I first started near the end of Mercadian Masks, and everyone I played with just built the most trash decks 😂. One guy have a 5c Deck with cromat, and would just obliterate us whenever he played it. It was like the Exodia of our time😂
This is the best answer, hands down 🤣 I love the idea of Urza chasing Rorika all the while *in a grouchy old man yelling fashion* "give me back my glasses, you oddly shaped blanket! 😅
It’s sort of on flavor for Lord of the Pit: sacrifice a creature to it on your upkeep, but if you don’t he hits you for 7 damage and taps himself, so you can’t even utilize it.
5:11 given the platypus has venom glands, I buy a “dog” having acid sacs. Not a dog as we think of it, but like a platypus relative that convergently evolved into a dog-like animal, like how there was a marsupial version of a dog (Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger)
I has thought that she was some kind of mammal maybe. I mean we have our stomachs. Aren't those technically an acid sack? I'm not a biologist, but that's just what I thought lol
Never seen you before, but I saw Lord Of The Pit in the thumbnail, so I clicked. Then you mention a Death album in the intro. That's all i need, subbed 🤘
Glad TH-cam suggested this to me, you and your editor both have a flair for delivering this material that makes me actually interested in MtG lore in a way I haven't been before.
Alright alright alright.... BUT on the summoning thing we have conflicting accounts because Lim-dul believes that Summoning is more creating the likeness of the thing itself, where as we fully know that Baron Sengir literally during planeswalker battles would go and give the locals a little sucky suck so he could have his bloodline propogate across the multiverse AND I LOVE THIS... like having a powerful necromancer be more wrong than a.... neck... romancer.... lol
As if it wasn’t bad enough that people are constantly playing keep away with Urza’s glasses, he also has a pair of pimp-ass sunglasses that I can only assume are also frequently on the move.
@@AliceBlackblade"These are the artifacts the kids are all raving about these days (in the early 1990s), they must be superior to my prescription!"_Urza 😎 looking dope, but practically blind 😅
This was a wonderful trip down memory lane. I haven't read this story in 30 years, yet once you got to the part about Worzel not being good with healing, it started coming back little by little.
The sentiment that you were around in the early 90s is adorable. You definitely are younger than these stories, but I appreciate your care for them and ability to relate them entertainingly. I am older than these stories, but wasn't into it until later and I do appreciate the old lore and learning more. I really wish they would go back into this stuff and experiment more, but they really keep recycling the same popular and established places at this point because it's financially risky to do anything else and they've gotten too big. I hope they find ways to do this and give us some of these characters in the game even. Keep it up!
@@AliceBlackbladeAw you don't give the Marchesa vibe...what's in this glass again? 😅 Joking! But, that is an interesting question. Is there a Planeswalker/character you can relate towards? I like to think of myself like Gerrard, Jodah, Ajani or Gideon... In reality, I am concerned I am a Tibalt or Zur😅
I started my mtg journey in Lorwyn, literally post mending. Seeing videos about the old characters is interesting and im enjoying your videos. Looking forward to more.
I like the interpretation of summons being copies pulled from the essence of the blind eternities, but my gosh this pulling the real beings from the worlds is so funny to me this interpretation of a planeswalker battle / a game of magic is pretty neat, a strategic battle where the mages don't even see each other
In regards to summoning, both ideas are true. Technically. The Magic story is split between the Prerevisionist stuff and the Revisionist stuff. For the most part, if it came after Tempest, it's Revisionist. Anything Prerevisionist is considered canon until something Revisionist says otherwise. One of these things has to do with summoning. Prerevisionist, summoning would call forth a creature, from anywhere, bound to the control of the one that summoned it, though that control could be lost. Usually, after the mage won whatever battle had them summon the creature, it would be returned. But sometimes the creatures were stuck on an unfamiliar plane. However, Revisionist stories changed this... Mostly. Now, summoning has the summoner create a replica of the creature out of aether, which dissipates when they aren't needed anymore. This replica is based on the summoner's understanding of what they summoned. So if they just understand it as a Dragon, that's all they summon. A vanilla Dragon. But if they understand it better, understand its life and way of being better, that's when you start getting more specific, like a Young Red Dragon instead of just any dragon. But this is also how legendary creatures and such work. Summoning Niv-Mizzet, Parun, is based on the summoner's understanding of Niv-Mizzet as of that point in time, thus creating a replica of Niv-Mizzet as they understand him instead of just a dragon or something. Which is how you can technically have Niv-Mizzet Parun and Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius. However, there are some Revisionist stories where they actually summon the being themself, like Kiora summoning Lorthos across Zendiksr. It's also why Ugin took Nicol Bolas's name, to prevent someone from using his name to summon him.
