War of the Spark Official Trailer - Magic: The Gathering
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- We have a fight to finish.
Nicol Bolas controls Ravnica. With Liliana Vess under his devious contract, the dragon god’s army of Eternals run free and the guilds have descended into chaos. But Liliana is ready to take back control of her own destiny. Now only the combined power of the Planeswalkers stands between Bolas and the ultimate power he craves.
War of the Spark features 36 Planeswalker cards and a story experience unlike anything Magic fans have played before. The multiverse is at stake. Will you join the fight?
Be among the first to know the full story by pre-ordering the novel: www.randomhousebooks.com/campa...
Pre-Order on MTG Arena or on Amazon starting on April 2nd: magic.wizards.com/en/products...
Play it first on MTG Arena April 25th
Prerelease April 27-28th
"In The End” written by Linkin Park
Performed by Jung Youth & Fleurie.
Produced by Tommee Profitt
Additional production and arrangement by Tom Salta - Hry
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Who just keeps coming back to watch this
Shmeagolas meeeee
I would never
Me
Me
Edit: still me
Me fo sho
Admit it, this isn't your first time watching this.
It's just that good
maybeeeeeeeee
I'm starting to think that the 5M views are mostly mine.
Get out of my head!!!!
Mine is the fourth...
I totally admit
Who would win?
-A literal God of a dragon
-My 21/21 Squirrel Token
Uh, I would think the dragon since you haven't seen the power of his planeswalker. Let alone the fact that dragon god has the ability to instantly destroy it. As one of the biggest Bolas fans you might know I know this stuff.
@@hankpeterschmidt8626 Not if the squirrel comes out of nowhere and has haste. The dragon would be freaking K.O. ed
@@aidenreeder4792 not so fast! I have drown in the loch for tokens
in reality that squirrel with trample and vigillance. Bolas is deep in squirrel shit atm
@@seven-xo6pe erm, I have drown in the loch, I already told you
The moment Liliana defied Nicol Bolas, her contract was broken, and her life was forfeit. But she was free to choose her fate, and she decided it was worth the price.
And you could see that moment, that emotion, captured in her face.
Bravo, Wizards. Bravo.
Plus a good example of a heroic character still being pure black, with what her rejecting his dominion over her and choosing freedom, defiance and death over servitude.
@@Busterdrag however lets not ignore the fact its gideon who sacrifices his life to save her
E
She knew Gideon was dumb enough to get her bacon out of the fire. Plans within plans. Who else was going to control undead Gods to fight Bolas?
@@MrJibbajabbawockyShe did not plan it at all. Later cards featuring her confirm this. It's why I think her choice is meaningful. She was fully prepared to die to end Bolas.
This is a fully animated trailer that broke the 1 million views less than 3 hours after it went up.
A fully animated trailer made just for the release of the new set of a 26 years old card game.
What a time to be alive.
Righhhht im just dissapointed i only heard n got into it this year fml 🤣
its 4 millions already :O
Wizards must be going bananas in their office right now
To be honest, I would buy the tickets to see a movie like this in less than a minute.
And not just because I've been a fan of this game for more than 20 years...
fck yea man
Netflix series with this animation would be fucking insane
I'm not crying. I just tapped too much blue mana.
Ok why isn't this the top comment. Come on people!
Why don't you just untap the excess lands?
Why?
@@nicholasberry8456 that aint a thing you can do dummy
@@xenostar6482 Umm... yes it is
Keep coming back, and that defiant scream from Liliana sends chills every time
I'm right there with you. I've watched this an unhealthy number of times over the year and that scream is ones of my faves. Team Lili 4ever.
Liliana is my favorite❤. Her scream was a giant F*** u to Bolas.
Yup, still a thing.
@@kayfrenly5460 It's both. But there's a subtle distinction between a scream that is simply in response to pain and a scream intended to help you push through that pain. Liliana's unwavering eyes and stance indicate this is a scream to push through the pain, not simply a response to it.
Still wondering whose voice singing this in the trailer.
Expectations when trying Magic: This trailer.
Reality: 3/3 Elk.
Well hes banned now so try it again
F*ck Oko.
Magic welcome to the salt motherfuckers
Just lel
@@zanewederell9571 well maybe he was killed by Nicole bolas
"To Liliana's suprise, the cost of betraying Bolas did not fall on her."
"I will stand watch"
"Kytheon had known war every day of his life. Now he finally knew peace."
she gets a rough lot in life and she still saves the multiverse like 5 times and everyone wants to kill her anyway cept gidion who died before he could explain
Hungry Waffle it's like the literal worst( good) cliffhanger ever. I love her so much😭
@@ryan1000011 Don't forget Jace. They were lovers for a while, so he probably understands her better than anyone realizes - maybe even her.
