I know im like 3 years late and am probably beating a long dead horse but I just finished reading the march of machines episodes. I didnt expect the praetors to live even if i wouldve liked that but I expected atleast a satisfying ending.

The praetors are supposed to be the strongest phyrexians ever and their all done in so easily its almost laughable.

We all know Kaladesh was renamed to Avishkar due to real world connotations. In universe, it was explained the plane was renamed after the consulate fell and the Phyrexian invasion ended. However in the Echoverse, the consulate never fell as seen by Chandra, Chill of Compliance. That being said, it appears Kaladesh was renamed anyway despite the two main events that led to the renaming never occurred. Was there an explanation for this somewhere or are we to assume (because of the real world) it was always gonna change?

I was looking thru my bolas Planeswalkers and I noticed a lot of sevens popping up (god Pharaoh costs 7, starts with seven counters, and deals 7 damage in one ability, ravager costs 7 to transform, Planeswalker's ultimate has 3 sevens in it) and I wondered if that's a reference to something. I think it has to do with his siblings but I'm also stupid so I'm probably wrong

My main issues with the praetors in MOM are

1: They have hardly any spotlight despite this literally being their set and story! Vorinclex doesnt even speak once, Jin-gitaxis does basically nothing most of the story, Urabrask and Sheoldred are written out before they get the chance to do anything. And Elesh Norn was fine actually

2: Urabrask and Sheoldreds rebellions mean nothing and their alliance is completely ignored. Both of these are such a cool plot points and the former is thrown away and the latter only gets a one off (?) mention in The Legends of Phyrexia: All Will Be One which sucks because an alliance between these two both makes a ton of sense and is a great way to give spot light to these two.

3: They look like complete chumps! I mean come on these are the 5 strongest phyrexians of all time (depending on how you view gix) and the phyrexians are one of the strongest factions in the series. The 5 leaders of them should all be portrayed as powerful or atleast compotent right? Urabrask and Sheoldred get beaten and captured off screen. Vorinclex gets one tapped. Jin-gitaxis gets hit in the by a literally unnamed character and dies a disney death.

And I think there's a pretty easy way to fix all 3 of these.

Just have the praetors fight eachother. Either Urabrask vs Vorinclex and Sheoldred vs Jin-gitaxis or Urabrask v Vorinclex and Jin-gitaxis v Sheoldred vs Voriclex or hell even a 2 v 2. I dont really care!

It solves the spot light issue with these 4 by giving them straight up fights instead of killing 2 right away and scrambling to kill the other 2 in one chapter.

It solves the rebellion and alliance issue by giving them direct story focus.

It solves them looking like total pushovers issue by giving them actual fights where they can show off how cool and powerful they are.

Idk maybe im too shonen pilled but I think this is way better then what actually happened (low bar)

Let me know what you think!