About Signature Spellbook. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but nowhere in the release does it actually say that a Planeswalker card will be included does it? It says spells centered around a Planeswalker with a premium card included. These very well could be just 5 colors of spells with a Planeswalker plastered on the box with no Planeswalker included, much like the old Duels of the Planeswalkers decks that didn't include any walkers in the deck. Just a thought and again, correct me if I'm wrong.
Signature Spellbook: Jace is a spiritual successor to the From the Vault series, but with a signature twist: each Signature Spellbook is themed around a Planeswalker and the spells that define who they are. Jace Beleren, fresh off having his memory restored on Ixalan, has plenty in his arsenal. Each Signature Spellbook will contain one premium foil and eight cards that fit with the Planeswalker's identity. They will have an MSRP of $19.99 (applies to the United States only), and you can get your hands on them starting June 15, 2018, in English only.
It is strongly hinted that there will be a Jace walker, but look how ambiguous they phrase the whole thing. Makes me wonder.
From the way they phrase the whole thing makes us believe it has a Walker in there.
It says:
“Each Signature Spellbook is themed around a Planeswalker and the spells that define who they are.”
Note the ‘and’ which means it is both themed around a planeswalker and themed around the spells that define who they are.
We are lead to believe as you say, but it in no way states that there will be one. It would be stupid if they didn't include a walker, but this is Wizards remember.
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How much sense does it make that the Chinese special decks would be only available in English?
Someone really dropped the ball on Bolas here. He looks like a goblin with horns, not a godlike dragon planeswalker...
Actually, he looks like Mohawk from Gremlins 2 with horns
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The issue with doing PW cards for Urza, Serra, Leshrac, and the other absurdly powerful beings of Magic lore is that unless the card is a ten-mana "you win the game" card, it wouldn't be doing justice to the pure absurd power level of the oldwalkers. Oldwalkers were gods. Not Theros "kinda sorta" gods. They were completely unbeatable unless you were one or something similar (Yawgmoth).
Imagine that Jace Signature Spellbook containing Jace, the Mind Sculptor and turning him from the Wallet Sculpter to the Peoples Sculpture. Crash the market. Eliminate the bourgeoisie.
I think the more likely scenario is that since he's basically 8x the MSRP of the spellbook every single one gets bought out by scalpers or horded and no one sees them actually make it to the shelves. I'm probably pre-ordering one the second it shows up since at worse I'm getting a jace themed counterspell reprint from the jace vs chandra duel deck in foil, Fact or Fiction Jace duel deck reprint in foil, and possibly a Jace Beleren. I highly doubt they are going to put the most powerful version of jace in the FTV unless they literally hold the spoilers to a week before release.
^THIS^.
Anyone expecting JtMS in a $20 MSRP product is deluding themselves.
They did fine with Freyalise and Teferi, both of them were on theme and relatively powerful for what they did. Urza is long overdue in a Commander product in foil. We'll get four decks and four shots to get something. I'm honestly hoping for Karn if we don't get Urza.
The color combinations we're lacking:
Azorious
Gruul
Dimir
Rakdos
Colorless
We had Rainbow Dragons and Selesnya Cats last year.
My guess for this year we might get Karn for the colorless Commander with new wastes art set on Argentum.
I'm hoping that we do get Urza, Karn, or Serra this year because those would be the best and most unique planeswalkers of them all.
My presumption:
1. Urza
2. Karn
3. Taysir
4. Azor (Planeswalker) to fill in BW when he was on Ravnica
5. Serra as white angel walker
6. Glacian as Blue White
I'm presuming Urza of the Nine Titans before getting his head lobbed off. Karn from Argentum Pure. Azor on ancient Ravnica. Serra in Serra's Sanctum when she meta Urza or was with Ferod in Homelands. Glacian before he was sealed. Taysir of Rabia.
We'll probably have newer planesewalkers though. Narset, Liliana, or Bo Levar.
Uh about karn I don't think they would do a walker close to dominaria release
If we were to get a colorless walker it's more likely to be Ugin.
As a matter of fact if we get a walker form azor in this and Ugin usable commander that's a flavor win.
We are lead to believe as you say, but it in no way states that there will be one. It would be stupid if they didn't include a walker, but this is Wizards remember.
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Actually, he looks like Mohawk from Gremlins 2 with horns
And this would be a loop hole to avoid a eldrazi deck.
But really they would still put a few in karns deck if that's the case.
EDIT: oh wait a second I just remembered they don't do cards close to other sets
So instead of karn it's could be Ugin.
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Uh about karn I don't think they would do a walker close to dominaria release
If we were to get a colorless walker it's more likely to be Ugin.
As a matter of fact if we get a walker form azor in this and Ugin usable commander that's a flavor win.
Probably going to get a lot of Oath of the Gatewatch reprints, and Imperial Mask.
I totally forgot but that makes a lot of sense