My first thought was "oh, how cute, the faeries have repurposed mundane objects from the 'big' world into weapons - I think I see a key, a sewing needle, is that a quill? Oh, hold on..."
My second thought: "EVERYTHING IS PURPLE. That is *exactly* the thing Maro tried to introduce ten years ago in Time Spiral block. HRM."
Very much looking forward to more details on Saturday, but even if it isn't an extra color (Faerie magic, woo!) I'm still intrigued by the art style on the flier. I'm quite happy with this.
"Royal Courts of Eldraine"? Oh, is this going to be a medieval world, with knightly houses like I've proposed?
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MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
"Royal Courts of Eldraine"? Oh, is this going to be a medieval world, with knightly houses like I've proposed?
From the name alone I'm getting an Arthurian vibe. Igraine is the name of Arthur's mother and Faeries play a part in some versions of the tale. The plane could be a mix of Bant + Lorwyn.
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Embrace the dark you call a home,
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
It bothers me that he says that Rosewater didn't share the name of the set sooner because they've been spoiling other sets in the past few months but they're going to start talking about Eldrain this weekend but only mention when C19 spoilers start and nothing else. Seems contradictory.
Sigh. I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed that it didn't end up being a Snow/Vikings plane of some sort. Ice Age was probably my favorite mtg flavor as of so far.
That said, I'm REALLY glad that it didn't end up being a Wild West plane. I think I might have literally stayed away from the game for a year or two for that to cycle away if it had happened. I'd say I cared about 10 times as much about it NOT being a Wild West plane as I did about it BEING a Snow/Vikings plane, by comparison (and I cared quite a bit about it being Snow/Vikings, so that's saying something, lol).
Anyway, that being said, if it does end up being an English/French Middle Age/Knights kind of a flavor, I guess that might not be so bad (depending on what exactly they do with it), so I'm remaining open minded about it. Could potentially be cool. Albeit nowhere near as cool as a Snow/Vikings plane! Argh! ONE TIME!!! Lol.
To be honest though, I think the real key issue for me that goes way beyond even which type of plane it ends up being, is the style and method of the card art. I've noticed that they seem to be letting the artwork for a lot of the cards start to look like screenshots from video games, rather than look like paintings, which really rubs me the wrong way. Especially from Ixalan onwards, there seems to be a LOT of that going on. Like some of the card art literally looks like they just clicked green dots on one of those 3D-auto-fill programs where it creates polygons and curved sheeting to fill the shape in of whatever 3D shapes you create by moving anchor-points around and then it just auto-fills the color and lighting/shading digitially or something, the way it would be in a video game. That might be cheaper and more efficient, and certainly makes sense in a video game where things are in motion so it makes total sense to resort to that type of stuff. But it doesn't make nearly as much sense to me for them to do that with card art for a premier level TCG like MTG with the budget they have and huge fanbase they built up over the years who loved the art and flavor of the cards because they looked like actual beautiful paintings and artwork (because, well, they were. The artists were hand paintings that stuff on canvases with paintbrushes). And, even with digital art, btw, although I personally don't like the look of it as much as oil in canvas, I'd still be at least somewhat okay with it if it at least looked like it was being painted by hand albeit with a stylus, digitally, rather than with paintbrushes on canvas. At least a talented painter could still make beautiful art even in that medium. But when it just looks like that 3D dot-matrix auto-fill video game screenshot type of thing that a lot of the cards look like now, that just looks ugly and lazy to me. I wonder if maybe they think that it's somehow a good thing, because it'll make the card art look more similar to Hearthstone or something. If that's their mentality, I think it could be a VERY bad idea in the long run, even if it works out seemingly okay in the short run. The idea should be to keep MTG noticeably distinct, not just gameplay-wise but also art-wise, from games like Hearthstone. Not just try to copy their vibe but be a less immediate-gratification version gameplay-wise. If they do that, they could risk just flat out losing to them, in spite of having a deeper more interesting overall game than Hearthstone. Which would be a real shame. Whereas if they would keep their artwork looking like actual paintings rather than video game screenshots, and also not try to make it look too "illustrations intended for very young children" of a vibe (i.e. NOT using the art style they used for the two younger Chandra cards in M20 for example), and instead making it look a bit more dark and scary and