Quote from 5colors »Well Magic is well know for consistent characters faces, its not like we had Gideon, or Arlinn or Kellan almost looking like different people between card arts. /s
Or Teysa cards. You can make a whole tribal facial inconsistencies deck only about her lol
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They also noted that Embalm/ Eternize tokens do have a "mana cost/vaules" (since they fully copy the creature) but the official tokens lacked a mana cost to not confuse players into thinking they had to cast the token/the token was a real card and putting reminder text like this would be a good way to show that as there are cards that info with maybe less confusion.
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Its an Edgar Allen Poe reference.
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Sweet, hopefully this brings shocklands under $10 USD then
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Chances are no. Miguel Lopez put in extra hours from his non-work free time for no extra pay to write this. As a Latino he wanted to give Ixalan as much love and exposure as he could give it for other Lantine folks as we are very underrepresented in the fantasy genre.
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue" still getting me milage it seems.
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They said a few times that this wasn't the full schedule as they where finalizing some stuff and wanted to wait for a few others to be announced closer to 2025/2026.
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I have copy and pasted the info, please click on the article to see the cards and to show the higher ups at Wizards we wants story info, they look at web clicks;
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/ten-stories-tall
Sleeping Beauty UB
Legends
Story
Little Red Riding Hood RG
Legends
Story
Jack and the Beanstalk GU
Legends
Story
The Snow Queen WU
Legends
Story
Snow White WB
Legends
Story
The Piped Piper of Hamelin BR
Legends
Story
Beauty and the Beast GW
Legends
Story
The Sorcerer's Apprentice UR
Legends
Story
Hansel and Gretel BG
Legends
Story
Cinderella RW
Legends
Story
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-Yes and no to planeswalkers running out of design space. What it really is, is that planewwalkers card space is shallow. They are limited by what kinds effects they can do and how much room each ability can have. Then you add in that each card is meant to be flavored as a certain character and then has to be balanced for whatever format the card is being put into and they need to be somewhat playable, which can make planeswalker cards harder to design. And since they been trying to give each planeswalker a "gimmick" some planeswalkers started running out of good design space depending on the gimmick.
-On that note planeswalkers are tricky to balance which is why development also has rough a color balance with the planeswalkers in standard (which was a way to predict who might show up in upcoming sets). This would also lead to creative having to figure out why certain characters would on certain planes or what character shift would change a walkers colors when the biggest reason to do so was development needed a walker of certain color(s) to balance out standard. This also why it took years for them to make another BR planeswalker between Sarkhan and Angrath in standard or why a lot of walkers color identifies changed between different cards a lot.
-They want planeswalkers to feel more special again as cards and as characters and want to really give better story reasons for why planeswalker would want to planeswalk.
-And as noted they really really made a lot of planeswalker cards within the last eight years and I can see why they wanna step back a bit from them. That said I wish they just been more conservative about the number of walker cards.
Nah, Maro has always noted saga are just super popular whenever they do them. They would be an every set thing but are held back by wanting to be related to some sort of strong flavor or well know story events to up tie together the abilities of the saga. Universe Beyound work well as they have stories and events that lend well to sagas.