I'm fine with reducing the amount of planeswalkers in each set, there has been a LOT of them the last couple years. But, limiting it to 1 seems restrictive to the design of things. We'll see how long it lasts, it's not gonna be long before we start to see sets with more than 1, but hopefully, not near so many as we've had recently.
I dont think it'll last for too long, with the 3 year standard set block, I believe they're hoping the older Planeswalkers to still be depended on for the lack of Planeswalkers in the new sets. As more sets are made, I think the pool of Planeswalkers will still be considerably large, but not as gigantic as it was in previous sets. Still leaving player who want to use these decks with options.
its kinda flavorful though. Like, a planeswalker visits a plane for some reason or other, they become the story piece and "reason" for the set being on that specific plane.
Agree. Planeswalkers are polarizing, but this is a little extreme. Like it or not, they are the corner piece of the game, and this action by the company is probably a bit of an overcorrection in the true issue which was the introduction of arguably way too many planeswalkers. Not just existing planeswalkers, but ones which more or less became a one note print. Having only one planeswalker per set will not work real well either. Not every planeswalker print that has come has seen a life outside of limited drafts or even standard. If the only planeswalker in a set going forward is kind of a bad card, then it would feel better that they never printed any period.
Yeah, hopefully there won't be any jank planeswalkers anymore either. Looking at you grand master of flowers. Most disappointing mythic I have ever opened.
Imagine if Aftermath had a card showcasing a desperate Huatli who realizes she cannot reach Saheeli anymore; now _that_ would have been a good story showcase!
there is so much storyline that they could've made in Aftermath; hell, it could've been a full set if they wanted to to wrap up all of the stories. But they just... didn't. It sucks :(
Nah, they'll just be retconned to just having been really good aquaintences and we will have a storyline that goes out of their way to show how they are really just have been looking for the perfect man to have very many children with all along all this time. It's the wizards way.
@@SeleenShadowpaw Don't worry, we just learned that the Wizard's way is also to get them back together at the very culmination of an ending arc despite their relationship not having been brought up a single time in the last five years of storylines, so there's hope!
The story says Kellan is from Eldraine. He’s half-fae, so definitely Eldraine. There’s gonna be a Vedalken character from Ravnica as the omen path character in this set
Good point, idk why I even said that, cause obviously fae are on other planes as well (lorwyn comes to mind, but I bet there’s probably others). That said, The vedalken character was confirmed to be the omenpath character for this set, and the available story so far confirms Kellan’s Fae lineage on Eldraine
His whips kind of remind me of the ones gideon had in some of his older art (also present in gideons law keeper) so perhaps he's from Theros? Adventuring also being a very Greek thing
That would be so cool, Gideon is (was?) my favorite planeswalker, and Theros is super cool. Unfortunately, the story’s canon confirms Kellan as being from Eldraine
I like the recent chatter around reducing the number of legendary creatures and now Planeswalkers as well. If they're supposed to be big, special, and I'm good with making that feel a bit more like it's true.
I like the Gatewatch. We maybe shouldn’t have overshadowed the stories on the planes with Planeswalker capeshit but I liked having them around, I’m quite attached to them as my introduction to magic
I liked the gatewatch first, as it was world ending catastrophes centered around couple of key characters, but after it began to bloat and basically was a partial catalyst to unending wave of planeswalkers, I lost interest in them/it.
I'm wondering if there isn't another component involving the Universes Beyond IPs. Telling companies that "No, your character isn't a Planeswalker, one of the more obvious face card types out there" might have gotten old. Also, it seems like battles are taking the place of Planeswalkers as "Things to attack that are not your opponent's face" to get some game benefit.
@@Aldrnari956as far as the story so far, Kellan’s appears to be from Eldraine. We don’t know who his birth-father is, but his mother has been implying that she had a relationship with the faeries from the Wilds of Eldraine. Kellan also had no knowledge of the Omenpaths or other worlds (planes) until Chapter 2 of the story.
It’s an odd choice to me. There’s still a multiverse of plainswalkers; either old or recently ignited like Quint. If they wanna reduce that’s fine but just having 1 per set feels like too much to me. Why not have just 2 and use this to have 1 old and one new walker per set to show others besides quint that ignited their spark during/after the war.
One fun knock-on effect of a lot of planeswalkers losing their sparks is that, of those who remain, most are going to be planeswalkers who didn't put themselves on the line to fight Phyrexia, a.k.a, the villainous ones. We'll be getting a bumper crop of new, well new-ish, villains to generate conflicts, and it should be more interesting now that our desparked walkers aren't able to fight them as equals, but nominal inferiors. If nothing else it gives the baddies a great Get Out of Jail card so they can return for later adventures.
> most are going to be planeswalkers who didn't put themselves on the line to fight Phyrexia who said that?whether they fought or did not fight the phyrexians has nothing to do with the de-sparking. It's completely random and up to WotC's mood today whether planeswalker x has been de-sparked or not. The only thing that really mattered in the phyrexian storyline was the detonation of the sylex.
Heh, reminds me of what is going on in World of Warcraft right now. Dragons: It's our time to leave, the age of dragons is over, the age of humans has begun! (game gets worse) Dragons: Fuck that shit, time to come back! You like How to Train Your Dragon, right? So yeah, I predict Planeswalkers will be back as a feature point in about 3 years time, unless things get SO bad that they have to be shoehorned into lore in an already made set.
I really wish they would work on making a more intriguing story that drives the mechanics, instead of making up the story to satisfy a desire for certain mechanics.
This is the most lukewarm take ever, i've already read 20 comments in here that claim this. It's also just dumb? nobody hates planeswalker because they can't be your commander in CEDH. And if you play at home or brawl on arena, nothing is stopping you from using them anyway. It's just such a backwards argument that ignores the piles and piles and piles of very real, factually provable issues with planeswalkers as game pieces to attack people for personal preferences. Let alone the massive issues people have with them as story telling devices. They are the hardest superhero marry sues to ever capeshit all over a good scifantasy backdrop and people on Ao3 would be ashamed to put characters like that into their stephen universe slashfics.
I don't think this is a hot take... I think this is the reality, and it sucks. I hate doing EVERYTHING for stupid Commander players. Just let commander's be planeswalkers before you just GUT the game of an ALREADY smaller card type pool.
