What is the Great Pruning?? All Planeswalkers Who LOST Their Sparks | Magic: The Gathering
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- THE AFTERMATH story for Magic: the Gathering
After the March of the Machines, the Multiverse of Magic: The Gathering had to heal from the devastation. It did so through The Great Pruning. What was this event and how has it effected the MTG storyline? Who are the Planeswalkers who've officially lost their sparks? We will discuss it all in this video and break down how MTG lore has changed FORVER. March of the Machine: The Aftermath lore.
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What is the Great Pruning (1:44)
All Planeswalkers Lost (3:21)
Impact On The Story (20:43)
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Who else do you want to see lose their Planeswalker spark? This may not be the FULL list - there will be more to come!
All of those little planeswalkers they came up with a single expansion and then never talked about it again.
@@AngelusNielsonyeah like Basri and Teyo
My favorite character is Lili, so if being despark leads to a great story for her I'm in!
All of them, hopefully they are never spoke of again.
@@joseanibalsantacruzamanzo2202I would like them to be spoken.
Imagine Ob Nixilis blood pressure:
-gets a spark and becomes a demon
-gets trapped on Zendikar for messing with Nahiri
-years later goes to a plot to sabotage the war against the eldrazi to regain his spark
-gains his spark back
-gets baited by Bolas on Ravnica
-gets trapped on Ravnica despite having a spark
-frees himself
-goes to Capenna
-pissess off five mafia families
-loses the spark once again while on the plane with said mafia families
He might be a baddie... but the man really cannot catch a breath...
You know, I'm happy to scale down to plane-limited threats... between the last few years in MtG and the majority of modern cinema, I was really starting to feel this "multiversal gigantic crossover threat" fatigue.
That and the need of MtG to rush the history in one set. Not all "events" need a full block - three sets - but two allow better timing and help mechanics have support.
A. Tyvar's Planeswalking days were short-lived.
B. I wish we had a compleated Tibalt card
C. And a Compleated Koma card
My boy Anhelo got completed to and no love shown
Hell if they made a secret lair that was just phyrexianized art of some of the characters we lost but didn’t get new cards for I’d buy it
@@crowdaddy5179
Yeah, It'd buy that too, phyrexia was the only set I felt the need to have a collector box
Bruh quinnatous the elephant kind from strixhaven had his spark ignite in the lore then he instantly lost it lol. Why didn't we get a planes walker card for that guy
@@xaisai1 I think that card was pre spark ignition. But yeah I wish that his card in MOM was a double-sided card with the back being a Planeswalker or at least give him a card during Aftermath.
@@coopervaughter1440 Yeah seriously because if all planeswalkers lost there spark then quintorus also lost his and he just got his lol. double faced woulda made sense forsure
The Wanderer losing her Spark seems to be the only positive loss of a Spark
Now that Kaito's "life long mission" is done. I wonder what he'll do with the Wanderer
@@TheyCallMeDio Oh they FAWKIN' :P
@@gamerbear84 I can hear ProZD's voice :D
@@TheyCallMeDioHe'll pull a common anime trope and say to her "Notice me Senpai!"
The wanderer lost her access to her shitty internet connection, yet all she wanted was to go around and touch some grass.
They should not have desparked alot of the newer characters. This was an opportunity to retire the older ones and focus on new stories.
We may see some older ones still lose their sparks. We don’t have a full list potentially. But yes I agree mostly
I like how indiscriminate it wasn't it like that with the first mending too.
Well it feels like it's mostly the new guys though.
I personally think they are phasing out Planeswalker as a mechanic in… Standard? The one that uses the newest packs.
Legendary creatures should get more storytelling spotlight. Though, I wonder where Ashiok is hiding and if they still have their spark.
Teferi losing his spark felt kinda bad. Yes, he finally got Zhalfir back so it’s unlikely he would leave, but I’ll miss seeing him pop-up from place to place to help.
Teferi could pop up on other planes, judging by how the story ended for Chandra/Nissa since they walked off through a portal left behind by Realmbreaker to go find Zendikar together (at least if im remembering correctly).
