I wish they had made a new walker in green instead of red. No one gives a 2 damns about frey while a ton of people want either Jaya or Slobad. He doesn't seem bad though I really despise discard first looting.
I'd like to disprove your theory. I give multiple damns about Freyalise and have loved her as a character since playing Ice Age.
Well you're in a clear minority there bud. If someone other than frey had been printed there would have been almost no one complaining. It's pretty easy to tell that since very few people were talking about frey before before she got revealed.
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I can see by that stupid look on your face you're confused; "Why would I reveal this to you now?" Simply put, you have no chance to escape, I put my plan into motion 35 blocks ago.
I've been wanting a Jaya planeswalker card, and I've been wanting a goblin planeswalker...
1) No Jaya
2) This alleged goblin planeswalker could easily NOT be a goblin, but because WotC thinks he is a goblin, I am now less likely to get a goblin planeswalker that actually feels like a goblin planeswalker anytime soon.
Honestly, I refuse to get mad...I can and will use the money to buy an Intellivision Flashback instead.
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I am very pleased that there is finally a goblin planeswalker, and I also am glad that he is not a crude and vulgar goblin, as most of them are, but one who is articulate and civilized. However, I am displeased that his presence means that there likely shall not be a planeswalker card of Jaya Ballard, since there have been cards of Teferi and Freyalise. Perhaps in next year's Commander set, she shall appear?
Can the artifact that is returned by his second ability be the same artifact that was sacrificed? If so, it would be great to use (or abuse, as it were) that ability with spine of Ish Sah or similar cards.
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Holy crap I love this guy! Trash for Treasure is the reason I made my Bosh deck, so this guy is an easy replacement. And he's a goblin planeswalker with mechanical spider legs.
2) This alleged goblin planeswalker could easily NOT be a goblin, but because WotC thinks he is a goblin, I am now less likely to get a goblin planeswalker that actually feels like a goblin planeswalker anytime soon.
This, exactly. I've been wanting to see a goblin planeswalker for a long time now, but this isn't anywhere near what I was hoping for.
By the way, MaRo has officially confirmed that they didn't go with Slobad precisely because of the "he was only a planeswalker for a few minutes" issue.
2) This alleged goblin planeswalker could easily NOT be a goblin, but because WotC thinks he is a goblin, I am now less likely to get a goblin planeswalker that actually feels like a goblin planeswalker anytime soon.
This, exactly. I've been wanting to see a goblin planeswalker for a long time now, but this isn't anywhere near what I was hoping for.
They've been very clear with their intention to make any actual goblin character not feel like one of the mindless dragon fodder that is too dumb to live.
Last time we had that was Squee, and we've had 2-3 significant goblins in the time since then, and ALL of them have been more intelligent and well reasoned.
Well you're in a clear minority there bud. If someone other than frey had been printed there would have been almost no one complaining. It's pretty easy to tell that since very few people were talking about frey before before she got revealed.
Actually, he's not.
Freyalise was such the obvious choice that people couldn't conjure any meaningful alternatives. Freyalise has been one of THE key characters since ICE AGE. There was simply no question it would be Freyalise. To some degree, she is very similar to Serra in that regard, but Serra at least had competition. The only rival that I can conjure for Freyalise is Kristina of the Woods, a character most people haven't even heard of and was much less significant than Freyalise.
I will say that I think this is an amusing look into the color identities. White had their dreams crushed and they instead look to find something that they can appreciate in what they got, Green accepted things as they were (which met with the way they thought things should be), Black pretty much rolled with what they got without getting up in arms, and Red has... extensively displayed its dubious passion at being thwarted. I sort of wish we got to see how Blue would have reacted.
I wish they had made a new walker in green instead of red. No one gives a 2 damns about frey while a ton of people want either Jaya or Slobad. He doesn't seem bad though I really despise discard first looting.
I'd like to disprove your theory. I give multiple damns about Freyalise and have loved her as a character since playing Ice Age.
Well you're in a clear minority there bud. If someone other than frey had been printed there would have been almost no one complaining. It's pretty easy to tell that since very few people were talking about frey before before she got revealed.
Tons of people were talking about Freyalise before she got revealed. In fact, Serra and Freyalise are the two walkers I've been wanting to see MOST since the Planeswalker card type was revealed
Even though Jaya has way more old school coolness, she would've likely turned out to be just another Chandra.
