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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 4:29PM
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This thread is for discussion of the first part of the Return to Ravnica Planeswalker's Guide, which goes live on Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 9:24PM
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So freaking excited.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 9:33PM
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I love the flavor of Ravnica and am thrilled to see it getting such a full treatment. I just hope these articles come out more often than once a week!
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 9:52PM
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Sep 18, 2005
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Interested to see how the represent Trostani on a card. One creature that makes two tokens? One card with three abilities? Triple split card?! Triple face card!?!?!?!
Wonder if they're going to stick to the Ravnica structure of printing two legendary creatures from each guild, or if they'll be more flexible this time around.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 10:04PM
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I think one legendary is set for each guild (and mythic and CCDD). But I think they abandoned the obligatory second one, which luckily means there will be space for more particular legends.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 10:07PM
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Transformers. That's pretty cool.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 10:19PM
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Sep 18, 2005
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I think one legendary is set for each guild (and mythic and CCDD). But I think they abandoned the obligatory second one, which luckily means there will be space for more particular legends.
Yeah, I know they announced that each of the guild leaders would be represented on a card. It would be weird if they printed more than one legendary creature in one guild but not in another (in a symmetrical/balanced sense at least). Though I'm all for seeing some unique 'guildless' legends as well.
They might also print each of the guild leaders in RTR and Gatecrash, then print 10 new legends in the third set.
Guess we'll find out when we find out though.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 10:36PM
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Jan 13, 2012
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I love the flavor of Ravnica and am thrilled to see it getting such a full treatment. I just hope these articles come out more often than once a week!
This!
One each week is just too slow, I am pretty stoked about RTR right now.
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I hope you all feel really smart now. 
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I wish more girls play magic cards...
Have you considered assassinating Kevin?
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11 months ago ::
Aug 21, 2012 - 11:38PM
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It is very hard to understand what has happened since the last Ravnica block. The thing I was most looking forward to was "what has happened since the last time we were here?". They gave us 2000 words, but just these three sentences on the history: The Guildpact has been dispelled, and for a time the guilds fell into chaos. But the ten-thousand-year-old guild culture and division of duties has reasserted itself, and the ten guilds are once again dominant. However, tensions between them are building and rumors of trouble can be heard in both the hallowed guildhalls and rustic taverns of the unguilded citizens.
This leaves me unsatisfied. Describe the chaos! How was order reestablished?
I am hopeful that future articles will give us more history, rather than commentary on what now exists.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 22, 2012 - 12:04AM
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Oct 14, 2008
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Looking forward to this set, even if it's recycling old ideas because of how awesome ravnica was.
My patience with the magic lore is growing thin though. We have gotten all these awesome new planes and planeswalkers in recent years, yet we barely know anything about them. Haven't seen a novel in ages either... Has wizards given up on these, or are there just no decent writers willing to pick the stories up?
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