intense the way it used to look in the late 90s and early 2000s, or even stuff like Innistrad for that matter, I think that would be a great move. Both because I personally would like it a lot more (lol), but also even non-selfishly, I think it would be a smart move, because I don't think even by the very early teen years, or even earlier a lot of the time, most kids that are about 10 or older don't want really cutesy made-for-little-kids looking artwork. I don't think that's what looks cool or badass to them that they huddle around and go oooooh and ahhhhh about. No, that's what is "lame" to them by that age. (And, yes, I do realize there people who DO like that art vibe who actually do like the art style of stuff like My Little Pony or things like that. And that's fine. Different strokes for different folks. Just saying ON AVERAGE, I think if they kept the art looking more like it's intended for people in their teens or adult years where it looks like actual painted artwork with real depth and gravitas like it used to have, I think that would be a much stronger move in the LONG RUN for them, since as their fan base continuously grows up, they wouldn't just age out of the game due to the artwork looking like it was made for little kids or too lazy and videogame-screenshot-ish either, but rather, they'd just continue loving the cool, dark, edgy, beautiful looking artwork no matter how old they got even after becoming adults, the way people did with the style of artwork in the late 90s and early 2000s. At least, I think so anyway).
Not to mention the VARIETY of art styles that used to exist, and which there is much less of now. That's the other thing. At least in the older art, the different artists had TONS of VERY different styles of artwork. There really was something for everyone art-wise. But now there also seems to be some sort of effort to make the art style converge to being more and more similar between the various artists. It isn't 100% in effect yet, since they still seem to be allowing their most talented artists to make art that is of a very different style than the vast majority of the rest of the artists (I.e. they allow Seb McKinnon to get weird with his art, since he's very talented, so they let him do his thing), but, I don't know if it's intentional or not, or just happening on its own due to the digital artists all trying to mimic each other's techniques or something, but one way or the other, the digital videogame screenshot-style artists seem to be making card art that not only looks like video game screenshots (which is already kind of a bummer) but also look of a very similar inherent vibe to one another where its getting much tougher and tougher to be able to guess which artist made which card art without looking at the name at the bottom of the card. It used to be distinctive enough that you could easily tell who did what with a lot of the cards. That's how much variety there was in the art styles between the different artists.
So, I guess in summary:
1. A little bummed out that it didn't end up being a Snow Viking plane, but it's not the end of the world
2. EXTREMELY relieved that it didn't end up being a Wild West theme
3. Cautiously optimistic/open minded about this Faeries/Knights/Arthurian looking vibe
4. None of the first 3 points will end up mattering much if WoTC keeps allowing the "art" to look more and more like video game screenshots instead of beautifully hand painted artwork, and if they keep trending towards having a larger and larger percentage of the artwork looking like it was intended for extremely young children, and if they keep trying to make the art styles of the various artists look more and MORE similar to one another with only rare exceptions that have their own unique style, rather than how it used to be where there was tons of variety and all sorts of different beautiful art styles between the range of different artists. If they don't reverse this trend, I'm not sure I'm going to even able able to care much or enjoy something like an awesome Snow/Vikings theme plane when it finally hits, because what fun would it be if the art just looks like a bunch of computer auto-fill program generated cgi screenshot stuff and done in some totally homogenized all-artists-look-like-one-single-non-artist-bot way and looks like it was intended for the illustrations in some children's book made for 7 year olds to boot. At that point, it would no longer matter to me if they brought it to the coolest themed plane in the history of the game, since what fun would the theme/plane flavor be if the art was horrible. That would defeat the purpose. Might as well just be the card functions typed on blank cards at that point, so then I might as well be playing Bridge or Chess or Poker or something at that point, let alone from a collecting standpoint.
Anyway, I guess that's long enough for a first post, so I'll just leave it at that for now, lol.
Sorry if that got a bit overly long and rant-y, lol. I've been lurking on the Rumor Mill threads about what the upcoming sets were gonna be for a while now, so, I guess I had a lot of thoughts and opinions building up for quite a while here, mainly in regards to the card art trend that has happened in the past few years.
