I don't normally post here, but Wizards made multiple slips in gender pronoun assignment in that article:
Nassari is referred to as "his" in Uvilda's blurb but as a gender-neuter "they" in their own blurb. (I instinctively thought of Nassari as male from the card before I read tweets from Wizards saying they were gender-neutral.)
Even worse, Tivash is referred to as both "he" and "she" in his/her own blurb. Does Tivash flip their gender as they see fit?
A few people pointed out that it seems that Tivash got his bio mixed with Yedora, Grave Gardener.
We didn't learn about the races of Arcavios yet, have we? There seems to be a lot going by the cards.
Sadly no which was something i was hoping to see and their might be more as a few (goblins, leonin) only got a single card. So far I think vedalken are the only major magic tribe not here.
And it's kinda weird to drop vampires in an environment like Strixhaven without explaining how they go about feeding. (Sure, Valentin's blurb talked about eating animals of the swamp, but I kinda doubt the silverquill do the same?)
Idk I think silverquil vampires likely feed on animals as well, likely just more refined. "Animal blood only" vampires are a thing in more "modern" fantasy which Strixhaven seems to lean into.
Honestly, whether a story ends up meaning anything to the wider lore isn't all that important as long as it's is well-crafted and enjoyable.
Thats not the topic being talked on, doesn't matter how "well-craft" Kamigawa is, point is the story was set into motion by the action of old walkers and ended up being a semi-prequel to tie into the Tetsuo Umezawa and Bolas conflict. All of magics main story lines are tied up with planeswalk.
I'm tired of PWs being the catalysts and answers to all crisis on every plane. God, how I missed Kamigawa storyline.
Agreed on all counts.
You mean the story that put into motion due to rifts caused by planeswalkers and the whole thing ended up not meaning anything to the wider magic lore beside being backstory/set up for Bolas?
They're both incredibly awful to each other and I hate the writers for doing this.
Ditto, although I do think it works. Both are only 18 and they barley been alone as adults and have conflicting personalities. Heck many times people don't even delovpe their adult personalities until they are in college.
That said to echo soramaro (and something i have been saying) the rushed story didn't help since we had two stories with the twins to show the conflict building between them. I think a few more stories would have made things feels more natural build up.
First page all updated for now (will add story links later). Overall I think the world build is good for what we needed for the set, the school is built and I can see how the schools could dictate/outline how the rest of the plane and likely could set an enemy set here without needing the school flavor or spell theme.
I also been wanting to do a magical school pathfinder campaign and this gave me a lot to work with (along with looking forward to seeing Paizo doing a magic school book).
I mean they tied the commander decks to sets with color factions that commander players had been wanting to see more love for (wedges and enemy), don't think this is gonna be the default model for the commander decks going forward.
Gyome as a food commander looks fun to build thought not sure how to go about it. The flavor is on point thought, he makes food when the guests arrive and the food is so good (and spelled) to give the creature a boost when they eat it.
anyway reason I’m posting is they said the walker decks still exist for core sets so D&D is not a core set
It does add credible to the thoughts we won't have any planeswalkers in the set and why they might be why we got a "4th" planeswalker in Kaldheim and Strixhaven.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-4-put-test-2021-04-14
-Nice to see how far Liliana has come showing her protecting the students and seemly caring for their well being.
- Me at Liliana seeing Lukka "Get her Onyx"
-Kinda sad that the elder dragons here all seem to have fire breath, the tarkir ones having different element breaths was fun.
-I do like the idea of Liliana being taken care of by a bounce spell, dose seem like a decent idea and something I hope to see with Niko more.
A few people pointed out that it seems that Tivash got his bio mixed with Yedora, Grave Gardener.
Sadly no which was something i was hoping to see and their might be more as a few (goblins, leonin) only got a single card. So far I think vedalken are the only major magic tribe not here.
Idk I think silverquil vampires likely feed on animals as well, likely just more refined. "Animal blood only" vampires are a thing in more "modern" fantasy which Strixhaven seems to lean into.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/legends-strixhaven-2021-04-13
Thats not the topic being talked on, doesn't matter how "well-craft" Kamigawa is, point is the story was set into motion by the action of old walkers and ended up being a semi-prequel to tie into the Tetsuo Umezawa and Bolas conflict. All of magics main story lines are tied up with planeswalk.
You mean the story that put into motion due to rifts caused by planeswalkers and the whole thing ended up not meaning anything to the wider magic lore beside being backstory/set up for Bolas?
Ditto, although I do think it works. Both are only 18 and they barley been alone as adults and have conflicting personalities. Heck many times people don't even delovpe their adult personalities until they are in college.
That said to echo soramaro (and something i have been saying) the rushed story didn't help since we had two stories with the twins to show the conflict building between them. I think a few more stories would have made things feels more natural build up.
I also been wanting to do a magical school pathfinder campaign and this gave me a lot to work with (along with looking forward to seeing Paizo doing a magic school book).
And as been stated these are likely gonna be the starter decks that replaced the pw starter decks, its a separate thing.
Fall of 2019.
I mean ya, they replaced regenerate with indestructible to help simplify things and indestructible can be tweaked to be defensive or offensive.
It does add credible to the thoughts we won't have any planeswalkers in the set and why they might be why we got a "4th" planeswalker in Kaldheim and Strixhaven.