Dack Fayden
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Posted on Aug. 12, 2013, 4:56 p.m. by HarbingerJK
The Theros spoiler keeps saying "Dack Fayden returns!" but I've never heard of Dack Fayden before. Was he in one of the books or something?
PasorofMuppets says... #3
He's a planewalker thief featured in the IDW comics.
He can be seen in one of the IDW promos
August 12, 2013 5:10 p.m.
DeathByDragons says... #6
Yeah, in the spoiler it says:
"After eliminating Sifa Grent, the Planeswalker that destroyed his hometown, Dack has settled down in Ravnica to do what he does best: break in and steal the secrets from Ravnicas rarest artifacts. But upon uncovering the half of a strange gauntlet, Dack is led to a strange new plane: the realm of THEROS, a sun-dappled ruled by gods and inhabited by mythological beasts!"
August 12, 2013 5:17 p.m.
HarbingerJK says... #7
Yeah I read that as well, I just had never heard of him before and felt like I was missing out on something lol
August 12, 2013 5:24 p.m.
HarbingerJK says... #9
I figured as much lol there's a lot of stuff in the multiverse that you just don't know if you only play the card game
August 12, 2013 5:35 p.m.
i can bet he is as Blue as the Island card....
any rumors about red planeswalker?
August 12, 2013 6:01 p.m.
HarbingerJK says... #11
not from what I've seen, I have a feeling there will not be one though because of Chandra, Pyromaster getting a lot of attention and I doubt there will be a green one either because of Garruk, Caller of Beasts . That's just my thought though lol
August 12, 2013 6:31 p.m.
DeathByDragons says... #12
There's gonna be Elspeth, we know that. So 1 for white. There's gonna be Dack Fayden, so 1 for Blue possibly Blue/Black. And, there's prolly gonna be a Black Planeswalker.
August 12, 2013 6:50 p.m.
lord_of_the_snakes says... #13
probably not blue black for dack, they dont make complementary color walkers, its dumb, i like U/B
August 12, 2013 7 p.m.
pookypuppy6 says... #14
They DO make complimentary colour walkers. They are plenty, in fact. Domri Rade and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker , for example. It's just that most multicoloured walkers for some reason have been enemy coloured, like Ral Zarek , Vraska the Unseen and Sorin, Lord of Innistrad .
As for Dack Fayden, I'm confused as to what colours he'll be. Blue/Red seems most likely from what little I've seen of his character design and the promo cards of his (both in blue and red, including Electrolyze ; a thief, after all, is most like blue and red in spells previously seen in Magic. But we do already have a Blue/Red walker in Ral, so it's not necessarily likely.
August 12, 2013 9:54 p.m.
DeathByDragons says... #15
I'm pretty sure he' gonna be either Blue or Blue/Black seeing as the Dimir guild, Blue/Black, are considered to be masters at thievery and deception. While the Izzet guild are considered to be more focused with the study and different scientific applications of Magic.
August 12, 2013 9:56 p.m.
RedKunoichi says... #16
I don't think there will be any multicolored planeswalkers, Wizards already said that this is going to be a heavily monocolored block because the RTR block was so heavily multicolored. So I doubt they are going to make a multicolored planeswalker.
August 12, 2013 9:59 p.m.
Cobthecobbler says... #18
I think he'll be Blue/Red -- His blade burns through things and he uses Blue magic to suppress his enemies. There's a picture of him using a flaming dagger and behind him the wall is burnt, and then in the promo he's using blue magic to keep his enemies at bay. He could be UBR because UB is Dimir, and the Dimir are thieves, so...
I honestly don't know, I guess we'll find out.
August 12, 2013 10:25 p.m.
amishrambo says... #19
if dack has been hanging out at ravnica this whole time how come he wasn't mentioned in any cards in the whole block, or is he just that good?
August 12, 2013 10:28 p.m.
harrydemon117 says... #21
If Dack becomes U/B/R then I'm going to guess that he is trying to steal artifacts for Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker in some grand scheme of things
August 13, 2013 8:07 a.m.
lord_of_the_snakes says... #22
everything is for Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker in the grand scheme of things
August 13, 2013 8:10 a.m.
FaustHarbinger says... #24
@Cobthecobbler ~ the reason the blade was burning was because it is called the Fang. A legendary artifact that was in safe keeping by Rakdos until Dack Fayden stole it.
@amishrambo ~ look at the card Bred for the Hunt . After Dack defeats Sifa he stays back in Ravnica his home. Now I'm guessing that he's going to find his next artifact that he wants to steal in the simic laboratories. Where he runs into the krasis with the gauntlet. Pictured in Bred for the Hunt . After evading the Krasis Dack uses his abilities to tell him about the artifact which... Leads him to... ... THEROS.
August 13, 2013 9:51 a.m.
SevenSeasAgo says... #25
Actually, Dack Fayden is a red/blue planeswalker. He's not black.
August 13, 2013 11:50 a.m.
