Re: Jace. It's not just that he has been the face of two sets. He's been the main character of two novels and appeared in a third. And Mind Sculptor was an insanely powerful card. You said one time there have always been powerful cards, but MS was a meta-warping, uber-powerful $400 card. Most of us still have PTSD from Caw-Blade. I like Jace as a character, much more as a character than a card, but I can understand why some people are suffering from Jace-fatigue.
And that’s why we have an entire cast of planeswalkers. If you don’t like Jace then focus on someone else. As the most popular character, yes he gets screen time, but we do focus on a lot of other characters. For example, he doesn’t appear in the entire Theros block.
So yeah. No jace for the whole block. That's surprising to me, but not entirely unexpected. (hopefully I did this in the right place and everything?)
not surprising at all since what happened in the secretist
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why people ask this kind of question? Sudently someone at wizards from the question can say that people want Jace and then it becomes Jace: The Gathering and in Every block we ll get a new jace... ( and really we have 4 jaces... it have been on 2 blocks ....).
The guy should have asked:
"I hate Jace and soo i almost never play soo much ( draft , sealed) from sets that he is in. Soo, Maro , This and next year will i be playing drafts and sealed for each new set?" or something like this...
Is this even news? Planeswalkers that appeared in a block haven't appeared in the next one (at least in card form) since Sarkhan in Alara and Zendikar blocks.
Yeah why is this even a thread? Who cares? We knew he wouldn't be part of the set since he was just in the last one.
A) it's information on the sets that i hadn't seen anywhere before. I apologize if for some reason this bored you
B) seeing as how he was in m13, return to ravnica, and m14, that means there is no NEW (or reprinted) jace in the theros block, which opens up the 'walker spots for others, which I found interesting and figured someone else might as well.
to be perfectly honest, i wish they would take an extended hiatus from printing/reprinting versions of any of the lorwyn 5. they are all rather cheesy if you ask me. yes they reflect their colors well, but i am a little sick of herp derp im garruk and i have an animal fetish because im green, I'm chandra and im always aspiring to be jaya ballard, im jace and im blue and tryna learn everything, im liliana and the most badass thing i can do is kill the demons who i was indebted to, and lastly, i'm ajani, the random leonin of the bunch, sometimes i can make serra avatar tokens for some reason.
these PW's are flavorful and balanced (allegedly), but they are super lame compared to ANY of the old PW's! i know they arent supposed to be on the same power level but come onnnn. there was a time when the events of the multiverse really revolved around the antics of planeswalkers who actually did stuff other than PR for wizards, i miss that time.
Jace has been the face of all of two expert expansions. They're hardly flooding the game with him. Yes, he's appeared in every core-set since Lorwyn, but so have Chandra and Garuuk.
I mean, hell, we're all on a forum for something that most people would describe as a "children's card game"...do what makes you happy. You are never too old to enjoy yourself.
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor - Present, but no affiliation to the story.
Shards of Alara - No Show
Zendikar - Present
Scars of Mirrodin - No Show
Innistrad - No Show
Return to Ravnica - Present
Theros - No Show
So likely, we'll see him again either next block or next-next block. Disregarding core sets.
A) it's information on the sets that i hadn't seen anywhere before. I apologize if for some reason this bored you
B) seeing as how he was in m13, return to ravnica, and m14, that means there is no NEW (or reprinted) jace in the theros block, which opens up the 'walker spots for others, which I found interesting and figured someone else might as well.
which is why this is a thread.
Except its not. The only time we've seen A Planeswalker in two sets in a row was Sarkhan in Alara and Zendikar.
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Not surprising. He's the Pikachu to Magic....but he doesn't need to be in every set / referenced in every block.
Even Pikachu isn't in every Pokémon game, though. (He doesn't appear at all in Gen V, per some quick Googling.)
Jace isn't even in the majority of blocks, though he's been in every Core Set since M10. Because seriously, a major reason they moved from Weatherlight-style epics to a new plane every year was because focusing too much on one set of characters mucks with the "you are a planeswalker" flavor. (For one thing, as a planeswalker, you are proof that most of the multiverse's ideas about cosmology are dead wrong. The sort of Lovecraftian detachment associated with old-school 'walkers seems to come with that knowledge, I'm guessing.)
