#planeswalkers

[strixhaven-star]

Izzet Ral or Orzhov Ral?

I do like how Orzhov Ral's pose is a throwback to the original Ral Zarek's pose.

[littlegoldenbirdie]

All planeswalkers are, by nature, isekai protagonists.

[titleknown]

Here's another Artfight, this time the OC Hiveheart by Iconmaster, who's a Sliver Planeswalker from Magic the Gathering!

Given my feelings on how fantasy works that actively decenter non-humanlike characters are bitchass cowards, and that doubly applies to Magic and its userbase preferring the human-y Planeswalkers, y'all know it was love at first sight for the idea of a Sliver Planeswalker.

I drew her as if she's casting some sort of dark gribbly, maybe Death's Shadow but I'm not sure given how they don't seem wounded enough to make that work.

Tho, I am probably more proud than I should be that I decided to do some tweaks to her garb to give her the Moxen as jewelry, I felt that kinda fit with her description of her place on the color pie…

[cardboard-crack]

[stalwartursa]

Welcome to my Queer passion project for June 2023: Pride In The Multiverse Join me as I discuss my way through the various wonderful queer characters in Magic: The Gathering. Starting with a broad strokes history dump about Chandra/Nissa and their sordid history to Trans & NB characters to the Sapphics of the Multiverse and rounding out the series with the delightful Queer masculine characters. I'm here, I'm queer, I'm a giant geek.

Let me show y'all the wonders of M:TG in an easy to approach, chisme chats kinda way. There's space for all of us to be geeks over our queer blorbos. Let's vibe!

[magicjudge]

Rules interaction question. Shelob, Child of Ungoliant + a PW + An ability that turns it into a creature. If Shelob kills a PW while it is a creature, does she still make a food of that "creature"? Does it still have Loyalty Counters/can it activate Loyalty abilities? Is it still killed upon having no Loyalty Counters on it?

Shelob will always make food out of whatever dies to one of your spiders, so the fact that it's a planeswalker or something else that's not normally a creature doesn't matter.

You'll make a token copy of the printed card except it's a Artifact - Food instead of its other types. In the case of a planeswalker, that means your copy of Sarkhan the Masterless will be a Legendary Artfact - Food that enters with no loyalty counters on it. You can still use one of its loyalty abilities on each of your turns, adding or removing loyalty counters as needed*, but it's not a planeswalker and so it can't be attacked and it won't die due to having 0 loyalty counters on it.

*(Loyalty abilities still work normally because they're a special class of abilities with their own rules. However, entering the battlefield with loyalty counters only happens for planeswalkers, so the food starts with none.)

[2femme]

Boyfriend's response to me asking if Barbie is a planeswalker:

Planeswalkers are people in the mtg multiverse that possess what is called a spark, which allows them to instantly travel between different planes of existence just by concentrating (or in the case of the wondering emperor, not concentrating) on the world they want to travel to. However, within the mtg lore, there are alternate methods of traveling between planes, such as the omen paths and the phyrexian portal and the Thran gateway.

So, I would believe that although she has made the journey between two worlds, it is a specific plot point that the method of travel is not instant teleportation but rather a series of silly but super fun vehicles.

However still, the amount of Barbies in Barbie world allow for the variable for a spark to ignite within a Barbie, a sort of "planeswalker Barbie" that has that ability.

Furthermore, I believe that this possibility however much I am in favor of, is not likely to happen as magic the gathering is owned by Hasbro and Barbie is owned by Mattel. Two companies that would rather exploit children for money than give them what they want.

Conclusion: planeswalker Barbie cannot exist until capitalism is destroyed.

On further speculation, if there ever was a Barbie card, she would be all five color to reflect her many variants, occupations and eras. I believe that Barbie can and does represent each of the 5 colors of magic and their philosophies.

[herzblutrose]

King (ID in Alt)

I might maybe perhaps possibly still be slightly obsessed with the Wilds of Eldraine story. (And Rowan specifically. Support women's wrongs!)