Toshi Umezawa
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Title: Hyozan, Clan Umezawa
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Post by Toshi Umezawa on Mar 15, 2016 12:51:44 GMT -6
Prediction: creatures will be dual-color not the Planeswalkers?
Update: I see this as a possibility due to there being 10 squads in the base set and 10 possible different two color combos in magic.
2nd Update: Sorry, Memnarch I forgot there was no exact # as to the amount of squads we could receive. |
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Memnarch
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Post by Memnarch on Mar 15, 2016 13:03:36 GMT -6
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budgernaut
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Title: The Uncanny One
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 16, 2016 9:53:40 GMT -6
Well, the next Planeswalker for the card set has been revealed:  Unfortunate that its Jace again. However, I have my doubts that this will translate to a new Jace in AotP. If they do use this Jace, however, then not all Planeswalkers are going to be dual-colored. |
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Post by swifty on Mar 16, 2016 11:48:59 GMT -6
If there's going to be a BG walker from Innistrad it has to be Garruk. BU I'm less sure on, the only option we have in the magic universe is Ashiok (and technically Tezzert but that was as he was under Bolas's mind control), though potential someone like the Raven man can be BU and he might be in Eldritch Moon.
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Post by Plibbity on Mar 16, 2016 11:57:25 GMT -6
I have a feeling it might be RW Nahiri, GR Arlinn, WB Sorin, a mono-  walker (Tamiyo?), and another multicolored  walker (I'm gonna punt and say GB Garruk). We already have a multicolored walker in Kiora. This is coming out in fall, which is after the release of the Eldritch Moon. It's heavily rumored that there will be a new Tamiyo (someone on reddit even overheard Eric Dechamps mention the art for "the new Tamiyo") I'm least confident in the Garruk prediction. Honestly it will probably be something from Eldritch Moon that none of us are even thinking about yet. I would not be surprised to see some new UB walker or an existing character go UB. New thought, maybe the Eldritch Moon corrupts her and we get a UB Tamiyo? |
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Post by Plibbity on Mar 16, 2016 11:59:08 GMT -6
If there's going to be a BG walker from Innistrad it has to be Garruk. BU I'm less sure on, the only option we have in the magic universe is Ashiok (and technically Tezzert but that was as he was under Bolas's mind control), though potential someone like the Raven man can be BU and he might be in Eldritch Moon. Raven Man actually seems like a really good guess. |
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Post by zackzeta on Mar 17, 2016 8:55:22 GMT -6
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budgernaut
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 17, 2016 10:39:07 GMT -6
Let's talk about creatures, since we've been focused on planeswalkers for so long. The original Innistrad block had the following color cycle for creatures: Humans:   Spirts/Ghosts: Zombies: Vampires:  Werewolves: That would be super interesting to see this translated into AotP. Assuming 5 dual-colored planeswalkers, you could have each team in the set represent one of these "tribes." You could then have, for example, a human squad and a human squad; a werewolf squad and a werewolf squad. Like I said, I think this would be interesting, but ultimately I feel it would be too redundant for what is essentially a starter set. I like it because of the symmetry, but I think (hope) the creatures match the planeswalkers decently well. I mean, if Sorin came with Zombies, I'd be a little disappointed. But Sorin is a good example of why this would feel off, since vampires are and Sorin is , so he wouldn't even be able to take the Vampire squads if they followed the cycle above. |
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Post by NoSorumbo on Mar 17, 2016 13:37:26 GMT -6
For the old school MTG player in me... That is insane!!!!!!!!! Now onto the discussion. In all honesty, I expect solid colored creatures and multi colored planeswalkers in order to maximize variety. Specifically, I bet we will see at least Ajani, Sorin, Garruk |
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budgernaut
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 17, 2016 14:29:33 GMT -6
Now onto the discussion. In all honesty, I expect solid colored creatures and multi colored planeswalkers in order to maximize variety. Specifically, I bet we will see at least Ajani, Sorin, Garruk Ajani. Really? I thought was covered between Sorin and Nahiri. EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think we'll see Ajani eventually. I just don't think he'll be in this box. |
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Post by zackzeta on Mar 17, 2016 18:34:29 GMT -6