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Shards of Alara - No Show
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Scars of Mirrodin - No Show
Innistrad - No Show
Return to Ravnica - Present
Theros - No Show
So likely, we'll see him again either next block or next-next block. Disregarding core sets.
Unless one of those next blocks is Return to Return to Ravnica, don't count on it. We may see him in a core set, but he's not going anywhere else in the multiverse for the time being because spoilers.
Whats the problem? Personally, I'd like them to do some 'forgotten' aspect of Urza's life. I miss Urza
He was the star of an entire block focusing on his antics as a younger man, he was on half the Invasion card arts, the entire calendar of the storyline is literally calculated from the date of his birth... I miss the psychotic manipulative old bastard as much as anybody else, but his story has run its course.
The power level of Therosian demons is nothing to write home about. They're basically beholden to Erebos, as underworld dwellers. No demon on Theros is strong enough to give Lili the kind of power she wants.
On the one hand, to hell with the "gotta kill 'em all" aspect of her storyline, but on the other, it's cool to see how demons are different on every plane when Liliana is around. Whoever is #3 is definitely going to be way different than Russellbrand.
So yeah. No jace for the whole block. That's surprising to me, but not entirely unexpected. (hopefully I did this in the right place and everything?)
link for you all as well:
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/62487718387/re-jace-its-not-just-that-he-has-been-the-face-of
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edit: my b. spoilers (i think?)
The guy should have asked:
"I hate Jace and soo i almost never play soo much ( draft , sealed) from sets that he is in. Soo, Maro , This and next year will i be playing drafts and sealed for each new set?" or something like this...
Then when we get to Journey to Nyx, they'll release another version and say:
...by this comment, we meant because he only appears in part of the Theros block!
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A) it's information on the sets that i hadn't seen anywhere before. I apologize if for some reason this bored you
B) seeing as how he was in m13, return to ravnica, and m14, that means there is no NEW (or reprinted) jace in the theros block, which opens up the 'walker spots for others, which I found interesting and figured someone else might as well.
which is why this is a thread.
these PW's are flavorful and balanced (allegedly), but they are super lame compared to ANY of the old PW's! i know they arent supposed to be on the same power level but come onnnn. there was a time when the events of the multiverse really revolved around the antics of planeswalkers who actually did stuff other than PR for wizards, i miss that time.
There will be no Tibalt, Tamiyo, Tezzeret, Garruk, Chandra, Liliana, mini-Jace, big-Jace, Garruk again, or Sarkhan in Theros either.
There will also be no Black Lotus.
This is not news.
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You have to admit, that is pretty badass.
Shards of Alara - No Show
Zendikar - Present
Scars of Mirrodin - No Show
Innistrad - No Show
Return to Ravnica - Present
Theros - No Show
So likely, we'll see him again either next block or next-next block. Disregarding core sets.
Except its not. The only time we've seen A Planeswalker in two sets in a row was Sarkhan in Alara and Zendikar.
Even Pikachu isn't in every Pokémon game, though. (He doesn't appear at all in Gen V, per some quick Googling.)
Jace isn't even in the majority of blocks, though he's been in every Core Set since M10. Because seriously, a major reason they moved from Weatherlight-style epics to a new plane every year was because focusing too much on one set of characters mucks with the "you are a planeswalker" flavor. (For one thing, as a planeswalker, you are proof that most of the multiverse's ideas about cosmology are dead wrong. The sort of Lovecraftian detachment associated with old-school 'walkers seems to come with that knowledge, I'm guessing.)
On phasing:
Unless one of those next blocks is Return to Return to Ravnica, don't count on it. We may see him in a core set, but he's not going anywhere else in the multiverse for the time being because spoilers.
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That's ... convenient. And I don't like it at all.
He was the star of an entire block focusing on his antics as a younger man, he was on half the Invasion card arts, the entire calendar of the storyline is literally calculated from the date of his birth... I miss the psychotic manipulative old bastard as much as anybody else, but his story has run its course.
The power level of Therosian demons is nothing to write home about. They're basically beholden to Erebos, as underworld dwellers. No demon on Theros is strong enough to give Lili the kind of power she wants.
On the one hand, to hell with the "gotta kill 'em all" aspect of her storyline, but on the other, it's cool to see how demons are different on every plane when Liliana is around. Whoever is #3 is definitely going to be way different than Russellbrand.
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