To point 1... not entirely unanticipated. To point to, boo. To point 3, mega boo unless this is a setup for him to eat ugin for a replacement spark to make his resurgence into the multiverse. To prior point, I'm with Barinellos... I like Saproling tokens and zombie tokens just fine but character tokens? If they're written well they're written well but if tokenism is the reason they basically never are.
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I had a bad feeling that's what would happen to bolas, really not a fan of people being stripped of their powers (but I liked the end of ATLA huh), but Bolas was still op before that and will probably devour ugin's spark because twins or maybe some kinda eldrazi shenanigans
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The Vraska part is a bit disappointing, but convincing someone that you didn't just pick up her Ixalan memories and prepared a brainwashing ahead of time would take a lot of hand-waving.
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ngl I'm incredibly skeptical of the book spoiler, especially the parts where Chandra's Triumph and Desperate Lunge are actively misleading the playerbase about the events of the story. At least not until there's a card for each of them depicting that they're both a ruse. But also the one where they just take a dump on half of the buildup they did on Ixalan.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"
Since it has been posted in Reddit without any quick MOD action, here's the full leaks scubbed off MTGSalvation...
Spoiler
So the War of the Spark Novel was released already in some countrys via Amazon.
This is what happen there, this are mayor spoilers about the war and all the stuff happening there. Do not read beyond this if you want to follow the official storytelling.
• Domri was helping innocent people, but when Bolas summon the Zombie Gods he changes his mind and swears loyalty to the Dragon
• Niv becomes the Guildpact thanks to the plan he left, Jace, Ral and Vraska do the job
• Ral was a double agent, he always was on Niv Side
• Chandra vs Dovin, she capture him and injures his eyes. He’s now blind
• Chandra blows up the Inmortal Sun, she escape before taking damage
• Liliana betrays Bolas at the citadel and the Dragon becomes angry trying to kill her with the Demonic Contract, Gideon sees this and he gives his Immunity to Lili in exchange for taking the Bolas damage on his body. Gideon dies, Lili Lives
• Jace and Vraska kiss
• Tezzeret’s arm is destroyed for a bomb then he leves Amonkhet
• Hazoret gives his spear to Samut and she let Niv Mizzet use it. Niv kills some Zombie Gods, but no Bontu.
• Lili controls Bontu and attack Bolas to steal his spark and kill him
• Ugin speak to Jace’s mind and says that Bolas should not be killed because he’ll return even stronger
• Niv punish Ral, Vraska and Kaya, then give them Ral should search for Tezz and capture him. Vraska should search for Lili and Kill her and Kaya should search for Dovin and finish him
• Bolas ends in Meditation Realm where he meets his brother
• Ugin tells that this was his world even before Bolas becomes a walker, and that he helps Niv to reborn thanks to Sarkhan who save Niv’s soul in a box made by Ugin
• Ugin tells Bolas that the gem in middle of Bolas horns is part of Ugin’s soul and he saw every step and mistake from his brother
• Bolas can no summon magic anymore, not even a simple spell to fix his wing
• Ugin takes away both of Bolas names, now he can’t be summoned ever
• Meditation Realm is now a Prision for Ugin and Bolas for eternity, none can leave or planeswalk there anymore.
• Ugin tells his brother that he’ll become this jailer for eternity and expand himself all over the Meditation Realm
• Bolas have fear, he’s nameless
• Ugin tells him now is all over
• Chandra and Nissa loves each other but let the conversation for later
can we deal with villians in a way besides sealing them away forever? Like letting them win? I guess its so they can bring them back if they feel like it. I mean thats why comics do it
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"
Wow, it seems like the book managed to violate the most obvious and well-known rules of storytelling! Basic things like "show, don't tell", "keep characterization consistent", and "distribute attention proportionally to the importance". Aside from being important in general, those particular rules are doubly important in the sort of a fast-paced, graphic, cathartic final confrontation that War of the Spark is.
It would have been easy to do a story where we get into the planeswalkers' heads as they more or less march on Bolas's citadel to stop him. That would probably have worked better than what they tried in the actual novel.
It's not even close to the worst Magic.book. I also really find myself disliking Professor more often than not.
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It might not be the worst Magic book, but after going almost a decade without them AND being the conclusion to an arc that technically started in Kaladesh but realistically started back in Alara, it left A LOT to be desired.
It might not be the worst Magic book, but after going almost a decade without them AND being the conclusion to an arc that technically started in Kaladesh but realistically started back in Alara, it left A LOT to be desired.
I honestly see a lot of parallels here between it and the Invasion cycle, so i can't say it's caught me by much of a surprise. I'm not even disagreeing with you either, let me be clear, it's just I feel like I set my expectations realistically given their history.
Mind, I'm aware I'm also being fairly forgiving of the book as well since I've a huge soft spot for Greg.
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) and Domri. Wow, much stakes was raised only for this to be the result. 
