I'm not all that impressed, honestly. A green-aligned pokemon trainer-esque planeswalker with an iconic weapon would be a lot cooler if we didn't already have two of them - Garruk and Kiora. There has definitely been a need for a second mono-green planeswalker for a while now since Garruk is now consistently BG and Nissa is alternating between G and GU (plus she's no longer part of the Gatewatch and will probably be on hiatus). But...
Why another hunter/ranger/beastcaller planeswalker? Garruk isn't dead, and in fact, he should be returning to the story soon, given that he was left as a loose end and two Gatewatch members are aware of threat he poses. It's utterly baffling to me that they would make two planeswalkers which such incredibly similar types of magic before even making one that uses, for instance, ice magic or enchantment magic. It annoys me to watch them recycle ideas when there's so much potential for other types of planeswalkers that would be actually unique. The whole pokemon trainer-style planeswalker is pretty much a cliche at this point - we've seen it with Garruk, Kiora, and even with Saheeli (albeit in a slightly different way, building artifact constructs of creatures from other planes rather than mana constructs, but the core concept is the same).
Why another human? I get that we already have an Elf, but I was really holding out for the next green planeswalker to be a Naga - or, if not that, a Centuar, a Treefolk, a Dryad, an Ainok, a Khenra... literally anything other than yet another human. Representation is important, but I'm a lot more forgiving when it's the first planeswalker of a demographic that's long overdue, the way that Saheeli and Kaya were, rather than the third of that demographic in just two years. That's not to say that these groups should only get one planeswalker each to check a box and then they're done, especially when there are so many options for white men and women, but it's ok to space them out a little bit and make something other than a human for once. They can't expect us to applaud them for going NINE YEARS of having planeswalker cards without a single black woman among them, then desperately scramble to create three in the span of two years to redeem themselves. If they had made diverse planeswalkers from the beginning, then we would be able to get a lot more non-humans now.
Speculation time: She obviously isn't in Dominaria. She could be in the core set. The next three sets after the core set should be some combination of Ravnica and/or Theros, both of which will have plenty going on in terms of planeswalkers without her: Ravnica has a showdown between the Gatewatch and Bolas that will require a lot of planeswalker cards, and there's not much room to introduce a new one (especially if she's not from Ravnica and not tied to a guild), while Theros already has Ashiok, Dack, Gideon (who obviously is going to return there at some point), Samut (where else are they going to go with her storyline?), and/or Elspeth (assuming she returns as a planeswalker, which she may or may not). I don't think she's in the Commander set either: it should be dedicated more to old planeswalkers who lack cards than new ones, and making a mono-green deck, especially when we got the Freyalise deck in 2014, would be disappointing. I really think the best place for her is the core set, meaning we can expect a monocolored cycle that includes her and Tezzeret for sure. If there were any other planeswalkers in the same set, it seems like they would have also been in this survey, so I would assume that the white, black, and red planeswalkers are returning characters, and probably not Gideon/Liliana/Chandra, because the other two aren't Gatewatch members and because they've promised to cut back on the Origins 5. I also suspect we're getting more flipwalkers, which is another reason to avoid the Origins 5 since they already have theirs. I have a feeling we're going to get mono-white Ajani, mono-blue Tezzeret, mono-black Ob Nixilis, mono-red Tibalt or Koth, and mono-green Vivien.
Additionally, while I think that her first card will definitely be mono-green based on color scheme and desperate need for a new mono-green planeswalker, I do think that that she could become Abzan eventually. Remember in the Theros block when they tried to finish up giving each color pair a planeswalker with GU Kiora and GW Ajani? I think we're going to start seeing the same thing with tricolor combos. GWU has Tamiyo. They can make a WUB Tezzeret whenever they feel like it. UBR already has THREE Bolas cards. Sarkhan Unbroken was originally going to BRG so wouldn't be surprised to see a BRG Sarkhan card someday. Ajani, Samut, and Huatli all have a RGW color identity if you combine all their cards, though Huatli seems the most likely to get a full RGW card. URW should be Narset, obviously. BGU would be a good fit for Vraska, between the romance with Jace, her becoming a pirate, and the reference to her having ties to the Silumgar on Tarkir (I wouldn't be surprised to see her help restore the Sultai in Return to Tarkir once she's a Gatewatch member). RWB could be Angrath if they decide to play up the blacksmith part of character rather than the pirate part next time we see him, or it could be Sorin if he's really pissed when he gets out of the wall. And GUR has Sarkhan. What's missing? WBG. Garruk and Vraska don't seem white at all, Sorin and Kaya don't seem green at all, and Ajani and Huatli don't seem black at all. Abzan, more than any other shard or wedge, requires a new planeswalker rather than just adding colors to a preexisting one. With spirits being white/black on most planes and five-color on only a few, I think we're likely to see Vivien eventually expand into white and black.
