Shadows, oh yes
Dear Wizards of the Coast,
You are officially forgiven for the fact that you returned us to Zendikar with no sight or sound of my beloved Token-Producing-Artifact-Bad-Arse-Ancient-Kor-Lady-Who-Is-Totally-THE-Stoneforge-Mystic Planeswalker Nahiri and the peculiar absence of my appreciated good-and-evil-and-terribly-pragmatic-all-at-once vampire-vampire Planeswalker Sorin Markov.
(Nahiri is like the Kor Elspeth. Of course I love her. Especially since she’s, y’know, alive. Hopefully. Although if Daxos gets to be one of the Returned ... well, I can hope, right? Without pointing out the fact that a not-all-that-interesting dude Legendary gets to be Returned while our lady of amazing, already one of a minority of female Planeswalkers, kicks her heels in Erebos’s clutches?)
Although there is a SERIOUS expectation that Shadows over Innistrad gives me another awesome Sorin. (I win, albeit casual, games with Seige Rhinos and Anafenzas and Managorger Hydras and the two Den Protectors I can afford. Sorin, Solemn Visitor just makes it more fun to be me. Sorin and Liliana, Defiant Necromancer - and I wouldn’t have two of her, let alone any, save for the fact I pulled both - just make it really fun.) I mean, it’s supposed to answer the question of where the fuck Sorin and Nahiri (or at least one of them) got to, right? Right? It’s not going to be mostly about Liliana and Garruk and the Chain Veil? It’s not going to have Jace rock up, be smug and annoying and mind-rapey, and help Lili and/or do something about Garruk? (Because Lili does not need a man to save her.) And what’s with the blood-dipped feather in the teaser trailer? Is something attacking angels? Is it thematically related to the Duel Deck? WHAT?
(Because if a dude needs to do something about anything that’s going on, as opposed to any number of capable lady Planeswalkers, well, at least Sorin is an interesting morally-ambiguous arsehole. Not to mention the fact that Innistrad is his baby plane. Jace just makes me hope for his immediate death via pissed-off dragon Planeswalker.)
Okay, you’re not forgiven until I know we don’t get stuck with more Jace. Because he’s bad enough being an arrogant snot in Zendikar. I just want to see Ugin disembowel him, seriously.
A feminist queer genderless crazy geek who likes vampires and despises Jace and whose current profession involves wholeheartedly convincing people to give their time and money to your enterprise.
P.S. More queer characters, please. Queer lady Legendaries. What if Odric has a trans boy/man apprentice or something? Please? Please?