The Unknown Side of MTG: The History of Planeswalkers and The Great Mending
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- While Planeswalkers are certainly one of Magic’s most iconic ideas, it’s hard to say that their powers and abilities have been all that consistent throughout the years. The one detail that is always consistent is the fact that they are powerful mages who can travel between different planes of reality through the aether-space known as The Blind Eternities thanks to a power called a Spark. Beyond this there have been both retcons and in-universe changes to how Planeswalkers work at various points throughout the game’s lore. In fact the nature of what a planeswalker can do has been a throughline in Magic story since its earliest days and has even played a key factor in some of the most recent story beats in Magic the Gathering. This video will not cover all of the story beats in great detail, but instead aims to track the development of Planeswalkers in the lore and how major story events have forever changed what it means to be a Planeswalker.
Script by Uncrowned Jules
Editing by Pumkinswift
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(Just a note, we have people who actually know the game very well making the scripts for this channel. As the owner of the channel (Theduellogs/hirumaredx) is a total newbie to the game.)
It was the Pinkertons. WotC sent them after Planeswalkers to take their Sparks.
You could do a whole series on Planeswalker Profiles that talk about their stories. A lot of them are super interesting.
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Zhalfir actually phased out of existence because of Teferi’s attempt at protecting it from the phyrexians
Urza in a nutshell: "You haven't seen anything, it's about to get worse."
as someone who started playing magic like a year ago I love these videos explaining important story parts bit by bit
I liked the stories around the Weatherlight crew more than the Jacestice League. I personally think it fits Magic more to have "human" and swashbuckling characters like Sisay and Gerrard than almight superbeings.
I still like Planeswalkers, but I'm glad the lore will not focus too much on them in the future.
I wouldn't mind seeing more episodes about specific Planeswalkers. I also want to know if Planeswalkers have ever encountered Eldrazi or how Planewalkers stack up against them. The lore on the cards seems to imply that if a big Eldrazi shows up in your neck of the woods you can just kiss existence goodbye.
The planewalkers are the protagonist of magic so of course they have encountered the eldrazi numerous times
Planeswalker played a huge role in the Eldrazi storyline. I remember specifically Jace and Ugin had roles.
Most of the main planeswalkers went to war with the eldrazi in their last major appearance.
@@tyrusconleyUgin, together with Nahiri and Sorin imprisoned the Eldrazi on Zendikar.
What Jace did I do not know however.
@@malakimphoros2164 Jace was involved with Ugin releasing the Eldrazi on Zendikar.
ok i just have to ask do you intentionally misspronounce certain names and events in magic or is it by accident
Yeah, he does it on purpose to boost engagement.
Just to add. What happened to Planeswalkers losing their sparks after New Phyrexia's invasion is officially referred to as the Great Pruning.
The official reason for this change in lore is because Wizards of the Coast wants Magic to focus heavily on Commander, so the story reflects on that. So the majority of the story will now mostly focus on beings who are not Planeswalkers. We'll see Planeswalkers like Chandra of course, but the story will not revolve around them entirely.
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Just to help out, Jhiora's name is pronounced Joy-rah
I love how he mispronounces so many MTG cards lol. And "not playing the game" doesn't really excuse majority of the mispronunciations, as most don't even require you to know anything about the game in order to be able to pronounce them phonetically in the way that they're written
And Lilian-A.
It's engagement bait
@@nolanknarr1299 I hate that you're correct about that. Manipulated...
This is only funny cause an episode of um actually queued as I was reading this. 😂😂😂
Man Magic lore could be so much more interesting if there was time to explore each set. I thought the Phyrexian thing would be a massive event but Nope
Gotta get it over with because the next set is coming in like 20 days
We used to have 2 to 3 sets for a single plane. At least, back when I started.
And I think it was at least a year or two between Vorenclex appearing on Kaldhiem, and the conclusion of March of the Machines.
I like the idea The Mending justifys the same Planeswalker with differing power levels. I also like how sometimes you see Planeswalkers with different colours in their cost as they change over time. Pretty cool, cheers for the video.
This was enjoyable. Haven’t seen a lore video here yet but it’s a vast source of content considering how deep the lore is.
Maybe do a mini-series going over each significant planeswalker (like 5 to 10 per video).