Now imagine if Thunder Junction had a good story like this instead of being a complete copy of the first borderlands game where travelers gather on a dangerous plane(t) to search for a vault which actually has a living being inside it only to find out there are more vaults! How original
This is why time spiral block is imho the best block in magic. It has both incredible ties to the past, while still impacting formats today. Incredible card design, amazing flavor, and often one of a kind art.
I am an old school boomer magic player and I love your videos of old school magic lore. Stangg was the best, I remember opening so many of him back in the day and using him in my red/green decks. Thank you for your work, I love hearing about this. I miss my Jncos... lol
There's pre-mending and then there's the pre-revision. The revision is kind of infamous due to how much was dropped because of it. they were building up to this whole planeswalker war and then BOOM revision. I like to think that the Brother's war was so devastating that it changed history before it happened as well.
@@franslair2199 For the Phyrexian invasion yes, but he could only erase the important details of Yawgmoth's victory. I think Commodore Guff really was more a gag character than an actual influence.
You're a riot! You got me with an instant subscribe with the Urza is Mr.Magoo bit. And if you know the cutie-pie art of Ertai's Familar from Weatherlight, that's Roreca to me. Love the vids
I do like the idea that Urza caused all the calamities, wars, and deaths he did, not because he had some ingenious scheme, but because he couldn't see very well
11:07 they had changed how they summon creatures described in the favor text of Ajani's Pridemate from War of the Spark. Where they create copies of their old allies.
I always loved Roreka's Tale, it was such a super-flavorful way to illustrate a standard game of Magic. I was a sweet babby back in 94, in middle school with friends teaching me the game. But when I got my own cards, I got the Brown Book, and read that story so much that my book has fallen apart right at where it starts. The only other part of that book that I like more is the bit that describes the multiverse as grains of sand on a beach, because that's the best visualization for ANY multiverse now that we're in an era of media where everybody has one. At any rate, in case it isn't clear in the story, and we have like 20,000 more cards in MtG than we did back then, Worzel has just "added white to her deck" and spends those turns getting beat on by Thomil's creatures which are hitting her "life total" - the personal force field that all planeswalkers had back then - but then finally draws a Plains so she can cast her Circle of Protection: Black, which she then uses to negate the Lord of the Pit hitting her each turn. It still comes to do it, but she's fine, and clearly Thomil didn't budget his creatures wisely, and loses to his own pitlord's damage, and has to flee the plane (lose the game).
Woah, my first time seeing your channel. You are very gifted in delivering this great lore in a fun and factual way. Those centuries have been put to excellent use 😉 Hopefully, Stangg will get more lore too? Go Stangg! 😁 In anycase, consider me subscribed 🌟
I've always thought Roreca is a mix between a camel and a dog. When camels spit, it often isn't just saliva, but is generally a mix of saliva and their own stomach acid. Camels vary greatly in size between male and female (although in reverse of how Roreca's species is described) and they have very thick fur along with jagged, elongated teeth (that could easily be confused as having more than one row to how misaligned they often are). Then you have the ability to smell mana, the tail wagging, the unquestioning loyalty, etc. Matches up pretty well if you ask me. I laugh about Urza's Glasses too, but in context, it makes sense. In the game they let you look at a player's hand, so it's reasonable to presume they'd have some sort of power to see mana or discern spells that the wearer might not be familiar with. I mean, would Urza ever just have regular damn glasses? No. Of course he wouldn't. Worzel is kind of a bitch, so... she'd probably do something basic like the MTG equivalent of a dreamcatcher or a heart. Maybe a mana symbol? Thomil didn't die. He shows up in another story later on as the master of a black knight named Sauruven, who Thomil summons in a duel with another planeswalker. That story also asserts that if you're summoned in a duel and die, you just die. All those Llanowar Elves that got burned in a pyroclasm? Literally dead. No cop out, no magical ass-pulls, just permadeath and waffles.
Funnily enough I read the short story "The Lament" featured in the Tapestries Anthology and Thomil is name-dropped as the Wizard who summoned the protagonist.