Exile any creature for a mere -1 and you pick the target? That seems overpowered.
Even at 1WBG? I don't see it breaking any formats.
I suppose that is true...three colors makes it less flexible and thus it needs higher power to justify using it.
Cause nonhuman walkers aren't popular? Of course, I am sure they be more popular if they actually produced good cards for them. As I said I don't especially mind the new found focus on diversity but they really need to start printing some winners and considering how long it took them to make a good Chandra...well I don't have much faith on that front.
On the human diversity front we got Tezzeret, Teferi, Koth, Hautli, Samut, Narset, Saheeli Rai, Sarkhan, Kaya and....only two of them have what I consider strong walkers in Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and Teferi, Temporal Archmage and one of those was made for Commander. Not an especially impressive record.
I mean sheesh they made 3 Hautlis and struck out on everyone.
And as for Nonhumans ie clearly not close to human (so elves, werewolves and vampires dont count)...we have two but they are only powerful thanks to the Tron Exploit.
She could also appear in Battlebond, the Conspiracy sets showed people liked new walkers appearing in supplemental sets.
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I don't know why people are down on Saheeli, she still sees niche play in Modern, what more do you want.
Its not about Saheeli specifically....we have two issues as I noted...story relevance and card power. Saheeli was pretty irrelevant in the Kaladesh Storyline. Even if her card did help power some degenerate combos in Standard.
However, I don't consider 1 out of the last 6 POC Walkers ( the others 1 Tezzeret, 3 Hautlis and 1 Samut) being fringe modern playable as all that impressive of a record for company that loves talking about their push for diversity. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria also looks fringe at best. I expect to see mostly standard playable walkers with a few (usually the face character) carving themselves in as some modern staples ala Karn, Ugin, Liliana of the Veil and I guess the recently freed Jace. But I suppose its hard to complain it took them 8 tries to make a Good Chandra...not Great.
And its not like most players don't know what is likely to make a strong walker which is 3-4 CMC and some mix of protection via killing creatures or generating chump blockers, card advantage and a ult that your opponent cannot afford to let you hit. Oh and bolt proof after its first plus. So I can't imagine WOTC cannot figure it out. You going to plaster these POC all over your marketing and talk about how you care about diversity then I don't think asking for something that is actually strong is too much of an imposition and they should be highly story relevant as well.
Pushing cards for eternal play isnt particularly high on Wizards list of 'to do's' they would probably be happy if these cards saw any Standard play.
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Oh I agree and they are failing at that pretty hard...Ixalan was especially horrible I haven't seen a single walker from that block do much of anything. They did Hautli in three different color combos and failed every time, that is special. And the story didn't exactly do Hautli many favors either so there is that.
And again assuming the Teferi, Timebender card isn't pushed to sell beginners...I cant say I am overly impressed with any of the four Dominaria walkers even in standard. But I suppose Karn and Teferi have some potential.
Yeah I think both baby Karn and Teferi will see play. I dont see how a 'draw a card and put up Counter Mana' isnt a good play. :]
Teferi -3 is the interesting one to me...I don't know -3 on a Walker to bury 3 deep that is certainly new ground but hard to rate. But it seems a bit expensive to me for a Walker with a +1 and only 4 starting loyalty. But yes both have potential.
Chandra fans cant complain they just got a good Chandra...As for Jaya poor Jaya fans they wait a decade for that card, made even worse that Jaya is probably going to die. Lets be honest being an Old Mentor in a Fantasy story has never been good for ones life expectancy. I suppose they can hope for a commander card.
I agree with previous posters that having yet another green Summoner is ridiculously boring, but her bio could actually point her towards being an Eco-terrorist. Specifically:
After seeing the impact of civilization on her home, Vivien now travels the planes, seeking out the essences of new creatures on her mission to ultimately restore balance to the Multiverse.
If Azor is a villain/in the wrong for traveling the multiverse enforcing his version of "Law" on it's denizens, then Vivien by all rights should/could be a green villain character (enforcing her idea of "Balance" on the multiverse).
