If You Could Pitch One Storyline
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Posted on April 4, 2022, 12:44 p.m. by Niko9
So, just a random thought today, but if you could pitch one Magic storyline what would it be?
I think mine would be a buddy cop action story with Obeka, Brute Cronologist and Teferi, Time Raveler as a team of mismatched partners who have to police the timeline. Kinda like Timecop crossed with Lethal Weapon with Alrund, God of the Cosmos Flip as the grizzled police chief who put them together as partners, this being both of their last chances to stay on the time force, of course : )
Anyways, what do you guys think. It can be anything really. A fun side story, a big plot twist, or just something to solidify the fiction as it is. What would you pitch? I'm just kinda curious today.
FormOverFunction says... #3
I think it would be fun to let the oldsters run a story on all of their old legends, like Princess Lucrezia. It would basically be a recount of all of their old D&D campaigns, but could be fun.
April 4, 2022 1:35 p.m.
I would pitch a Return To Shandalar. Revisit and make a sequel to the original MtG game from Microprose. It had a simple story where you had to defeat 5 opponents, one for each color, and then battle an opponent who had all 5 colors. You travelled around collecting cards by various means and building your decks and card inventory. The game was a ton of fun and really embraced MtG in a computer game. Made for fun solo play when you couldnt get a group of friends together.
For anyone unfamiliar with the game, its wiki page; Magic: The Gathering. Sometimes called Shandalar by fans.
My pitch would be a new visit to the Plane of Shandalar and begin with a solo, new, planeswalker helping against a new threat facing Shandalar. But it would have to capture the essence of the game in the sense of the creatures, people, and environs of Shandalar. Would appeal to older players and be new and interesting for new players.
April 4, 2022 7 p.m.
It would also finally get printed on cardboard all of the cool cards from the old computer game like Necropolis Of Azar, Goblin Polka Band, and Pandora's Box. I have wanted to see these in print since forever!: Astral Set.
April 4, 2022 7:13 p.m.
MagicMarc Wait, I had no idea that the original MTG game was from Microprose. That's such a neat thing to know. We used to play Microprose X-com games back in the day and they were legit. The new ones are pretty fun too, but the old ones were so intense, and so crazy hard. It felt like an actual alien invasion where yeah, you probably lose, but maybe, just maybe, this is the time you don't : )
Sounds like a really interesting concept to go back to the game setting. That would be really fun!
April 4, 2022 7:23 p.m.
FormOverFunction That would be awesome to bring some of them back. I'd love to see something written by someone who cares almost too much about an old legend like Sivitri Scarzam or Gabriel Angelfire The storyline does not matter, because you know what, it will definitely be interesting : )
April 4, 2022 8:14 p.m.
FormOverFunction says... #8
Niko9 I wanna see Joven's Ferrets bring Joven's Tools into a jail to break him out!
April 5, 2022 1:08 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #9
I had an idea I was working out for a fan fiction but I don't have time to write any of it down.
It was going to be called Gods of Tarkir and explore the first time Tarkir had it's timeline reset, where the five wedges and warring factions came from, how the Dragon Tempest and the Elder Dragonlords came to be, and lastly how Sarkhan's spark ignited.
April 5, 2022 1:13 a.m.
FormOverFunction Bwhaha! Basically writes itself : ) And I mean, any ferret based story is going to be awesome. It also reminds me of Beastmaster where Dar would just get captured like every episode and the ferrets were the real heroes.
April 5, 2022 7:44 a.m.
TypicalTimmy That sounds like a really interesting story. The Takir setting could really use a prequel of sorts, for sure. I always think that you need a really interesting setting to be able to go back and want to see how it all started, but Tarkir definitely had that.
April 5, 2022 7:48 a.m.
I'd like to see a nature documentary type plane where humans are trying to learn about great beast while not getting trampled by them. And the villains could be poachers trying to kill the endangered species
April 5, 2022 9:34 a.m.
RicketyEng says... #13
Ashdust, yes Liliana teamed up with the Gatewatch again in the ongoing Boom comic series.
I would love to see a story where Saheeli and Huatli team up to build a new set of gearhulks which can transform between dinosaurs and robots.
