Four Planeswalkers Enter Kaladesh In MTG’s Upcoming Release
September 16, 2016 by deltagamegirl22
"Welcome to Kaladesh! Optimism, innovation, and the spirit of creativity fuel a renaissance of innovation. Now, during the celebration of Inventors' Fair, we invite you to invent your tomorrow...today!"
The next set for Magic the Gathering is the Kaladesh block, which is slated to hit stores on September 30th. This will be set one of two and features 240 cards, that not only look fabulous but includes four planeswalkers.
Chandra makes her way into this plane and brings some very useful damage mechanics. If you like to play Red, then she's the one you want for sure.
Nissa also makes the trek into Kaladesh, and though she only has three abilities, she can manipulate lands like a pro and will definitely make life interesting for your opponents. I so need her for my Elf deck!
Kaladesh also brings two multicolored planeswalkers to the party. Dovin Baan, for Blue/White and Saheeli Rai for Red/Blue. Both of these planeswalkers bring very interesting abilities.
Dovin's minus one is particularly interesting as it offers 2 life and the ability to draw a card. This may be particularly nasty as he keeps restoring damage that's been done.
And Saheeli has two abilities that allow her to dig/manipulate artifacts, and her plus one makes her a very desirable addition for Commander decks as she can do damage to EACH opponent.
Will you be exploring the innovation of Kaladesh?
"This will be set one of two and features 240 cards, that not only look fabulous but includes four planeswalkers..."
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We also get two other versions of Chandra and Nissa with Planeswalker Decks that replace Intro Decks. Nissa sure has gotten lot of love from WotC. Almost Jace levels of love.
As a general rule, what separates a good Planeswalker from a bad one, is the ability to look after itself the turn it goes down, preferably with it’s + ability. Rai’s + ability doesn’t seem to do this while her minor – ability requires a board presence of sorts. I dunno, I’m not really sold. Seems pretty weak in all formats tbh. Chandra is completely bonkers in a set that seems to have printed (at first glance) a whole bunch of decent to good red cards (it typically has been the weakest colour, I suspect down to WotC not really… Read more »