Killing characters who still have potential is just wasting said potential, plain and simple.
Or its just closing a chapter on their life/unlife. Keeping a character around forever under the pretense that death is 'wasting their potential' can also be wasting their potential as the character is stuck in writing purgatory, that even if the character was beloved at first it may overstay its welcome.
And so far no one has really suggested anyone that has no potential.
That you don't agree with. There was also that tangent with Vivian and how an actual case was made that her death would mean more to the story.
Unless you're wanting to make stories where you bring people back from the dead regularly and trivialize death
Which very rarely gets used in MTG.
there isn't any merit in offing someone early on.
That would be part of setting the tone of the story. Showing a death early clues people in that what is at stake even if no more deaths for the heroes occured.
There really isn't much merit in killing people in general,
Correction, when it doesn't actually serve the story is when a death is bad.
because using death as the only way to make meaningful impact in a story is cheap as well and loses its edge if done to the extent suggested here.
Death of planeswalkers rarely gets used. Venser's death is in 2011, Elspeth and Xenagos's deaths are in 2014, finally Dack and Domri and Gideon's death's are 2019. Each set is also in the month of May, which give or take a few a days, is 3 years and then 5 years.
You want the actual reason for Dack's death? Because Wizards didn't fully own the rights to his character, IDW did. So they basically gave him a farewell with this set. However the set wasn't originally designed with that in mind so that is why Dack Fayden doesn't appear on flavor text or on cards except for the Ravnica Allegiances mythic edition, this was also after they consolidated a two-set block for War of the Spark into one set. To accommodate this extra planeswalker, there was two teams that handled Dack, the people who handled the trailer and the writing team. The trailer team simply had to come-up with a model and textures and rigging and effects for Dack from 0:40 to 0:56 (16 seconds). For writing they had Greg Weisman, the author of the book, fit Dack in as one of the POV characters. The kicker is that this isn't the first time this has happened either. Similar situation, like deja vu, happened with Armada Comics way back since the publishing company had the rights to Taysir of Rabiah and Kristina of the Woods for example. Their deaths occurred when they were part of the Nine Titans team.
Speaking as an organizer, I have noticed an uptick in players showing up for brawl since the spoilers for war started. Mixed bag on who from what format for regulars and irregulars. Mostly standard players, one legacy, a couple modern, oh and even some EDH in there as well.
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That you don't agree with. There was also that tangent with Vivian and how an actual case was made that her death would mean more to the story.
Which very rarely gets used in MTG.
That would be part of setting the tone of the story. Showing a death early clues people in that what is at stake even if no more deaths for the heroes occured.
Correction, when it doesn't actually serve the story is when a death is bad.
Death of planeswalkers rarely gets used. Venser's death is in 2011, Elspeth and Xenagos's deaths are in 2014, finally Dack and Domri and Gideon's death's are 2019. Each set is also in the month of May, which give or take a few a days, is 3 years and then 5 years.
You want the actual reason for Dack's death? Because Wizards didn't fully own the rights to his character, IDW did. So they basically gave him a farewell with this set. However the set wasn't originally designed with that in mind so that is why Dack Fayden doesn't appear on flavor text or on cards except for the Ravnica Allegiances mythic edition, this was also after they consolidated a two-set block for War of the Spark into one set. To accommodate this extra planeswalker, there was two teams that handled Dack, the people who handled the trailer and the writing team. The trailer team simply had to come-up with a model and textures and rigging and effects for Dack from 0:40 to 0:56 (16 seconds). For writing they had Greg Weisman, the author of the book, fit Dack in as one of the POV characters. The kicker is that this isn't the first time this has happened either. Similar situation, like deja vu, happened with Armada Comics way back since the publishing company had the rights to Taysir of Rabiah and Kristina of the Woods for example. Their deaths occurred when they were part of the Nine Titans team.
I will see myself out.
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