So there's the potential of her being an interesting character, even if her skill set is dime-a-dozen-green-walker.
Shes going be forgetable as previous female humanoid walkers like the last ones wich are: Arlin, Samut,Huatli and Saheeli Rai
I think that it has less to do with them being female and more with walkers who aren't either in the Gatewatch or blatantly being set up to join the Gatewatch (Vraska) tend to get minimal story arcs. Angrath and Dovin didn't get much screen time either but seemed to be more interesting and better-received by the community, not because they are male but because they're non-human and haven't been made to be obvious heroic. Almost all human walkers nowadays are used for some sort of representation, which is good, but it seems to make the writers afraid to give them major flaws or make them anti-heroes/villains/anti-villains, which is not so good. Side characters who are played straight as heroes without any defining personality traits aren't going to stand out when the story is now focused on a bunch of archetypal heroes (and one token anti-hero). For whatever reason they keep putting the male and non-human walkers rather than the female human ones in all the non-heroic roles, which gives them more room to make them interesting.
I also find it weird that for the past few years all of the new female planeswalkers have been human and all the new male ones are non-human. It makes sense to make more female ones than male since the first several years it was the other way around, but why make all the humans female and non-human ones male? Why not give both a mix a human and non-human? It's been YEARS since we've had a new non-human female or human male... I think the last one was Nahiri in C14? Ob Nixilis and Teferi were human males in that set and Freyalise was half-human (and looks very human-like anyway), but all of those already existed in the lore, and regardless, unless I'm forgetting someone, there hasn't been a newly introduced male human or female non-human since Commander 2014. I kind of get why they're avoiding human males but what's wrong with non-human females? Generally people seem to love Vraska more than any of their recent human walkers. It could just be coincidence but it's weird that this trend has gone on for this long.
She could also appear in Battlebond, the Conspiracy sets showed people liked new walkers appearing in supplemental sets.
That's a good point; I didn't even think of that. Although it seems like it would be on-theme to have Battlebond feature a pair of planeswalkers fighting together, either as two separate cards or represented by a single card like Pia and Kiran or various other legendary creatures. We know that the plane Battlebond takes place on requires teams of two for its arena fights, and nothing about Vivien so far indicates that she would be working with another planeswalker or even a legendary creature, unless spirit animals are acceptable partners in the contest. It's certainly possible that she could appear in Battlebond, but I'd still bet on Core 2019 if I had to choose.
I don't know why people are down on Saheeli, she still sees niche play in Modern, what more do you want.
Its not about Saheeli specifically....we have two issues as I noted...story relevance and card power. Saheeli was pretty irrelevant in the Kaladesh Storyline. Even if her card did help power some degenerate combos in Standard.
However, I don't consider 1 out of the last 6 POC Walkers ( the others 1 Tezzeret, 3 Hautlis and 1 Samut) being fringe modern playable as all that impressive of a record for company that loves talking about their push for diversity. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria also looks fringe at best. I expect to see mostly standard playable walkers with a few (usually the face character) carving themselves in as some modern staples ala Karn, Ugin, Liliana of the Veil and I guess the recently freed Jace. But I suppose its hard to complain it took them 8 tries to make a Good Chandra...not Great.
And its not like most players don't know what is likely to make a strong walker which is 3-4 CMC and some mix of protection via killing creatures or generating chump blockers, card advantage and a ult that your opponent cannot afford to let you hit. Oh and bolt proof after its first plus. So I can't imagine WOTC cannot figure it out. You going to plaster these POC all over your marketing and talk about how you care about diversity then I don't think asking for something that is actually strong is too much of an imposition and they should be highly story relevant as well.
I don't think modern playability is very relevant at all. The vast majority of planeswalkers aren't intended for Modern play, considering that only 3-drops, which are somewhat rare (1 per block at most), and particularly powerful 4-drops, which are even rarer, are ever viable in Modern or Eternal formats. It seems as though just putting the character on a card at all seems like enough for them (and to be fair, planeswalker cards do invariably get a lot of attention regardless of playability). Story relevance also seems to be a consideration, and one that's increased over time - the story roles of Kaya and Saheeli were tragically small. Samut and Huatli, on the other hand, were the main protagonists of several story articles each - still not enough to make interesting in the eyes of the general public, unfortunately. Standard playability is something that they take into account for the prominence of walkers, but they still seem interested in pushing the Gatewatch and splashy characters like Bolas above all else. But to be fair, with the exceptions of Chandra, Gideon, and Bolas, pretty much every planeswalker from Kaladesh through Rivals has been relatively tame in its power level. Dominaria seems to be reversing that trend in a major way, though. I guess what I'm saying is that the lack of power level of POC planeswalkers isn't all that indicative of WotC's apathy, or rather superficial interest, in representation, but the lack of story relevance of those planeswalkers is a concern, albeit one that is beginning to be solved in terms of the quantity of their appearance in the story for Samut and Huatli, but not necessarily the quality. With them hiring professional authors for the stories now, however, this could easily improve in the near future.
