songofviceandire asked: Is it too early to say whether we'll have 6 planeswalkers in this block? It seems awkward to have 3 planeswalkers featured equally in the key art for OGW if you're only planning on printing two.
Interesting. I wonder which two. PAX kind of confirmed Nissa with her new art, so the question is who will be the new planeswalker? My money is on Chandra, but maybe that is me being hopeful.
Probably Nissa and Chandra. Jace is probably going to go with Ugin to the plane with the next titan to seal that one, and he'll probably be in that set. Remember, Jace isn't just out to save Zendikar; he feels guilty for releasing all three of the titans to begin with, so we'll probably be seeing a lot of Jace in this storyline.
I wouldn't mind another Jace on Zendikar. If he presumably returns to be the Living Guildpact on Ravnica again after this, it's the ideal time to give Jace a new card before he becomes more of a background character in other future stories due to being more grounded on Ravnica. Can't help feeling his card might show up in the Lilliana-themed set that's bound to follow this one though, if he doesn't here.
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They seem to be focusing on Nissa more lately so it probably isn't much of a surprise she will be in, plus we do have what looks to be card art for her. If they want to balance the colors out my bet would be on Chandra, although it wouldn't surprise me if there was a new planeswalker we haven't seen or we get Nahiri.
I'm not really a fan of this new direction. In almost all cases new arts featuring walkers guarantee their cards when the sets are out. It's a natural expectation to see them in card frames rather than merely appearing on the sidelines. Even the Black Widow and Hawkeye got some screen time in the Avengers.
I'm not really a fan of this new direction. In almost all cases new arts featuring walkers guarantee their cards when the sets are out. It's a natural expectation to see them in card frames rather than merely appearing on the sidelines. Even the Black Widow and Hawkeye got some screen time in the Avengers.
Well, it does suck. No "buts" here. If there's more underpowered over-cost cards like in BFZ, we're all gonna be playing hearthstone and other digital TCGs pretty damned quickly.
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I'm not really a fan of this new direction. In almost all cases new arts featuring walkers guarantee their cards when the sets are out. It's a natural expectation to see them in card frames rather than merely appearing on the sidelines. Even the Black Widow and Hawkeye got some screen time in the Avengers.
It certainly does seem odd to advertise this team of walkers becoming this "Oath", or whatever it may be, and not all of them having a card. I think this is them not wanting to have more than five walkers in a block with the new block system in place. I can understand Ugin, Sorin, or Nahiri not getting a card, if the last two play a bigger part in this, but to skip out on some of the ones that seem to be doing this big thing does seem odd for sure.
Honestly only having two makes sense, especially with blocks only containing two sets now. It is very awkward to have cards with planeswalkers names on them and not actually have their planeswalkers cards in the set.... That was one of my main complaints on the BFZ survey that wizards sent to me. Other than that, I was originally a BFZ hater but it's power level is hidden.... Their is going to be a lot of sleepers in this set, at least after drafting the set a bunch and play testing a couple of decks....
We already have W, B and GU. That leaves us with R and another G or U. Nissa is pretty definite, Chandra is likely the other since she doesn't really factor into BFZ's story but appears in Gatewatch.
Chandra should be a given: R is the only color without a PW in the set, and in general I see the need of a red planeswalker for a Standard balance, something more similar to Chandra, Pyromaster than to Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh. As for the other, Nissa could be an option given her role in the story.
Honestly only having two makes sense, especially with blocks only containing two sets now. It is very awkward to have cards with planeswalkers names on them and not actually have their planeswalkers cards in the set....
It's not so awkward if you think how many characters don't get a card for them every year, and how many important characters of the past never received a card for them.
Yeah, I agree. I would really love if Nahiri got a card in this set, but a red walker is conspicuously missing from the block.
We have a million forgettable Constructed-unplayable Chandras already. A red Nahiri could work......
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I wouldn't mind another Jace on Zendikar. If he presumably returns to be the Living Guildpact on Ravnica again after this, it's the ideal time to give Jace a new card before he becomes more of a background character in other future stories due to being more grounded on Ravnica. Can't help feeling his card might show up in the Lilliana-themed set that's bound to follow this one though, if he doesn't here.
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Aren't we supposed to get one new walker per set since RTR? As in, one new character entirely? If I recall Rosewater said that was the plan, and its been pretty spot on sans a few sets in the middle.
Return to Ravnica had Vraska
Gatecrash had Domri Rade
Dragon's Maze had Ral Zarek
Theros had Ashiok and Xenagos
Born of the Gods had Kiora
Journey Into Nyx didn't have one (only Ajani)
Khans of Tarkir didn't have one (only Sorin and Sarkhan)
Fate Reforged had Ugin
Dragons of Tarkir had Narset
Battle for Zendikar has Ob Nixilis
I think we could see one of the Oath members then a new character or planeswalker. They'll save Nahiri/Sorin together for a later story thread to unravel. Would be interesting if someone like Drana did it, but doubt they'd give another Vampire a planeswalker nonetheless a second B in this story.
Well if the theories are true about Kozilek hiding underground, maybe he will appear in this set as a planeswalker that way they can further the story by having him "walk" away from Zendikar. Not before doing some damage of course.
if its legitimate to speculate on what colors were alredy covered, then id vote R for a 3 Mana Chandra d:D i need a time out from the blue *****-Planeswalker
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My money's on Jace being the odd one out.
I secretly ship Ral x Jace... and Nissa x Chandra... :">They will have to be careful with a straight reprint of that guy, might be so OP for standard right now he might break it in half
I have a suspicion that they will print another version of jace, because jace
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It certainly does seem odd to advertise this team of walkers becoming this "Oath", or whatever it may be, and not all of them having a card. I think this is them not wanting to have more than five walkers in a block with the new block system in place. I can understand Ugin, Sorin, or Nahiri not getting a card, if the last two play a bigger part in this, but to skip out on some of the ones that seem to be doing this big thing does seem odd for sure.
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Return to Ravnica had Vraska
Gatecrash had Domri Rade
Dragon's Maze had Ral Zarek
Theros had Ashiok and Xenagos
Born of the Gods had Kiora
Journey Into Nyx didn't have one (only Ajani)
Khans of Tarkir didn't have one (only Sorin and Sarkhan)
Fate Reforged had Ugin
Dragons of Tarkir had Narset
Battle for Zendikar has Ob Nixilis
I think we could see one of the Oath members then a new character or planeswalker. They'll save Nahiri/Sorin together for a later story thread to unravel. Would be interesting if someone like Drana did it, but doubt they'd give another Vampire a planeswalker nonetheless a second B in this story.
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