Books like Planeshift
Planeshift
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.