Reviews for Planeshift

The average rating for Planeshift based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-06-04 00:00:00 Daniel Bernal (Spoilers) The invasion continues. After the Dominarian Coalition defeats the Phyrexians at Koilos, Rath Planeshifts over Dominaria and millions of Phyrexian troops begin to invade Dominaria...again. The nine Planeswalkers walk different factions of the coalition to strategic parts of Dominaria to defend the planet...again. However, while the Dominarian forces, with the Rathi allies, defend Dominaria, the Nine Planeswalkers take the battle to Phyrexia, using their Titan suits to invade. Also, this time, not only do the coalition forces fight against the invaders, but the against the enemy within. There are multiple betrayals. I found most of this book hard to get through. Urza is the main reason I read these books. He is by far the most compelling character. I don't care about Gerrard, or Eldamarie, or any of the other two dimensional expendables that the book spends most of the time focusing on. I want to see the social inept Planeswalker destroy stuff with his Marvel Superhero powers. Also, a lot of this book felt very similar to the previous one. I did like the twist of having the good guys have to wrestle with the evils of their own world while also dueling the Phyrexian forces. The Keldons had to face the betrayal of their Legendary warriors, the Dragons were betrayed by the Primevals, and Agnate was betrayed by the Lich Lord. Betrayal was the theme of this book. The worst betrayal of all-Urza! No! I didn't understand it either. How could Urza, who has hated and fought against Phyrexia punk himself out like that. I have to read Apocalypse to see if he redeems himself. That was a good twist though. And it bodes well that the next installment will be different. And will I get to see a one on one duel between Urza and Yawgmoth? That is honestly what I want. It doesn't matter how good the book is, if there is no showdown between those too, that book can't be a five star.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-08 00:00:00 Stephen Clinkard This was more of the same....not a whole lot really happened aside from Phyrexians invading and fighting them, at least until the very end. Urza's "twist" could have been done well, but it made zero sense. After (as he explicitly says numerous times) over 4 millennia of his entire being being consumed by hatred of Yawgmoth and Phyrexia, regardless of his obsession with artifice, WHY THE FUCK WOULD HE SUDDENLY LOVE THIS PLACE AND WANT TO SERVE YAWGMOTH?! They try really hard to do an internal monologue to justify it. They take the right track, as that's really the only motivation that could work....but it fails when you're changing 4000 years of character motivation in 5 minutes. I like when you have a "hero" not necessarily have a positive arc! The problem is this is not that. This is not a natural development over time, it's almost equivalent to revealing a character was really the character you thought died last book in disguise. It takes you out of a story when a character just suddenly changes their entire motivation and beliefs so suddenly, especially if that belief was a major driving force behind many of their previous actions for many, many books.