Magic Story: Ken "Mind Rape" Troop Edition

magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/hour-eternity-2017-07-12
WotC needed a story about Bolas mind raping people and Ken Troop is the man for the job.

I wonder what sort of awful trash we're going to get this t--
>Ken Troop
That changes things.

In this week "fucking everyone dies"

In your opinion, who had the best part in this article?
>Nylah
>Asenue
>Genub
>Kawit
>Amenakhte

Based Bolas of course

>It's a Ken Troop Story

I'm a retard that can't reverse image search, can I get some sauce on this?

Bolas's one line smoked the entire article. Other than that, Amenakhte had the best bit.

Why all the mind rape jokes?

That moment where you realize the kid in the last one was already dead

MarshmallowMaximus

she's a big gurl.

>MarshmallowMaximus
>google name
>instantly in love
Shame that I refuse to pay for pics and she's probably an ultra feminists. I'd fall for her like a rock in water

The vast majority of Ken Troop's articles include a female character being subjected to some sort of mind-altering.

>Hour of Eternity
One woman reacts to the apocalypse by insanely devoting herself to Bolas and eagerly throwing herself at his Eternals, another has her mind controlled by an Eternal.
>The Hand That Moves
Kefnet's Trial is basically a test of mental fortitude, which also involved Nissa's mind being invaded by Emrakul.
>The Promised End
Tamiyo was mentally dominated by Emrakul, the entire article was about an internal mental battle.
>A Gaze Blank and Pitiless
Avacyn getting mindbroken by the cryptolith network as it lured Emrakul closer.
>The Blight We Were Born For
Tazri enduring literally millions of years of existing as a slave of Kozilek, in a blink of an eye.
>Shaping An Army
No mindbreak. This gets a pass.
>Memories of Blood
Drana delves into the mind of an Eldrazi and almost becomes mentally dominated by it in the process.
>Dreams of the City
This one is all about Ashiok entering the minds of countless people and twisting their nightmares until he creates a newborn god.

is it as magical realm as the descriptions you're giving me user?

No. It's not sexual whatsoever.

It's a turn-on if you've got a genuine fetish for women losing control of themselves and being mentally dominated by another force but it's not written in a smutty fashion whatsoever.

It's just an amusing coincidence that the majority of what this guy writes turns out to be about women having their minds ripped away from them and remade into something else.

Is Ken Troop and Steve Argyle the only two non SJW's at Wizards?
Pic related

Sounds like he gets off to that stuff, just he hides his power level well enough he can sneak it through.

Well, with him writing stuff like:

>She had not liked Gideon Jura in her previous life, before Kozilek had saved her. But there was even more reason to hate him now. The mere presence of his opposition offended. How could such a puny, frail vessel have the temerity to challenge the lord of reality himself? Gideon Jura needed to be punished.

>Kozilek squeezed, and no mortal frame could withstand such pressure. Gideon Jura burst, and a bloody bag of ruptured flesh and broken bones fell limply to the ash-white earth below, there to join the corpses of his friends. Tazri cheered and leaped, ecstatic to be witness to such glory.

>A strange thrumming grew in Tazri's ears. It was not coming from the air, or through the ground. It was coming from inside her. The thrumming grew and deepened, and only gradually did Tazri guess at the sound.

>It sounded like laughter. The laughter of Kozilek.

>The thrumming resonated throughout the sphere. Tazri shared in her master's joy, but could not perceive the cause of such mirth. Kozilek raised an arm, and there was a ripple in space, and Gideon Jura appeared once more before them, whole and resurrected. He was once more clenched in Kozilek's fist, but in his terror and screams it was apparent that Gideon Jura remembered. Remembered dying, and now he was to die again. Kozilek squeezed and Gideon Jura once more found the embrace of death.

>Tazri squealed in delight. Now she understood her master's mirth. Her master wielded time and space. What consequence to manipulate a small part of such materials to ensure an impudent enemy be made to suffer? Again, and again, and again.

>Another twitch, another ripple, and Gideon Jura was reborn again, and his terrified cries were delicious.

I guess the answer is maybe?

Neat story.

Can't wait for people to bitch about too many woman characters this week.

How fucking low are your standards?

lets see you not get fucked for two years straight because of dead family, depression, anxiety and debt and see where your fucking "standards" are

Could've just said "low"

and you could not be a piece of shit on a backwater Chinese cartoon image board. Yet here we are

>Talks standards
>posts worst 2hu

>You fucks are tired of the gatewatch?
>fine have stories without gatewatch
>everyone dies.