To be fair, at least his last big Planeswalker moment was basically pulling an “Avengers… Assemble!”, Captain America style
Thus is teferi were talking about. We all know this guy is just gonna turn back time and get his spark back
I just hope that he can let his daughter see his homeland
@@TheyCallMeDio On that topic, what happened to Teferi's wife? Has she just died of old age or was she stuck on Zhalfir?
Nahiri continues to be the meme of putting a stick in the front wheel of their bike and blaming someone else.
Forrreeeaaaaal man! Sick of her shit lol, she's cool n all but damn I hate her.
Yup, over and over whomever names herself THE protector of Zendikar makes things worse and worse
There are two more pruned planeswalkers. Both Huatli and Saheeli are desparked based on the text on Gold-Forged Thopteryx.
I'm happy Liliana wasn't caught up in all of this. Also thrilled we won't be seeing Teferi as a Planeswalker anymore. He's the most annoying Planeswalker, and usually run by the most annoying players - control freaks who enjoy making sure you don't get to do anything fun during a game, sometimes even locking you out all together.
So was Garruk sleeping the whole time? Lol I think Karn and Teferi losing their spark is kind of stupid. But at the same time allows us to see how tough Teferi is without his spark. But Karn having a spark added something special to his story and of who he is and without it just doesn't feel right.
Yeah, it's lazy. They didn't remove their sparks for writing or lore purposes, not for character development. They did it so they could sell their characters as commanders. It really doesn't make sense from a lore perspective.
Garruk has now slept through two multiversal invasions. Man is just chilling
@@t.e.archon7600 I did forget that we will probably find out soon what he's been up to in the Wilds of Eldraine.
@@KrisPSouls9258 that’s what I’m holding out hope for
@@trueblue6564all of these recent choices have been to only serve commander. I'm fine to an extent about some characters losing their spark, but if they wanted to clean house and sell commanders, clean the lesser used ones but make them badass legendary for your commander format so that they have a new identity that ppl can still enjoy
Hopefully my boy Garruk shows up in the Eldraine set as a walker still. He is the protector of the twins after they saved him.
that is not exacly a good thing, Garruk story arc is 99% done, the twins are basically the onnly thing still making his character relevant, and based on the news the Twins will fight each other.
I can easily see he making some type of sacrifice to stop the fight or maybe even giving his spark to one of the twins
I love that Nahiri didn't even lose her spark to the pruning. She's such a disaster and I love that she keeps getting damnation arcs. I can see her freeing Bolas at some point for War of the Spark 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I still can’t believe we didn’t get a phyrexian Koma card.
I know right?! That would have been amazing
Wizards keeps doing Nahiri dirty. Really wish they'd give her a redemption arch and let her triumph for once.
Her redemption arc was when she did Innistrad dirty and tore them a new one
@@TheyCallMeDio she definitely went WAY overboard, but I can’t blame her for being angry at Sorin.
I remember when Teferi sacrificed his spark to heal the time rifts and stop the multuverse from being torn apart. I remember when Tefwei got it back again.
Only way to be sparkless planeswalker is to be dead, otherwise, the writers will make it come back eventually when they need that character to be badges and relevant again.
Even this doesn't help, Elspeth came back from death 😮
If nahiri blames planeswalker this 1000% means Sorin is going to show up on Zendikar.
It would piss off Nahiri so much if she ever learned Sorin kept his spark. I think she would just lose it totally if he popped over to Zendikar, found her, said "Heard you lost your spark." And then just leaves the plane right in front of her.
Even across the blind eternities, you could have heard her scream of rage and fury.
@@snakeman830 appears on zendikar roasts Nahiri refuses to elaborate, leaves.
@@khazixthevoidreaver9499 lol
she'd deserve a visit from Sorin, who'd just rub it in harder how much she fucked up.
I personally really disliked how WotC handled the Sorin-Nahiri storyline, or rather the lack of any real story. there never was any real resolution to their conflict which sucks.
