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This thread is for discussion of this week's Savor the Flavor, which goes live Wednesday on magicthegathering.com.

Finally a decent article out of Beyer; I'd thought he'd forgotten entirely how to write.  (I know he has skills, he just never seems to bother using them.)  Definitely interesting to find out what planes like Ir and Arkhos are about; I hadn't had any idea they were related to anything that we knew before.

But I'm going to go on the record as guessing that Valla and Kaldheim are a related double-plane (I know, I'm inferring a relationship based just on the names both being Nordic) which will be the setting of the next block after Zendikar (specifically, after they're completely done with Zendikar, as there are supposed to be two "blocks" there, per MaRo's article the other week).  This is the only probable-seeming tease, and I'll be really annoyed if there wasn't a tease of Magic's post-ZEN direction among all these planes.

In other words, I'm annoyed Beyer didn't say anything about how we can have one plane card for all of Otaria and another for just the forest of Krosa on Otaria.  Also, I want to share the subtitle that I wish they'd given the Otaria card:  "The Land of Second Chances".

Here's hoping Planechase is a roaring success and gets revisited.  I want those Esper and Jund planes, to say nothing of the other nine Ravnica guilds, Phyrexian spheres, more of Shadowmoor and Mirrodin (just because I love them), and a few of Rabiah's 1000 other "demi-planes".

Just wanted to know what the card image blended into the right side of Shah of Naar Isle is... Does anyone know? I thought it was a curious blend and couldn't for the life of me recall what the artwork was for and how it was relevant to Naar Isle or Wildfire.

Sep 2, 2009 -- 6:01AM, Nyth wrote:

Just wanted to know what the card image blended into the right side of Shah of Naar Isle is... Does anyone know? I thought it was a curious blend and couldn't for the life of me recall what the artwork was for and how it was relevant to Naar Isle or Wildfire.

I think it's Emberwilde Caliph... a blue/red, Juggernaut-y, suicide style creature from Mirage.

i liked the article.

Sep 2, 2009 -- 3:32AM, alextfish wrote:

I'm entertained by "There's an unwritten understanding among planeswalkers that no Slivers should be summoned within Velis Vel, for fear of causing an ecological catastrophe within Lorwyn's underground."

I want to see that, now!

Agreed that this is one of Beyer's finer works. I know I've given him grief ever since Cavotta left, but articles like this help show that Doug has what it takes, he just doesn't always show it every week.

I hope I can manage to buy all four sets before they get too hard to find, and I don't know how I'm going to get that promo; my local store's website isn't listing the event for this weekend.