Can we please get in depth planeswalker stories, I.e urza, Chandra, garruk, teferi, jace, sorrin
Please do more Lore Video's, it would be cool to have a Sliver or Kamahl and Jeska lore video
I would love more stories about the lore of Magic instead of just mechanics and cards.
My god... i got so entranced with this story that I forgot to eat. I love it
Does the war of the spark have anything to do with why aftermath has no commons?
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Why you getting me exactly for my lunch hour!
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This is such a cool story. I wish we had novels to read about this.
MORE LORE VIDEOS YESSSSS
Please make a video on Bolas' arch
While I recognize that The Great Desparking is the official name of the event, I find it very lackluster when compared to the title of The Mending. Heck in aftermath they even had a card that had a better name with Spark Rupture. Why couldn't they call it that?
The time rifts, which is part of the Time Spiral Crisis, was more caused accidently by Nicol Bolas, as oppose to Urza.
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What about the wanderer?
for me, the planeswalkers were a key gameplay mechanic that hooked me in to play it because I loved the lore of the character, and being able to own and play them was fun, but taking them/ reducing them out of the game kind of strips away the lore for the card game.
like take Yugioh for an explanation take md or Blueeyes out of it wouldn't be fun if you are a Yugi or Kaiba fan. That is just my opinion.
just for magic the whole story reveals around these iconic character who wouldn't want to use the min battle
I love magic but now it is just all over the place now
I am still with Bushiroad TCGS or the new DBZ TCG i like magic characters as being the central focus of the lore and store because they are focused around the m
Liliana is pronounced (Lil-e-Ahn-uh)
Jhoira is pronounced (Joy-Ruh)
Preator is pronounced (Prey-uh-tor)
Phyresis is pronounced (Fi-Ree-Sis)
Pretty sure it's engagement bait by this point, there's no way he mispronounces so many words with the amount of research he has to do for these videos
maybe, maybe not. I have talked with some people who genuinely do have problems with saying written words out loud, but I know there are some people who do it on purpose as well. I just haven't seen enough of his content to come to a conclusion on which it is for him.@@joshr408
Kaldenheim is a real place yo
Phyresis (Feer-Es-izz)
First time you saw a "Logs" video I pressume XD
Planeswalkers are to MtG as HEROes are to Yu-Gi-Oh!
At least the HEROes aren't as on your face all the time.
As for a video idea, maybe do a vid on which MtG card is to comparable to which Yu-Gi-Oh! card.
@@revolutionartiste well, granted, Yu-Gi-Oh! Core Boosters promote the six anime series front and back, but that's more modest than the Gatewatch.
I want to see a dyfed card.
YOU WANT TO SEE A DY-WHAT?
@@lucaseduardoferreira9015 dyfed. The thran planswalker who helped yawgmoth create the original planar portal that linked dominaria to phyrexia. She was killed by yawgmoth as the phyrexians wanted to find the source of the spark to transplant it into yawgmoth.
Bolas also merged alara from shards in an attempt.
There is an 'A' at the end of 'Lilian' 😅
Planeswalkers were a mistake due to how they are immune to most wraths yet are supposed to be destroyed by creatures.
WoTC: Organic material can't survive travel through the planar bridge.
So.... how did Vorinclex get the sap of the world tree back to New Phyrexia?
WoTC: Through the planar bridge! Why do you ask?
... no reason, I guess.
G-horiah?
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I'm going to give you a tip: when you see a new name or word you're unfamiliar with, read it out loud once before recording.
I'm seriously starting to worry about you. I know Yugioh players can't read, but you're taking it a bit far.
6:39 hol up, “ableat”? that means the owner of this channel just mispronounced a normal english word in the script given to him. Has he never seen what “albeit” is spelled like
how the fck do you find a way to misspell EVERY name!!!???!?!?
Always love hearing the lore though it makes no sense.
Although this very post falls for the 'engagement bait' - I would just like to say that from now on, I will stop watching your videos until you stop intentionally mispronouncing the names. I urge other viewers to do the same.
Your channel has plenty of fans. You don't need to engage in such cynical and frankly annoying tactics to squeeze a few extra pennies from your videos.
Urza did nothing wrong.
You have got to be saying these names wrong on purpose to get comments like this about it cause holy shit you said Liliana like three different ways and none of them were right
Dislikes until you learn to read.
at this point I'm convinced this guy is mispronouncing things on purpose to drive up viewer engagement
I think Planeswalker mechanics made the game way less fun to play, less intuitive, made the lore less varied, and was a major contributor to power creep .