@@JohnFromAccounting I have not experienced this in basically any form outside of the Commander community. Walker's just give you more deck building options. All this change does is limit your options by either COMPLETELY removing walkers from the format... or ENSURING that a very VERY small pool of walkers are REQUIRED. It's a bad way to do this. Better to remove walkers ENTIRELY than pull this '1 per set' limit. It was already the LEAST populous card type in 95% of de4cks with most decks running 1-4 walkers... whenever a set includes SAGAS.... there are instantly more saga's in the format than there are planeswalkers. I just find this to be a candy assed play at forcing extra legendary creatures on us to sell to commander players, RATHER than allow us to keep having fun building the kinds of decks that we want to build in contructed. Either get rid of them completely... or don't worry about it. From my perspective there wasn't anything broken about the Walkers to begin with, they'd basically stabalized in the metas with removal existing in measure to deal with them. There's nothing about this that doesn't just stink of 'we can sell more legendaries to commander... and the FEW walkers that now exist will all be MUST PULLS!' to sell more packs. It's BS.
Kellan's grown up on Eldraine, but it turns out his dad is the twinkiest fae Oko. Also, at the end of the story he finds an omenpath and goes through it.
I feel like planeswalkers weren't that common in sets anyway as most sets only had about 2 in and the sets with multiple where usually big universe battle sets where it makes sense to have a lot of planeswalkers. I think a bigger issue is the massive increase in legendary creatures in every single set which has made the keyword less special. This is obviously due to the increase in commander popularity but I think it hurts the game more than it helps as no format is running all the terrible and draft trash uncommon and rare legendary creatures (including commander players) but if those cards were printed as regular creatures they may see some niche play in certain standard decks at least. Although this rule doesn't apply for universes beyond sets as obviously they will have lots of legendary creatures.
Hopefully this plus the narrowed design mentioned in the last video will lead to a lot more interesting stories with a more varied cast rather than what we’ve had recently. Or they backtrack this quickly when the next threat arrives. *cough* Eldrazi *cough* Supplemental sets will probably contain loads of them now is my prediction or we get some new Desparked mechanic or creature type where the planeswalker versions can float into the creature on destruction. Similar to battles if we ever see those again Also this shift is very similar to something Spice mentioned in their multiverse video and I for one would love to see very differing planes interact
The Eldrazi come from outside/between the planes/blind eternities. New Phyrexia was sealed outside of time. Seems to me like we get Phyrexia + Emrakul and the "threat" will be so "great", that Nicol Bolas has to be released. He's only a legendary creature again so he fits in the whole no more walkers deal.
@kyleellis1825 naw I've read books periodically from back when I started playing in 1995 and its always been mid at best. Sure the story over the past almost 20 years was better than the magical ugenics crypto nazi story that was going when I started but thats a low bar
When some planeswalkers desparked and only a low percentage kept their spark, does it mean, that players, who are always referred as planeswalkers, lost their spark as well and can't play Magic anymore?
I am excited that they are exploring ways of traveling from plane to plane that are not planeswalkers, but that doesn't mean I am happy about the mass de-sparking leading to less planeswalkers in general. I like planeswalker stories and I like watching them evolve and change and take on new facets or return to their old roots. Tibalt got me into Kalheim just as one example. Switching them out to legendary creatures isn't going to fix the problems inherent to a fixed cast of characters that people eventually tire of. It just strikes me as weird that they are essentially getting rid of a card type. (It was already awkward if there was no Planeswalker in your colors when there were a decent few per set, that's just going to feel worse now.) Idk, I feel like I like the de-sparking as a way to switch characters out, but not if it was just have an excuse to shift focus to the new golden child. (Context: I play commander, draft, and very occasionally standard when it strikes me. Been in the game since OG innistrad)
The pessimist in me says this has less to do with relatable Magic characters as legendary creatures and more to do with Universes Beyond. They can't really make UB characters into planeswalkers, and as long as PWs are the premier spotlight for characters as cards, they'd outshine the marketability of other licensed IP deals.
I wonder if this change might also be somewhat of a realization, on WOTC design's part, that the RC and CAG never intend to let planeswalkers become commanders. (I just heard Shivan Bhatt talking about that fact on his podcast).
I think most people have missed the Generous gift in the room... Battles! They seem to be Wotc's replacement for the planeswalkers, closer in design to the idea that brought planewalkers into being, the defendable castle that rewards the player who destroys it, obviously the sieges only reward the player who puts them into play but could we see variations in the future that are more Monarchy or initiative adjacent?
With the early establishment of Subtypes of Battle being part of the rules for how they are played, it seems like they're setting up to create new subtypes for various experiments in the card type. :)
It was a bit before my time to have a deep understanding of the lore, but the shift in planar travel physics sounds a lot like how the shards of Alara interacted with each other.
It makes sense, they pushed Planeswalkers for the marketing, then when Commander became huge they shifted the marketing focus to legendary creatures and doubled/tripled the amount of them in each set, now they have lots of Universes Beyond publicity and they're focusing on that, so they're reducing both Planeswalkers and legendary creatures without the need to push them.
I actually wish we had kept up with the War of the Spark style walkers. I far preffered them having a single passive ability and a single ability that used loyalty counters. It felt more like them showing up and helping for a couple turns instead of them finishing the game for you.
I agree. I don't think PW work well as ultra rare cards after all. Thematically, yes, but mechanically then superfriends become piles of text. I would rather we get the initial PW of each character have 4 abilities and after that they all have 2 or even just 1 ability
@@androkguz the Lorwynn/Shards of alara ones are at least low power. I'd be fine if the rest of the walkers stuck to that balance level and maybe had a passive ability as the 4th one. Zendikar is when Walkers boke the meta and ruined them for me. War of the Spark was nice because it made the walkers weaker all around. Since Dragon Maze, I've been proxying entire sets at a 10th edition-Shards of Alara power level. So walkers are all balanced around the first 9. All the old sets got Alchemy-ed up to that power level and all newer sets get powered down.
@@kyleellis1825 nah. Power level is not the issue. The originals are quite weak. But in any case, power level really creeps up. And tons of walkers have seen no play. 3 mana Narset sees more play than commander Nahiri. Certainly, it sucks that when walkers work, they tend to be the center stage. But mostly it sucks that they (and tons of other cards) have just gotten more and more complex and wordy.
if Commander is the reason they stop making Walkers you should write a letter of thanks to Sheldon Menery. Walkers are garbage that have diluted the game.
This has me actually excited listening to magics story in last few years has been a process of; 1. Cool story with a new character 2. I like new character in this story having to try and solve this problem 3. They can’t solve it 4. Find every planeswalker in the multiverse 5. Watch the story unravel as it becomes a marvel movie 6, repeat
Im hoping they will ease up on the number of legendary in sets as well. It's getting a bit ridiculous with how many legendary appears in each set. Nothing is special if everything is special. I do hope we get a desparked oko though.
I think having the story after Aftermath be about the reduced amount of Planeswalkers leading to two Planeswalkers per plane essentially having a power grab.
