THE FINAL BATTLE FOR ZENDIKAR!! | Zendikar Rising Lore

[@lacaccabrutta]

I’d really like for them give Neihiri, you know, the one who hand crafted the most complex prison in the multi-verse for the most dangerous beings in it, more than the simple party trick to summon glow sticks on command over and over again.

[@brandonhall7498]

"Jace leaves two hot babes disappointed."

[@boxman7044]

Liliana and vraska: first time?

[@henryterhune5066]

Wow, I don't know if this last section could cough up the ball on Nahiri any harder. They touched on some of the complexity that she has to offer, and then squash it, and they do the same with Nissa. Black makes a lot of sense for Nissa, she is selfish and misanthropic, and in this story flatly attacks other planeswalkers for working against her interests. Similarly, Nahiri fits boros well - she is passionate and orderly, and genuinely cares about the defense of Zendikar and it's people. The conflict between them is whether to use the core (a dramatic nuclear option to try to save people and the plane) or do nothing at all (preserving the mana but leaving the people and plane in peril). Obviously both are deeply flawed, and both Nissa and Nahiri are brutal in their methods. But then this freaking ending! It's just "Nahiri was right that the core needs to get used, but she is a very bad girl. You Nissa, might have been willing to let the plane stay damaged and leave the people out on a limb, but you're special, so you get the magic solution!" Awful. What a waste of nuance

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

An elemental grabs hold of nihiri crushing her, Nissa chuckles and says Nissa: Any last words? Nihiri: (Inhales) I Seal away the eldrazi, SHE unleashed them. The elementals turn towards nissa who wasnt no longer laughing

[@kamram3353]

Now that would be quite the event to see

[@Kennywats]

It wouldn't have worked. While the eldrazi were sealed away they were sucking the life out of the elementals. Nissa's spark was ignited trying to help the elementals dealing this this plague.

[@eintyp4389]

Nissas Elemental friends: You did what? WTF get off my shulder you filthy elf!

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

@@eintyp4389 I'd expect more of a glare then vines wraping and squeezing her till something cracks

[@brandondadd1034]

nahiri is the reason they were there though.

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

Nihiri: This plane needs to be tamed to progress and the elementals need to go! Nissa: Times are good and the elementals are the heaviest hitter on the plane and theres nothing wrong with that. Jace: T.T I'm gonna go refill my flask... this is gonna be a looooooooooooong day. Que a flurry of thorns and slivers of stone

[@Javier-rm6ql]

"and theres nothing wrong with that." and THE ROIL?!

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

@@Javier-rm6ql I mean nissa isnt well know to see the BIG picture is she

[@Damonxv16]

@@DragonspineInfiniteZero That being said and the roils issue still not fixed no one really knows what exactly the core did. Maybe now theyre pumped with magic and not only do more damage but manifest more often hurting and killing more innocent people. Maybe the angle here is that the self proclaimed guardian maybe doomed the people on zendikar. It at least explains why Nissa was golgari now. Since black mana is usually represents selfishness. Nissa only sees the elementals as her family and only concern since chapter one of this series. The rest of zendikar and how the roils can affect them can just deal with it for all she is concerned.

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

@@Damonxv16 i just had a thought by resoring zendikar and probably uber charging the roils and other elementals isnt that like fattening the turkey for the upcoming thanksgiving dinner?

[@Damonxv16]

@@DragonspineInfiniteZeroIts possible. I mean the only person who wanted to actually make sure how the core actually worked before using it was Jace. But what's is done and all we can hope fore All Im hoping for is that we actually get to see that thanksgiving dinner happen and not another gap like what happened with Jace and Vrynn =.=

[@jjthealien_]

That’s be honest. Omnath will be Zendikar’s final villain. In the next set or Zendikar set he’ll have all the colors and basically be all powerful. I predict that Nissa and Nahiri will see this and team up to stop him.

[@Retroloft556]

Omnath and his army of Lotus Cobras ARE the real villains of Zendikar.

[@TheEmeraldboy100]

Nissa and Nahiri's voice lines in Arena of them saying "I am Zendikar's one true guardian" sounds like something out of an anime scene.