This hurts my heart a little.
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For those complaining about this not being Slobad, I have two questions: 1) How long was Slobad a Planeswalker, exactly, and 2) did he do any Planeswalking? I'm pretty sure he didn't have his spark that long nor did he do any actual planeswalking unless I'm forgetting some part of the story. I understand why players would feel attached to Slobad; he was the second Goblin after Squee to be portrayed as a heroic character and in Slobad's case, the first true "smart" goblin, though there were some artificer Goblins beforehand like Goblin Tinkerer and Goblin Welder (both of which can be reprinted, I just checked the list). Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer could still be included in this deck and is more likely to be thanks to the artifice theme.
I won't complain about it, but those are precisely the reasons why we would have loved for him to get a pw card. He's not just a character who *wasn't* a functional planeswalker, he's a character who *could have been* a great red 'walker and traded that away without thought or remorse to do what he felt was right and to help his friends. His story was admirable and endearing, and it leaves us wondering what kind of career he would have had hopping across the multiverse as Goblin MacGyver. It certainly would have been a touching call-back to give him a "what if" card in a supplemental product to scratch that itch, and might have provided just a little fan-compensation for his tragic life and meaningless death (which are part of why his story works, and shouldn't be undone in canon.)
Also, he's not just memorable for being the potential red goblin planeswalker that didn't happen, there's a case to be made that Slobad could have been a great ambassador/face for the color red. Maro has mentioned many times that creative is looking for ways to showcase more of red's philosophy on cards, but is limited by the combat-centric nature of the game and what it allows to be expressed through mechanics. As a character, Slobad represents red's take on other colors' primary concerns very well, and some of these differences could be shown mechanically:
Blue: He's certainly smart enough that he can't be framed as either envious or ignorant, which seems to happen to red a lot, but his intelligence is intuitive and unlike blue's methodical and aloof styling. He's into mental challenge because he finds it interesting and he has a knack for it, not because he values learning as a status-signifier. Even when he's set apart (and exiled!) for his mental aptitude, he doesn't respond by feeling his intelligence should automatically grant him a position of authority or privilege anywhere. He does potentially have enough blue in him to justify multicolor depending on how his character would have developed, however. This can be expressed mechanically within red's slice of the pie through interaction with artifacts.
White: He sacrifices his spark to save his friends, so he can't be slurred as an uncaring barbarian. He's motivated to do what he feels is right, but this is primarily driven by concern and not ideology. He obviously cares about the survival and well-being of Mirran society at large, but he has been hurt (and enslaved!) by group-think-y communities, so he probably doesn't care much for rules and stratified social structures (he ends up exiling himself, but this is more for his own good and not about preserving social order.) This can be expressed mechanically within red's slice of the pie through self-sac effects.
Green: He has lived as a hermit in the wilderness and accepted his true nature, so green can't say that he's brainwashed or coddled by "civilised" living, but that said he doesn't expect or attempt to be happy and at peace with his inner self. He doesn't believe that all of his impulses and feelings can ever be reconciled; he is who he is, but he *suffers* for it. No idea how this could be expressed mechanically, really.
Black: He's a survivor, willing to tough out and escape enslavement(!) and scavenge for sustenance, but he doesn't really have any of the classical black impulses. He could have translated his skill with machines into influence (and revenge) somehow if he had really cared to do so. Of all the colors, Slobad is probably furthest from black. There still might be some place to find mechanical nuance, but I'm not entirely sure where (artifact-based looting?)
Anyway, I'm glad to see that Palliano stuck, but it would have been awesome to get Slobad. It's not like there aren't reasons people still talk about him.
I have to say, I'm really quite disappointed in Daretti as a character. They have the chance to introduce a new planeswalker from any plane they want, of any race they want, and what do we get? A goblin from the cut-rate Ravnica knockoff. They couldn't even be bothered to make him female.
Not sure how the Goblin's gender is relevant in the least...
There are currently about twice as many male planeswalkers as there are females. If they couldn't make Deretti an interesting race or from an interesting plane, they could have at least made a planeswalker from the less represented gender.
As it is, Deretti has no really notable qualities as a character.
HE HAS NO FREAKING LEGS! Seriously! He's our first paraplegic Planeswalker(say that 3 times fast.) and you are saying there is nothing interesting about him? Take off the hate shades.
