Where do Exiled Creatures Go?
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Posted on March 11, 2014, 10:33 p.m. by BoromirOfGondor
In the MTG storyline, when a creature is destroyed, it is killed. However, where does a creature or planeswalker go when it is exiled, lore-wise? Is it sent to an empty plane? Any other ideas?
From my understanding, it simply ceases to exist. It just is no more.
March 11, 2014 10:47 p.m.
But shit goes down in exile- Legion's Initiative , Restoration Angel , suspend, AEtherling . What about Misthollow Griffin ?
March 11, 2014 10:49 p.m.
There are plenty of inexplicable card phenomena. Just look at Steamflogger Boss .
March 11, 2014 10:52 p.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #6
Well, the thing is, as a Planeswalker, you aren't actually calling forth the real creature / person / thing, you're calling a bit of their essence through the aether and making a projection of sorts out of the combination of that essence and the energies in the aether. When the projection is killed, the energies kinda just float around, relatively easily brought back by things like Animate Dead and other various things. Exiling them, however, seems to push those energies back in to the aether and scatter them. It will take time to gather those energies again, hence, you can't access them until the next time you fight someone.
At least, that's my belief.
March 11, 2014 10:55 p.m.
turricanfan says... #7
I prefer to believe that they've moved on to a better place.
March 11, 2014 11:04 p.m.
Depends on the card. Swords to Plowshares sends creatures to go work on farms and return to civilian life, while Journey to Nowhere quite literally sends the creature off to nowhere. AEtherling goes to the AEther, while Restoration Angel may blink something to a place similar to purgatory in order to revive them.
March 12, 2014 6:52 a.m.
GreatSword says... #14
I think "Exile" is just a catch-all for something that's off the Battlefield, but not dead.
March 12, 2014 3:15 p.m.
Perhaps they turn into a little sliver of cardboard intangibly and inexplicably caught like a fly in amber, unable to affect anything anywhere... unless it is one of the exceptions...
March 12, 2014 9:05 p.m.
Maybe when exiled they are sent to earth in the form of baby humans. Doomed to grow up playing a game referencing their prior existence....
March 13, 2014 9:43 a.m.
I'd like to think they go to an empty plane, and its always the same one.
Imagine just chillin' there, being an exiled Glistener Elf , One minute you were doin' some damage and then boom - Path to Exile . You begin to think things couldn't get any worse. You question the meaning of existence when suddenly, an AEtherling appears. He waves, and disappears as fast as he came.
You, the Glistener Elf , stare in awe. What just happened? Why am I here?
Then a Restoration Angel drops a thragtusk on your head. gg, exiled elf.
March 13, 2014 9:44 a.m.
I haven't really thought of it much, though I do like v4v3's explanation.
March 13, 2014 2:40 p.m.
I was thinking about this last night and remember Riftsweeper
The flavor text is interesting:
"Beings of the rifts are not natural. No longer will these abominations tread upon the body of Gaea."
The name is also very pointed, it appears to me they go to a rift between the planes and blind eternities, which needs cleaning out once in a while.
March 13, 2014 4:17 p.m.
would this be the same place planeswalkers go while they travel between one plane to the other? there gotta be something in the middle of one plane before you get the other....
if anyone know about X men this reminds me of Nightcrawler's teleport ability he is in another dimension while disappearing
March 13, 2014 4:34 p.m.
Ruric that's the blind eternities.
flyguy says... #2
Not sure- I thought they go into the ther.
March 11, 2014 10:35 p.m.