D&D 5E Adventures in the Forgotten Realms MtG set Planeswalkers confirmed.

[Vael]

That's no help!! Mordenkainen, Elminster, Dalamar and the Simbul are all cool. LOL

Well, I wouldn't put money on Dalamar, as he's more a Dragonlance character, yes? (TBH, this is the first I've heard of him)

If I were to guess, of the four I'd expect Mordenkainen to get a card. He's probably getting a spell or two in the set with his name anyway, I think he'll take the blue planeswalker slot.

 

[Maxperson]

Well, I wouldn't put money on Dalamar, as he's more a Dragonlance character, yes? (TBH, this is the first I've heard of him)

If I were to guess, of the four I'd expect Mordenkainen to get a card. He's probably getting a spell or two in the set with his name anyway, I think he'll take the blue planeswalker slot.

I agree that Dalamar is at the bottom of that list. He is cool, though.

I really hope that more than one of them get cards, but I wouldn't be unhappy with Mordenkainen.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Apparently the criteria for choosing Planeswalkers in this Set is "has the character traveled through the various Planes of the D&D multiverse?"

(1/4) We'll talk about this more during the full Adventures in the Forgotten Realm preview season, but some iconic D&D characters are being featured as Planeswalker cards in #MTGDND! What does that mean? Let's walk through it a bit... (1/3)

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(2/4) To get it out of the way: This doesn't mean that these characters (like our one true queen Lolth) have a Planeswalker Spark. You won't be seeing Lolth traveling to Strixhaven to hang out with Witherbloom students any time soon.


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(3/4) For now, we still see the Forgotten Realms and the Magic Multiverse as separate entities, which we mentioned earlier this year:



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[Henadic Theologian]

Well, it looks like who gets to be a planeswalker is more "Rule of Cool" than anything else:

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So, iow, don't get too attached to lore reasons why Character X is a planeswalker vs a creature.

You ninja'd me.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well, it looks like who gets to be a planeswalker is more "Rule of Cool" than anything else:

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So, iow, don't get too attached to lore reasons why Character X is a planeswalker vs a creature.

This is probably how they plan on handling Planeswalker in Universes Beyond, no lore connection whose a Planeswalker in those sets.

 

[Maxperson]

You ninja'd me.

I'm not sure 49 minutes is a ninja.

 

[Maxperson]

This is probably how they plan on handling Planeswalker in Universes Beyond, no lore connection whose a Planeswalker in those sets.

I wonder what they're going to do with LotR. It's not as if there are other universes to plane travel to. I mean, Aman is kinda sorta maaaaaybe another plane, but not really.

 

[Parmandur]

This is probably how they plan on handling Planeswalker in Universes Beyond, no lore connection whose a Planeswalker in those sets.

A lot of UB might not get Planeswaljers at all.

 

[Parmandur]

I wonder what they're going to do with LotR. It's not as if there are other universes to plane travel to. I mean, Aman is kinda sorta maaaaaybe another plane, but not really.

Divorcing the lore from the mechanics a bit, Planeswalker as a card type might work to represent the high level figures in LotR like Saurman, Galadriel, Sauron, or Gandalf.

 

[Ibrandul]

I don't think we know how many planeswalkers there will be in the set, do we? Anyway, my money would be on Mordenkainen, Elminster, and Vi, in that order of likelihood.

Of these, only Elminster is a shoo-in to appear in the set—but not necessarily as a planeswalker. Mordenkainen is a shoo-in to be a planeswalker if he's in the set at all; I think he will be, but there's a chance they don't want to put characters in this set who are primarily associated with a non-FR setting (which would exclude Vi, too).