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The tables I play at and regular playgroup will ban all this universe beyond crap straight away just like TWD. That will suck for people coming to the store with these cards in their deck not being able to get in a game.

Then it sounds like the problem there would stem from your playgroup, no?

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https://twitter.com/maro254/status/1359920300784193536?s=19

long story short it’s not based in Harry Potter or any other magic school theme in anything

This will be 100% unqiue outside anything even tolarian academy
(Fun fact are tolarian academy was born before Harry Potter)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, published in 1997
Urza's Saga (not sure if that was the first time Tolarian Academy was mentioned though) was released in 1998

Even if you take into account that the design took place one year before, at best, they were invented at the same time. But considering that Rowling came up with the story before it was officially published...Looks like Potter WAS before Tolarian

Edit: The first time the players heard of Tolarian was in 1998, so Potter precedes. But perhaps you're tacit to additional facts I missed?

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Yeah, can’t relate to the people complaining. Kaya barely has shown up to get fleshed out. Here maybe she will have a chance where it isn’t really just her being used by other people hopefully. It honestly just reads like a no win situation as you can’t flesh out a character without giving them some spotlight, but you’re going to complain about them getting some spotlight to do what you say needs to happen.

Almost as if its not Kaya character people don't like about her.

^^^^ That is a reasonable suspicion.
I'd also like to point out how strategic and normatively sound it was of WotC to make Kaya the face of the 'vikings' set.

Both ancient Norse fandom generally, and Asatru as a religious and spiritual movement more specifically, have become more and more closely associated with white supremacist movements.

Kaya as Kaldeim's face planeswalker and lead protagonist is brilliant: Not only does her anti-undead power-suit and philosophy work well with ancient Norse beliefs and themes re: the afterlife (honourable death, Valhalla, separation between realms)-

-but also, as a well-written character who is also a Women of Colour, Kaya as Kaldeim's face planeswalker also signals greater commitment on WotC's part at combatting racial discrimination and tropes.

For the record, I'm not at all arguing that WotC's choice of Kaya as Kaldheim's face planeswalker was solely informed by her status as a Women of Colour. As mentioned by myself and many others, Kaya's particular interest in maintaining stability in a plane's afterlife process works well in a set that may have as a main plotpoint, the cosmological discontinuity of life and death. Maybe people are no longer being shepherded to their rightful afterlives by the Valkyrie and other divine servitors? Maybe someone who was supposed to die escaped their fate?

WotC would of course have to be careful at sufficiently differentiating such plot from Theros: Beyond Death but I am confident in thier ability to do so.

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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the Kodama is all that strong. Yes, it is indeed good just not amazing. EVentually you'll run out and it's easy to overextend with it.

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This is the part that I was very unhappy with... and it happens to be flat-out untrue.

On the blogatog entry answering several questions about the TWD promos, Maro SPECIFICALLY states that the new functional reprint version and the previous secret lair version would be mutually exclusive, that the oracle page on gatherer would specifically state that the two versions are the exact same card for the purpose of deck building restrictions. Mechanically, these cards work like Zilortha in that a new version without crossover art CAN be made but just hasn’t been announced yet.

That you have to visit Blogatog to get this important information is definitely a point of criticism as this point has not been properly communicated to the masses but this specific problem is still a non-issue.