VorthosTheWillis

After the Phyrexian invasion collapsed what happened to the planes which fell completely to Phyrexia? Tezzeret mentioned that Mirrankkar, Cabralin and others fell to Phyrexia quickly and others were nearly there, did they recover to normal? Are they dead planes or are there perhaps Phyrexians there struggling to survive like on New Capena?

That's not the kind of thing you're going to get answered any time soon, unfortunately.

As someone excitedly following the MKM story every day, I really didn’t appreciate having to bail on the preview stream to avoid finding out whodunnit before it was revealed in today’s chapter. Could you pass along the note to please, please not pit folks’ story interest against their card preview interest like that? I know it got a lot of story fans upset.

Thank you.

Would you have preferred the story being posted before the stream?

Hi Jay,

The recent story seems to heavily imply that the Ravnican population as a whole are pissed off with *all* planeswalkers for not coming to their aid during the Phyrexian Invasion. Are they all being entitled ass-hats (what with the number of planeswalkers << numberof planes being invaded), or am I missing something here?

Imagine you are an average Ravnican.

Imagine if the most important position in your government was taken by a being from outside of your world, and they disappeared for long stretches off-world. You've never heard of a planeswalker before.

Imagine if within the span of a few months, half your other heads of state were replaced by planeswalkers just like him, most of which because of assassinations... carried out by these same planeswalkers. Most at the behest of ANOTHER planeswalker, a massive evil dragon who launches an invasion with off-world murder zombies and wreaks havoc on your world. You finally know the name planeswalker, and associate it with the worst tragedy to happen on your plane in millennia.

All to get at these planeswalkers. And at the cost of thousands of lives - YOUR lives, YOUR people, the ones that the dragon AREN'T after, they win. Every single one of those planeswalkers owes their lives to the citizens of Ravnica. Every. Single. One. Dozens of planeswalkers, deep in Ravnica's debt.

Two years later, one of those planeswalkers, a supposed local, launches yet another invasion. Worse than the last. And where were these planeswalkers YOU saved in THEIR hour of need, now that YOU need them?

Not a single one of the dozens whose lives were bought with the blood, sweat, and tears of average Ravnicans could be bothered to show up. Even the Orzhov Guildmaster couldn't even be bothered to show up. The only one that did was the Izzet Guildmaster.

Azor's beard. These ungrateful assholes. Planeswalkers suck. We hate them.

Which Theros gods got phyrexianized and which didn't? And is there any hope for the phyrexian ones to heal or are they too far gone?

We know the mono-colored gods are either confirmed or heavily implied, and likely many of the others. Cymede likely means Keranos, for instance.

As for the metaphysics of what comes next, we don't know yet.

Which Theros gods got phyrexianized and which didn't? And is there any hope for the phyrexian ones to heal or are they too far gone?

We know the mono-colored gods are either confirmed or heavily implied, and likely many of the others. Cymede likely means Keranos, for instance.

As for the metaphysics of what comes next, we don't know yet.

Mr Mark, I beg you, the myr mark... the myr... did any of them survive? MARK! THE MYR WHAT HAPPEND TO THE MYR! I BEG YOU!

I will do everything in my power to make sure more Myr exist as cards.

If New Phyrexia was shunted into the metaphysical location of Zhalfir, if the Zhalfirin Void on Dominaria became unphased (somehow), would New Phyrexia overlay into Dominaria (in a similar manner to the Rathi Overlay)?

It's possible, but extremely unlikely. It took an event of cosmic importance, and the Invasion Tree, to pluck Zhalfir out of the metaphysical pocket it was occupying.

It's also not clear what would even remain of it, the physical world was crumbling, and it's not clear if Norn's 'kill switch' was tied to her or the plane itself.

If Jin-Gitaxias altered the glistening oil so it now retains Planeswalker souls, could that apply to all newly-created Phyrexians? I've noticed some of them, especially Ixhel, acting very strangely for Phyrexians.

That's an interesting thought!

Jay idk if you can answer this yet, but some of us are confused on Kaya's thought process stopping Iron Jace from using the Silex. They did so much to get it and make it down there. Kaito wants the wanderer and kamigawa to be ok, but I don't get HER drastic change from trying to save the multiverse did she see danger to multiple planes and would risk fighting the armies after all their work?

It's less a sudden change and more "hold on, we need to talk about this". It's a magical nuke that just went from 'we blow up new phyrexia' to 'hold on, we could blow up a LOT of planes, and potentially cause worse damage than we're trying to fix, let's take a moment'. They were ALREADY surprised by how different New Phyrexia is than they were hoping, and I don't think it's unreasonable to say "hold on a second". Jace, however, didn't have any more time and forced the issue.

For perspective, when the Sylex was detonated on Dominaria, not only did it usher in a 3,000 year Ice Age (which would have consumed the plane if the Worldspell hadn't been cast), but it also ruptured the fabric of the Blind Eternities, creating the Shard of Twelve Worlds, a barrier that made it impossible for planeswalkers to enter or leave a group of twelve planes.

There haven't been any more Oath cards since WAR, have the Gatewatch stopped recruiting?

It's more we've stopped making Oaths.