I do love MTG though (even right now, although the art trend is making it tougher and tougher). I guess I am just worried about what the artwork might become in future years at the rate it's going, to where it'll just start to look like Hearthstone or something. That would be such a waste of a beautifully painted, deep, interesting card game, if it happened.
Alternatively, if this has "knightly houses" in it, I wonder if it will introduce specific names for the five four-color combinations?
I had envisioned Knightly Houses being factions a lot like the Guilds, but since we were just in Ravnica, I imagine they'd work a lot more like Theros' poleis. And considering knights traditionally each bore their own coat of arms, I imagine it could be more like 5-20 legendary Knights associated with color pairs and trios.
I got a feeling this set will revolve around a succession crisis' the ruling king has died and no heir can be found, so the various lords and ladies of the realm compete over the right of inheritance. Rather than wage open war, the knights compete in a series of games to determine who is most fitting to take the throne. Meanwhile, a wizard prepares a young page for a journey across the land in search of a legendary sword...
Ooh, even better: What if the story revolves around the knights all searching for the legendary sword as a test of who is rightful heir to the throne? "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all Eldraine."
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I kind would like more 4 color and maybe houses for them, but i think it is kinda hard to fit 4 colors in a unifying theme. We could even think about a tribal theme with FaeUBWG VampireBWUR Bird-AvenWURG(this one is very flaw) maybe a Beast race GRBU idk what would fit in blueless. Gosh i hope it is not 100% tribal or even 60% + tribal (i didn't liked ixalan, i like how the set plays with others but in limited and a new meta a set focused heavily on tribal kinda sucks)
Lol, AGREED!!! Give us Kaldheim already, WoTC! It's been like 129818903128 years since the last full fledged snow set! Coldsnap was in, what, 2006? So like 13 years ago, and another 11 years further back to get to Ice Age from that. Argh! Is it really asking for much to get one at least once a DECADE??? I mean c'mon, Ice/Snow-theme sets have got to be one of the most popular flavors around, in the entire mtg fanbase, no? IT IS TIME. WE NEED SNOW PEOPLEZ!!!! (and I REFUSE to count Modern Horizons as a "snow set" just because it had snow lands. THAT WAS NOT A SNOW SET! (although it was pretty cool, and even had awesome art work, so, given what I've been ranting about, I'm actually glad they gave us that, lol) BUT STILL... GIVE US OUR SNOW SET ALREADY!!!!!!
~kneels down, clenches fists, and screams VALHALLAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!~
Alternatively, if this has "knightly houses" in it, I wonder if it will introduce specific names for the five four-color combinations?
Yea, I'm guessing the person who replied to you UNFORTUNATELY might be right, but I really hope you somehow end up being right about this, because that could potentially be VERY cool in terms of meta flavor-potential, mainly for the following reason:
If we had this five 4-color houses situation going on, it would mean that each of them would have the 1 excluded color be the one that they HATE, lol. Like, that would of course be their least favorite color, which they'd have a lot of back-story "history" with as far as why that's the color that's NOT in their house, even though the other 4 colors all are. So, each of them could have a whole elaborate flavor thing where their legendary creatures are X-hunters or X-slayers or stuff like that with X being some staple-type of the 1 missing color of the house that the X-hunter belongs to! It would be glorious! Like, if there was a 4-color house where the missing color was red, then its non-legendary creatures like its Elves could have a whole extra-extreme blood-feud type of thing going against Goblins (and vice versa for the House that was missing green as its missing color). But even better yet, its legendary creatures (probably some knights in particular) could be DRAGON SLAYERS!!! And so on and so forth, so the one missing Black would have demon-hunters and vampire-hunters, etc.
That could be pretty cool, if they did something like that. I'm not going to get my hopes up though. But yea, that would be fun.
Where is our viking world? Where is Return to New Phyrexia? Where is our return to Theros? Where is our return to kamigawa? Where is our return to actual Lorwyn-Shadowmoor?
A viking world, New Phyrexia and Theros we can expect to see soon-ish. Kamigawa and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, not so much.
The vibe I'm getting from the court summons and art style give me a medieval-Arthurian England/France setting. Knights, jousting, perhaps a return of. Exalted?
The sigil behind the set makes me think Fleur de Lys, and the font I feel has sort of stained glass look.
