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Magic Story - The Gathering Storm - Chapter Seven
* This is actually from last week; there wasn't a chapter this week.
* Vraska leads an army of Golgari zombies, giant insects, and trolls through the sewers to attack Orzhov HQ, alongside Ral Zerek, Kaya, and Hekara. This is a distraction so Kaya can kill the Ghost Council.
* Orzhov fights back with knights and thrulls, including an archer with arrows that prevent regeneration, killing the trolls. Hekara kills that archer.
* Ral and Hekara make their escape on a cloud powered airship piloted by a goblin working for Ral.
* Kaya has a neat fight against some giants.
* When she finally reaches the Ghost Council, they ignore her and keep reading their ledgers, until she kills a few of them. Still, it happens too quickly for them to react. As she kills them, she feels heavier for some reason.
* The only one left is Karlov, who figures out that Teysa is the one behind this. He tells her that Teysa is not to be trusted. Kaya says she's leaving as soon as she's done, which he raises an eyebrow at as she kills him. Thanks to the WAR novel, we know that killing these ghosts weighed Kaya down with all of their contracts, which prevents her from planeswalking away.
Magic is doing really well, with Modern Horizon's success highlighted in particular. Arena's introduction has actually led to an increase in paper product sales.
On how a Fairy Tale / Camelot world came to be
studiodiemwing asked: Did any development or world building happen in the 7(?) years before Eldraine went to Vision Design, or have you just been saying "Hey, this is a good idea for a world!" for all that time?
I just kept suggesting it and was told, "What else you got?"
Then Shawn Main pitched a Camelot inspired world and I said I don't think there's enough to flesh out a whole set, but I had an idea we could combine with it.
July 24, 2019
radioactivestardust asked: Camelot doesn't have enough material for a set on its own? There's almost 1000 years of literature set in that world. How can there not be enough?
The issue was the trope space wasn't deep enough. If you write every trope a wider audience would know about Camelot, it isn't a particularly long list.
Also, Magic has done so much high fantasy over the years, it doesn't read as something new. Adding in the fairy tale elements creates a world unlike anything we've done before.
July 25, 2019
erfunk asked: Speaking of Camelot trope space, are things away from Camelot itself like Arthur's conquest of Rome or even pre-Arthur events related to Uther too esoteric? Having played the Pendragon role-playing campaign with some friends, my perspective on what's common knowledge is shot.
Research showed most people have no idea who the Green Knight is, so it's not super deep.
July 25, 2019
New video going over the colors of Magic
And it's been a couple weeks, but Destroy All Humanity, It Can't Be Regenerated chapter 8 came out and... it ends with a timeskip to when they're adults, after 1999, and definitely after Urza's Saga, which one person in the chat was looking forward to. Well, it's almost definitely going to jump back to the "present" of the 90's, but I found it funny that it seemed to skip right over Urza's Saga. In any case, a good chunk of the chapter is taken up by Unglued, which was fun to see. The rest of the chapter was good too, though I've seen this fireworks scene pretty often.
* This is actually from last week; there wasn't a chapter this week.
* Vraska leads an army of Golgari zombies, giant insects, and trolls through the sewers to attack Orzhov HQ, alongside Ral Zerek, Kaya, and Hekara. This is a distraction so Kaya can kill the Ghost Council.
* Orzhov fights back with knights and thrulls, including an archer with arrows that prevent regeneration, killing the trolls. Hekara kills that archer.
* Ral and Hekara make their escape on a cloud powered airship piloted by a goblin working for Ral.
* Kaya has a neat fight against some giants.
* When she finally reaches the Ghost Council, they ignore her and keep reading their ledgers, until she kills a few of them. Still, it happens too quickly for them to react. As she kills them, she feels heavier for some reason.
* The only one left is Karlov, who figures out that Teysa is the one behind this. He tells her that Teysa is not to be trusted. Kaya says she's leaving as soon as she's done, which he raises an eyebrow at as she kills him. Thanks to the WAR novel, we know that killing these ghosts weighed Kaya down with all of their contracts, which prevents her from planeswalking away.
Magic is doing really well, with Modern Horizon's success highlighted in particular. Arena's introduction has actually led to an increase in paper product sales.
On how a Fairy Tale / Camelot world came to be
studiodiemwing asked: Did any development or world building happen in the 7(?) years before Eldraine went to Vision Design, or have you just been saying "Hey, this is a good idea for a world!" for all that time?
I just kept suggesting it and was told, "What else you got?"
Then Shawn Main pitched a Camelot inspired world and I said I don't think there's enough to flesh out a whole set, but I had an idea we could combine with it.
July 24, 2019
radioactivestardust asked: Camelot doesn't have enough material for a set on its own? There's almost 1000 years of literature set in that world. How can there not be enough?
The issue was the trope space wasn't deep enough. If you write every trope a wider audience would know about Camelot, it isn't a particularly long list.
Also, Magic has done so much high fantasy over the years, it doesn't read as something new. Adding in the fairy tale elements creates a world unlike anything we've done before.
July 25, 2019
erfunk asked: Speaking of Camelot trope space, are things away from Camelot itself like Arthur's conquest of Rome or even pre-Arthur events related to Uther too esoteric? Having played the Pendragon role-playing campaign with some friends, my perspective on what's common knowledge is shot.
Research showed most people have no idea who the Green Knight is, so it's not super deep.
July 25, 2019
New video going over the colors of Magic
And it's been a couple weeks, but Destroy All Humanity, It Can't Be Regenerated chapter 8 came out and... it ends with a timeskip to when they're adults, after 1999, and definitely after Urza's Saga, which one person in the chat was looking forward to. Well, it's almost definitely going to jump back to the "present" of the 90's, but I found it funny that it seemed to skip right over Urza's Saga. In any case, a good chunk of the chapter is taken up by Unglued, which was fun to see. The rest of the chapter was good too, though I've seen this fireworks scene pretty often.
