SourceMaro's Tumblr wrote:
tizokshu asked:
Hi mark! I would like to ask about the chance of a possible return to kamigawa and kitsunes (foxfolk), what are the chances?
I never say never. : )
Previously, his response was pretty negative.
SourceMaro's Tumblr wrote:
tizokshu asked:
Hi mark! I would like to ask about the chance of a possible return to kamigawa and kitsunes (foxfolk), what are the chances?
I never say never. : )
Homelands main issue was that it was over printed, not lack of power. It contained three cards that were tournament staples: Memory Lapse, Serrated Arrows, and Autumn Willow. Additionally, Eron, the Relentless found a home as a finisher in early Sligh builds. It really wasn't a bad set. Same with Fallen Empires, the first, and so far, only set to have three banned common cards. Really powerful set at the time, horribly over printed.JovialJovian wrote: ↑3 years agoTamiyo's addition to the character lineup has always given me that tiny spark of hope that we could revisit Kamigawa at some point. But I still worry that it will get the Ulgrotha treatment and have its theme stolen to be used in a new plane, so as to not get caught up in the baggage of the original poorly received set. Although, Kamigawa has delivered many, many more cards that are often reprinted and have found beloved homes in several formats, something Homelands did not manage to do, so memories of Kamigawa may have turned rosy over the years.
I do believe that Isamaru is very, very dead. It's been millennia since O.G. Kamigawa's story.
come on now, your gonna sit there and tell me you don't think he had puppies?
Although possible, as I said, it's been literal millennia since our last visit, any bloodline would be long since diluted to oblivion.The N82O Molecule wrote: ↑3 years agocome on now, your gonna sit there and tell me you don't think he had puppies?
Logically they'd do the former, because the latter would mean no planeswalkers and people love planeswalkers.The Fluff wrote: ↑3 years agoI think it depends on what kind of visit the wotc design team want do... they could visit like in Dominaria - where the present Dominaria is shown - if they do something like that, we would see the "present Kamigawa", where most of the original cast are gone. Or they could do a set of Kamigawa... showing the place immediately after O-Kagachi was defeated - if they do it like this, we could see some of the original cast still alive.
Agreed. And since Kamigawa has a reputation for having a great storyline despite its other faults, well...
Not just Sagas, but the Historic mechanic as a whole would be a great fit for Kamigawa for the same reasons it works in Dominaria, and would give them a good excuse to pack in all those uncommon Legendaries again.
boooo lolKrishnath wrote: ↑3 years agoAlthough possible, as I said, it's been literal millennia since our last visit, any bloodline would be long since diluted to oblivion.The N82O Molecule wrote: ↑3 years agocome on now, your gonna sit there and tell me you don't think he had puppies?
They could always do something like "Ako, Descendant of Isamaru" with the flavor text something like "A bloodline unbroken." It actually sounds like a really sweet card just from the idea alone.The N82O Molecule wrote: ↑3 years agoboooo lolKrishnath wrote: ↑3 years agoAlthough possible, as I said, it's been literal millennia since our last visit, any bloodline would be long since diluted to oblivion.The N82O Molecule wrote: ↑3 years ago
come on now, your gonna sit there and tell me you don't think he had puppies?
honestly looking back isamaru sorta sticks out as a one of. but Kamigawa is the place that introduced powerful war dogs. if I so wine about it id think that Kamigawa would be a real good place to enhance dog tribal but I sound like a cat person. no cats on Kamigawa. haha
anyway ill always support going back, I think wizards is a lot smarter now and would knock it out of the park.
Indeed, or they could do "Isamaru, Spirit of Loyalty" or some such and make it a Spirit Dog (or Dog Spirit). That could work as well.
I would say that it is pretty much inevitable that Commander Legends will have characters from Kamigawa, but that is not really what is the issue here. After years of Maro answering the question if we will ever return to Kamigawa (as in a set) was an emphatic no, he has now essentially changed it to "maybe", which is Maro speak for "this is likely to happen, but it might not."
The spirit tribal will probably stay just not so poopy cards this time my guess something like "choose spirit or non-Spirit"folding_music wrote: ↑3 years agoI wonder if they'd continue the Spirits vs non-Spirits mechanics? Stuff like Field of Reality is now really funny and underpowered to read, divorced from the point of the set.
and if they tried Splice again, I'd like to see them retcon the game entirely and just have reminder text that says "Instants and sorcery spells are Arcane" and I don't care what it'd do to the balance of the existing cards. The old Kamigawa cards are stranded casually because we all know Splice is fiddly and most of the effects cost too much, so I'd frankly rather see Hana Kami become too good than have a pile of useless cards. Maybe you could have permanents which create the rule "Instants and sorcery spells are Arcane" instead of a complete retcon and for balance's sake? but have those cards be actually playable and available to every colour. I know some of these cards were relevant in limited at the time, and I remember some sort of 4c green Hana Kami control deck? But really, the Splice and Soulshift cards in general are some of the most underpowered unwanted bulk cardboard in the whole game and itd be fun to give them new meaning
Indeed it could be, it was a little to parasitic to be useful. But that was the problem with a lot of the mechanics in the set, if they weren't outright bad. I mean, come on, whoever thought that Sweep was a good idea? "Yeah, I am going to manascrew myself into oblivion for a minor benefit.", If a mechanic relies on you to return a large number of your lands to your hand, it had better be nigh game ending right then and there, or else you are going to get screwed. The block only had two good mechanics, Bushido and Ninjitsu, the only reason Splice wasn't considered a good mechanic at the time was because it got screwed by an arbitrary choice to restrict it to a minority of the spells via the "Arcane" subtype (but to be fair, Maro wanted it to be able to splice to any instant or sorcery but got overruled at the time, the mechanic got redeemed in Modern Horizons).