My thought as well. Fae-like court paralleling a knightly court fits fine.
I got a feeling this set will revolve around a succession crisis' the ruling king has died and no heir can be found, so the various lords and ladies of the realm compete over the right of inheritance. Rather than wage open war, the knights compete in a series of games to determine who is most fitting to take the throne. Meanwhile, a wizard prepares a young page for a journey across the land in search of a legendary sword...
Ooh, even better: What if the story revolves around the knights all searching for the legendary sword as a test of who is rightful heir to the throne? "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all Eldraine."
Cue complaints about the set ripping off Game of Thrones despite the fact that doing so wouldn't be the worst idea. Though Fiora does the intrigue stuff already quite well.
... Strasbourg world confirmed
My second thought: "EVERYTHING IS PURPLE. That is *exactly* the thing Maro tried to introduce ten years ago in Time Spiral block. HRM."
Very much looking forward to more details on Saturday, but even if it isn't an extra color (Faerie magic, woo!) I'm still intrigued by the art style on the flier. I'm quite happy with this.
Many thanks to DNC at Heroes of the Plane Studios
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/186385740138/does-eldraine-have-anything-to-do-with-eldrazi
There nothing to do with are most destructive creature type ever made
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Or three muskateers era perhaps?
RUAffinityUR
GMono Green StompyG
CEldrazi TronC
URWJeskai GeistWRU
WRBoros BurnRW
BRWMardu PyromancerWRB
From the name alone I'm getting an Arthurian vibe. Igraine is the name of Arthur's mother and Faeries play a part in some versions of the tale. The plane could be a mix of Bant + Lorwyn.
Gaze upon an empty, white throne
A legacy of lies,
A familiar disguise
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone
Lost in thoughts all alone
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I want my Kaldheim.
I NEED my Kaldheim!
Alternatively, if this has "knightly houses" in it, I wonder if it will introduce specific names for the five four-color combinations?
That said, I'm REALLY glad that it didn't end up being a Wild West plane. I think I might have literally stayed away from the game for a year or two for that to cycle away if it had happened. I'd say I cared about 10 times as much about it NOT being a Wild West plane as I did about it BEING a Snow/Vikings plane, by comparison (and I cared quite a bit about it being Snow/Vikings, so that's saying something, lol).
Anyway, that being said, if it does end up being an English/French Middle Age/Knights kind of a flavor, I guess that might not be so bad (depending on what exactly they do with it), so I'm remaining open minded about it. Could potentially be cool. Albeit nowhere near as cool as a Snow/Vikings plane! Argh! ONE TIME!!! Lol.
To be honest though, I think the real key issue for me that goes way beyond even which type of plane it ends up being, is the style and method of the card art. I've noticed that they seem to be letting the artwork for a lot of the cards start to look like screenshots from video games, rather than look like paintings, which really rubs me the wrong way. Especially from Ixalan onwards, there seems to be a LOT of that going on. Like some of the card art literally looks like they just clicked green dots on one of those 3D-auto-fill programs where it creates polygons and curved sheeting to fill the shape in of whatever 3D shapes you create by moving anchor-points around and then it just auto-fills the color and lighting/shading digitially or something, the way it would be in a video game. That might be cheaper and more efficient, and certainly makes sense in a video game where things are in motion so it makes total sense to resort to that type of stuff. But it doesn't make nearly as much sense to me for them to do that with card art for a premier level TCG like MTG with the budget they have and huge fanbase they built up over the years who loved the art and flavor of the cards because they looked like actual beautiful paintings and artwork (because, well, they were. The artists were hand paintings that stuff on canvases with paintbrushes). And, even with digital art, btw, although I personally don't like the look of it as much as oil in canvas, I'd still be at least somewhat okay with it if it at least looked like it was being painted by hand albeit with a stylus, digitally, rather than with paintbrushes on canvas. At least a talented painter could still make beautiful art even in that medium. But when it just looks like that 3D dot-matrix auto-fill video game screenshot type of thing that a lot of the cards look like now, that just looks ugly and lazy to me. I wonder if maybe they think that it's somehow a good thing, because it'll make the card art look more similar to Hearthstone or something. If that's their mentality, I think it could be a VERY bad idea in the long run, even if it works out seemingly okay in the short run. The idea should be to keep MTG noticeably distinct, not just gameplay-wise but also art-wise, from games like Hearthstone. Not just try to copy their vibe but be a less immediate-gratification version gameplay-wise. If they do