The Two-Faced Planeswalkers Of Magic Origins

June 29, 2015 by deltagamegirl22

As July draws near, the excitement is continuing to build around the upcoming release of Magic Origins...

Wizards of the Coast has said that this set will give us a better look at the history around the planeswalkers. The special feature in this set will see each of the planeswalkers as a two sided card.

This is particularly interesting in how they come out onto the play field. Their cost is only represented on their non-planeswalker side, meaning they will enter the game as a Legendary Creature. It is through game play and the special conditions listed on the card that they will be exiled and return to the game in their Planeswalker form.

This interesting mechanism may just make it more difficult to get your Planeswalkers out, and alive long enough to get them transformed over to their Planeswalker forms. I cannot wait to see how these play!

Will you be trying out the new Magic Origins set next month?

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dafthelmet85

Oooooph the excitement is building. Normally I’m a Chandra man but I think Nissa may be my favorite.

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mecha82

Gideon and Jace are easily best of five walkers. Others are kinda meh. Nissa is not really worth it compared to what you need to flip her.

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davidwolf

Is there anywhere I can find an explanation of the release cycle? Is this in the same set as the dragons of Tarkhir which was recently released?

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deltagamegirl22

It looks like this release is the new “core set”- so yes, it would still count in the current cycle with Tarkir, though not part of that 3 release block.

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fleetey

WotC typically release a “Core” set each year (i.e. M14, M15). Origins is this year’s core set. However, WotC have decided how they are going to change how they release stuff, and in short, Origins is going to be the last Core set they do.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mm/metamorphosis

is a link, written almost a year ago, which explains the problems with the current system and what WotC are going to change it to; it is a fair chunk of text, but you can just scroll down to the bottom and see what the new system is going to be with some nice simple graphs.

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sakurafire

I could see Nissa being a late game character. Bring her out, pop a land down, bam… cheap Planeswalker.

Jace and Gideon are really cool. Other ones are as well, just not as much. Still not enough to get me back into the game, though. =)

Gideon is really good; a 1 mana 2/1 that has an ability to help with it late game, you really can’t complain about it.

Chandra….is alright….attacking with her, then getting that extra ping isn’t asking too much.

The block after Origins is going to be Zendikar, so it is extremely likely we’ll see Landfall return. I.e. it will become easier to activate her. Plus she is an elf which seems relevant in this set (if not the next).

Liliana is a 2/3 with lifelink in black for 3 mana. Her cost isn’t unreasonable tbh.

Jace is Jace.

Zendikar is coming back? I hope they bring back the Party/Level-up mechanic. (Had to have been my favorite mechanic in years and allowed me to build fun theme decks)