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Didn't Elspeth send the Sylex into there? She died out there and got resurrected as an angel by a strange voice, Emrakrul has some connection with angels in the cards (imagined as an angel via statues, I think Jace saw Emrakrul as an angel too and easily converted significant Innistrad angels). The phrexian oil would have probably messed up every plane and spoiled the eldrazi's lunch if Elesh Norn had won, thankfully Elspeth popped in right when she was needed, highly suspicious, somebody needs to keep an eye on Elspeth. 😬

The gatewatch story where two of the titans got destroyed, told us that the titans were first pulled all the way into the plane, filling the sky horizon to horizon, before Chandra and Nissa used Zendikars mana to burn them up. It is highly implied that the entire form were destroyed, not just the "hand"

So the Eldrazi are the fishstore owner?!? But serieusly the reset button make sense looking at their annihilator abbility reseting somebodies board state

Pherexia is better

Sweet baby is messing with the lore right?

I've always felt that the Eldrazi are drawn not to dying OR thriving worlds, but worlds that are out of balance. The Hedrons (and by extension, the Cryptoliths) twist leylines in unnatural ways to create a nexus of energy, like we see in Ugin's Nexus and Drownyard Temple. I know, it sounds redundant given the effect the Eldrazi HAVE on a world, but what's the harm when the whole world is seemingly twisting in on itself already? Chaos is the child of death and life. It's full of energy, but can be destructive. The real question is, why didn't Emrakul leave Innistrad instead of sealing herself away?

Not going to speak on the fact that the commander of the new eldrazi deck is Ulalek the mix of ulamog and kozilek 😅 it even looks like a fusion of the two.

Magic is dead. Break the cycle. Long live SWU!

They seem like galactus from marvel. Roaming the cosmos, eating any planes they run into, with no one strong enough to kill them, people only can push them towards another plane.

As a new player I'm still playing catch up with all the magic the gathering lore and these videos are great. Had no idea how much mystery was behind the eldrazi

The fishtank analogy was actually pretty damn good. It also helps explain the 4th dimension to people who haven't intuitively grasped the concept. But that's beyond the point. The fact is: this video was very illuminating. I started playing around Brothers War and my brother (who got me into MTG) kept mentioning the Eldrazi to me. As cool as they look, they had never made any sense to me. And that's despite my brother being a lorebuff. (he is also the reason I got into this channel)

You forgot the fourth Eldrazi titan: The Marit Lage

What’s your theory on what Ulalek’s purpose is/why it was created?

I would posit that the Eldrazi serve a similar purpose to something like a Galactus, from Marvel comics. A necessary entity whose role is to correct the imbalance between Eternity and Death (both as personified in the comics' cosmic cosmology). Galactus also served as a buffer against a character called Abraxas, who is mainly a destroyer of any and all things within the (Marvel) Multiverse. It's also said that Galactus takes the form of something recognizable before whoever gazes upon him, which is more effort than what the Eldrazi are capable of.

More concerned with Jace. Why does he need Loot? Will this be related to Nicol Bolas? Like what if he wants to get his spark back so he wants to know how Bolas would have done it? Wild.

The blind eternities and also be inhabited by Demons. as demons can cross through the blind eternity to other planes

Honestly, I was really hoping that they would show up in March of the machines when realm breaker punched holes into the blind eternities.

The metaphors and way you crafted the explanation is 100% on point. You need to write the story henceforth, thanks In advance 😂😂😂

And what is marit lage in relations to the eldrazi?

To explain this killing of Ulamog and Kozileg using the fish bowl analogy, imagine being able to move the person's heart to their hand in the fish bowl, and then stabbing said heart. That will kill someone outside the fish bowl with just their hand in it.

