This is good news. Planeswalkers tend to open up new strategies and the gatewatch were eating up slots (e.i. Gideon). Not sure how this affects the story since it should allow a more focused story but pacing might be a bit difficult.
Phiipan Spirit
Land Creature - Forest Dryad Spirit (R) 2G, Discard this card: Create a 2/2 green Dryad Spirit creature token. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
2/2
Not exactly what you had in mind but it's the closest to it I can think of.
If done correctly, a MtG based MMORPG could be one of the best games to be released in a long time.
Sadly, the MMORPG market is no longer very large that it would be justified investing a large amount of resources into an MMORPG game. So, it will probably end up like many so-called "WoW-killers" of the last decade. Fun to play for a short while, but the flaws quickly come to light, so the game is forgotten very quickly.
Agreed. Since card based combat is out of the question, I see one other possibility. Remember how Witcher 3 had Gwent in it? Why now make something similar where people can play WoW type MMO and enjoy a TCG aspect within the game.
IMO, the only realistic "WoW-killer" MMO can be no other than Pokemon MMORPG.
Maybe gold colored cards since we already have mono colored ones?
Soul of Amonkhet4WB
Creature - Avatar
Lifelink 4WB: Create two 2/2 black and white Zombie creature tokens. 4WB, Exile Soul of Amonkhet from your graveyard: Create two 2/2 black and white Zombie creature tokens.
6/6
2 blocks in a row with a 4-ability walker, anyone thinking this is a new trend? This bolas isn't bad tbh. In terms of power level, it's pretty close with the original one but geared towards multiplayer (flavor hit!)
Samut, I think, was rushed. They probably originally had another gatewatch walker designed but replaced it with samut since people were getting bored of them. The card is mundane and you'd feel like her abilities would be closer to gideon.
If the "Last Reckoning" is a cycle, we might just get to see some really good effects. These should be especially good in EDH given how common mana rocks are.
Any news about dark skin? Maybe someone can make a poll with suggested features/fixes the community wants so that mods can prioritize better. Maybe things like: Dark skin, mobile layout, front page reorganizing, etc...
Serious question - Do we know how Amonkhet is maintaining its population? Who is making babies if everyone is dying so young?
The "abandoned" barracks from Samut's secret made me think that maybe the population is shrinking, thus why old barracks are out of use.
Anyone think Grim Strider is one of the missing gods, a Bull-headed god maybe?
It is mentioned in one of the previous stories that Bolas came 10-20 years ago and since then there has been no mating and all the natives are less than 20 years old.
In modern, this card hits about 25% of any tier 1 deck. It represents a very harsh (pun intended) hate. My rough count based on the lists I could find on this site show something around 15 hits on average for any one deck with Affinity getting hit the most.
Bant Eldrazi: 16 Hits
RG Titan Scapeshift: 15 Hits
Death's Shadow Jund: 16 hits
Junk: 15 hits
Gx Tron: 13 hits
Affinity: 20 hits
RG Breach: 12 hits
I'm pretty confident this will see play in modern with its wide range of targets.
does anyone have any colors they would like? the core theme wont be able to change drastically, but we could possibly pick a different color for the post bits, if there is something people like, instead of the off white we have now.
Just by using the existing color scheme, I managed something in between. It's not perfect but I like it better than blinding white
Appreciate the effort put into the new design but allow me to suggest a few things:
Please bring back dark skin. One of the reasons I still frequent MTGS is the dark skin. I get to read/post a bit before sleeping without hurting my eyes. Same reason I didn't like the past few MTG market articles, too bright.
There is no point in putting the top 3 articles at the top of the main page when they are already below the spoilers bar. They take too much space, display half the article title, and the art is of lower quality (enlarged)
Instead of the "Featured New Article", which is promoted in 3 different places, you could show "Recent Forum Topics" with more than just 4 topics. After all, MTGS is a forum before everything else.
Phiipan Spirit
Land Creature - Forest Dryad Spirit (R)
2G, Discard this card: Create a 2/2 green Dryad Spirit creature token. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
2/2
Not exactly what you had in mind but it's the closest to it I can think of.
Agreed. Since card based combat is out of the question, I see one other possibility. Remember how Witcher 3 had Gwent in it? Why now make something similar where people can play WoW type MMO and enjoy a TCG aspect within the game.
IMO, the only realistic "WoW-killer" MMO can be no other than Pokemon MMORPG.
Soul of Amonkhet 4WB
Creature - Avatar
Lifelink
4WB: Create two 2/2 black and white Zombie creature tokens.
4WB, Exile Soul of Amonkhet from your graveyard: Create two 2/2 black and white Zombie creature tokens.
6/6
Feels a little too similar to soul of zendikar
Samut, I think, was rushed. They probably originally had another gatewatch walker designed but replaced it with samut since people were getting bored of them. The card is mundane and you'd feel like her abilities would be closer to gideon.
If the "Last Reckoning" is a cycle, we might just get to see some really good effects. These should be especially good in EDH given how common mana rocks are.
It is mentioned in one of the previous stories that Bolas came 10-20 years ago and since then there has been no mating and all the natives are less than 20 years old.
Bant Eldrazi: 16 Hits
RG Titan Scapeshift: 15 Hits
Death's Shadow Jund: 16 hits
Junk: 15 hits
Gx Tron: 13 hits
Affinity: 20 hits
RG Breach: 12 hits
I'm pretty confident this will see play in modern with its wide range of targets.
New players are getting confused between "creature" and "creature card" is probably why this is worded the way it is.
Just by using the existing color scheme, I managed something in between. It's not perfect but I like it better than blinding white
Loving the art, especially the blue/purple lights behind the clouds.