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

[Charlaquin]

That is what I thought too, but its not, it exists on 1 other card.

Kelsinko Ranger (Ice Age) - Gatherer - Magic: The Gathering

Only in his original printing. He got errata’d to a human in the Grand Creature Type Update of 2007.

 

[Charlaquin]

Well, pre-mending Nicol Bolas was essentially a god. Probably still less powerful than Lolth, but pretty much as close to all-powerful that you can get in MtG. The whole premise of Bolas post-Mending is to regain that power and become the sole, all-powerful Planeswalker (and he gets close).

Kind of disappointed we didn't get stats for Bolas in the Ravnica book.

That’s not unique to Bolas though. Every Planeswalker was practically god before the Mending.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Only in his original printing. He got errata’d to a human in the Grand Creature Type Update of 2007.

I suspect he will be reerrata'd back to a Ranger, but keep human.

It does make me wonder what other new creature types will be added in this set. Mindflayer, Tieflings, Aasimar, Yugoloths maybe?

 

[Charlaquin]

I suspect he will be reerrata'd back to a Ranger, but keep human.

Maybe, but I doubt it. He’s a Ranger in the same sense that Uncle Istvan is an Uncle.

It does make me wonder what other new creature types will be added in this set. Mindflayer, Tieflings, Aasimar, Yugoloths maybe?

Probably. We already know Halfling is on the list.

 

[Dausuul]

"You won't be seeing Lolth traveling to Strixhaven to hang out with Witherbloom students any time soon."

My Beledros Witherbloom deck disagrees.

 

[Scribe]

Depending on the format you go from wincon to ''to expensive". 5 cmc gets you 2 critters, and if the deck supports it, a way to recharge the loyalty.

Far from busted without shenanigans already part of the deck I would say.

 

[Dausuul]

I suspect he will be reerrata'd back to a Ranger, but keep human.

It does make me wonder what other new creature types will be added in this set. Mindflayer, Tieflings, Aasimar, Yugoloths maybe?

I would expect mind flayers to be creature type Horror.

Tieflings and aasimar seem like good candidates for the "mash-up" creature types Simic* is so fond of--putting two "race" types on the same card. Tieflings would be Human Demons, and aasimar would be Human Angels.

Yugoloths are an interesting question. I can't see them adding a whole new creature type just for yugoloths, but classifying them as Demons (which is what they really should be in the M:tG lexicon) would seem super weird to anyone familiar with Planescape lore. I guess I would bet on one of two things:

• Yugoloths are printed with creature type Nightmare, or
• They just don't print any yugoloths.

*The Ravnica guild, not just the blue/green color pair.

 

[Parmandur]

I would expect mind flayers to be creature type Horror.

Tieflings and aasimar seem like good candidates for the "mash-up" creature types Simic* is so fond of--putting two "race" types on the same card. Tieflings would be Human Demons, and aasimar would be Human Angels.

Yugoloths are an interesting question. I can't see them adding a whole new creature type just for yugoloths, but classifying them as Demons (which is what they really should be in the M:tG lexicon) would seem super weird to anyone familiar with Planescape lore. I guess I would bet on one of two things:

• Yugoloths are printed with creature type Nightmare, or
• They just don't print any yugoloths.

*The Ravnica guild, not just the blue/green color pair.

I thinknwe won't see any Yugoloths. Easy enough to avoid.

 

[Dausuul]

Depending on the format you go from wincon to ''to expensive". 5 cmc gets you 2 critters, and if the deck supports it, a way to recharge the loyalty.

Far from busted without shenanigans already part of the deck I would say.

Yeah, Lolth really really wants to go in an aristocrats deck. (For those not familiar with M:tG lingo, this is a deck whose MO is cranking out cheap creatures, then sacrificing them for fun and profit.)

Her basic use will be to turbocharge your sacrifice engine; as long as you can generate at least one sacrificial chump per turn from some other source, she can spawn two more without a net loss of loyalty. And if you already have plenty of chumps, her -8 enables you to turn a single chump into a heavy hitter.

Outside of an aristocrats deck, though, she's pretty weak.

 

[Maxperson]

I don’t think the tweet was explaining what lore criteria was for which characters get to be Planeswalkers. It was clarifying that the characters who are getting Planeswalker cards are not considered to have a Planeswalker spark and will not be traveling to any of the canon M:tG planes. Planeswalker cards are just cool and a part of magic, so they didn’t want the set to not have any.

Yeah. When you literally have dozens and dozens of candidates who can travel the planes, narrowing that down by "who's cool" is a good way to go.