I think they're going to try and return to the idea that planeswalkers are some of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse while still clinging to the post-Mending concept that planeswalkers are no longer god-like. So beings like Elspeth and Ugin would probably stay as planeswalkers because there is a lot more to them than just being above-average mages.
I'm glad that they're reducing the focus on Planeswalker cards for sure. Since canonically we're all supposed to be Planeswalkers it feel more fun thematically to sorta have your own spells win out in a way imo. However, as someone who loved making EDH/Commander decks and loves the format It's become a little depressing to see so many interesting ideas being funneled directly into "Pick your hero character". It feels like the decks that are coming out of that have both been great in that more players seem to be having an easier time deck building but also boring as everyone gravitates to the same few ideas more often than not with the WOW problem of types of play all being funneled into being more competitive happening alongside more streamlined legendary creatures.
I agree, but I wouldn’t mind seeing more things like Teferi’s Ageless Insight, Chandra’s Random Fire Creature, or Vivien’s Arkbow. References to the characters without as many planeswalker cards.
In a lot of ways, the reduction of planeswalkers feels like a return to how they were. We used to average about 1-2 walkers a set prior to the Gatewatch arc and moving to a two-set block. Before that, we would average 5-6 walkers over the course of a three-set block. I think the reduction will be good for the game and hopefully for the design of the planeswalkers themselves.
I'm fine with them desparking some planeswalkers, as I do feel that the main story is a bit cluttered. On the other hand if they despark my boy Garruk ima lose it, they have done him so dirty over the last couple sets and to see him fall so far would be very disappointing
I used to play a lot of standard when I was a teen and the creation of planeswalkers was actually one of my main reasons for quitting MTG. Simple but strong cards which are both very expensive and pretty much a must play in any deck for the planeswalkers color really took the fun out of it. At one point we even started playing Jace Beleren to kill opponents Jace the Mind Sculptor. Of course through the years the balance around planeswalkers has become better, but I never really enjoyed planeswalkers so I can't really say I'll be sad to see them leave
I quit competitive 1v1 MTG after Urza Block (discovered booze and girls) annd came back for EDH about 5 years ago. About two weeks ago me and some friends played with my Jumpstart cube. On the drive home someone said it was the most fun they had playing non-EDH Magic *in years*. I chimed in: "it's because of my 40 odd decks there is 1 Planeswalker" and a moment of realization came over the car as I said it. They started as a cheap gimmick to shift packs and it got WAY out of hand and (not an opinion) the game is actively worse for it.
I feel like "having the planeswalkers take the back seat" was telegraphed. I also think it was a huge swing-and-a-miss for the Compleated Weatherlight to exist and not have Melira "de-compleat" it and have a ragtag group of heroes charge across the multiverse stamping out a decentralized phyrexian force. I have no way to back up this claim, but it was a glaringly obvious plot point that I think it was scrapped so that we didn't have another Dominaria/Ravnica plane that we end up revisiting bi-annually for 15 years each. Depending on where the weatherlight is, and whether the weatherlight weathered the withering effects of de-completion (meaning it can be salvaged and reengineered by someone), they'll use it to tie off the "look-at-all-these-safe-to-traverse-planar-portals" storyline.
Having extra 'walkers in ONE means the number of planeswalkers in standard is high now and will become closer to the normal amount as the only one per set change takes effect. This means in a few years they'll have time to work on one-planeswalker sets for a while without having the change in standard abruptly
I'd love to see a limit of 1 planeswalker per set. Lore-wise, it's an extremely rare ability, which certainly hasn't been reflected in the sets through the past. They should be super-powerful cards, and rare enough that it really feels special when you get one.
Totally feel that comparison with commanders to fighting game characters. I used to play competitive fighting games a while before I returned to Magic. When I did return commander was brand new and it was the immediate comparison that came to my mind too. I will main Gitrog Monster even if there's better options now, that graveyard trigger is just too much for me to pass up. It's kind of like a devotion to a mid-tier character in Street Fighter (even if Gitrog is still pretty nutty).
It also makes it easier to build decks centered around those characters, when they can actually be your commander. Sure, oathbreaker does this, but it's only 60 cards in the deck so you have to cut more stuff.
With nothing but love to the Commander community, I really do wish it wasn't the central consideration for Magic's direction. To some extent, it's just good business, but man.
WotC clarifies that Universes Beyond won’t have Planeswalkers in their sets and by sheer cosmic coincidence we have Planeswalkers almost completely removed from both the story and mechanics of sets going forward. I’m shocked. SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.
Im still made we never got a completed Karn. Imagine a card with art where all the preators are kneeling before Karn. OMG i would die happy seeing that.
At first I hated this idea of only one per set, because I didn't like the idea of having to wait 6 years for a new version of some of my favorite planeswalkers, but I had kind of forgotten how often new sets/content comes out with WoTC, so the wait wouldn't be very long.
They could've just done flip walkers in a modern horizon set or something to get established walkers a creature card and introduce new walkers as a flip card
I loved what they did for awhile where one person joined good guys one person joined bad guys and the two planeswalkers were the main characters and then in some set they were made common planeswalkers and it ruined the feel of opening a super rare mega card.
Mace is about the perfect counter-pick for Anakin since his greatest feats with a lightsaber happen when he lets his dark side show. Mace sees that and he will instantly use it against him.
I think it’s all to do with more support for the Commander format if someone’s fav character is a planeswalker, why not turn it into a legend so they can run it as a commander
They desparked (almost) all of the planeswalkers. So (almost) no one is a planeswalker now. But they also made the Omenpaths, so now everyone is a planeswalker. So in the end, by eliminitating (almost) all planeswalkers WotC managed to make everyone a planeswalker.
I still believe plain walkers are infinitely cooler than legendary creatures and I want more of them and I hate the fact that the story is reducing the number of plain's walkers since their way cooler than any legendary creature could ever be.
I like them but they haven't been putting out as many quality ones lately. If you really enjoy planeswalkers, the last several sets have a plethora of ones you can collect and use.
I liked the Lorwynn/Alara ones. They stayed low power enough that they didn't become must includes if you palyed that colour. It wasn't until we hit Zendikar we really started getting the broken walkers that ruined the meta. I stopped buying cards after Dragon's MAze and have actually been proxying cards from newer sets in the old card style and power them down (Basically Alchemy balancing). I still have the planeswalkers, but I made them a lot less powerful and my friends seem to be having way more fun with them. The walkers are pretty much all balanced around the Lorwynn 5/Alara 4 (Not Bolas)
Both Nissa and The Wandering Emperor were in they home planes when they were desparked and for The Wandering Emperor it was good thing since her spark made her planeswalk at random.
