Magic: the Gathering Core Set 2020

The novice and acolyte have really great art, it's nice to see a different take on Chandra. Acolyte seems thematically a lot like Nissa (and green planeswalkers generally), creating hasted elementals and proliferating (minus the keyword) loyalty counters (admittedly to red PWs only).

Still, the arts are great and I love novice's outfit

For other PWs, I hope Huatli and Ral Zarek return, since they're my faves

The fact that one creates elementals, one boosts elementals, and one burns everything which isn't an elemental, means that I'll have to make a mono red deck running all three at some point. Even if there are faster/better ways to win in mono red, it has to be done.

If I wanted to take it to levels of extreme stupidity (which I'd be willing to do in an unranked game once or twice, for fun), I could throw in four copies of each, four of Fire Artisan, four of Chandra's Triumph and four of Chandra's Pyrohelix for a tribal Chandra deck. Maybe even a few Bold Pyromancers, and the 2020 Planeswalker deck version (which will also presumably be Chandra).

Art-wise, I like Acolyte the best. That unimpressed monk in the background.

Planeswalkers in Core sets are *usually* mono-coloured (with exceptions, such as 2019's Nicol Bolas), so I'm not so sure about Ral, as much as I'd like to see more of him. Mono-White Huatli would be... interesting, too!

Oh that makes sense, I've not been playing long enough to notice any kind of theme in that sense xD I guess now that they've lost Gideon as their default mono-white PW (*sob*) they might be looking for someone to fill that gap, so we might see mono-white Huatli :O

That said, I'd really like to see a Naya Huatli, then I could make a commander deck with her as the commander (instead of Gishrath or Zacama, as while they're cool it'd be nice to be able to cast ones commander before late game lol)

I don't think they really do tricolour planeswalkers outside of commander decks specifically though...which I guess makes sense, tricolour decks are pretty tricky to balance the mana in for constructed, especially if you're evenly split between the colours and not just splashing one.

Ajani would be the 'safe' mono white option, though I am hoping it won't just be 100% Gatewatch again. We've had mono-white Nahiri before, too. And I wouldn't entirely count out one last hurrah for Gideon, since Core sets don't need to fit a specific timeline or plot (hence all these different Chandras).

I'd like to see Red Green Huatli, since those are the colours I use in my dinosaur deck; feels like making her primarily White is a deliberate attempt to force people into Naya colours for dinos. I've tried that (with a focus on Majestic Heliopterus, because why not make all my dinosaurs fly?), but kept getting colour screwed.

A quick search tells me that only Tamiyo (Field Researcher), Sarkhan (Unbroken) and of course Bolas have been three colour, outside of Commander.

Yeah I played a Naya dino deck in the closed beta cos I had a Zacama AND a Gishrath; it was fun, but I did on occasion still lose due to just having the wrong mana (even with a full set of evolving wilds and lots of dual lands. I probably should've made it mainly Gruul and just splashed white for those plus Huatli, but I liked white removal too much (Fumigate and Ixalan's Binding were my go to cards, I LOVE Ixalan's lol)

I didn't even know Sarkhan had any colours other than red He looks like a kind of neat PW with the mana fixing on his +1 to help offset the three colours. Might get a physical copy to throw into that Kynaios and Tiro commander deck I bought xD Although I don't know if he really fits into that otherwise Mana fixing and 4/4 flying tokens are pretty nice, even if I didn't stuff the deck full of dragons to try and get off his big loyalty ability.

I hope Gideon comes back...in the story as well though I'd actually like it if they went back to Theros, since that was way before I started playing but a lot of the cards and generally the classical Mediterranean theme of it is pretty cool to me Ravnica is ok thematically but not super exciting to me (although some cards like Murmuring Mystic are pretty cool and flavourful in the context of it...also has nice art...also has a great effect ).

I am disturbed both of you well (artful lounger as jellyfish is long gone) both play it.

Jellyfish you know theres an animated TV series coming to Netflix?

I've been playing on and off since Portal: Three Kingdoms in 1999. Which probably makes next July my 20 year anniversary!



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I cant believe it is still going.

Stronger than it has been in a long time by my understanding, following the release of Arena into open beta, and the popularity of War of the Spark.

If I wanted to take it to levels of extreme stupidity (which I'd be willing to do in an unranked game once or twice, for fun), I could throw in four copies of each, four of Fire Artisan, four of Chandra's Triumph and four of Chandra's Pyrohelix for a tribal Chandra deck.