Posted on Apr 15, 2023
'March of the Machine' early review: Mom invades Magic: The Gathering's multiverse
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Magic: The Gathering has had plenty of big bads, but Phyrexia's Elesh Norn wanted to be the biggest and baddest yet.
The self-appointed "Mother of Machines" (imagine a cross between the Borg Queen and the Pope) literally broke the multiverse. Along with recurring supervillains with sinister-sounding names like Sheoldred, Jin-Gitaxias, and Vorinclex, she led her legions of flesh-and-metal horrors to invade self-contained worlds from across the game's 30-year history.
While Magic's newest release, March of the Machine, brings a climactic finish to a long, interconnected storyline, it also innovates with its mechanics. I got the opportunity play it early through Magic: The Gathering's digital implementation, Arena. I even put in the hours after a freak cucumber sandwich accident sent me to the emergency room, and then typed this article with my right index finger bandaged and immobile — all for your benefit, dear reader.
Magic: The Gathering has had plenty of big bads, but Phyrexia's Elesh Norn wanted to be the biggest and baddest yet.
The self-appointed "Mother of Machines" (imagine a cross between the Borg Queen and the Pope) literally broke the multiverse. Along with recurring supervillains with sinister-sounding names like Sheoldred, Jin-Gitaxias, and Vorinclex, she led her legions of flesh-and-metal horrors to invade self-contained worlds from across the game's 30-year history.
While Magic's newest release, March of the Machine, brings a climactic finish to a long, interconnected storyline, it also innovates with its mechanics. I got the opportunity play it early through Magic: The Gathering's digital implementation, Arena. I even put in the hours after a freak cucumber sandwich accident sent me to the emergency room, and then typed this article with my right index finger bandaged and immobile — all for your benefit, dear reader.
'March of the Machine' early review: Mom invades Magic: The Gathering's multiverse
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Boy .. thanks for the flashback. Haven't played MTG in about 30 years (got into it when it first came out with a group in my unit ... PCSed and never picked it back up).
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
COL Randall C. When I was stationed at CINCPACFLT Pearl Harbor, Dungeons and Dragons was Just Becoming a Thing. Quite Popular on the Lanai at Night.
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COL Randall C.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Spent many a night down in the bowels of the Student Union doing RPGs (D&D was one of them ... then expanded out to a lot of the esoteric ones).
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