This is a question for everyone who loves the Vorthos side of Magic -- who's your favorite Big Bad in Magic? Could be a multiplanar threat like Phyrexia or the Eldrazi, or a single-plane villain like Konda, up to you!
#(2-7-23) From a lore perspective, what's your favorite MtG antagonist? What about mechanically?
bright steeple
bright steeple
This is a question for everyone who loves the Vorthos side of Magic -- who's you...
sick wind
My favourite? Nahiri!
Shes very understandable, human, falliable, relateable.
Amongst so many villains in MTG that are Badguy McEvil its nice to have one that is shades of grey.
Mechanically: Eldrazi. I like them in flavour too, but they gave colourless an identity that wasn't just "broken artifacts".
humble cove
Yawgmoth. Father of machines. Dad of phyrexia.
He a great villain. Smart, cunning and efficient
wide saddle
He a great villain. Smart, cunning and efficient
Peter Steele at home
hollow jungle
Tezzeret
hollow jungle
you might be the first person I've met who LIKES Tezzeret lol
Tolerates is more likely
Like let us remember sarkhan vol was the Badie that got swapped for tezzeret by bolas
Or was that fixed after shards during the first zendikar block mtg lore not my strongest point of memory
gleaming idol
you might be the first person I've met who LIKES Tezzeret lol
I like Tezzzie... He is like dark Jace
hollow jungle
Bother where pawns for bolas though🤔
modest bane
Talking strictly lore, definitely gonna have to go with Chainer, maybe Braids, and just the Cabal in general.
hollow jungle
The cabal made the death worms and the mirrari interesting...
modest bane
I loved the nightmares
balmy bison
Phyrexia as a whole is just a really cool antagonist.
While they are a scary force to be reckoned within the story, what's even more scary is how this translates into the cards. A lot of phyrexian cards are just...really good, and they fit in many decks. So you have to make an active effort not to play phyrexian cards, eg resisting its influence, lest you implicitly allign yourself with Phyrexia by corrupting your deck with its oil.
wide saddle
Nah, good cards are good cards
balmy bison
I mean yea, this is purely from a flavor perspective
rose adder
you might be the first person I've met who LIKES Tezzeret lol
I like Tezzeret as a villain. He sort of fits in the same role as the Master in Doctor Who or Starscream in Transformers.
I like that he has a complicated backstory that at no point tries to make him sympathetic
The most is maybe his childhood but it really has no bearing on a lot of his actions as an adult.
gleaming idol
Tezzie tried to save a poor child and rescue Esper... He is a hero for the latter and a fool for the former... But he is our damned fool
rose adder
Fair. I'm curious to know if what happened to Jace and having a mostly new body will "help" him be more competent.
sick heart
Lore wise it's definitely Urabrask