Here's a link to confirm that this is indeed on the Coming Soon page. The timing would suggest this is the name of the as-yet-unnamed third Ravnica set, and the background art resembles Ravnica...in ruins.
Thanks for the link, Liliana looks very calm here.
As another poster said, she doesn't look calm, she looks afraid
I'm a little tired of the Super Friends story arc, so I'm hoping this spells the deaths of a lot of planeswalkers.
Though I know it won't.
They have stated that the next block will wrap up the Bolas arc.
So there's that to hang your hat on.
Well that's all well and good, but really that just sounds like a setup for WotC's The Avengers 3: Rise of [Insert Another Enemy]. I know that they've polled the market or whatever and now every story is revolving around the Gatewatch but it's pretty bland if you ask me.
Here's a link to confirm that this is indeed on the Coming Soon page. The timing would suggest this is the name of the as-yet-unnamed third Ravnica set, and the background art resembles Ravnica...in ruins.
Thanks for the link, Liliana looks very calm here.
As another poster said, she doesn't look calm, she looks afraid
If you had a millennia-old demi-god dragon mage thing several times your physical size who just pwned your soul and is holding a sharp talon near-embedded in your back, you'd be quite a bit afraid too. But that's just me.
Fake it till you make it?
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Actually Funkenkrieg does sound better... At least in my ears.
The problem is with Funken, I always have the Funkenmarie in my mind:
So that sounds more like a ***** fight then a serious war.
I think a main problem for spark is that you have different kind of association with Spark and Funke even though they mean the same thing in two different languages. You can spark a war in English, but in German it would be closer to release a war.
So while the spark imagery works in English in German you would probably go better with Release, Awaken or Flame (if if you want to keep the fire imagery). Funke just sounds overall to harmless.
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I mean Chandra comic implies it went poorly but I am not convinced WOTC is going to kill lots of Walkers.
Chandra and Ajani are safe thanks to comics. Lili is safe due to story arcs, same as Karn and Teferi.
I suppose anyone else could theoretically die.
Jace is safe because "market research".
Well, that plus Vryn is a highly-demanded plane for an expansion and Jace would need to be alive if we visited Vryn in a future set unless it was a flashback set (speaking of flashback sets, I really want a Thran era Dominaria flashback set, dang it!).
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Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
Don't forget about what we have learned with Children of the Nameless - about the Entities and stuff. Bolas' plan might well be to collapse Ravnica - along with any planeswalkers trapped there by the Immortal Sun - and claim the resulting Entity for himself.
Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
I wonder if that's the reason why he wants the Planar Bridge...
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Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
I wonder if that's the reason why he wants the Planar Bridge...
Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
Don't forget about what we have learned with Children of the Nameless - about the Entities and stuff. Bolas' plan might well be to collapse Ravnica - along with any planeswalkers trapped there by the Immortal Sun - and claim the resulting Entity for himself.
Um. I must have missed that. Where can I find this information?
And yeah, the Bridge is for the Eternals to get to Ravnica… but no one has really given a good explanation for why the Eternals are needed on Ravnica. Are they simply added insurance to keep the Ravnicans off of him? (Along with the 5 guilds he's suborned.) Another possibility is that Bolas knows that at a certain point all of his pawns are going to turn on him. Particularly if he's planning on collapsing Ravnica with all of his pawns on it, they're not going to take kindly to that. Another question is whether Tezzeret will allow himself to become trapped on Ravnica. (While we know that the Bridge can move the Immortal Sun, we don't know whether it can 'push' as well as 'pull' the Bridge.
The question of who would get the spark other than Bolas, maybe not a who, but a what...we know Jhoira was able to capture Teferi's spark, what if she made a bigger one of those things and gave the spark to the Weatherlight? That way the storyline can move away from Gatewatch and focus on the Weatherlight crew with a newly re-sparked ship.
Regardless of who may or may not die, I think there is a higher issue here.
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
Don't forget about what we have learned with Children of the Nameless - about the Entities and stuff. Bolas' plan might well be to collapse Ravnica - along with any planeswalkers trapped there by the Immortal Sun - and claim the resulting Entity for himself.
