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Flag WotC_Monty September 25, 2012 4:41 PM PDT

This thread is for discussion of this week's Uncharted Realms, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.

Flag Fireballmage September 25, 2012 10:03 PM PDT
Meh. All generic set-up. Not really impressed. Pretty generic. 

For a moment, I was a bit confused because the part "Ruzi said to his two-legged student" seemed to indicate he was a centaur, which obviously didn't make sense. However, looking at the context, he was distinguishing between the wolves and the two-legged students. Still, it's rather irksome.

I like how Ruzi is not the stereotypical conclave evangelist; it helps show that the guilds aren't just 2 dimensional caricatures.

 I really hope they don't go the obvious direction of making Cecilee an antagonist; not only would the "twist" be a cliche, it would be too derivative of the recent Vraska story. 

I'm hoping the conclusion is worth it; the Shadows of Prahv part 1 got a LOT better with the second part, so maybe the same will apply here.
Flag Redgurr September 25, 2012 10:27 PM PDT
Ugh, reading this made me even more mad that WotC didn't play up the fact that Selesnyans had wolf riders, and a good number of them too. But no, they had to go and make elemental temples ... Pssh! If they weren't going to make wolf rider cards the least they could have done was make the 2/2 white knight vigilance token a knight who rides a wolf, and it would have been fine and still mostly appear in Selesnya decks.. But no, it's a generic knight on a generic horse ... /Whining over.

Look forward to part 2!
Flag Shamsiel September 25, 2012 11:09 PM PDT
Good, inner conflicts within the Selesnya. The dryad sounds positively diabolical.
Flag gruulsmash September 26, 2012 5:48 AM PDT
LEAVE THE GRUUL ALONE!!!!!
ten thousand years ago you stole their color pie and duties to the guildpact, and now your back to finish the job. you preach, but you don't love nature any more than the orzhov or azorius do.

however, awesome story. im hoping ruzi will turn out to be the selesnya champion, and that he'll meet either borborgymos or the gruul champion in the story.
Flag ElMikkino September 26, 2012 7:40 AM PDT
I wonder if Jenna knew that in Japanese, "Kuma" means "bear". Strange name for a wolf.
Flag KensuuDimirOpportunist September 26, 2012 8:43 AM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 7:40AM, ElMikkino wrote:

I wonder if Jenna knew that in Japanese, "Kuma" means "bear". Strange name for a wolf.


Fine for a fat wolf Smile. So for men.

Flag Flyheight September 26, 2012 9:24 AM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 7:40AM, ElMikkino wrote:

I wonder if Jenna knew that in Japanese, "Kuma" means "bear". Strange name for a wolf.



I was thinking the same thing.


Loved the storytelling.  Admittedly, the way it started out, I originally though the story would be about the young wolf rider girl and Tiptoes, her wolf, but this is fine too.

Flag Fireballmage September 26, 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Sep 25, 2012 -- 10:27PM, Redgurr wrote:

Ugh, reading this made me even more mad that WotC didn't play up the fact that Selesnyans had wolf riders, and a good number of them too. But no, they had to go and make elemental temples ... Pssh! If they weren't going to make wolf rider cards the least they could have done was make the 2/2 white knight vigilance token a knight who rides a wolf, and it would have been fine and still mostly appear in Selesnya decks.. But no, it's a generic knight on a generic horse ... /Whining over. Look forward to part 2!


A wolf on its own is a 2/2. A wolf riding-knight should be bulkier. 

Also, elemental temples are awesome.

Sep 26, 2012 -- 5:48AM, gruulsmash wrote:

however, awesome story. im hoping ruzi will turn out to be the selesnya champion, and that he'll meet either borborgymos or the gruul champion in the story.



We probably won't. The title of the next story is "Thrill Kill Assassin". 

Flag gruulsmash September 26, 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:00AM, Fireballmage wrote:

Sep 25, 2012 -- 10:27PM, Redgurr wrote:

Ugh, reading this made me even more mad that WotC didn't play up the fact that Selesnyans had wolf riders, and a good number of them too. But no, they had to go and make elemental temples ... Pssh! If they weren't going to make wolf rider cards the least they could have done was make the 2/2 white knight vigilance token a knight who rides a wolf, and it would have been fine and still mostly appear in Selesnya decks.. But no, it's a generic knight on a generic horse ... /Whining over. Look forward to part 2!


