Greatest Mystery On Kaldheim?! Cosmos Monsters | Magic: The Gathering Lore

[@JBXyooj]

We have our Knight, Viking Plane... All we need is a return to Kamigawa and BAM!!! the Cycle of Ubisoft For Honor is complete.

[@tylerkister4628]

I guess tarkeir is the shaolin

[@jeremyday9056]

Ha, that's true!

[@michaelmorgan2111]

Cosmos monsters, also known as Eldrazi lite

[@aceundead4750]

I was thinking the same thing

[@garrethgoodworth2494]

...Or what *would have been cool*, Titans on Theros. [I mean, more than the two they could fit. (This set, and that, deserved an immediate sequel)]

[@aceundead4750]

@@garrethgoodworth2494 i want to know what Ashiok is up to with the Phyrexians. Maybe they had a hand in Vorinclex being on Kaldheim, there are serious details missing in the story right now that keep me up at night quite literally because my brain keeps coming up with it's own scenarios

[@phoenixshadow4631]

@@aceundead4750 Thing is my guess is Ashiok found Tezzeret and they are working together. As Tezzeret has the planar bridge built into himself and Vorinclex shows the ability to shift into the mycosynth lattice that he took to Kaldheim this suggested to me that the New Phyrexians could likely pass through while shaped as Mycosynth avoiding the whole living matter thing as Mycosynth isn't truly living considering its a bunch of mutated metal and Phyrexian oil. Ashiok of course would only do this because of the fear and nightmares it would generate

[@MustangMike52]

Better than some space rocks and a glove being the center of the universe a ton of times And this is from a huge Marvel fan

[@Dartowl1]

A cycle of enemy colored legends for the cosmos monsters would’ve been sweet.

[@garrethgoodworth2494]

*Would have* being the power point =/ Really disappointed w/where Hasbro is taking Our game.

[@coppertalon4704]

Same thing happened with titans in theros. The one set method really limits the design space for cool high rarity cycles

[@LuisJavierGarcia]

Hey man I just very recently started playing mtg and I’ve been watching g your videos to understand the plot of this amazing story. Thank you so very much for everything you do

[@andrewmunro4884]

I’m surprised that the eldrazi never found out about that tree.

[@jeremyday9056]

Man, I love when you do these lore videos! The information is so clearly and entertainingly presented and it really gives you a feel for the plane and its people (or creatures.) Thanks for your hard work and research!

[@kjellegilhustad2095]

I cant wait for James Wyatt to come out with his the art of magic the gathering -Kaldheim. The auroras and winterland art is gonna make a fantastic book.

[@manporo5865]

I like that the story building here is pretty good when compared to most of these recent returns and Eldraine

[@jesok3761]

Eldraine, guilds of ravnica, and ravnica allegiance were pretty good, but other than that I agree it hasn't really been good since ixalan.

[@lordvaust5830]

Can you do a video discussing the 10 realms of Kaldheim and how the color pairs they represent play into how their culture and history is designed? It’s a topic I’m very much interested in regarding this plane as it’s the first major plane with a similar thematic structure to Ravnica we’ve gotten. 10 realms each symbolizing one of the 10, 2-Color pairs in Magic. Just like Ravnica’s 10 Guilds of similar themes.

[@ryanmeakins2993]

Great video 😊 I got a dnd character idea that i wanted to loosely base around the cosmic wolf and this vid gave me all the lore i needed to get started

[@alexmartin3433]

Love that the serpent is impossibly long, but it’s only a 6/6

[@isaacleiferman709]

It creates 3/3 tokens

[@YataVSTheWorld]

The nice stuff about Koma is the splitting itself ability they have. So every Koma card would be perfectly big as he could simply be a fraction of the serpent and not the whole beast

[@ich3730]

@@YataVSTheWorld its kinda neat if you think about it from the perspective of the player(s) walking along its body. every turn you see another 3/3, the serpent never ends.

[@hiddenleaf414]

@@ich3730 I mean you would still see the tips of the snakes. You would just see so many of them.

[@MackAttack-vh1vz]

Thank you so much for all your lovely content

[@jesok3761]

I would love to learn more about these cosmos monsters, and their inspiration so far I only know about fenrir, and jörmungandr.

[@SerWindpipes]

Toski is based on Ratatoskr, a squirrel that runs up and down Yggdrasil as a messanger between the eagle living in the top branches, and Niddhoggr living at the roots. He basically exists only to further the insult hurling between the two other creatures.

