I've had a lot of fun with the Nemesis Volrath in weird casual power-matters decks but he looks overcosted in today's pushed legends environment. would be nice to see a UB version of him that had a reference to Buyback or something. Tahngarth is fairly quaint, too, could use a more threatening card - he could start with defender to reference his period of inaction during Planeshift and then become a double-striking, provoking killing machine upon meeting the conditions for losing defender!
but more urgently than that I think it's time for them to print a Mishra that has a less specific effect :))) now there's a card that's incredibly hard to set up in Commander
Original Tahngarth was a very aggressively costed card for its abilities, and is still pretty friggin good. And it works well for him.
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All good candidates, really and if we don't see them in Modern Horizon we might see some of them in the upcoming Commander product.
With the new Mirri card being printed in a commander product it is not beyond the realm of possibilities to have some new versions of old legendary creatures there.
Well, MaRo has stated that new versions of old legends aren't of the table, particularly not in auxiliary products. As you mentioned we did get a new card for Mirri in the tribal commander decks, and the last core set had new versions of the original elder dragons. They are definitely looking at what characters they can bring back and do justice in sets.
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Yes maro said modern horizons (and upcoming products) will have some revamped/repaired versions of previous popular legendaries
Wouldn't mind seeing a new version of Selenia, Radiant and/or Gabriel Angelfire. They are all connected to Serra in a way or another, so... Maybe?
Personally I am hoping for the good Baron with his family. They don't even have to give Irini a new card, as she is fine as is (and not on the reserved list).
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Tin foil hat theory Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God might have Ben a practice run on making a urza walker since I can see urza with a static ability like that plus could get the “can be your commander” treatment and make it a 5-color Superfriends commander
Urza as a superfriends commander doesn't make sense, the other Titan's loathed him, and the other planeswalkers at the time either loathed him as well, or outright hated him. The only reason they agreed to join him in opposing Phyrexia was because they loathed them even more. Urza was not a hero, he never was.
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What if we got Urza as a WUBRG Human Artificer during the Brothers' War? Even better, what if he's a DFC who becomes a planeswalker?
I'd honestly rather have a Taysir as our first black border five color planeswalker. And unlike Urza, Taysir actually redeemed himself before dying. Urza just got more and more villainous.
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People think they want Yawgmoth carded, (I admit I, too, told myself I wanted a cardboard Yawgmoth for years), but I don't think they fully realize what they're asking for, or what that means. Yawgmoth is one character who almost transcends the game itself; more than any other character in the MTG canon, Yawgmoth just has so much hype, history, mythology, power, and infamy emanating from his mere name, that no card could possibly do him justice or live up to 20 years of expectations - in fact, giving him a specific card with specific abilities, no matter how powerful, would be to define and make him finite, knowable. It would be to show the face of the monster. It would take away from him and make him graspable, attainable. Yawgmoth is the last frontier, the final horizon; card him, and you can card anything.
Personally, I do love the idea of having Yawgmoth on my side of the table in all his dark glory, looming over a horde of Phyrexian troops. I love the idea of recreating the Dominarian Apocalypse in a physical game. But when I consider what that card of Yawgmoth should actually be, nothing, no matter how outrageous or powerful, feels conceptually satisfying.
By this point, Yawgmoth cannot be circumferenced or encompassed by a single card (unless they're printing him in his human form). He exists better in the imagination - as a vast, dark, undefined nebula of infinite potential.
Problem with Yawgmoth is that if they put him on a card they'd need to make it so horribly overpowered that it would get instantly banned in all formats just do him justice. This was an entity, who multiple oldwalkers, including the two most powerful ones (Urza and Taysir) could not actually defeat. It took a Deus ex Author for the coalition to defeat him. By the time Invasion rolled around, WotC had made him so immensely powerful that they had literally painted themselves into a corner. By every level of logic Phyrexia should have won the war, but then there would be no more MTG. So, to save the game, they had the author intervene in the story directly.
This is incidentally also why Bolas is doomed to fail in War of the Spark, because if he wins, the game is over. No more MTG. It's a foregone conclusion. The only question right now is how many planeswalkers they are going to kill off before he is defeated.
Also, not to rain on anyones parade, but remember that one (1), is also a number, so they could print no more than Serra, and MaRo would still be correct. (I think we'll get three to five of them).
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Original Tahngarth was a very aggressively costed card for its abilities, and is still pretty friggin good. And it works well for him.
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Well, MaRo has stated that new versions of old legends aren't of the table, particularly not in auxiliary products. As you mentioned we did get a new card for Mirri in the tribal commander decks, and the last core set had new versions of the original elder dragons. They are definitely looking at what characters they can bring back and do justice in sets.
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Personally I am hoping for the good Baron with his family. They don't even have to give Irini a new card, as she is fine as is (and not on the reserved list).
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He could mean someone who has not yet had a card.
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Urza as a superfriends commander doesn't make sense, the other Titan's loathed him, and the other planeswalkers at the time either loathed him as well, or outright hated him. The only reason they agreed to join him in opposing Phyrexia was because they loathed them even more. Urza was not a hero, he never was.
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I'd honestly rather have a Taysir as our first black border five color planeswalker. And unlike Urza, Taysir actually redeemed himself before dying. Urza just got more and more villainous.
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I'd love to see a Jherana Rure card, as long as she is a Mercenary.
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Problem with Yawgmoth is that if they put him on a card they'd need to make it so horribly overpowered that it would get instantly banned in all formats just do him justice. This was an entity, who multiple oldwalkers, including the two most powerful ones (Urza and Taysir) could not actually defeat. It took a Deus ex Author for the coalition to defeat him. By the time Invasion rolled around, WotC had made him so immensely powerful that they had literally painted themselves into a corner. By every level of logic Phyrexia should have won the war, but then there would be no more MTG. So, to save the game, they had the author intervene in the story directly.
This is incidentally also why Bolas is doomed to fail in War of the Spark, because if he wins, the game is over. No more MTG. It's a foregone conclusion. The only question right now is how many planeswalkers they are going to kill off before he is defeated.
Also, not to rain on anyones parade, but remember that one (1), is also a number, so they could print no more than Serra, and MaRo would still be correct. (I think we'll get three to five of them).
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