Well for me I would like see a new story about them. I mean if there's no story then people just going guess and really in my opinion they should make a new story instead guessing in my opinion. And awesome video as well

Sure, it may have a better resource system, but when I compare the 2 I immediately see 2 problems. 1. It’s limited to only Disney Star Wars, which is becoming less and less popular. Issue number 2. When comparing the art design of the cards to mtg, mtg takes the cake, I find unlimited’s card art extremely ugly and not good to look at. Where as mtg, sure there are a handful of ugly cards, but most of the cards look great with solid design and theming. I understand that since WOTS in 2019 that most sets lack identity, but when I look at Star Wars unlimited, it looks like a pizza that has every topping on the menu on it. It’s chaotic and messy and there are no defined sides since I can just take whatever I want with the only downside being it costs 2 extra resources. Sure there are some cards that look great, but those are like $500 each and they don’t look $500 great either. I’d say another issue for me is that they didn’t only focus on the OT and Prequels and chose to add in the stuff from the shows. If it was only focused around those aspects I would’ve enjoyed it more as I don’t really like all of the new lore that they’ve added, plus if your a casual fan, you have no idea who most of these extra characters or locations are. If you enjoy it, great I’m glad, but there are a lot of downsides to acknowledge as well.

How to underrstand the Eldrazi: 1. Look at spaghetti 2. Look at the monster 3. Look at the spaghetti monster 4. Become corrupted by spaghetti monster 5. You are spaghetti monster 6. Spaghetti

It would be super cool to tie the planewalker's transplanar abilities (maybe even the omenpaths) into the nature and existance of the Eldrazi as the Blind Eternity's natives. Could even tie it back into the Mending as some sort of catalyst for provoking the Eldrazi back into activity.

My bet is that the eldrazi destroy planes and as a by-product maintain the blind eternities, and one of the reasons the holes in the multiverse are appearing is eldrazi are not there to consume those who linger in the blind eternities, or to consume any mana leaking between planes which can cause the holes.

RETURN OF THE ELDRAZI would, at any rate, be a great idea for a FUTURE block-level story that Wizards could explore in the future. Fans would eat that up, particularly if it answers the questions regarding Ulamog, Kozilek, and, most importantly, EMRAKUL!

Actually, WHY Bolas decided to release them is just as interesting as the HOW.

How can you look at Emrakul and still tell me there's no romance in MTG 🥲

i was hoping there would be a clash between the phyrexains and the eldrazi where maybe one isnt so bad knowing the other as a massive threat

I was picturing Ryan's voice coming out of Ugin when he was explaining the Blind Eternities using the Fishtank Parallel, lmao

Slight correction / maybe just addition? You claimed that no living things exist in the Blind Eternities accept maybe the Eldrazi. There are other living things that dwell on the "shelf space". Examples are trees such as The World Tree and Realmbreaker along with creatures on those trees such as Koma and Toski. It's also possible (theoretically) that other beings we are aware of came from there as well, Marit Lage comes to mind. Love your work keep em' coming!

Slight correction / maybe just addition? You claimed that no living things exist in the Blind Eternities accept maybe the Eldrazi. There are other living things that dwell on the "shelf space". Examples are trees such as The World Tree and Realmbreaker along with creatures on those trees such as Koma and Toski. It's also possible (theaoretically) that other beings we are aware of came from there as well, Marit Lage comes to mind. Love you work keep em' coming!

I would love if the made a Eldrazi Planeswalker.

Eldrazi ARE like Jazz and this is why i'm eagerly awaiting 'Whispers of Emrakul' by the Innistrad Eldritch Orchestra. Should be out by the next new moon

I don‘t think the Eldrazi have any purpose. Like leeches, all they do it suck the energy by destruction to survive and if by side effect it happens to have any other effect, it‘s mostly by chance more then purpose EDIT: And why didn‘t Emrakul eat Innostrad alone? Probably they have to work together, so all 3 or it‘s not possible to consume a plane

Love the Outro, as always.

I find the prospect that the gatewatch defeated two titans to be frankly ridiculous.

I love the Eldrazi as they are now. Please don‘t explain too much.

Honestly, weird connection, but the idea of the Eldrzi being attracted to "advanced" planes made me think of Kamigawa - which, essentially in the past few millennia while the Titans were sealed away, became the first plane we know about to advance technologically past, like... medieval-era fantasy stuff. Pure headcanon but it would kind of explain why the Magic multiverse was trapped in that "fantasy stasis" - planes that got too juicy and too advanced with mana-harnessing technology inadvertently attracted some big multiversal dudes to eat them.

