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Yeah I didn't even bother getting into MtG premending when we were talking canon. :p Other than to reference the Weatherlight planehopping a couple times. Much as I've written waaay too much about "solid Magic canon" in this and other threads, it's worth admitting that Magic lore is even more...

What? No. The game was written with a certain set of baked-in assumptions and patterns in an effort to provide the most fun and accessibility to the most people. It was also built consciously to be very amenable to houseruling and modification for people so that things could work better at their...

Yeah I've mentioned the planar bridge but didn't want to be like, full frontal Magic nerd in every post. (Also the planar bridge still only lets dead things through, it just also allows undead things that are coated in literal plot armor.) I'm not sure I succeeded at reigning that nerdery in...

Yeah, and this applies equally well to a lot of the things people miss from old editions' versions of monsters. Amp up the ghoul paralysis, add back in negative levels, let poisons to Str or Con damage, make aboleths immune to damage from non byeshk weapons, make golems immune to magic... I've...

Oh great, now that AI's are getting involved how am I going to continue my high D&D win percentage? :mad: Technology ruins everything.

I was going to go with this, though I was going to say swarms of snakes, giant snakes, snakes on a plane...just lots of snakes. Yuan-ti kinda make more sense though, and probably have better loot. You could have a magic item that turns the user's skin green. Alternatively, a golem guarding a...

I totally understand that, too. I also chose high levels as my "favorite" because I so rarely get to play games at those levels. Most of my games last in the 1-7 ranges, and while I love play at those level as being the most strategic and the closest to traditional "dangerous" dungeon crawling...

Yeah I totally get that. My epiphany moment was realizing that "balance" doesn't really have much meaning or utility to how my players and I play at high levels. Especially considering I freely hand out power-ups over the course of the preceding 15 or so levels like powerful pet companions...

Stone and iron golems at least can just look like statues. I consider myself to have failed as GM if my players don't treat anything that even looks like a statue as though it were about to jump out of its alcove and start crushing their faces. I mean not that there's anything wrong with the...

I love all the level ranges for the different experience they give. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. I hear a lot from my players that they consider 1-2 less fun for how fragile they are. Still a lot of good game memories, but I grudgingly admit that it's probably more fun for the GM...

I've always thought of it in terms of the "heroe's journey" trope, as played out through mechanical progression. At early levels, you are vulnerable and weak because that sort of echoes the feel of the fantasy heroes of old, where you start out from your farmhouse or moisture farm or whatever...

Animated Armor 14 Flesh Golem 10 Flying Sword 3 Helmed Horror 20 Iron Golem 18+1=19 Shield Guardian 21 Steel Predator 13-2=11 Stone Golem 17

I'm going to be honest, I have no idea what that is. :p My guess is that the explanation is "it's not canon, it was just for fun," but I really have no idea. Like there is a new mobile game that uses MtG brand stuff for basically a tower defense game called Manastrike. It's framing device is...

As home lore? Perfect. Sounds cool and is really flavorful. As MtG lore, there is actually a short story online about one of the Theros gods first realizing the existence of planes beyond Theros, and being utterly terrified about it because he knows that he nor any other god will ever be able...

I will try to track down some illustrative quotes. There was a bunch of to-do about the planewalker I mentioned upthread, and Rosewater talked a bit about the Blind Eternities. Also the lynchpin of the most recent Big Bad of MtG, the Dragon God Nicol Bolas, was about how he had to create a...

"The most powerful godlike beings" in this case refers specifically to the Eldrazi, a group of beings that are basically the Cthulu old ones of the setting, beyond time, beyond space, living in the spaces between the spaces of pure madness, etc. Keep in mind you are reading a wiki, which has...

Awesome, thanks for the link! I would note that this is basically the "how D&D sees things" explanation. Within the canon of MtG (so coming at it from the other side), the planeshift spell is flatly impossible (right now, retcons notwithstanding) as confirmed by official word of Rosewater...

There also hasn't been a Magic set released for Tarkir since Planeshift articles started, while the other planes you mentioned have all had a set release. Other than that I agree with your logic though. I'd love a bestiary pdf release for slivers in D&D!

So for my theory,