[@blakechan-sitprasert6033]

Bruh, Jace lost everything. Before the war of the spark he had something to look forward to, something to try and live for. Despite having all of his memories back he knows less than he did before. He doesn’t know who he is in an entirely new way. He isn’t an amnesiac, he isn’t a hero, he isn’t a pirate, he isn’t even the living guildpact. I know that having nothing to work for is an unhealthy mindset, Jace must be in a really dark place right now he has no plan, his only goal is to win the fight against Nicol Bolas, because right now that’s the only thing that he can focus on so he doesn’t fall apart. He knows that in spite of him having all of his memories all of his knowledge from Alhamaret, he isnt strong enough. He probably feels like he has the world on his shoulders and his feet in the cement. He wants someone to come help him bear the load. I hope he goes to Vryn to find his mom. Maybe then he will have some motivation.

[@drewcasty5498]

Siben is great to have you and our lore back! Hopefully wizards keeps giving you content!

[@drewcasty5498]

Its**

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

1:50 Come to think of it, this story kind of loses all suspense when you know Jace and Nahiri can just planeswalk away to ravnica with the relic...

[@Ramipon]

Nahiri needed to use it on Zendikar and Jace was still trying to negotiate with Nissa

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

@@Ramipon they were talking about fearing for their lives against the elemental and already found the place they planned to use it gone. At that point they could just as easily jump to ravnica. If nissa tried to cause trouble there, the guild leaders and guildpact would take jace's side over that of the elf who got selesnya's world tree to stand up only to get killed by nicol bolas lol

[@jesok3761]

I can really connect with Jace in this story.

[@johanandersson8252]

It feels like Nissa always gets the ”Belive in yourself” speech

[@Damonxv16]

Nissa: What would Gideon do? *Spectral Gideon like statswars appears* Gideon: Believe in your self. Also SMASH! Nissa: Right! Ashaya crush them! *Ashaya crushing Jace* Ashays: "What would Elemental Gideon do?" I expected that Nissa would have been shaken up from breaking up with Chandra and all, but making her so full of doubt is just off. I understand that they're going for making Gideon's sacrifice become a permanent force off change in the characters, but adding personality shortcommings that werent there initially just to show that force of change is there is offsetting =s

[@VFenris6184]

For the longer consequences, I would think that they're many yet to come. Jace is still trying to keep Bolas's survival a secret, and if you think about it almost came close to revealing it while talking with Nissa and Nahiri. Nahiri in my opinion didn't really grow, she's still driven by grudges, as shown when she fought the Sorin illusion. Nissa I think grew the most, because she bailed out on the gate watch when they had arrived on Dominaria before War of The Spark, came back during the war, then left again, only to go back to a friend that she needed when her world was in danger, she could've gone to any planeswalker for help but decided on Jace, a former member of her Gatewatch party. (yes I used a keyword haha). I'm actually interested to see what's going to happen once we reach Kaldheim, and maybe Jace's secret on Bolas will be revealed then.

[@psy_p]

Nissa went to the only person she knows the address tho...

[@lntornqvist9002]

That first scenery with the MTGs logo is so well done, and super trippy at first 🙈

[@Vladislaugh]

That's my favorite scene too ;)

[@Battleguild]

Well, it left Jace on a note that he could amend his relationship with Liliana/Vraska or his own home world of Vryn.

[@magicanteater38]

Aether Veilborne, when I read this, I thought he was going to try to ask forgiveness from nissa.

[@khoreekageuchiha7784]

I absolutely LOVED the story and how it ended. I just wish we got a final conversation between Jace and Nissa.

[@lewispatton6550]

I feel like all the characters had personal growth, and when this story started all of that went out the window!

[@Theta40]

How many times have they battled for Zendikar already? Next expansion will probably be “Return to Ravnica VI”

[@dyslexicPBJ]

RIP 🥲😂

[@leepiclarz]

I love your voice and the lore And I'm always thinking will he say "planeswalked away

[@stormcaststudios3352]

except that ugin dispersed himself across the meditation realm and is now the Jailor of Nicol Bolas who also had his name taken away from him, has no spark, and everyone thinks he is dead. so no bolas will not be coming back.