Seeing her have a spirit wolf gives me hope we'll see the wolf token from SoM that came from Sword of Body and Mind. That wolf is the best and is annoying to come by without it being a bit damaged thanks to WotC refusing to reprint it.
As for her I'm all for another monogreen walker. Since Garruk went off the rails we've only had Nissa for the most part, with Freyalise one time.
I also find it weird that for the past few years all of the new female planeswalkers have been human and all the new male ones are non-human. It makes sense to make more female ones than male since the first several years it was the other way around, but why make all the humans female and non-human ones male? Why not give both a mix a human and non-human? It's been YEARS since we've had a new non-human female or human male... I think the last one was Nahiri in C14? Ob Nixilis and Teferi were human males in that set and Freyalise was half-human (and looks very human-like anyway), but all of those already existed in the lore, and regardless, unless I'm forgetting someone, there hasn't been a newly introduced male human or female non-human since Commander 2014. I kind of get why they're avoiding human males but what's wrong with non-human females? Generally people seem to love Vraska more than any of their recent human walkers. It could just be coincidence but it's weird that this trend has gone on for this long.
We debated this before but Arlinn could be considered a female non-human.
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What even was this survey, and is it too late to take it?
It starts like a normal Wotc survey, but then they start asking if u know the walkers, then they to show the walkers and you have to mark "adjetives" or qualities for each walker ( even the new one ), then they give you some background on those walkers and you have to say if it matches the walker or not ( there is no missleading description, they are all acurate descriptions ) , then u have to say if u like or not the walkers, then they ask what is your favourite walker from the ones you like, then they ask why you like that walker, then they ask you to create a new walker ( only the character ), then they ask about some other things like what type of walker you would like to see, and where you would like to see (midia).
Idk if there is more, it was as far as i could get before the survey was shutdown.
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Even at 1WBG? I don't see it breaking any formats.
Speculation time: She obviously isn't in Dominaria. She could be in the core set. The next three sets after the core set should be some combination of Ravnica and/or Theros, both of which will have plenty going on in terms of planeswalkers without her: Ravnica has a showdown between the Gatewatch and Bolas that will require a lot of planeswalker cards, and there's not much room to introduce a new one (especially if she's not from Ravnica and not tied to a guild), while Theros already has Ashiok, Dack, Gideon (who obviously is going to return there at some point), Samut (where else are they going to go with her storyline?), and/or Elspeth (assuming she returns as a planeswalker, which she may or may not). I don't think she's in the Commander set either: it should be dedicated more to old planeswalkers who lack cards than new ones, and making a mono-green deck, especially when we got the Freyalise deck in 2014, would be disappointing. I really think the best place for her is the core set, meaning we can expect a monocolored cycle that includes her and Tezzeret for sure. If there were any other planeswalkers in the same set, it seems like they would have also been in this survey, so I would assume that the white, black, and red planeswalkers are returning characters, and probably not Gideon/Liliana/Chandra, because the other two aren't Gatewatch members and because they've promised to cut back on the Origins 5. I also suspect we're getting more flipwalkers, which is another reason to avoid the Origins 5 since they already have theirs. I have a feeling we're going to get mono-white Ajani, mono-blue Tezzeret, mono-black Ob Nixilis, mono-red Tibalt or Koth, and mono-green Vivien.
