This story is sad. I'll miss Ashaya, and Nissa got a power downgrade so she would actually have to fight. We'll see how things get once Nissa meets up with Jace.
August 26, 2015 12:26 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #4
This is getting interesting though not that they have found that merfolk jace should be able to figure out something about the hedrons.
August 26, 2015 1:14 p.m.
Who wants to bet that Jace figures out the riddles and that's where the Jace + Ugin picture is from? He's able to deduce that Ugin helped make them, and finds him on Tarkir.
August 26, 2015 2 p.m.
JakeHarlow says... #6
How much of Zendikar will be left even if our protagonists succeed in destroying the Eldrazi? Or maybe Nissa or someone will be able to heal the wounds of the plane.
Anybody wondering where Nahiri is in all this?
August 26, 2015 2:20 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #7
I'm hoping that Kiora, the Crashing Wave shows up. Now that she has the Bident of Thassa she should be much more powerful both as a character and as a card.
August 26, 2015 2:39 p.m.
Green_Ghost: Kiora will show up. There was some art depicting her alongside Gideon.
August 26, 2015 2:46 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #9
Awesome. So how many planeswalkers are in this set anyway? So far there's Gideon, Jace, Kiora, Nissa and possibly Chandra. Am I missing anyone? Because it seems as though Sorin, Ugin and Nahiri won't be featured in BFZ.
August 26, 2015 3:12 p.m.
But why did she disappear? Maybe it has something to do with proximity to hedrons affecting the leylines (which I assume was how Nissa was able to summon and keep Ashaya around)? Maybe I'm spouting nonsense?
August 26, 2015 5:28 p.m.
Nahiri and ob nixilis are near the Eye of Ugin. Nahiri encased herself in some stone. They did spoil some ob nix artwork so expect to see him.
August 26, 2015 6:40 p.m.
GreenGhost says... #12
Are you sure Nahiri is still on zendikar because both her and sorin's ur made it seem like she isn't.
August 26, 2015 6:59 p.m.
But, remember, Sorin's hiding something about Nahiri. Ugin caught wind of that.
My theory: Nahiri finds Sorin, hauls him back to Zendikar. They encounter Nix-y along the way and fought him. Nahiri binds the hedron into him. Then they stop that Eldrazi incursion, but Sorin had to do something bad to Nahiri for him to cringe at Ugin's orders on Tarkir.
August 26, 2015 7:46 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #15
I definitely enjoyed the bleak and "doomy" atmosphere of this story; Zendikar really is in dire peril; I do not expect that the Battle for Zendikar block shall have a perfectly happy ending, but I do hope that it shall at least with a positive tone. I expect that Ulamog and its brood shall be defeated for good, but Zendikar shall be so devastated that it shall take the plane centuries to recover, if it does at all, and, of course, Kozilek and Emrakul shall still be elsewhere, terrorizing the multiverse.
How and why, exactly, did Nissa lose her connection to Zendikar? That was never explained, so I hope to learn the reason for that; that must have been horrible, as if a piece of her very soul was ripped away from her, so I hope that she can regain her connection, and, thus, her powers.
August 26, 2015 9:33 p.m.
asasinater13 says... #16
my guess is that a leyline was disrupted some how. maybe her closeness to the destruction, maybe eldrazi have started to harvest at a leyline which will cause issues.
August 27, 2015 1:12 a.m.
The leylines were disrupted, but it had nothing to do with the eldrazi. Ob Nix found something that restored some of his powers at the eye. It appears those are two things are connected in some fashion.
August 28, 2015 7:26 p.m.
asasinater13 says... #19
I totally forgot about Ob Nix. damn. I hope he gets his spark back without Zendikar actually dying, because it's a pretty sweet plane.
August 29, 2015 12:38 a.m.
I think he's going to die. How I think it will play out.
Gideon and Nissa encounter Nix. They discover how Nissa loses her powers (Nixy being the culprit).
Nix reveals his evil plans (cue evil laugh and thunder in the background).
FIGHT! (Ulamog may show up)
Nix is defeated; Nissa gets her powers back.
Zendikar dies, but taking Nix and Ulamog with it (Kiora and Nissa perish? idk...Nissa's central as of Origins. Kiora, on the other hand...)
magnetcrocodile says... #2
RIP Ashaya 2015-2015
August 26, 2015 12:19 p.m.