So Regatha was mostly featured in the novel The Purifying Fire, which stars Chandra who has been spending time at the Keral Keep getting tutored in fire magic by the keep's matron, Mother Luti, who as it turns out is Jaya Ballard, the very planeswalker who long ago inspired the monks that founded the keep.

A small one I would like to add is the card Death-Greeter’s Champion is depicted in the secret lair art of Alesha, Who Smiles at Death and thankfully works really well with her.

Was looking forward to hearing about people's moms, this wasn't that. :p

I see the Wheel man himself: I click and wheel myself in.

It's important to know that Thomil and Worzel, who fought on Segovia (mentioned on Segovian Angel's flavor text) also fought on Ergamon, so that's an additional piece of information that we have. In addition, my favourite all time reference in this set is Merciless Repurposing's flavor text. The card depicts Urabrask's death and the flavor text is: As the harvesters bore away the last of his limbs, what remained of Urabrask heard Elesh Norn say, “Leave the traitor be.” This is a reference to original Urabrask's flavor text: When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: “Let them be.” It's incredibly satisfying to me. A third reference is The True Scriptures on the backside of Sheoldred - those are the phyrexian scriptures, the exact same words in phyrexian were shown on the card Phyrexian Scriptures and given to us on the Urza's Saga print of Dark Ritual's flavor text: “From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began”. Always love when they call back to those because they seem to be the core of maybe all of Phyrexia's philosophy.

If we ever get an Ergamon set we should get an "Invasive Species" joke with a bear that has somehow been brought to the plane.

In regards to the petraglyphs, the artist who did Ruxa from Strixhaven, wanted to make the runes Ruxa was writing to be the ones depicted ON the Petraglyphs card, and I think they got most of them on there but ended up not being able to fit them all

Obscure mom lore. Or when mom gets drunk and drops some wild stories about illigal shit she did.

Magic lore is so cool. I bet this set was awesome who know the lore really well. I can just imagine someone just being like "Oh my God Moag!"

So far these lore dives have been a pleasant breeze.

Hey wheeler, if you read this, I love your incredible lore/card memory. You're great. It's been great to be here, thanks for having me.

Azgol is the Dark Souls plane!

Kathleen’s post migraine chic is a mood

In the books, Teyo is sparked and after being left in the diamond storm and plansewalks to Ravnica where he finds the guildless Araithia "Rat" Shokta, the assassin that kills Dovin Baan. Teyo also was a member of the shield mages, but sucked at it real bad. He later travel back to Goakhan with Rat and Kaya to begin the hunt for Liliana and start her redemption arc.

I genuinely love hearing about magic lore. I rarely have time to read the stories or anything, but i think it is a lot of fun

"These assholes are back... and they brought pointy bits from the sky?" - Timberland Ancient

When MaRo was asked about the Podracing he offered the idea of both players building a Birthing Pod deck and both racing to see who can go off first :P

Currently recovering from another concussion, so yeah, you could say I've got a brain outch. Wearing sunglasses indoor is just RAD.

that moment when you realize you're 20 years older than Wheeler....

Phyrexian Archivist also calls back (unintentionally?) to Phyrexian Librarian from Unhinged - funny how making random things Phyrexian was once considered a joke.

fun fact about shandalar; it's moving through the multiverse. that's how magic from ravnica can seep into shandalar, and also how slivers got there.

Always love these deep dives!!!

Kinda crazy how deep the lore on marvel snap goes, Patriot is not just got a long backstory but there are four of them. They must have been working on it for months

stopping by to say that I noticed the reference to Cogwork Archivist and was very hype for it, so glad it made the cut

She went to Woodstock! (wait... this isn't lore about my mom?)

Really enjoyed this chill lore dive 😊

Loved all these deep cuts and happy to say I know some of them.

As for how you got the Pocket Players Guide, it was available in bookstores

I'd love to see some more lore videos in the future, this was fun.

Wheeler and Kathleen are amazing people. Please buy brain hurty hats for them.

Big fan of listening to this podcast when I have the brain hurties.

Ancient Imperiosaur also gets 2 counters per creature that Convoke it, so that's another reference to the Petroglyphs.

Really surprised we didn't get a Wizard Chat/Belanon Loreweaver joke

+2/+1 is Unholy Strenth symbolizing the angel’s fall. That also might reference Desolation Angel.

