The Plane of Wrestling

Yarrun XIX

So, I'm thinking about "what if there was an MTG plane dedicated to pro wrestling".

Ideas so far:

Setting: Created by the old-style planeswalker, Booker, the plane of wrestling is populated by the descendants of abductees from other planes, forming a culture based around both multiversal commonalities (humanity, goblins, zombies, etc.) and unique factors of their planes (Innistrad's werewolves, Tarkir's dragons, etc.)

Since all artificial planes have to have a power source to keep them from falling into the Blind Eternities, let's say that Booker came up with a way to harvest the power of legends and imagination. Or in other words, kayfabe. So in order to generate and draw on this power, the inhabitants of the PoW invest heavily in decoration and flamboyance, and war between the various tribes of PoW become more about interplay and theatrics than actual fighting.

Color Wheel: 

White: Babyfaces

Black: Heels

Red: Hotheads "Warrior" types

Green: Naturalistic, 'From Parts Unknown' Wrestlers

Blue: Announcers, Referrees, Wrestler Psychology (?)

Artifacts: "Hit him with the chair!"

Mechanics:

* Lots and lots of legends, Kamigawa-style

* Slight focus on auras

* Mimicking of other planes

* BRING BACK THE CLASH

Obā-san

this got a giggle outa me

glennmagusharvey

what about lucha libre?

Yarrun XIX

what about it?

glennmagusharvey

does it feature in this at all?

Yarrun XIX

Well, there are going to be wrestlers in masks, I can tell you that.

Yarrun XIX

I feel that lucha libre is, in itself, so entrenched specifically in Hispanic culture that making it its own faction would be sort of silly. Especially since there isn't a sufficiently Spanish flavored plane for me to steal ideas from.

The idea of masks being important is going to play a role though.

Yarrun XIX

So part of the trouble I've been having is the idea of pop

For those not in the know, pop (or heat for heel characters) is a measure of a character's popularity or infamy in the ring. The more pop/heat you get, the better your character is.

At first, I was thinking of it operating a bit like Exalted, but specified towards legends. But now, I'm thinking of something like the Clues from SOI or Eldrazi Tokens from Zendikar, with 'Pop' enchantment tokens that can be exchanged for extra mana or extra power or something.

glennmagusharvey

so basically it's like deity worship power

Yarrun XIX

It's more 'harnessing the power of fandom'. But then again, aren't all fandoms a type of worship?

glennmagusharvey

You have a point.

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Alduin

is that the john cena card

Salix Babylonika

it's the John Darnielle card.

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Yarrun XIX

Werewolf Gimmick's more of a Mick Foley sort of thing anyways

Yarrun XIX

Jane said:

it's the John Darnielle card.

Thank you.

Yarrun XIX