I've been in MTG for about a year and I'm kinda alright with how things are with the number of legendary creatures or Planeswalkers. I like going to commander night and playing against a commander I have never heard of or seen before. I like going wild with a commander that no one gave the time of day to. Almost all of my decks have a commander who is pennies because everyone wants Korvold, Winota, Jodah, Omnath, Kenrith, Myrrim, insert overplayed commander here, etc. If WOTC wants to reduce these numbers then I guess we all will have to go with it, but I will always be an advocate for more choices of commanders than going to my local game store and seeing a pod of 4 Teysa Karlovs and seeing which one can out death trigger the others.
Good. Exploring the stories of planes instead of planeswalkers was some of the best Magic we've ever had. Less superhero stories, more fantasy world exploration.
Something something, the blind eternities were damaged and took away sparks to try and repair itself, something something Essentially they lost them because wizards wanted a bullshit reason to practically abandon the coolest and most iconic part of their game's overall fantasy.
I'm wondering about whats happened to my signature planeswalker Sorin. Last time we saw him was a terrible visit back to Innistrad before the Phyrexians sent the Multiverse into chaos.
She was literally the FIRST captain of _Weatherlight,_ on its mission to rescue what inhabitants of Serra's Realm they could. She's of the Strange New Worlds-era to Sisay's TOS, but she HAS been crew, and centuries before the actual "Weatherlight Saga".
It almost feels like it doesn't even matter anymore, with how powerful creatures are now days pretty much any walker not named Karn, Grist, or Wrenn doesn't even matter anymore.
I think this change is also really good because many planewalker are not very good. There are many who are Oko, Threeferi, Ashiok dream render, Narset parter of veils but also many that are just bad and see no play at all across all formats. Balancing planewalkers seems to be really hard because they either end up busted or unplayable with only a few falling in between those extremes. And when it's already this hard to balance them it's even harder If you have to do it 3 to 5 times per set. Maybe this change will result in much more mid to high power planewalkers that are not busted or unfun to play against.
The desparking of planes walkers really just means flipping the page on this era of magic. Makes room for new planswalkers instead of rehashing the game mechanics of prior planeswalkers.
Maybe not even focusing on PlanesWalkers .This would allow them to explore more Characters in particular worlds .The Major amount Planeswalkers likely busy rebuilding their worlds ,this would make easier to character build non-planes walkers .
I'd be really interesting in Ashiok since we don't really know much about her. It's cool that she's getting the spotlight perhaps she can team up with Tibalt
I welcome this change, but I'm absolutely baffled by the timing of it in terms of the story. War of the Spark really seemed to me like it was intended to be one last big hurrah for planeswalkers before pulling back on them. Especially since Bolas was literally harvesting sparks! Instead they wait 4 years and do something in the background that I'm still not clear on. Does anyone even know what caused the planeswalkers to lose their sparks in Aftermath?
I don't mind having only a single planeswalker per set. While I don't dislike the Planeswalker mechanics I never liked the idea of having Planeswalkers in my deck. Simply because I'm a planeswalker in MTG and don't like the idea of 'summoning' a fellow planeswalker, that's what multiplayer games are for or archenemy. But when I started playing MTG in 94' part of what drew me into the game was the fantasy that I was a Planeswalker.
I came here because of the lore bits but really i have only one question atm: So, Whatnot is like decentralized early aughts teleshopping? "If you buy this mystery box of magic singles, you'll get the nicer dicer pro set FREE on TOP without any additional shipping"-kind of personal streams? I don't know if this is the best or the worst timeline. Seriously, not a clue. I'm floored by the concept :D
I'm fine with reducing the amount of planeswalkers in each set, there has been a LOT of them the last couple years. But, limiting it to 1 seems restrictive to the design of things. We'll see how long it lasts, it's not gonna be long before we start to see sets with more than 1, but hopefully, not near so many as we've had recently.
I think limiting it to one walker a set is how we keep designs fresh.
I dont think it'll last for too long, with the 3 year standard set block, I believe they're hoping the older Planeswalkers to still be depended on for the lack of Planeswalkers in the new sets. As more sets are made, I think the pool of Planeswalkers will still be considerably large, but not as gigantic as it was in previous sets. Still leaving player who want to use these decks with options.
I hope they don't keep like that for ever, or at least all new walkers are at least pretty good
its kinda flavorful though. Like, a planeswalker visits a plane for some reason or other, they become the story piece and "reason" for the set being on that specific plane.
Agree. Planeswalkers are polarizing, but this is a little extreme. Like it or not, they are the corner piece of the game, and this action by the company is probably a bit of an overcorrection in the true issue which was the introduction of arguably way too many planeswalkers.
Not just existing planeswalkers, but ones which more or less became a one note print. Having only one planeswalker per set will not work real well either. Not every planeswalker print that has come has seen a life outside of limited drafts or even standard. If the only planeswalker in a set going forward is kind of a bad card, then it would feel better that they never printed any period.
Pulling planeswalkers is going to very special again. Rather than getting 6 Koths in one set box.
If you're opening collectors boosters, that might still happen
Yeah, hopefully there won't be any jank planeswalkers anymore either. Looking at you grand master of flowers. Most disappointing mythic I have ever opened.
Imagine if Aftermath had a card showcasing a desperate Huatli who realizes she cannot reach Saheeli anymore; now _that_ would have been a good story showcase!
there is so much storyline that they could've made in Aftermath; hell, it could've been a full set if they wanted to to wrap up all of the stories. But they just... didn't. It sucks :(
Nah, they'll just be retconned to just having been really good aquaintences and we will have a storyline that goes out of their way to show how they are really just have been looking for the perfect man to have very many children with all along all this time.
It's the wizards way.
@@SeleenShadowpaw Don't worry, we just learned that the Wizard's way is also to get them back together at the very culmination of an ending arc despite their relationship not having been brought up a single time in the last five years of storylines, so there's hope!
They are going to walk this back hard is the next couple of years.
*planeswalk
They announced the ending of the omenpaths with a death race
Possible, but itll be interesting to see the increased design space for other cards now
@@admanios*plainswalk
They walk back everything every few years, with the Reserve List being the gross exception
The story says Kellan is from Eldraine. He’s half-fae, so definitely Eldraine. There’s gonna be a Vedalken character from Ravnica as the omen path character in this set
I mean, Oko is a fae and he's not from Eldraine. Eldraine doesn't hold a monopoly on fae and faeries in the multiverse, quite the opposite.
