Definitely NOT happy about Ninja being pentacolor, exactly as I was not happy about Najeela being a pentacolor for Warriors. Why do all-colors tribal soup for literally no good reason? A white Ninja feels completely wrong. Why diluiting a tribal color identity this way?
Werewolves where in all five colors in Midnight Hunt and where in five colors in the theme boosters but focused in RG. There was only the white, blue and black werewolves in the set and (at least what I pulled) most of the booster was RG cards. I'm guessing Ninjas will likely be similar, focused in UB and bleeding out into a few other colors for mechanical or flavor reasons.
I just hope they are not giving us a pentacolored legendary Ninja, forcing every EDH player to play that general as default.
Any better than Yuriko as 5c would be pretty broken imo.
And the Big Daddy Ed Roth "Rat Fink" style artwork isn't lost on me either. (Some of you youngins should check it out, you'd probably like it.) I love vintage Hot Rod art but its place is questionable at best on a Magic card.
It's not on a card though? This is the collector box packaging we're discussing. Crimson Vow and Midnight both had very abstract art as well.
Seeing how they've been breaking self-imposed rules left and right in the last few years, they might as well introduce guns to Magic now. You're telling me the technology is advanced enough for Akira-style motorcycles, but a simple mechanism that shoots pieces of metal at people is too much? At some point it does become ridiculous to see everyone using sticks and swords.
I like Akira/GitS/Blade Runner and I like Kamigawa, but I'm very skeptical if I'm going to like WotCs amalgamation of the two. Still very little to go off of though...
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/updating-list-innistrad-crimson-vow-2021-11-04
It's a Quicksilver Amulet with a huge caveat and has no synergy with Yuriko.
It's nice there's a new option but this guy is pretty weak imo.
Any better than Yuriko as 5c would be pretty broken imo.
It's not on a card though? This is the collector box packaging we're discussing. Crimson Vow and Midnight both had very abstract art as well.
Alaborn Zealot
Alaborn Musketeer
These are the earliest ones that come to mind for me.