoing the pro-eugenic implications by saying that it was Gerrard's red mana that saved him, not his white mana that Urza tried to breed out of him, like most of the dead of the weatherlight we're aligned with. And with brothers war coming up, that would be the perfect time to introduce this retcon formally.) All of this is to say that I think Tibs will get compleated, but he won't actually be aligned with phyrexia and just go around the multiverse, causing trouble as a robot demon now instead of a flesh demon, and that will be the only change in his character. (Also, calling it right now, Sheoldred is joining Urabrask in rebelling against Norn, and we'll get a formal Rakdos "good guy" faction, since Rakos has consistently been a faction that, while causes trouble, also does more then anyone else to save their worlds. It would be the perfect revolting rebellion colors.) This also keeps Daretti from being compleated, but even if it doesn't, I think he's actually safe as he is currently the only goblin Planeswalker, and WotC understands that they need at least a few non-human/non-human adjacent walkers to keep that part of the community sated. Plus, he's a goblin. So if any multiversal artificer gets compleated, I'm putting my money on Sahili, but not before putting my money on neither. Now, on the topic of old walkers getting compleated, I actually think Nahiri's the most likely, as she's been shown to be far more white aligned then red, and also the whole genocide thing is kinda her entire deal. Teferi is too important of a character with too many plots tied to him, and Jaya is too beloved as spunky old lady. Plus, it gives phyrexia access to Emrakul, and, uh, fuck, that's a plot point I can't see being left on the table. And one last point on Lukka; the Strixhaven story seemed to be based on his card character instead of his book character, which actually makes him a former soldier turned blindly anti-Authoritarian terrorist, so I think he'll be fighting against phyrexia instead of joining, if he shows up at all. Although, I will admit, phyrexian magehunters sounds awesome.

@danielwappner1035

2 жыл бұрын

The thing about tef and jaya isnt that they're old, it's them being remnants of the OG phyrexia storyline, right?

@entothechesnautknight1762

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielwappner1035 Jaya actually wasn;t part of the OG phyrexian storyline at all, and while Teferi was, he wasn't a major part of it.

@danielwappner1035

2 жыл бұрын

@@entothechesnautknight1762 Yeah idk what I was smoking when I said that about Jaya. Teferi's whole history before the war of the spark revolves around phyrexia and the resulting time rifts though, isn't that so?

Tamiyo isn't dead, you should rejoice at her compleation!

@TheSpearkan

Жыл бұрын

Tamiyo is absolutely dead.

@FhtagnCthulhu

10 ай бұрын

Update: she dead. :(

@ArninoStorm

10 ай бұрын

@@FhtagnCthulhu :(

the fact you got Ajani, just man... Also Koth could end up joining the rebel Phyrexians

You were surprisingly close with your predictions! Good job!

Tamiyo has obviously been hit. Tibalt is a high target I think, he's getting Compleated 100%, Jace is probably a 90%. The last 2, following the logic of 5, would be Vivien and Kaya, they've been getting a lot of backstory and cards since Spark. Kaya has also proven to be VERY powerful since her introduction, and she'd be a powerful hit on the Gatewatch. Vivien is friendly with animals...could make her a new Phyrexian beast army.

Knowing your track record, I'm now very nervous about my curious girl Narset's chances. I'm not sure I'd survive that one.

My two favourite planeswalkers biting the dust :( I would LOVE a phyrexian ajani, he has a lot of lore and cards, but I do hope arlinn survives

I personally think Tezzeret, tired of being the secondary villain, may try to be the primary, possibly by usurping Elesh Norn's position, becoming the father of machines. It would be great if we could finally see him as the primary villain.

@rennac3152

2 жыл бұрын

Getting what he deserves either way, but yeah we’re bored of this

Spice your prediction record is as follows: dack fayden will live: false bolas gon die: false Domri is going to die: false Vivien reid is going to die: false Idles good band: true x96 96% correct (with 0% margin of error) Thanks for your journalism

@user-yw6fb8us7j

2 жыл бұрын

I meant domri live ;(

I find funny that was Lukka the one who got compleated haha

For what it's worth, WOTC's writing staff doesn't care about Lukka either. His introduction in the All Will Be One story articles was Suicide Squad short "And this is Lukka, the man who can bond with anything."

This is the kind of stuff I love. The first video from this youtuber I come upon, and I immedietly subscribed. Please post more cool stuff 🙏

Just fyi: Jace is currently presumed dead, after Marit Lage fell on his head on Amonkhet. It happened in the comics and also off-screen, so obviously he's gonna be fine, but maybe if we repeat it often enough he WON'T come back.

