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Do planeswalkers personalities shift going from Lorwynn to Shadowmoor or only plane natives?
That's an interesting question. The PW guide specifies native born creatures have the duality.
Yah, I caught it specifically mentioned native born only. Makes me mighty curious if it will affect the Strixhaven class going there.
(I know you can't answer that Jay, no worries! I'm more just wanted to put that thought out to the masses)
Tiny Dinosaur wanted to help out with awareness so he made a tiny presentation. Suggestions for improvements are very welcome, he has never made a presentation about asexuality before and he wants to make sure he gets it right.
Since he was (presumably) the first to be compleated, did Tibalt lose his spark upon compleation, or did the Phyrexians figure out the whole Phyrexian Planeswalker thing by the time they got around to him. I'm leaning towards no, given his personality was well intact; but with how Tibalt is, it can be hard to tell sometimes.
I assume he lost his spark, he was infected months before Jin-Gitaxias cracked Planeswalker compleation.
As sad as I was initially when I realized we would never get an infected Tibalt pw card, this makes a lot of sense and does give a reason for why we wouldn't get one.
I want to speak out against the whole push towards DEI. I feel that ever since you made the push to make identity the forefront of a character it has hurt the stories you tell. Captain Sisay's race was never the focus of her character and she was a complete badass! And I fear if you did it over again Gerrard would be trans, black and disabled just because. It also cheapens the stories of world devastation when characters worry more about their gender than Bolas destroying everything.
The reason I started this blog is so we can have frank conversations about things, so please let’s talk about this.
Imagine if every time you turned on the TV or watched a movie, no one looked like you. For some of us, that’s never happened. We see ourselves constantly, so it’s hard to truly understand what not seeing yourself represented in media is like.
I do have a personal window to this experience. While I am white and male, there’s an area where I am the minority - my religion. Jews are just under two and a half percent of the US population. I have had many experiences where I’ve been in situations where everything is geared towards a group I do not belong to, and zero consideration is given that not everyone at that event is part of the majority.
You just feel invisible and like an outsider. It’s not a great feeling. And I just experience it a tiny portion of time, only things that are geared specifically towards something religious. Most minorities have this feeling all the time, whenever they’re outside their personal community.
Now imagine, after years of not seeing yourself ever, you finally see someone that looks like you, but nothing about the character rings remotely true. They don’t sound like you, they don’t act like you, the facts about their day-to-day life are just wrong. It’s clear whoever wrote the character didn’t truly understand the lived experience of the character, so the character feels fake.
You bring up Sisay. Michael Ryan and I didn’t technically create Sisay (she played a small role in the Mirage story), but we did do a lot to flesh out her character as the creators of the Weatherlight Saga. We turned her from a minor character into a major one.
And while I’m proud, in general, of our work on the Weatherlight Saga, I don’t think we did justice to Sisay as a character. Neither Michael nor I have any knowledge of what it’s like to be a black woman. Nor did we ever talk to someone who did.
And if you’re someone like us that has no knowledge of that experience, you probably didn’t notice. But that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
Imagine if we made a movie about your life, and we just made everything up. We invented people you never knew, we gave you a job you never had, and we had you say things you’d never say. The movie might even be a good movie, but your response would be, but that’s not my life - that’s not me.
Now imagine we put the movie out, and people that never met you assumed that was what you were like. When people met you for the first time, they assumed things, because, you know, they’d seen the movie.
That’s what misrepresenting people does. It not only makes them feel not seen, it falsely represents them, spreading lies, often stereotypes, making people believe things about them that aren’t true.
Our move towards diversity is just us trying to better reflect the world and the people in it. We’re trying to do to everyone else what a certain portion of people get every day without ever having to think about it.
But why are we “making it the forefront of their character”? We’re not. We’re making it a part of their character. But in a world where you’re not used to ever seeing it, it feels louder than it is. Things that are a natural part of the world that you’re used to feel like the background of the story because you understand the context to it.
If a man kisses his wife before going off to a battle, that’s not a big deal. It’s just a thing a husband might do to his wife when he leaves. It’s not the forefront of his character. It’s just part of his life. But you’ve seen it hundreds of times, so it feels normal.
When someone does something that isn’t your lived experience it pulls focus. It seems like a big deal, but only because it’s new to you. It’s just as mundane a thing to that character as the man kissing his wife is to him.
Even the turn “pushing” implies that it’s unnaturally here, that we’re forcing something that naturally shouldn’t be. But why? That thing exists naturally in the real world, and it doesn’t make the real world any less. Maybe you’re less aware of it, but is making you aware of how others live their life “pushing” something on you?
How you live your life is represented constantly, everywhere. Why isn’t over-representing your experience at the expense of everyone else’s “pushing” it? Why is media only being the experience of those in power the “proper way”?
Having more depth and variety doesn’t lessen stories. It makes them deeper, more rich, more nuanced. In short, it makes them better stories. In my former life, I was a professional writer. I took a lot of writing classes. One of the truism of writing is “speaking truth leads to better stories”.
