This means that they will likely be male (else they'd have said Empress) and it is unlikely to be anyone from the past Kamigawa. How a Planeswalker got to be Emperor though ... now that would be a tale. I'm hoping there will be Sagas in the set that will refer back to the past and that the city is the high tech neon part of Kamigawa but that the countryside outside will be more of all style rural Kamigawa and temples, creating a kind of conflict between the old and the new.
I like the Gangs of New York/Sin City feel of Streets of New Capenna (Al Capone reference? Street Wraith reprint?, but if it's a shard theme then I think I'd have liked to see us go back to Alara in that case.
BUT I'm curious to see how this goes down.
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Calling it now, but New Capenna is a city on Alara. Please note that they said that the city has special significance to Elspeth. With Alara merging the demons of Grixis will have infiltrated the other shards that were once separate. Demon led gangs and a city that was built by Angels (the city on Bant no doubt). With there being 3 colour factions I'm guessing this is what Alara has become and after Elspeth escaped Theros she decided to head back to her adopted home only to find how much it had changed.
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a) We know them
b) That it was an Emperor
This means that they will likely be male (else they'd have said Empress) and it is unlikely to be anyone from the past Kamigawa. How a Planeswalker got to be Emperor though ... now that would be a tale. I'm hoping there will be Sagas in the set that will refer back to the past and that the city is the high tech neon part of Kamigawa but that the countryside outside will be more of all style rural Kamigawa and temples, creating a kind of conflict between the old and the new.
Are they cutting down then next year
Calling it now, but New Capenna is a city on Alara. Please note that they said that the city has special significance to Elspeth. With Alara merging the demons of Grixis will have infiltrated the other shards that were once separate. Demon led gangs and a city that was built by Angels (the city on Bant no doubt). With there being 3 colour factions I'm guessing this is what Alara has become and after Elspeth escaped Theros she decided to head back to her adopted home only to find how much it had changed.