I definitely want to see my favorite planeswalker, Jace Beleren, still holding his spark. But I also think the story deserve a break from him. I want to see him return at some point when they decide that it's time for a new multiplanar threat, which I'm sure will eventually happen (Emrakul breaking free, the slivers, Nicol Bolas being set loose, New Phyrexia phasing back in, whatever), and round up another Gatewatvh. Alternatively, let him return as the Guildpact again, for good this time.
Alternatively, let's see him and Vraska on Ixalan. You know, the last place they could just be happy?
We just got a two year break from Jace and already need another one. Yeah he was overused for many years.
Maybe he'll get the Urza treatment and just end up a talking head. Could be fun!
You don't think he'll finally become the villain? Discarding the personal and embracing the compleation is an aspect of his charater. When first introduced they implied he walked a line between good and evil. imo it could be the best thing to happen to mature his character started in the identityless mental-reset phases.
Jace Eren Yeager mode
1) The Planeswalkers I'm upset to see lose there spark are Sarkahn, Tyvar, and Koth. My reasons for them are quite simple. Starting with Sarkahn, we know of the other Dragons out there such as Beledros Witherbloom, Galazeth Prismari, and even some of the Kami Dragons from Kamigawa that I would have loved Sarkahn to interact with and many others that we've seen appear in these recent sets. Tyvar, he was a key player in the role of New Phyrexia's heist mission gta style lol. BUT, he didn't get much time to roam where he pleased or wanted to visit. He got Dominaria, New Phyrexia, and back to Kaldheim? Nope, he deserved better. Koth, he should have kept his spark. Same with Tyvar, he didn't get to do a whole lot of planeswalking recently, granted that was due to Koth being a super hero fighting against New Phyrexia, but there's more they could have done with him. I would have loved to see an different interaction with Chandra than just meeting her and Wrenn on New Phyrexia.
I wanted to see more Tyvar primarily because the story could honestly use more of his himbo energy. The guy didn't even realize he left Kaldheim for his first planeswalk (which was to Zendikar).
I do wonder how the Great Pruning will affect the leftover Phryxian Planeswalkers like Jace and Vraska.
I am really hoping that those two are back to their right minds and still have their sparks, but physically are still phyrexian. I am also really hoping we see them again in Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Would be interesting to see how they interact with Quintorious, since we have reason to believe that will be the first time we get a Quintorious planeswalker card.
@@snakeman830 Jace, after seeing the card Spark Double, and seeing some stuff he's been up to, no doubt, has a clone he can transfer his spark into. As much as enjoy Jace, he's Wizard's posterboy and a character they give way too many handouts to. He won't lose his spark.
I really wish koth had kept his spark, and if they still have their sparks I wonder what will happen to garruk & Liliana, I really like them as characters, I'm still waiting for them to meet since their redemption arcs, I'm hoping Liliana can help ajani heal, and I wonder what garruk will do with the kenrith twins losing their sparks.
I feel similar about Samut, though she was done dirty, I feel. I would have really liked more of her early on, searching the multiverse for ways to fix her dying plane. Successful or not, it would have been cool. But its over now.
Ob Nixilis´ Flavortext gives hope that the Maestro are not all lost since in the story of march of the mashines it seemed like only Phabine and Errant (even tho she isn´t really a member) had survived while the rest of the family got turnes into phyrexians
Also Sarkhan AND Narset being stucked on Tarkir could mean that we get to see the plane again and maybe there is a fight between the two trying to reverse the timeline (which in fact would set Nicol Bolas Free again probably)
Of course they’ll go back to Bolas, when’s the last time WotC had an original idea?
Edit: they keep recycling ideas and creating a “new story”
@@theomnipotent9402 I really hope they forget that reversing the timeline again will free bolas xD maybe the plan fails that would work too
Yeah, I'm sick of Bolas hopefully he doesn't come back any time soon or at all. But getting Tarkir reverted, that could be BOMB!
@@zeropoint2594plot twist, Ugin dies in the time travel shenanigans, Bolas gets free, and the multiverse says: "no no no, you already have too much fun. Spark canceled."