I won't complain about it, but those are precisely the reasons why we would have loved for him to get a pw card. He's not just a character who *wasn't* a functional planeswalker, he's a character who *could have been* a great red 'walker and traded that away without thought or remorse to do what he felt was right and to help his friends. His story was admirable and endearing, and it leaves us wondering what kind of career he would have had hopping across the multiverse as Goblin MacGyver. It certainly would have been a touching call-back to give him a "what if" card in a supplemental product to scratch that itch, and might have provided just a little fan-compensation for his tragic life and meaningless death (which are part of why his story works, and shouldn't be undone in canon.)
The problem with that is that this was never meant to be a Planar Chaos style "what if?" set up. It was always more like Time Spiral with the theme being "remember when?"
What you would have asked for just was never meant to be. Slobad was briefly considered, but wizards themselves thought that it was too brief to be flavorful.
[quote from="Swithin »"]The problem with that is that this was never meant to be a Planar Chaos style "what if?" set up. It was always more like Time Spiral with the theme being "remember when?"
What you would have asked for just was never meant to be. Slobad was briefly considered, but wizards themselves thought that it was too brief to be flavorful.
Well, yeah. I was just speaking to the question of why we wanted him. But now that you mention it, Time Spiral and its in-canon alternate histories happened... why not "hey, remember that Planar Chaos (but still mono-red) Slobad you never got on a card?" Still no? Darn.
Well, yeah. I was just speaking to the question of why we wanted him. But now that you mention it, Time Spiral and its in-canon alternate histories happened... why not "hey, remember that Planar Chaos (but still mono-red) Slobad you never got on a card?" Still no? Darn.
Well in fairness, they did kind of have to break and twist time to get those alternate histories bleeding over.
In a supplemental product, I don't think they could really afford to take the moment to explain how things aren't normally like this, or where the moment of divergence is and how things changed.
Sort of different when you can just point at a character and say "that's them in the past." It's a bit more to go into alternate histories.
You guys realize that in the inevitable Return to New Phyrexia they could have someone(like Serra) go to Slobad's grave and resurrect him?
If we ever get Slobad instead of Venser that will be a whole other wall of text. Wizards have talked about a current moratorium on resurrections, and I doubt we'll ever see Slobad again now that we have Daretti (I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.)
(Seriously though, no UW planeswalker in four years? And they killed Daxos off too, for the moment at least. I was hoping he'd be the next.)
As has been brought up, I'm pretty sure the reason this isn't Slobad was because of how brief his tenure as a 'Walker was, so rather than try and shoehorn in a character that existed as a Planeswalker for all of however short a period of time it was, they instead opted to give him a spiritual successor that they could actually explore future design space with.
My only complaint is that he isn't Jaya. I'm not going to lie, I'm still super-salty about that. That being said, I really do like his abilities, and I have a sneaking suspicion that once I get over my "No 'Walker Jaya for you" butthurt, he's really going to start growing on me. I'm definitely going to give him a shot, and I'm already brainstorming a deck to take advantage of him.
Can't believe this many people wanted Jaya. She has exactly the same design space as Chandra.
The interesting thing about Jaya would be that she's an old red planeswalker. How exactly does that work? Does she keep her passion after hundreds or thousands of years? Can she even stay both passionate and sane?
I'd argue that it would take more effort to make Jaya that would feel like her own person. The planeswalkers we got here are bottom-up, they were put to specific characters after the fact. If we got a bottom-up Jaya, guess what? The people would complain about her anyway. "They completely ruined Jaya!" "She could have easily be Chandra!" Etc.
It's a GOOD thing we didn't get Jaya or Serra. They deserve cards where Wizards would know from the start they are making these iconic characters.
I absolutely LOVE this walker!!! His abilities are rather strong and allow incredible synergies with various artifacts, he's a disabled goblin planeswalker who isn't stupid as other goblins, and his name + dress all scream Renaissance Italy! Definitely my favorite of these new commander walkers!
