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Ignore me if this isnt answered but you plan on doing so in future chapters, if thats the case Ill find out eventually

It's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B! This is not terribly important to the story at large, so here are some thoughts about it:

Keyes and Earth have some interplanetary communication, though travel between them is difficult and only available to the very wealthy.

However, due to the Bearcat's nature, Agnes's people can pop on over to Earth if they want to with no problem! (As long as they have their pins to get back, that is!)

I thought it would be funnier to have Billy be a bit of an 'earthaboo' and directly reference anime that I personally found to be formative in my early life (like Dragon Ball Z). (Agnes is also a bit of an earthaboo, considering her interest in the 1920s-30s aesthetics.)

Making up my own brand of Keyes anime comes with the worldbuilding issue that is "wait, so is there a Keyes equivalent of Japan in this comic?" I did not want to make fictional analogues for real-life persons and places, because that can get sketchy/questionable really quickly if you're not careful, and BACKLASH is not about that, haha. BACKLASH takes place on a fictional planet with Earth-like touchstones for reader accessibility and also rule of funny. Some things are different, and others are the same! Those differences will come up in the comic but there's nothing too extreme.

Thanks for sharing such a cool world, always stoked to see a new comic on the homepage

Emrakul’s reshuffle ability is a triggered ability, and so while it will trigger when Emrakul is put into your opponent’s graveyard the trigger will wait until Glimpse the Unthinkable finishes resolving before the trigger is actually put on the stack and then resolves. 

In order for a card to be shuffled back in immediately, that ability needs to be a replacement effect, such as the one on Progenitus, that shuffles the card into the library rather than having it ever go to the graveyard.

He never has to attack the other player unless he wants to.

When you goad a creature, it creates two attacking requirements on that creature: It has to attack if able, and it has to attack a player other than you if able. Ghostly Prison creates an attacking restriction that can be ignored by paying 2 when the attack is declared.

When the goaded creature goes to attack, it must obey as many requirements as possible without violating any restrictions. Your opponent is never required to pay for Ghostly Prison, even for a creature that has to attack, so unless your opponent chooses to pay 2, we can ignore the “attack another player” requirement. This means that the creature just has to attack if able, so its free to attack you, or a planeswalker you control, or a planeswalker that the Ghostly Prison player controls. All of these fulfill the requirement without violating a restriction. The only thing they can’t choose to do here is to not attack with the goaded creature.

Players are never forced to pay a cost to attack for something like Propaganda. Such an effect will basically undo the requirement set up by Trove of Temptation if you don’t control a planeswalker. (If you do, your opponent must attack it, or pay to attack you.)