Can someone help a brother understand.... WHY doesnt g/u get planeswalkers??! I was so looking forward to Vannifar being a walker.. as far as I can tell theres only been two green blue walkers EVER, Nissa and Kiora, and the last one was years ago =//// (althought admittedly this card is sick =D)
The only planeswalkers we got are from the Bolas-aligned guilds.
As it stands, it looks like we're already getting a cycle of Ascendancies (I seriously doubt Simic Ascendancy is the only one)
Simic Ascendancy is an individual card that shares a name with a past cycle, which is anything but the confirmation of being a cycle that you think it is.
It's certainly not confirmed, but it would be pretty weird for it to be an individual card. They could have called it "Experimental Progression" or "Biomancer's Will" or anything in the world. Instead they kept the naming convention [faction] ascendancy. Not to mention how much Undercity Uprising looks like repurposed ascendancy art. My guess is a cycle of five ascendancies, but they may do something plot based, and only ascend a two or three guilds. An individual card seems rather unlikely.
Why?
If they were going to do this as a true cycle this time around, it would've started in Guilds. This is more than likely a one-off.
It’s not unheard of them to put a 5-cycle in one half of a rav twin-set and not the other. RTR had both the ‘uncommon one drop hybrid creature’ and ‘rare gold uncounterable’ cycles that were not matched in gatecrash. Gatecrash had the Primordial cycle and the Denizen cycle tht weren’t in RTR.
Also, as you pointed out, Mergatroid, the cards in Guilds had Ascendancy-like art; Simic's does not.
The elf-like mage on the booster art is holding the same Trident that was on Prime Speaker Zegana (which is conspicuously missing from Zegana, Utopian Speaker), so that's my vote on who is running the place.
Do we know who is the leader? It can't be a planeswalker since we know Dovin, Domri and Kaya are the planeswalkers.
Someone on twitter pointed out that the Simic mage that we see on the booster pack is actually holding the same trident from Prime Speaker Zegana's art.
The only planeswalkers we got are from the Bolas-aligned guilds.
This is my final snort."
I can't wait to Vannifar into this.
It also makes sense why Zegana lost the Speaker election to Vannifar.
"I made an ooze."
"I AM the ooze."
Agreed, but then I remembered I converted Mairsil into Experiment Kraj, and I got super happy.
Also, as you pointed out, Mergatroid, the cards in Guilds had Ascendancy-like art; Simic's does not.
Someone on twitter pointed out that the Simic mage that we see on the booster pack is actually holding the same trident from Prime Speaker Zegana's art.