Poor Kathleen. Getting over migraines is just the worst, but at least she seems super comfy. ♥

I read The Purifying Flame, but it WAS years ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but iirc the titular flame isn't actually on Regatha? If I'm remembering right, Chandra is on Regatha, studying at Keral Keep, learning under Mother Luti, revealed to be Jaya Ballard MANY years later, when Jace shows up to steal a scroll that leads to Zendikar. Chandra chases after him and accidentally ends up on the wrong plane where she's stuck and can't leave for whatever reason, but meets Gideon. They go back and forth on how positively they feel about each other as it turns out he works for the order and is trying to take her in. They're friends by the end of it. Also, iirc, The Order of Heliud was a multi-plane thing, but most planes didn't know about each other because it was like one planeswalker who worshiped Heliod going around and starting new branches everywhere he went, kinda like Azor did when he founded the Azorius on Ravnica, then went off to other places, ultimately Ixalan. The order's name is explained as a misspelling on that plane just passing down over time.

I think the four legged thing in Invasion of Belanon is supposed to be a Phyrexian

45:00 There is also the black aura "Fallen Ideal", giving a creature flying and sac a creature to give +2/+1. It depicts the fallen angels horn crown thingy.

My brain is always ouch but watching you guys makes it much more bearable

The boros avacyn flips from 4/4 to a 6/5 also with the fallen angel theme

thank u for showing up even tho u have a migraine kathleen. I love hearing y'all talk about lore, you get so enthusiastic and it's great

You cannot buy Kathleen's sunglasses from Card Kingdom, but you can buy Urza's, which are far more stylish.

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I kinda love mirrored depths. I kinda love all the "bad" cards in magic. They add variance and it makes for an interesting event (granted a not so good event ) but it does make the table have to team up to escape the plane and in its own way that is fun

A great episode on Lore and yet I spend most of it staring at the Mouse trap box every time Wheeler swapped leg. The box is so well placed that it just peaks out as 'use Trap' and then when you can see more of the box 'use Trap Game'. I have been instructed and now must use trap cards and find ones that can get into my EDH decks.

52:23 now I gotta go listen to Mechanical on the neon dynasty soundtrack

The ghobakan chaos roll effect makes so much sense

I am glad to be living in the year of our Wheeler, twentytwentytwentythree.

"Ral invented a machine that can turn oil into explosions." Engine. The thing you're talking about is an engine. 😛

Love the vorthos TTC. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on aftermath

Love the lore episodes

MOM is suvh a cool set. Gosh what an undertking it must have been behind the scenes trying to balance the whole Magic Multiverse in one set

I can imagine Xerex being like that other dimension from the Doctor Strange movies, where everything is all kaleidoscopic.

Did Doctor Dinosaur design Karsus? MTG Lore is just so much fun, its too bad its so hard to find as far as i am aware....spread out in books and card quotes.

this set has a lot of flavor text, but my favorite is dance with calamity

I thought the dreadship was one of the ships from Kaldheim, forgetting that Ixalan also had ships

I think the thing in compleated huntmaster is one of the converter beasts

a muraganda set would be really interesting, but i wonder how it'd work

there is probably parts of ravnica that don't have good hotdogs.

I think it would be really cool if Kasmina had a connection to Xerex (maybe she's from Xerex?) given how she'll probably be the next big bad (or at least an anti-hero). And given how Iona got erased from Zendikar simply for having one of the most unfun cards (despite having the glorious flavor text for Angelheart Vial), I hope we get to see more of Xerex and its six-winged angels.

More lore!

So what does it actually mean for Segovia for everything to be 100x smaller? Everything would still be the same size relative to other Segovian things, so what’s the difference?

...isn't there a sombrero in the prop room

All fallen angels get unholy strength.

engaging with engagement gods to say i also have a brain ouch

Sensory sensitivity gang

You look so cozy.

I'm sure Ravnica is fine it's not like the guildpact was killed

"Biblically Accurate Plane" Ah so thats where the bible quotes on esrly magic cards came from.

im one of those who thirsts for xerex

Can't believe you didn't give an epilepsy warning before the strobe-knight

Cross promo with the current Yugioh Duel Links event where you fight Number 9: Dyson Sphere? There doesnt exist canons betyond the ones in card games surely, especially irl. 28:40

An invention that turns oil into explosions? So... fire? :P

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