[@eddybrazil9087]

Honestly, the end of this story was very emotional for me. Not because it was a masterpiece, but due the fact some of its themes ressonated very well with me. Amusing outcome

[@mguy5923]

Sometimes that is a sign of good writing. I haven't read the lore myself, but from the sound of it the lore is better than the rest of the set, not that it says much. Still, good job writers!

[@PawzBrownMTG]

Great story never give up and keep this saga running. Stay Pawzitive and Safe

[@TheSushiandme]

I opened a Zendikar Rising booster box and got like $30 of cards... bruh

[@jesok3761]

Lucky you don't you love when it's all random.

[@killkaio7565]

Box topper is the money card

[@TheEmeraldboy100]

Well everyone's buying boxes for expeditions and Omnath, so singles price tanking is not a surprise.

[@grimtopia4804]

I had a similar experience with 2021 and zendikar rising boxes (wizards apparently have really bad booster boxes now)

[@obliviouslich1722]

Ah... the ol' good Deus Ex Machina to give a (bad) ending to a promissing story.

[@cebenify]

Now to get Nissa up Chandra's skirt again. We were robbed

[@stonebeard2194]

What software are you using for all the animated stills? They are beautifully done 👌. Edit: should’ve waited till the end. Lol

[@Tw1stedAng3l]

I have never been so early to enjoy a story

[@CustodialDaniel]

Maybe someday we’ll get a magic set that doesn’t feature Jace. Heh. Yeah I won’t hold my breath.

[@entiao5570]

Eldraine? Theros? Ikoria?

[@OfficerDva444]

"Even broken things can be redeemed"

[@Case2_0]

I’m getting a bunch of ads for The Walking Dead now -_-

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

You know aether i just thought of something... How does the soul jewel work, we see it suck out the mana from the elemental and the life outta the dude from the trailor but then i have to ask does this jewel exclusivley work on ... zendikarians or can it work on any life in the multiverse it seems tied to zendikar specificly considering nissa uses it to hit the refresh button on zendikar, but could for example it suck the soul outta bolas and he'd finally be gone? Cause you cant tell me that in a place as vast as a multiverse there isnt more then one entity or object that can attack or devour a soul, i mean if there were a ghost rider in the war of the spark then we'd probably get vraska wearing a sweet golden dragon skin coat.

[@TheDaneamal]

How can jace even be friends with nahiri? She's a mass murderer. She brought emrakul to innistrad just for revenge.

[@jordangarner87]

To be fair Nissa was the one who unleashed the Eldrazi from their prison thinking they would just leave. Boy that royally fudge things up. In a way Nissa was the reason the Gatewatch was formed.

[@psy_p]

@@jordangarner87 Nissa unleashed the eldrazi only because Jace and Chandra broke the seal.

[@jordangarner87]

@@psy_p True but the seal could have be repaired. The Eldrazi were still tethered to the plain and weren't fully unleashed at that.

[@TheDaneamal]

@@jordangarner87 theres a difference between being foolishly ignorant and purposely murdering everyone because one person from that place didnt respond to your phone call.

[@lucasgray1492]

Jordan Garner I don’t think we can truly blame Jace, Chandra, or Nissa for what happened. Nicol Bolas was the one who tricked Jace and Chandra to break the seal. Even if Nissa hadn’t broken the seal fully, it was still Nicol Bolas’ plan to break the Eldrazi free desiring to see if anyone would rise to fight them, to see if when Nicol Bolas went forward with his plan any warriors would rise to try to stop him. It was all really Nicol Bolas who caused the Eldrazi plague. It was part of his plan, so I don’t think we can fully blame Nissa for the Eldrazi becoming free, if the seal had been repaired Nicol Bolas would have simply tried again. He wanted to harm the multiverse to see if there were any champions who would be able to stop him. Nahiri on the other hand is to be blamed for everything, I mean she literally purposely sent the Eldrazi to Innistrad to destroy Soren and hurt him for not answering her phone call. A phone call that Soren can’t be blamed for missing. The reason he missed it was because of the obelisk thing that housed the demons and angels of Innistrad, which Liliana destroyed. The entire reason Soren couldn’t hear Nahiri was not his fault however, she refused to understand him. So she chose to unleash destruction. She purposely caused death and destruction without understanding it was all a misunderstanding. Nahiri is evil and deserves to be killed off. Nissa was manipulated. There is a difference.

