Quote from Simto »Quote from Grixh »Quote from Djau the Jackal »I mean, the same thing happens in return with Western religious beliefs and mythology. I don't think its strictly just a Western thing. I'd argue that the presence of Angels in Ixalan recently was equally offensive if we take a similar approach. Aztecs don't have claim to Judeo-Christian mythology.
After their forcible conversion to Christianity, I think they have plenty of claim.
I'd rather have an angel forced on to me than having my throat slit by some shaman dude because it's the chieftain's birthday
So much better to be shot by some Spanish dude, right?
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That dog didn't go through a rigorous military training program to be disrespected like this!
Best soldier.
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Demons haven't been required to have downsides or additional costs for a while now and I don't see any reason they should.
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No, it isn't strictly worse than the other charms. Generally worse? Maybe. Strictly worse? Not even close.
"it's nothing you want in the color combinations" well, it is extremely obvious that they are pushing the Cabaretti to a go wide version of Naya colours this time. So there will definitely be support for this in standard and limited.
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I think you are thinking about this the wrong way around. The commander decks are done to match the colour archetypes of the set. Yes, Strixhaven and New Capenna are both colour-based faction sets and that does line up neatly with commander decks. But Ikoria wasn't a faction set, it just has a three colour theme. All sets have colour-divided archetypes to varying degrees. It's possible when deciding the lineup of sets for each year WotC are inclined to put sets with clear colour divided archetypes especially faction sets in the right spot for the commander release but I seriously doubt they would be pigeon-holing themselves into designing premier sets around a minor point of convenience for the commander releases.
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Nothing is confirmed in the art. He does seem to have beat up a guy in one of the arts. Sure. But we don't know that that is Xander in that art, in fact I suspect it's not they look a little different (there may be a number of similar-looking demons in the crime family, like Xander's immediate family even, would make sense having literal family drama here), and also they may well not be dead.
Do try not to jump to conclusions.
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So you're complaining about something you've just assumed based on little evidence.
Right.
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What demon? All the crime families have new flavourful legends that are alive.
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What are you talking about?
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I mean, c'mon. It's right there. Of course they named it this. C'mon.
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Hopefully we see more enchantment creatures in non-Theros sets and they can iterate on different executions. We can get a bit of a pattern going by then and people can have a better idea what to expect.