Q:I remember reading somewhere that before the Mending, WotC refused to turn planeswalkers into cards because any card based on a planeswalker would have to be so powerful that it would break the game. Since it's been confirmed that the new Teferi planeswalker in Commander 2014 is how he was before the Mending, do you feel his card accurately represents the strength of a pre-Mending planeswalker?
The card doesn’t represent everything he’s capable of but rather how much he’s willing to do to help you. : )
This. This really bothered me about the Mending and the motivations behind it. Who said that Planeswalker cards had to represent the entirety of that character’s capabilities? The fact that there have been multiple versions of characters tells us that was never the case. Why did we even need the Mending? And this Teferi tells me it was completely unnecessary to kill off so many iconic characters, and nerf the survivors for the sake of game balance and not focusing on ‘walkers so much.
Except, oh wait, now ‘walkers are the driving focus of the narrative.
/rant
Umm walkers were intended to be the driving force of the narrative. That’s one of the reasons for the depowering, because they felt super powerful world creating walkers were not interesting enough of characters, like how so many authors don’t write good superman stories just multiplied for each character. MaRo has been really open and honest about that.
Old Magic fanboys can’t help but complain about current Magic whether WotC makes oldwalkers card or not anyways.
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That’s reasonable.
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Or Nicol Bolas isn’t very helpful, and the stuff on his card is actually really easy for him.
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oldwalkers blow ass fuck gameplay, they ruined storylines youth culture forever!
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