@@Zarlos01 The thing is that THIS is the only way he can return xD I don´t think Ugin thought abozt someone reversing the Timeline again so he is dead and can´t trap Bolas
But if they do that right after the pruning there could be effects like Time storms again or planeswalker get canceled all together
i feel like they could have done way more with the twins lorewise
Im stoked that ajani is cured and still a planeswalker. I wish we got an aftermath story, focused on ajani, but maybe in the future we will get one sense there are now less planeswalkers.
In terms of other people i want to see loose there spark, tbh idk i think the fun in it is to see who made the multiverse cut.
gonna miss The Wanderer... Her background presence and unpredictability were always interesting to me.
Remember when people thought she was Emrakul?
One minor change to your explanation of Calix, Calix gained a spark after have an existential crisis about not being able to do it's only function. They set it up to have Calix become it's own identity from Kloyths, but I assume they'll drop that plot
Great to see this! Looking forward to more of your stuff, mate
Appreciate you helping to clear things up! I liked the spark audit approach.
My planeswalker ranking list (top 5) and status
1. Teferi (desparked)
2. Tibalt (dead)
3. Sarkhan (desparked)
4. Ajani (spark still)
5. Kaya (spark probably)
wizards really did a number on my favorite characters
WoTC would never despark a black woman, for fear of backlash
Man ive been wonderinf about this for a while, it was nice to have all the information at a single video.
Great video!! I am so happy to see your content!
I may not play or collect MtG anymore, but I always love your videos.
Thank you 🙏
I have a funny feeling that there's some planeswalkers who still has their Sparks that they're still hidden but or has to be reignited once again
congrats on the sponsorship. How exciting!
It seems too convenient that all the Planeswalkers were on their home planes, except Ob Nixilis.
Yes I agree. But for narrative reasons I’m sort of glad. They did want to protect their homes at least. And now they can be a part of stories that matter to them specifically
Do we even know what his home plane is?
@jesok3761 MTG Wiki says "an unnamed plane if eternal war"
Nissa is trying to return to Zendikar.
It would be cool to see a desparked old Planeswalker mentoring a new walker. The newbie makes all kinds of mistakes and the old walker has to help them even though they don't have as much power
Nice rundown of the current state of the various MTG characters out there after the unfortunate defeat of our oily overlords (may they rise again grant their gift of compleat perfection to all!), earning that creator program status for sure, congrats sir
So happy you got choosen for the creator program you deserve it! ❤❤❤
It was a surprise and I’m so grateful for the chance!
@@AetherHub I become such a big fan of MTG because of the Lore you provided. I truly do not know if I would have gotten this into magic if not for you brotha. Thanks for all you do. Excited to see you keep growing.
I'm glad they pruned down the number of planeswalkers. There were too many and a lot of them weren't really very good characters. I would like to see more Sorin content that actually shows what he is capable of. For being one of the oldest planeswalkers aside from Bolas and Ugin, he always seems very underpowered, when he should be able to pretty much annihilate most other beings with a gesture.
Aren't there omenpaths still left open by realmbreaker?...
Wasn't what Nissa and Chandra encountered an indication that even though there are less planeswalkers now, travelling between planes is actually more accessible at this point?...
I'm not sure how much the story will focus on single plane naratives going forward...
Nice video! Would like to see stories when pws regain their spark motivated for necesity of gaining more power to combat a big threat like Eldrazi. Also would like to see more uncommuns pws with interesting statics habilities 🤗🤗🤗
Great videos as always!!
so glad to be back making videos for you guys
@@AetherHub and I’m very glad to be seeing them again, as a history major at uni I love having the lore of my other favourite world detailed!
I wish Tyvar kept his spark
While I love that Ajani got purified and kept his spark. I would have loved to gotten him as a legendary creature to make an Ajani tribal commander deck .
The one I'm bummed to see desparked is Karn, my boi has been through enough just let him rebuild Mirrodin in peace so he can have his baby back. Though, that Karn as a unit is pretty great as a better blinkmoth urn for artifact decks.
The world: totally calm and rebuilding
The eldrazi, slivers, lazotep zombies, vampires, and many others: Did you forget about ME!
