So 6 New PW in M19 which ones are you getting and why?

Kresgwyr

Which new PWs I'm gonna get ?

None. Zero. Nada.

No point of spending anything on them while we are still starving on ressources to level them. Got Tefeiri and Karn, and I'm already struggling with those. Any new PW is pointless at this stage for me.

Tilwin90

Mburn7 said:

Brakkis said:

Give us W/U/G Tamiyo from Innistrad and I'd get her in a heartbeat.

I think if they released the W/U/G Tamiyo they would make profit records.  She would by definition be the most powerful walker out there, though, unless they really handcuffed her deckbuilding and managains.

Then again, that's probably why they haven't made her.

On the other hand they didn't do Bolas either initially - that's why Elspeth came to be. She was not printed in HOU, but my theory is that she was put in the set initially in place of Bolas. Indeed, the potential of a three-colored planeswalker is scary.
Come to think of it, I skipped tri-colored cards for the same reason though paper magic has far too few examples here. They skipped Dark Intimations from AER which is the only card that fits into this category prior to Ixalan.

Tamiyo would be Incredibly scary in the current standard metagame though. I find Huatli2, Kiora and Teferi to be some of the strongest planeswalkers in Standard. Fusing their colors into one planeswalkers could lead to some really absurd decks (oh wait... I already did that in PVE with Karn...). So it's probably best given the current system they stay away from Tamiyo for a while.

bk1234

All of them. Some people are card completionists; I am a PW completionist. Gotta have them all and max them all immediately. 

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IM_CARLOS

Sooner or later: all of them. What else should I do with all those runes. 

madwren

bluemage said:

Just Bolas. I can't see myself buying another mono-color any time soon unless it's very, very good at some specific task, or just very very good generally.

Same here, the only reason I bought Jaya was because of potential for brokenness at some point. I'll be curious to see if they compensate for monocolored blahness by giving them generous mana bonuses such as Koth and Elspeth. This would also tie into recent card mechanics.

Kinesia

IM_CARLOS said:

Sooner or later: all of them. What else should I do with all those runes. 

Sooner of later: all of them. But leaning towards MUCH later... I really don't need more mono folk right now and while I have everyone so far I have never ever ever had enough runes to get most to 60. I have a ton stuck at about 20 so they had their first abilities and that was it and these would all go into that box and that just depresses me.

I am a completionist in getting them but I have just never ever had the resources to level them all and probably never will.

HarryMason

I really don't know . Planeswalkers aren't really that exciting for me anymore. I really don't want or need another zombie lili, and since the card says zombie all over the place ,I'm guessing she will here, too. Might get ajani, but he'll have to be good . I'm at critical mass on mono red, so no sarkhan . No Vivien, as i just won't ever use her . I don't want to spend the runes, but im sure I'll end up getting bolas. It's entirely possible he'll be the only one unless tezzeret is super sweet .

DumasAG

Kresgwyr said:

Which new PWs I'm gonna get ?

None. Zero. Nada.

No point of spending anything on them while we are still starving on ressources to level them. Got Tefeiri and Karn, and I'm already struggling with those. Any new PW is pointless at this stage for me.

Yep, this exactly. I_just_ finished Karn (which constitutes one of three cash purchases (and certainly the largest) I've made in this game), and still have levels 53-60 to go on Angrath, before I even get started on Teferi or Jaya who I own and are sitting at level 1. There's no way I'd even get started on one of the new walkers before they were available for the second time in the vault. 

I'm really not sure what the point of runes or leveling planeswalkers is, but I know that's another discussion. At the moment, though, seeing as I'd need to level them with nonexistent resources, even if I was willing to spend cash on this game (I'm generally not until they actually begin making true microtransactions a regularity), I wouldn't' spend it on these walkers at the moment because I would literally never be able to use them until well into the future, at which point I could just use crystals. In effect, their PW release/leveling models costs them money because players are so heavily disincentivized to spend on something they can't use.

Thuran

I want all of them! 

But sadly, crystals are scarce and runes way more so, so might be forced to wait a long time. Still waiting for teferi to come into the vault, and with M19 coming out with orb bonuses, i might have to skip walkers for a long time : (

FindingHeart8

It depends what they do, and their mana gains.

We have a growing number of seasonal planeswalkers, that were good for the specific card sets that were in standard, but once those shifted to legacy the planeswalkers almost became obsolete (Thinking Chandra2, Jace2, Lily2, Huati1, Arliin, Gideon2 and 3, etc)

I don't need another planeswalker to put on the shelf, I need ones that I can actually compete with.

Mburn7

FindingHeart8 said:

It depends what they do, and their mana gains.

We have a growing number of seasonal planeswalkers, that were good for the specific card sets that were in standard, but once those shifted to legacy the planeswalkers almost became obsolete (Thinking Chandra2, Jace2, Lily2, Huati1, Arliin, Gideon2 and 3, etc)

I don't need another planeswalker to put on the shelf, I need ones that I can actually compete with.

Whoah there, Jace 2 and Lily 2 are really good regardless of set (and I've heard Gideon 3 called a top-tier walker, but I don't have him so I can't verify that).  Jace 2 in particular is really really good.

The rest of your examples I agree are pretty bad.  I love my Gid Z ally deck, but without them he's just kind of meh.

