The Lore of Ikoria: A Worldbuilding Masterclass
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- With Ikoria just around the corner, everyone is talking about Magic the Gathering's most innovative new plane. But what can we as worldbuilders and dungeon masters learn from Ikoria? Can we use its secrets when running the game? Join us on this deep dive as we tear into the lore of Savai and Snapdax, Indatha and Nethroi, Zagoth and Brokkos, Raugrin and Vadrok, Ketria and Illuna and even the Skysail and Lavabrink!
There's plenty to be inspired by in Ikoria; plenty to use in your worldbuilding or game of Dungeons and Dragons.
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Special thanks to John and the others who helped create the Homebrew Stat Blocks for the Apexes! critterdb.com/...
Something a little different this time! Special thanks to everyone at our discord (discord.gg/vWr4ha5) who helped out with the Homewbrew Apexes. Come hang out with us there!
We'll be getting the the shards next week, but in a bit of a different format.
Let us know if there's any interest in a video about the specific characters of Ikoria, a lot of whom I loved dearly, but I didn't want this video to be incredibly long. There truly are some great ones though we could overview, Let us know if there's any interest!
You've really sold me on the lore for this set. I was a little on the edge before but that was a really good breakdown.
Thanks! It's interesting; there seems to have been a bit of a miscommunication between us and WotC; a lot of people don't know about the coolest parts because they never made it onto cards.
I think if you keep this up, and dig deeper, you'll have something really special. Subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words! We don't plan on stopping any time.
@@BuildingBetterDungeons I'm serious! I can't stop thinking about this video! This channel is rad!
Oh, I loved this video.
At first I hated Ikoria, however, the way you aproach Ikoria makes me like Ikoria.
Delighted to hear it!
@@BuildingBetterDungeons Thank you for answering my comment!
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@@DuskSunDawn Thank you for commenting in the first place!
I really love the lore and visuals of this plane. That gives me inspiration to my book I plan to write
It really is something!
MOOOOOOOORE!!!
"Triomes", eh? I see what they did there...
It's that kind of nonsense that I love.
I'm not really a Magic player, but I recently stumbled on Ikoria and its lore. After absorbing the official canon lore I felt that especially the Apex Predators felt lacking, insofar their color palettes were concerned. I had questions like "how is Snapdax primarily White if he is a cruel solitary predator?", "Where is there any White, or even much Green in Necroi?" and "Brokkos seems mono Green in everything but it's mechanical ability".
Since then I sat down and made my own headcanon backstory for each of the creatures, while trying to contradict the official lore as little as possible. It's nothing polished yet. Just some stuff scattered in multiple comments in a Reddit thread and one TH-cam comment. If you want I can share with you what I've got though.
Absolutely 100%. This is the content I live for (Conor)
@@BuildingBetterDungeons I'll just link you there instead of repeating myself or copy-pasting a wall of text.
www.reddit.com/r/mtgvorthos/comments/h184s7/question_about_apex_monster_flavorpersonalities/
That's the Reddit thread that most of my thoughts were first put to text.
th-cam.com/video/bBgZNmpA3JM/w-d-xo.html
In the comment section of that video you can find what I came up for on Brokkos.
Never tackled Necroi though.
I don't play mtg, but occasionally I have enjoyed buying sets or art books for the worldbuilding, storytelling, art.
The worldbuilding is often excellent, isn't it?
:-)
IKO is so awesome. I love the design articles giving insights how it was made and how it works.
I hope they release a Planeshift for it.
It is a shame there are no art books any more.
It really does feel quite special as a set! I love so many of the cards; when it drops on Arena Human Drafting will be my first port of call!
Try to play soul bounder homebrew
Let us know how it goes!
Dude, this is so sick, I gotta make my players planeswalk to Ikoria from Ravnica now :p
Let us know how it goes!
Awesome content man, keen to see more! Found you on the MC subreddit and I’m loving your work.
Thanks so much! That sub does seem to enjoy our content, on the whole. Praise be our bearded paragon.
I've tried to make a D&D campaign for Ravnica a few years back but I could never get that feeling of adventure with it.
Ikoria's interwoven stories and vastness is inexplicably beautiful and I haven't been this enraptured by a Magic plane ever.
Man, that was a fantastic breakdown, and got me all excited too. I'd love to see more, about Magic and non-Magic worlds. I'm super excited to see what else you make! Keep it up!
Edit: Also, are the last two apexes coming to CritterDB? The link has three of them.
I'm on the Building Better Dungeons discord linked in the description: the community is building the last two now!
Thanks for the kind words. That's right; the other two Apexes (Apexa?Apexias?) are in production as we speak.
A really good video! I really like your series, it's evocative and fertile ground for world building.
Thanks for the kind words!
hate the set, love the plane
I usually hate these kind of videos and find them difficult to engage with. This was very much a breath of fresh air, to the point, didn't waffle on.
I look forward to future videos, and I am now really hyped for this new setting. I might even get into Magic.
Thanks for the kind words! I recommend Magic Arena: It's decently free to play, and very intuitive.
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Great job man. Ikoria's world is really a nexus of untapped potential. The lore is really deep and solid.
Is that bar the Green Lady Lounge in Kansas City?
It's one of the google resorts for "Piano Bar Jazz Image"
I'd love to bond with Brokkos the Bro. One of my favorite depictions of a BUG legend. Gentle and timeless.
Mmh! In one of the lore articles, Vivian thinks that Umori (a Legendary from the Sultai Commander decks released with Ikoria) is a member of the same species as Brokkos, which would be neat if true!
@@BuildingBetterDungeons I just had an epiphany. What if Brokkos is actually a Slowbro from Pokemon, that's gained legendary status?! It's both slow and is a wise bro...
@@CosmicErrata Alright, that's it. You now have to go classify the colour identity of all original 151 pokemon.
@@BuildingBetterDungeons Someone's beat me to it: www.reddit.com/r/colorpie/comments/bcnj2r/gen_1_pokemon/
@@CosmicErrata Crikey
I'm glad i'm here before you get really popular
I'm glad you think we'll get really popular. Here's hoping you're right!
I'm loving Ikoria, and in planning to start running 5e in it this month. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
Same! I'll be using plenty of these tips in my game!