MaRo expressing his latent fury via mtg fluff

MaRo didn't write the story.
It's a story about the apocalypse, what did you expect would happen?

It's finny how despite the fact that he has worked for this game since 1996 he is basically one of the worst designers and writers for this game

I was making a poor joke. Yes I am aware maro doesn't write these.

How is it that each of these mooks that only get a page or two between them are far more interesting than Samut?

Why can't they speed up to Gideon's death already? This was cool but I need someone important to die.

Still better than Gatewatch

Better writer writing the piece. With this write by committee format if a character or theme is stuck with a crap writer they become a crap character.

See: Nissa in Return to Zendikar block.

Are you one of those people who can't fap to girls that have fucked black guys on camera?

Considering how much of /pol/ actually watches that BLACKED shit, I think that's highly unlikely.

I mean if the woman is alone I could probably beat my cock like a run away slave but no I don't jack off to white women fucking monkeys

My man

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I honestly wasn't sure if it was that or if it was something weirder going on.
Between his name and the description at the end of the woman, it's a bit...odd.
I mean yeah, that's the most obvious takeaway, but it feels like there's something more going on.

something was odd about it.

But the simplest solution is that the child had died, and with the man dying the eternals left.

Kawit and Amenakhte. Why couldn't Samut be someone like Kawit, a nobody with a sudden inspiration? Her story also makes me think the gods are not as dead as they seem to be.

I feel like the woman might be a remnant of Oketra. Like Kawit seemed to be channeling her power even after she died.

Might be something about the nature of divine magic in that setting.

>Considering how much of /pol/ actually watches that BLACKED shit, I think that's highly unlikely.
So none?

My sweet summer child.

>confusing autistic spammers and bots for the entire board

>makes me think the gods are not as dead as they seem to be
I think they still "exist" in the sense that the gods of Amonkhet are pretty much just the plane's manifestation of it's mana. The Scorpion God's poison is maybe just something that untethers the gods leylines. The gods can still, albeit weakly, influence things in the same way of Oketra's arrow.

The gods have a possibility of returning if the plane's mana is restore and something something leylines maybe.

>not realizing that /pol/ is just autists, spammers and bots

>thinking they all watch cuck porn
You're also moving the goalposts.

I dunno user, it seems to be all that they want to talk about.

When people on /pol/ are able to tell if an image comes from BLACKED or not due to its lighting, you know that they've watched way too much of it.

In short, from what I've observed some of your clique sadly does seem to enjoy cuck porn. I don't get it personally but oh well.

Can we go back to discussing MtG now?

Sure user.

Which planeswalker is most likely to show up on the next episode of BLACKED and why is it jace

Do you think Elsepth got to record her episode before she died?

BLACKED has unique lighting, you can see it in the screenshots the bots spam.
>oh you enjoy it because you can identify their lighting
That's like saying I enjoy the films of Wes Anderson when I can identify a shot of his. I fucking detest his works..

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Honestly, I don't care about things I dislike enough to be able to identify them at first glance. What sort of masochist would invest that much effort into things they don't like?

You're not going to convince me and I'm not going to convince you, so we might as well end this discussion.

It's still filming user. Erebos is still at it.

If only you guys would realize a thing or two about digging holes

TLDR:
>some delusional bitch thinks she's eternalized and gets btfo
>proud African QUEEN gets SLAAAAAIN
>some dude burns the coal and pays the toll
>based Bolas culls cat cuck
>some dude finds his wife's son, fucks him in the ass, gives him to Samut presumably before saying how cool she is and dying like a fag

wtf user whats wrong with you

This is the shittiest tl;dr I've ever seen.

Egyptian block, almost everyone is a black. I want it to stop.

>Shame that I refuse to pay for pics and she's probably an ultra feminists.
Chances are there's a rip of patreon exclusives somewhere around the internet. There always is.

every lore thread

like clockwork

>What sort of masochist would invest that much effort into things they don't like?

It's trite I know but "Where do you think you are?" Hell forget /pol/, look at Veeky Forums half the time it seems like most threads here are dedicated to people throwing shit-fits about total strangers liking games that they themselves don't while trying to act like wailing "Stop liking what I don't like" makes them morally superior.

