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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:12 am 
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Okay, going to drop the legends here for now so we can talk about them:

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-Looks to be from Esper.
-Has an annoying grin.
-Almost thought he was holding a lasso and that Esper went to the Wild West while I wasn't looking.

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-Not sure where from. Apparently from Zendikar.

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-Hi Sidar!

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-Not Ludvic.

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-Things are getting...weird on New Phyrexia.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:19 am 
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Brusa Tarl is from the flavor text of Pillarfield Ox. Hope they include his beasty in the deck :P

Silas Renn is from that comic that featured Tezzeret's origin story.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:29 am 
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Neat.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:40 am 
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Love how Atraxa is a perfect embodiment of New Phyrexia.

Hope that new angels are forming over there, just as demons did in the old.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:02 am 
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Info dumps from Tumblr!

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Sidar Kondo! Gerrard Capashen’s adoptive father! Hails from the land of Jamuraa and was given flanking to reflect this fact. After his true son Vuel failed a rite of passage, Sidar disowned him. This unleashed all of Vuel’s hatred and contempt and started him down the path to becoming one of early Magic’s more well known villains, Volrath.

Kraum? That’s a new one. Ludevic however, is a name any fan of Innistrad should know. The necro-alchemist is responsible for a menagerie of abominations that terrorize the plane, and has recently been seen tutoring the young but promising Geralf Cecani.

Silas Renn was Tezzeret’s rival back in Esper. Constantly overperforming the planeswalker at the Academy of the Seekers, Renn’s talents are only outshone by his nearly entirely-made-of-etherium body. Even his heart is shiny new etherium! Nicol Bolas allegedly devoured young Silas in Test of Metal, but the canonity of that novel is…far less than credible.

Bruse Tarl is unexpected but entirely welcome! Bruse is a herder from Goma Fada known for his dealings with the ornery domesticated animals of Zendikar. His Pillarfield Oxen are easily his most famous charges.

“May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!”

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:45 am 
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Partner is interesting! I remember ages ago on the Wizards forums I basically made a prototype of it when devising cards for Altair and Lyra (my characters from Guildwars) though they could only partner with each other.

Also Heck yeah, Sidar Kondo. I remember he almost got printed in Time Spiral but was cut from the shortlist due to the relativley recent Konda, Lord of Eiganjo having a fairly similar name. I think that change freed the slot for Saffi Eriksdotter...

Bruse is probably the strongest Partner, but I rather like Kondo.


And then there's Atraxa :drool: I know she's an Akroma-esque salad of keywords, but still, look at her!
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I want the ludevic card now! :tantrum:

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And then there's Atraxa :drool: I know she's an Akroma-esque salad of keywords, but still, look at her!
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She compleats me...


I'm not a big fan of Horror Angels, but I cannot hate on that beautiful art.

Also.... I guess Elesh overlooked ha creation. :roll:

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Possible Saskia The Unyielding


Possible Breya, Etherium Shaper


Kynaios and Tio of Meletis seem to be pointing at Guardians of Meletis (Yay, more dead LGBTQ people to accompany Alesha and Oviya's wife... :thumbsup:)

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That Breya reminds me of some of those all time favorites Master Transmuter and Windwright Mage, but Saskia offers a window into what appears to be a celtic/nordic plane...

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Partner looks like it's going to be fun, and I really like all the options it gives you for choosing your deck's strategy and colour identity. There are 3 x 5 = 15 commanders with Partner in total, right? That should be enough to choose from. I think it's just a cool idea that no-one saw coming.

Wait, so Maro says that all two-colour commanders will be known characters? That's a) brilliant and b) not true. At least I'm fairly certain we've never heard of Kraum (that name makes me squirm, too). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's true for the rest, though. Which is amazing enough, just look at that Sidar Kondo! Silas Renn is a nice, deep cut, too, I just wish they'd found something better than Bruse Tarl... Also, all new four-colour characters means no WURG Jodah! >:( But I'm really, really happy that we're getting so many known characters this time around apparently, and excited to see the rest of them! If only half of them have the weight of Sidar Kondo rather than Bruse Tarl, it'll be fine. Oh, and I want to see more of whatever plane Saskia is from! Might be Valla if it's not all Immersturm everywhere all the time.

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Maybe it's the same plane as Second Wind. "Vindr" is a very nordic form, which would fit with Valla and Immersturm.

I'd bet the Immersturm is, as the name suggests, some sort of Storm. Maybe a literal eternal-war-storm that crawls over the plane constantly reshaping political and geographical boundaries by destroying what's before it and leaving the place new (if a bit wrecked) in its wake. So like the Roil, except it's all concentrated into one (moving) spot and the locals have decided it's fun.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:37 pm 
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So, what is going on here. Is Silas airbrushing his bots?

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Maybe it's the same plane as Second Wind. "Vindr" is a very nordic form, which would fit with Valla and Immersturm.
I could totally see that. That mage in the artwork looks like she could be from the same plane as Saskia (if that's her), and provided that they planned Valla as a 'proper' world of hats that they might want to visit at some point, this looks like it could be the blue aspect of the plane.

I'd bet the Immersturm is, as the name suggests, some sort of Storm. Maybe a literal eternal-war-storm that crawls over the plane constantly reshaping political and geographical boundaries by destroying what's before it and leaving the place new (if a bit wrecked) in its wake. So like the Roil, except it's all concentrated into one (moving) spot and the locals have decided it's fun.
Something like that, yeah. I imagine it probably turns people into bloodthirsty berserkers or something.

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So, what is going on here. Is Silas airbrushing his bots?

Looks so. Takes a lot of work to keep them shiny and chrome.

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Here's the full art for Atraxa:

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Overall, she obviously has the parts of the Orthodoxy, and I argue that the more "organic" parts of her design (including what appears to be verdigris) are from the Vicious Swarm as well.

However, I'm not seeing the Progress Engine or Black faction traits.

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Her tails take style notes rather directly from Sheoldred's "true" form (She's basically riding the mouthy crab thing), but Steel Thanes do seem to be lacking influence. Her four-armed structure is kinda Progress Engine (they love extra arms, holding moar tools) and her core breastplate is in shadow so it's hard to tell but I think it might be a progress engine chrome job rather than orthodoxy porcelain. At the very least it looks different than the casing for her arms that comes right up against it.

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From the info i am seeing, it looks like we won't be getting a card for Ludevic himself...

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I think it's just weird dress and blurry scan, but she looks like she has four arms.

She's the one we saw in the cool UR with Kruphix giving us our multiversal Threat-Down and revealing the nature of gods and belief, right?

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She very clearly has four arms. Multi-arms are a thing among Prophets of Kruphix.

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