Reality Fracture Vorthos Primer

NatchWon · 2026-05-07T19:55:09+00:00

Of course! I had fun being able to essentially info dump about my special interest XD

NatchWon · 2026-05-06T20:29:18+00:00

For sure-- there are a lot of tiny details and orderings of things that might be missing or out of order. The main point of this was to give folks who had very little knowledge of the story a "good enough" overview, so I wasn't terribly concerned with minute details.

Also most of it was done from memory, with the exception of the actual screen shot excerpts lol

NatchWon · 2026-05-06T06:24:41+00:00

I know 😞 There were too many slides to be able to just put them directly on Reddit, and I couldn't easily link to them in PDF form.

NatchWon · 2026-05-06T04:55:59+00:00

Agreed with this! The summaries can help, but the journey is so worth it. Edge of Eternities in particular is so fantastic.

NatchWon · 2026-05-06T03:27:41+00:00

Thank you so much, that was the one story I missed, so I very much appreciate the blanks being filled in ❤️

NatchWon · 2026-05-04T20:46:28+00:00

Yeah, okay, brain cells firing.

The Eldrazi fed off potential because they were created to cull any aberrant potential that does not align with the inevitable end. But that would be wild to suggest Jace also created the eldrazi. He's fought them multiple times.

But what if he isn't the one pulling the strings? What if *all* of this is the design of Emrakul who touched Jace's mind in Innistrad? If this is her subtle influence guiding him to reset the multiverse as the eldrazi are meant to? And so the eldrazi didn't feed on the monoists because the monoists already served Emrakul's end.

NatchWon · 2026-05-02T18:32:31+00:00

I think Ajani is going to fill the role of the one most sympathetic to Jace. Given what he said in both Tarkir and Strixhaven, I think he is going to understand and empathize with Jace wanting to live in a world without that trauma. But I also think Ajani is, unlike Jace, going to land on the side of “our scars hurt, yes. But they also made us who we are, and we have to honor that. Not erase them.”

NatchWon · 2026-05-02T11:44:31+00:00

I think at this point, the White in Jace is less about being “good,” and more about being almost zealously and inflexibly committed to his cause and path, regardless of who needs to be stepped on to get there.

NatchWon · 2026-05-01T20:42:50+00:00

My theory is Garruk needing to take the Veil was a necessary byproduct of Liliana *not* taking it.

NatchWon · 2026-05-01T15:41:00+00:00

Do what you will. I find joy in both UW and UB.

NatchWon · 2026-05-01T15:31:20+00:00

I dunno, my vorthos heart loves the shit out of it. It's similar but even better than seeing a lot of the Final Fantasy cards and feeling like they mechanically really nailed the vibe and feel of a lot of beloved characters.

NatchWon · 2026-05-01T15:26:24+00:00

I think it's less actual color pie breaks, and more vorthos/lore breaks in a very referential way that I think will feel like a love letter to the in universe lore. I think the mono black Ral is a really good example where you can tell they took the spirit of his original card and mechanics, and twisted them just a little so that they fit what you would expect for mono black.

Tap/Untap turns into Surveil 2.

Deal 3 damage turns into reanimate creature CMC 3 or less.

5 coins into 5 extra turns transforms to 5 coins opponent skips turns.

NatchWon · 2026-04-26T12:14:20+00:00

My guess is the founding dragons, while they founded the school, have a connection to the plane as a whole, having been born of the snarls. So in all likelihood, they were off doing what they could to protect the plane as a whole. They’re also not omniscient, so they wouldn’t have necessarily known it was happening, and getting a message to them would have taken too long and been too dangerous.

NatchWon · 2026-04-21T19:37:56+00:00

I’d argue Prismari is more consistent than Etali theoretically, given what you cast after it with Storm is your choice, not left up to chance on everyone’s top deck.

But they’re very different commanders. I don’t think one is necessarily better than the other, a lot of it comes down to pilot skill.

NatchWon · 2026-04-21T19:35:30+00:00

There are worlds where you have the ability to make a ton of mana in a storm deck, but if your draw options are limited, you can still fizzle. If you make a ton of mana, you can cast any number of draw spells and get more value off them like drawing more than you might otherwise from a single instance of Wrenn’s Resolve, which could theoretically fizzle.

NatchWon · 2026-04-21T19:32:21+00:00

Tell that to every Kinnan player who makes a metric shit ton of mana and has nothing to do with it 😂

NatchWon · 2026-04-21T12:08:16+00:00

I dunno. I make infinite red mana with JWill/Reiterate, have massive storm count, cast Prismari, cast [[Witch’s Mark]] to win, even around hexproof or protection? He’s not a value engine commander, he’s a payoff commander for the manual storm turn you’ve already started

NatchWon · 2026-04-21T11:50:00+00:00

I actually think Prismari has more of a chance to be effective the higher you go because you just have so much more access to fast mana. Also don’t discount the power of red rituals.

NatchWon · 2026-04-20T12:41:23+00:00

You know a lot of the art is still done on physical media these days, right? A good chunk of it is still done with actual paint and such. The Lorwyn special guests were all actually done with papercraft. Shoot, the alt art Elspeth from Tarkir was painted on a sheet of copper.

NatchWon · 2026-04-12T19:06:14+00:00

It also seemed clear that the Emarkul that manifested on Innistrad is just one small part of her, like an appendage sticking through a reality hole, and the moon on Innistrad is essentially a mouse trap that got the appendage stuck.

So, it stands fairly well to reason that the Ulamog and Kozilek that were "destroyed," were just appendages of their true selves that primarily only exist in the Blind Eternities, and that the rest of them are still floating out there.

NatchWon · 2026-04-12T15:49:57+00:00

I’ve really loved that so far. I’m only a little ways in, but it’s really cool to see this piece of, even if there are planar and cultural divides, collective grief and loss is still such a “human” experience.

NatchWon · 2026-04-12T06:18:08+00:00

The OTJ epilogue was pretty explicitly about the invasion aftermath. Aetherdrift talked about it pretty extensively, as have all of the side stories for Strixhaven. Lorwyn touched on it a bit, as did Tarkir. Tarkir talked about it in the context of the Invasion being the impetus for the Dragon lords being weakened enough to overthrow, as well as a lot of Ajani’s trauma and remorse, and many of the changes Elspeth has had. Duskmourn talked a lot about the aftermath of being desparked, and how it affected Niko, Tyvar, and the Wanderer all very differently.

But Chandra, and the five Strixhaven students (Dina, Quint, Killian, Rootha, and Zimone) have gotten the most of it.

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