March of the Machine Official Cinematic - Magic: The Gathering 

They use their god-like omnipresent power to film stuff so we can like it on sites like TRvid. True heroes.

Dude survived a hungry Bear Grills, by now it's likely routine. Hells, who do you think taught Randall Higgins from CoD how to do his job?

Who says they're uncompleated? This video is clearly Phyrexian propaganda.

@DC my thoughts exactly, conveniently edited to not show the part where elspeth runs her sword through norn's chest, they're not telling the full story.

CHADRAMAN

We've never seen her open her mouth before either.

And thanks to both, many of us will have issues sleeping tonight. ;p

@TemprusofTime Cringe

More nightmare fuel than cringe tho. ;p

yeah other than the ultimate she's super underwhelming, also, none of her abilities are in the actual cinematic, and none of her cinematic abilities are in the actual card... kind of a fail

I really wish they would use the design space of Planeswalkers that temporarily become creatures more often. Gideon had it as his thing and Sarkhan does it a little bit too but other than that not very often. Elspeth, Garruk, Sorin and numerous others really should at least occasionally take the frontlines and kick ass themselves.

​@Nemo U thanks to these noob devs that don't know wut their doing nor do they care about the game just profits

The card that shows this scene is really Elspeth's Smite (followed up by Mirrodin Avenged)

Card is designed on point. Cinematic Trailer is designed for peepz who like angels with swords fighting.

No no no, proper JR phrasing is "BAH GAWD!" 🙂

@Scott Bland BAH GAWD THATS STONE COLDS MUSIC!

SHE BROKE HIM IN HALF!!!

That planeswalker has a family!

Will someone stop the damned battle?!?!?!?!?!

Same

Yeah, Marvel would give us that 😅

Yeah, this was pretty generic and empty

@Federico Ham This isn’t an upcoming Marvel comic.

Also why not show innastrad?!?! We had 2 sets of it?!. No gin gitaxius either he's just vibing out of view ig. There is zero white aligned phyrexian near Norm. Plus where is Chandra and wrenn?!?!

Yep

Buddy, I hate to tell you this....they don't give a shit about anything other than delivering the least for the most, if you catch my drift.

@BrosephStalin unfortunately yes

We knew the writers would make it so, Phyrexia still did amazing. Team machine killed it

@Rennac I hope not all of the compleat planeswalkers die, they could be fun villains in the future if they manage to regain bits of their consciouness(mainly jace)

It didn't last long, sadly

@Qaztim Eleven Well we know at least Ajani has gotten a cure, I think it will be interesting to see what happens next

Next set is literally called March of the machines aftermath..🤣🤣

@Zen Master to clarify, I mean a cinematic scene of the ending, if there is one, I haven't read the story yet. You know how they love cliff hangers and suspense

they ending is already out on the mtg story and its shit.

​@Aiba271 The actual story ending is so vastly much more than this.

@Victor Bressler 😫😫😫

I know its supposed to be Godsend, but that sword sure has Luxior, Giada's Gift vibes to it

you say that like they showed her being defeated 💀

@Prem My guy they literally showed a card with art that had Karn holding Norn's decapitated head while telling us that it was about Karn making sure Norn never returns ._.

ya the action in this trailer is kinda sus fr fr

She was not defeated easily. Norn fought with Elspeth, she keep her busy, but it was infighting of the Phyrexian preators that was the end of the end of them.

@TopWeasel she was defeated easily. I read the story. Norn just tosses random shit (and I MEAN random lol her throne, vorniclex’s horn) at Elspeth with Elspeth having a “I’ll deal with you later” vibe. Then we see Karn disintegrate her like nothing

It wouldn’t sell enough

There isn't any. Praetors are being killed by random soldiers we don't know the name of and falling buildings.

As much as I would love more detail since I love the lore of Magic, we have to remember that this is a trailer and not a movie. Putting in a lot of details would please the die hards but it would be all gibberish to the casuals. We have to remember that trailers are aimed to pull in new players. Not saying that this is a good trailer though. War of the Spark and All will be One are the ones who I think did it right.

It's truly fantastic how they have done Elesh Norn's movements. It's like she has a semblance of how a human should walk but it is so animated. Loving it

@Marci Kovács Almost like a Puppet you could say

I thought the exact same thing. I can't imagine there wasn't some intent there given the history.

it is not unintentional, Serra herself, or whatevers left of her, helped shape Elspeth into an Archangel.

It wasn't unintentional. When Elspeth took on the Sylex, she ended up in the space between Realms, possibly inside the powerstone that was once Serra's Realm. Serra is now an ethereal being existing in the space between the Blind Eternities, and transformed Elspeth into an angel.

I wouldn't say "bad" as much as rushed. They really need to scale back set releases, give the lore more time to breathe IMO.

SOOO BAAAD. PLOT HOLES GALORE

@Stephen Manuel breathe lmao. plot has been trash for years.

Form the looks of things the gems are still in the sword. I'm guessing she either had a new set made or has bound their power to the armor.

@Derek Alford she made the sword and armor from nothing, well the energy from the Sylex blast, which also was used to reshape her into an Archangel, with Serra's help.