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Casual Decks WRBoros Aggro (Glorious knights of badassery) RBRakdos Bloodthirst (Undercosted waves of fat s***) URIzzet Talrand/Pyromancer (b/c I hate you) GRGruul Ramp and Stomp (SO FAT. SO FAST. RAWRRR) GBGolgari Birthing Pod (b/c you wanted a challenge. I did warn you this BS is banned though) BWOrzhov Lifegain Aggro (Removal for dayzzz) WGSelesnya Tribal Golem-splicers/token (meh. Needs more upgrades. Perhaps switching to bant?) WUAzorius Flicker (b/c I wanna annoy the f*** outta you) GUSimic Evolve Aggro (Aggro takes a journey to the weird side of the color pie) BUDimir Control (b/c I wanna peel your skin off and flay you within an inch of life before I kill you) URWJeskai Ascendency Tokens (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA) RWBMardu Warriors (Butcher is da bomb) GU Simic Morph (slow as s*** but oh so fun) WBGAbzan Dredge-animator (PURE EVIL) GWHexproof Aggro (Deal with it. Lemme guess, you cant?)
EDH Decks UBRNekusar (Multiplayer MONSTA. 1v1 Klutz) GRB Prossh (Set up engines. WRECK FACE) GEzuri (Hey so I heard you liked Elves...) UTalrand (Counter. Cantrip. Counter. Cantrip. Repeat till opponents die-- possibly of boredom)
Tiny leaders WUDaxos (basic 3/1 fliers do basic s***. Also Daxos) RWAnax and Cymede (Heroic weenie beats)
Standard RRMONO RED AGGRO (RAWWWRRRR!!!!) WUHeroic Aggro (Easy mode beatstick)
The problem I have with this character is not Daretti himself, is that he could be printed in EVERY new Standard set. Old characters can not, and they need this kind of product to show up. So in my opinion it's a waste of space and fan service to print a new walker or legend when they could print a classic from the past. How many of you would prefer a new Gerrard, for example, instead of Jazal? Yawgmoth? Jeska? Hurkyl? The Lithomancancer (is it spelled right?)? Leshrac? I know, new players won't know them, but it's an awesome way to instigate them to look up for the older lore. I'm betting that they will be printed, eventually, but still, missed your chance Wizards.
Also, how bad is Freyalise? I almost cried when I saw how underwhelming one of the biggest characters in Magic's lore is.
Jazal is a bad example considering he's Ajani's DEAD brother.
Yeah, and he appeared in ONE page in ONE comic telling Ajani's story. Not the definition of remarkable if you ask me. And I never said that the characters need to be dead.
The planeswalkers were designed bottom-up, and intentionally designed to be of a lower-power level then your typical planeswalker card, because they can be used as Commanders.
We either had the option of having oldwalkers appear underpowered, not justifying their former glory (Example: Freyalise), or we could have them appear as new characters (Example: Daretii).
So either you're not getting your oldwalker, or getting your oldwalker not up-to-par to their glorious descriptions. Jaya, for starters might be an even weaker Chandra Nalaar if they had built the red planeswalker commander bottom-up using burn as the basis.
I personally think WotC did a mistake trying to put "Nostalgic" together with "Planeswalker Commanders" in the same Commander Release.
I'll probably play him in my deck... for the + 2 ability..
Go away dragons, I need mountains.
the only artifact I'll really want to reanimate is steel hellkite, maybe I'd consider the wellsprings just to make use of the ability, then reanimate burnish hart for value.
Well you're in a clear minority there bud. If someone other than frey had been printed there would have been almost no one complaining. It's pretty easy to tell that since very few people were talking about frey before before she got revealed.
"Well it's viable in EDH."
1) No Jaya
2) This alleged goblin planeswalker could easily NOT be a goblin, but because WotC thinks he is a goblin, I am now less likely to get a goblin planeswalker that actually feels like a goblin planeswalker anytime soon.
Honestly, I refuse to get mad...I can and will use the money to buy an Intellivision Flashback instead.
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Can the artifact that is returned by his second ability be the same artifact that was sacrificed? If so, it would be great to use (or abuse, as it were) that ability with spine of Ish Sah or similar cards.
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This, exactly. I've been wanting to see a goblin planeswalker for a long time now, but this isn't anywhere near what I was hoping for.
They've been very clear with their intention to make any actual goblin character not feel like one of the mindless dragon fodder that is too dumb to live.
Last time we had that was Squee, and we've had 2-3 significant goblins in the time since then, and ALL of them have been more intelligent and well reasoned.
Actually, he's not.
