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[WOE] Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (full frame art)

Ashiok will also be the only PW card in WOE.

*Also also, apparently one PW per set will be the norm going forward!

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Sandrareply
idiomdrottning.org

One planeswalker is really fun to play against and to play with. It's fun on either side of the board and brings a lot of decisions. But facing a whole board full of superfriends is oppressive.

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Echreply
lemm.ee

This change really only fixes that problem in limited where it wasn't a significant issue anyways, and standard in 2 years I guess, but there'll still be 9-12 PWs to stuff into a deck for anyone that wants to do that. For every other format, unless they systematically banned most Planeswalkers, the cows are out of the barn, there.

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Sandrareply
idiomdrottning.org

Standard is three years now 😭
Standard now will have more cards than Extended had when that first started.

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Echreply

Hah, yeah. It's gonna take a bit to get used to that.

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I think I'm happy with 1-3 planeswalkers per set. Honestly, it would be neat if we got a few more local, one-off Planeswalkers that come from the planes we're visiting. Lately it's just been a lot of the same old crew.

Planeswalkers are fun, because they can accrue a lot of value but are vulnerable to damage and attacks. They are typically must-answer bombs because they can accrue value turn after turn, and they often help support a deck archetype/synergy. As long as there are enough answers in the format for them, I think they're fine.

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