Fun explanation, however "mortifying" (18:18) means something is embarrassing. Other than that, loved the forever image burned into my mind of Urza looking for his glasses while I am fully responsible for keeping them next to my Library of Leng.
summoning yes basically "kidnaps" a creature from the plane it was. but when it dies, or when the duel ends (whichever comes first) the creature just returns to where it came from. whether they remember what happened is left to our imagination, but im sure they will have ptsd even for a "feeling" that they have just died or fought somewhere. if the mana gods are merciful, maybe they erase the memory of being summoned, which is likely more likely, which allows planeswalkers to keep performing summonses without creatures protesting or creating organizations banning summonings by walkers. :)
Ok so im really curious now where the mana leylines come from after the idea of drawing Mana is first established sequentially in the Brothers War novel? I understand there is a retcon that happened to some stuff during that time. That section where Hurkyl explains how she learnt to channel mana within herself is one of my favorite things I learnt in lore when I was reading that book. It makes the scene where she literally performs a bounce spell on two phyrexian dragon engines truly chilling - depicted in the card "Hurkyl's Final Meditation" - I wish there was more specifically around that idea and people learning how to do it from various planes and backgrounds.
Please keep making these old lore videos. You’re a top notch story teller.
I will, I have plenty more stories to tell!
@@AliceBlackblade HELL YES, never want this to end
*Makes Cromat, refuses to elaborate, leaves*
Cromat, hell yeah.
I watched a friend pull a foil Cromat back in the day, he traded it away immediately though, and not to me. It was freaking beautiful.
I first started near the end of Mercadian Masks, and everyone I played with just built the most trash decks 😂. One guy have a 5c Deck with cromat, and would just obliterate us whenever he played it. It was like the Exodia of our time😂
Not the first, won't be the last
Rorika's tattoo is obviously Urza's glasses
omg yes
This is the best answer, hands down 🤣 I love the idea of Urza chasing Rorika all the while *in a grouchy old man yelling fashion*
"give me back my glasses, you oddly shaped blanket! 😅
I'll correct. It's a map showing the location of Urza's glasses.
10/10 video to have on in the background while checking my mana lines and looking for my glasses. ❤
Oh man, my mana lines have some weird oil in it now.
@@saintsage3809 ...it's probably nothing
@@AliceBlackblade Its perfect is what it is, I'm feeling compleated.
Death enjoyer, common Alice Blackblade W
also Stangg shoutout hell yeah
It’s sort of on flavor for Lord of the Pit: sacrifice a creature to it on your upkeep, but if you don’t he hits you for 7 damage and taps himself, so you can’t even utilize it.
He doesn’t tap himself. But yeah, flavourful in story
It's so iconic that a another character meets a similar fate in the novel Arena.
5:11 given the platypus has venom glands, I buy a “dog” having acid sacs. Not a dog as we think of it, but like a platypus relative that convergently evolved into a dog-like animal, like how there was a marsupial version of a dog (Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger)
I did not know platypus have venom glands 😯 now things are starting to make more sense
I has thought that she was some kind of mammal maybe. I mean we have our stomachs. Aren't those technically an acid sack? I'm not a biologist, but that's just what I thought lol
@@-jonahdrake- Platypus are mammals too.
@flaetsbnort you are right bro. I completely forgot that they were mammals lol. I now believe that she is a magical platypus-esque creature
Never seen you before, but I saw Lord Of The Pit in the thumbnail, so I clicked.
Then you mention a Death album in the intro.
That's all i need, subbed 🤘
Yay! Glad to have you! 🙌🏻
Glad TH-cam suggested this to me, you and your editor both have a flair for delivering this material that makes me actually interested in MtG lore in a way I haven't been before.
That's awesome to hear! I'm glad you're enjoying it. 😊
0:24 -- Duh. Of course she was around in '93. She had just saved baby Toby from the Goblin King in '86, after all.
Urza had tons of pairs of glasses, he just lost them all over the place.
😂
1:05 does Shandalarr ring a bell to any of you? The first ever MTG PC game. Was ahead of its time.
Shandalar does ring a bell to me, yes!
I love the old card Urza's Glasses since it reads "You may look at opponent's hand" so you can cast it but then be like, nah, I'm not going to.
That's very on brand for Urza lol
Thank you algorithm for this very very deep cut
This was a fun vid. Good editing and pacing. Good delivery
Keep it up!
From someone who has read Arena several times, first time 1 month after its release, and played for ante, this is a great video!
