Why does nobody talk about this? It was the epic end to the new phyrexian storyline that started with mirrodin.
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Why does nobody talk about this? It was the epic end to the new phyrexian storyline that started with mirrodin.
because mtg is gay
It's not as compelling as the fan narrative that Jin Gitaxias is a huge weeb.
Because sucked and it was one asspull after another after another and the good guys won because the writers said it
Been playing for a few years and never got interested in the storyline. so I can't speak on why it wasn't popular storyline wise but I know both players and LGS clerk's didn't speak too highly of it, especially that japanese version of the epilogue box. I got one box and got tired of opening packs after about pack 6.
Japan does these smaller boxes for pokemon cards but you get full packs, this shit just felt like a cash grab with no meaningful cards in it (the epilogue boxes not the main MOM boxes)
It flopped
Because nobody cares about Magic anymore. They sold out to Hasbro and abandoned their design philosophy's to appeal to the normies and speculators. The game has degregated in every respect, so why care?
>Speculators
picrel! picrel! picrel!
Gebuz how I dislike that portion of the mtg community, fricking hell!
>Kaya kills Heliod by teleporting behind him then fights off Ajani
>Vorinclex gets beheaded by a random black woman
>Jin gets knocked into a vat of his own creations by a random black woman and eaten alive after he goes full moron trying to betray Norn when their enemies are attacking
>the Phyrexian invasion is stopped because they warp New Phyrexia out of existence with NotWakanda's help and Phyrexians throughout the multiverse go inert
Is that writing real? Jesus
It is, sadly.
Phyrexia used to be a cool setting, then they retconned pretty much everything and killed them off in the most underwhelming way.
Oil not working anymore is so stupid I'm sure the new authors didn't bother reading old stories to be coherent.
Praetors used to be war machines that could threaten a whole plane, then they turned into clowns that get killed by literally whos.
The avengers going to new phyrexia to destroy the tree, only to change idea at the end just because made zero sense.
Oil used to be an unstoppable plague, now it's something counterable by everything.
I could go on and shit on this story for ages, cause they really didn't try at all, and they were too scared to kill most of the compleated pws.
The only interesting idea was wrenn fusing with the worldbreaker.
Also old magic's lore is kino, even if the stories themselves are not always good. Still miles ahead the current age though.
If you like magic lore check out elric
my favorite things is that we got an eldrazi invasion in eldritch moon, and were finally wrapped up with that particular multiplanar invasion, and then bolas shows back up with a second, different multiplanar invasion, and then we wrap that up and then the phyrexians come back with a third, even MORE multiplanar invasion and then we wrap that up. It's like theyre trying to fricking speedrun unfinished storylines
So brave and stunning!
>that avengers looking box art
puke. Magic was supposed to be fantasy
The point where the suits decided that the game needed to ape the MCU was when things really started going downhill.
Is only going to be a thread for the same complains while people circlejerk each other for not liking it, what's even the point.
People care about the story?
Never really heard or seen anyone talk about the story, even online. I always assumed the story was such an afterthought to the game, like they come up with a bunch of card ideas and then toss together some plot last minute.
No one has really cared about the story for years. Its been shit since before Kaladesh
You have to be 18 to post here, zoomers.
>You have to take le shitty card game lore seriously!
You accuse others of being underage yet you're literally a namegay.
It was a really fun draft set but the plot was fricking stupid.
It was a wet fart storywise, aesthetically and mechanically.
We both know it was a full on shart.
It has been said a million times already but having the phyrexians both invade and get defeated in a single set was a huge mistake.
Also the fact that this was supposed to be some world shattering event but it's only barely refferenced on a single card in the next set.
>not fun from a story prospective
>not fun from a gameplay prospective
Boy I sure do love Convoke going from G to U! Boy I sure hope all those oil and toxic counters matter cards from ONE don't become utterly worthless because Wizards decided to instead make Phyrexian a tokens matter instead! Boy I sure hope the phyrexians don't get punted out by literal children!
It was extremely underwhelming as a conclusion to a storyline that began over 10 years ago. Even the designers themselves have admitted that they should have done two sets, one with the phyrexians having the upper hand and the second one with the good guys turning the tide.
>extremely underwhelming as a conclusion to a storyline that began over 10 years ago
>new authors didn't bother reading old stories to be coherent
>theyre trying to fricking speedrun unfinished storylines
>lack of effort and care
All this. Too much done too quick, bad pacing and writing. Not sure if WotC bothers storyboarding, but it was like they just phoned it in. It seems like they do everything half-assed or rushed, just like game balance lately. Short-term thinking, not long-term brand management. And they count on people having short attention spans.
I hope they just kill off every Shitwalker so they stop with this Avengers bullshit and just focus on the planes.
They'll just never recapture the magic of old mtg storylines. No matter how amateurish the writing was back then the story beats were so bonkers that you couldn't help but love them. Nowaday's the writing is still bad but the stories themselves are just milquetoast MCU shit.
nuPhyrexia is dogshit, that's why. Literally no one that read the old phyrexian lore cares or has cared about these mental morons.
>straightens your gays
Story had already gone to shit but leave it to wizards to not even be able to be woke all the way
literally le avengers slop, i dont want a "plot" on my cards, just cool monsters, the plot is im butthole wizards that trow rats at the other wizards cojuring giga homie dragons
>What if we ripped off Endgame like 6 years after it was culturally relevant and execute 100 times more lazily
Literally one of the most unimaginative things theyve ever done. And thats fricking saying something.
>Every big fight in a story an endgame ripoff
WotC milked the cow dry in the last 3 years and fewer people give a shit.
Two main reasons
First is the meta reason, sets come out so fricking fast now that like a week after this storyline ended they were already hyping us up for the next set that was unrelated to the plotline. Unlike when the plotline started, there wasn't a period of a couple months to digest everything, it was "Get your shit and get out"
Second and more importantly, the actual resolution sucked so much ass it was unbelievable. An entire resolution built off of asspulls, retcons and bad writing. I understand magic's storyline has never been high art, but good lord.
Who ultimately got the big climactic showdown with Vorinclex? He's one of the five main Phyrexian villains, so it's someone important right? Maybe Kaya, who failed to kill him once, and therefore would make sense for a rematch? Maybe Garruk, an iconic Green planeswalker who was recently freed from his curse, to help herald in his redemption? Koth or Elspeth, planeswalkers with direct grudges against Phyrexia?
Or maybe they went for something other than a planeswalker. Maybe one of the gods from Kaldheim, as revenge for his original invasion and theft? Perhaps a legendary monster hunter from Innistrad? Maybe Rakdos, for his track record of dealing with evolution-obsessed mutants?
Or was it some literal who no-name, Demonstrating a complete lack of effort and care, and the overall collosal failures in writing that permeate the entire set and its storyline? Because that'd be pretty embarrassing and might explain why anyone who ever had one shred of care about MtG's lore or storyline would consider it a slap in the face rather than a satisfying conclusion. Imagine having a game with over 30 years of history and not even being able to think of one named character who would be suited to defeat one of the five named villains in your big multiverse-wide invasion story.
And even if that were true and they had royally fricked up that hard, at least there surely wouldn't be more than one praetor who met such an embarrassing and anticlimactic fate.