I come back here after every MTG trailer that fails to surpass this one...
So do I.
Maybe, it have set the bar way too high... almost 2 years and the quality keeps going down
Maybe it’s because it involves so much emotional elements
@@joshuamclaughlin6393 - They tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter, smh.
The Theros trailer is a solid second in my opinion.
@@danielbretado7660 and in my opinion eldraine is 3rd
Two years later, this is still epic. Amazingly well-done.
Three years later, this is still epic. Amazingly well-done.
@@souocesar agreed. Just came back to it and watched 4 more times. This story arc needs to be a movie
@@AnMann freaking awesome ;)
The best arc ever
Especially after seeing how the most recent arc was handled (poorly), I can really appreciate a good story.
Once upon a time, a girl tried to save her brother.
This needs more likes!
And end up fighting self-styled god that might deserve that title. Well that's why you shouldn't skip crusial point in the story.
Lilliana’s story is a tragedy
She's not the one dying... It's kind of self explanatory, but look up the card Gideon's Sacrifice...
And caused the woman she echoed to remember who she is
You realize if you made a series on Netflix or something of this quality, literally everyone, even non magic players would watch this wizards? Please
Do something in the style of the Castlevania series
@@srensrensen7878 Castlevania was actually good. I mean like really good. Like...wow thats a real drama series, with actual really good character development. Netflix... what happened. How can you make an actual critical good series out of a trashy 80s arcade game (Yeah the games are pretty b-movie trashy storywise).
I'm afraid it would be full of PC and SJW. Art of the carts already changed towards that direction. Some things perhaps are better to be left untouched
Bro a new show with graphics like this would be bloody fucking amazing!!!
@Owler Plus, it takes tons of time. An animation format like Castlevania would be easier to pull off.
Whoever they got to do Lili's scream at the end, it was the right person.
it was me actually
"I would rather realize my will in death before never seeing it come to life." - Liliana Vess, moments before her sacrifice
"To lilianas surprise the cost of betraying bolas did not fall on her"
- GIDEONS sacrifice
@@panagiotisarkomanis I really hated Gid's death. People may say whatever they want of him as a character, but that hurted. u.u
@Víctor Collao he got to see his friends in the afterlife so... it's ok
@@chadbusch8541 Gideon did not see his friends in the afterlife.
His irregulars died on Theros, and therefore sent to Ilysia (Theros's version of Elysium - where the heroic go after death)
Gideon died on Ravnica and therefore does not get to go to the Theros underworld
@@GreenFenril "Heartwarming Redemption" begs to differ
I come back here every now and then (March 2023 this time) to witness the peak of MtG-history. It can not get better than this...
Music underrated too
Imo, Kamigawa Neon Dynasty anime trailer is better
This should have been MtG's Endgame, but they outright dropped the ball and messed up too much of WotS.
October 23, 2023
"The moment Liliana defied Nicol Bolas, her contract was broken, and her life was forfeit. But she was free to choose her fate, and she decided it was worth the price."
"To Liliana's surprise, the cost of betraying Bolas did not fall on her."
"Gideon's Sacrifice" is not in vain.
arent Liliana undead or something right now?
@@ReverseFlash86 no, she is on the run. Kaya is coming after her
@@Uzotrups
Let's see if Wizard's make Kaya take as long as Garruk did. (I doubt it.)
The range of emotions they captured in Liliana’s eyes could colour the multiverse.
arw ♥
Siniša Tošić Go colour a drawing book Spock.
Killing is perverse not a solution. I believe it.
Matthew Marn she has already killed Bolas...
@@paulmaspil9563 she didn't kill bolas. She trapped him in the meditation realm.
We didn't know it at the time, but this was the height of Magic.
Who’s here after watching the kaldheim trailer wondering how we got from this to to that
So true
exactly xD
Lol it’s not a fair comparison Lilly is just such a fucking boss and Nico is compelling baddy the only sad part is the trash novels that made like zero sense and ruined all the story building and development they had done.
@@Macattack1023 I just pretend the novels dont exist and just go off what is in this trailer and the flavor text of the cards. And in my special little christmas land Dack Fayden faked his death and is vibing on the beaches of Ixalan with Vraska
Well I don't play the game, but, a friend of mine does. I cry like a baby watching this video because I see in it someone willing to sacrifice themselves to help others.
Everyone talking about Lily but DAMN, seeing Bolas animated like this for the first time is just as amazing.
Hell yeah
Agreed. But Lily is still cool as well 😁
Bolas and the eternals/dreadhorde look so good in this animation style
No love for Dack Fayden
@@jasonbright7322 Or the two peasants while you're at it
Overall a masterpiece of a trailer but more specifically whoever is responsible for depicting Liliana here and animating her facial expressions is genius, she's perfect.
