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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:12PM
#51
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Boom, m12 walkers. Win.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:13PM
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Date Joined:
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What's Garruk doing there? We've got four of the Zendikar 'walkers ...and Garruk. Is there something wrong with reprinting Nissa?
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:14PM
#53
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2006
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Gideon looks awfully blue in that art, but I think those are both upgrades.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:14PM
#54
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AWESOME WALLPAPER! But the links don't seem to work for me... 
Oh, bother. Okay, I believe I've fixed it.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:26PM
#55
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Date Joined:
May 31, 2008
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:28PM
#56
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AWESOME WALLPAPER! But the links don't seem to work for me... And does this means the plainswalkers for M12 are Garruk, Chandra, Jace, Gideon and Sorin!?
That's what they're implying!!!! Way cool!
Hopefully Jace and Chandra will be the updated ones? I'd really like to see a new Garruk that expands his abilities with something new and complementary to the current one. Green really needs a non-elf planeswalker featured more. Magic 2010 and Magic 2011 have a nice assortment of things like wolfs, stags, antelope, boars, etc. I'd lean toward making him work better with human shamans like Master of the Wild Hunt or Giantomancer... I guess SPECIFICALLY avoiding Beasts, Wurms, Elves, to build a new green archetype around more "forest" creatures. Similar to the 2010/Zendikar push for Vampires and Zombies and a new style of play for Black.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:45PM
#57
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Ah, so the planeswalker lineup is starting to rotate? Awesome. Though that image kind of makes me wonder...how skittish is the Creative team about using full, proper names on planeswalker cards? And is it skittish enough? No matter how many different planeswalker cards the character appears on, only one can use just their full name without adornment. That's the name you want in the Core Set, so it better appear on a card you can put there. " Elspeth Tirel " was well placed, going on a nice simple Core-viable planeswalker, but I'm not sure " Gideon Jura " was. Gideon's definitely the kind of character you want representing white, no question; in flavor terms he's a slam dunk for the Core Set. But Gideon Jura the card? I'm not so sure about that one. He breaks the plus-minus-ultimate symmetry of the other Core 'Walkers, and both his + and 0 abilities are weird in the extreme.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:46PM
#58
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They don't need to upgrade Garruk, he's already really, really good. If it's ain't broke, don't fix it, yeah? Ajani and Liliana really kind of needed to be replaced, as they were criminally underpowered by today's Planeswalking standards. Gideon is definitely a good upgrade, but if that's still Sorin 1.0, who is even LESS useful overall then Liliana, I think they kind of missed the bus there.
Still pretty cool, though. I didn't expect this in a million years.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:57PM
#59
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Date Joined:
Jan 24, 2011
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New all paper is great. Sad that it strongly hints the removal of Ajani and Liliana, but it's safe to say we'll see them again.
Now the question is will Jace and Chandra be original of 2.0. My guess is original since letting JtMS run around for another year doesn't seem like a good move and Aaron Forsythe calling Ablaze a miss doesn't make her return likely.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:57PM
#60
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Date Joined:
Mar 10, 2009
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That's what they're implying!!!! Way cool!
Hopefully Jace and Chandra will be the updated ones?
I really really hope its just the regular Jace
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