Thread by @PGDHanson

Ok, as promised and requested, here is the cliff notes from the stories of #MTGBRO

Ok, some clarifications though before we star:
This summary is going to have a slight comedic edge to it, but as stated before, I did really enjoy the stories. When you have the chance, I would recommend reading them since I won't be able to cover everything.

Also, another thing to note that might catch people by surprise, while the brother's war is talked about and we do have stories of events in the war, the story is not.... exactly about the brother's war...I explain with the chapter summaries. More in...(cont)

the stories we get this time around help add more a human perspective of the toll of the war among many individuals while also at the same time decided to help get ready for the next story arc by seeing how characters are getting ready for that conflict that...

also just coincidentally forced them to do time travel (in a way) to discover info they need to get a fighting edge against the phyrexians. Ok...

GIF, ok, let's do the cliff notes.

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Cliff notes
Start at the end of the war with the perspective of Urza's Wife, Kayla.
The war ended with Urza blasting the sylex, destroying the phyrexian threat but caused a massive climate change leading to a long winter.
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Kayla is figuring out to deal with the upcoming weather changes and it's consequences along with dealing with Grief.
Tawnos came back and told her news of what Urza did and also that he is not dead. Kayla still mad at Urza for what he did and....

for potentially the war killing her son.
Tawnos besides telling the news also offered her his skills along with schematics of designs along with info on powerstones to help assist the citizens of Penregon, the city where Kayla rules.

Kayla accepts Tawnos aid, but only for robots that assist in civil labor, not war machines.
Crusade army visits Penregon, there objective is to rid the world of artifice. Asked for assistance to take down Urza's Tower, Kayla declines but offer them refuge.

This generosity backfired when this crusade started breaking Tawnos civil machines, people part of the army had disagreements for the city of using artifice. Along with a variety of occurences, war was brewing between Penregon and the crusade, Kayla requested for Tawnos to make..

the civil autmatons ready for conflict. He agrees, though can tell was conflicted by that. Story ends with the decleration of the conflict.

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Ok, going to be a little quicker with this one since a lot happens so....(big breath)

Tawnos regretting the actions of his involvement of the war and realizing his and Urza's designs will be used for conflict, basically decided to burn the factory along with this workshop and majority of Urza's schematics.

As well as Tawnos abandoned the city of Penregon
Kayla felt betrayed becuase they lost not only a tool to help with the upcoming battle, but, help citizens survive the winter, worrying the city will inevitable fall.

Conflict ended shortly, but the winter was harsh, city lasted for 10 years. Kayla was in heavy grief of the fall of her city and hope. Scouts were scouting for new lands to move too.

Grief almost killed her one night of all that had happened, through her despair she discovered fire magic. Brought her joy and hope to continue on. Scout found new lands, they moved to the new lands.

Kayla grandson, much older now came to let Kayla know there seperating ways for he want to go to school, Kayla gave her blessings and they depart.

Story ended with Teferi ghost form time travel (I explain later) spooking a current war leader of Kroog and Teferi accidentally became a ghost story.

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This story is the vents of the fall of Kroog in the eyes of soldiers during the Brother's War.
Mech's are cool, but the city did not had a fighting chance against dragon engines.
Honestly, this story is more a chance to see them write a fantasy....

mech anime while also showing the consequences that bear toll on the living residence within Kroog.
We start with a crew of pilots while the siege is happening, getting new robots to pilot from Tawnos to help defend Kroog, Tawnos did mention though to run if things do go to plan.

Things did not go according to plan leading to a majority of death of the characters in this story. Lot of intense fight scenes in this one.
After the death of the mech squad, we change perspective much later for a citizen in the city dying, Teferi ghost time travel comes...

While Teferi told Kaya, "not yet", the citizen interpreted as a sign to live on, and the story concludes with that citizen still living keeping Teferi's unintentional advice to heart.

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This story, shows the life of some Mishra's trench soldiers and show the harsh human toll on the infantry in the war.

Essentially, weary soldiers, shows their sick of the war, their actions to survive which includes temporary alliances/trade with Argive soldiers. They assist each other to help them survive an upcoming attack.
Story ends with Teferi time travel spirit seeing....

the ruins of the battlefield and leaving when noticed by scavengers.

Ok, this is where would go to episode 5 of the main stories, but, for the sake on consistency, best to start with the side stories here until you get to the last side story episode...with that in mind.

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This starts right after the end of the events of Dominaria United.
Teferi, Jodah, Saheeli, get together at Urza's Tower

One of Jodah's recipes is biscuits made out of "roach flour"
Planeswalkers are joining together to fight the phyrexian threat including atm, Wrenn and Seven, Kaya, and Elspeth.

Their plan, attack the phyrexian core again with a resistance army lead by Koth. Elspeth doesn't agree to this plan due to it failing previously. Also, along with now learning what happen to Ajani, she temporarily left. Teferi is sad at Elspeth's current grief state.

Another plan that is going on also is the creation and use of the Temporal Anchor, which they plan to use to go back in time to figure out how to use the sylex that Saheeli had made a new copy of. They got a limited time to figure this out since the attack on Phyrexia is soon.

and Vivien Reid. Should also mention they also getting ready for Phyrexia's invasion on multiple planes setting up their defenses and recruiting other planeswalkers. Jace is apparently getting information of Phyrexia from Tezzeret, Vivien mention Urubrask going to fight.

