D&D General Azorius or Jeskai Warlock

[HanBassSolo]

Hey everyone

So in my new campaign I'm apart of I decided to play a warlock. It's set in a Magic the Gathering universe.

I'm either going to be apart of the Azorius or Jeskai. With that said warlocks don't seem common amongst them I don't think.

Any ideas on what type of warlock would join them or why they would?

How would one play one?

 

[Zardnaar]

Jeskai???

Strictly speaking anyone can join the ravnica guilds regardless of class.

I assume you just want access to the spell lists via the guild backgrounds??

 

[HanBassSolo]

Jeskai???

Atrictly speaking anyone can join the ravnica guilds regardless of class.

I assume you just want access to the spell lists via the guild backgrounds??

Jeskai is the name for the Red/Blue/White pairing

 

[Charlaquin]

Jeskai is the name for Red/Blue/White pairing

More specifically, it’s a clan on the plane of Tarkir, much as Azorius is a guild on the plane of Ravnica. Colloquially, magic players often use the guild names to refer to two-color pairs and the clan names to refer to three-color wedges (and the names of Alara’s shards to refer to the allied three-color sets). Technically, any given WUR card, mechanic, or deck may or may not have anything to do with Tarkir or the Jeskai Way, but it beats calling them “Team America decks” like we used to have to do before 2014.

 

[Zardnaar]

More specifically, it’s a clan on the plane of Tarkir, much as Azorius is a guild on the plane of Ravnica. Colloquially, magic players often use the guild names to refer to two-color pairs and the clan names to refer to three-color wedges (and the names of Alara’s shards to refer to the allied three-color sets). Technically, any given WUR card, mechanic, or deck may or may not have anything to do with Tarkir or the Jeskai Way, but it beats calling them “Team America decks” like we used to have to do before 2014.

Miss America circa 2001.

Lightning Angel (From the Vault: Angels) - Gatherer - Magic: The Gathering

 

[Zardnaar]

Jeskai is the name for the Red/Blue/White pairing

PDF?

 

[Charlaquin]

Miss America circa 2001.

Lightning Angel (From the Vault: Angels) - Gatherer - Magic: The Gathering

Fair enough, folks probably didn’t start calling it Team America until 2004.

 

[FrogReaver]

Any ideas on what type of warlock would join them or why they would?

Lean into your patron and why he wants you there - or maybe that’s a mystery to you.

How would one play one?

Eldritch blast + control spells/summon spells.

Personality - you need someone either too dumb, too impulsive or very calculating to make a warlock pact. Start there and expand.

 

[Zardnaar]

Fair enough, folks probably didn’t start calling it Team America until 2004.

It was a bit junky outside block iirc. Flame Tongue Kavu didn't help.

 

[cbwjm]

I'd read up a bit on the lore of the Azorius or Jeskai, I'm assuming players are able to planeswalk or otherwise get around the multiverse if you can belong to either group.

Azorius I'd lean into the law aspect over good and evil. Learn spells that incapacitate your targets like hold person, maybe play a little like judge dread (I am the law!).

Jeskai I can't talk about as I don't know much about the Tarkir clans.