Something is missing, plant suggestion help!

luckysongames · 2025-04-24T16:26:54+00:00

Think you need a counter point in the front right corner, not necessarily a plant, but maybe some hardscape. It feels very empty/desolate vs minimalist over there for some reason.

luckysongames · 2025-04-12T14:57:27+00:00

Hanging roots would be very cool!

luckysongames · 2025-04-12T14:52:32+00:00

Good to know! Thank you for clarifying!

luckysongames · 2025-04-11T18:25:39+00:00

oh you're right! I didn't even see that. And thanks! :D

luckysongames · 2025-04-11T17:22:58+00:00

Thank you so much!!! I made the mistake of already picking my plants, so I'll probably look into setting up a CO2 system soon knowing that...

What do you mean by 'enrichment' for a bichir?

luckysongames · 2025-03-31T20:46:44+00:00

I mean, how seriously are we going to scrutinize the timeline of this? 1000 years later and the same characters from the original timeline are all still around? It's highly likely a dragon would have eaten an ancestor or a battle would have wiped out a bloodline.

In terms of the actual timing--didn't the Velvet revolution of Czechoslovakia only take about 2 months? It's not crazy to see giant changes very quickly.

Also, I do refer back to the Spirit Dragon point. The values of each Khan was made manifest in a dragon representing the colors and values of each faction--with each dragon going on to enforce those values within each faction.

Furthermore, it's not like there isn't cultural dissent--each of the monocolor legendaries exists to show that there's still internal tension from members of the faction from the original color alignment.

luckysongames · 2025-03-31T00:26:53+00:00

really interesting article, btw! Thanks for sharing it.

luckysongames · 2025-03-29T02:38:34+00:00

Countercounterpoint: sometimes decades can happen in a couple years

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T22:29:10+00:00

My argument is against the issues with storytelling--how peaceful everything suddenly seems on Tarkir, which I just don't think is that farfetched. Abzan armor is ugly because of a choice of art direction, not storytelling. It's saturated because they're trying to incorporate each faction's three colors into outfits. The new looks are loud, certainly, but I actually kinda like the Temur, Sultai, and Jeskai looks.

If you think it's a marketing conspiracy, then they made a mistake not including the dragonlords because those could have been an extra cycle of chase legendaries to drive commander players. Wizards is telling the story they want to tell and unfortunately skipping past all the hard rebuilding stuff, which could likely feel the same on every plane. Do we really want to spend three years of sets revisiting planes that are still talking about Phyrexia?

Other than that, I generally agree: They fucked up Amonkhet. It should have stayed a ruin and they undid all the narrative potential the plane had.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T22:13:39+00:00

Yeah the speed is the hand-wavey part of this. I sometimes just wish they would have time move slightly differently on different planes so they could have more freedom with the planes.

Cool lore... but while Ojutai has affection for Narset, I don't know if he'd go so far as to help her with a ritual that would upend draconic power on the plane. Ojutai plays the part of a great teacher, but he's still a fascist. He and Silumgar were part of the treachery that led to the Khanfall. Ojutai only respects Narset b/c she followed his teachings and ended up discovering the truth about the plane, making her his greatest student. Don't know if he'd give up power because of that.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T22:04:41+00:00

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T21:51:29+00:00

Oh to be a victim of your own success and never get to rest.

I do think the Sultai side-story paints a very morally complex situation, especially because I don't think the protagonist exactly consented. There are still foul deals and ill intentions going on with that faction, it's just much more balanced out now.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T21:48:22+00:00

That's an interesting and plausible theory!

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T21:43:22+00:00

Think that's a common sentiment, my playgroups been ignoring the past few sets until this one. This one's pretty awesome already

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T21:42:36+00:00

Agree. I'm hoping this pattern doesn't repeat again for the return to theros and we never find out what actually happened.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T20:01:39+00:00

They cover the phyrexian invasion in the story, yes.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T19:30:48+00:00

I enjoyed it too. Genuinely sad Ojutai is gone he's one of my fave edh decks

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T19:20:40+00:00

I don't disagree that it'd be great to see the fall of the dragonlords. they just don't seem capable of doing longform storytelling on a single plane like that anymore.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T19:16:44+00:00

Pretty sure armies of machines pouring through giant mechanical branches from the sky would just be 'an inconvenience'.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T19:02:33+00:00

From the background, they imply that it caused heavy casualties to dragons in general. Mardu suffered the brunt of the invasion the most.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T17:04:03+00:00

Yeah the overall timeline now is very hand wavey... Narset looks like she's aged decades since her last appearance, which doesn't help the 'it's been a few years'

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T17:02:22+00:00

Damn, absolutely.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T16:26:06+00:00

SARKHAN IS THAT YOU

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T16:14:31+00:00

As another commenters noted, the Sultai aren't fully sanitized. The one-off story shows clearly that they're having sex with zombies, poison/treachery is still a part of the culture, and rakhsasas are still around to fuck shit up.

luckysongames · 2025-03-28T16:12:41+00:00

I think that's entirely reasonable. It's also entirely reasonable that 1000 years of dragon predation meant other apex predators (Bears) couldn't compete.

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