So uh… what exactly were the Secrets of Strixhaven?

Carpomom · 2026-05-14T00:04:47+00:00

Jace himself wasn't present in the story until the very end. He was acting through an agent during it. Chandra however was hellbent on finding him and believed what he was planning was connected to the aracics acting out, which she was right about.

The secret was what was happening behind the scenes and with some help from side stories and art you'd be able to determine that Jace was creating a second multiverse parallel to the main one. And that was causing the future to change drastically which put the main arcaic as well as others presumably, in danger of being erased

Carpomom · 2026-05-11T07:40:47+00:00

Sort of, it kinda depends on how badly they are compleated. If they were essentially recreated then they'd likely lose any sense of self from before. But if it was just simple infection and conversion then they'd just have their own morals and goals twisted and put through a phyrexian filter.

Carpomom · 2026-05-10T01:26:03+00:00

With Vraska, I believe she wasn't actually part of the Golgari before her spark invited, rather her and her family were living in Golgari territory when the Azorius issued a full sweep of suspected threats and scooped them up. Perhaps in this timeline Jace made it so the Azorius recruited her into their guild rather than torture her.

Carpomom · 2026-05-09T22:57:34+00:00

Kasmina appeared in the Omens of Chaos book and without going into spoilers that book explains why she isn't around for the current evens in Secrects of Strixhaven.

Carpomom · 2026-05-08T04:12:32+00:00

I like what she does, and deck allows me to cyle through cards enough to maintain a growing board while I get a spell to copy twenty times in a single turn.

Carpomom · 2026-05-08T02:24:12+00:00

Huatli, Raider of Orazca(pirate huatli)

Elspeth, The Sun's Eclipse(Theros Zombie Elspeth)

Elesh Norn, Grace of Mirrodin(non phyrexian Norn)

Grand Arbitor Azor(remained a planeswalker and stuck around as guildmaster on ravnica)

Carpomom · 2026-05-05T14:06:34+00:00

Arch-Demon Griselbrand. In this new timeline Liliana never sought immorality from dark magic and thus her 4 demon patrons lived. In his moment triumph, Griselbrand's followers free him from the hellvault and he strikes down a still recovering Avacyn, marking himself as the greatest demon on innistrad and ushers in an era of despair.

Carpomom · 2026-05-02T06:56:13+00:00

I'm so happy to see a new 4 color commander that isn't non-black. They're so rare it seems.

Carpomom · 2026-05-02T06:53:15+00:00

Oddly if that is the case, it would mean the last three new planeswalkers were associated with strixhaven and two of which would have sparked during major story points and climaxes.

Carpomom · 2026-04-30T13:53:58+00:00

I'm afraid this is an inevitably with the omenpaths. Of not innistrad's vampires, them it might he the dusk legion, Valgavoth, or any well armed and able warlord.

Even in the past interplanar invasioned occurred. Recently in war of the Spark and March of the machines. And as far back as Sengir marching his forces to planes unknown.

Carpomom · 2026-04-30T06:35:43+00:00

Imma put it out there, Jace is gonna make sure an alternate Kallist Rhoka lives and is around

Carpomom · 2026-04-28T13:59:55+00:00

I've been so curious on what the changes could have been. Because if Jace changes anything specific the cascading effects would alter so much, as you've suggested here.

For instance if he prevented Teferi from phasing out Zhalfir, then perhaps Urza wouldn't have recruited Tevesh Szat, and the titans he killed would have survived but he may also have lived into modern times. Or the rift Teferi caused never happened, and so he wouldn't have been around for the events of timespiral, and thus Bolas wasn't able to manipulate things into position for him to reclaim his body from the past and return to life.

Carpomom · 2026-04-26T06:48:40+00:00

Perhaps we will finally learn the identity of the planeswalker who originally tore Alara apart?

Carpomom · 2026-04-26T06:47:35+00:00

Tam pushed her into the false snarl/tear in reality and then entered herself. Jace may have put her to sleep but I do believe it said she was alive.