A wolf on its own is a 2/2. A wolf riding-knight should be bulkier. 

Also, elemental temples are awesome.

Sep 26, 2012 -- 5:48AM, gruulsmash wrote:

however, awesome story. im hoping ruzi will turn out to be the selesnya champion, and that he'll meet either borborgymos or the gruul champion in the story.



We probably won't. The title of the next story is "Thrill Kill Assassin". 


don't rain on my fantasy
but he is going to the rubblebelt, the home of the gruul. so he might meet both

Flag Taramoor September 26, 2012 10:15 AM PDT
Even money his sister's a Meat-eatin', Hard-fightin', Gruul Badass now.
Flag KensuuDimirOpportunist September 26, 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:00AM, Fireballmage wrote:

Sep 25, 2012 -- 10:27PM, Redgurr wrote:

Ugh, reading this made me even more mad that WotC didn't play up the fact that Selesnyans had wolf riders, and a good number of them too. But no, they had to go and make elemental temples ... Pssh! If they weren't going to make wolf rider cards the least they could have done was make the 2/2 white knight vigilance token a knight who rides a wolf, and it would have been fine and still mostly appear in Selesnya decks.. But no, it's a generic knight on a generic horse ... /Whining over. Look forward to part 2!


A wolf on its own is a 2/2. A wolf riding-knight should be bulkier. 




3/4 maybe. By the way, anyone knows how did the end up last time with Voja ?

Flag Redgurr September 26, 2012 4:50 PM PDT
@fireballmage

Please, if your gonna use that metric then the knight token as is, isn't bulky enough already. Considering knights on their own are at least 2/1 and horses are 2/3s (Armored Warhorse), so it should really be 4/4 :P

I was speaking in terms of flavor and art. I wouldn't change the creature type to be " Knight Wolf ". Just have the art depict the knights mount as a selesnyan wolf and it would have been cool. These are just tokens after all, and in the last set we had two different wolf tokens. I doubt it would have caused any issues. Just another case if unused, probably unseen, potential.
Flag gruulsmash September 26, 2012 6:13 PM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:15AM, Taramoor wrote:

Even money his sister's a Meat-eatin', Hard-fightin', Gruul Badass now.


that would be awesome!!! it would, to my knowledge, be one of the first depictions of a woman gruul.

Flag Bloodartist September 26, 2012 11:11 PM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:15AM, Taramoor wrote:

Even money his sister's a Meat-eatin', Hard-fightin', Gruul Badass now.




I wonder, because thrill-kill assassin is a Rakdos card. Also, no Gruul in Return to Ravnica. Might have to wait til the next expansion. 
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thrill-kill assassin
Flag Fireballmage September 27, 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Sep 26, 2012 -- 6:13PM, gruulsmash wrote:

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:15AM, Taramoor wrote:

Even money his sister's a Meat-eatin', Hard-fightin', Gruul Badass now.


that would be awesome!!! it would, to my knowledge, be one of the first depictions of a woman gruul.



Wild Cantor 's got yah beat. The Gruul are equal opportunity smashing.

There is also a very nice looking Gruul woman in the "Which Guild are you" quiz.

Flag gruulsmash September 27, 2012 6:09 PM PDT

Sep 27, 2012 -- 10:02AM, Fireballmage wrote:

Sep 26, 2012 -- 6:13PM, gruulsmash wrote:

Sep 26, 2012 -- 10:15AM, Taramoor wrote:

Even money his sister's a Meat-eatin', Hard-fightin', Gruul Badass now.


that would be awesome!!! it would, to my knowledge, be one of the first depictions of a woman gruul.



Wild Cantor 's got yah beat. The Gruul are equal opportunity smashing.

There is also a very nice looking Gruul woman in the "Which Guild are you" quiz.




Curses. allow me to qualify-first woman who didn't just raise mana.

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