Prophet of the Peak

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Prophet of the Peak

Artifact Creature — Cat

When Prophet of the Peak enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

ZendikariWol on CONSPIRACY TIME

4 years ago

How gone is Bolas, really? Take a look at these cards, torn consecutively from each of the standard sets proceeding War of the Spark.

Prophet of the Peak

Blood Aspirant

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

What do these cards have in common? The horns- Bolas's horns. What does this mean? Probably nothing. But to this purveyor of wild tinfoil-hat speculation, it smells like something is afoot.


Let's talk about Ugin. When Zendikar was imperiled, when Nicol Bolas had (though indirectly) freed the Eldrazi, what was Ugin's response? To do nothing. More than that, look at how he greets Jace.

"I hope you didn't come alone. My preparations are nearly complete. Hmm," said the dragon, frowning. You're not who I was expecting."


"You released the Eldrazi," said Ugin.

"I—" said Jace. "Yes. There were three of us. We fought. The chamber—"

"I know," said Ugin. "You, a pyromancer, and a dragonspeaker. Planeswalkers all. You opened the Eye."

How did he know that?


"You cannot kill Ulamog," said Ugin.


Here we have Ugin greeting Jace suspiciously, knowing things that he had no reasonable way of knowing, and lying to Jace's face.

Now, one could argue Ugin refers, in the first passage, to Sorin, but he could just as well be referring to any number of Bolas's minions. In fact, I think Ugin was on Bolas's side from the beginning!

What if Ugin knew that someday the Eldrazi would provide a useful distraction? He canned them, saving them for the day that Bolas finally decided to put a grand plan into motion.

But if Ugin was in kahoots with Bolas, why did he trap Bolas in the meditation realm? He didn't. Bolas isn't trapped, he's waiting- biding his time, knowing that Ugin has convinced the general population that he's no longer a threat. Bolas has plans, and this time I think it spans the entire multiverse. What are his aims? Who knows, but I guarantee we have not seen the last of this dragon duo.