Additionally, while I think that her first card will definitely be mono-green based on color scheme and desperate need for a new mono-green planeswalker, I do think that that she could become Abzan eventually. Remember in the Theros block when they tried to finish up giving each color pair a planeswalker with GU Kiora and GW Ajani? I think we're going to start seeing the same thing with tricolor combos. GWU has Tamiyo. They can make a WUB Tezzeret whenever they feel like it. UBR already has THREE Bolas cards. Sarkhan Unbroken was originally going to BRG so wouldn't be surprised to see a BRG Sarkhan card someday. Ajani, Samut, and Huatli all have a RGW color identity if you combine all their cards, though Huatli seems the most likely to get a full RGW card. URW should be Narset, obviously. BGU would be a good fit for Vraska, between the romance with Jace, her becoming a pirate, and the reference to her having ties to the Silumgar on Tarkir (I wouldn't be surprised to see her help restore the Sultai in Return to Tarkir once she's a Gatewatch member). RWB could be Angrath if they decide to play up the blacksmith part of character rather than the pirate part next time we see him, or it could be Sorin if he's really pissed when he gets out of the wall. And GUR has Sarkhan. What's missing? WBG. Garruk and Vraska don't seem white at all, Sorin and Kaya don't seem green at all, and Ajani and Huatli don't seem black at all. Abzan, more than any other shard or wedge, requires a new planeswalker rather than just adding colors to a preexisting one. With spirits being white/black on most planes and five-color on only a few, I think we're likely to see Vivien eventually expand into white and black.
I suppose that is true...three colors makes it less flexible and thus it needs higher power to justify using it.
Cause nonhuman walkers aren't popular? Of course, I am sure they be more popular if they actually produced good cards for them. As I said I don't especially mind the new found focus on diversity but they really need to start printing some winners and considering how long it took them to make a good Chandra...well I don't have much faith on that front.
On the human diversity front we got Tezzeret, Teferi, Koth, Hautli, Samut, Narset, Saheeli Rai, Sarkhan, Kaya and....only two of them have what I consider strong walkers in Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and Teferi, Temporal Archmage and one of those was made for Commander. Not an especially impressive record.
I mean sheesh they made 3 Hautlis and struck out on everyone.
And as for Nonhumans ie clearly not close to human (so elves, werewolves and vampires dont count)...we have two but they are only powerful thanks to the Tron Exploit.
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Lol maybe she can be better then Saheeli...card wise I mean. The rest didn't do anything in standard.
But they have two problems to solve if you ask me useful cards and story relevance.
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Its not about Saheeli specifically....we have two issues as I noted...story relevance and card power. Saheeli was pretty irrelevant in the Kaladesh Storyline. Even if her card did help power some degenerate combos in Standard.
However, I don't consider 1 out of the last 6 POC Walkers ( the others 1 Tezzeret, 3 Hautlis and 1 Samut) being fringe modern playable as all that impressive of a record for company that loves talking about their push for diversity. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria also looks fringe at best. I expect to see mostly standard playable walkers with a few (usually the face character) carving themselves in as some modern staples ala Karn, Ugin, Liliana of the Veil and I guess the recently freed Jace. But I suppose its hard to complain it took them 8 tries to make a Good Chandra...not Great.
And its not like most players don't know what is likely to make a strong walker which is 3-4 CMC and some mix of protection via killing creatures or generating chump blockers, card advantage and a ult that your opponent cannot afford to let you hit. Oh and bolt proof after its first plus. So I can't imagine WOTC cannot figure it out. You going to plaster these POC all over your marketing and talk about how you care about diversity then I don't think asking for something that is actually strong is too much of an imposition and they should be highly story relevant as well.
Free Tip Wizards, stop making them all reliant on Creatures.
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Oh I agree and they are failing at that pretty hard...Ixalan was especially horrible I haven't seen a single walker from that block do much of anything. They did Hautli in three different color combos and failed every time, that is special. And the story didn't exactly do Hautli many favors either so there is that.
And again assuming the Teferi, Timebender card isn't pushed to sell beginners...I cant say I am overly impressed with any of the four Dominaria walkers even in standard. But I suppose Karn and Teferi have some potential.
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Teferi -3 is the interesting one to me...I don't know -3 on a Walker to bury 3 deep that is certainly new ground but hard to rate. But it seems a bit expensive to me for a Walker with a +1 and only 4 starting loyalty. But yes both have potential.
Chandra fans cant complain they just got a good Chandra...As for Jaya poor Jaya fans they wait a decade for that card, made even worse that Jaya is probably going to die. Lets be honest being an Old Mentor in a Fantasy story has never been good for ones life expectancy. I suppose they can hope for a commander card.
If Azor is a villain/in the wrong for traveling the multiverse enforcing his version of "Law" on it's denizens, then Vivien by all rights should/could be a green villain character (enforcing her idea of "Balance" on the multiverse).
So there's the potential of her being an interesting character, even if her skill set is dime-a-dozen-green-walker.
