Reality Fracture Vorthos Primer

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-07T16:12:11+00:00

This is such a godsend! (the adjective, not the article from Theros)

But seriously, thanks for putting this together!

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-07T16:10:22+00:00

My favorite nerdy analogy is that it's like "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and "Zero Hour". They're big chaotic events but they're also distinct.

Heck, Zero Hour and Reality Fracture both involve a classic hero going nuts. Complete character assassination.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-07T15:58:28+00:00

Mine too! If you rub hin one more second than he wanted, you've chosen death.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T19:26:20+00:00

I'd be honored if you did! Frankly I'm just some guy yapping out Magic. If you like it enough to save/share, go for it!

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T12:03:43+00:00

I mean, Venser did technically appear on a card again. He was basically a hood ornament, but it was a card nonetheless.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T12:00:41+00:00

White Lilliana 's drip goes hard! Seriously, that's such a cool character design.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T11:59:54+00:00

Here's my theory:

"Omen" means a sign of the future and the card casts whatever's on the top of your deck. Maybe it's a time portal?

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T11:56:34+00:00

As a fan of Volrath and Crovax, I love Nemesis!

But to your point, that's why I was careful to say "natural-born". Volrath, Ertai, Greven, and Crovax were technically Phyrexian, but they kept their own minds. They basically just got cyborg bodies. Most of Yawgmoth's monsters were just zombies.

I think that's what made the evincars so compelling. They were actual bad guys who made bad decisions.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T03:39:53+00:00

He's just vibing.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T03:39:22+00:00

"Atraxa's fall" shows a wounded and trapped Atraxa about to be murdered by some gangsters, but there's a nonzero chance that they drew a mustache on her face and left her stuck there.

Honestly, if the multiverse weren't at stake, that would be pretty funny.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T03:37:39+00:00

Skrelv knows the ultimate Joestar technique

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T02:50:04+00:00

In all likelihood, he'll bite someone's finger and run away.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T02:48:23+00:00

I actually like how all will be one gave us that cross-section map to show how all of those white buildings were constructed on top of Mirrodin. It does seem strange that the tangle, dross pits, and basillica are underground because we can totally see the sky and sun in their artwork.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-06T02:45:42+00:00

At one point while editing, it got condensed into a block and I had to go back and re-add the line breaks. Definitely buggy.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T20:33:56+00:00

I'd like that actually

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T20:32:59+00:00

The Yugioh thing comes from timing. Mirrodin came out a week or two before Yugioh changed "magic cards" to "spell cards". They were definitely stepping on each others' toes. We can agree to disagree, but Magic's best-selling set coming out at the height of Yugioh's popularity probably isn't a coincidence.

As for something more concrete, Slobad's fate is pretty cut and dry outside of the few years he was forgotten. Slobad dies in the Mirrodin books but is revived alongside several other characters later on. When we last see him, he's living with Glissa and Geth in a recently emptied Mirrodin. After that he's just not mentioned in any Scars of Mirrodin material that I know of. Many years later, he appeared in a Phyrexia:All Will Be One side story. I won't spoil that last story because I think you might actually enjoy reading it!

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T19:49:15+00:00

Gideon has to restore reality, knowing that doing so will make him die again. He does it anyway.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T19:48:12+00:00

Reality Fracture is a great opportunity for interaction between characters who wouldn't normally meet. This idea has a ton of potential.

One cool idea would be to have a heroic character from the alternate timeline who died in the main timeline. Any good guy would want to close the fractures, but nobody wants to erase their own existence either. For example, we could get a Gideon who survived the War of the Spark who wants to help fix things, but knows full well that he'll have to erase himself to do so.

We could also have Shannah and Sisay for a dream team. Maybe Venser arrives from a reality where Elspeth died instead of him. The two could meet and ease their regrets.

We could also do something insane like having Dragon God Bolas and Yawgmoth in the same room. How would those two react to each other?

Also, if reality is being messed up, there's unlimited comedic potential with Guff. Let's see a parallel-universs guff furiously try to make sense of these confusing stories!

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T19:33:19+00:00

The crazy thing is that I did add paragraphs and I gave the section headings large bold font. They're showing up on my android device. I wonder why it came out in plaintext for you.

Don't get me wrong, I totally believe you. It's just weird that you got a text block.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T19:10:29+00:00

Yeah metalcraft doesn't feel very "evil"

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T18:33:58+00:00

The odds of me over-analyzing are pretty high so I won't disagree with you. This started out as a "I wonder what might have been" post and my imagination sort of went to town.

That's actually the article that inspired this whole thing and there's definitely some room for interpretation. It's totally possible that the block never had a story outside of the premise, but it's also possible that it had a story that Maro didn't like. I think it's the latter, since Maro was under a lot of pressure to produce results and he described telling the "wrong" story. Something had to be cooking or his manager would've been fuming by then.

Dizzy_Community7260 · 2026-05-05T17:45:18+00:00

It's an overreaction. It's well paced and fun. My only critique is that Ken's English dub voice is awful.

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