MS; Trust
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Posted on April 5, 2017, 12:42 p.m. by AgentGreen
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/trust-2017-04-05
The story focuses on Gideon; as evidence by his PW card spoiled. He thought he was prepared for alot of Amonket, but Gods? Why are they here and are they simply pawns to Bolas?
Read on to find out
I wonder who the fugitive is. Someone with a dormant spark? Just some random person?
April 5, 2017 1:08 p.m.
AgentGreen says... #4
My concern is how Gids is acting. He seems to fixated on the Gods he's blind to realize that these are likely Bolas's creation
April 5, 2017 1:12 p.m.
Bolas' return with bring about an 'hour of devastation'? hmmmm
April 5, 2017 1:30 p.m.
AgentGreen says... #6
Called it! Bolas will not be in this set but the next one; to signal his return.
April 5, 2017 1:36 p.m.
AgentGreen: I think Gideon's aware of that possibility, but he is (mentally) blinded by the sight of Oketra.
April 5, 2017 1:53 p.m. Edited.
RicketyEng says... #8
I think it would be plausible that the people of Amonkhet are unwittingly training themselves to be Bolas's army for invading other planes. They spend their lives training to take on the five trials in order to prove themselves worthy of an afterlife as one of the annointed. The entire thing could be a giant war machine. All Bolas finally needs is some way to transport his army of mummies to another plane, but the Gatewatch has delayed (one of) his plans for that by defeating Tezzeret and destroying the Planar Bridge.
I have limited knowledge of the older lore, but I get the sense that planes which are lacking in one or more colours of mana are unstable. Bolas would be clever enough to know something like this I'm sure. Therefore when he was creating his own plane he would know that he couldn't focus too much on the colours he is aligned with, but that it would need a balance of all five colours.
An army of mummified creatures each of which had passed a trial for each colour of mana would indeed make a powerful and well-rounded army.
April 5, 2017 3:09 p.m.
RicketyEng, You are correct.
In pre-mending lore a planeswalker had the power to create planes, but most just created planes using one color of mana that appealed to them, which would make the plane inherently unstable and would require the planeswalker's (or an equally powerful being's) constant attention to maintain. This is why Serra and Yawgmoth would sleep for centuries in Serra's Realm and Phyrexia, and why Serra's Realm fell apart after she left.
If Bolas wanted a plane that he could leave without causing problems he'd need all 5 colors of mana. Also pre-mending planeswalkers were capable of casting any color of spell regardless of alignment, so he'd definitely be capable of using White or Green mana.
April 5, 2017 5:49 p.m.
AgentGreen says... #10
Would that imply that this Bolas will be a 5-color walker? He's only UBR iirc
April 5, 2017 6:30 p.m.
AgentGreen, No, it just means that before the Time Spiral block, Planeswalkers were powerful enough that they could cast whatever color of magic they liked. There are many instances of Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury casting Red and Black spells for example.
Nicol Bolas has always been Grixis colors. It's just that before the Mending it was canon that he could use White and Green mana. That doesn't mean he's going to be printed as any time soon (see: ever).
April 5, 2017 9:12 p.m.
bennybubbles says... #13
So does anyone else think that Gideon might die before the block is over, since his PW card is Gideon of the Trials and the ultimate fate of anyone who completes the Trials of the Five Gods is to be personally killed by Hezoret in preparation for the afterlife granted when the God-Pharoah returns?
April 5, 2017 9:38 p.m.
I urge you to watch the trailer, especially at the end.
I need not to respond with anything else.
April 5, 2017 9:41 p.m.
RicketyEng says... #15
I would have to sift through the story, but I think I picked up on another point somewhere that might foreshadow Gideon's death. When it comes to people who like or dislike the Gatewatch, I'm definitely in the camp that likes them and I'm ok if no one gets killed off. There are cooler ways to write people out of stories anyway (like imprisoning them in stone). However, I'm not so naive to think the Gatewatch can do no wrong or could/should never lose. There has already been enough foreshadowing of their impending defeat that even I couldn't miss it.
As I was writing the above I went back to the story page and remembered the other foreshadowing of Gideon befalling some ill fate: the emblem from Gideon of the Trials suggests that while he is on the team the Gatewatch won't lose. But if you take him out of the picture...
April 6, 2017 9:02 a.m.
Gideon won't be axed so easily in the long-run. If you recall back in "Promised End," Gideon "confronted" Erebos again, which foreshadows a return to Theros.
What I'm saying is that Gideon won't be axed until we return to Theros. With Ajani's crusade, and Gideon's Renewed Faith, I'd think it would add to that story further down the line. You really need Gideon to complete the Theros 2.0 story.
April 6, 2017 9:13 a.m.
I really hope so. I'm tired of them eliminating the white planeswalkers. Looking forward to the death of a black planeswalker... aha
DeathChant17 says... #2
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April 5, 2017 1:01 p.m.