I want to see some new dragon planeswalkers now that Tarkir has been pretty much de-sparked
Remember when we had a Kami who can basically planeswalk?
I miss that ngl. I just wish that they made more explanations about that
Where my Planeswalking Dinosaur? I want one!
@@delllee4915 Etali's newest iteration, free casting, infect, AND loyalty counters all on one card.
This is gonna allow better storytelling on planes and more than just the planeswalker club
I’m all for this new direction as I’m not a huge fan of planeswalkers.
I’m glad Phyrexia isn’t completely gone and has a chance to return. I like seeing completed versions of favorite characters, it’s a nice suspenseful twist.
Thanks for this.
I'm both happy and sad that Ajani kept his spark. He deserves it, a chance to heal, even the multiverse saw fit to let him keep it to seek that healing. But this also means I can't make him my commander of cats. Now I'm conflicted over Angrath...will he keep his spark or become the new commander of my minotaur deck. He'd undoubtedly still brave the risks of traveling without a spark
I wonder what made these the picks, why take or leave their sparks...?
My fingers when I take a bath...
THE GREAT PRUNING!!!!!
I’m glad Chandra made it out. Though I am curious about Lilliana. I wonder how she’s doing.
All five original walker cards are potentially still...
I hadn't realized that The Wanderer lost her spark. 😳
Here's to hoping we go back to tarkir. Also glad that my man Garruk still having his spark. For now
One of my favorites have been Tamiyo and she lost more than just her spark
Ob Nixilis, is by far my favorite planeswalker. Hes both won and lost so many times, it feels like my life story 😂
Ob Nixillis after losing his spark again and being stuck on Capenna: "Wait a minute, im still handicapped? This is bullsh-"
We know one planeswalker that has thier spark still, Chandra Naalar. She literally planeswalked to go and see if her mom is good and went back to Nissa. Chandra might be the next leader of a gatewatch type thing. Heck, she may find that elephant guy at random and teach him about being a planeswalker.
You're with wizards?!?!?! Congrats my friend! You're bad skills have finally been recognized. Proud of you and am you have done for us in this community.
Bard. Not bad. My bad lol
I know you wanted to hear who else you think loses their spark, but I sincerely hope Garruk hasn't lost his. I feel like Wilds is certainly gonna introduce him again, especially since he's cured of the chain curse, free from Oko, watching the twins and not hunting planeswalkers anymore. Man still needs his opportunity to go to all the different planes and take down the biggest game to add to his arsenal of beasts to summon. Imagine him hunting down Sarulf's spawn or the other giant beasts of Ixilan. I will be very disappointed of we dont see him in Wilds, as even if he did lose his spark, he would be there with the twins, helping them fight Phyrexia.
Hopefully if we return to Tarkir we get an explanation as to why Narset is labelled as an exile, as if I recall, she wasn't exiled by the jeskai way nor by Dragonlord Ojutai.
So either someone else is in control of the order (be it directly by usurping Ojutai, or indirectly by controlling the non dragon members of the order), or the reat pruning and invasion of the multiverse is causing the two timelines of Tarkir to begin crashing together
What a great time to be alive!!😃😃😃
Nobody is talking about nicol bolas being able to scape his jail plane now that there are portals out of every plane
it would be amazing if we returned to zendikar with nahiri and Kiora as allies to rebuild and defend zendikar, while a secret black cabal of black phyrexians are using dead eldrazi and zendikar's energy to rebuild a phyrexian vampire hegemony who worship Sorin.
Where did you get this info from? Not saying your wrong but where did it come from?
I love Ashiok so I don’t want to see them lose their spark but I’d love to have them as a commander in replacement for my Unbrus deck and if they r trapped on eldraine we might get to see it I could also see them being the one to hold the knowledge of how to move threw the multiverse as it now exists in pursuit of their precious nightmares and horrors
And can we just talk about how their influence on eldraine will hopefully give us some super cool nightmare/horror fairy tale creatures? I didn’t know I wanted them on this plain but after this I want to see them on innistrad
I’m going to throw hands if Vraska doesn’t show up in Ixalan in the coming months. Wizards will be getting a very strongly worded email.
