Doylian: Since 99.99999% of magic players are human, they identify most easily with humans, and therefore most the planeswalkers will be human. The two dragons are due to dragons being the most popular creature type by a long shot.
Watsonian: There are a lot more planeswalkers than just the ones in the main story, so the distributuions may be better representative of each species' populations across the planes if we include those not covered in the story. (Also, you forgot Kor in there.)
I think I filed Nahiri under human with Koth, given that the Vulshok are considered a human ethnic group by the wiki and they look a hell of a lot less human than the Kor
I won't touch the Doylian argument, but the Watsonian one does also have to account for the fact that even most of their non-humans are either pretty humans or fashionable fantasy creatures. And the few that aren't fashionable or pretty tend to end up as villains (Vraska, Xenagos).
Point being, much like with race, people would view there being two of the same non-human species of planeswalker as being 'redundant.' So you don't get a lot of repeats.
That said, I think there are a great number of people who are happy there won't be any say, spider planeswalkers in the near future.
Also, magic's not made by an independent team of artists, and therefore most of the story decisions are subject to market research and corporate politics. It'd be cool for there to be a lot more non-human, (or non-humanoid for that matter,) walkers, but such is the nature of the beast.
angel of serenity exiles too. even does it right out of graveyards. but it's only creatures, and if it dies the owner(s) of the exiled card(s) get them back.
So this week I was bored and made up a new format. I call it the budget league, but I'm considering calling it Hard Times after the defunct Windmill Slam sub-show.
The rules:
Decks must cost no more than 45 dollars median price total maindeck and sideboard on tcgplayer as of 10/5/2014, (on 10/9/15 that date will become the earliest date for prices), median price gives the benefit of the doubt to players, meaning that between the current price, and the price as of 10/5/14, the lower of the two is chosen. (Calculated using cheapest available printing.)
Minimum deck size is fifty cards. Max sideboard size is ten. No more than four copies of a card may be included unless otherwise excepted by either the Basic supertype, or card text.
The card list includes any card printed in magic, the ban list: Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens, Temporal Fissure, Tendrils of Agony, frantic search, invigorate, cloudpost.
I don't know enough about development to try and extrapolate a banlist without EXTENSIVE playtesting, so I just took cues from the pauper banlist.
because you see, it needs to be an /evasive/ uncounterable untargetable fatty, otherwise it would be underpowered, and it's in blue because blue is bad and needed a buff
It is way too slow for anything other than EDH and might see play in standard, but it probably won't because permission decks aren't good in standard. This card isn't competitive, it's just a splashy blue creature, and not even the best splashy blue creature.
I think the relatively high mana cost is making you undervalue this card. Many deck archetypes in eternal formats are easily capable of producing large amounts of mana, or of cheating creatures into play regardless of their mana cost.
The deciding factor in whether this card will see play or not is whether there is a deck to which the third ability, uncounterable instants and sorceries, will be useful. Let me clarify my earlier statement a bit. Since this card is extremely safe to cast, difficult to remove, evasive, and has what seems to me like a pretty relevant ability, I think there's a very good chance it will see play in formats outside of standard, if not in the main deck than at least as a sideboard option in certain matchups.
And again, this is my opinion, and depends a great deal on what the metagame looks like post-OGW, and so on and so forth. Time will tell but it seems like a stronger card than you're giving it credit for to me.
because you see, it needs to be an /evasive/ uncounterable untargetable fatty, otherwise it would be underpowered, and it's in blue because blue is bad and needed a buff
please understand that i may not have been entirely serious when i posted this =p
thinking about it a little more, i think 'a lot' may have been an overstatement, but it still seems like a really good card, for instance, to side board in for the control mirror
like if it was JUST a big evasive fatty, sure, i'd agree with you, there's better things to do with your mana in eternal formats, like cheat in griselbrand or elesh norn or whatever, or cast emrakul, or karn, or ugin
That may be fair, but I think that since the third ability is largely defensive, it's not a very useful tool as a win condition. Overall, there are similar creatures to this one which are more dangerous and cheaper to play, even in blue. As a sideboard card for control mirrors, I will grant you it will be useful, but it's not efficient for a big, evasive, uncounterable creature, and as a body it threatens aggro more than control, which it its abilities are designed to answer. Even as a finisher for a control deck, I believe there are better options, especially where decks that cheat creatures into play are concerned.
Ninja'd: Fair enough. The third ability would be useful in combo, but I'd think any combo deck that could spit this out, could try a win con before they would be able to cast it. Also, don't control mirrors generally entail board wipe threats?
it isn't a win condition, it makes it so that you can cast your win condition without getting it countered. and you don't necessarily /have/ to cheat it in, it's only seven mana, any deck that plays the long game, ie most control decks, among others, would not find it difficult to hard cast.
so like i said, it's a good sideboard card for the control mirror. or for any slower deck to board in against a control opponent.
dammit cerise you made me actually think and post serious posts, on the internet, instead of just cracking stupid jokes and making fun of people, this feels horrible =p
i mean like, again, it depends on the meta and stuff, which i am terrible at predicting, but given the right environment i can definitely see the sphinx being a finisher in some kind of control deck. like after khans came out one of the better control decks was a blue black one that would just cast tons of silumgars and ojutais and stuff
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(Is there a card called nature of the beast? no, but it's the naya precon commander deck: http://940ee6dce6677fa01d25-0f55c9129972ac85d6b1f4e703468e6b.r99.cf2.rackcdn.com/products/pictures/1045844.jpg)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(*korn voice*) ARE YOU RRREADY
Also, it comes with an indestructible 10/10 that can't exactly be chumped.
could you exile the top 20 cards of their library??
is the angel squamous and ineffable???
i dont think so
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
which can be a good thing, or a bad thing
archive trap: strictly better than ulamog
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
seems fine
The deciding factor in whether this card will see play or not is whether there is a deck to which the third ability, uncounterable instants and sorceries, will be useful. Let me clarify my earlier statement a bit. Since this card is extremely safe to cast, difficult to remove, evasive, and has what seems to me like a pretty relevant ability, I think there's a very good chance it will see play in formats outside of standard, if not in the main deck than at least as a sideboard option in certain matchups.
And again, this is my opinion, and depends a great deal on what the metagame looks like post-OGW, and so on and so forth. Time will tell but it seems like a stronger card than you're giving it credit for to me.
the third ability is what is relevant here
so like i said, it's a good sideboard card for the control mirror. or for any slower deck to board in against a control opponent.
dammit cerise you made me actually think and post serious posts, on the internet, instead of just cracking stupid jokes and making fun of people, this feels horrible =p
kawaii >w<
also myrs are cute who doesnt love them. the irl magic deck i own is a myr deck
(also some horrifyingly bad red/white thing i cobbled together out of shit i had lying around but lets not talk about that)