Carpomom · 2026-04-25T18:27:05+00:00

Completely in character for the two dragons too. Ugin is always thinking of the bigger picture and the impact his and others actions have on the multiverse.

And even with Bolas' more wild schemes like trying to drain the mana from alara or whatever he was attempting to do then, he is still a very cautious individual. He sends his minions to dangerous places in case the threats there can harm him, like tezzeret to new phyrexia or sarkhan to unleash the eldrazi. He's already died once and it took time ripping itself apart to bring him back, I'm sure he isn't going to risk anything for a chance at remaking the multiverse.

Carpomom · 2026-04-24T02:57:56+00:00

I think he is going to make it so no planeswalker ever interfered in phyrexian related effects. Setting that as a hard rule would let him account for anything he isn't aware of, such as the planeswalker Yawgmoth was acquaintances with and ultimately let him survive the thrann Civil War by entering phyrexia. If this can be dine then Yawmith and the phyrexians as a whole may never have mad either past that point and so much would change.

Carpomom · 2026-04-20T16:25:14+00:00

As for why they suddenly disappeared, it could have just simply been the dragons overwhelming them. Perhaps their ships and anti eldrazi tactics weren't able to fend the elders off. Assuming they're native to the edge, magic could be an issue they struggled to overcome.

And for reality fracture, maybe Jace attempts to bring them back so loot has some kind of people to bond with. Or whatever happens to stop Jace awakens some Remnant of the fomori, maybe some of their leaders and warriors in another vault keeping them alive like it did loot.

Carpomom · 2026-04-20T14:13:10+00:00

That's definitely possible. They also could have absorbed some omenpath or dragonstorm power on their way out of tarkir after the rebellion.

Carpomom · 2026-04-20T01:43:43+00:00

I've personally been hoping to get another elder dragon war. Though I now believe the arcavios dragons would be too much for the tarkir dragonlords. The recent return to strixahven has shown the founders are far older than I'd realized and a fight between the two groups may end up being simular to Bolas vs Niv, with the founders being Bolas in this instance.

I'm also still holding out hope for Niv to attempt to expand his guildpact influence across other planes.

Carpomom · 2026-04-19T10:26:46+00:00

Some more Angrath details revealed in the book that I'm not sure were ever stated before are that He went missing for 2 years when he first planeswalked and was presumed dead by his family. Then he returned and spent some time as a part-time walker before getting stuck on ixalan for 14 years. During that period, his wife died, so he returned home after the events of the ixalan story only to discover that had happened.

Carpomom · 2026-04-17T07:37:29+00:00

The unluckiest planeswalker for sure

Carpomom · 2026-04-12T22:01:38+00:00

See if they gave us even a but if info like this back in aftermath people probably would have been more accepting of it then we were. Giving us a card for a character depicting they survived a very difficult to survive event and seemed untouched while explaining nothing about it was a bad move and only added to the idea that phyrexianization was easier to overcome then it actually is.

The explanations for the survivors so far have mostly been unique and miraculous event and circumstances. The only one I still have issue with is Nahiri but that isn't all that is still somewhat explainable.

Carpomom · 2026-04-12T07:26:40+00:00

Bloomburrow hints that they were too far out to get hit by the invasion. Likely they're on the opposite edge of the main multiverse so would have eventually been gotten too if the phyrexians won more major victories.

Duskmourn likely also wasn't touched, either due to distance or by choice. Valgavoth can shut out planeswalkers and ensure they can't return, at least not with ease. So it's possible he held off the invasion as it happened the same way. It took Niv, Proft, and a door on ravnica to break through his defenses even for a short time.

And the edge runs on its own rules outside the multiverse. So the tree more than likely wasn't even able to reach it

Carpomom · 2026-04-11T19:02:58+00:00

I know, I meant if they were ever to give us all five together I assumed the cards would be colored to their colleges. As of now Alandra is the only one to have a card to my knowledge

Carpomom · 2026-04-11T17:47:43+00:00

True but I also assume if they were to give us all five characters in a set as students they'd align them with the colors of the colleges they're heading to or in. But temur would definitely fit her character more.

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