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Is Mishra’s name used as a swear word in Dominaria? If so what is relative frequency of its usage compared to Urza used as a swear?

Not really, no.

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This is offhand, so I may have forgotten something:

Nissa - Ribcage exoskeleton, Brass Forearms

Nahiri - Glowing Scars, possibly glowing eyes

Ajani - Scar lines in flensed skin (hard to tell what else)

Vraska - Reworked Forehead/Eyebrows, glowing chest piece

Jace - Sigil Button “plugs”, possibly more based on the above conversation

So, the arena version of Jace still has a lot of metal and tentacles. The story only really mentions him having plugs still, but I assume the amount of metal on him is canon? If so, it's kind of weird that it's only found on arena.

I’m not sure what the deal is with two different versions, but the idea is that Jace isn’t fully healed. Getting the nuances of that across in art is tough - the markers on other formerly compleated were sometimes missed by folks, so maybe they decided subtle isn’t better.

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Did Jaya leave a body?

I think so

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As I understand it, non-planeswalker people who were compleated all died when New Phyrexia was sent away.

I hardly dare ask, but do we have any idea what happened to the Weatherlight?

(And I still can't forgive whichever monster in creative decided to compleat the Weatherlight 😔)

The Weatherlight was likely left a wreckage for the second time following a Phyrexian Invasion.

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On the topic of colors of mana known among people, are faction based planes such as Ravnica more privy to the knowledge of colors? Or the original founders of the guildpact for example

Not necessarily, no. Ravnica probably has academics who understand it, though.

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Are Magic characters aware of the colors of mana?

- "I am good at Blue mana."

- "I am good at Green mana. It makes you my enemy."

- "I can mediate you with White mana, so that we can form a GWU arc."

If they've studied magic academically, yes. Teferi would be. But in general they're only focused on the type of mage they are. People think of Chandra as a fire mage, not a red mage.

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So, the arena version of Jace still has a lot of metal and tentacles. The story only really mentions him having plugs still, but I assume the amount of metal on him is canon? If so, it's kind of weird that it's only found on arena.

I’m not sure what the deal is with two different versions, but the idea is that Jace isn’t fully healed. Getting the nuances of that across in art is tough - the markers on other formerly compleated were sometimes missed by folks, so maybe they decided subtle isn’t better.

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Hello Jay, look, I wanted to ask you what you think the Blind Eternities look like, when traveling through them, I know that each PW sees it differently but I wanted your opinion on what it is like to travel both planeswalking and traveling through the Omenpath, and above all I wanted to ask you how You think you can see the plans from the Blind Eternities. Thanks for your opinion.

The Blind Eternities is deliberately a space beyond human comprehension, which is why everyone interprets it differently. My personal preference is sort of a Kirby-esque with buffeting winds that threaten to tear you apart.

Omenpaths likely don't show you the Blind Eternities itself, I imagine them more akin to the Stargate wormholes.

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I know you have no influence over MtG canon, I just wanted to state my wish on a fan-to-other-fans level.

Oh no it's fine, it's a cute idea

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I know the un-sets aren't canon, but I REALLY want "Infernal Spawn of Evil" to be canon to Bloomburrow. Not the unnecessary and unfunny follow-up cards, just the original.

Mark Rosewater is the keeper of un-canon, I will not infringe on that holy border again :P

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Did Mishra do any shitty things without the influence of phyrexians?

He wasn't a super great guy, no. He was a tyrant before the Gixians started whispering in his ear.

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Is there a Planeswalker guide for Thunder junction? It came out the friday of prerelease lately, but no sign of it this time....

My current understanding is no

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[Spoilers for a three-year old comic run] Speaking of Boom! Comics, I'm rereading the first few volumes after finally completing my collection. My understanding is that the point of divergence from the main continuity was The War of the Spark. [Seriously, stop reading if you care about spoilers] Could Jaya's battle with Marit Lage in the Ice Age be considered canon to the mainline continuity (in the sense I don't think it contradicts anything)?

I'm hesitant to say yes, if only because I don't think future writers will look to a single issue of an otherwise non-canonical comic book for canon

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Uhhhh it's complicated?