@Stratos134

2 жыл бұрын

Thankfully, the comics aren't canon to the card storyline.

@charliewright2667

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stratos134 more like sadly lol. Death to the gatewatch!

12:24 Hey, maybe Liliana could sacrifice herself to save Jace. That might actually go some way towards redeeming her instead of them just expecting us to pretend like she's been redeemed.

I cannot believe you called Ajani getting compleated, I'm still reeling about this

norting nissa attacks the gatewatch and Chandra in particular directly, and leads to some messed up ways to resolve the cluster War did to us.

I may be an atheist, but that doesn't stop me from praying every day for Ajani to be safe

Pretty sure the import of the world tree's sap is that the gods of Kaldheim can traverse the realms. If a praetor hopes to travel to another plane without being turned into scrap metal, they will need an analogous capability to move across "realms".

@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299

2 жыл бұрын

I like how they are using the Terminator philosophy of inter dimensional travel, ie: Inorganic objects get fried, organic objects, even Terminators in an organic shell can pass through unharmed. What I really think we need to see is Phyrexian sleeper agents appearing again. I think Elspeth is one of these agents, the fact that her weapon is dripping ''oil'' is kind of a give away :P

Really enjoied! Now a days still relevant theories!!

Liking and commenting to say I love Spice8Rack lore videos and I'd like to see more in the future DAMN THE METRICS SAYS I

Other channels have also stated their thoughts on this, but I wanted to hear the perspective of my favourite Yawgmoth cosplayer

I can't wait for them to compleat the most unlikely of senile planeswalkers, the true throwaway, one of the last unconfirmed old spark planeswalkers around- Grandmother Sengir!

@RoboJay-jq3cu

2 жыл бұрын

I'm unironically hoping for an eventual return to Ulgrotha. The idea of a desolate plane with no real natives and every creaure being brought there by planeswalkers has a lot of interesting narrative potential. Maybe even after a set like New Phyrexia to introduce some anti-planeswalker cards/and mechanics in a planeswalker heavy Stamdard.

@brandonbernard1570

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoboJay-jq3cu Isn't that desolate plane with only imported life essentially just Mirrodin?

@RoboJay-jq3cu

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonbernard1570 Yes and no. While Mirrodin does fit that description, its a different situation. Mirrodin was a created plane. Ulgrotha was natural until Planeswalkers messed it up. Ulgrotha seems interesting to me because the people of the plane both know about and hate planeswalkers, which I feel is unique compared to many planes where planeswalkers are either unknown or generally liked. In addition, most the residents of Ulgrotha weren't made. They were ripped from their home plane and summoned there as part of a planeswalker war, stranded with no way home, and forced to make a life in this ruined land, which has a lot of potential for stories. In addition, the story of Homelands I thought was really cool, and much of the backstory has a lot of cool ideas I'd love to see revisited.

Great video and very insightful. Seeing the paper background always gets me ready for unreasonably long sentences that end with wild word choices and an unexpected comparison that would normally have no place in a mtg video.

Spice, you are a hero and your videos are always an instant click for me.

AJANI HAS BEEN COMPLEATED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Let's recap: Spike was right on (spoilers below): - Tibalt - Ajani - Jace - Jaya's dead so I'm giving them half a point for that one - Lukka

Watching this now to see how it matches up with what we know and wow, that was very impressive, I'm gonna come back and comment after all the phyrexia stuff is released but you even got elesh norn's card name

Your predictions were spot on.

Tibalt could become the new Phyrexian red praetor, that would be awesome. We'd get a red praetor that would be interested in his job, or at least more into it than Urabrask is.

I feel like Ajani AND Jace is too much. Ajani feels more likely, since Jace is the poster boy of Magic.

@LinkEX

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was surprised by the thumbnail _and_ the prediction. Especially after he argued that Chandra wouldn't have to worry due to _Marketing Armor_ (5:18)

@GodpraisethePALANTINE

Жыл бұрын

Ngl, Ajani Gets Compleated, And Probably Teferi Is Next. He Is Honestly A Great target. Considering he can control time.

Wow, you called Ajani's compleation. Good job!

hope ur arms are doing well after the last big stream my good spice o: lovely video as always!

Well you definitely called it on Ajani

It is now August as of the time of this comment and Jaya has been felled in battle by an assimilated Ajani please bestow upon us more prophetic wisdom oh great oracle of MTG lore

Eyyyyyyy great to see a lore video again, your comments at the start about that bastard Kelman were spot-on

So happy to see you talking about mtg lore again