Um. I must have missed that. Where can I find this information?
And yeah, the Bridge is for the Eternals to get to Ravnica… but no one has really given a good explanation for why the Eternals are needed on Ravnica. Are they simply added insurance to keep the Ravnicans off of him? (Along with the 5 guilds he's suborned.) Another possibility is that Bolas knows that at a certain point all of his pawns are going to turn on him. Particularly if he's planning on collapsing Ravnica with all of his pawns on it, they're not going to take kindly to that. Another question is whether Tezzeret will allow himself to become trapped on Ravnica. (While we know that the Bridge can move the Immortal Sun, we don't know whether it can 'push' as well as 'pull' the Bridge.
The novella by Brandon Sanderson, Children of the Nameless. You can download it from the mothership for free and it's actually quite good.
And yeah, the Bridge is for the Eternals to get to Ravnica… but no one has really given a good explanation for why the Eternals are needed on Ravnica. Are they simply added insurance to keep the Ravnicans off of him? (Along with the 5 guilds he's suborned.) Another possibility is that Bolas knows that at a certain point all of his pawns are going to turn on him. Particularly if he's planning on collapsing Ravnica with all of his pawns on it, they're not going to take kindly to that. Another question is whether Tezzeret will allow himself to become trapped on Ravnica. (While we know that the Bridge can move the Immortal Sun, we don't know whether it can 'push' as well as 'pull' the Bridge.
To wear out the other planeswalkers and/or other opposition on Ravnica, I'd imagine. And I think the Planar Bridge has the dual purpose of transporting the Sun/Eternals and allowing for an escape afterwards. I mean, unless Tezzeret has some way to "push" then at very least he'd be trapped wherever the Sun is when he pulled it off Ixalan.
The bigger question is why Ravnica? If his plan is simply to collapse a plane, he could do that to any plane. I think there's some specific reason he needs it to be Ravnica. I really hope it's not some stupid revenge kick against Azor, though.
Hmm, what if this third set features planeswalkers with special rarity (like what the Timeshifted cards in Time Spiral Block had) and every pack has one? If you want a planeswalker-themed set, including one in every pack is a good way to ensure you have a high enough as-fan. We might still get planeswalkers at mythic, but if the planeswalkers are all special, then the fifteen mythics are free to be something else. In which case I would guess a list like this:
To prevent a flood of planeswalkers entering Standard, they might stick to mostly reprints that are at the time Standard-legal with a few new ones being included in the set proper as mythics (so you could in theory pull both a Mythic Jace and a Special Jace in the same pack).
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
They have stated that the next block will wrap up the Bolas arc.
So there's that to hang your hat on.
Spoiler alert: Bolas wins, and every other set from now to the end of Magic is Bolas wandering around the multiverse laughing maniacally.
If they want to wring players' patience dry with this...look at what happened with people's reaction to the original Weatherlight storyline. People were sick of Gerrard, Sisay, Hanna et al by the conclusion of Invasion block. I'd like to think WOTC gets the hint that it's time for a new angle.
I'd love for Jhoira to lead the Weatherlight II arc and would be a great way to segue into it. They could make it so that sure the GW was dispersed but the new Weatherlight adventures traversing different planes allows them to meet up with those planeswalkers one by one into some ultimate final adventure into taking out the Phyrexians. And an epic Bollywood dance scene at the end.
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Hmm, what if this third set features planeswalkers with special rarity (like what the Timeshifted cards in Time Spiral Block had) and every pack has one?
As much as we'd all love to have a guaranteed 1 mythic per pack (up to 3 with regular and foil slots), I can't imagine such a thing at regular MSRP.
Hmm, what if this third set features planeswalkers with special rarity (like what the Timeshifted cards in Time Spiral Block had) and every pack has one?
As much as we'd all love to have a guaranteed 1 mythic per pack (up to 3 with regular and foil slots), I can't imagine such a thing at regular MSRP.
What better way to sell packs than with the marketling line "a planeswalker in every pack"?
