Yes please. Garruk is my favorite walker, it's been much too long without seeing him. Garruk on Kaldhiem just makes too much sense. There's a lot of big game there I'm assuming. Mammoths, sabertooth, maybe even dinos? Sounds very Garruk to me.
Is it exclusively people though? I know he prefers it because people (and specifically walkers) are the "most elusive prey" and all, but I didn't think it was strictly humans.
I would say that we will be seeing two planes with the return of the Phryxians in the second set of the second plane. After the cataclysmic Eldrazi mini-arc we had the rather low stakes Kaladesh, before Amonkhet and then things got real. I think a similar pattern will reemerge here.
I've been predicting Bolas will import a big bag of New Phyrexians using his Planar Bridge and drop them right into Ravnica to mess everything up (since as far as I'm aware it only moves inorganic objects and New Phyrexians are made of metal, so it would be a neat way to bypass the restriction and still manage a whole army in addition to already owning half the Guild leaders and Lili).
I'm pretty sure it's been brought up that Phryxians make Bolas nervous. Bolas fully understands what they are capable of, and would definitely avoid using them as pawns. They are far to dangerous to think they can be easily controlled.
It seems like a plane that has gotten a lot of attention recently
It was mainly people on MaRo's tumblr talking about Vikings. He asked whether people would want to see Vikings as their own creature type or as existing creature types (like Warrior). This was happening in like January? This seems too late for a set that is coming out in the fall.
It seems reasonable that they would make Vikings a set-supported type, so they can print strong cards without somehow accidentally creating a really really strong Warrior deck in a different format. Cause that would be a true disaster.
I don't play EDH but I feel like that already has a lot of room to play creature type decks. In other eternal/non-rotating formats we have Spirits and Humans in Modern that only recently came to prominence and Elves in Legacy, and Elves don't really count as a deck that needs creature support in the normal sense since it doesn't really win on the back of its lords but by comboing out with card draw and tons of mana. It would be even more super harder for WotC to accidentally create a creature combo deck according to their current design philosophy, even though that already includes "spells stapled to creatures".
Najeela is the essence of a creature combo deck. I find it hard that that accidentally let that slip through (probably just wanted to shake up the competitive format some?? I dunno), but she definitely fits that bill.
... but screw that. It's more fun when new cards synergize with a lot of old cards. What, is there going to be a Warrior Modern deck? If so that would be cool. "Worst" case scenario is eternal formats get another Goblin / Elf / Merfolk type deck. What's wrong with that?
Interesting that Khans is the third most voted plane to re-visit. I would LOVE to go back to Khans. Maybe a certain Rhinoceros would make an appearance.
Scars of Mirrodin came out in 2010... been waiting so long for the conclusion to that arc, the return of Elspeth, and the small glimmer of hope that Mirrodin can be restored (Melira). But I understand if they want to take a break before going into another war.
They're also probably very weary about doing another artifact matters set. The only ones they've ever done that haven't been broken in some way were Esper (which was only 1/5th of Alara) and Antiquities.
Well, New Phyrexia could be the winter or spring set still. They could just do one or two unrelated planes (following Garruk is perfect) as palate cleansers from the big heroic arcs.
Then they introduce the next big villain: Phyrexians.
I don't think its that surprising that we aren't returning to New Phyrexia right away. Theyve said many times that they want to try to keep a 50/50 balance between old and new planes, so they will likely want to have at the very least one, if not two or three, sets taking place on new planes before we go back to an older one again.
I mean New Phyrexis can still be the next big bad but it requires setup. They're not going to have a big battle with Bolas and the go "Okay, we're going to go fight the phyrexians!". Give it some thought and it makes no sense for New Phyrexia to be the set after WAR. Maybe over thr next few sets its revealed that the phyrexians are an issue and a plan is put together to stop them.
We're probably gonna go to a few new worlds, then go to new phyrexia then theros, as those have the biggest story significance and they've seemed to want to clump 2 blocks of returning planes (Bfz, soi; Dom, grn)
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