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

Coming soon MTG Civil War Zendikar Nissa vs Nihiri buy tickets today to see the cat fight that may destroy an entire plane...

[@SlaShWiFiBattles]

Oh boi

[@Narrative_Protocol]

Seems like Jace had a change, Nissa redeemed herself, Nahiri doesn't come off as very likeable but she made a decent foil for Nissa.

[@ljjohnson269]

Jace Beleren=Tony Stark mindset

[@Damonxv16]

So this is the last chapter? But we never get to see who was right or wrong about what or how the dohickie works or if ir even stopped the roils =s

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

I'm a bit disappointed by the "Zendikar lived happily ever after" ending, especially since Nahiri also lived. I'm not sure what role she could play in the story now that all the things she was shown to care about have ended, one way or another. I think it would have been more powerful if one vision for Zendikar needed to kill the other, which was sort of the theme of this whole story, and I would have preferred to see Nissa not just be "the better one who was right"

[@Case2_0]

I think Nahiri might play a devil’s advocate role from now on, being one of 6 known old walkers. She might exist to provide a different point of view from before the Mending and how to deal with enemies from before the Mending. Remember, the old Phyrexians were able to challenge old walkers with godlike powers.

[@Damonxv16]

A lot of questions from that ending that when you finish reading it your surprised to find out that it is the ending =s Nahiri just stands there Jace just stands there Nissa happy because elementals and ramp are broken right now. But no one knows if the roils stopped, less still show if either Nissa, Nahiri or even Jace for that matter were right or wrong on what to do. What if the roil elementals are super charged and now come out more frequently or after they manifest they dont "eventually go away" just continue dishing it out on whoever they have closest to? Why did the stone have a voice? So far everyartifact that ever decided to talk to a character was made from evil =s Really cant believe its the last chapter.

[@psy_p]

After the rage over the books from last year of course wotc would make Nissa the all virtuos and triumphant.

[@harrybrunken6493]

The story was nice but I seriously was hoping for #4 elderazi titan

[@ProteanDev]

Wait for Keldhiem block

[@Wulfram77]

I think you miss a pretty big thing here - when Nissa asks Jace for help, Jace nods but then tries to use his mind magic on her. Which is a pretty huge betrayal, really. That' why Jace is so down at the end of the story - he betrayed his friend and now realises he should have trusted her judgement. And I have to think this will have a significant impact on Nissa going forward - at the end of the story she's caught up in the healing of Zendikar, its basically a religious moment for her, but Jace was effectively her last remaining mortal friend and he betrayed her. Nahiri wasn't wrong about everything - she was right about the Core itself, and its purpose, she was just the wrong person to use it.

[@Vladislaugh]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[@ML7WL]

So the thing was literally sucking the life of the plane, so using it the right way not only restored it but returned the amount already trapped allowing a better regeneration process. Kinda weird plot...so the original kor caused the roil or something?

[@direkitsune]

I think the relic was holding a large concentration of Zendikar's "essence" probably some kind of way to communicate with the soul of the world, and after all the damage the eldrazi did to it (draining it for years then going on a rampage) Zendikar needed that piece back to actually heal itself, kinda equating the roil to an immune system in overdrive

[@damagedjoker69]

i still dont understand nissa having black on the new card

[@Ramipon]

graveyard manipulation and power for any price mindset

[@bryankriczky7008]

Awesome I’m nervous about the next set tbh ! The stories are getting worse lol

[@corhydrae3238]

Turns out that the true power of the lithoform core is to completely obliterate every bit of nuance and grey morality. Nissa was right, Nahiri was wrong. Who would've guessed?

[@Diddysexcuse]

If ur this early y didnt u drop a like?

[@LeviAckerman-dl3fk]

Why is zendikar full of so many unlikable planeswalkers? I mean Nissa, Nahiri, Kiora was there... Bahhh needs more Elspeth and Koth

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I kinda liked Kiora after I heard the story about her 1v1ing Thassa but I agree the rest she might as well not be there.

[@psy_p]

DELETE THIS Kiora is cool and lovely!