Reminds me of Kerrigan from Heart of the Swarm.
Agreed 100%. Those facial expressions did it for me. I could FEEL what she was feeling. Ugh. And the detail overall is just superb. Can literally count pores. It's the little things.
joshualive LMFAO
1000000% agree
Such emotion, and not a word spoken.
I have goosebumbs every time I watch this. This is by far the best cinematic wizard has ever made. (Here again on 17/09/2021)
3-25-22
best trailer still, nothing beats this
Neon dynasty was cool, but this one will always have a stronger vibe. 26/04/2022
I'm sorry but best cinematic was Eldraine, it was EVERYTHING.
Here again, 2/24/23. And this trailer still makes my eyes water. Super powerful.
I don't think they can make anything, that will ever beat this.
I hope the people behind this trailer see all the love of it since its launch. The animations, the choice of music, the timing, writing of the script and Liliana's scream - These people did an awesome job.
What a wild ride of emotions they managed to put into three minutes, especially the climax at the end!
MTG + Linkin Park in 2019 - My inner 12 year old is at maximum nostalgia levels....
James Moorhouse 😭👌 this was too much
awesome Trailer 👍
Well played WotC :)
@Ryan Jachtmann you must be fun at parties
Now is the song from the perspective of Liliana or Bolas?
(It takes a certain amount of trust to have someone command your legions, details of a certain contract aside of course.)
How are people not mentioning Bolas' face design? He looks extremely good in this trailer compared to the goblin/dragon he is on certain cards. GJ whoever worked on that.
Right? Now he's a mean lizard instead of a scaly gremlin.
Yeah, Finnaly
I really hope his card looks like this, I can't say I like the design of his previous cards
Yeah... that roar of his looks DAMN intimidating
Or a dachshund in Amonkhet.
The song, the emotion, the expression...
Who else comes back to this to feel it?
I've watched this an unhealthy number of times. Liliana is my favorite Planeswalker and necromancer in general fantasy. She's devastatingly beautiful, her power is her own, and she's ambitious enough to make deals with demons to preserve that beauty while having the audacity to destroy them to free herself from the contract (or so she thought). At it's core, the story of Liliana Vess is a tale of an amoral, power hungry, objectively bad person learning the value of sacrifice and service before self, becoming a good person. Gideon's sacrifice changes Liliana forever. "Is it better to be born good or to overcome one's own evil nature through great effort?" - Party Snax
I don't think she's an objectively bad person at all. I think everything she did, she did out of fear of death. After what she saw happen to her brother, she had a legitimate fear of death. That fear lead her to avoid it at all costs, hence making the deals.
She's definitely done bad things in her attempts to avoid death but I don't think that makes her bad, I think that makes her human.
@@thenightman9189 I see your point and you're definitely on to something. She might be bad but she's definitely not evil, not evil, not even close. I think she has what people called "buried morality". She does have a moral compass, but like you said, her fear of dying or rather of growing old and ugly (she is quite vain) lead her to bury those morals so she could pursue immortality. But she also has a tendency to do terrible things to people who only mildly inconvenience her. She went through a dark chapter where she flirted with the idea of being evil but it took a whallop upside the head from reality to wake her up, and that's something I can identify with. It wasn't until she realized that her service to herself and to Bolas (because she did definitely enjoy her position on Amonkhet as basically queen of the dead, I mean her card shows her smirking and looking very satisfied as innocent Amonkhet-turned-zombies fan her and feed her grapes) was causing innumerable civilian deaths that she finally decided...maybe death isn't so terrible if you do it in service to others. She knew what would happen the moment she defied him, the contract is clear on that. I think that moment she sees the black haired girl and her little brother get crushed reminds her of her failed attempt to rescue Josue and that was the last straw. The journey from bad to good can be a messy one, but as long as you get there eh?
This just in: Woman is literally too angry to die
Liliana: A Summary
Inb4 Rakdos colored Lili is spoiled
Didn't realize Liliana specced into a zealot barbarian.
Up next: Dragon dude balling on these planeswalkers
Angry wamen
Indestructible really came through for Gideon in this
Lolllll
Best armor is plot armor
Ahahah it can be.. But still..
@Professional Witcher Hazoret did tell Gideon that she foresaw his death, likely at the hand of a god. If Bolas counts as a god-pharaoh ...
Dude lost his spark... Or did he? >_>
Another year passes. Another year where I haven't seen a more gripping and relevant cinematic in game history.
Who all thought the hand under all the Rubble was jace for a second
Aaron Decker same man
All of us
I did
Surely no coincidence they made it look like that, just one of the small details that make it awesome
Me and I panicked even though I am sick of seeing him soo much lol.