@Keith Filibeck Isnt serra supposed to be dead, got beat decades ago

@Thoticcus Prime she was an old walker, so some fragment in the blind eternity's was probably left behind for this moment, it wasn't the full her

@Susan Bewley that's some copium lmao. It's literally called "official cinematic"

To be fair, the War of the Spark trailer is probably the best one they've made up to this point so its not easy to top that

@Vitaire throne of eldraine and neon dynasty were also very high effort and well done but obviously the stakes weren’t as high or dramatic. But year, the facial expressions of liliana seeing the siblins that reminded her of her and her younger brother is pretty hard to beat. That being said I still have a soft spot for the journey into nyx one.

@Susan Bewley when they were teasing they put "teaser" in the name, not "official cinematic".... I think that we won't get any more from this set :/

Magic has been going on a consistent downhill lol

Borg Queen vibes.

AI generated comment

Well, strictly speaking neither the Phyrexians nor the Borg feature any AI.

@Verily McArthur Haibo, coz I like a trailer its now an AI generated comment. 🥱According to you people can't like things unless they're not human, lol

@Zamangwane Zikhali Ill only believe you're a human if you admit to wanting to kiss Elesh Norn

At least it is in the cards

@Gulgulp Oh cool, which card is it on?

@Going Jome soul parry

Same here, I started in scars block too, love myrs and the battle cry stuff, hero of bladehold and accorder paladin ♥️

And I love the art for planes in that set, the razor grass planes and such

"Aw, my house burned down." Was more or less my reaction.

Mirrodin Reborn!

on the contrary i started playing competitively when scars of mirrodin came out. so elspeth getting it done, to me feels like we did it mirrodin will be restored.

elesh norn be like SNAP and then vorinclex went like ow ow ow

how so?

@Elite DarkChild In the video you can see jin gitaxias about to kill Karn under Elesh norns command and elspeth saves him. In the lore, many more people are there: Nissa, Chandra, Wren, Koth, Melira, A group of mirrodin soliders, and Karn is on a floating table. Realmbreaker should also be in-view.

Great company? Who? Certainly not Wizards or hasbro

@Tim Porter Ikr, thought the same thing, they been milking consumers for the past few years now

My guess: The lore-version was too expensive to animate (Phyrexia and a whole battle in the background) and/or they didn't write the lore yet (animation takes a lot of time).

A piece of Vorinclex beats any other conceivable projectile, didn't you know?

Totally disagree

@ToonLinksDair She could have at least used a piece of Urabrask or Sheoldred's head. Phyrexians used to like to recycle.

It’s to show her breaking down. Everything she does is false. When Elspeth comes along and throws a wrench in her plans she is no longer able to put up the calm facade. She didn’t want all to be one, she wanted all to be her.

@Twingemios I understand and if we consider that Elspeth appearing was her nightmare since Ashiok did what he did, it has even more sense. But she wasn't supposed to! She was the embodiment of white mana and of the will of Phyrexia and that's why I loved her. She just wanted a world of peace where everyone would be the same and that was scary and relatable. Why she had to turn into a crybaby? Why she had to turn into a classic evil character instead of a cool original one? Why an entire plane (or at least 3/5) should follow her? No one in New Phyrexia was enough smart to understand it? Sheoldred did it. Also, I don't think that shaping the universe around yourself is really what a white mana creature would like to do!

With Phyrexia winning, because we've got enough movies where the good guys win.

😢😅

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I mean, while that always sucks as an element of movies based on Earth, in order to establish planar stakes in MTG you sort of have to show the major planes getting hit. Those are the places where we know the people who live there, and where we've seen their stories and lives play out before us. As far as narrative gut punches go, there are only a few better than "this once regal and powerful embodiment of nature's terror and beauty has now become just a mechanical puppet, another cog slaving away in the Phyrexian machine".

No Chandra's gay except in Asia

Phyrexia forever

"that phyrexian" How dare you disrespect Mother like that

@frigginresulrum I would never disrespect the Mother. I meant the little one that was about to attack him.

That’s supposed to be Gitaxias lol

@Austin Mozer Oh, my bad! Carry on

Yeah, and it has major inconsistencies compared to the story, too.

To be fair, maybe it's good that the trailer doesn't spoil the whole story. It's a trailer. It should generate hype.

@stalemittens My point is that releasing it now, after the whole story is finished, is silly, since it would’ve worked much better to build hype without us knowing what was going to happen.

@Ascendant Fiction Well by releasing the trailer it already spoils that Espeth is going to be an Angel. Also the trailer is for the set, not the story. All wizards cares about is if the trailer makes people buy cards and I can't really blame them for that.

@stalemittens POVs: 1. A casual who has no idea about MTG - Wow killer robots marching in portals. Just like Terminator. Is that a golem?…..Is he losing?… A female cyborg?……Looks like she is the bad guy. Wow an Angel…. One angel taking on an army of robots? Oww so it is a card game. 2. MTG player who does not follow the lore - So those gotta be the Phyrexians invading different planes. Its Karn. He is losing to Elesh Norn. Is that….. Elspeth??? She has wings. Is she an Angel??? Wow she is an Angel!! I can’t wait wait to make a new Mono white deck. Also will test this with my Soldiers deck. 3. Die hard MTG fan who wholeheartedly read the lore - this trailer missed out on a lot. Where is Wrenn, Chandra, Melira, Koth and the other Mirrans? Nissa should also be there. That random Phyrexian minion should have been Jin-Gitaxias. And where the hell are the other planes? I wish there was more Innistrad, Zendikar, Ravnica even though we have already been through those planes multiple times. New Capenna is important to the story. I wish I have seen the team-ups of the likes of Thalia and the Gitrog Monster, Drana and Linvala and the others. I could still go on but I’ll end it here.