SevenSeasAgo says... #26
Dack Fayden is actually a Red/Blue planeswalker. He won't be seen in black. The only thing he ever really did in Ravnica was steel the dagger he's seen using in the comics from Rakdos. Rakdos hunted him down, and Dack planeswalked away.
August 13, 2013 11:52 a.m.
August 13, 2013 11:59 a.m.
amishrambo says... #29
this whole dack stealing stuff makes me thing of WOTC making Pwalker equipment (which sounds stupid)
August 13, 2013 3:24 p.m.
harrydemon117 says... #30
@KrazyCaley Nice Star Wars reference! (Empire Strikes Back if I'm not mistaken).
August 13, 2013 3:28 p.m.
FaustHarbinger says... #31
@Ringleader-- Obviously you only read the first comic in the 12 comic series. he is in Ravnica actually a few times.. and there is no OFFICAL RULING what color affinity he is. that is only fan speculation.
August 14, 2013 2:31 p.m.
hiddengibbons says... #32
Sometimes it seems like they expect you to care about the "Outside of the game storyline." I didn't know anything about Dack Fayden until I looked at this post because I only pay attention to what the cards say and that booklet that comes with the fat packs. I mean it almost seems like MTG is becoming more and more like Pokeo and Yugimon. Before too long, there will be some sort of MTG cartoon on Saturday Morning Tv. Don't stay out too late at your FNM, or you might miss the cartoon the next morning. And then you won't know whats going on in the multiverse. Did Chandra and Jace hook up? Find out next week. I'm not saying the fan fics and stuff is bad and if your into it, thats cool, but speaking strictly for me, I'd rather build decks and play the game than read comics and stuff about the storyline that you wouldn't know from just having the cards or the fatpack booklet. I guess its just something to get people more interested. Oh, and for the people that also play those other card games, I'm not trying to hate here, I just can't watch those cartoons and keep a straight face. The games are cool though.
August 14, 2013 5:44 p.m.
he wont be grixis, there is only one 3 co walker and Nikki B is already grixis, why would they make 2 grixis walkers without making any of the other nine 3 co combinations.
August 16, 2013 11:56 a.m.
i wasnt thinking about a cartoon, but i imagine a planeswalker movie with the CGI we got nowdays
August 16, 2013 noon
FaustHarbinger says... #35
@ D3fied -- Magic has indroduced two 3 color planeswalkers to the lore. the other is Ramaz. He is a nature mage using R/G/U.
August 16, 2013 12:08 p.m.
RedKunoichi says... #36
Its not all on one card but technically Sarkhan can also wield three colors. B/R/G
August 16, 2013 12:17 p.m.
FaustHarbinger says... #37
@GinjaNinja -- actually although lore doesn't fully explain this I believe that Sarkhan actually used to only use G/R but once Nicol made him go mad and becoming his servant he then lost the Green and gained black.
August 16, 2013 12:21 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #38
He will be a jund planeswalker. Fact.
No, this doesn't have anything to with the fact i'm planning on running a RBG deck,, how preposterous.
August 17, 2013 1:43 p.m.
TheOne4221 says... #39
Dack Fayden is easily one of my favorite 'walkers. And seeing his convictions against hurting people (this springs from watching his village die), I don't see him working for Bolas any time soon.
For now, he's on his own, trying to find out about that gauntlet, will probably run into Elspeth, get recruited in the fight against Phryexia (I dunno, maybe a result of Elspeth helping him find stuff out about the gauntlet, he has to help Elspeth), and make snide remarks all along the way in the fashion that smugglers do.
Card wise, he'll be mono-blue, I have no doubt of that. He may act like a red mage sometimes, but he uses purely blue magic.
August 18, 2013 9:45 p.m.
lord_of_the_snakes says... #40
but in the end, he will help bolas without knowing, that is what everything in the multiverse is for, helping bolas advance his scheme
August 18, 2013 10:01 p.m.
TheOne4221 says... #43
But that's how the Ajani vs Nicol Bolas thing went down. It ended in a tie, but Ajani made a spirit-form Nicol Bolas and they duked it out.
August 18, 2013 11:42 p.m.
FaustHarbinger says... #44
@Krayhaft-- Lore-wise Ajani is no longer R/W he lost his Fury after his fight with Nicol
August 19, 2013 9:45 a.m.
Schuesseled says... #47
he kept spraying inside the house, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker had no choice.
August 24, 2013 10:45 a.m.
cupofnoodles says... #49
Dack Fayden is an interesting planeswalker. I only read the first 4 comics though, was wondering if someone could give me a synopsis of anything I might have missed about him? I'm up to the point where Sifa escapes Dack in Innistrad, and Dack then planeswalks into another plane.
September 10, 2013 3:40 a.m.
Schuesseled says... #50
is this guy in the theors set or what, three planeswalkers already....
DeathByDragons says... #2
He is the most skilled thief in the Multiverse.
August 12, 2013 5:09 p.m.