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In [[Rhystic Study]], Zimone asks Rootha to teach her to make a "fiery swirly thingy." It is almost certain that Rootha created that fire with red mana, being in Prismari. What Zimone offers to teach Rootha falls in their overlap of Blue, but Zimone already wanted to learn something that fell under another color when she was still at Strixhaven.

Later on, when she tried to duplicate herself in "The Math of More," she ended up splitting off aspects of herself that, based on their personalities and clothing colors, seem to have corresponded exactly to the three colors missing from her color identity. What is more, the story ends with her reintegrating and accepting these aspects of herself.

Not to mention that it is generally these most intellectual Blue types that end up learning how to connect to a bunch of different colors, as in the case of Urza, Jace, Ugin and Niv-Mizzet...who happens to have personally sponsored Zimone. We have also seen that young people can be particularly variable in the colors that they align with as their personalities change, as with Kellan. We also have been getting a lot of Zimone.

I speculate that Zimone will eventually learn to connect to all five colors of mana and we will get a five-color Zimone.

According to the wiki and some published sources, the Edge of Eternities "echoes" the Multiverse in many ways.

Not counting the things that are literally the same (Eldrazi, Fomori, mana, aether), I noticed the obvious creatures that are almost exactly the same (humans, eumidians, and so forth), and creatures that are not quite the same, but clearly are the same archetype (Astelli are angels, Susurians are vampires, Kav are Kavu, there are a bunch of cosmic dragons) and one individual (Mirri the cat is probably some kind of echo of Mirri the cat warrior, or vice versa).

What other echoes (particularly, echoes of individuals) are there?

Also, now that I think about it, the notion of reflections of individuals from one world in another sounds like some kind of reality fracture or something.

The Edge has dragons, like [[Nebula Dragon]], [[Nova Hellkite]] and [[Cosmic Sovereign]]. In the Multiverse, dragons are apparently all descended from [[The Ur-Dragon]], which goes between planes just spawning dragons. But the Edge has the Chaos Wall, which appears to be a one-way trip (of course, no one is really betting on Tezzeret never making his way back to the Multiverse, right?). Regardless, it's definitely hard to get back through.

Do these dragons have a different origin, or are they also all descended from the Ur-Dragon?

(Also, is Mirri the cat descended from [[Arahbo, the First Fang]]?)

I have heard some people say that it is because he is part-artifact (but [[Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh]] from 2024 should already have his darksteel body and is blue-aligned, and most of his body was etherium before, anyway) and also that it is because he was not using magic (but he uses some in the Edge of Eternities story).

Why does Tezzeret have a colorless identity in that set?

I feel like this is probably a pretty simple issue with an easy solution, but I cannot think what it is.

I have a USA OnePlus 15 running Android 16, and I decided to try to install the beta version of LineageOS for this phone, as provided on the XDA forums. I unlocked my phone with fastboot without issues (it shows DEVICE STATE - unlocked), and I followed the instructions linked in that post to write a bunch of image files to the respective sectors, which wrote successfully (I got the most recent image files from the LineageOS website). I finished by writing recovery.img to the recovery sector. All of these writes returned success messages.

However, now I am stuck. The phone enters a boot loop where it keeps returning to the boot menu. I can use that menu to reboot to fastboot mode and write the recovery file again (which is successful), but no matter what I do, I don't see the LineageOS logo that would indicate that I have booted into the custom recovery. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

So after reading and re-reading some older and newer stories, I came up with a grand unified theory that I think might explain some of the ways of resisting phyresis. It is a bit long, but I think it is based on solid evidence from the lore.

Back when Yawgmoth was still a Thran physician, he discovered that phthisis was caused by mana radiation from powerstones, and that this mana could be blocked, and phthisis temporarily put in remission or altogether healed, by a medication consisting of, among other things, a mix of five metals: silver, copper, gold, iron, and lead. But Yawgmoth intentionally left out the lead so that patients would be mutated by exposure to black powerstone radiation.