It is beyond amazing to finally see WotC/Hasbro move into the fully animated trailers rather than partially adapting a handful of cards. So excited. Keep it up!
Really? Because honestly, I just find it a bit disingenuous about what you're actually buying. Anyone who isn't already into MtG wouldn't think this had anything to do with a card game.
@Arty's Adventures Huh, never knew about that one thanks. Having seen it, it looks like a mix between unique CGI scenes and animated cards? In any case, I feel like this is the direction to be going in these days.
@@pancakewizard1533 I'll grant that there's less direct parallels to the gameplay than are achieved in the trailers for LoL or Blizzard games and the like, but a big ole Magic the Gathering splash card near the start helps. :)
@PancakeWizard I think the fact this trailer focuses on story is fine because they already released a first trailer that gives information about the block itself. If they release card and story trailers then that is just good marketing.
It is not cheap
Lilianas resolve and scream at the end still gives me goosebumps.
This is kind of how I would imagine the Mtg movie would be.
Yes , only CGI no "live action shit" will be awesome!
Sorry but if they make a movie it's gotta be the war between Urza and Mishra
@@ArninoStorm to good to be real... i real like the idea, urza is the most iconic planeswalker.
I always cringe when I see these comments for any game
well considering wizards does not have any original ideas you can just watch infinity war and its basically the same thing.
Well. I certainly wasn't expecting... That. From a trailer for the next set of a card game. My goodness.
Izandai yeah, it gave me chills...
It also made me almost cry over one of my least favorite characters.
It looked like a cutscene from an actual video game
And bolas didn't look like a toad this time
@WRECK 215 yep, it is surprising
WRECK 215 yes
The date: Thursday, July 21st of the year 2022.
The Time: 11:33pm EST
Still one of the most unbelievable trailers WotC has ever made.
Almost 4 years later and this still gets me.
0:40, look at that polite soilder giving that man his lost soul. Such a nice thing to do
Dylan Adelmann yep. Bolas is just a really nice guy that way.
He was a just a 0/0 human with +1 counter on it... the dreadhorde soldier just took his counter to draw a new card.
To be fair, Fayden was kind of annoying. I can watch that Eternal killing him all day long.
I thought that was during the rewind.
@@hankpeterschmidt8626 I don't want to be a reddit normie, but if I was I would do that whoosh thing.
"Either you die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero." -Lilliana 2019
Cheffoi Zapanta i guess its the other way around for liliana "either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain"
10048375 and then a hero again
@Tiago Baenre lmfao then why are you here??? Are you truly that ugly and insecure~? Sit the fk down, child.
Lol
@@bokuinacup I feel like it's an extremely poor attempt at trolling. That the best I can come up with for such a comment to exist other than pure stupidity. Lol
Learning her story has quite possibly made her one of my favorite characters alongside Gideon. Listening to all the videos about the two before re-watching this again, and watch as everything comes together.
This...this was a hell of an epic trailer. Standard was still strong, sets and additionals were releasing at a reasonable pace, lockdowns didn't happen, and Hasbro's wasn't trying to overmilk the cash cow. This is the reminder of how magic should be, impressive storylines with well thought-out sets. It's disheartening seeing what's come of the game in the last few years. I'm keeping a sliver of hope that WoTC will make things right with the community and not try to brush off the people that make this game great (like what was done at the 'fireside').
Please wizards, bring back the old feel that I enjoyed as a kid (7th edition) and don't oversaturate the market nor target specific formats per set. Secret lairs and masters/jumpstart sets are great but you're releasing them too quickly to appeal to a majority crowd of people that probably don't even play the game much. This game has helped me with a lot emotionally due to the GATHERING portion. Don't kill the GATHERING in MtG. Please acknowledge your customers concerns and make things right.
War of the spark had brought the healthiest format for standard......then eldraine happen
War of the Spark was the culmination of an 11 year long plan and it was beautiful. Then one of the designers at WoTC had a thought: "what if we print a card called oko" and everything fell to shit
Your comment deserves more likes.
You speak the words that externalize what we all feel inside.
@@antonissofoulis6032 Nissa who shake the world and 3feri say hello, everyone hated how op these planeswalker were and how miserable it was for certain strategies to face them.
This comment is spot on!!
>Blizzard-style cutscenes for a tabletop card game
>Soft piano cover of a Linkin Park song
I don't remember planeswalking to this dimension...
Ikr? It reminded me so much of blizzard.
But it's not for a true TCG, it's for the video game version of MTG, MTG Arena, which having played the open beta feels EXACTLY like Hearthstone, so the Blizzard feel makes sense
That's the rooflins.
@@jasonm.6442 why not for both ?