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
And yeah, the Bridge is for the Eternals to get to Ravnica… but no one has really given a good explanation for why the Eternals are needed on Ravnica. Are they simply added insurance to keep the Ravnicans off of him? (Along with the 5 guilds he's suborned.) Another possibility is that Bolas knows that at a certain point all of his pawns are going to turn on him. Particularly if he's planning on collapsing Ravnica with all of his pawns on it, they're not going to take kindly to that. Another question is whether Tezzeret will allow himself to become trapped on Ravnica. (While we know that the Bridge can move the Immortal Sun, we don't know whether it can 'push' as well as 'pull' the Bridge.
The bigger question is why Ravnica? If his plan is simply to collapse a plane, he could do that to any plane. I think there's some specific reason he needs it to be Ravnica. I really hope it's not some stupid revenge kick against Azor, though.
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The Entities seem to be different depending on what plane they came from (Davriel has a black one while the girl has a green one, for example). Maybe Bolas is after some specific property. Or it could be something stupid, it has been stated that he is more emotion-driven than he admits...
I imagine they will give us lots of Planeswalkers to play with in this set. I think the idea of one Planeswalker per pack is a solid idea. I doubt they will go for the reprint route. What they will likely do is make one Planeswalker card for each major character but cost them one mana above what would make the individual cards solid for constructed play. So something between a normal Mythic Planeswalker and a Planeswalker Deck Planeswalker. That way they are still solid for limited play but lack an inherent danger of warping the standard meta around one or two of them.
I imagine they will give us lots of Planeswalkers to play with in this set. I think the idea of one Planeswalker per pack is a solid idea. I doubt they will go for the reprint route. What they will likely do is make one Planeswalker card for each major character but cost them one mana above what would make the individual cards solid for constructed play. So something between a normal Mythic Planeswalker and a Planeswalker Deck Planeswalker. That way they are still solid for limited play but lack an inherent danger of warping the standard meta around one or two of them.
Thety don't want to flood Standard with planeswalkers. They either need to reprint cards already in Standard, or they'll have to stick to a smaller pool of planeswalkers. They could use PW deck-level planeswalkers as guarantees while the more competitive PWs are regular Mythics.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
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Chandra and Ajani are safe thanks to comics. Lili is safe due to story arcs, same as Karn and Teferi.
I suppose anyone else could theoretically die.
How can I read said comic?
As another poster said, she doesn't look calm, she looks afraid
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Jace is safe because "market research".
Well that's all well and good, but really that just sounds like a setup for WotC's The Avengers 3: Rise of [Insert Another Enemy]. I know that they've polled the market or whatever and now every story is revolving around the Gatewatch but it's pretty bland if you ask me.
If you had a millennia-old demi-god dragon mage thing several times your physical size who just pwned your soul and is holding a sharp talon near-embedded in your back, you'd be quite a bit afraid too. But that's just me.
Fake it till you make it?
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The problem is with Funken, I always have the Funkenmarie in my mind:
So that sounds more like a ***** fight then a serious war.
I think a main problem for spark is that you have different kind of association with Spark and Funke even though they mean the same thing in two different languages. You can spark a war in English, but in German it would be closer to release a war.
So while the spark imagery works in English in German you would probably go better with Release, Awaken or Flame (if if you want to keep the fire imagery). Funke just sounds overall to harmless.
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I mean your local comic store or comiXology online as per this article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/magic-gathering-chandra-preview-2018-12-05.
and yeah Jace safe.
Well, that plus Vryn is a highly-demanded plane for an expansion and Jace would need to be alive if we visited Vryn in a future set unless it was a flashback set (speaking of flashback sets, I really want a Thran era Dominaria flashback set, dang it!).
Presumably, Bolas's plan boils down to:
1) Create oldwalker spark.
2) Get oldwalker spark.
3) Profit.
Replace 'oldwalker spark' with 'very much more powerful spark' if you don't think that an oldwalker spark can or will be made.
Regardless, the best plan is to stop 1, because 1 stops 2. However, if that cannot be done, and the Gatewatch & Co. can only stop 2 (that is, the spark is created but Bolas doesn't get it)… what do you do with it? If anyone you give it to would become on par with an oldwalker in power, that's an awful amount of power.
That would lead to a huge MacGuffin to fight over.
