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One of my biggest letdowns is the commanders of the 5c Eldrazi precon. We got Ulalek, who canonically is where Ulamog and Kozilek “held hands” so to speak, and Azlask, an Ulamog brood member with absolutely no lore attached. Meanwhile, there was a perfect opportunity for one already existing in canon: General Tazri in Kozilek’s reality warp. In The Blight We Were Born For, General Tazri survives a reality distortion blast from Kozilek, but in doing so experiences all of her life in the same moment. Part of this lifetime involves her become enthralled by Kozilek, spending tens of thousands of years in his service. The interesting part is that this was not merely a vision, but actual reality as this experience lifted a curse put upon her that would last a lifetime. So in the story we have an existing character with a WUBRG identity off of an activated ability, who in an alternate reality served the Eldrazi. She would have been perfect as the card Azlask ended up being. Instead we got yet another legendary Eldrazi that represents a small part of a larger Eldrazi Titan, just like Zhulodok, which makes no sense.

What are some of your biggest lore letdowns?

When Foundations released, it included ten "main characters" - five planeswalkers and five legendary creatures. They'd each be featured on one of the full-art lands, and the idea was that these characters would appear in sets following the release of Foundations (source)

Now that we have two years' worth of sets known following Foundations, I wanted to go over all the characters and see if they've already played a role or will play a role.

Planeswalkers:

• Ajani - appeared in Lorwyn, will appear in Reality Fracture
• Kaito - appeared in Duskmourn right before, hasn't appeared since
• Liliana - will appear in Reality Fracture
• Chandra - appeared in Aetherdrift, will appear in Reality Fracture
• Vivien - nothing, her basic art appears on Ikoria and we saw in the Ikoria was pulled from Aetherdrift since story had an idea about another thing to do with it

Legendary creatures:

• Giada - nothing
• Zimone - appeared in Duskmourn right before, was a face commander for Secrets of Strixhaven
• Tinybones - nothing
• Kellan - nothing
• Loot - Aetherdrift, his basic art has him on Amonkhet so that's what it's referencing

So we can infer that we'll be seeing Kaito, Giada, Tinybones, and Kellan sometime in the three years after Reality Fracture? Thoughts?

Innistrad vampires are known to be hedonistic and short sighted. Sorin created Avacyn as a safeguard against vampires consuming the entire human population of Innistrad, causing their own extinction. Now that vampires are aware of the multiverse, will they now be able to hunt off plane with no care for sustainability?

Follow up question: how did one end up as a visiting professor? Innistrad vampires are at best oppressive aristocrats and at worst sadistic predators. Did Strixhaven not vet their new faculty? (I guess they did let war criminal Liliana Vess in as a long term professor)