Good point, idk why I even said that, cause obviously fae are on other planes as well (lorwyn comes to mind, but I bet there’s probably others). That said, The vedalken character was confirmed to be the omenpath character for this set, and the available story so far confirms Kellan’s Fae lineage on Eldraine
@@collardcow4183 Oh yes, I was just contesting that one point
His whips kind of remind me of the ones gideon had in some of his older art (also present in gideons law keeper) so perhaps he's from Theros? Adventuring also being a very Greek thing
That would be so cool, Gideon is (was?) my favorite planeswalker, and Theros is super cool. Unfortunately, the story’s canon confirms Kellan as being from Eldraine
I like the recent chatter around reducing the number of legendary creatures and now Planeswalkers as well. If they're supposed to be big, special, and I'm good with making that feel a bit more like it's true.
I'm very happy to see this too. Hopefully that involves cutting down on the number of uncommon, garbage Legendary permanents.
I like the Gatewatch. We maybe shouldn’t have overshadowed the stories on the planes with Planeswalker capeshit but I liked having them around, I’m quite attached to them as my introduction to magic
I liked the gatewatch first, as it was world ending catastrophes centered around couple of key characters, but after it began to bloat and basically was a partial catalyst to unending wave of planeswalkers, I lost interest in them/it.
I'm wondering if there isn't another component involving the Universes Beyond IPs. Telling companies that "No, your character isn't a Planeswalker, one of the more obvious face card types out there" might have gotten old. Also, it seems like battles are taking the place of Planeswalkers as "Things to attack that are not your opponent's face" to get some game benefit.
battles aren't as neutral as you think. They would have to specify what kind of battle is happening and not only creating battles with no flavor sense
Kellan is from Eldraine
I think they mentioned in the Magic 30 stream last weekend that he was from a different plane. They may have spoiled something with that statement.
@@Aldrnari956as far as the story so far, Kellan’s appears to be from Eldraine. We don’t know who his birth-father is, but his mother has been implying that she had a relationship with the faeries from the Wilds of Eldraine. Kellan also had no knowledge of the Omenpaths or other worlds (planes) until Chapter 2 of the story.
@@JamesonYongFor chapter 2, the magic detecting wolves didn't attack him so, I think that implies he isn't magical and not the son of a fae.
I think it’s funny how planeswalkers in the lore have gotten nerfed so hard on multiple occasions and now there are barely any of them left lol.
It’s an odd choice to me. There’s still a multiverse of plainswalkers; either old or recently ignited like Quint. If they wanna reduce that’s fine but just having 1 per set feels like too much to me. Why not have just 2 and use this to have 1 old and one new walker per set to show others besides quint that ignited their spark during/after the war.
When has Wotc ever known how to course correct without swinging from one edge to another?
One fun knock-on effect of a lot of planeswalkers losing their sparks is that, of those who remain, most are going to be planeswalkers who didn't put themselves on the line to fight Phyrexia, a.k.a, the villainous ones. We'll be getting a bumper crop of new, well new-ish, villains to generate conflicts, and it should be more interesting now that our desparked walkers aren't able to fight them as equals, but nominal inferiors.
If nothing else it gives the baddies a great Get Out of Jail card so they can return for later adventures.
Please, don't give me hope. We all know they're never gonna do anything with Davriel.
> most are going to be planeswalkers who didn't put themselves on the line to fight Phyrexia
who said that?whether they fought or did not fight the phyrexians has nothing to do with the de-sparking. It's completely random and up to WotC's mood today whether planeswalker x has been de-sparked or not. The only thing that really mattered in the phyrexian storyline was the detonation of the sylex.
Heh, reminds me of what is going on in World of Warcraft right now.
Dragons: It's our time to leave, the age of dragons is over, the age of humans has begun!
(game gets worse)
Dragons: Fuck that shit, time to come back! You like How to Train Your Dragon, right?
So yeah, I predict Planeswalkers will be back as a feature point in about 3 years time, unless things get SO bad that they have to be shoehorned into lore in an already made set.
Probably with the already announced end of omenpath set
I really wish they would work on making a more intriguing story that drives the mechanics, instead of making up the story to satisfy a desire for certain mechanics.
Hot Take, they chose to drastically cut on Planeswalker as a type of card because it's not so appealing for commander players.
This is the most lukewarm take ever, i've already read 20 comments in here that claim this.
It's also just dumb? nobody hates planeswalker because they can't be your commander in CEDH. And if you play at home or brawl on arena, nothing is stopping you from using them anyway. It's just such a backwards argument that ignores the piles and piles and piles of very real, factually provable issues with planeswalkers as game pieces to attack people for personal preferences.
Let alone the massive issues people have with them as story telling devices. They are the hardest superhero marry sues to ever capeshit all over a good scifantasy backdrop and people on Ao3 would be ashamed to put characters like that into their stephen universe slashfics.
I don't think this is a hot take... I think this is the reality, and it sucks. I hate doing EVERYTHING for stupid Commander players. Just let commander's be planeswalkers before you just GUT the game of an ALREADY smaller card type pool.
@@lenajohnson6179 Constructed players don't like planeswalkers either.
@@JohnFromAccounting I have not experienced this in basically any form outside of the Commander community. Walker's just give you more deck building options. All this change does is limit your options by either COMPLETELY removing walkers from the format... or ENSURING that a very VERY small pool of walkers are REQUIRED. It's a bad way to do this. Better to remove walkers ENTIRELY than pull this '1 per set' limit. It was already the LEAST populous card type in 95% of de4cks with most decks running 1-4 walkers... whenever a set includes SAGAS.... there are instantly more saga's in the format than there are planeswalkers.
I just find this to be a candy assed play at forcing extra legendary creatures on us to sell to commander players, RATHER than allow us to keep having fun building the kinds of decks that we want to build in contructed. Either get rid of them completely... or don't worry about it. From my perspective there wasn't anything broken about the Walkers to begin with, they'd basically stabalized in the metas with removal existing in measure to deal with them. There's nothing about this that doesn't just stink of 'we can sell more legendaries to commander... and the FEW walkers that now exist will all be MUST PULLS!' to sell more packs. It's BS.
Kellan's grown up on Eldraine, but it turns out his dad is the twinkiest fae Oko. Also, at the end of the story he finds an omenpath and goes through it.
2:40 it's clearly Tarkir
I feel like planeswalkers weren't that common in sets anyway as most sets only had about 2 in and the sets with multiple where usually big universe battle sets where it makes sense to have a lot of planeswalkers. I think a bigger issue is the massive increase in legendary creatures in every single set which has made the keyword less special. This is obviously due to the increase in commander popularity but I think it hurts the game more than it helps as no format is running all the terrible and draft trash uncommon and rare legendary creatures (including commander players) but if those cards were printed as regular creatures they may see some niche play in certain standard decks at least. Although this rule doesn't apply for universes beyond sets as obviously they will have lots of legendary creatures.
Hopefully this plus the narrowed design mentioned in the last video will lead to a lot more interesting stories with a more varied cast rather than what we’ve had recently.