Something else I've thought of is that we know one plane where PWs can die and at least 'stick around' if not keep their sparks: Theros, with Elspeth. Currently, my bet is that Liliana will indeed turn on Bolas at a key moment in the war, and Bolas sics the contract on her, which would presumably age her to her 'correct' age and (possibly) depower her somewhat. (We literally don't know everything involved in her contract.) Teferi intervenes and puts her in a slow-time bubble to prevent her death, and Gideon and Ajani (and possibly Teferi) bring her to Theros, where she descends into the Underworld. All of this may possibly be part of an effort to get back Elspeth or not.
Don't forget about what we have learned with Children of the Nameless - about the Entities and stuff. Bolas' plan might well be to collapse Ravnica - along with any planeswalkers trapped there by the Immortal Sun - and claim the resulting Entity for himself.
I wonder if that's the reason why he wants the Planar Bridge...
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He needs it to get the Eternals to Ravnica.
Um. I must have missed that. Where can I find this information?
And yeah, the Bridge is for the Eternals to get to Ravnica… but no one has really given a good explanation for why the Eternals are needed on Ravnica. Are they simply added insurance to keep the Ravnicans off of him? (Along with the 5 guilds he's suborned.) Another possibility is that Bolas knows that at a certain point all of his pawns are going to turn on him. Particularly if he's planning on collapsing Ravnica with all of his pawns on it, they're not going to take kindly to that. Another question is whether Tezzeret will allow himself to become trapped on Ravnica. (While we know that the Bridge can move the Immortal Sun, we don't know whether it can 'push' as well as 'pull' the Bridge.
The novella by Brandon Sanderson, Children of the Nameless. You can download it from the mothership for free and it's actually quite good.
To wear out the other planeswalkers and/or other opposition on Ravnica, I'd imagine. And I think the Planar Bridge has the dual purpose of transporting the Sun/Eternals and allowing for an escape afterwards. I mean, unless Tezzeret has some way to "push" then at very least he'd be trapped wherever the Sun is when he pulled it off Ixalan.
The bigger question is why Ravnica? If his plan is simply to collapse a plane, he could do that to any plane. I think there's some specific reason he needs it to be Ravnica. I really hope it's not some stupid revenge kick against Azor, though.
Spoiler alert: Bolas wins, and every other set from now to the end of Magic is Bolas wandering around the multiverse laughing maniacally.
C Karn, Scion of Urza
W Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
W Gideon Blackblade
U Jace
U Tezzeret, Artifice Master
B Liliana, Untouched by Death
R Chandra
R Sarkhan, Fireblood
G Vivien Reid
WU Dovin, Grand Arbiter
RG Domri, Chaos Bringer
WB Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
UR Ral, Izzet Viceroy
BG Vraska, Golgari Queen
UBR Nicol Bolas
To prevent a flood of planeswalkers entering Standard, they might stick to mostly reprints that are at the time Standard-legal with a few new ones being included in the set proper as mythics (so you could in theory pull both a Mythic Jace and a Special Jace in the same pack).
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
If they want to wring players' patience dry with this...look at what happened with people's reaction to the original Weatherlight storyline. People were sick of Gerrard, Sisay, Hanna et al by the conclusion of Invasion block. I'd like to think WOTC gets the hint that it's time for a new angle.
I'd love for Jhoira to lead the Weatherlight II arc and would be a great way to segue into it. They could make it so that sure the GW was dispersed but the new Weatherlight adventures traversing different planes allows them to meet up with those planeswalkers one by one into some ultimate final adventure into taking out the Phyrexians. And an epic Bollywood dance scene at the end.
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Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
What better way to sell packs than with the marketling line "a planeswalker in every pack"?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
The Entities seem to be different depending on what plane they came from (Davriel has a black one while the girl has a green one, for example). Maybe Bolas is after some specific property. Or it could be something stupid, it has been stated that he is more emotion-driven than he admits...
Thety don't want to flood Standard with planeswalkers. They either need to reprint cards already in Standard, or they'll have to stick to a smaller pool of planeswalkers. They could use PW deck-level planeswalkers as guarantees while the more competitive PWs are regular Mythics.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.