Ball's in your court pal

>she's probably an ultra feminists
Dude, she sells lewds.

Most of the characters are arab/egyptian looking though

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So who was the lady that picked up the dead kid? Nissa, Chandra or generic-black-angry-warrior woman aka SaI have no charactermut? Because I would rather prefer Nissa or Chandra instead of nothing.

why do people assume it was a named character?

i thought it was just some nameless person like the rest of the people in the story.

Bolas stops to smell the destruction.

The last bit is fucking brutal. Mr. Troop saving MTG lore in a ocean full of shitty writers and stories. He works with whatever crap he's given and something cool comes of it.

Granted, he's not the best writer to ever existed, but in MTG lore he's the best (not that the bar was super high or anything). A close second, IMO, is Wyatt with his writings on the artbooks.

8.9/10 would read again.

>the gods are basically Leyline knots
>the scorpion Gods poison unravels the knot
>its just WD-40

Because he's a good writer and having a named character pick up the corpse toddler is a good way to organically change scenes into one involving the Jacetice league in order to progress the plot?

That's hot

Wholeheartedly agree. But I miss Cavotta, Jeff Grubb, and pre-Apocalypse J Robert King

Alternate possibility, divine magic still works because the mana still exists, god to arbitrate it or no.

I find it rather likely that if gods do rise again on Amonkhet, though, their unique sapience will be beyond any recovery.

Maybe its just me, maybe im just basic as fuck. I really didnt like this story as much. I really want to see more of bolas and the actual shit he does to the gatewatch/plane. Im fairly new to mtg lore, and would love to see some actual information on how easy its going to be for him to dismatle the gatewatch. If there even is a fight at all.

It feels like there might be something more to it than just 'guy tries to protect kid at cost of his life, kid is already dead'
There's something really off about the ending. Really off.
And his name basically being a slightly jumbled version of the plane's name does not help at all. Nor does the author being who he is.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, maybe I'm not.

How does this fucker get away with this? All he writes is mind breaking, someone at Wizard's has to realize something's up.

There was no mindbreak in this story.

They specifically give him the mindbreak stories.
They should give him more stories, he's their best writer

One woman goes insane upon exposure to the horrors of the apocalypse and slavishly devotes herself to the entities causing it, even if it results in her death.
Another woman is mentally dominated and made to kill the man that she loves, with a smile on her lips as she does so.

It's a little looser than usual but it still fits the general theme of Ken Troop having women lose their minds.

Man I hope he at least tapped that.

I really fucking hate that fat bitch. We should have gotten fit brown waifus in revealing outfits since it's the fucking desert.

Protip: Revealing lots of skin in the desert is a great way to get sunburnt, sand-scoured, and delirious even if you're so black you're nearly blue. What you want in the desert is light, thin clothing in a handful of layers, to keep sun and sand off and to let sweat do its job. So basically your average Middle Eastern robes and head-towel. This has been Unwelcome Reality Theater!

I agree, they really did some good work with the Abzan design, I just want to see some cleavage and more female skin since Wizards is too busy catering to high school feminist. So since city life is more relaxed it gave room to more sexy outfits.

A E S T H E T I C

>fit brown waifus in revealing outfits since it's the fucking desert.
>revealing outfits since it's the fucking desert.
>revealing outfits
>since it's the fucking desert.
Holy shit, I didn't think someone this retarded existed, but here we are.

The Abzan were great, design-wise.
Really, all of Khans Tarkir was.
And I still think featherdragons are pretty as fuck even if one group is Best Korea and the other is murderhobo extraordinaire

Did you really just forget the best dragon brood?

Please don't bring up the feather debate again, we'll have plenty of that during Ixalan.

who dis qt

It's a generic reaction image. Use reverse image search or something, you twat.

Do you trawl every thread in search of a vaguely attractive image to beat one off over?

Saturday Morning Cartoon Villains aren't pretty as fuck. They're neat, but they aren't PRETTY.
GLORIOUS GLORIOUS FEATHERS.

She finished the episode with Koth at least.

Based Pusy Poster

>Do you trawl every thread in search of a vaguely attractive image to beat one off over?

Yes, so?

Loved this story. The whole hour of devastation story arc really. I'm hoping gatewatch v. Bolas won't be jammed into 1 story. I'm so diamonds for that fight.

Me too, but considering how the fight with the demon went I wouldn't have my hopes up.