After the Phyrexians are defeated, I think this would be a cool story
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Posted on Oct. 1, 2022, 8:56 p.m. by TypicalTimmy
Remember how Shards of Alara and Alara Reborn saw saw the shattering and reformation of the world Alara?
What if there was a set where worlds in the multiverse slowly collide. We could see it begin with mechanics of one world showing up in other worlds. For example, Landfall showing up in Ravnica and Mutate showing up in Innistrad. We also see crossings where specific creature types do not belong. Merfolk appear in Innistrad where it is very clearly only Humans. Dragons rage across Ixalan where only Dinosaurs exist.
And the setting slowly builds to the realization that many worlds are converging together, and it is up to The Gatewatch (or whomever are the new heroes) to find out how to undo these apocalyptic events.
TheoryCrafter says... #3
I'd like to see them collide worlds that simply don't have enough design space like Regatha and Vryn.
October 1, 2022 9:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #4
I am absolutely in love with Vryn, as many long-time members of this site know. Honestly, I have no idea why. We have such a limited supply of lore, but what draws me to it is the card Mage-Ring Network. The idea of failing leylines being harnessed, and that harness collapsing, just calls to me in an indescribable way. I really want to see what's going on, there.
October 1, 2022 10:04 p.m.
I think that is a capital idea. Mechanically, I love it when the story allows for WoTC to break from their little design boxes of: "we CAN ONLY have this mechanic here". Though it would be nice if they finally stopped using "Deus ex Machina" or "Golden Fleece" plot devices to pull that epic together. I would also enjoy seeing how they could twist one of the least traditionally "goodguy" color combos into a true protagonist.
I think in addition to your multiversal "Rathi overlay" scenario, it would be awesome if MtG had its' own "Weirdworld". I'm thinking, essentially, a plane where some of MtG's most unkillable, indestructible things go after they are Exiled-or where lost things end up. It would be like MtG's own "transference of energy" principle. I just imagine a bizzarre wasteland where exiled titans loom over the earth aimlessly & without purpose... Imagine some sort of wingless shell of "unmade" Avacyn... A place where you could say; "that's where that ended up!"
October 1, 2022 10:59 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #6
Courtyard Guardians
Creature - Dryad Wall
Defender
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Courtyard Guardians loses defender until end of turn. If that land is a gate, it gets +X/+X and gains lifelink until end of turn where X is the number of gates you control.
Perplexed as to where the sudden influx of bizarre and often alien creatures are coming from, the Selesnya conclave has seen fit to barricade themselves off from the world and isolate in a shelter of seemingly impenetrable defense.
0/7
Blackmire Abomination
Creature - Merfolk
Swampwalk
Whenever Blackmire Abomination deals combat damage to an opponent, you may untap target land or artifact you control.
"Zombies, vampires, feral werewolves... as if these weren't enough, now we have half-fish, half-man hybrids to worry about at our shorelines??"
2/3
Menace of the Sun Empire
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Enrage - Whenever Menace of the Sun Empire is dealt damage, it deals 3 damage to up to one target creature.
It had wings that spanned like that of a Quetzalcoatlus, the skull of a Tyrannosaurus and the armored body of an Ankylosaurus. But worst of all, it threw fire from its maw like Ulkutai, God of The Dawn.
4/4
October 1, 2022 11:27 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #7
Underworld Cyclops
Creature - Cyclops Zombie
Menace
When Underworld Cyclops enters the battlefield, create a number of tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with decayed equal to your devotion to black.
Athreos watched silently as a lumbering behemoth raged toward his kingdom, drawing with it an army of epic proportions. This army bore not any funerary masks nor had the tight and dehydrated bodies he was accustomed to. Rather, these beings were rotten and mangled. Just as they approached his gates, they all vanished, never to be seen again.
5/5
October 1, 2022 11:38 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #8
I sincerely and honestly hope that neither The Gatewatch ever shows up again as an organization nor that the Phyrexians are in fact defeated. Multiple planes converging would be cool, though I wouldn't want it to be any of the large fan favorite planes because I would like to see them get redemption from the lazy hack writing of the last few years before being irreparably destroyed.
