Speculation of the abilities of Khans... Sarkhan (of which we have seen art)
I'd like his ulitmate to be Form of the dragon.. but it actually seems too weak for an ulti and it has been pointed out really hard to fit all those words into a planeswalker ability box. However if he is still alive to ulti you are probably safe at 5 life.
But planewalker ultimates aren't really used when thinking about how good a planeswalker is.
Will he be Red black or green red? or maybe even Jund or Dega(RBW)
It´s probably too soon for the transform mechanic to come back but i would love to have a version of him - be it normal creature or Plainswalker - where he´s human but just like Garruk he can turn into a mighty dragon
I'd be ok with a mono red skarkhan (because I could play him in Zirilan of the claw EDH)... Sorin went BW on his home plane so it could happen to Skarkhan but I guess Sorin was always BW, locking up the Eldrazi and all.
I'd like to see him jund. Maybe we could have a grixis Bolas and esper Tezzy as well? Then two new planeswalkers in naya and bant. If Theros didn't happen, I would want naya Ajani and bant Elspeth. Is that too much to ask for?
Well, his ultimate could be a simpler variation on Form of the Dragon, perhaps an emblem with one or more of the following: "You and red planeswalkers you control can't be attacked by creatures without flying.", "Add R to your mana pool at the start of each turn and phase." and/or "At the start of your upkeep, deal 3 damage to target creature or player."
Maybe his +1 could be 'target creature gains +X/+0, where X is one more than the number of dragons you control'.
Maybe his - ability could be something along the lines of 'Exile target artifact or deal X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of mountains you control. Creatures dealt damage by this ability that would die this turn are exiled instead.'
Then again, I think he should have an ability that puts a dragon token of some sort onto the battlefield... hm... maybe that would be his minus ability, one that puts a 4/4 flying dragon token with firebreathing onto the battlefield.
I would really like to see something like form of dragon as a emblem maybe it wouldn't deal damage(it fits nicely without that sentence) but your life total gets to be higher instead.
I like the form of the dragon ultimate, but I think you have it happen to him. Possibly "exile Sarkan, you gain an emblem with at the beginning of your upkeep you may deal 5 damage to target creature or player" or "Sarkan loses all abilities and gains Sarkan can only be attacked by creatures with flying, at the beginning of each endstep Sarkans loyalty becomes 5, and during your upkeep Sarkan deals 5 damage to target creature or player" Now both of those have interesting loyalty issues, in that the first you never need to go over to keep him around, and the second one you have to get higher than his ultimate to use it otherwise it does nothing.
I almost think he could be your RR two mana walker with one of those if his other two are +1:up to target creature gains R:+1/+0 until end of turn, -2: gain control of target dragon, and then -6:form of the dragon.
Why not "Sarkan becomes a 5/5 red Dragon creature with 'R: ~ get's +1/+1 until end of turn.' He's still a planeswalker."?
Because hes not Gideon. Sarkhans thing is that he summons up dragons. It will have to be at least on one of this abilities. Plus Sarkhan turning into a dragon would make him exceedingly easy to kill as red might be able to get indestructible temporarily but not damage prevention. Meaning he'd still dies to combat from small creatures despite being a huge dragon due to them being able to reduce his low loyalty from having to activate said ability to zero thus putting him into the garveyard.
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Why not "Sarkan becomes a 5/5 red Dragon creature with 'R: ~ get's +1/+1 until end of turn.' He's still a planeswalker."?
Because hes not Gideon. Sarkhans thing is that he summons up dragons. It will have to be at least on one of this abilities. Plus Sarkhan turning into a dragon would make him exceedingly easy to kill as red might be able to get indestructible temporarily but not damage prevention. Meaning he'd still dies to combat from small creatures despite being a huge dragon due to them being able to reduce his low loyalty from having to activate said ability to zero thus putting him into the garveyard.
I know that it's usually Gideons thing, but if people want form of the dragon, it'd be him being the dragon, not the player.
Just based on his character progression, I think he's returned to Tarkir to "find himself"; to take a step back and a critical eye to his life choices to figure out if following Bolas is really what he wants out of life (hint: it's not).
I would not be surprised to see a mono-red Sarkhan.
It's the strongest color in his personality and his base color.
I like the +1 give firebreathing as an ability on some planeswalker at some point. Its not awful. but when you play the walker you wont have the mana so you would want to tick down first.
Well Sarkhan the mad turned anything into dragons (your Eldrazi are now dragons!) why not players?
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+1 creature gets firebreathing
-2 opponents creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn
Since one previous version of Sarkhan was red/green, and another previous version of him was red/black, I believe that this version of him shall be all three colors, since the game is due for another three-colored planeswalker, anyway.
I doubt that Sarkhan shall be mono-red, since this game already has Koth and Chandra as its iconic mono-red planeswalkers (Tibalt is mono-red, but his personality is very clearly red/black, so I suspect that, if a new version of him is ever printed, it shall be those colors).
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I could see them doing Sarkhan as any combination of colors that includes red and does not include blue:
R RB RW RG RWG RBG RWB RWBG
4 color might be interesting, since we don't have a 4 color walker yet, so long as the fixing is good enough to support it. If they really work hard on the story reasons, I could even see them pulling off a WUBRG Sarkhan as the first rainbow planeswalker. But I suspect 1-3 colors being more likely. His new set art seems to hint at either mono red or RWB to me.