The biggest hint to their purpose can be found in Gatewatch vs Eldritch Moon. Emrakul said Innistrad wasn't ready for her nor was she ready for it but none of the titans had the same thoughts for Zendikar. Which means Zendikar did meet the "conditions" for their purpose That or those two were just starving 😂 press X

Cosmic Horror has a fundamental conflict at its very heart. For a story to work, we need to understand it, the characters, the stakes, the rules of the world... But cosmic horror is born out of ignorance, from trying to understand something and failing miserably, from the knowledge, It's the complete powerlessness of not even being able to grasp just how screwed you are. The eldrazi, and any comic horror, need to strike a balance between being understood and being incomprehensible. I'm not saying that we shouldn't learn more about them, but whatever we learn should be vague, maybe even confusing, and raise even more questions. We should learn more about the eldrazi, but never understand them. The moment we don't have to speculate too much about them, the horror is just gone. That's why I love the last sentence Emrakul tells Jace. It makes enough sense to hint at a motive or purpose, yet it only makes things more confusing. This is why I also think printing Ulalek is genius. Just dropping the fused titans and refusing to elaborate.

Yay! Missed you Ryan!

I would think of the planes as planets, so planeswalkers basically can jump from planet to planet, then the Eldrazi would be space monsters just as you said. Sort of galactus eating planets/planes. But I would like to see them featured in an upcoming big event.

I sincerely hope Wizards does not try to explain the Eldrazi. Eldritch creatures should not make sense or be explainable.

Something to keep in mind is that the Gatewatch's Leyline Channel Fireball plan was their plan B, Jace himself stated that the Leyline Channel Fireball plan was "A messy, last-ditch, improvised plan with altogether too many unknowns and if-thens." (Brink of Extinction). Plan A was Ugin's proposal of resealing the Titans until a permanent non-sealing solution could be devised (Revelation at the Eye; Hedron Alignment) buut Ob Nixilis decided that the Hedron Alignment was the perfect snack to reignite his Spark. TL:DR Sealing was the Gatewatch's first plan, it failed, so Gatewatch cobbled together the Kill plan.

Can we all admit that we all are indeed so jealous of Ryan's moustache? Maybe some not to light magic might help to make him tell us how he does it.

Does anyone else remember that scene with Urza and Teferi in the blind eternities and there are fingers clawing into time bubble? I genuinely think is an eldrazi trying to claw in and really hope this gets built on more

A lot of good points and it does seem to address some of MtG’s issues. However something that disappoints me in a game like this (same for Lorcana, Keyforge etc.) is that they are so like magic. Cards have power/toughness, tap and untap, typically not have haste, and the game is about attacking each other’s creatures and if you get through them a life total. Of course other terms are used for all of these, but my favorite are comparisons are the old Decipher Star Wars CCG and the old Middle Earth CCG. These games really work very different compared to MtG, MECCG probably most so where you have your characters traveling around over the map of middle earth, gathering allies, items and factions which all have VP’s. Then exactly half of your deck is hazards, cards (creatures or events) with which you can attack your opponent’s characters during their turn to try and prevent them scoring points. My point is, when you play MECCG, it really feels like a completely different experience compared to MtG. When I played Keyforge and I’m afraid this as well, it feels like playing the same game, just with different art, names for mechanics, and (for now) a more shallow card pool.

I think the Eldrazi are pretty cool, but I'd say it's one of those cases where the mystery is more interesting than the answers. To add to that, I think Wotc themselves don't even know what to do with them. Ulamog and Kozilek were obliterated and it seems there was no consequences to the multiverse so far. And Emrakul imprisoning herself in the moon was another case of Wotc bottling their villains for a potential future use again (like Bolas).

If we believe Raven Man, Emrakul creates planes. Might be the ulamog erases everything to a blank state and Kozilek prepares it for Emrakuls creations