That's why there never will be an angel planeswalker.
They don't have SOULS (née: sparks)
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Magic: the Gathering - Shadows over Innistrad |OT| Blue's Clues
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That's why there never will be an angel planeswalker.
They don't have SOULS (née: sparks)
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Your odd random capitalization almost makes it look like you're talking about actual cards, in which case Sowing Salt and Scorched Earth are both red
I'm not talking about specific cards, just the ideal of scorched earth, which is represented well and truly as part of white's color pie via the game mechanic "board wipe." It's been that way since alpha and it's a part of its pie that continues to be used in modern magic design. That's exhibited by white having cards that destroy all lands, destroy all creatures, destroy all nonland permanents and destroy all small creatures.
AutoCardAnywhere is hilarious when we talk about stuff like this.
"Scorched Earth is very white" (card comes up red)
Also makes the thread always littered with cards and makes me think at some point in the future our entire posts will be just card names
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets had to Pore Over the Pages to continue his Ongoing Investigation into Archangel Avacyn's rampage. He had to Confirm Suspicions.
Every time I see a link come up in a Magic Story I always wonder if they did it on purpose
"Scorched Earth is very white" (card comes up red)
Also makes the thread always littered with cards and makes me think at some point in the future our entire posts will be just card names
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets had to Pore Over the Pages to continue his Ongoing Investigation into Archangel Avacyn's rampage. He had to Confirm Suspicions.
Every time I see a link come up in a Magic Story I always wonder if they did it on purpose
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Talking about scorched earth they should make an asymmetrical boardwipe a la
Scorched Earth 2WW
Sorcery
Destroy all lands you control and all creatures opponents control, they can't be regenerated.
Scorched Earth 2WW
Sorcery
Destroy all lands you control and all creatures opponents control, they can't be regenerated.
They'll eventually do one somehow. There's too much demand for it, and they already did a demon one now.
It'll have to be a conversion then.
Infinite Stars
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Your odd random capitalization almost makes it look like you're talking about actual cards, in which case Sowing Salt and Scorched Earth are both red
I'm not talking about specific cards, just the ideal of scorched earth, which is represented well and truly as part of white's color pie via the game mechanic "board wipe." It's been that way since alpha and it's a part of its pie that continues to be used in modern magic design. That's exhibited by white having cards that destroy all lands, destroy all creatures, destroy all nonland permanents and destroy all small creatures.
It's an issue with my phone's keyboard, randomly capitalizing letters, but I'll try to fix that.
I get that white has board wipes, but scorched earth still feels tinged with black to me.
Basically I'm saying Nahiri should be Mardu if she stays in the mindset
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
The strongest magic in the multiverse belongs to marketing.
It's an issue with my phone's keyboard, randomly capitalizing letters, but I'll try to fix that.
I get that white has board wipes, but scorched earth still feels tinged with black to me.
Basically I'm saying Nahiri should be Mardu if she stays in the mindset
Black also has it in its color pie. Not disagreeing with that, just the statement that it doesn't feel white. It's primarily in white, secondary in black and tertiary in red. Except mechanically via damage or -1/-1 effects and or counters, which then go to red and black, respectively.
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divisionbyzorro
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I love TPF precisely because I have no idea what I'm doing. It's great.
Also, I have a love affair with Dead//Gone.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Easiest color pie choice in existence. There is no purer distillation of black's color pie than marketing.
It's Black White. They want you to be a part of the cult but for their own gain.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
oh fine
TheBlackMarvel
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Eh we got a demon and an artifact planeswalker, an Angel is a question of when rather than if.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
but Karn has a heart now and Nixilis started as a human (?) and we all know the soul rests in the heart. Like our topdecks in the heart of the cards.
Infinite Stars
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TheBlackMarvel
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Lol seriously though, if they want to do it, they'll do it.
Tbh, I'm surprised we don't have one already.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
better not be partially green, blue or black so I won't be able to play it in angel tribal.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Serra hasn't been depicted in cards in like a decade plus right? Give her some wings, say she's "technically not an angel" or that she's the "ur-angel, the one genuine living angel" and give her a planeswalker card
TheBlackMarvel
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The refugees from her plane aren't. That's a really interesting tidbit I wonder if they'll follow up on down the line.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
True, but the post I was replying to was about the character.
Though I agree, it'd be nice to check up on some of the refugees.
Especially if they get to interact with New Phyrexia.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah my broader point is just that the easiest handwave in the world is "this person just looks like an angel and is a planeswalker" if that aspect of the lore is such a sticking point for them.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Fuck it, give Elspeth wings. Its how she escapes the underworld. I dunno
Did I miss where they confirmed she had been trapped in the vault?
TheBlackMarvel
Member
Anything but this lol.