Or they backtrack this quickly when the next threat arrives. *cough* Eldrazi *cough*
Supplemental sets will probably contain loads of them now is my prediction or we get some new Desparked mechanic or creature type where the planeswalker versions can float into the creature on destruction. Similar to battles if we ever see those again
Also this shift is very similar to something Spice mentioned in their multiverse video and I for one would love to see very differing planes interact
The Eldrazi come from outside/between the planes/blind eternities. New Phyrexia was sealed outside of time. Seems to me like we get Phyrexia + Emrakul and the "threat" will be so "great", that Nicol Bolas has to be released. He's only a legendary creature again so he fits in the whole no more walkers deal.
Magic will never have an interesting story.
@@TheEvolver311 It did for 10+ years.
@kyleellis1825 naw I've read books periodically from back when I started playing in 1995 and its always been mid at best. Sure the story over the past almost 20 years was better than the magical ugenics crypto nazi story that was going when I started but thats a low bar
@@TheEvolver311 Ah, I see the issue. I was reading the side stories back then, not the Urza stuff.
When some planeswalkers desparked and only a low percentage kept their spark, does it mean, that players, who are always referred as planeswalkers, lost their spark as well and can't play Magic anymore?
That's the flavor justification for all the players quitting due to product overload and the rising cost of the game, they thought of everything.
WOTC is so smart that they planned out a flavour on why players stop playing their game. Absolute geniuses.
inb4 we have a card that addresses the player character directly breaking the fourth wall.
I am excited that they are exploring ways of traveling from plane to plane that are not planeswalkers, but that doesn't mean I am happy about the mass de-sparking leading to less planeswalkers in general. I like planeswalker stories and I like watching them evolve and change and take on new facets or return to their old roots. Tibalt got me into Kalheim just as one example. Switching them out to legendary creatures isn't going to fix the problems inherent to a fixed cast of characters that people eventually tire of. It just strikes me as weird that they are essentially getting rid of a card type. (It was already awkward if there was no Planeswalker in your colors when there were a decent few per set, that's just going to feel worse now.)
Idk, I feel like I like the de-sparking as a way to switch characters out, but not if it was just have an excuse to shift focus to the new golden child. (Context: I play commander, draft, and very occasionally standard when it strikes me. Been in the game since OG innistrad)
I agree with everything you said.
I honestly just hate planeswalkers in terms of gameplay, so this is fine with me. The less the better
If they make a TV show, it will probably be with the Weatherlight crew. They are still super popular
It won't be but they should.
The pessimist in me says this has less to do with relatable Magic characters as legendary creatures and more to do with Universes Beyond. They can't really make UB characters into planeswalkers, and as long as PWs are the premier spotlight for characters as cards, they'd outshine the marketability of other licensed IP deals.
I wonder if this change might also be somewhat of a realization, on WOTC design's part, that the RC and CAG never intend to let planeswalkers become commanders. (I just heard Shivan Bhatt talking about that fact on his podcast).
Wanda just said ‘no more planes walkers’
I think most people have missed the Generous gift in the room... Battles! They seem to be Wotc's replacement for the planeswalkers, closer in design to the idea that brought planewalkers into being, the defendable castle that rewards the player who destroys it, obviously the sieges only reward the player who puts them into play but could we see variations in the future that are more Monarchy or initiative adjacent?
With the early establishment of Subtypes of Battle being part of the rules for how they are played, it seems like they're setting up to create new subtypes for various experiments in the card type. :)
Battles are *infinitely* preferable to 'walkers. *So far* there are no battles I feel are oppressive, unfair, unfun or OP.
SO FAR.
why the fuck would I spend my mana on something that works like monarch/initiative? Whoever spends the mana for it is the sucker.
It was a bit before my time to have a deep understanding of the lore, but the shift in planar travel physics sounds a lot like how the shards of Alara interacted with each other.
I think even 2 planeswalkers would be acceptable. Like 2 rivals or allies in the story.
I wonder if we will see creature cards for planeswalkers who still have their spark?
"To lose one spark, Mr Nixilis, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness."
You should totally do a list of legendary creatures that you think would thrive better on another plane (via omen path)
It makes sense, they pushed Planeswalkers for the marketing, then when Commander became huge they shifted the marketing focus to legendary creatures and doubled/tripled the amount of them in each set, now they have lots of Universes Beyond publicity and they're focusing on that, so they're reducing both Planeswalkers and legendary creatures without the need to push them.
I actually wish we had kept up with the War of the Spark style walkers. I far preffered them having a single passive ability and a single ability that used loyalty counters. It felt more like them showing up and helping for a couple turns instead of them finishing the game for you.
I agree. I don't think PW work well as ultra rare cards after all. Thematically, yes, but mechanically then superfriends become piles of text.
I would rather we get the initial PW of each character have 4 abilities and after that they all have 2 or even just 1 ability
@@androkguz the Lorwynn/Shards of alara ones are at least low power. I'd be fine if the rest of the walkers stuck to that balance level and maybe had a passive ability as the 4th one.
Zendikar is when Walkers boke the meta and ruined them for me. War of the Spark was nice because it made the walkers weaker all around.
Since Dragon Maze, I've been proxying entire sets at a 10th edition-Shards of Alara power level. So walkers are all balanced around the first 9.
All the old sets got Alchemy-ed up to that power level and all newer sets get powered down.
@@kyleellis1825 nah. Power level is not the issue. The originals are quite weak. But in any case, power level really creeps up. And tons of walkers have seen no play. 3 mana Narset sees more play than commander Nahiri.
Certainly, it sucks that when walkers work, they tend to be the center stage. But mostly it sucks that they (and tons of other cards) have just gotten more and more complex and wordy.
@@androkguz 3 mana narset is insanely powerful compared to 3 mana jace beleren.
@@kyleellis1825 and you are the one saying that PWS got weaker again in war of the spark. As if having less abilities made them weaker.
It's wild that Commander has impacted this game so heavily that something like this could happen. I really hate how much it has taken over the game
if Commander is the reason they stop making Walkers you should write a letter of thanks to Sheldon Menery. Walkers are garbage that have diluted the game.
@@lracseroom8286 Can't argue with you there. I just wish something other than Commander was playable in my city nowadays
@@lisan3627more people need to build battle boxes to keep 60 card Magic alive. I wanna build a Pauper battlebox to attract people to the format.
Kellan is actually from Eldraine, He’s a half human half Fae 16-year old.
Fewer, more interesting planeswalkers seems like a good idea.
Kellen is a half-fae half-human child of Oko. He originated from orrinshire which is village found in eldraine. Hope this helps!