Garruk is just gonna show up and be like “what happened “ 😂😂
I'm glad nahiri is alive, but I'd love it if she could still plansewalk.
Congratulations ambassador
Are we just going to walk over the fact that Calex “willed” a spark to himself? Like the dude right up said, “I’m a Planeswalker now!” and no one batted an eye at it.
No one could bat an eye because the story wasn’t fleshed out sadly
So we're going back to Uncharted Realms? Nice!!! I preferred stories before the Jace-tice League/Magic Story was created.
I soooo want return to the Lorwyn plane. It was my entry to mtg, and with Oona's death now could contain "good" faeries. Strong elementals, but hopefully also anti-elemental cards to balance them out.
My favorite planeswalkers were Calix and Sarkhan Vol. I’m just happy that they’re still alive
I’m super curious about where jace went
Could you do a Video about the known planeswalkers with a spark still? Chandra, Ajani, Elspeth, Garruk? Are there others? 👀
Ashiok (confirmed to have a planeswalker card in Wilds of Eldraine) and Quintorious (heavily implied he will have his first planeswalker card in Lost Caverns of Ixalan). Have we had confirmation that Garruk still has his spark?
Unless there is something I missed did the really just cure the completed planeswalkers with no immediate backlash from being perfected?
The upcoming stories may not focus on the next threat, but there will be teasers to what the next multiverse challenge is in whatever new arc is being brewed. My hunch from previous arcs and how the current arc was resolved, is that Eldrazi need to be dealt with next. To much damage to the fabrics between planes along with the meddling of the hedrons. I think we've seen the first big teaser already with the Commander Masters new Eldrazi being introduced, Zhulodok.
*OH LAWD, THEY CAN THINK NOW!*
im rejoicing. I got the best version of my boy Obby G, and its my favorite commander deck
Do you think with the omenpaths one would have made it to Ugin's Meditation realm, inadvertently liberating Nicol Bolas?
hope we get to see angrath again
Anybody else feel that are trying to make Nahiri into Garruk light?
sounds like Calix could become handled like a sort of mystical god made version of the similar archtype of the likes of terminator or robocop
in dnd terms this sort of blind eternities thing seems like an analog or at least similar to the astral plane with a bit of Ysgard, given it's being a transitive plane between planes and being able to grant powers to entities.
You're not entirely wrong. Blind Eternities are much more lethal, though. Anything organic passing through gets disintegrated aside from those possessing a planeswalker spark.
We now know that Vraska and Jace also lost their sparks. At least based on the cards that I saw from the latest test.
I am just sitting here happy ma boi Ajani is cured and still has his spark.
i want to know the fates of jace and vraska and hope both are alive and well
I wish I had answers for you 😭
Been missing your vids, but I suppose there aint much content during LOTR's season
If Ob ever dies we need to see an art of someone leaving a fruit basket by his grave.
what happened to the mirran resistance?
are they just abandoned?
If Nissa suddenly "got better" then all the walkers will get their sparks back because marketing. After the so called "story" of March of the Machines I've compleatly given up on any idea of a decent story out of Wizards.
I wonder if there is anything behind having so many arena of the planswalkers game's Plainswalkers lose their spark?
What i want to know i,s how is this different than Bolas desparking people? like why aren't the desparked walkers dying after losing their spark?
So, do we have a complete list of who is left?
Congratulations on your new position with wotc
No one:
Ajani: Join me in [insert current event here]
Sooooo...they have cut the planeswalkers down to the original 5? Chandra, Garruk, Liliana, Ajani and Jace (MIA)
Lol wouldn't they make a great gatewatch, or something for both stories & memes.
Confirmed we have Ashiok and Quintorious as well. Likely Kaito (technically, his spark is a separate sentient being as it's a kami).
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Wander what would have happened had nicol bolas have been there and not imprisoned. Do you think he would have had the power to take on phyrexia?
What happened to Jace at the end of the story anyway did he die?