I think that it has less to do with them being female and more with walkers who aren't either in the Gatewatch or blatantly being set up to join the Gatewatch (Vraska) tend to get minimal story arcs. Angrath and Dovin didn't get much screen time either but seemed to be more interesting and better-received by the community, not because they are male but because they're non-human and haven't been made to be obvious heroic. Almost all human walkers nowadays are used for some sort of representation, which is good, but it seems to make the writers afraid to give them major flaws or make them anti-heroes/villains/anti-villains, which is not so good. Side characters who are played straight as heroes without any defining personality traits aren't going to stand out when the story is now focused on a bunch of archetypal heroes (and one token anti-hero). For whatever reason they keep putting the male and non-human walkers rather than the female human ones in all the non-heroic roles, which gives them more room to make them interesting.
I also find it weird that for the past few years all of the new female planeswalkers have been human and all the new male ones are non-human. It makes sense to make more female ones than male since the first several years it was the other way around, but why make all the humans female and non-human ones male? Why not give both a mix a human and non-human? It's been YEARS since we've had a new non-human female or human male... I think the last one was Nahiri in C14? Ob Nixilis and Teferi were human males in that set and Freyalise was half-human (and looks very human-like anyway), but all of those already existed in the lore, and regardless, unless I'm forgetting someone, there hasn't been a newly introduced male human or female non-human since Commander 2014. I kind of get why they're avoiding human males but what's wrong with non-human females? Generally people seem to love Vraska more than any of their recent human walkers. It could just be coincidence but it's weird that this trend has gone on for this long.
That's a good point; I didn't even think of that. Although it seems like it would be on-theme to have Battlebond feature a pair of planeswalkers fighting together, either as two separate cards or represented by a single card like Pia and Kiran or various other legendary creatures. We know that the plane Battlebond takes place on requires teams of two for its arena fights, and nothing about Vivien so far indicates that she would be working with another planeswalker or even a legendary creature, unless spirit animals are acceptable partners in the contest. It's certainly possible that she could appear in Battlebond, but I'd still bet on Core 2019 if I had to choose.
I don't think modern playability is very relevant at all. The vast majority of planeswalkers aren't intended for Modern play, considering that only 3-drops, which are somewhat rare (1 per block at most), and particularly powerful 4-drops, which are even rarer, are ever viable in Modern or Eternal formats. It seems as though just putting the character on a card at all seems like enough for them (and to be fair, planeswalker cards do invariably get a lot of attention regardless of playability). Story relevance also seems to be a consideration, and one that's increased over time - the story roles of Kaya and Saheeli were tragically small. Samut and Huatli, on the other hand, were the main protagonists of several story articles each - still not enough to make interesting in the eyes of the general public, unfortunately. Standard playability is something that they take into account for the prominence of walkers, but they still seem interested in pushing the Gatewatch and splashy characters like Bolas above all else. But to be fair, with the exceptions of Chandra, Gideon, and Bolas, pretty much every planeswalker from Kaladesh through Rivals has been relatively tame in its power level. Dominaria seems to be reversing that trend in a major way, though. I guess what I'm saying is that the lack of power level of POC planeswalkers isn't all that indicative of WotC's apathy, or rather superficial interest, in representation, but the lack of story relevance of those planeswalkers is a concern, albeit one that is beginning to be solved in terms of the quantity of their appearance in the story for Samut and Huatli, but not necessarily the quality. With them hiring professional authors for the stories now, however, this could easily improve in the near future.
As for her I'm all for another monogreen walker. Since Garruk went off the rails we've only had Nissa for the most part, with Freyalise one time.
We debated this before but Arlinn could be considered a female non-human.
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Might be another creature focused planeswalker like garruk
Hope she plays like animar, soul of elements assuming she's one of the commanders for 2018 or core
http://survey.us.confirmit.com/wix/0/p3086440400.aspx?X=1
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It starts like a normal Wotc survey, but then they start asking if u know the walkers, then they to show the walkers and you have to mark "adjetives" or qualities for each walker ( even the new one ), then they give you some background on those walkers and you have to say if it matches the walker or not ( there is no missleading description, they are all acurate descriptions ) , then u have to say if u like or not the walkers, then they ask what is your favourite walker from the ones you like, then they ask why you like that walker, then they ask you to create a new walker ( only the character ), then they ask about some other things like what type of walker you would like to see, and where you would like to see (midia).
Idk if there is more, it was as far as i could get before the survey was shutdown.