I'm honestly hoping to see a Spirit heavy block again not Kamigawa style obviously, but good ol' Orzhova style but with what little art we do have from Innistrad I'm already really happy with the gothic european style, especially for Moan of the Unhallowed and murder of crows.
How nice it would be to have a featured plane without any elves for once. They appear so numerous that I am surprised elves don't exist in our real world.
Sadly for werewolves/lycans, it would be like Twilight all over again. Then again maybe that was a possible aim for the marketing team, "Magic + Twilight = Profit". All they would need then is to have implemented the respective shirtless legends.
to everyone that is saying twilight when I think of vamps and werewolves in the same set I think more Underworld.
This. Although if they didn't make a Kate Beckinsale Planeswalker card i'd probably rage quit magic forever.
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Do you think the Innistrad will feature werewolves/lycans as a tribe?
Werewolves/lycanthropes are not a tribe. There is no creature type that unites them, and wizards has backed up their decision not to make one.
Vampires vs. werewolves is not an uncommon concept, and that rivalry could be backed up by the conflict between Garruk and Liliana, if you know what I mean.
Sadly for werewolves/lycans, it would be like Twilight all over again. Then again maybe that was a possible aim for the marketing team, "Magic + Twilight = Profit". All they would need then is to have implemented the respective shirtless legends.
to everyone that is saying twilight when I think of vamps and werewolves in the same set I think more Underworld.
There is no mythological support for Vampires to be feuding with Lycanthropes. Historically (as in the history of folklore) they have been at worst ambivalent to each other, and at times allies. Then White Wolf's "Vampire: The Masquerade" was released in 1992, created the feud. It was a masterful storyline that supported one of the most innovative RPG's in the last couple decades. It was later remade in 1998 and it gained even more popularity. This was followed by Underworld in 2003, which pretty much plagiarized White Wolf's storyline, and thrust this feud in to popular awareness.
Then, of course, Stephanie Meyer used it as a plot point and struggle in her Twilight series, first published in 2005, though I think the fued only became part of the series from the second novel on (though I have not read them myself). Werewolves vs. Vampires may not be an uncommon concept right now, but that is because everyone is suckling at the udder of popular fiction. 1991 and before no one of note was developing fiction, or telling folk tales, of these two Gothic horrors as sworn enemies. Do we really want M:tG to jump on a bandwagon that is probably about to crash and fade back in to obscurity before too long? I say, "no."
Sadly, MaRo stated that the current direction of set development has Vampires as black's "IT" tribe. They are fading zombies in to minor players, and pushing melodramatic, anemic, sex-objects as the tribe that we should expect to see for a couple years. If that is the case, and they do need another tribe to oppose, please do not make it werewolves- especially since they are not a tribe..
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werewolves might be seen again but they won't be a main tribe you need a mechanic that lets them have 2 forms to be weres i think thry work best with flip cards like Nezumi Graverobber or threshold or level up cards like
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I would like to see some kind of Champion effect for the werewolves ("Must champion a human when ETB or is sacrificed"). That would be pretty sweet.
My brain is already turning around some cool ETB effects that could be triggered when/if the champion creature dies.
i think flip or threshold is more likely than champion that or there will be a new kind or mechanic that powers said creature up after a certain condition is met
I'm both orderly and rational. I value control, information, and order. I love structure and hierarchy, and will actively use whatever power or knowledge I have to maintain it. At best, I am lawful and insightful; at worst, I am bureaucratic and tyrannical.
I'm both orderly and rational. I value control, information, and order. I love structure and hierarchy, and will actively use whatever power or knowledge I have to maintain it. At best, I am lawful and insightful; at worst, I am bureaucratic and tyrannical.