that, they could risk just flat out losing to them, in spite of having a deeper more interesting overall game than Hearthstone. Which would be a real shame. Whereas if they would keep their artwork looking like actual paintings rather than video game screenshots, and also not try to make it look too "illustrations intended for very young children" of a vibe (i.e. NOT using the art style they used for the two younger Chandra cards in M20 for example), and instead making it look a bit more dark and scary and intense the way it used to look in the late 90s and early 2000s, or even stuff like Innistrad for that matter, I think that would be a great move. Both because I personally would like it a lot more (lol), but also even non-selfishly, I think it would be a smart move, because I don't think even by the very early teen years, or even earlier a lot of the time, most kids that are about 10 or older don't want really cutesy made-for-little-kids looking artwork. I don't think that's what looks cool or badass to them that they huddle around and go oooooh and ahhhhh about. No, that's what is "lame" to them by that age. (And, yes, I do realize there people who DO like that art vibe who actually do like the art style of stuff like My Little Pony or things like that. And that's fine. Different strokes for different folks. Just saying ON AVERAGE, I think if they kept the art looking more like it's intended for people in their teens or adult years where it looks like actual painted artwork with real depth and gravitas like it used to have, I think that would be a much stronger move in the LONG RUN for them, since as their fan base continuously grows up, they wouldn't just age out of the game due to the artwork looking like it was made for little kids or too lazy and videogame-screenshot-ish either, but rather, they'd just continue loving the cool, dark, edgy, beautiful looking artwork no matter how old they got even after becoming adults, the way people did with the style of artwork in the late 90s and early 2000s. At least, I think so anyway).
Not to mention the VARIETY of art styles that used to exist, and which there is much less of now. That's the other thing. At least in the older art, the different artists had TONS of VERY different styles of artwork. There really was something for everyone art-wise. But now there also seems to be some sort of effort to make the art style converge to being more and more similar between the various artists. It isn't 100% in effect yet, since they still seem to be allowing their most talented artists to make art that is of a very different style than the vast majority of the rest of the artists (I.e. they allow Seb McKinnon to get weird with his art, since he's very talented, so they let him do his thing), but, I don't know if it's intentional or not, or just happening on its own due to the digital artists all trying to mimic each other's techniques or something, but one way or the other, the digital videogame screenshot-style artists seem to be making card art that not only looks like video game screenshots (which is already kind of a bummer) but also look of a very similar inherent vibe to one another where its getting much tougher and tougher to be able to guess which artist made which card art without looking at the name at the bottom of the card. It used to be distinctive enough that you could easily tell who did what with a lot of the cards. That's how much variety there was in the art styles between the different artists.
So, I guess in summary:
1. A little bummed out that it didn't end up being a Snow Viking plane, but it's not the end of the world
2. EXTREMELY relieved that it didn't end up being a Wild West theme
3. Cautiously optimistic/open minded about this Faeries/Knights/Arthurian looking vibe
4. None of the first 3 points will end up mattering much if WoTC keeps allowing the "art" to look more and more like video game screenshots instead of beautifully hand painted artwork, and if they keep trending towards having a larger and larger percentage of the artwork looking like it was intended for extremely young children, and if they keep trying to make the art styles of the various artists look more and MORE similar to one another with only rare exceptions that have their own unique style, rather than how it used to be where there was tons of variety and all sorts of different beautiful art styles between the range of different artists. If they don't reverse this trend, I'm not sure I'm going to even able able to care much or enjoy something like an awesome Snow/Vikings theme plane when it finally hits, because what fun would it be if the art just looks like a bunch of computer auto-fill program generated cgi screenshot stuff and done in some totally homogenized all-artists-look-like-one-single-non-artist-bot way and looks like it was intended for the illustrations in some children's book made for 7 year olds to boot. At that point, it would no longer matter to me if they brought it to the coolest themed plane in the history of the game, since what fun would the theme/plane flavor be if the art was horrible. That would defeat the purpose. Might as well just be the card functions typed on blank cards at that point, so then I might as well be playing Bridge or Chess or Poker or something at that point, let alone from a collecting standpoint.
