Legend Rule for Planeswalkers!
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Posted on Sept. 1, 2017, 11:24 p.m. by PickleNutz
If anybody has yet to notice, Planeswalkers are merging their unique rule with the legend rule. Other than the fact you can run multiple versions of a planeswalker, this makes a few cards especially powerful in Commamder. One specifically.
Captain Sisay, since this announcement came out, this card has doubled in price and keeps going up. You can now use Sisay as a commander who can tutor PLANESWALKERS!
Dangerous move for Magic, or a well needed shift in balance?
Yukkureimu says... #3
There's Mirror Gallery as well, unless the uniqueness rule still applies.
September 2, 2017 4:44 a.m.
In casual play Captain Sisay got some nice new tools to play with. But in the competitive scene it does not have any impact. This relates to Commander btw.
September 2, 2017 5:45 a.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #5
I very much dislike this change, as it is a major flavor fail, as two different planeswalkers with the same type are supposed to represent the same character, and there is no way to mechanically represent that with legendary creatures. I see no good reason for this, other than players wishing to be able to have multiple planeswalkers with the same type on the battlefield simultaneously.
I really wish that WotC would return to the Kamigawa-era version of the legend rule, because that version made the most sense and was also the most balanced version of the legend rule, and not continually alter the rule simply to make it easier to have overpowered armies of permanents.
September 4, 2017 12:18 a.m.
Personally, I'm not really a fan. The main impact will be in Standard. WotC was smart enough to wait for all the Gideons to be cycled out, which is good.
I liked the limitation before where you had to consider which version of planeswalkers you wanted during deck construction. With this change, you can now jam multiple of the same planeswalker type with zero repercussions. I'm not exactly excited to sit across the table from Liliana of the Veil, Liliana, the Last Hope, and Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Flip just to get shit on even more. Or worse, Garruk Wildspeaker ramping into other Garruks, like Garruk, Apex Predator and Garruk Relentless. Planeswalkers can already be hard to deal with. This new rule doesn't help.
I'm not really fond of planeswalkers in the first place past the initial ones in Lorwyn and some of the new intro deck planeswalkers. They have too much impact the boardstate for their mana cost, even the high CMC ones.
Hopefully, this change means will see a larger variety of planeswalkers. I'm really fucking sick of seeing Jace in every block. He's simultaneously the Guildpact, studying Innistrad's moon, helping the Gatewatch, and still planeswalking all over the goddamn place.
I think the Legendary supertype made sense if it was introduced back in Lorwyn. But we're over a decade past that. I dunno, maybe they'll reverse it later if it turns out to be garbage.
September 4, 2017 7:09 a.m.
I dont like it. The legendary rule was previously so flavourful, it showed character progress, like how nissa becomes a green-blue planeswalker as she gets a Hidden Strings on Kefnet. Game wise it will justh become confusing,
"I am just using Jace's +1"
"Which Jace"
Anyway, we will just have to see...
SteelSentry says... #2
I'm not a fan. To be honest, it bothers me that you can have 2 Niv-Mizzets on the battlefield, but that's a lot harder to govern. As a militant Vorthos, this seems like a dangerous move. The only good thing I see coming out of this is Gideon Tribal in Modern.
My biggest problem with it is not whether it's the right move, but why it's being done in the first place. I don't think I saw anybody that wanted or predicted this, and the only good things I hear about this change is all the broken things people plan to do.
September 2, 2017 12:02 a.m.