There’s another famous quote: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” You’re used to being over-represented, so being a little less over-represented feels like something has been taken from you. But really it hasn’t. Having a better sense of the rest of the world comes with a lot of benefits.
I’ll use food as an example. Let’s say all you were ever exposed to was the food of your heritage. Yeah, that food is really good, but sometimes isn’t it nice to eat foods of other nationalities? Isn’t your life better that you have a choice? Isn’t your exposure and access to the food of other nationalities a positive in your life?
Exposure to variety is a positive. It allows you to learn about things you didn’t know, experience things things you’ve never experienced, and get a better sense of understanding of your friends and neighbors.
Our actions are not to harm anyone, and if you think that’s what we’re doing, please take a minute to actually absorb what I’m saying. You’ve spent your whole life metaphorically eating one type of food, and we’re just trying to show you how much you’ve missed out on.
And while this might not impact you directly, we’re making a whole bunch of people felt seen. We’re bringing joy. Think of it this way. We make a lot of cards. Not every card is for you. But if it makes someone else happy, if they get to include it in a deck, and it makes Magic better for them, how is it harming you that we include it? You have so many cards that you can play.
To this poster or people that share their viewpoint, the narrative that a gain for someone else is an attack on you is just not true. As I just pointed out above, you play a game all about personal choice, about players getting to choose how they play and enjoy the game. Why should life be any different than Magic?
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Im really torn between the fact that my favorite set of all time Will be seeing the light of the day again ( lorwyn) and my gut feelings of how It Will be fucked up by the new superbland mediocre art style and the real world politic agenda ( not so) subtly pushed in late sets, in a CARD GAME. We want to see stories of faeries, kithkins, elves, goblins, Giants,merfolk and cinders in their beautiful fantasy setting, no trans they/them faeries that think they're kithkins
Two points:
1) When returning to a world, we’re very cognizant of the aesthetic of the world. We understand returning to Lorwyn requires embracing what made people love it the first time around. Obviously, there will be updates, as the game has evolved much since our first visit, but we’re very aware of the need to recapture the plane’s essence.
2) For far too long, fantasy, as a genre, was used as a way to reflect the worldview of those in power. It leaned into stereotype and reflected how the privileged wished the world was. Modern fantasy is more reflective of the actual world, which includes the wide variety of life experiences that exists.
Trans people, people of color, and women playing a larger role, are all part of modern fantasy because they’re all part of the actual world, and it’s important that our stories and world building be reflective of that.
“I want to return to a time where we could ignore the existence of certain elements because I was happy living in that ignorance” is not an excuse to deny real people and their real life experiences.
Entertainment is at its best when it lifts everyone up and isn’t used as yet another means to ignore certain people’s reality.
Hi Mark, you have been so long with wizards, have you ever thought of leaving, and giving your mantle to younger minds.
if you do, please do not give it to a woke mind.
You do understand that "woke" just means thinks and cares about others. I sincerely hope my predecessor is "woke". I want them to think about how their design decisions affects everyone.
That said, I have no current plans of retiring, but sure one day. There are many talented designers I can hand off my mantle to.
Are there any plans to increase the count of Planeswalkers again in the main sets? I'm not a big fan of only one per set
Time for a poll.
How many planeswalkers should a premier set have (on average)?
None
One
Two
Three
Four
Five or more
I don’t care
While I picked 2, I think maybe a 1.75 is best. 1 can be useful, it does allow some of the legends shine better (especially how this new set was able to use previously b and c level Walkers who are now desparked) but at the same time I miss planeswalkers.
After the Phyrexian invasion collapsed what happened to the planes which fell completely to Phyrexia? Tezzeret mentioned that Mirrankkar, Cabralin and others fell to Phyrexia quickly and others were nearly there, did they recover to normal? Are they dead planes or are there perhaps Phyrexians there struggling to survive like on New Capena?
That's not the kind of thing you're going to get answered any time soon, unfortunately.
I'd imagine the answer is not "everything went back to normal" at least. It's probably not a happy tale.
As someone excitedly following the MKM story every day, I really didn’t appreciate having to bail on the preview stream to avoid finding out whodunnit before it was revealed in today’s chapter. Could you pass along the note to please, please not pit folks’ story interest against their card preview interest like that? I know it got a lot of story fans upset.
Thank you.
Would you have preferred the story being posted before the stream?
Honestly, yes. With it being a murder mystery especially, I was eagerly excited to read today's story before the stream. But when it didn't come out, and I read that the murderer was going to be revealed during the stream, I panicked and didn't watch it.
This story has been amazing! High fives to everyone involved in it coming to life. But I can't help but feel like having the murderer revealed this way was a disservice to the story.
Hi Jay,
The recent story seems to heavily imply that the Ravnican population as a whole are pissed off with *all* planeswalkers for not coming to their aid during the Phyrexian Invasion. Are they all being entitled ass-hats (what with the number of planeswalkers << numberof planes being invaded), or am I missing something here?