Freyalise was such the obvious choice that people couldn't conjure any meaningful alternatives. Freyalise has been one of THE key characters since ICE AGE. There was simply no question it would be Freyalise. To some degree, she is very similar to Serra in that regard, but Serra at least had competition. The only rival that I can conjure for Freyalise is Kristina of the Woods, a character most people haven't even heard of and was much less significant than Freyalise.
I will say that I think this is an amusing look into the color identities. White had their dreams crushed and they instead look to find something that they can appreciate in what they got, Green accepted things as they were (which met with the way they thought things should be), Black pretty much rolled with what they got without getting up in arms, and Red has... extensively displayed its dubious passion at being thwarted. I sort of wish we got to see how Blue would have reacted.
Tons of people were talking about Freyalise before she got revealed. In fact, Serra and Freyalise are the two walkers I've been wanting to see MOST since the Planeswalker card type was revealed
This hurts my heart a little.
I won't complain about it, but those are precisely the reasons why we would have loved for him to get a pw card. He's not just a character who *wasn't* a functional planeswalker, he's a character who *could have been* a great red 'walker and traded that away without thought or remorse to do what he felt was right and to help his friends. His story was admirable and endearing, and it leaves us wondering what kind of career he would have had hopping across the multiverse as Goblin MacGyver. It certainly would have been a touching call-back to give him a "what if" card in a supplemental product to scratch that itch, and might have provided just a little fan-compensation for his tragic life and meaningless death (which are part of why his story works, and shouldn't be undone in canon.)
Also, he's not just memorable for being the potential red goblin planeswalker that didn't happen, there's a case to be made that Slobad could have been a great ambassador/face for the color red. Maro has mentioned many times that creative is looking for ways to showcase more of red's philosophy on cards, but is limited by the combat-centric nature of the game and what it allows to be expressed through mechanics. As a character, Slobad represents red's take on other colors' primary concerns very well, and some of these differences could be shown mechanically:
Blue: He's certainly smart enough that he can't be framed as either envious or ignorant, which seems to happen to red a lot, but his intelligence is intuitive and unlike blue's methodical and aloof styling. He's into mental challenge because he finds it interesting and he has a knack for it, not because he values learning as a status-signifier. Even when he's set apart (and exiled!) for his mental aptitude, he doesn't respond by feeling his intelligence should automatically grant him a position of authority or privilege anywhere. He does potentially have enough blue in him to justify multicolor depending on how his character would have developed, however. This can be expressed mechanically within red's slice of the pie through interaction with artifacts.
White: He sacrifices his spark to save his friends, so he can't be slurred as an uncaring barbarian. He's motivated to do what he feels is right, but this is primarily driven by concern and not ideology. He obviously cares about the survival and well-being of Mirran society at large, but he has been hurt (and enslaved!) by group-think-y communities, so he probably doesn't care much for rules and stratified social structures (he ends up exiling himself, but this is more for his own good and not about preserving social order.) This can be expressed mechanically within red's slice of the pie through self-sac effects.
Green: He has lived as a hermit in the wilderness and accepted his true nature, so green can't say that he's brainwashed or coddled by "civilised" living, but that said he doesn't expect or attempt to be happy and at peace with his inner self. He doesn't believe that all of his impulses and feelings can ever be reconciled; he is who he is, but he *suffers* for it. No idea how this could be expressed mechanically, really.
Black: He's a survivor, willing to tough out and escape enslavement(!) and scavenge for sustenance, but he doesn't really have any of the classical black impulses. He could have translated his skill with machines into influence (and revenge) somehow if he had really cared to do so. Of all the colors, Slobad is probably furthest from black. There still might be some place to find mechanical nuance, but I'm not entirely sure where (artifact-based looting?)
Anyway, I'm glad to see that Palliano stuck, but it would have been awesome to get Slobad. It's not like there aren't reasons people still talk about him.
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What you would have asked for just was never meant to be. Slobad was briefly considered, but wizards themselves thought that it was too brief to be flavorful.
Well, yeah. I was just speaking to the question of why we wanted him. But now that you mention it, Time Spiral and its in-canon alternate histories happened... why not "hey, remember that Planar Chaos (but still mono-red) Slobad you never got on a card?" Still no? Darn.
Well in fairness, they did kind of have to break and twist time to get those alternate histories bleeding over.