[@jamesehlenfeldt7132]

Ok crazy theory time: the cosmos monsters are said to be born from the world tree. Created within the blind eternity. What if squirrel, wolf and space snake cosmo creatures are the leaves of the world tree. While the spaghetti monsters we know and love are the cosmo monsters of the roots? Being the roots of a world tree powering ten realms would probably make me awfully mana hungry, that and the majority of eldrazi look like giant tree roots. We already know Emerakal sees herself as an angel in Jace's mind. Perhaps she's the root to the branch of the valkarie relm? Maybe also why she had such a powerful influence on the Angels of inistrad? Kosilek's brood are usally the biggest and rep red and blue mana, we just so happen to have a plane of red and blue mana aligned giants. We even have a underwater giant in kaldhiem which represented as an eldrazi on zendikar could possibly be mistaken as a sea monster; worshipped as gods by the merfolk? Lastly ulamog, which honestly I have trouble finding a comparison as there doesn't seem to be vapmires or null equivalents on kaldhiem. Perhaps he's the root to the human or elf realms? Who knows? Just my thoughts.

[@inamecomeunico8935]

Gods like to shapeshift and walk among humans unnoticed, and they have the power to walk through the differents realms... Aaaand shapeshifter have the natural ability to walk through the realms as well... I see a connection there

[@jeremyday9056]

If there was one plane that Magic could return to I wish it would be Alara. The Shards of Alara block was one of my all-time favorites. With the shards all being merged now, I know it would make it a bit harder to do, but I totally wouldn't mind another all Gold set!

[@skinnyman8320]

I just want more Kaldheim. Thank you for your content!

[@PandemoniumVice]

I really love these videos. I just wish this guy's voice didn't give me a headache after about 10 minutes. Something about the constant low-level strain in every word hurts my ears. Just hits that perfect tone.

[@hdafkaksbfabfbao77]

Great video, would really like to see how you would do a video on the the gods on kaldhem

[@unbreakablelag]

I wonder if this is a Yellowstone type situation. Eldrazi are like wolves. And cosmos monsters are like coyotes. Now that their is space available to spread with the Eldrazi gone, the cosmo monsters could take over their role in nature.

[@nickh3205]

What is Marit lage is one of these cosmo monsters? Because she can jump from plane to plane like the cosmo monsters can jump from realm to realm

[@daltonmiller1569]

Was exited to learn more about these beasts

[@guropanda6593]

I was wondering is koma the largest being in MTG lore history or is there larger beings like are the Eldrazi larger in size? On a different note what are some people's thought on eldrazi encountering the cosmos beast like would they mutate into eldrazi spawns?

[@Torriotorres]

If the tree is as large as an earth size planet, traveling it would be difficult for sure.

[@lucasgray1492]

The Wolf is def based on Fenris. The serpent is the World Serpent (can’t spell the name). The squirrel is def the squirrel that in Norse mythology ran along the tree from top to bottom causing the Nidhogg and the eagle on top of the tree to continue to fight and try and destroy each other. That probably means if we get more Cosmos Monsters we’ll probably see something like an Eagle, a Dragon or even a creature like Sleipnir

[@Crow_shoW21]

kind of want to know more about sarulf

[@runcmd1419]

World tree looks a lot like a silhouette of Bolas.

[@FuzzyBuddz]

Oh how I miss the 3 block sets where you got all the cards and the whole story played out through them...

[@Sky_Sovereign]

Same here. The planes and its lore were fleshed out. Plus, we never had to deal with the whole gatewatch shit

[@FuzzyBuddz]

@@Sky_Sovereign we have missed out on God cards, titans, etc... so annoying.

[@matthewludivico1714]

I wonder if the tree is only figuratively a tree, because the lore does not mention the species. The Norse source for Yggdrasil lists it as an ash tree. Boseiju is a cedar tree. Maybe WotC could not decide.

[@supercannonball1236]

What is the thing in the background? I see the squirrel, wolf, and serpent but the octopus thing isn't talked about in the vid.

[@AetherHub]

There are still 7 cosmos monsters to be discovered ;)

[@supercannonball1236]

@@AetherHub So where did the squid monster art come from? Just curious cause I googled octopus kaldheim mtg and squid kaldheim mtg and I couldn't find anything.

[@jarrod3196]

@@supercannonball1236 it’s a ice breaker kraken

[@supercannonball1236]

@@jarrod3196 Okay, thank you.

