MTG Salvation

As far as legendary matters, I have some interest in that. I agree that it is perhaps a bit hard to pull off as a main set theme mechanically. It seems to me that "legendary" is/should-be intrinsically tied up with considerations of flavor more than mechanics.

I would say it could be a notable subtheme though, and it would be fitting for a set that also is about revisiting the planes, which would seem to leave room for if not encourage a lot of legendary stuff. It might even be fitting for "Exploration", which seems to be the other popular theme on the poll.

"Legendary" is itself a mechanic that the Legends set originally introduced, essentially with a flavorful purpose in mind (I had heard MARO mention that they were actually trying to find ways to represent characters from their D&D sessions). It's expanded out since then but it is essentially a "one of a kind" flavor marker with some minor rules implications that have been tweaked multiple times.

So I'm unsure if "legendary matters" is able to do anything as far as having any new keyworded mechanics based around legendary spells, but there could be a decent chunk of individual card abilities to which legendary or nonlegendary status is relevant, or some sort of "spells with the same name can't be played" thing for some cards.

I agree that it would make a great subtheme and we should make several rare/mythic legendary lands. Subthemes can definitely appear at higher rarities, such as miracles in AVR. As for flavor, most sets are already "legendary themed" although planeswalkers have stolen increasing spotlight; I am sure a set that reverses that trend would be welcome. As for mechanics, we should probably refrain from mechanic creation until we actually begin design, but Grandeur(Discard a copy of ~: EFFECT) is a preexisting mechanic that I look forwards to exploring.

Grandeur is awesome, even though it is pretty terrible in Limited.

A legendary subtheme sounds good, probably something that ties all the legendary cards together plus something that cares if you or anybody else controls a legendary permanent. Similar to Kamigawa, just not horrible ;D

I message Voxzorz a week ago and got no response. Should we procede to design ourselves?

Hmm, not sure, that would be mean, especially since we do not know who else wants to work on this project. Not that anything forbids us from doing this, but s/he did all the work with the survey so far.
Maybe a *shudder* real life problem?

I say we start design, but hand over the reigns when Voxzorz gets back. I can be interim leader if no-one else wants to.

Hey guys, I'm really sorry, life has been super busy and I haven't had a minute to spare. I'll try to be more on top of this, but I don't want to be in charge or anything. I more just wanted to set it up and see where it went. You are more than free to continue on if I seem to be mia in the future.

Again, super sorry about neglecting you guys, I promise I'll check in on the project at least once a day from now on.

No need to excuse yourself, real life is much more important (to some people...)

Can you close the poll or will it stay open forever? There needs to be a deadline to make it official.

It is perfectly okay, I just wanted to make sure the project didn't lose momentum. Real life trumps games. Now that you are back, do you want to begin design?

I went tribal in llorowyn/shadowmoor with a Celtic theme and some dinosaur type stuff thrown in. I've always liked tribal decks but then again I've always been a more casual player. Stuff like elves, goblins, and slivers have always been fun for me to play. I have an elf deck, working on a sliver edh deck, and will eventually put together a goblin deck. I think if we could get some elf/Dino synergy it would be extremely fun.

There are already some elf/dino cards, although I would not consider them tribal. Honestly, even though tribal is fun, I do not like it designwise since it is kinda narrow and doesn't play well with other sets, unless it is more of a mechanical theme for each tribe instead of the old "each elf you control" blabla.

So far none of these themes has a majority, so I doubt the design will go there.

I'll close the poll, I think we have a pretty good idea of what we want to do with the project. As for the tribal idea, I am personally very fond of tribal cards (Lorwyn and Kamigawa were my favorite blocks XP), but I don't think it would fit all that well with what we're planning. If there's room, we might be able to fit a small tribal subtheme in, but I don't think it should be a major focus this time around.

I'll post a new thread, where we can start moving into the design phase.

Thank you!