@@disruptor6550 this is significantly lower quality then the blizzard animations, watch Lost Honor With Brad Pitt and Manrock Manfang, this is definitely closer to the middle end of cinematic pricepoint rather then the top end. Like the Eternals only are swapping out weapons rather then having 30-50 individual components that are mix and matchable to give distinct personality to each one.
Whoever produced this at Wizards has a long and lucrative career ahead of themselves.
This was so good i thought it was a gameplay cutscene for a full legenth video game.
@@tobyadams6461 magic legends wish’s
Not me still crying every time I watch this trailer...
I love this. I don't know jack about MTG, the game, its characters, its lore and generally don't GAF about it. But this is so well done I come back and watch it every so often. The way the animators managed to tell a story with no dialogue and limited CGI human animation... It's a masterpiece of show, don't tell many movies would envy.
She became a necromancer centuries before to save her brother, and failed, now she owes her soul to the dragon and commands his army of superzombies in battle against her own allies and friends! Then she see the kids, a girl trying to save her brother... and its too much, if she has to live as a slave she choses to die in defiance instead!
The great finale is that the big warrior that the zombies are ganging on is one of her friends that she just betrayed and when the spell is tearing her apart he places his hand in her shoulder and uses his special brand of magic to take the curse himself which tears him apart instead of her setting her free. SHe asks him : "Why?" And he answer with a smile: "Because i trust you" and dies.
She then beats the shit out the dragon (who is the Thanos/Darkseid of this multiverse) by unloading friggin zombie-gods (as in actual zombified gods!) on him.
Don't mind me, I'm just getting myself ready for the Netflix animated series.
@@kukuc96 with the amount of quality talent on the show, they would have to try to make it bad.
@@AbsurdAsparagus well magic at one point was the most popular card game but now is probably #3. My point is that WOTC have disappointed before so I wouldn't get my hopes up
Heck yeah
It's an anime style, not in the 3d animation that you see here
Don’t tempt me with that
LP's in the end: plays on an animated music video
me: WHAT YEAR IS THIS!?!?!?!
It's only missing Naruto for the late 2000's to be reincarnated
It's actually a cover version by Tommee Profitt with Fleurie and Jung Youth behind the vocals.
@@bleedingsyringe i realized it was a cover, but thanks for telling me the artist :)
Reminded me of Bionicles free the band add from like late early 2000s
Creative Username Dragon Ball Z for the legacy version.
this is so touching and emotional when you know all the background for the characters and situation and stuff. what a story... I highly recommend for ppl to rewatch it after reading the lore if they haven't yet...
4 years old, still the best cinematic WotC has ever got
That's a love letter to all Liliana players and fans, it's the most amazing way to evolve her character and yet still be aligned with her backstory and whole purpose to be a necromancer in the first place
I still cry every time she unleashes HER full army onto Bolas
Everybody a gangsta until "In The End" starts playing
This.
How is this not top comment bruh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
How dare you call me out personally like that?
You can't say Wotc don't know they're audience anymore I guess
@@MagnaLynx21 Exactly whatI thought. All grudge is forgotten once the first chords come in
''To Liliana's surprise, the cost of betraying Bolas did not fall on her''
RiP Gideon
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i'm not crying, you're crying
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4 years and war of spark is the bestest trailer of Magic yet.
I think out of all of the Planeswalker stories that Liliana’s is the most interesting and compelling to me. She didn’t want to die or suffer, and she knew the price and through growth she discovered what she really wanted, freedom and to be good.
She does the Oath pose before turning on Bolas. I'm not crying, it's just raining in my bedroom.
Jot that down under "things I didn't notice the first time and now I'm definitely crying again."
Omg I didn't notice that
To keep watch.
When she swore her oath, she did so to satisfy Jace, in her final moment, she witnessed something worth upholding that oath, in glorious fashion no less
(ಡ᎔ಡ)
I wouldn't mind donating to a kickstarter to get an animated series of the entire war of the spark, this was very well done and i hope we keep seeing this kind of beautiful and creative stuff from wotc
I'd like to even take it back to BFZ with smaller sections of older arcs being put in between seasons
Tbh I think RtR would be the best place to start. Start with ravnica, end with ravnica
Where do I sign up
listen to this person wotc!!
Sign me up!
Ough- at 2:07 the way, right before she betrays Bolas, Liliana raises her hand in the same motion as the Gatewatch Oath is so good
War of the Spark to this day is my all time favorite set. I had just gotten into Magic earlier in 2019, so as a new player this trailer got me so hyped.
Just a little context:
So pretty much planeswalkers were godlike beings that can travel across the multiverse onto different planes.
Nicol Bolas is the dragon planeswalker that you see in this video, one of the elder dragons who also happens to be a planeswalker (Double OP).