In a supplemental product, I don't think they could really afford to take the moment to explain how things aren't normally like this, or where the moment of divergence is and how things changed.
Sort of different when you can just point at a character and say "that's them in the past." It's a bit more to go into alternate histories.
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If we ever get Slobad instead of Venser that will be a whole other wall of text. Wizards have talked about a current moratorium on resurrections, and I doubt we'll ever see Slobad again now that we have Daretti (I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.)
(Seriously though, no UW planeswalker in four years? And they killed Daxos off too, for the moment at least. I was hoping he'd be the next.)
That and I think she'd want others alive before a goblin.
My only complaint is that he isn't Jaya. I'm not going to lie, I'm still super-salty about that. That being said, I really do like his abilities, and I have a sneaking suspicion that once I get over my "No 'Walker Jaya for you" butthurt, he's really going to start growing on me. I'm definitely going to give him a shot, and I'm already brainstorming a deck to take advantage of him.
Can't believe this many people wanted Jaya. She has exactly the same design space as Chandra.
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The interesting thing about Jaya would be that she's an old red planeswalker. How exactly does that work? Does she keep her passion after hundreds or thousands of years? Can she even stay both passionate and sane?
I'd argue that it would take more effort to make Jaya that would feel like her own person. The planeswalkers we got here are bottom-up, they were put to specific characters after the fact. If we got a bottom-up Jaya, guess what? The people would complain about her anyway. "They completely ruined Jaya!" "She could have easily be Chandra!" Etc.
It's a GOOD thing we didn't get Jaya or Serra. They deserve cards where Wizards would know from the start they are making these iconic characters.
WRBoros Aggro (Glorious knights of badassery)
RBRakdos Bloodthirst (Undercosted waves of fat s***)
URIzzet Talrand/Pyromancer (b/c I hate you)
GRGruul Ramp and Stomp (SO FAT. SO FAST. RAWRRR)
GBGolgari Birthing Pod (b/c you wanted a challenge. I did warn you this BS is banned though)
BWOrzhov Lifegain Aggro (Removal for dayzzz)
WGSelesnya Tribal Golem-splicers/token (meh. Needs more upgrades. Perhaps switching to bant?)
WUAzorius Flicker (b/c I wanna annoy the f*** outta you)
GUSimic Evolve Aggro (Aggro takes a journey to the weird side of the color pie)
BUDimir Control (b/c I wanna peel your skin off and flay you within an inch of life before I kill you)
URWJeskai Ascendency Tokens (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
RWBMardu Warriors (Butcher is da bomb)
GU Simic Morph (slow as s*** but oh so fun)
WBGAbzan Dredge-animator (PURE EVIL)
GWHexproof Aggro (Deal with it. Lemme guess, you cant?)
EDH Decks
UBRNekusar (Multiplayer MONSTA. 1v1 Klutz)
GRB Prossh (Set up engines. WRECK FACE)
GEzuri (Hey so I heard you liked Elves...)
UTalrand (Counter. Cantrip. Counter. Cantrip. Repeat till opponents die-- possibly of boredom)
Tiny leaders
WUDaxos (basic 3/1 fliers do basic s***. Also Daxos)
RWAnax and Cymede (Heroic weenie beats)
Standard
RRMONO RED AGGRO (RAWWWRRRR!!!!)
WUHeroic Aggro (Easy mode beatstick)
Yeah, and he appeared in ONE page in ONE comic telling Ajani's story. Not the definition of remarkable if you ask me. And I never said that the characters need to be dead.
The planeswalkers were designed bottom-up, and intentionally designed to be of a lower-power level then your typical planeswalker card, because they can be used as Commanders.
We either had the option of having oldwalkers appear underpowered, not justifying their former glory (Example: Freyalise), or we could have them appear as new characters (Example: Daretii).
So either you're not getting your oldwalker, or getting your oldwalker not up-to-par to their glorious descriptions. Jaya, for starters might be an even weaker Chandra Nalaar if they had built the red planeswalker commander bottom-up using burn as the basis.
I personally think WotC did a mistake trying to put "Nostalgic" together with "Planeswalker Commanders" in the same Commander Release.
Go away dragons, I need mountains.
the only artifact I'll really want to reanimate is steel hellkite, maybe I'd consider the wellsprings just to make use of the ability, then reanimate burnish hart for value.
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GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own