IM_CARLOS

The dom pw will be strong, even when dom went legacy. Same for a lot of older pw. 
At the moment I abuse garruk Ghalta a lot more than bolas, becaus it's way faster. 

Getting 80 runes to max a 1c is not a big deal. Especially if you max every card in heroic matches. Sure runes don't come easy anymore, but 50k a week is manageable. Okay karn & bolas takes a little longer, but: no paim, no gain.

I will buy maybe bolas for cash. Rest via crystals sooner or later. Sometimes is 1c the perfect option for an event. And every pw of is a deckslot at least. Of you manage to get ever card of every precon deck there are 25 jewels and 1k runes in it. 

MTG_Mage

I used to get every Planeswalker...until Jace3 came out. Hes so bad hes not worth getting at all. So since I broke the 'gotta have em all' I will just get the ones that interest me the most, which depends on their abilities and mana bonuses. Remember they did say they were going to rebalance all PWs.

I have the runes to level them all as I am sitting at about 800k, but I do NOT level all PWs to 60. I look on https://mtgpq.info/planeswalker and find the best spot for each PW, which typically is about level 40 as that is the sweet spot, and like to have some around 20ish to make the lower level PVE nodes more challenging, or just for faster PVP matches. I have only about 10 PWs at 60, most at 40, and a few around 20. Leveling a PW to 40 (or less) is not a big rune investment.

Been playing this game since the beginning, and do play every day, but not a hardcore top 10 coalition player. I play on average about an hour a day (but less than 2hrs) so thats why the 800k rune stash.

I find the best mono PWs are Koth, Elspeth, Gideon3, Jace2, Nissa2 and the rest are rarely used as it is just better to use a 2c PW. 

My go to favs are Sorin and Nahiri, not just because their abilities are great, but also because I can use my fav card with them both - which is deploy the gatewatch (DtG) + all the most OP creatures (which I have pretty much all the good ones). Other amazing combos include HUF + DtG and/or HoD and/or Nissa's renewal. Now that I have joined the Omniscience club I am enjoying that + whir of invention (and with harness the storm can easily go infinite, can we get an 'end the turn and go to combat' button added to the in game pause menu? @Brigby ) so I am now playing more blue (note that Omniscience has been nerfed from 4 to 3 shields). Guess it depends on what cards you have in your collection.

I assume the devs are going to put out some hook with each PW more than just including a rare/mythic with each (since you can just wait until they come out for crystals instead of cash and get said rare/mythic) such as custom events for each. 

It would be really nice if they put out a Heroic encounter for each PW and if you beat it all with that specific PW then it gets you a free rare+, or better yet it unlocks an additional deck slot for free.

Mburn7

*Checks Release Notes*

**** looks like I'm getting a new Bolas.  And Vivien.  And probably Ajani or Sarkhan.  Maybe Tezz in a few months when he comes around for the third time.  Probably not Liliana.

Those new designs look sweet!  And monocolors are cheap enough to be worth it.

Laeuftbeidir

I find them unnecessary complicated in their descriptions and the mana.. Well.. Yeah.

Tilwin90

Liliana is one of the planeswalkers I actually like... She may be all about zombies, but it's the first time I see good self-mill. And with Rebirth being in Standard I bet that's what they expect to get people excited. Her ultimate is blah whatever... That whole "put into hand" insurance of the ultimate feels unnecessarily underpowered as does the restriction on her second ability. 

New Bolas is alright though I am not overly excited about him. I agree he has better gains than Pharaoh Bolas (I prefer +2/+3/+2 to +3/+3/+3 but with penalties on the other colors). On the other hand I don't like his abilities more - it's going to take forever to get that ultimate out -> though once you do, you're one Day's Undoing away from keeping your opponent with no hand.

New Ajani is okay, though not really my cup of tea. He doesn't do anything new or exciting. He's a good alternative to Nahiri for people who can't afford her though.

Sarkhan is just another red planeswalker, and with red not being so well positioned in standard right now and just getting my hands on Jaya I doubt I will invest in another red monocolored.

Tezzeret's ultimate is nuts and I'm a sucker for Esper, but somehow I still like Jace2 better (that's gonna be one monoblue planeswalker tough to beat).

Vivien is interesting and probably my favorite mono green planeswalker to date. She does a bit of everything, pretty much like her paper magic card. However mono green is not necessarily that highly positioned in Standard right now, and she isn't niche enough to grab my attention.

Mburn7

Tilwin90 said:

Vivien is interesting and probably my favorite mono green planeswalker to date. She does a bit of everything, pretty much like her paper magic card. However mono green is not necessarily that highly positioned in Standard right now, and she isn't niche enough to grab my attention.

I'm just having visions of a Gaia's Revenge with trample, bezerker, and prevent damage and salivating.
I know mono-green hasn't been fantastic since Origins, but **** that ult will be fun to play with.

arNero

Without a doubt Nicky B.

I mean, sure, I do hope they tone him down (his first version is Griefer's best friend which makes playing this game irritating as hell), but being a tri-color makes him capable of a really stupid amount of combos.

DumasAG

arNero said:

Without a doubt Nicky B.

I mean, sure, I do hope they tone him down (his first version is Griefer's best friend which makes playing this game irritating as hell), but being a tri-color makes him capable of a really stupid amount of combos.

What a name for a boy band: Nicky B and the Elder Dragons.