Why do they keep introducing all these interesting, fun, interesting and diverse planeswalkers; but as soon as their expansion is over they get swept under the rug and the boring, milquetoast, bland, one-dimensional ones hog the spotlight again?
It's specially frequent with the female ones. What gives, WotC?
Gavin Perry
Being boring means that they can be dropped into any situation the writers want. Interesting people have interaction with their environments that make them harder to move outside of them. Not impossible, but this is the easy way to do things.
Chase Evans
>Why do they keep introducing all these interesting, fun, interesting and diverse planeswalkers; but as soon as their expansion is over they get swept under the rug and the boring, milquetoast, bland, one-dimensional ones hog the spotlight again? Overexposure to any character will make them bland. While I agree that every character outside the main 5 should get more cards printed, the correct way to do this is not to just print shitloads of them. Sorin, for example, didn't need a card in KTK. Overprint any character, and ypeople will get sick of them. The main 5 are also monocolor, meaning they can fit in more decks in any standard environment. One-off characters tend to be multicolor, and so they're more specialized and their design space is more limited.
>It's specially frequent with the female ones. No it isn't.
Eli Gomez
You can play your meme waifus now and no one will make fun of you.
Charles Myers
>A girl with autism >Interesting
Ojutai couldn't bring himself to kill her because she's too autistic to know what she's doing. He should have just frozen her and saved us the time
Carson Foster
More interesting than fucking Liliana at least
Nolan Cruz
I never really understood why the werewolf walker was a lesbian...
Nolan Allen
Because boring, generic Justice League rip-offs ultimately sell like hot cakes among the mouth breathing masses, whereas diverse and interesting characters require too much thought and only serve as flavoring for the banal villain of the week plots Wizards is selling.
Why did Tamiyo get shoe horned into Bant when her and her tribe have been mono-blue as fuck since the get go? Because the main character of Magic is mono-blue. Why don't we see Garruk anymore, even though he is a perfect representation of what green actually does as a color? Because we need a tree hugging elf to complete the environmental justice ensemble. Why did Wizards spend three blocks, ruin two planes, and kill off several interesting characters hyping up the Eldrazi only to kill them forever via deus ex machina bullshit? Because they needed a way to show off the Jacestice's League's power and solidify the group.
I wonder why Wizards even bothers with the non-Gatewatch walkers at this point if they're just going to kill them off/forget about them once the block is over. They could copy Justice League word for word at this point with how they've oriented the plot.
Oliver Turner
Why wouldn't she be one?
Gavin Anderson
>introducing all these interesting, fun, interesting and diverse planeswalkers; but as soon as their expansion is over they get swept under the rug
Because keeping planewalkers turn them into boring, milquetoast, bland, one-dimensional ones. Keep churning new ones. THAT adds diversity.