Alright alright alright.... BUT on the summoning thing we have conflicting accounts because Lim-dul believes that Summoning is more creating the likeness of the thing itself, where as we fully know that Baron Sengir literally during planeswalker battles would go and give the locals a little sucky suck so he could have his bloodline propogate across the multiverse AND I LOVE THIS... like having a powerful necromancer be more wrong than a.... neck... romancer.... lol
Differences in lore, in some of the old lore creatures were summoned, it's a major plot point with Gull and Greensleeves.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that people are constantly playing keep away with Urza’s glasses, he also has a pair of pimp-ass sunglasses that I can only assume are also frequently on the move.
Nah Urza never lets his shades out of his sight. I like to think that's what he tries to use instead of his glasses lol
@@AliceBlackblade"These are the artifacts the kids are all raving about these days (in the early 1990s), they must be superior to my prescription!"_Urza 😎 looking dope, but practically blind 😅
Man, Individual Thought Patterns rules.
Indeed, it does
The tattoo on the fur is definitely like when those guys try to paint in the hairline.
This was a wonderful trip down memory lane. I haven't read this story in 30 years, yet once you got to the part about Worzel not being good with healing, it started coming back little by little.
The sentiment that you were around in the early 90s is adorable. You definitely are younger than these stories, but I appreciate your care for them and ability to relate them entertainingly. I am older than these stories, but wasn't into it until later and I do appreciate the old lore and learning more. I really wish they would go back into this stuff and experiment more, but they really keep recycling the same popular and established places at this point because it's financially risky to do anything else and they've gotten too big. I hope they find ways to do this and give us some of these characters in the game even. Keep it up!
How do you not have 100k subs yet?? This video is great!! Keep it up
could listen to you for hours. Great work. Thank you!
Thomil neglected to sacrifice a creature during their upkeep.
OMG! Lord of the pit in a tie is pretty hilarious. Lord of the pit noms creatures, and it if you don't have and he noms you.
everyone, wake up, magic the gathering evil queen has posted
evil queen? damn...
@@AliceBlackbladeAw you don't give the Marchesa vibe...what's in this glass again? 😅
Joking!
But, that is an interesting question. Is there a Planeswalker/character you can relate towards?
I like to think of myself like Gerrard, Jodah, Ajani or Gideon... In reality, I am concerned I am a Tibalt or Zur😅
I am obsessed with your energy. thank you for all of This.
The old art is so awesome. Especially black with cards like lord of the pit or spirit of the night, or blue with leviathan...
You're one of my favorite channels at the moment. The vibes are stellar and I'm excited for more content! Keep it up :)
Is it possible that the bear being terrified to death is a reference to Terror?
It definitely is
I started my mtg journey in Lorwyn, literally post mending. Seeing videos about the old characters is interesting and im enjoying your videos. Looking forward to more.
Lets gooo! More Alice Blackblade!
I also want to send
Rorika is clearly a very fluffy and very friendly xenomorph.
I like the interpretation of summons being copies pulled from the essence of the blind eternities, but my gosh this pulling the real beings from the worlds is so funny to me
this interpretation of a planeswalker battle / a game of magic is pretty neat, a strategic battle where the mages don't even see each other
In regards to summoning, both ideas are true. Technically.
The Magic story is split between the Prerevisionist stuff and the Revisionist stuff. For the most part, if it came after Tempest, it's Revisionist. Anything Prerevisionist is considered canon until something Revisionist says otherwise.
One of these things has to do with summoning. Prerevisionist, summoning would call forth a creature, from anywhere, bound to the control of the one that summoned it, though that control could be lost. Usually, after the mage won whatever battle had them summon the creature, it would be returned. But sometimes the creatures were stuck on an unfamiliar plane.
However, Revisionist stories changed this... Mostly. Now, summoning has the summoner create a replica of the creature out of aether, which dissipates when they aren't needed anymore. This replica is based on the summoner's understanding of what they summoned. So if they just understand it as a Dragon, that's all they summon. A vanilla Dragon. But if they understand it better, understand its life and way of being better, that's when you start getting more specific, like a Young Red Dragon instead of just any dragon. But this is also how legendary creatures and such work. Summoning Niv-Mizzet, Parun, is based on the summoner's understanding of Niv-Mizzet as of that point in time, thus creating a replica of Niv-Mizzet as they understand him instead of just a dragon or something. Which is how you can technically have Niv-Mizzet Parun and Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius.
However, there are some Revisionist stories where they actually summon the being themself, like Kiora summoning Lorthos across Zendiksr. It's also why Ugin took Nicol Bolas's name, to prevent someone from using his name to summon him.