This has me actually excited listening to magics story in last few years has been a process of;
1. Cool story with a new character
2. I like new character in this story having to try and solve this problem
3. They can’t solve it
4. Find every planeswalker in the multiverse
5. Watch the story unravel as it becomes a marvel movie
6, repeat
Liliana of the Veil went from a Modern staple to an okay Pioneer card.
Kellan is from the basement. Not sure how they got out, but now they’re in eldraine.
Im hoping they will ease up on the number of legendary in sets as well. It's getting a bit ridiculous with how many legendary appears in each set. Nothing is special if everything is special. I do hope we get a desparked oko though.
I think having the story after Aftermath be about the reduced amount of Planeswalkers leading to two Planeswalkers per plane essentially having a power grab.
I wonder if restricting them to 1 per set will make them horrendously powerful.
I think they're going to try and return to the idea that planeswalkers are some of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse while still clinging to the post-Mending concept that planeswalkers are no longer god-like.
So beings like Elspeth and Ugin would probably stay as planeswalkers because there is a lot more to them than just being above-average mages.
I'm glad that they're reducing the focus on Planeswalker cards for sure. Since canonically we're all supposed to be Planeswalkers it feel more fun thematically to sorta have your own spells win out in a way imo.
However, as someone who loved making EDH/Commander decks and loves the format It's become a little depressing to see so many interesting ideas being funneled directly into "Pick your hero character". It feels like the decks that are coming out of that have both been great in that more players seem to be having an easier time deck building but also boring as everyone gravitates to the same few ideas more often than not with the WOW problem of types of play all being funneled into being more competitive happening alongside more streamlined legendary creatures.
I agree, but I wouldn’t mind seeing more things like Teferi’s Ageless Insight, Chandra’s Random Fire Creature, or Vivien’s Arkbow. References to the characters without as many planeswalker cards.
I gotta admit, I prefer it this way. Planeswalkers should really feel more special than they are right now.
In a lot of ways, the reduction of planeswalkers feels like a return to how they were. We used to average about 1-2 walkers a set prior to the Gatewatch arc and moving to a two-set block. Before that, we would average 5-6 walkers over the course of a three-set block. I think the reduction will be good for the game and hopefully for the design of the planeswalkers themselves.
I'm fine with them desparking some planeswalkers, as I do feel that the main story is a bit cluttered. On the other hand if they despark my boy Garruk ima lose it, they have done him so dirty over the last couple sets and to see him fall so far would be very disappointing
I used to play a lot of standard when I was a teen and the creation of planeswalkers was actually one of my main reasons for quitting MTG. Simple but strong cards which are both very expensive and pretty much a must play in any deck for the planeswalkers color really took the fun out of it.
At one point we even started playing Jace Beleren to kill opponents Jace the Mind Sculptor.
Of course through the years the balance around planeswalkers has become better, but I never really enjoyed planeswalkers so I can't really say I'll be sad to see them leave
I quit competitive 1v1 MTG after Urza Block (discovered booze and girls) annd came back for EDH about 5 years ago.
About two weeks ago me and some friends played with my Jumpstart cube. On the drive home someone said it was the most fun they had playing non-EDH Magic *in years*. I chimed in: "it's because of my 40 odd decks there is 1 Planeswalker" and a moment of realization came over the car as I said it.
They started as a cheap gimmick to shift packs and it got WAY out of hand and (not an opinion) the game is actively worse for it.
I feel like "having the planeswalkers take the back seat" was telegraphed. I also think it was a huge swing-and-a-miss for the Compleated Weatherlight to exist and not have Melira "de-compleat" it and have a ragtag group of heroes charge across the multiverse stamping out a decentralized phyrexian force. I have no way to back up this claim, but it was a glaringly obvious plot point that I think it was scrapped so that we didn't have another Dominaria/Ravnica plane that we end up revisiting bi-annually for 15 years each. Depending on where the weatherlight is, and whether the weatherlight weathered the withering effects of de-completion (meaning it can be salvaged and reengineered by someone), they'll use it to tie off the "look-at-all-these-safe-to-traverse-planar-portals" storyline.
Having extra 'walkers in ONE means the number of planeswalkers in standard is high now and will become closer to the normal amount as the only one per set change takes effect. This means in a few years they'll have time to work on one-planeswalker sets for a while without having the change in standard abruptly
With that whip I wouldn't be surprised if Kellan is Gideons son
Unless there's an age potion situation or something, I fail to see how that would work.
I'd love to see a limit of 1 planeswalker per set. Lore-wise, it's an extremely rare ability, which certainly hasn't been reflected in the sets through the past. They should be super-powerful cards, and rare enough that it really feels special when you get one.
Totally feel that comparison with commanders to fighting game characters. I used to play competitive fighting games a while before I returned to Magic. When I did return commander was brand new and it was the immediate comparison that came to my mind too. I will main Gitrog Monster even if there's better options now, that graveyard trigger is just too much for me to pass up. It's kind of like a devotion to a mid-tier character in Street Fighter (even if Gitrog is still pretty nutty).
It also makes it easier to build decks centered around those characters, when they can actually be your commander. Sure, oathbreaker does this, but it's only 60 cards in the deck so you have to cut more stuff.
I see the kiss being blown as you are now a father and see things in a whole new light.
With nothing but love to the Commander community, I really do wish it wasn't the central consideration for Magic's direction. To some extent, it's just good business, but man.
just find some friends
WotC clarifies that Universes Beyond won’t have Planeswalkers in their sets and by sheer cosmic coincidence we have Planeswalkers almost completely removed from both the story and mechanics of sets going forward. I’m shocked. SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.
Good take on things, thanks for sharing this bro
Im still made we never got a completed Karn. Imagine a card with art where all the preators are kneeling before Karn. OMG i would die happy seeing that.
At first I hated this idea of only one per set, because I didn't like the idea of having to wait 6 years for a new version of some of my favorite planeswalkers, but I had kind of forgotten how often new sets/content comes out with WoTC, so the wait wouldn't be very long.
thanks for the smosh at the end kenobi
Kellen is from Eldrain. And my theory is Oko is his father but we don't know yet.
They could've just done flip walkers in a modern horizon set or something to get established walkers a creature card and introduce new walkers as a flip card
I feel like only having 1 max is limiting, imo it should be up to 3 per set with an average close to 1.
We'll see if this sticks. I like the change, personally.
I loved what they did for awhile where one person joined good guys one person joined bad guys and the two planeswalkers were the main characters and then in some set they were made common planeswalkers and it ruined the feel of opening a super rare mega card.
Mace is about the perfect counter-pick for Anakin since his greatest feats with a lightsaber happen when he lets his dark side show. Mace sees that and he will instantly use it against him.