A lot of books later (like literally like 20 books later), an event called the Mending happened that had planeswalkers sacrificing their planeswalkers spark to mend rifts in the multiverse that were caused by them jumping around reality a bit too hard. During the Mending, it weakened all existing and future planeswalker sparks everywhere, rending these gods into simply gifted wizards.
Liliana is a necromancer and a planeswalker from the new generation who, centuries ago, made a pact with demons to gain immortality, since planeswalkers were no longer godlike. Unenthusiastic about being a servant to the demons, she tries to break the pact while keeping the immortality by killing all the demons who signed the pact, but here's the twist, when the last demon dies there's a fine print that transfers the pact to NICOL BOLAS.
During this time Nicol Bolas has been waging a war against numerous planeswalkers, trying to regain his former godlike spark since the Mending. The roster includes a plethora of great characters, but our main protagonists in the recent books are the Gatewatch, a group of planeswalkers sworn to protect the multiverse against the biggest threats led by Gideon Jura who you can see getting his ass pummeled.
Liliana, once a member of the Gatewatch (planeswalker power rangers), but she does not wish to die by breaking her contract, so betrays her friends and serves her master Bolas.
The video is pretty much Nicol Bolas getting ready to planeshift to Ravnica and Liliana helping him against the Gatewatch trying to stop him. That's why her change of heart is so epic as she literally choses to turn to dust as her immortality fades and using everything she has to keep the oath she made to the Gatewatch and save the Multiverse in the final WAR OF THE SPARKS.
Nice recap 👌 (no sarcasm) but it looks like they're already on Ravnica 🤔
uhm, when will the book be released that tells the story of "war of the sparks" ? how will it be called?
actually i'd like to know about every book in magic ... any place where i should start looking?
thanks for the context! I see the change of heart she has in the video after reading this!
Thanks a lot for explaining, after seeing this video two days ago I wanted to get to know the lore fo Magic.
@@MarcusTullman there's still on amonket I believe
Are you kidding me?? 4,5 million views on the Magic the Gathering trailer?? Are we sure that we re in the right universe guys?? This is UNREAL!
Great job Wizards, keep it up guys!
You must have planeswalked bro.
5M now lolz
Wow defiantly deserves the view the art and animation is stunning
Magic arena got me into magic
The 9 year olds might have something to do with that
Coming back to this trailer over three years later… still so good. This set is what got me back into MTG after putting it down for years, and even invested in the lore. Just so well done.
3 years later and this thing is still a master piece. Not a single trailer came close after this.
Hell yeah. This is how you advertise printed cardboard! :D
Printed cardboard that placea college students in more debt
More like cardboard crack lmao
You should try collecting Warhammer miniatures. Prepare to lose your home.
@@gloriarodriguez3721 True. I be needin' that cardboard crack
@@DarkCreed86 Fact! After over 2 decades, I'd love to have some of that cash back
Thanks, WoTC. Didn’t know I needed a full-length MTG movie until now..
Of this set/plot? Hell yes, so far it's already better than Infinity War 🤣
@@jancukasu I mean it wasn't terrible, just boring predictable. Idk maybe it's just cause I preferred x-men series and spiderman to avengers.
4 years later and still gives me goosebumps
Best trailer for anything ever. Change my mind.
The animation on Lilli's face as she makes her choice, the scream at the end letting out all that pent up rage and hatred toward Bolas - absolutely perfect.
Her expression of both Sadness and Rage at 2:10 is just perfect. Can a 3D Model wins an Oscar?
Maybe an animator
Lucas Inocenti this trailer is just spectacular. Especially seeing the emotion on her face
For expression responsible is Izabela Poznańska www.artstation.com/artwork/lVZD5Y this technique is called blend shaping and its basically sculpting expression and morphs for animation. So that Oscar should go there ;)
Is she a real person as a model or something ??? Because i don't want to be in love with a fictional woman.
It can’t wins an Oscar but it might win one
"you can became whatever you want"
Liliana : "So i'll be Chandra"
Oh, she's not casting fire. She's being disintegrated.
Kyle Huxtable /r wooooooossssh
@@deearq1220 r/itswooooshwithfouros
Why did I read this comment, now I can't take the ending seriously ever again, god damn it.
Nicol bolas: Wish granted
Gideon: Wish Denied
This is still the best MTG cinematic 4 years later.
I know I’m not the only one who cried for Liliana 😢
Dont have to , shes still Alive after this 😁
I've never played MTG but I would pay to watch a 2 hour long film of it.
This is true. The history of that world is so elaborate and breathtaking
@@danilsobolev7625 Better a high values TV series then, so they can go deeper into the lore and characters.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 GOT step aside
I have news for you (well "news"). There´s actually a film in the making :)
@@paulkothgasser6623 omg, really?!
