Baseless: Nissa in 2015?
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Posted on April 13, 2014, 1:13 p.m. by zandl
I'm not betting on it or anything, but has anyone else noticed how much Wizards seems to be pushing Nissa's presence at PAX East, as well as the flavor text on Elvish Mystic ? This certainly doesn't seem to indicate anything in particular, but coupled with the facts that Ajani is in the set right before M15 and Wizards has largely gone dark on promoting him at PAX, what do you think the chances are of seeing a Nissa 2.0 in M15?
There's a photo floating around of a Wizards "achievement card", or whatever (similar to the pre-release ones) that tells you to find Garruk, Jace, Liliana, Chandra, and Nissa.
Of course, one inherent problem with these five Walkers being in the core-set is the color-pie. Jace has to be Blue and Chandra has to be Red, and Liliana will almost undoubtedly be Black (seeing as how she's a demon-killing witch of death). Garruk appears to be having issues with something, but he's always been completely devoted to Green. It certainly wouldn't be likely to see Garruk go White, especially since "hunting bigger game" doesn't sound White. This would leave Nissa to fill the White Walker's shoes, but her lore suggests she's more into Black magic than anything else (second to Green, obvs).
To those who don't think they'd break the cycle of the 5 Lorwyn Walkers, remember; Wizards gave us Gideon Jura and Sorin Markov for M12 in lieu of Ajani and Liliana, so they clearly aren't opposed to shaking up their Planeswalker lineup.
Again, this is simply speculation by a player who is excited by the idea of Nissa coming back.
What do you think?
RedDeckwinning says... #2
The look of the Funko line makes Garruk look more grey than black. I know it doesn't mean anything since Liliana isn't sporting much black either, But a mono-green Nissa and colorless Garruk would be awesome. Haven't had a colorless plainswalker since Karn Liberated and he's still a beast in some formats.
May 28, 2014 4:32 p.m.
Based on that card from the convention, I would almost expect to see Gideon, Jace, Liliana, Chandra, and Nissa as our 5 normal Walkers and then Garruk probably as a G/B Walker, similar to how they did M12's Walkers with Nicol Bolas.
May 28, 2014 4:38 p.m.
KrosanTusker says... #4
I agree with zandl on this. If we do see Koth soon, I reckon it will be in Khans of Tarkir block, if at all.
I don't get this thing about colourless Garruk. Why would that happen? It doesn't make sense to me.
May 29, 2014 7:02 a.m.
moxGemmarald says... #5
Can't say I really follow the storyline of Magic. It never held any interest for me. They seem to leave every decision pretty ambiguous though, so anyone could make a reappearance at any time - which is useful, because the game mechanics are more important than the story.
zandl says... #1
I certainly suppose it's possible to see Koth in Tarkir (anyone could be there for whatever reason, really), but there's been no indication Koth will appear in M15. In fact, the linked pictures in this topic seem to indicate he's not in the core set.
And, yes, they do this all the time. Dack Fayden was referenced to or depicted in art 17 times before his actual card was spoiled, a lot of flavor text is "spoken" by various Planeswalkers who had nothing to do with the then-current sets or, retrospectively, had nothing to do with sets in the immediate future from there.
May 28, 2014 1:47 p.m.