April 5, 2022 12:45 p.m.
FormOverFunction says... #14
MagicMarc it makes me so happy and sad when I think of that game. I had so much fun with it (especially the two-player gameplay!) but I’m SO SAD that I cannot for the life of me find my disk. Booooooo. I would love to see a set give that place a visit!
April 5, 2022 3:43 p.m.
FormOverFunction: Right? I took a look for my copy of the game as well after posting here. I thought I had stuffed it into an EQ anniversary tin but its not there.
April 5, 2022 5:22 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #16
I've posted in the custom card forum but I'll post it here again. The story idea I was working on before my life was reduced to nothing but stress, essentially, was exploring the first time that Tarkir's timeline was reset. Since each world has a theme, and Tarkir had it reset via Fate Reforged, it begs the question on whether or not it has happened before, and if so how often?
The idea is that, originally, Tarkir had five Gods of the Wedge colors. These Gods were going to be named after the five wedges; Mardu, Sultai, Temur, Jeskai and Abzan. Or, variations if these. This is where the color identity of their factions ultimately came from - echoes of the long-dead Gods.
The story is actually quite simple: The Gods are in constant war, but never able to win. The God for Sultai devises a plan to win the war - partner with two other Gods to help destroy the others, then turn those two remaining against each other.
The Sultai God enlists the ferocity if the Mardu God, promising endless war and onslaught. They also seek out assistant from the Temur God, promising everlasting conquest and a return to the natural forces of the world.
Unbeknownst to both the Mardu and Temur Gods, what the Sultai God really wanted to do is combine their rage and natural forces to create beasts of immeasurable power and might to conquer the world and worlds beyond - Dragons.
The Temur God realizes this and defects, warning Abzan and Jeskai who form an alliance with Temur. Now it is those three against Sultai and Mardu. This is now toward the end of the story.
The Sultai God actually manages to succeed in their goal, creating the Dragon Tempest, which is forming and birthing the five Elder Dragonlords to destroy the world; Atarka, Dromoka, Silumgar, Kolaghan and Ojutai.
The story we follow is the rising of Sarkhan and Narset to stop this war from happening and, with the assistance of Teferi and Tamiyo, the reset and restore the timeline after the Gods are all destroyed.
And this is how the Dragons, factions, wars, Wedges and Planeswalkers came to be.
For it is quite literally the story of the
- Gods of Tarkir
April 5, 2022 5:49 p.m.
TypicalTimmy Sounds like a great layout to me! I like that there are five of them so it's always an unbalanced alliance. That's a good tension building device built right in.
What might be fun, and this is totally just me, but it could be fun to have a story like that, so big and grandiose, and tell it from the on the ground perspective. Maybe something like a traveling merchant who sees life all the people who live under these various gods, and they see all the trickle down effects of the political climate changing.
Just a thought really : ) I always really enjoy stories that juxtapose big world events with the small scale effects of it all, showing all the space in the same world.
April 5, 2022 6:31 p.m.
FormOverFunction says... #18
I like the structure that some authors, like William Gibson, use where they have a number of different characters riding their own threads through the story... only to have those threads SLOWLY draw together until the climax of the end where they all wrap together. Having a simple nobody in the mix of a story makes it exponentially more relatable. I wholeheartedly second Niko9’s motion.
April 6, 2022 4:26 p.m.
FormOverFunction I really like stories that do that, with the big caveat, that all of the characters are interesting in their own way. There was one or two books I read with a shifting narrative where I just didn't like one of the characters and was sitting there like, come on, lets just get to the other person, please...
But it can be so great. One of my favorite books of all time is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World and it did every other chapter in a dream world and every other in the real world, then blended the two very nicely at the end. The big reveal at the end made me have to go back and start reading it all over : )
April 6, 2022 6:05 p.m.
KasminaCompleted says... #20
Having so much as one of these incredible magical institutions actually stand up and help reinforce this interplanar restraining order .
Ashdust says... #2
This is probably already going to happen, but I wanna see Lilliana eventually make amends if it hasn't already happened in a book or something. Maybe rejoin the gatewatch, if at all possible.
April 4, 2022 12:59 p.m.