Ep.137 Modern Horizons 3 Flavour Picks

well i want to first i'm gonna first the first thing i want to talk about quickly and that's what you said about lore and how like a lot of this so the last time we did this we had those cards like What was it? The Necro...

The Lazotep Sliver and things like that.

Cards that insinuated massive, massive...

Had massive implications, if canonical.

And then they kind of went,

oh, not really canonical.

Don't take it at

face value.

Yeah, they're what-ifs.

For this, I feel like there's a little bit...

It's not like that.

There's stories within this that are actually absolutely completely and 100% must be true.

Which then kind of makes the rest of the set feel like...

This isn't a what if, this is more a what are they doing, or what were they doing at that time, rather than what could the multiverse look like right now.

My main criticism for that, I've got a bad and a good.

The bad being, where in the lore storyline, considering all three of the titans at last point of knowledge, two of them were kind of burnt to a crisp, pulled into the plane of Zendikar and set on fire.

So their physical manifestations, as far as we're aware, are deceased, gone, not coming back again.

And Emrakul's in a moon.

So these cards are clearly not from now.

They're clearly a space, a point in their lives a point in their physical manifestations that at that point then makes me go well where in that timeline of Ulamog the infinite gear or Gaia or whatever and then Ulamog the ceaseless hunger is Ulamog the defiler in between that was the ceaseless hunger where it first erupted and then this is a little bit further down the line because Battle for Zendikar as far as I'm aware didn't Didn't happen over a long, long period of time.

As far as I'm aware, it shouldn't really take two Eldrazi Titans that long to take a plane, even one as big as Zendikar.

So even if it was a couple of months, it's interesting that we've got a character, a legendary creature, something that is unknowable, and now we've got three different versions of it.

So it's quite known at that point, isn't it? Because we've got all these different abilities that it can do across its...

across its story arc, shall we say.

And I find it interesting that we've got these extra kind of snippets of their character when it's like, one, they're not supposed to have character, and two, Emrakul, the world anew, compared to Emrakul, the promised end, isn't that just the same Emrakul from the same point in

well i want to first i'm gonna first the first thing i want to talk about quickly and that's what you said about lore and how like a lot of this so the last time we did this we had those cards like What was it? The Necro...

The Lazotep Sliver and things like that.

Cards that insinuated massive, massive...

Had massive implications, if canonical.

And then they kind of went,

oh, not really canonical.

Don't take it at

face value.

Yeah, they're what-ifs.

For this, I feel like there's a little bit...

It's not like that.

There's stories within this that are actually absolutely completely and 100% must be true.

Which then kind of makes the rest of the set feel like...

This isn't a what if, this is more a what are they doing, or what were they doing at that time, rather than what could the multiverse look like right now.

My main criticism for that, I've got a bad and a good.

The bad being, where in the lore storyline, considering all three of the titans at last point of knowledge, two of them were kind of burnt to a crisp, pulled into the plane of Zendikar and set on fire.

So their physical manifestations, as far as we're aware, are deceased, gone, not coming back again.

And Emrakul's in a moon.

So these cards are clearly not from now.

They're clearly a space, a point in their lives a point in their physical manifestations that at that point then makes me go well where in that timeline of Ulamog the infinite gear or Gaia or whatever and then Ulamog the ceaseless hunger is Ulamog the defiler in between that was the ceaseless hunger where it first erupted and then this is a little bit further down the line because Battle for Zendikar as far as I'm aware didn't Didn't happen over a long, long period of time.

As far as I'm aware, it shouldn't really take two Eldrazi Titans that long to take a plane, even one as big as Zendikar.

So even if it was a couple of months, it's interesting that we've got a character, a legendary creature, something that is unknowable, and now we've got three different versions of it.

So it's quite known at that point, isn't it? Because we've got all these different abilities that it can do across its...

across its story arc, shall we say.

And I find it interesting that we've got these extra kind of snippets of their character when it's like, one, they're not supposed to have character, and two, Emrakul, the world anew, compared to Emrakul, the promised end, isn't that just the same Emrakul from the same point in