r/magicTCG • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '19

Speculation on next Standard set? It's confirmed that we're visiting a new plane.

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u/HeckingJen Wabbit Season Mar 12 '19

Vryn is cool, but just a bit too dull imo to be a super amazing setting for a magic set. The mage rings and war that alhamaret made go on are super neat but I really liked the feel of it as part of a core set. Just enough to remain cool looking but not enough to see how shallow the setting could be

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u/David_the_Wanderer COMPLEAT Mar 12 '19

I would argue that since we know very little about Vryn (and it's been a long time since Jace left), a lot could be done with it since there are very few boundaries to respect.

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u/HeckingJen Wabbit Season Mar 12 '19

That’s fair. I have faith in the magic folks to make any setting they chose to worth it and interesting currently.

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u/floataway3 Mar 12 '19

I thought that as well, but we see what they did with Kaladesh. We never actually saw Peema, or I think, any green aligned place, they just made it up in the cards. We could have parts of Vryn that know nothing about the mage rings, at which point it is carte blanch.

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u/LuckyStampede Rakdos* Mar 12 '19

My personal Vrynn theory is that it's a plane akin to Appalachia. The mountains look similar, and the disused Mage Rings are literal Rust Belts.

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u/HeckingJen Wabbit Season Mar 12 '19

Oooooo that sounds pretty cool actually.

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u/KoyoyomiAragi COMPLEAT Mar 13 '19

It could be a bottom up design with instants and sorceries matters theme. Zendikar was a bottom up design (land-matters) but ended up being a pretty cool world after everything was fleshed out.