Encounters can break a Planeswalker trend

SUMMARY

A limited number of Planeswalker cards are limited to deck building in MTG if they are multi-colored.
The recent MTG 2024 series features the most colorful Planeswalkers, impacting the diversity of the deck.
Wizards of the Coast is discussing the issue of colorful Planeswalkers for the upcoming edition.

Wizards of the Coast has a lot of internal rules to consider when developing new ones Magic: The Collection cards, such as respecting the colored pie and observing what the given card brings to the table. For example, if all the colors are there Magic: The Collection they have a removal design, they differ in theme and average price to show the philosophy behind the color pie and various color combinations. The walkers shook Magic: The CollectionThe game in a big way for many years, and while they were introduced as mono-colored cards, they began to collect smoke by combining more colors.

Color mixing in Magic: The Collection It can be interesting especially from a card design and philosophy and from a game perspective. An example from the various Rakdos combos there Magic: The Collection where players are expected to win at high cost or high risk. When you have many colored cards MTG While this is often a good thing, it can come with its fair share of deckbuilding anxiety, especially for card types that are printed in small quantities per set, such as Planeswalkers. . In fact, many decks contain only one or a few Planeswalkers, and whenever they are multi-colored, it can be difficult to fit them into some decks. However, WotC may change this trend.

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Why Multicolored, One-Per-Set Planeswalkers Are a Big Problem in MTG

The reason why Planeswalker cards are so colorful Magic: The Collection The potential problem is that, like Wilds of Eldraine and after, Wizards of the Coast decided to only have one Planeswalker per set. So, with only a limited number of Planeswalkers per year, having them on mostly multi-colored cards can introduce a significant restriction on deck building. The result is that some Planeswalkers, while playable, struggle to have their time in the meta because they require specific decks and colors to work.

Wilds of Eldraine comes out on September 8th, 2023, and is the first MTG set to contain only one out-of-print Planeswalker card and alien card, starting a new trend.

The idea of one Planeswalker card per set isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it allows Wizards of the Coast to put more emphasis on the purpose and alignment of each Planeswalker, and the impact it has on their set. . However, reducing the number of The new Planeswalker cards in each set by one means that it can be difficult to put them in the deck depending on the format, with the most restrictions Magic: The CollectionThe usual and not eternal form.

MTG's Planeswalkers in 2024 Explained

In 2024, many Planeswalker cards were printed, and only one of them was mono-colored. This is Jace Reawakened from Outlaws of Thunder Junction, a blue card, but other Planeswalker cards from last year are multi-colored. These include:

Kaya, Spirits' Justice (White and Black) from Murders at Karlov Manor
Oko, the Ringleader (green and blue) from the Outlaws of Thunder Junction
Ral, Crackling Wit (blue and red) by Bloomburrow
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares (Blue and Black) from Duskmourn: House of Horror

Jace is not the “character” Planeswalker for last year's Outlaws of Thunder Junction, which is Oko. With four Planeswalkers in total from the 2024 main set, not having a dedicated mono-colored Planeswalker can sting a bit when it comes to deck building.

Magic: The Gathering is trying to solve the Colorful Planeswalker problem

Moreover, Magic: The CollectionThe UB set will have no Planeswalkers even with the new release schedule of 2025, meaning that this year there will only be three Planeswalker cards. However, WotC's Mark Rosewater recently confirmed that the company is working on the issue of colorful Planeswalkers and their potential.

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It's still unclear what exactly Wizards of the Coast plans for future Planeswalkers without making them too restrictive in terms of color, but fans can wait and see. The first Standard-legal series of the year will be MTGAetherdrift in February, and will feature Chandra as its theme Planeswalker, but it's currently not well known.