MTG Salvation

I've put up a deck for Aminatou => https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh/multiplayer-commander-decklists/796621

I like doing digital cards for my primers, it's half the inspiration for creating around particular commander(s)

She is definately interesting. Kind of scary that this eight year old girl is possibly the most powerful planeswalker in existence?? She could take out Bolas with a single moth. She is way OP. If her abilities are really what is decribed, when you take them to their limit she is basically God. Not much effort would be needed apparently either. Want to erase a plane from existence, wave of a hand. Turn anybody or anything into something different, wave of a hand. Anticipates all outcomes.....and can change them with wave of a hand. She is kind of ridiculous in terms of power.

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She is definately interesting. Kind of scary that this eight year old girl is possibly the most powerful planeswalker in existence?? She could take out Bolas with a single moth. She is way OP. If her abilities are really what is decribed, when you take them to their limit she is basically God. Not much effort would be needed apparently either. Want to erase a plane from existence, wave of a hand. Turn anybody or anything into something different, wave of a hand. Anticipates all outcomes.....and can change them with wave of a hand. She is kind of ridiculous in terms of power.

That's pretty fair lmao, I think her biggest drawback, her "kryptonite" so to speak, is the fact that she's just a kid. She won't do all those powerful things because she is a kid and thus has the whims of a kid.

Seems more spec we have no ideas what her limits our and how much she can alter the destiny of a Walker. Granted Bolas would mindcontrol her before she got close so

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She is definately interesting. Kind of scary that this eight year old girl is possibly the most powerful planeswalker in existence?? She could take out Bolas with a single moth. She is way OP. If her abilities are really what is decribed, when you take them to their limit she is basically God. Not much effort would be needed apparently either. Want to erase a plane from existence, wave of a hand. Turn anybody or anything into something different, wave of a hand. Anticipates all outcomes.....and can change them with wave of a hand. She is kind of ridiculous in terms of power.

That's pretty fair lmao, I think her biggest drawback, her "kryptonite" so to speak, is the fact that she's just a kid. She won't do all those powerful things because she is a kid and thus has the whims of a kid.

They were careful to point out that she doesn't have tantrums. This reminded me of the "Twilight Zone Movie" where a boy has unimaginable powers, but doesn't have the maturity to not cause harm to those around him. You wouldn't want her wiping out entire worlds because she couldn't hold in a child's vulnerable emotions.

Also doesn't Tamiyo technically have the same power...she has to write it down sure...

I'm excited to use Estrid, the Masked alongside Stasis in an enchantments-matter deck.

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She is definately interesting. Kind of scary that this eight year old girl is possibly the most powerful planeswalker in existence?? She could take out Bolas with a single moth. She is way OP. If her abilities are really what is decribed, when you take them to their limit she is basically God. Not much effort would be needed apparently either. Want to erase a plane from existence, wave of a hand. Turn anybody or anything into something different, wave of a hand. Anticipates all outcomes.....and can change them with wave of a hand. She is kind of ridiculous in terms of power.

Yeah, I like her character design just as much as the next guy and was looking forward to reading more about it, but the article was kind of "eh" for me. Seems like even the people at WotC were fangasming so much about their idea of a child planeswalker and the art by Seb McKinnon that they ended up making her unneccessarily powerful for pretty much no reason. Honestly, what Luhrs wrote sounded like a character description from a bad fanfiction in some places. I mean - I have nothing against her being powerful, maybe being more powerful than most planeswalkers, but basically being able to change fates of whole lives or even worlds just with a single moth? That's Commodore Guff-levels of power, only without the fourth wall breaking. I don't like her "power limiter" being the fact that she's young because she won't stay young forever, although I could see them taking the "her powers wane as she grows more mature" route here. And while her literal childlike behaviour makes sense from a flavor perspective, I don't know if I'd like her being part of a story because of that. There's a risk she could end up robbing the story of all its tension because Aminatou could just randomly or deliberately change the outcome at any given point.
So the article didn't leave the best impression on me, but I'm curious how WotC is going to handle her if and when we see her again.

Yeah, she's OP. The idea is her suite of powers is balanced out by her young age and childish desires and limited ambitions but... she can outgrow those in time. So what would be limiting abilities at that point? It would be more interesting if her powers over destiny fade to an extent with age. So that as an adult, she's still powerful, but not to the degree we saw here. She's similar to Silas Renn in her abilities though, since he is a Clockworking Adept, he can actually move not just vertically but horizontally through time and select which outcome will transpire.

Honestly, the only real limit is something similar to Tamiyo ie she doesn't use her power because she chooses not to because yes the power is horribly broken unless they slap something like Walkers are immune to it on her. Although she seems to need to have the moth make contact which implies she has to be close to target...Tamiyo just has to write it from anywhere. Although someone like Teferi can kill anyone not immortal by just speeding time up so far for them they instantly die. So really its more about certain powers only work on heroes cause on villains most fights would be over instantly.