Also, this Temporal anchor is powered by the powerstone from the weatherlight, which while not stated exactly in the story, does mean are weatherlight crew friends are safe, yay!

Teferi was talking with Saheeli about progress on the Temporal Anchor, she still not sure if it will work, but is trying her best. Teferi appreciates that. Saheeli during this exchange gave Teferi a gift, a mechanical bird.

Teferi relaxed in the courtyard, Wrenn meets with him. They talk about the current plan and Teferi's mentions his concerns of repeating the steps of Urza. They talked about if Urza is a monster or not. Teferi confessing he was asked to help Urza in the past, but refused to...

save Zhafir using energy from a closed portal that he and Urza closed. The deal was the portal needed to be close for Teferi to help Urza, but even then, he refused. Teferi has a bit of a identity crisis there of his past actions

Wrenn more or less said basically amounted to, look not going to be your judge, but shit going down and we have to deal with the circumstances.

Elspeth comes to Teferi to tell him she leaving tomorrow along with apologizing of her rage at the initial meeting. Teferi accepts the apology and also tries to console Elspeth explain to her the circumstances and explaining they know this plan is a shot in the dark...but...

he doing this to protect his home along with other planeswalkers doing the same. Elspeth takes comfort in this and decides to stay to help protect the tower against the phyrexian threat. Ends with Teferi recalling a story of his youth.

Look, I am just going to say it now, they're going to be some quick butchering of the story summaries, but I would highly recommend reading them since the dialogue and character interactions are spot on compared to my cliff notes description. Just saying.

For the final stories, going to go a little fast on them to try to make it before the spoiler debut starts in a few hours so...more comedic and speedy summaries, go!

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Saheeli trying to make Temporal Anchor work by using Kaya to send Teferi's spirit in the past. Want to make sure machine works before doing that.
Artifact that teferi brought unfortunatly brought a spirit that sabotaging the device.

We see flashbacks of Saheeli time in Kaladesh when she was forced to repair Gonti's (think crime boss) mechanical heart.
With this knowledge of the past, Saheeli and Kaya was able to catch the ghost that is causing the sabotage, one of Mishra's War Generals.

Saheeli tried to ask peace from the spirit, spirit was like "no", Kaya destroyed the spirit.

Story end with Jodah inspecting the device realizing it was a door to a pocket dimension that Urza created to hopefully visit Teferi with. Was a construct on a previous living quarters in the pass with also previous characters in Urza's past. Urza want to meet Teferi "properly".

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Now for something completely different.

Story is in the the perspective of Tezzeret.
Tezzeret forced to witness Karn's dismemberment along with having to deliver Karn chest/head to Elesh Norn.
During travels, Tezzeret worried Elesh Norn might of learn his backstabbing...what he do? Well...

Hired Kaya to figure out what vorinclex is doing on Kaldhiem (and try to kill him)
Contact Jace to let him know what going down.
Partner with Uruabrask in his rebellion against Elesh Norn. Which leads to question....

Why did he work with Phyrexians in the first place. To put it bluntly, needs a new body since the Planar Bridge he wields is tearing his body apart. Phyrexians deal was to make him a darksteel body to replace old body once his "tasks" are done.

Ok, super speed mode now:
Tezzeret make a detour to see if he can spy of Elesh Norn, talked with Karn of the circumstance, figured out Karn can't leave plane due to material he been imbued with. Drama occurs, goes back to deliver Karn to Elesh Norn, hoping to get reward.

Elesh Norn was grateful but instead of giving reward, gave Tezzeret a final task in Dominaria, Tezzeret realizing he probably being used, had decided to further assist Uruabrask, but still has to complete this task.

Story ends with Tezzeret claiming control of Rona's forces after a duel and getting ready to attack Urza's Tower.

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This I don't really want to spoil...all I give you is...the following
Elspeth and friends defending the tower while intersperse with a love letter from a nightmare entitiy....that is all ;)

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We see and reflect on Teferi's time travel with the anchor, referencing his times he appeared in the main stories.
Was able to get to the point the sylex was used.
Creature a freeze time dimension (for a lack of better words) to talk with Urza.

Oh and also finally gave catharsis to a majority of vorthos individuals that were disappointed by Theros Beyond Death's "story"

This conversation is occuring while Urza is transforming into Urza planeswalker, gem in eyeballs including.
Teferi explained who Urza is going to be along with requesting how the Sylex works
Urza showed him.
Teferi realizing it's the soul/individual that makes the sylex works.

Story ends with Urza talking to Tawnos and explaining him to got to Kayla to give the message, as previous give in the beginning story.

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Nissa comes with Chandra to aid the upcoming battle
Nissa and Wrenn mad at Chanrda "murderous" rage from Jaya's death.
Nissa and Wrenn defend the tower
Nissa defeated the general from being yeeted to them from Wrenn and finishing the forces off by....

getting raged boost from Dominaria's Gaia.
Checked up on Teferi and friends
More allies showed up, including Nahiri, Jace, and Lukka.
Temporal anchor broke by powerstone being overloaded. While Kaya and Saheeli are safe, Teferi essense is stuck in machine and time.

Jodah and Wrenn decided to stay to assist getting Teferi out of the mess he is in...so to speak. Story ends with Teferi walking on the beach on a unknown land retracing footprints he seen.

and the story bridges with planeswalkers getting ready to go to new phyrexia, with Kaya having instructions (Ikea level instructions) to use the sylex and hope to use it. Also, got motivational phrase from mechanical bird that you hear vorthos players quote a lot in the future.