[@liveflame8762]

Wouldn’t planeswalking be another method of traversing the world tree it seems in the second chapter of kaldhiem showed tyvar kell using something similar to planeswalking to help kaya escape the giants he claimed it was a natural way his people (the elves of skemfar) traversed the world tree and yet he seemed to carry an artifact similar to a hedron from zendikar or is it just too early to count this seeing as ww know nothing about tyvar and the elves of skemfar?

[@kakerlake4468]

I feel like that Tyvar knew how to travel between realms before but with his planeswalker capacity it was way more easier, but planeswalker from other plane have more difficulties to do this because they didn’t learn how to travel between realms

[@rubensmits2511]

It was an actual hedron from zendikar that Tyvar took from there during his first planeswalking journey. It's how Kaya identifies Tyvar as a planeswalker. It's unrelated to his ability to traverse the kaldheim cosmos. (Which is different than the blind eternities which is what you travel through when planeswalking). He also carries a runestone that he uses for his transmuting magic but neither of these artifacts were used to cosmos travel. In the chapter that Tyvar and Kaya travel to immersturm Kaya in order to chase Tibalt, Kaya observes Tyvar using a kind of magic that is similiar to the Magic that the god Alrund(MTG's Odin) used to travel between realms. On Kaldheim the Elves where actually the first gods (Called the Einir) but they were defeated by the current pantheon of gods on Kaldheim, the Skoti(These are the Norse-inspired gods). My guess is that the current elves of Skemfar are descendants of the First Einir gods (or they are literally the original gods, we don't know if kaldheim elves are immortal). Thus it stands to reason that the elves retained some of their godlike power and have the ability to travel through the cosmos with their own magic just like the Skoti do.

[@corixwaterproducts8924]

it would be awesome if the eldrazi were cosmos monsters that got separated from the tree

[@andrewfornes5458]

This is what I believe happened.

[@johnjohnson-wg7jv]

Who else wants a D&D book about Kaldheim now?

[@matthewludivico1714]

I would, although we basically know enough to write our own campaigns.

[@martinsvec1851]

I wonder if the cosmos mosters are a sort of anti Eldrazi force.

[@Madgunner117]

So the cosmos monsters are basically smaller eldrazi

[@jesok3761]

Good eldrazi at that.

[@Madgunner117]

@@jesok3761 good in what way ?

[@jesok3761]

@@Madgunner117 you know how he said they were made for the good of the world tree.

[@Madgunner117]

@@jesok3761 but how do you know the eldrazi arent good for the plains ?

[@ich3730]

@David Smith i think in some story ugin suggested that because they are so strong, they have to be important. They might serve some function in the multiverse thats crucial for life to thrive.

[@creakwoodliege5239]

This new set is sweet

[@supercannonball1236]

Neat, so kinda like the D&D universe (which is now canon in mtg) where it is one world made out of a series of mini worlds all bonded together.

[@MackAttack-vh1vz]

I love your videos

[@16jknight]

Wait, isn't the Kaldheim God Cosima been confirmed as a Cosmos Monster?

[@pvtpain66k]

Realms, monster's, then Gods, IMO

[@Case2_0]

Ayyyy 300th like :D

[@pablolasagamota6215]

The gods pleaaaaaase

[@ericstephen1036]

👏

[@galaxypig8168]

dannnnng

[@YataVSTheWorld]

Ok I completelly missed the fact there were only 10 Cosmos Monsters, I assumed there were tons of them and we knew only the most famous/infamous. If there are only 10 of them, in the set we were introduced to most of them

[@DM-Oz]

Didnt we see only 3 ?

[@YataVSTheWorld]

@@DM-Oz Wolf, squirrel, serpent, dolphin (turned for mysterious reasons into a god), owl. So 5 of them have actual cards. Then a couple of them are listed in other cards' flavour text.

[@DM-Oz]

@@YataVSTheWorld ah, i see, i didnt knew these (the dolphin/god and owl) were also cosmos monsters

[@YataVSTheWorld]

@@DM-Oz Cosima (The Dolphin) is for sure a Cosmos Monster, the Owl (Vega) maybe is not. The wiki is quite unclear on this as it mention Hakka (Alrund's Crow) as a Cosmos Monster

[@MackAttack-vh1vz]

Second!!!

[@IsaiahBuchanan175]

How does second place feel loser

[@SoundsOfSushi]

I hate their 1 set block formats.

[@Walter-fc3uq]

Can i correct you even if you're not wrong?.....;^)

[@IsaiahBuchanan175]

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