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Apr 5, 2012 -- 9:23PM, Zindaras wrote:

But, hey, Nicol Bolas in M13 is still a pretty big announcement, and it could very well mean we get multicoloured cards.

I hope it means we get multicolored cards in core set. Maybe they'll introduce all-new planeswalkers as well to make a cycle of five arc-colored planeswalkers? But, most likely Bolas will be a 6th planeswalker to act as the villain focus and they'll make team cards or something. Worst-case scenario: they stick Bolas into just one color (most likely black).

Apr 6, 2012 -- 1:21AM, DrShneepsh wrote:

And how about some real customization for once? I would like to design my own deck and play it against opponents. It would be fun for friends to be able to customize their decks together for two headed giant matches. I don't see why that would be a problem at all. It would just be great fun, you know, like the actual card game.

You really don't see why you're not allowed to customize your own decks? The game can't have a huge card pool like MtGO because then it would be trespassing on MtGO's territory, and it's not what this game is supposed to do. So, that means it's going to have to have a limited card pool. If you could fully customize your own decks, how long would it take for people using the internet to find out the absolute best or two best decks to build and then the game to turn into players only running those two decks? And it couldn't get fixed until they released a new game, and it starts all over again. Not fun.

If you want a way to play the game just like regular Magic on the computer, you can play MtGO and the free clients available online. Duels of the Planeswalkers isn't supposed to be exactly like paper Magic. That's the point.

I really enjoyed Duels 2012 but I just got it recently, so it's kind of disappointing to see that another version is coming out so soon. Are we really going to do new ones each year instead of just releasing expansions? The land-tapping thing really should have been done the last time anyway. If 2013 has Archenemy and Planechase I might do it, but if it only has Planechase then it isn't okay to make a new game to encourage players to buy both.

Apr 5, 2012 -- 9:11PM, Qmark wrote:

So Nicky has been officially promoted to MTG's 'Skeletor', huh?

I'm calling Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker as a reprint.

As opposed to any other theories of how he might show up.

1. The symbol for Core Sets has always been pretty standardized. Two different long-running patterns on both sides of Xth Edition. It won't be his horns, it'll be M13


2. Nicol Bolas isn't black. He's gold. He's U/B/R. This is what they did in Conflux, and any new Nicol Bolas, if they chose to make another, would be these same colors, guaranteed. The only possible exception is if Bolas hits 5 Color Mastery, which is cleary his PLAN, but if he SUCCEEDS at that, the story breaks and Bolas just wins on the spot.


3. So, Nicol Bolas, in either reprint or new card form, will appear in his time-honored classic three colors, and yes this definitely confirms Gold in Core Set. I can't recall if that's ever been done before, but I'm pretty sure not. So that is going to be the 'returning mechanic' most likely.


4. Nicol Bolas' first Planeswalker card is powerful enough. And perfectly gets his persona across. I could see a few different possibilities for other Bolas cards, but very few. I don't think there's more than 2 good Nicol Bolas-on-a-Planeswalker-card Designs left in the Design Space for him (one Grixis, one 5-color). So I'm pretty sure we are getting the Conflux card, with maybe a 3rd art (definitely not his Duel Decks Art- those never get recycled, but they might make it a new new art to make it more interesting.)   
           
        

Apr 6, 2012 -- 2:19PM, Edacade wrote:

Apr 6, 2012 -- 10:38AM, DarthParallax wrote:

2. Nicol Bolas isn't black. He's gold. He's U/B/R. This is what they did in Conflux, and any new Nicol Bolas, if they chose to make another, would be these same colors, guaranteed. The only possible exception is if Bolas hits 5 Color Mastery, which is cleary his PLAN, but if he SUCCEEDS at that, the story breaks and Bolas just wins on the spot.

Just cause he's gold doesn't mean he couldn't decide to show how powerful he is by using only one color of mana. Not that Nicky is the show-off type. Sarkhan is technically a mage with access to all of Jund's colors, yet we've only seen two instances of him: one where he chose to only use , and one where he chose to use only . They can do the same with Nicol Bolas; print him in only one color, or if they so chose, three individual cards in three colors.

The planeswalker cards aren't supposed to show "this planeswalker only deals in these colors", they show "this is what colors of magic this planeswalker feels like using when you summon them this time."

Actually, I believe you have it exactly wrong, but for understandable reasons.


Sarkhan was a shaman. The shaman colors have traditionally been Red/Green. He did NOT used to have death magic. He used fire, rather than direct kill spells, and his own rage, fuelled by the most primal parts of the earth element.


Then, he became a minion of Bolas, and also was driven Mad. I think he actually lost access to his connection to the world's heartbeat, in the same way a Jedi gone Sith loses access to the Living Force, but gains the Dark Side. Either Bolas himself taught Sarkhan Death Magic, or R/B is just something all insane people can do, like the 'madness' mechanic from Rakdos suggests.

Because of the color pie, there are some things each color can NOT do. Limiting yourself to only one color where before you were three colors is always a weakening. Nicol Bolas cannot cast Entomb using only Blue  mana, or Lightning using Black mana. That's illogical, like saying he can make something a square and a circle at the same time.

However, he can show he has mastery of Blue, Black, and Red mana by using the MOST POWERFUL magics from those colors: Time Travel in Blue, Mass Sacrifice/Discard/Reanimation in Black, Chaos in Red.


If you take away his Black, he's going to lose he's going to lose reanimate, discard and sacrifice;
If you take away his Blue, he's going to lose mind control and draw;
If you take away his Red, he's going to lose direct damage and destroying artifacts and lands;

If you take away his Gold, he's going to lose kills Planeswalkers. (I don't buy than any one color can do this so easily) 


He's gonna be Grixis. Trust me.