Anyway, I guess that's long enough for a first post, so I'll just leave it at that for now, lol.
I do love MTG though (even right now, although the art trend is making it tougher and tougher). I guess I am just worried about what the artwork might become in future years at the rate it's going, to where it'll just start to look like Hearthstone or something. That would be such a waste of a beautifully painted, deep, interesting card game, if it happened.
I had envisioned Knightly Houses being factions a lot like the Guilds, but since we were just in Ravnica, I imagine they'd work a lot more like Theros' poleis. And considering knights traditionally each bore their own coat of arms, I imagine it could be more like 5-20 legendary Knights associated with color pairs and trios.
I got a feeling this set will revolve around a succession crisis' the ruling king has died and no heir can be found, so the various lords and ladies of the realm compete over the right of inheritance. Rather than wage open war, the knights compete in a series of games to determine who is most fitting to take the throne. Meanwhile, a wizard prepares a young page for a journey across the land in search of a legendary sword...
Ooh, even better: What if the story revolves around the knights all searching for the legendary sword as a test of who is rightful heir to the throne? "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all Eldraine."
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
This was my first impression as well
Lol, AGREED!!! Give us Kaldheim already, WoTC! It's been like 129818903128 years since the last full fledged snow set! Coldsnap was in, what, 2006? So like 13 years ago, and another 11 years further back to get to Ice Age from that. Argh! Is it really asking for much to get one at least once a DECADE??? I mean c'mon, Ice/Snow-theme sets have got to be one of the most popular flavors around, in the entire mtg fanbase, no? IT IS TIME. WE NEED SNOW PEOPLEZ!!!! (and I REFUSE to count Modern Horizons as a "snow set" just because it had snow lands. THAT WAS NOT A SNOW SET! (although it was pretty cool, and even had awesome art work, so, given what I've been ranting about, I'm actually glad they gave us that, lol) BUT STILL... GIVE US OUR SNOW SET ALREADY!!!!!!
~kneels down, clenches fists, and screams VALHALLAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!~
Yea, I'm guessing the person who replied to you UNFORTUNATELY might be right, but I really hope you somehow end up being right about this, because that could potentially be VERY cool in terms of meta flavor-potential, mainly for the following reason:
If we had this five 4-color houses situation going on, it would mean that each of them would have the 1 excluded color be the one that they HATE, lol. Like, that would of course be their least favorite color, which they'd have a lot of back-story "history" with as far as why that's the color that's NOT in their house, even though the other 4 colors all are. So, each of them could have a whole elaborate flavor thing where their legendary creatures are X-hunters or X-slayers or stuff like that with X being some staple-type of the 1 missing color of the house that the X-hunter belongs to! It would be glorious! Like, if there was a 4-color house where the missing color was red, then its non-legendary creatures like its Elves could have a whole extra-extreme blood-feud type of thing going against Goblins (and vice versa for the House that was missing green as its missing color). But even better yet, its legendary creatures (probably some knights in particular) could be DRAGON SLAYERS!!! And so on and so forth, so the one missing Black would have demon-hunters and vampire-hunters, etc.
That could be pretty cool, if they did something like that. I'm not going to get my hopes up though. But yea, that would be fun.
It's finally happening!
That "leaked" image of the new MTG card backs wasn't a mistake! Now we know!
Aka Planar Chaos, but for the whole Multiverse!
There are no Eldrazi, confirmed.
A viking world, New Phyrexia and Theros we can expect to see soon-ish. Kamigawa and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, not so much.
...You were just asking for Lorwyn-Shadowmoor but you don't want another fairytale-esque plane?
RUNIN: Norse mythology set (awaiting further playtesting)
FATE of ALARA: Multicolour factions (currently on hiatus)
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#Defundthepolice
My thought as well. Fae-like court paralleling a knightly court fits fine.
Cue complaints about the set ripping off Game of Thrones despite the fact that doing so wouldn't be the worst idea. Though Fiora does the intrigue stuff already quite well.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
Factions: Sleeping
Remnants: Valheim
Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
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On 7/14/10, broke 1900 mark! <3 ROE.