October 2, 2022 5:52 p.m.
Kaldheim x Kamigawa = finally answering whether a Viking could win a fight against a samurai.
Fiora x Kaladesh = Leonardo da Vinci wonderland.
Kaldhamigawa x Fioradesh = Berserker samurai in a helicopter. Make it happen.
October 2, 2022 7:18 p.m.
I would love to see a new team of Gatewatch members. I don't have any particular connection to most of the current roster. Jace, Nissa and Chandra are lame.
Anyway, planar convergence as an overarching story sounds pretty awesome. Seeing other planes' mechanics pop up in the "wrong" places sounds like it'd be super interesting. Ravnica landfall (gatefall?) and Innistrad mutate sound fantastic.
I would love to see some sort of Amonkhet/Theros overlap, though. Imagine an Amonkhet citizen ending up in Theros and finding they have like 15 gods. lol
October 2, 2022 7:19 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #11
Foretell would be great on Theros.
Mutate on Innistrad. Hell even Meld on Ikoria.
Enrage on Tarkir. Dragons on Ixalan.
Landfall on Ravnica.
Aether from Kaladesh ending up in New Capenna.
Amonkhets magical reanimating desert pushing into Tarkir's Mardu and Abzan territory.
October 2, 2022 7:39 p.m.
My main concern here is the convergence of abilities in similar colors/factions. Let's say we have Ravnica, Tarkir, and Innistrad converging. This would result in something like Zombies with surveil and exploit, and the Golgari Swarm with lots of graveyard stuff and... lifegain from Strixhaven?
While it's definitely an interesting idea, how do you choose which abilities to apply in which situations? I don't see this idea fitting into a single set, so it would have to either be multiple consecutive sets or a non-consecutive story.
October 2, 2022 9:53 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #13
I suspect it would be similar to how it took a year or two of dropping Easter eggs with Bolas coming back.
Where we have a series of one-block sets, with mechanics cropping up where they shouldn't be. Eventually creature types on the wrong planes.
Then a full-blown invasion and that's how it is revealed.
It'd be awesome if the "final" set was like a Core Set or a Magic Origins set, where you have fully represented planes all jam packed into a single 350+ card set.
Storywise I'd say the "new gatewatch" would be Teferi, Narset, Ugin, Karn and Sarkhan. I'd say Tamiyo but unless she can be saved, she's off the table as of now.
But the thing these all five have in common is their agelessness. Teferi can manipulate time, Narset can to a very minor degree, both her and Sarkhan have existed in two different timelines on Tarkir, Ugin straight up reset time, and Karn essentially exists outside of it as a Silver Golem.
An awesome "villain" would be the natural state of the multiverse. Picture this.
The Eldrazi, it turns out, kept planes at a distance and would consume the dying parts, preventing them from growing and spreading. Without them, nothing keeps these planes in check.
So they begin to encroach upon one another, phasing between realities as their leylines merge and overlap.
So the way to end this convergence, is to somehow force entire worlds to stay apart.
In other words...
Reawaken the Eldrazi. Thereby turning the Eldrazi into a necessary evil of natural forces.
October 2, 2022 10 p.m. Edited.
I could definitely see something like this happen, but somewhat selfishly hope that it doesn't : ) Big stories with tons of important characters just never live up to the hype for me, and I'll always prefer a tight plot with fun characters and a good meaning.
And I can always be wrong. Maybe they make a big clash of world and it's amazing, but when I'm reading the newer magic lore stories, I'm definitely not thinking that they need more stuff going on. I'd love to just see more stuff like the "Note For a Stranger". It's short and sweet and I think it's the best thing that mtg has written in a decade, probably seriously : )
October 3, 2022 7:51 a.m.
DeinoStinkus says... #15
Niko9 agreed, I like big story arcs but we need more fun little side quests, and if they involve sapphics so much the better :3
DeinoStinkus says... #2
It would be interesting. It might be possible to tie it to the Mending somehow, and then bring back the rare, powerful planeswalker sparks and see what could happen because of that.
October 1, 2022 9:50 p.m.