[@LeviAckerman-dl3fk]

@@psy_p nah, kiora's obnoxious, shouldve done more with the gatewatch, instead she's basically a less cool Dack

[@psy_p]

@@LeviAckerman-dl3fk NO. The gatewatch is boring anyone is better alone.

[@unbreakablelag]

Kind of a disappointing ending. I feel like if the soul of the planet used Jace like a telephone and talked to Nahiri that Nissa and Nahiri could have worked together on making Zendikar whole and prepared for future threats.

[@marcuspierce3510]

I’ll never forgive magic for how they extremely lowballed garruk on his story. MAJOR flaw He should of stayed corrupt and gotten cured by the lilitho or something or have bolas offer him a deal in the extreme set

[@marcuspierce3510]

*offer him a deal in the next set

[@corhydrae3238]

I'm with you on that. When you have a corrupted planeswalker huntsman who goes around hunting other planeswalkers, then you freaking show him hunting planeswalkers! Instead they shoved him away for years directly after his corruption, only for him to be subdued by another pw offscreen and then immediately get healed in his next appearance. Such a waste of potential.

[@justingarcia3185]

Dang this s betory was kinda weak. It seemed like they just hit the "Ight everything bad solved because the power of friend ship"

[@brandondadd1034]

literally all friendships in this story were broken though XD

[@jellyproxy]

That's really bad... I miss the old books...

[@jesok3761]

Eh I think it was a good story, but books are always better.

[@Case2_0]

Jesok37 not the War of the Spark books

[@jesok3761]

@@Case2_0 I mean the biggest thing I didn't like was that it was anticlimactic, but I blame that more on 1 set blocks.

[@SoundsOfSushi]

I wish WotC would just just kill off Nissa. Garruk is a much better green Planeswalker.

[@direkitsune]

Why not Viven instead? Atleast Nissa is a different focus of green

[@SoundsOfSushi]

@@direkitsune Wizards is pushing Vivien too much. Almost like candy... too much can be bad for you.

[@marcelbehncke71]

@Aether Hub oh look Nahiri and Jace battle against each other 😉 Moment, were there not allies!? You say in another zendikar video? You talk a lot of nonsense

[@True_Ronin]

The end is kinda meh

[@MackAttack-vh1vz]

:D

[@thehairyyam3077]

What do ya know? Another shiite story from WotC. Do you remember Urza's story arc? How about Glissa's, or Karn's, or Rhys's? How about Jarad's? I remember.

[@Taylors_Ghost]

I really dislike Nissa...

[@rainbowsprankles6085]

This set / plot arc are truly one of the worst in the modern era. We are back in Zindakar facing an existential threat to the plane’s ‘wildness’ that seems much more trivial than the Eldrazi last time. Rather than new characters and plot twists we get interpersonal squabbling among the gatewatch characters and their nebulous personalities and poorly fleshed out motivations. To me the gate watch has been a massive failure. They wanted to breathe life into these characters but in the end they come off feeling not like real people. Before in the Lore, how are magic character felt and what motivated them was up to the interpretation of the player/reader but this five year field project character development for these characters has made it all so much worse. Rather than a cool mysterious wizard they tried to make Jace into a Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man and they end up making him look like some weirdo Emo anime protagonist. Fail

[@GBCWOLFGOD]

First

[@psy_p]

Absurdely underwhelming ending...

[@cossakrose]

Ugh damn it Jace! Not again! You useless piece of narrative garbage! *This was supposed to be the arc when Nissa was finally killed!*

[@ishaanrajan6786]

second

[@alexcruz3043]

man this story was a big nothing. Like cards aside this didnt add anything to anything really.

[@brysonmichna1030]

Mary Sue Jace and RetCon nonXenophobe Nissa save the day Once again because good things always happen to plot devices . Jace should have turned antagonist (it's perfect set up), nahiri and nissa should have worked together to stop him from taking the core to Ravnica(becoming new Bolas), Nissa should have expired her spark to save the plane of Zendikar while Nahiri watches/protects it forever with tears of regret. Aaaaand scene

[@brownbricks6017]

How would that follow from his already existing motivations and character traits?

[@bartoszganko5290]

How is Jace a Mary Sue he's plans never work xD he' lost multiple times in the past.