I think it’s all to do with more support for the Commander format if someone’s fav character is a planeswalker, why not turn it into a legend so they can run it as a commander
Planeswalkers: fewer
Legendary creatures: fewer
Booster packs: More of them and they cost more.
Hooray!
They desparked (almost) all of the planeswalkers. So (almost) no one is a planeswalker now. But they also made the Omenpaths, so now everyone is a planeswalker. So in the end, by eliminitating (almost) all planeswalkers WotC managed to make everyone a planeswalker.
very nice to listen to, and I agree. The Realmbreaker effect and the Great Pruning, leads to more interesting narratives :)
I still believe plain walkers are infinitely cooler than legendary creatures and I want more of them and I hate the fact that the story is reducing the number of plain's walkers since their way cooler than any legendary creature could ever be.
I like them but they haven't been putting out as many quality ones lately. If you really enjoy planeswalkers, the last several sets have a plethora of ones you can collect and use.
I liked the Lorwynn/Alara ones. They stayed low power enough that they didn't become must includes if you palyed that colour. It wasn't until we hit Zendikar we really started getting the broken walkers that ruined the meta.
I stopped buying cards after Dragon's MAze and have actually been proxying cards from newer sets in the old card style and power them down (Basically Alchemy balancing). I still have the planeswalkers, but I made them a lot less powerful and my friends seem to be having way more fun with them. The walkers are pretty much all balanced around the Lorwynn 5/Alara 4 (Not Bolas)
Both Nissa and The Wandering Emperor were in they home planes when they were desparked and for The Wandering Emperor it was good thing since her spark made her planeswalk at random.
Great insights I didn't know or think about!
I've been in MTG for about a year and I'm kinda alright with how things are with the number of legendary creatures or Planeswalkers. I like going to commander night and playing against a commander I have never heard of or seen before.
I like going wild with a commander that no one gave the time of day to. Almost all of my decks have a commander who is pennies because everyone wants Korvold, Winota, Jodah, Omnath, Kenrith, Myrrim, insert overplayed commander here, etc.
If WOTC wants to reduce these numbers then I guess we all will have to go with it, but I will always be an advocate for more choices of commanders than going to my local game store and seeing a pod of 4 Teysa Karlovs and seeing which one can out death trigger the others.
Good. Exploring the stories of planes instead of planeswalkers was some of the best Magic we've ever had. Less superhero stories, more fantasy world exploration.
Feel like there should be 2-4 Planeswalkers per set to have one for each color, fix in some multicolored Walkers for variance.
imagine if they put a 1 out of 1 lottery version of the planeswalker in each set going forward
Wait why did all those planeswalkers lose their spark? Like even the ones not involved in the phyrexian invasion
Something something, the blind eternities were damaged and took away sparks to try and repair itself, something something
Essentially they lost them because wizards wanted a bullshit reason to practically abandon the coolest and most iconic part of their game's overall fantasy.
I'm wondering about whats happened to my signature planeswalker Sorin. Last time we saw him was a terrible visit back to Innistrad before the Phyrexians sent the Multiverse into chaos.
Hope you feel better soon!
Kellan's original plain appears to be Spain
Jhoira wasn't Weatherlight crew when it planeswalkd.
She was literally the FIRST captain of _Weatherlight,_ on its mission to rescue what inhabitants of Serra's Realm they could. She's of the Strange New Worlds-era to Sisay's TOS, but she HAS been crew, and centuries before the actual "Weatherlight Saga".
It almost feels like it doesn't even matter anymore, with how powerful creatures are now days pretty much any walker not named Karn, Grist, or Wrenn doesn't even matter anymore.
I think this change is also really good because many planewalker are not very good. There are many who are Oko, Threeferi, Ashiok dream render, Narset parter of veils but also many that are just bad and see no play at all across all formats. Balancing planewalkers seems to be really hard because they either end up busted or unplayable with only a few falling in between those extremes. And when it's already this hard to balance them it's even harder If you have to do it 3 to 5 times per set. Maybe this change will result in much more mid to high power planewalkers that are not busted or unfun to play against.
I hope to see more Battle cards in the future sets, even if it is just one or two.
Grognard Nitpick: Jhoira wasn't part of the original Weatherlight crew. She captianed it after it was rebuilt in a much more recent set.
You know she was involved when it was first _built,_ a millennium before Gerrard was born, right?
Jhoira was, without question, the first-ever captain of the Weatherlight. That's 100% canon. Sorry, bud; you nitpicked wrong.
Now that Planeswalkers are no longer Planeswalkers I wonder what they are going to do when emrakul returns
Geez, buy me dinner first, Milkman 😂
Seriously though, great video.
Imo, what made pws op at first was the lack of pw removal, but nowadays most black kill spells also remove pws, so they're easier to deal with
Think how rare, super powerful and expensive planeswalkers can be now! And we can print limited runs of them to make them even MORE rare.
The desparking of planes walkers really just means flipping the page on this era of magic. Makes room for new planswalkers instead of rehashing the game mechanics of prior planeswalkers.
Maybe not even focusing on PlanesWalkers .This would allow them to explore more Characters in particular worlds .The Major amount Planeswalkers likely busy rebuilding their worlds ,this would make easier to character build non-planes walkers .
Glad to go back to the old ways
I'd be really interesting in Ashiok since we don't really know much about her. It's cool that she's getting the spotlight perhaps she can team up with Tibalt
Tibalt was basically killed off screen by Tyvar during ONE, I'm sad to say :/
Ashiok is genderless, btw.
I welcome this change, but I'm absolutely baffled by the timing of it in terms of the story. War of the Spark really seemed to me like it was intended to be one last big hurrah for planeswalkers before pulling back on them. Especially since Bolas was literally harvesting sparks!
Instead they wait 4 years and do something in the background that I'm still not clear on. Does anyone even know what caused the planeswalkers to lose their sparks in Aftermath?
I don't mind having only a single planeswalker per set. While I don't dislike the Planeswalker mechanics I never liked the idea of having Planeswalkers in my deck. Simply because I'm a planeswalker in MTG and don't like the idea of 'summoning' a fellow planeswalker, that's what multiplayer games are for or archenemy. But when I started playing MTG in 94' part of what drew me into the game was the fantasy that I was a Planeswalker.
I still want a Soulsborne game with Planeswalkers as the bosses and 4-5 planes as reasonable sized open worlds to explore.
The story they've released says Kellan is from Eldraine
I came here because of the lore bits but really i have only one question atm:
So, Whatnot is like decentralized early aughts teleshopping?
"If you buy this mystery box of magic singles, you'll get the nicer dicer pro set FREE on TOP without any additional shipping"-kind of personal streams?
I don't know if this is the best or the worst timeline. Seriously, not a clue. I'm floored by the concept :D