Wizards, you have outdone yourselves with this trailer. All the feels for this song and now can't wait to see what happens next and crack some booster packs!
That one plainswalkee you will never find in a booster pack and get only repeats
The song doesn't fit at all
@@antoninjanku3358 How so? Liliana tried so hard and given everything to get rid of the 4 demons who gave her immortality and in the end it didn't matter because bolas was her real master all along. In the end it didn't matter cause she gives he life to betray him.
@@antoninjanku3358 The song fits fantastic for Liliana's arc.
@@Shatoswolfdemon Those lyrics are fitting but not the execution, I'd say
It would have been awesome for them to continue the scene and show Gideons sacrifice...
I love the moment where you can see that she decides she doesn’t give a crap about immortality, I think seeing what Bolas would sacrifice to achieve it is what makes her want to abandon it entirely.
Damn the expression on Liliana's face when she made her decision was well done... You can see the conflict, the despair, the sadness. And then the defiance. Nearly broke my heart.
I think at that moment I actually fell back in love with Liliana, you see her once again as she was always meant to be, all she wanted to be, was strong enough to protect herself and those she loved.
Yeah that end shot of how alive and virbrant her eyes were compared to how dead they have looked most times she is shown is just perfect.
Jesus Christ.
I think this moment remindes her to josu.
I'm not familiar with Magic and I don't care about these characters. That bit of animation you are talking about is the only reason I'm here. That was some incredible work. I hope those creators got paid well.
“I’ll keep watch. Happy now?” - Liliana.
Me: Yes 😭😭😭
Here my vision going blurry all over again
Ouch, I hit my toe on the door frame
Damn.. She ended up respecting the oath
Dont make me cryyyyyy! ToT
Whare the fuc is Garuck?!!!
I still watch it from time to time cuz this is truly a masterpiece Sep 2023
How many times do you come back to watch this?
Yes.
So when's the Magic The Gathering Netflix series coming?
I'd gladly write the music for it.
That would be the one thing I would pay Netflix for.
They were making a film and/or TV series, but they pulled out for untold reasons
If they kicked it off with Amonkhet for season 1, the finale would blow people's minds.
For realz
@@DarkDefender1024 If they'd do the current story they should start on Zendikar with the release of the Eldrazi, skip Theros and OG Innistrad cuz those are lame storywise, and then go from there. Gives them a bunch of material to work with and an amazing endgame story
Liliana: tells zombies to kill Gideon
Me: omfg Liliana you're the worst
Liliana: tells zombies to go after Bolas
Me: They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
😂
I was skeptical at first if it was Gideon because i didnt see his Lash, or whatever its called, but the close up of him confirmed.
@@gqphoenixclops3056 he lost his lash in amonkhet block
Remember Liliana Is the true monster!
Who's there again after the: "Confront the Past" card has been announced?
I am 😔
With every release of a new trailer... I just comeback to this knowing it couldn't get any better than this one.
Am I the only one who wishes we could have seen Gideon's hand grab Lilianna's shoulder before the trailer ended?
Just a hand grab? Nah I wanna see Gideon transfer his invulnerability to Lillian as he burns away to nothing while she watches.
I want a real punch to the gut.
2:10 god that expression was perfect, she literally decided to disobey bolas just then and simultaneously realized she would die.
unknown Unknown I wonder what changed. I mean for the most time she was pretty selfish, she even joined gatewatch for her own agenda. Maybe she realized that bolas wants to collect all the sparks no matter ally or foe.
Danzan Sandeev it was the girl and her brother, I bet. It probably reminded her of her and Josu.
It was the kids. Because you saw she was tempted to resurrect them, but she turned because she knew there was no bringing them, or her family, back..... and she decided to stop the one whom she decided to heap all the blame
Gotta say though...... Gideon is really making black blade look...... kinda pathetic.... XD
Man That Games oh right! I totally forgot bout her younger brother
Wow. Super surreal to see MTG on the trending page
awesome Trailer 👍
Almost 4 years and still get chills when I watch it.
I came to watch this for my yearly viewing again and I don't even play MtG Arena anymore. It's just so good.
Linkin park... In 2019... Still hittin them heart strings!
Anyone know which version (remix) of their song they're using
@@createdbyeric In The End - Mellen Gi Remix
Brodie Buffett chester ;(
@@brentonoliver5169 Have some gold, please
Linkin Park will forever hit them heart strings.
Bested her demons to get out of her contract... tried so hard and got so far to achieve her power and immortality... but in the end it doesn't even matter. :( Poor Lily.
@mayrana2 maybe white? So Elspeth and Liliana will be soul sisters
@@kurodracovalladares8823 Let hope she Survive
@mayrana2 Dead ones don't cry.