I'd have been fine with one of the artificial angels becoming a planeswalker but they're dead now...
EDIT: Nope, confirmed.
.It's assumed but it just makes Sorin look like an even bigger idiot if that's the case.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
idk, I thought that was implied by the post and went with it.
While we're at it, Teferi is technically still around and Radha technically has the spark.
Slobad used his to send all the people who were brought to Mirrodin back to their planes.
He just forgot that those people had children. Oops.
Joe Molotov
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Elspeth, the Angel-blooded
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+1: Draw a card then discard a card at random. Until end of turn Elspeth, the Angel-blooded becomes a 2/2 Human Angel Warrior creature with flying that's still a planeswalker.
-4: Put X 1/1 White Solider tokens in play where X is equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.
-6: Gain control of all creatures until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste and flying until end of turn.
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Mirrodin books started really strong and then ended so awfully.
Slobad PW would literally be Daretti and yeah he used it to res mirrodin and it didn't even give him a mention in Scars, Glissa and Geth got another card, Bosh is scrap metal and Slobad was never seen again. Goblins seemed so much more pronounced in OG Mirrodin than Scars in general.
The descriptions of the plane in the blook were amazing.
charlequin
Banned
The same issue that keeps him from making another Avacyn (the Mending) also keeps him from doing anything useful to fix the problem. The story establishes that she can actually hurt him now so he can't just stand there and let her rage uselessly while he studies the problem or anything.
Sarkhan hasn't been white.
I even turned on dictionary words so on here I get all kinds of ridiculous stuff like "Far and Away the best time to Call it a Bust is when you make an Error on your Order."
You were joking about five color slivers the other day but just by virtue of being a linear strategy that's in all three packs it's actually a great choice in TPF if no one else playing has any idea what they're doing either.
Slobad's dead.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Man like...I get why the mending had to happen, but I sort of miss the idea of planeswalkers as incredibly, godly beings. Like, that actually felt like it matched up to the player idea of "you are a planeswalker", it is pretty trivial for me to just get enough white mana and make an angel.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
That's the thing, it's only a problem because his first thought was "confront Avacyn head on", if he'd bothered to look into anything beforehand, perhaps he could have done something less drastic. However, I'll concede there was no better solution at the time. But this is Sorin who foresaw his people annihilating Innistrad and apparently built a system to protect not just against them but also against extra-planar threats as well. And when something goes wrong he doesn't even consider why? Hmm.
That said,
according to the players guide he was going to destroy her anyway, that was the price of Olivia's help, no? Which is also insane, "yes, I'll destroy the angel I can (at least partially) control who the vampires couldn't defeat to get their help against the planeswalker I (apparently) can't defeat."
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yes and the sense of discovery was great, fifth dawn felt organic in the books and finding the hints for cards in the set was amazing as a kid. Never found a Bruena card
Radha was awful but the old guard was pretty bad. Venser was the best we got out of the TSP block and they went and killed him.
Also apparently wizards is ceasing wpn support left and right for small LGS in europe that can't fulfill their unreasonable requirements for our standards.
"God's Beard!"
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To be fair, Avacyn is going around mindlessly upsetting the balance of Innistrad and undoing Sorin's work while he's going around doing whatever. Avacyn isn't some being intrinsically tied to the health of the plane, she's an artificial safeguard meant to protect against imbalance creeping up over generations. She did more damage in the short time she went haywire than her not being there would have done.
Also, if Sorin couldn't defeat Nahiri, I seriously doubt she'd have to go around and attack him in such a passive-aggressive way.
Also, if Sorin couldn't defeat Nahiri, I seriously doubt she'd have to go around and attack him in such a passive-aggressive way.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";204048906]To be fair, Avacyn is going around mindlessly upsetting the balance of Innistrad and undoing Sorin's work while he's going around doing whatever. Avacyn isn't some being intrinsically tied to the health of the plane, she's an artificial safeguard meant to protect against imbalance creeping up over generations. She did more damage in the short time she went haywire than her not being there would have done.
Also, if Sorin couldn't defeat Nahiri, I seriously doubt she'd have to go around and attack him in such a passive-aggressive way.[/QUOTE]
Eh, given how bad things got the last time she was gone, I'm not so sure that's correct...
As for that, if that's the case, what does he need Olivia for?
Also, if Sorin couldn't defeat Nahiri, I seriously doubt she'd have to go around and attack him in such a passive-aggressive way.[/QUOTE]
Eh, given how bad things got the last time she was gone, I'm not so sure that's correct...
As for that, if that's the case, what does he need Olivia for?
"God's Beard!"
Member
Honestly if I was Sorin I'd be closer to working with Nicol Bolas than Ugin. Sorin seems like someone who'd very much like his old powers back.
It took a SCG Open. Was on camera the whole time. Bound to happen bro
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