I wish they had never created planeswalker cards.
Yeah yeah gramps whatever you say, now go to sleep
Planeswalkers is what got me into playing MtG so each it's own I guess
Eh, I don't think they were really a major contributor to power creep. Like maybe the most significant power creep the game has ever seen, even with Oko and the early days of the FIRE philosophy, was like a year or so before planeswalkers came out. While the early planeswalkers warped the game around themselves and a new busted planeswalker would find its way into the top decks of formats every couple years or so afterwards, as well as the FIRE philosophy giving us War of the Spark, Oko, and some other planeswalker mistakes, if you look at power creep as a whole, I don't think it would've changed much if planeswalkers didn't exist. Something else would've filled the void. Without Oko or War of the Spark, the FIRE philosophy would've still given us Uro and Modern Horizons 2.
Also without planeswalkers, we never would've gotten sagas, which I think are among some of the best designs in all of MtG. One of the early design ideas for planeswalkers was exactly what we have for sagas now, but was abandoned for not being thematic enough. The idea played well though, so they found a new theme for the mechanic and updated the visuals.
The fact they don't even tap as a cost is next level bullshit
@@malakimphoros2164 the fact they can be attacked levels out imo. They are very easily removed than people think
God, hearing you mispronounce so many names and terms hurts.
all planeswalkers got counterspelled by just 2 mana no matter their cost or rarity bc mtg rules suck
The Mending is a bitch. Alas the counterspell is cast by a planeswalker too.
the lore of magic is great until hasbro and wizard cheaped all, khans of tarkir it maybe be the last great storyline that the main lore have after that wiszard the vision change not in making good story and respecting the old lore, just in doing the less effort washing his character in modern wokeness, cheaping all they can, destroying whatever they don't see fit to the new wokess standard, etc... the lore of today magic is pure trash im not saying that the past was perfect but it was more respectful and tried to do beautiful thing with this magic world.
Thanks for you video really is enjoyable you tried to make make sense in something that hasbro or wizard just don't care anymore.
It never made sense, the whole spark has changed it's meaning from the very start. This video quite literally explains that. And Urza somehow putting his spark into Karn was the most BS thing to this date and that came from way way back. And wokeness what? That female characters are powerful? Umm be a thing from the start? Black characters been powerful again from the start? What wokeness lmao
If you’re talking about queer people existing in magic, the oldest one I can think of has to be Alesha, a character from Tarkir (although from Fate Reforged iirc)
@@thek838I dont even talked about if the spark thing make sense or anything like that or the skin of charcater, my point is mostly the with the shitie quality of the lore in general the changin of genere, skin, etc with original and as I say the quality of lore it dead with the dead of the book.
@@boorango122not really, as I say my point is with the poof quality of lore in general, contradiction, no books, not coherence with past event, etc. The wokeness part you can see in full bloom on the stupid set of lord of the ring.
@@MrZakuRetro The books weren't any better smh. The lore has always been full of contradictions and things that make 0 sense. Idk when you will realise this but MTG has always been about having themed cards around one thing not lore or lore accuracy. If you look at most sets to even the first set release Arabian Nights it's based on just theming, Arabian Nights barley has any story and is one of the worst planes in terms of that yet was the very first. But it's an amazing plane if you just look at it's theming, cards and importance to MTG history.
Now let's look at Innistrad a more recent plane but old now, it's a dark themed plane with just a lot of darkness vampires, undead all the fun stuff. It's amazingly themed for those who love that. Now let's look at the story... Umm Vampire good guy just wanders about trying to make things better but never works out? Cool I guess.
Now tbf there is a lot of good lore within Innistrad so let's not be dismissive of that but it was clearly designed on theme first not story. And the Theming of it was better than the overall story. And I can make this point for many sets and planes. Dominaria is probably the only plane that they truly created to be lore centric but all I can say is also Dominaria is were the most retcons and mistakes in the story happen. So shrugs. Hell even brothers war theme is just about artifacts and sure it has a very important story but the point of the set was to show off many cool artifacts. And if you think the brothers war didn't have contradictions then lol.
We use to be the Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas best single. It was truly transcending experience on Multiversal scale.