@Kahadi oooh thank you, that's pretty neat and good to know ^^
3:58 cargo shorts. It was made for pockets in cargo shorts lmao
You have a fun personality keep it up the views and subs will rise!
You totally earned my subscription today
Imagine freaking Rorika being printed and being straight up just a regular dog hahaahddfgijksdfgkjsdhfg It'd be fun.
She'll be a dog token lol
@@AliceBlackblade 🤣🤣🤣Imagine
I miss the old worlds. when we going back to mercadia?!
Stang-Stan was RIGHT THERE!!!!
It’s a tattoo of urza glasses
"I don't want peace, I want problems, always!"
The goddess Blackblade has been around for aeons untold. Foolish mortals. How dare they
Now imagine if Thunder Junction had a good story like this instead of being a complete copy of the first borderlands game where travelers gather on a dangerous plane(t) to search for a vault which actually has a living being inside it only to find out there are more vaults! How original
This is why time spiral block is imho the best block in magic. It has both incredible ties to the past, while still impacting formats today. Incredible card design, amazing flavor, and often one of a kind art.
I am an old school boomer magic player and I love your videos of old school magic lore. Stangg was the best, I remember opening so many of him back in the day and using him in my red/green decks. Thank you for your work, I love hearing about this. I miss my Jncos... lol
I love old magic lore. I hope these walkers and Rorika get cards some day.
this is so much fun!!!!
There's pre-mending and then there's the pre-revision. The revision is kind of infamous due to how much was dropped because of it. they were building up to this whole planeswalker war and then BOOM revision. I like to think that the Brother's war was so devastating that it changed history before it happened as well.
Isn't that what happened? Like, Guff rewrote history because the war went so badly. That's already canon
@@franslair2199 For the Phyrexian invasion yes, but he could only erase the important details of Yawgmoth's victory. I think Commodore Guff really was more a gag character than an actual influence.
True and I'm glad you pointed that out! I have a bad habit of using pre-mending in place of pre-revision
You're a riot! You got me with an instant subscribe with the Urza is Mr.Magoo bit. And if you know the cutie-pie art of Ertai's Familar from Weatherlight, that's Roreca to me. Love the vids
Is Rorika Loot? or Loot's mother? Are they taking us full circle?
5:17 Roreca sounds like you're describing the thing frint and center on the Invasion of Ergamon battle you just showed us lol
I love these lore videos so much!
time to headbang to my favorite youtube outro yet again
LETSFUCKINGGOOOOOOOOOOO!!1!
Another great video! Super funny and entertaining... RIP, Chuck.
Rorika’s tattoo is like the ghostbusters logo but with a scryb instead of a ghost
12:00 I'm an all-powerful Plainswalker and who I summoned better win or we're both dead! XD
I do like the idea that Urza caused all the calamities, wars, and deaths he did, not because he had some ingenious scheme, but because he couldn't see very well
They should take this story and make duel decks in the same manner they made cold snap as a “lost set”
Ooohh I love that idea! That would be super cool
Oh no, now I know what Aslan feels like when someone cites the deep magic to him.
My head canon is that Thomil survives long enough to become the good ol’ Unluckiest Planeswalker 😂
11:07 they had changed how they summon creatures described in the favor text of Ajani's Pridemate from War of the Spark. Where they create copies of their old allies.
A fellow Death fan. Heckin yea
Pockets, much like the pants they belonged to, were HUGE in 1994. I could, and did, hold entire paperback novels in them
She's a kobold
Oh boy, here I go simping again
😂😂😂😂😂😂 understandable
I wold kill for a full lore Urza video i can smell the contempt thru the screen
I always loved Roreka's Tale, it was such a super-flavorful way to illustrate a standard game of Magic. I was a sweet babby back in 94, in middle school with friends teaching me the game. But when I got my own cards, I got the Brown Book, and read that story so much that my book has fallen apart right at where it starts. The only other part of that book that I like more is the bit that describes the multiverse as grains of sand on a beach, because that's the best visualization for ANY multiverse now that we're in an era of media where everybody has one.
At any rate, in case it isn't clear in the story, and we have like 20,000 more cards in MtG than we did back then, Worzel has just "added white to her deck" and spends those turns getting beat on by Thomil's creatures which are hitting her "life total" - the personal force field that all planeswalkers had back then - but then finally draws a Plains so she can cast her Circle of Protection: Black, which she then uses to negate the Lord of the Pit hitting her each turn. It still comes to do it, but she's fine, and clearly Thomil didn't budget his creatures wisely, and loses to his own pitlord's damage, and has to flee the plane (lose the game).