Imagine you are an average Ravnican.
Imagine if the most important position in your government was taken by a being from outside of your world, and they disappeared for long stretches off-world. You've never heard of a planeswalker before.
Imagine if within the span of a few months, half your other heads of state were replaced by planeswalkers just like him, most of which because of assassinations... carried out by these same planeswalkers. Most at the behest of ANOTHER planeswalker, a massive evil dragon who launches an invasion with off-world murder zombies and wreaks havoc on your world. You finally know the name planeswalker, and associate it with the worst tragedy to happen on your plane in millennia.
All to get at these planeswalkers. And at the cost of thousands of lives - YOUR lives, YOUR people, the ones that the dragon AREN'T after, they win. Every single one of those planeswalkers owes their lives to the citizens of Ravnica. Every. Single. One. Dozens of planeswalkers, deep in Ravnica's debt.
Two years later, one of those planeswalkers, a supposed local, launches yet another invasion. Worse than the last. And where were these planeswalkers YOU saved in THEIR hour of need, now that YOU need them?
Not a single one of the dozens whose lives were bought with the blood, sweat, and tears of average Ravnicans could be bothered to show up. Even the Orzhov Guildmaster couldn't even be bothered to show up. The only one that did was the Izzet Guildmaster.
Azor's beard. These ungrateful assholes. Planeswalkers suck. We hate them.
Which site of a March of the Machine battle would you most like to visit as a main setting for a premier set? (Vote 2 of 2)
Muraganda
Pyrulea
Regatha
Segovia
Shandalar
Tolvada
Vryn
Xerex
Honestly, I want to visit like 2/3 of these. Xerex, Tolvada, Segovia, and Pyrulea would all be fascinating to explore.
Which Theros gods got phyrexianized and which didn't? And is there any hope for the phyrexian ones to heal or are they too far gone?
We know the mono-colored gods are either confirmed or heavily implied, and likely many of the others. Cymede likely means Keranos, for instance.
As for the metaphysics of what comes next, we don't know yet.
Unless I missed something, the only two who we know are safe are Athreos and Ephara, and Athreos wasn't on a card so that "safe" is a probably, not a 100%.
Where’s Athreos mentioned?
And Jay’s comment on Cymede and Keranos seems to imply enough of Keranos’s followers were compleated to affect him too, but I’m not sure why that would necessarily be the case. Couldn’t Cymede just be a one-off?
Athreos was mentioned in the Team-up article:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/the-legendary-team-ups-of-march-of-the-machine
Specifically, look at the Kroxa and Kunoros section.
Which Theros gods got phyrexianized and which didn't? And is there any hope for the phyrexian ones to heal or are they too far gone?
We know the mono-colored gods are either confirmed or heavily implied, and likely many of the others. Cymede likely means Keranos, for instance.
As for the metaphysics of what comes next, we don't know yet.
Unless I missed something, the only two who we know are safe are Athreos and Ephara, and Athreos wasn't on a card so that "safe" is a probably, not a 100%.
Mr Mark, I beg you, the myr mark... the myr... did any of them survive? MARK! THE MYR WHAT HAPPEND TO THE MYR! I BEG YOU!
I will do everything in my power to make sure more Myr exist as cards.
Please and thank you!!! Gotta soft spot for Mirrodin, so having even one Myr survive would be amazing.
If New Phyrexia was shunted into the metaphysical location of Zhalfir, if the Zhalfirin Void on Dominaria became unphased (somehow), would New Phyrexia overlay into Dominaria (in a similar manner to the Rathi Overlay)?
It's possible, but extremely unlikely. It took an event of cosmic importance, and the Invasion Tree, to pluck Zhalfir out of the metaphysical pocket it was occupying.
It's also not clear what would even remain of it, the physical world was crumbling, and it's not clear if Norn's 'kill switch' was tied to her or the plane itself.
At least back in the old days of magic, artificial planes like New Phyrexia needed either one of the god-like walkers managing it, or an equal amount of mana from all 5 sources, or else thwy would slowly collapse. That's why Karn built it like he did with the five suns. So, hypothetically, with the five suns gone and no god-like walkers anymore, who knows? Maybe New Phyrexia will simply collapse in that metaphysical time out zone.
(Probably not if we're honest, they were put in time out instead of blown up for a reason)
Are we going to see one legendary creature with multiple versions in a set like urza and mishra in dominaria united going forward? I like that because sometimes i want to pkay as a certain character but dont like the design so I like that I can pick between several different mechanical cards. Hiw about for lord of the rings? I want like 5 frodos and many gandalfs. This helps because sometimes people like the character but dislike the card.
A fine question. How many of the same character should appear in a set?
I like the idea as an rare thing, but only if it makes sense. In BRO it was due to time travel, so in the future it would probably have to be due to the character changing dramatically.
Which creature type of the following are you most excited to see more of?
Brushwaggs
Dwarves
Otters
Weirds
Turtles!!!