It´s probably too soon for the transform mechanic to come back but i would love to have a version of him - be it normal creature or Plainswalker - where he´s human but just like Garruk he can turn into a mighty dragon
It'd be awesome to have a transform-ultimate, where his flip-side is a Legendary Creature Planeswalker - Sarkhan Dragon with two incredibly large numbers in the bottom right for Timmygasms.
It´s probably too soon for the transform mechanic to come back but i would love to have a version of him - be it normal creature or Plainswalker - where he´s human but just like Garruk he can turn into a mighty dragon
It'd be awesome to have a transform-ultimate, where his flip-side is a Legendary Creature Planeswalker - Sarkhan Dragon with two incredibly large numbers in the bottom right for Timmygasms.
I think it makes good sense. It would at least be more fun than to have another Sarkhan that turns himself into a dragon on the battlefield
I don´t know if the transform mechanic makes sense on Tarkir tho
Seeing as he's the face of the block (much the same way that Elsepth was for Theros, Jace was for RtR, and Liliana was for Innistrad), he'll be monocolored (red), and will be very constructed playable. And I would be shocked if he had nothing to do with dragons.
No, it was the overrun I was speaking of...which made his ultimate achievable by the next turn. It would be cool if an ultimate here and htere could be 1 or 2 turns away from achievable.
And if he's Jund....how about....
1BRG Sarkhan the Breeder
+1 Put two 0/1 red dragon tokens onto the battlefield with devour 1.
+1 Creatures you control gain dragonbreath
ULT Form of the dragon. Or. Sacrifice all creatures you control. For every creature sacrificed, put a red 5/5 dragon token onto the battlefield with flying.
I'm thinking that this block will be a 'wedge' block, though not a 'gold' block. As such, I don't expect Sarkhan to be Jund. Mono-red and Red/Green both seem like strong bets.
I'd like his ulitmate to be Form of the dragon.. but it actually seems too weak for an ulti and it has been pointed out really hard to fit all those words into a planeswalker ability box. However if he is still alive to ulti you are probably safe at 5 life.
But planewalker ultimates aren't really used when thinking about how good a planeswalker is.
Will he be Red black or green red? or maybe even Jund or Dega(RBW)
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I'd like to see a mono-red Sarkhan.
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Maybe his +1 could be 'target creature gains +X/+0, where X is one more than the number of dragons you control'.
Maybe his - ability could be something along the lines of 'Exile target artifact or deal X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of mountains you control. Creatures dealt damage by this ability that would die this turn are exiled instead.'
Then again, I think he should have an ability that puts a dragon token of some sort onto the battlefield... hm... maybe that would be his minus ability, one that puts a 4/4 flying dragon token with firebreathing onto the battlefield.
I almost think he could be your RR two mana walker with one of those if his other two are +1:up to target creature gains R:+1/+0 until end of turn, -2: gain control of target dragon, and then -6:form of the dragon.
And I want more two mana walkers...
Because hes not Gideon. Sarkhans thing is that he summons up dragons. It will have to be at least on one of this abilities. Plus Sarkhan turning into a dragon would make him exceedingly easy to kill as red might be able to get indestructible temporarily but not damage prevention. Meaning he'd still dies to combat from small creatures despite being a huge dragon due to them being able to reduce his low loyalty from having to activate said ability to zero thus putting him into the garveyard.
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I would not be surprised to see a mono-red Sarkhan.
It's the strongest color in his personality and his base color.
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Well Sarkhan the mad turned anything into dragons (your Eldrazi are now dragons!) why not players?
1BR
+1 creature gets firebreathing
-2 opponents creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn
-5 Form of the dragon
starting at 2.
Seems kind of weak but its cheap..
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I doubt that Sarkhan shall be mono-red, since this game already has Koth and Chandra as its iconic mono-red planeswalkers (Tibalt is mono-red, but his personality is very clearly red/black, so I suspect that, if a new version of him is ever printed, it shall be those colors).
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RWBG
4 color might be interesting, since we don't have a 4 color walker yet, so long as the fixing is good enough to support it. If they really work hard on the story reasons, I could even see them pulling off a WUBRG Sarkhan as the first rainbow planeswalker. But I suspect 1-3 colors being more likely. His new set art seems to hint at either mono red or RWB to me.
It'd be awesome to have a transform-ultimate, where his flip-side is a Legendary Creature Planeswalker - Sarkhan Dragon with two incredibly large numbers in the bottom right for Timmygasms.
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I think it makes good sense. It would at least be more fun than to have another Sarkhan that turns himself into a dragon on the battlefield
I don´t know if the transform mechanic makes sense on Tarkir tho
Garruk 1.0's ultimate was Overrun. You're thinking of Garruk, Caller of Beasts, which was like the fourth version of Garruk.
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And if he's Jund....how about....
1BRG Sarkhan the Breeder
+1 Put two 0/1 red dragon tokens onto the battlefield with devour 1.
+1 Creatures you control gain dragonbreath
ULT Form of the dragon. Or. Sacrifice all creatures you control. For every creature sacrificed, put a red 5/5 dragon token onto the battlefield with flying.
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You nailed it more or less. Well done! .. do you work at Wotc??