I am not a Stang fan, but I am a Stang HATER my buddy plays a Stang deck that boils my blood lol
lol, MTG is so off now that this was a well needed video.
Death is one of the best bands of all time
Thank you timeless being for these ancient tales.
Woah, my first time seeing your channel. You are very gifted in delivering this great lore in a fun and factual way. Those centuries have been put to excellent use 😉 Hopefully, Stangg will get more lore too? Go Stangg! 😁 In anycase, consider me subscribed 🌟
Great vid, dying at urza glasses cracks.
I've always thought Roreca is a mix between a camel and a dog. When camels spit, it often isn't just saliva, but is generally a mix of saliva and their own stomach acid. Camels vary greatly in size between male and female (although in reverse of how Roreca's species is described) and they have very thick fur along with jagged, elongated teeth (that could easily be confused as having more than one row to how misaligned they often are). Then you have the ability to smell mana, the tail wagging, the unquestioning loyalty, etc. Matches up pretty well if you ask me.
I laugh about Urza's Glasses too, but in context, it makes sense. In the game they let you look at a player's hand, so it's reasonable to presume they'd have some sort of power to see mana or discern spells that the wearer might not be familiar with. I mean, would Urza ever just have regular damn glasses? No. Of course he wouldn't.
Worzel is kind of a bitch, so... she'd probably do something basic like the MTG equivalent of a dreamcatcher or a heart. Maybe a mana symbol?
Thomil didn't die. He shows up in another story later on as the master of a black knight named Sauruven, who Thomil summons in a duel with another planeswalker. That story also asserts that if you're summoned in a duel and die, you just die. All those Llanowar Elves that got burned in a pyroclasm? Literally dead. No cop out, no magical ass-pulls, just permadeath and waffles.
Damn.... Bro has a baby face if she's been around since 93
What are you, 12?
Hi, it's me, the other person who gets excited about Dominaria. I got into the game in 2018 when the return to Dominaria was new.
My favorite block of MTG. Yawgmoth, Urza, The Brother's War, the Phyrexians. So awesome.
That book is one of the greatest mtg pieces of history ever. I have like three copies haha
I love the niche magic history! Subbed
Out here possessing my acid sacs
This info is so dense, I had to watch it as first screen content 😡 I love the video, keep it up!
man, now THIS is a channel
Urza made the Legacy Weapon in order to find his Glasses. ... Classic
Urza made the Legacy weapon to find his glasses XD
“Death was breaking new ground-“ subscribed!
XANTCHA MENTIONED!! 🎉🎉🎉
The Return of The Queen
Ouch. I started playing in 94. Around Antiquities.Thank you for making me feel ancient.
Funnily enough I read the short story "The Lament" featured in the Tapestries Anthology and Thomil is name-dropped as the Wizard who summoned the protagonist.
I honestly accept the Urza building Legacy Weapon in pursuit of his glasses theory as canon. That just fills me with such joy.
Fun explanation, however "mortifying" (18:18) means something is embarrassing.
Other than that, loved the forever image burned into my mind of Urza looking for his glasses while I am fully responsible for keeping them next to my Library of Leng.
:Goes to look at his Unlimited rulebook: Oh look! It's there.
summoning yes basically "kidnaps" a creature from the plane it was. but when it dies, or when the duel ends (whichever comes first) the creature just returns to where it came from. whether they remember what happened is left to our imagination, but im sure they will have ptsd even for a "feeling" that they have just died or fought somewhere. if the mana gods are merciful, maybe they erase the memory of being summoned, which is likely more likely, which allows planeswalkers to keep performing summonses without creatures protesting or creating organizations banning summonings by walkers. :)
Before I clicked the video l: "Yes, I've read the Brother's War."
After: "What's a Thomil?"
Ok so im really curious now where the mana leylines come from after the idea of drawing Mana is first established sequentially in the Brothers War novel? I understand there is a retcon that happened to some stuff during that time.
That section where Hurkyl explains how she learnt to channel mana within herself is one of my favorite things I learnt in lore when I was reading that book. It makes the scene where she literally performs a bounce spell on two phyrexian dragon engines truly chilling - depicted in the card "Hurkyl's Final Meditation" - I wish there was more specifically around that idea and people learning how to do it from various planes and backgrounds.
Ah, Alice, your in-depth stories from MTG’s early age make me sentimental. I got into it in ‘94. Thanks.
Ow, I’m old and my bones hurt…