Editing The Mending

It's some time after the defeat of [[Phyrexia]], and [[Dominaria]] has a problem: with all the catastrophes throughout the plane's history, an imbalance had built between the multiverse at large and the energies of the [[planeswalker]] spark, and it's tearing both Dominaria and the multiverse at large. The plane's resident surviving planeswalkers, making up the bulk of prominent ''Magic'' characters at the time, frantically scrambled to reverse the damage, eventually ending in the planeswalker [[Freyalise]] sacrificing herself to forge a new balance of the fabric of the multiverse.

The year is 2006, and [[Wizards of the Coast]] have a problem: it's been a few years since the [[Weatherlight Saga]] ended with a climactic battle for the fate of the multiverse, bringing to end literally years' worth of ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'' fluff. A few standalone stories followed, bringing some of the game's most [[Mirrodin|popular]] [[Ravnica|settings]], but without any real overarching plot. You see, the metaplot of ''Magic'' fluff relied heavily on planeswalker characters being present, especially as fluff writers wanted to explore planes outside of [[Dominaria]], and since planeswalkers were basically walking gods, this made it something of a challenge to put together a compelling narrative. Their surviving writers, the bulk of prominent ''Magic'' writers at the time, frantically scrambled to find a workable plot device, eventually ending in the creation of the [[Time Spiral]] block to facilitate a large-scale retcon of the fabric of the multiverse.

Whatever the reason, the result was '''The Mending''': a large-scale rewrite (both in-universe and out) of how the ''Magic'' multiverse worked, and the nature of the planeswalker spark in particular. Prior to the Mending, planeswalkers were nigh-immortal, nigh-invulnerable, had incredible levels of magic power, and could shapeshift at will. About the only things that could pose a threat to a planeswalker was another planeswalker or [[Yawgmoth]]. Afterwards, they lost the vast majority of their power, including their immortality and invulnerability, with the spark representing little more than their ability to walk the planes in the first place. This allowed Wizards to, for the first time, introduce planeswalkers as a playable card type, and made [[Nicol Bolas]] very, ''very'' '''VERY''' [[Rage|salty]], resulting in him working on numerous plots to regain his power. This spawned the meme of "Bolas is the true villain" when he was in three blocks in a row the dragon behind events of decreasing magnitude ([[Alara]], [[Zendikar]] and [[New Phyrexia]]). With the reveal of [[Amonkhet]] this meme has reawakened, with veterans pointing out that him being the [[emperor]] is reminiscent of what he tried back during the [[Legends]] set.

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