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Post by HlRasr on Mar 18, 2016 9:48:52 GMT -6
Could the creatures themselves be a multi colored squad? I love the idea of having a werewolf squad that can only be played by the Arlinn Kord. That way there is a squad specific for her. Huge flavor win. I hope that not all of the units are common squads. I really want Avacyn included as a unique hero ( ?). The rest of the legendary heroes are not as central to the plot, so I would not be sad if they are not included. |
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budgernaut
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 18, 2016 10:24:37 GMT -6
Could the creatures themselves be a multi colored squad? I love the idea of having a werewolf squad that can only be played by the Arlinn Kord. That way there is a squad specific for her. Huge flavor win. I hope that not all of the units are common squads. I really want Avacyn included as a unique hero ( ?). The rest of the legendary heroes are not as central to the plot, so I would not be sad if they are not included. I hadn't even thought of Avacyn. That's a great idea! But even though she'd be perfect as a / creature, that would limit which planeswalker could summon her. As it stands now, Nahiri may be the only one. That limits squad building options. Of course, it's possible that story-wise, Nahiri summoning evil Avacyn would be spot-on. |
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Post by Yawgmoth on Mar 18, 2016 13:41:12 GMT -6
Could the creatures themselves be a multi colored squad? I love the idea of having a werewolf squad that can only be played by the Arlinn Kord. That way there is a squad specific for her. Huge flavor win. I hope that not all of the units are common squads. I really want Avacyn included as a unique hero ( ?). The rest of the legendary heroes are not as central to the plot, so I would not be sad if they are not included. I really hope we don't see dual colored squads that only work with a specific Planeswalkers like that yet. We need more content before we see such restrictive choices. |
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Post by darthporkchop on Mar 18, 2016 13:45:44 GMT -6
Could the creatures themselves be a multi colored squad? I love the idea of having a werewolf squad that can only be played by the Arlinn Kord. That way there is a squad specific for her. Huge flavor win. I hope that not all of the units are common squads. I really want Avacyn included as a unique hero ( ?). The rest of the legendary heroes are not as central to the plot, so I would not be sad if they are not included. I really hope we don't see dual colored squads that only work with a specific Planeswalkers like that yet. We need more content before we see such restrictive choices. Agreed. Does the TCG correlating to this set have hybrid spells? That's the only way this would work with this early sparce content. |
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budgernaut
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 18, 2016 14:53:12 GMT -6
By hybrid, do you mean dual-colored? I haven't seen any yet, but the last Innistrad block had some.
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Post by zackzeta on Mar 18, 2016 15:36:18 GMT -6
for now theres no reason to hard lock creatures to certain planeswalkers the same affect is achieved when the planeswalker has different colors apparently that might be it for the planes walkers for shadows, however looking at the wiki it looks like theres four walkers from that plane, Sorin Markov, half-devil Tibalt, Vronos who was killed by Garruk. mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Innistrad_(plane) |
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Mar 20, 2016 11:49:32 GMT -6
and together tell me primal fury... bloodlust and predation. Weird that Arlinn has ... would have figured her for pure . Maybe she loses the fight with her inner wolf? |
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Post by darthporkchop on Mar 21, 2016 7:25:33 GMT -6
By hybrid, do you mean dual-colored? I haven't seen any yet, but the last Innistrad block had some. Hybrid is a step-child of multi color. For example, a spell could be played by either a OR planeswalker, rather than a AND planeswalker. |
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budgernaut
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Post by budgernaut on Mar 21, 2016 11:49:19 GMT -6
By hybrid, do you mean dual-colored? I haven't seen any yet, but the last Innistrad block had some. Hybrid is a step-child of multi color. For example, a spell could be played by either a OR planeswalker, rather than a AND planeswalker. Oh, I think I've seen those, now that you mention it. Rather than a gold border, half the border would be one color and half would be the other. Are those the ones? |
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squads will be included.
(Nahiri), 
(Sorin), there will probably be a 