Watch the mtg spoilers on the offical webpage- she hasn't changed her colour.
Lily is a noob. Bolas FTW
Press f to pay respects.
Back here again in 2023 and this trailer still hits the feels. Bravo Wizards! 11/10 can never be topped.
This was my first set, and Liliana is still my favorite planeswalker. I pulled her not knowing her value. Now she's my most treasures card.
After 7 hours this video has 4.1 million views compared to the last 9 (back to Kaladesh) trailers which have a combined total of 4.7 million views over almost 3 years. I really hope wotc does more of this
Rovert Wasyek did you ever think we would have a Magic trailer trending at number 5 on CZcams?
For me, Kaladesh/Aether Revolt was arguably the last of the really nice trailers. There was this golden age from Innistrad to Return to Ravnica, Theros, Tarkir, Zendikar, Shadows and finally Kaladesh, and then those which came after have always been short and underwhelming. Until this.
It helps that this trailer isn't a stilted, janky mess like many of the earlier Wizards CG videos. They've improved greatly. It's still not SquareEnix cutscene quality, but it's very far removed from being their previous "embarrassing for a company of their size" efforts.
And with good reason! Heck this was so good I sent it to my friends and they don't even play!
Chris Thorn no I never thought any magic video would be on trending any time soon. I definitely feel that older trailers were a bit underwhelming and relied heavily on card art. This made them feel choppy and made it hard for non-franchised people to appreciate the trailer or understand them fully. This trailer on the other hand is made from scratch, has pretty decent cg, conveys emotion, resonates with enfranchised fans, and tells a story that is intriguing to a broader audience. I absolutely love it and hope wotc continues to do more and that they consider expanding outside of the card game.
When a card game has better trailers than AAA games...
well yes, but actually it's better than *most* recent games
@@elbowgrease12 What do you mean, it is better than (insert low-quality p2w mobile game here)?
@@Lovuschka i mean that some AAA game trailers are better. The trailer is awesome, even though i barely can understand what it is happening. And probably because of this trailer, "MTG" googled 20% more times than month ago(it's a big number).
@@elbowgrease12 Hey, I was making a joke above.
@@Lovuschka oh, my bad. I don't know english well
This is still one of the best shorts I’ve seen. It captures subtlety in emotion, great animation, we even get a character arc in 3 minutes. Fantastic. The people who worked on this should be very proud of themselves.
How is this almost 2 years old. This was such a great set and easily one of my favorite ever. Rest In Peace the good times we had back a few years ago
Yeah dude! I remember the good old times when this set was still in Standard, I played Grixis Midrange back in the day during that era of Standard, with my boi Nicol Bolas Dragon God :)
Liliana's Redemption.
Who knew Linken Park had the perfect lyrics for the trailer. I'm not crying - you're crying!
swoosh94 I’m crying... and over who used to be one of my least favorite characters, too!
Note: used to
Something flew into my eye... I'll be ok...
Definitely crying and I don't even know the lore...
Something flew into my heart.
I don't play magic never have. I'm here because when this almost 3 min add came up i was unable to skip it. thats how good this advertisement is. good job.
fucking same man. Im kinda disapointed that its just Magic the Gavering..
Welcome. If you are interested, you can play magic arena online. They've made some updates to make it new player friendly. And no, I don't work for them. XD
Same here - don't play it never have never will - but I would definitely watch this on e.g. NF or HBO.
Mtg arena is free to play if you want to get into the game, it's not for everyone but I have enjoyed it since I was like in the 4th grade
Same here fucking unreal this
Years later still keep coming back to this
We need this again. For each new edition.
I just realized why Liliana was angry. Because the two kids remind her of her brother
She was angry because she felt/was used. Then decided being free and dead was better than alive and a slave.
All of you are correct. Liliana sought her quest for power and did some evil things of her own fruition but even the look on her face, the reaction shows us that she rlly felt appalled and taken aback by this war and her past. If it meant to die free or live as a slave she would rather die free and act on her humanity which was sparked by the remembrance of her and her brother when they were young. She nor did anybody else know that Nico had enacted the Price of Betrayal
Weirdly enough, in the horrible books what triggers her is Gideon failing to kill Bolas. She rationalized it as "I wanted to kill Bolas and was waiting for my moment, but at that point I realized my moment was never going to come" but even her knows that she is bullshitting to try on appear more detached than she was.
Actually that’s that look like her and her brother when they were younger in magic origins
When her spark ignited when she turned her brother Josu into a lich knight, she eventually came back and essentially killed her brother to get to belzenlok and rid herself of the 'contract' but it defaults to bolas, so she essentially killed her brother only to be forced, by bolas, to kill practically every planeswalker. That was not poggers if I say so myself 😅