Later, Yawgmoth would name his nightmare realm Phyrexia after phyresis, not the other way around, specifically because he viewed it as the opposite of phthisis. He became an entity of nearly pure magic, specifically of black mana, and he developed the glistening oil, which is made of oil and powerstone nanites (it was not as infectious then, though).

Even later, on New Phyrexia and Mirrodin, we would see that there was still some kind of connection between the different colors of mana and the different metals. Vulshok had iron, sylvok had copper, which would be retained by Vorinclex's Copper Host, neurok had a gray metal that was almost certainly silver, auriok had gold, and moriok seemed to have lead.

Finally, at some point, Nicol Bolas provided Tezzeret with a serum that would help him resist phyresis.

My theory is that this serum operated along the same principles as Yawgmoth's anti-powerstone treatment all those years back, using a combination of the five anti-mana metals, possibly in conjunction with other components. It would make perfect sense that the same substances that had blocked powerstone radiation all those years before, the same powerstone radiation that had served as Yawgmoth's inspiration for phyresis, would also block the powerstone nanites that served as the magical mutagenic factor of the glistening oil.

I also think that this could explain why he gave the serum to Tezzeret in particular, beyond the immediate practical reasons. What better test subject for an anti-phyresis serum whose main active ingredients were metals than a planeswalker with a particular focus on metalshaping? Perhaps his abilities made the serum more effective on him, or made him an ideal test subject for Bolas to refine the serum.

If there is some truth to this theory, then there is probably some connection here, too, with the fact that Melira both resisted phyresis and was, quite unusually for Mirrodin, born without any metal in her body. My guess is that immersion in the unique mana radiation of the suns/moons of Mirrodin caused people to attract or grow biological metal of the sort that protected from that radiation (e.g. gold for white mana)? Melira had such a strong personal anti-magic-radiation field in her body that she was already protected from the radiation from early on as a fetus, meaning that she never attracted or grew the copper that most people in the area would have developed to protect them—and this same ability meant that the powerstone nanites could not affect her, and that she could even push them out of other people.

The author Steven Rosenbaum decided to write a book about the Future of Truth in an era marked by artificial intelligence using Claude and ChatGPT, and in a shocking turn of events, the chatbots included at least six invented or inaccurately attributed quotations.

One such invented quotation displays the stereotypical em dash and "not X, but Y" patterns:

>Emotions aren’t just reactions to truth — they’re how we construct truth.

When Niv-Mizzet became the Living Guildpact, he was connected to all the plane's leylines, presumably gaining easy access to different colors of magic than his habitual Blue and Red. At the very least, certainly, his ability to employ the law magic of the Guildpact probably meant using some white mana. This connection is reflected in [[Niv-Mizzet, Guildpact]] and [[Niv-Mizzet, Supreme]] being five-color cards, whose color identity could also be symbolic of his leadership over the guilds, which cover all five colors.

However, [[Jace, the Living Guildpact]], despite having the same role, stayed in Blue, as his card demonstrates. Why did Jace stay in Blue when he became the Living Guildpact, even though Niv-Mizzet did not?

I'm looking for recent, ideally higher-end smartphones that either come with an unlocked bootloader (unlikely these days, I know) or at least, where it is easy to unlock the bootloader. I want to be able to remove features or apps that I don't like, so that (for instance) I don't need to get AI suggestions of what to write in every app. It seems to me that having a bootloader unlocked smartphone is the only real way of ensuring that some corporation cannot decide what I do with my smartphone, even though there is obviously a fair amount that can be done without unlocking it.

Does anyone have any good suggestions along these lines?

I was looking at colorless cards recently, and I noticed [[Farfinder]]. What is the lore around this little thing? What plane is it from? It is colorless, which is incredibly rare for something that is not an artifact creature or Eldrazi, let alone an apparent animal, and it has some very intriguing flavor text suggesting that it has some strange powers (teleportation? planeswalking?).