War of the Spark has HOW MANY PLANESWALKERS!?

wereotter
wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
in MtGPQ General Discussion
Officially announced by Wizards of the Coast today.... War of the Spark will have 36 planeswalkers in the set.

Some of these are amazing, others are repeats of planeswalkers we already have. I think can all agree, though, we will suffer from buyer fatigue if they attempt to add all 36 into Puzzle Quest. This is true even if they only add the 9 we don't already have as planeswalkers in some form already.
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  • octal9
    octal9 Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    oof ouch owie my runes

    also my wrists because that's a lotta typing
  • OmegaLolrus
    OmegaLolrus Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker

    Come onnnnnn, Ugin...

    But yeah, that's... pretty awesome. Especially if there's going to be a Planeswalker in every pack. Wonder if that means we'll see the Planeswalkers at multiple rarities.

  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    OmegaLolrus said:

    Come onnnnnn, Ugin...

    But yeah, that's... pretty awesome. Especially if there's going to be a Planeswalker in every pack. Wonder if that means we'll see the Planeswalkers at multiple rarities.

    If not I think that means there will be very few non-planeswalker mythics in the set.  That'll be interesting
  • TheDude1
    TheDude1 Posts: 194 Tile Toppler
    I can't imagine the mechanics in War of the Spark paper not taking advantage of having so many PWs available - that seems kind of the point, no?  If so, then PQ would have to find some way of incorporating them, but agree there's no way they come in as PWs as currently defined in PQ.  They'd have to be redesigned to fit into the PQ model - maybe save a few as new PWs but the rest as complex legendary creatures or something more creative (unique supports?).
  • OmegaLolrus
    OmegaLolrus Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker
    TheDude1 said:
    I can't imagine the mechanics in War of the Spark paper not taking advantage of having so many PWs available - that seems kind of the point, no?  If so, then PQ would have to find some way of incorporating them, but agree there's no way they come in as PWs as currently defined in PQ.  They'd have to be redesigned to fit into the PQ model - maybe save a few as new PWs but the rest as complex legendary creatures or something more creative (unique supports?).


    That's what I was thinking, with regards to the unique supports. I've always loved the idea of getting another Planeswalker on your side. Like you're rounding up a posse to smash somebody.

    I foresee a reprint of Deploy the Gatewatch.

    But from several months of binging on MaRo's Drive to Work, I can't imagine that the rest of the set won't play around that. If it's not at common, it's not your theme... and these probably won't be at common, but they will be in every pack.

    I wonder if they'll have a totally different rarity... Because I can't imagine there being a Mythic Rare in each pack.

  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    OmegaLolrus said:
    TheDude1 said:
    I can't imagine the mechanics in War of the Spark paper not taking advantage of having so many PWs available - that seems kind of the point, no?  If so, then PQ would have to find some way of incorporating them, but agree there's no way they come in as PWs as currently defined in PQ.  They'd have to be redesigned to fit into the PQ model - maybe save a few as new PWs but the rest as complex legendary creatures or something more creative (unique supports?).


    That's what I was thinking, with regards to the unique supports. I've always loved the idea of getting another Planeswalker on your side. Like you're rounding up a posse to smash somebody.

    I foresee a reprint of Deploy the Gatewatch.

    But from several months of binging on MaRo's Drive to Work, I can't imagine that the rest of the set won't play around that. If it's not at common, it's not your theme... and these probably won't be at common, but they will be in every pack.

    I wonder if they'll have a totally different rarity... Because I can't imagine there being a Mythic Rare in each pack.

    This seems to me like the next step from DOM where the legendary theme included legends in every pack.

    I can't see them making non-mythic planeswalkers, though.  That would just be weird to see.
    (but then again, if there is a mythic in every pack, are any of them really mythics?)

    Guess we'll just have to wait a few weeks for spoiler season and find out!
  • Gabrosin
    Gabrosin Posts: 259 Mover and Shaker
    My prediction is that most of the PWs will be DFCs that turn into creatures as they lose their spark.  If things go that way, then it shouldn't be a problem to implement them into PQ.

    If there really are that many full PWs, though... yeah, ouch.

  • OmegaLolrus
    OmegaLolrus Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker
    Gabrosin said:
    My prediction is that most of the PWs will be DFCs that turn into creatures as they lose their spark.  If things go that way, then it shouldn't be a problem to implement them into PQ.

    If there really are that many full PWs, though... yeah, ouch.

    Oh, that'd be interesting...
  • wereotter
    wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    I think saving some to release later is probably the smartest move. Maybe pick some of the most interesting to release with the set, then put out others when things are running a little dry, like they did with Elspeth or the new Sarkhan.
  • OmegaLolrus
    OmegaLolrus Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker
    wereotter said:
    I think saving some to release later is probably the smartest move. Maybe pick some of the most interesting to release with the set, then put out others when things are running a little dry, like they did with Elspeth or the new Sarkhan.

    Heck, do all 36 of 'em and trickle them out over the next couple years. Give us a different take on them for cards and take your sweet time with the Avatar planeswalkers.

    Except Ugin. Gimme Ugin.

  • BigSwifty
    BigSwifty Posts: 98 Match Maker
    Easiest solution; Octagon can just skip this set.
  • mrixl2520
    mrixl2520 Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
    How's about at the launch of War o' Spark, ALL Planeswalkers are available in the vault?
  • BATMAN1
    BATMAN1 Posts: 146 Tile Toppler
    edited March 2019
    Or just realease some PWs as mythics or MPs creatures or possible supports. 
  • fiirst
    fiirst Posts: 438 Mover and Shaker
    Laeuftbeidir said:
    Brigby said:
    wereotter said:
    Officially announced by Wizards of the Coast today.... War of the Spark will have 36 planeswalkers in the set.

    -snip-




    Freakin' hilarious!
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    We will probably get 5 new planeswalkers tops, maybe cards from the Horizons packs will be merged into the set.

    I can definitely see Octagon having a few executive meetings on how exactly they're going to move forward with this, lol.
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  • Thuran
    Thuran Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker
    Make a bunch of entry-lvl walkers? :)
  • Etan0Winters
    Etan0Winters Posts: 27 Just Dropped In
    Planeswalkers as supports with special rules and interactions would, I think, be great.

    Perhaps the two ways aren't mutually exclusive. You could kind of go half-way by having the rarer cardboard planeswalkers be as PQ normally releases them. You could release batches of these over two months (or until whenever the new set is ready). It would make for interesting times for the collector side of the game (burnout? Maybe make most of them have obtainable prices and pick only three or four, like Ugin, to be really competitively powerful).

    Planeswalkers as special supports might perhaps have ways to interact with them and/or what we see from supports normally. You could make the PW supports vulnerable to attack from creatures and/or damage in the same way cardboard ones are. You could have some maybe somehow add PW abilities to the main PQ PW's or amplify those.

    ... a PW-themed set would be great anyway, even if we mostly just see normal cards representing their abilities.


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