For most franchises with a 'multiverse', separate continuities are normal and are different worlds within the multiverse.

In Magic parallel realities are generally divergent timelines that get made real, for one reason or another. The Boom! comics could be considered an AU, but they aren't structured like other Magic parallel realities. So... it's an AU in the real-world sense of things but not necessarily in-universe.

Are there parallel or alternate universes in Magic? Such as...

- Ravnica-2 where each guild is a 3-color combination

- Theros-3 where gods are artifacts

- Jace (from Vryn-5) and Jace (from Vryn-7) meet each other

Planes can have alternate universes, yes, but it's not common. The three planes we know have them, or had them, are Dominaria, Rabiah, and Tarkir.

Dominaria's you can see in the set Planar Chaos, there's one where Mirri strikes down Selenia instead of Crovax, one where the Odyssey legends are color shifted, one with different primeval dragons with the wedge colors instead of shards, one where Serra was obsessed with Sphinxes instead of angels, that kind of thing. It's possible these are all the same AU, I'm only listing them as different, we don't have more stories about them than the basics. In the Planar Chaos novel we also see "Ice Age Phyrexians" but don't learn more about them.

Rabiah is refracted 1,001 times, which in the diegetic reason there are no legends in the set. Each refraction is different in some way, although it's not really explored much except in Taysir's backstory for the five versions of him that fused.

Tarkir is more recent, but we've see the Khans timeline, which doesn't exist anymore.

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Alara was a single plane that was split into five, and then those five shards all developed independently without access to two colors of mana for centuries/millennia (it's not clear). They were more like Kaldheim's realms than AUs.

Are there parallel or alternate universes in Magic? Such as...

- Ravnica-2 where each guild is a 3-color combination

- Theros-3 where gods are artifacts

- Jace (from Vryn-5) and Jace (from Vryn-7) meet each other

Planes can have alternate universes, yes, but it's not common. The three planes we know have them, or had them, are Dominaria, Rabiah, and Tarkir.

Dominaria's you can see in the set Planar Chaos, there's one where Mirri strikes down Selenia instead of Crovax, one where the Odyssey legends are color shifted, one with different primeval dragons with the wedge colors instead of shards, one where Serra was obsessed with Sphinxes instead of angels, that kind of thing. It's possible these are all the same AU, I'm only listing them as different, we don't have more stories about them than the basics. In the Planar Chaos novel we also see "Ice Age Phyrexians" but don't learn more about them.

Rabiah is refracted 1,001 times, which in the diegetic reason there are no legends in the set. Each refraction is different in some way, although it's not really explored much except in Taysir's backstory for the five versions of him that fused.

Tarkir is more recent, but we've see the Khans timeline, which doesn't exist anymore.

[vorthosjay]

Are there parallel or alternate universes in Magic? Such as...

- Ravnica-2 where each guild is a 3-color combination

- Theros-3 where gods are artifacts

- Jace (from Vryn-5) and Jace (from Vryn-7) meet each other

Planes can have alternate universes, yes, but it's not common. The three planes we know have them, or had them, are Dominaria, Rabiah, and Tarkir.

Dominaria's you can see in the set Planar Chaos, there's one where Mirri strikes down Selenia instead of Crovax, one where the Odyssey legends are color shifted, one with different primeval dragons with the wedge colors instead of shards, one where Serra was obsessed with Sphinxes instead of angels, that kind of thing. It's possible these are all the same AU, I'm only listing them as different, we don't have more stories about them than the basics. In the Planar Chaos novel we also see "Ice Age Phyrexians" but don't learn more about them.

Rabiah is refracted 1,001 times, which in the diegetic reason there are no legends in the set. Each refraction is different in some way, although it's not really explored much except in Taysir's backstory for the five versions of him that fused.

Tarkir is more recent, but we've see the Khans timeline, which doesn't exist anymore.

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Do you happen to have a comprehensive list of all the shitty things Urza did on hand?

I don't keep lists that long :P

Unfortunately, no, I don't.