#ALSO please make more dnd tie in setting books the plane shift pfs arent enough i need MORE OF THEM

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I think the Great Desparking was an interesting choice to take the storyline of Magic, but personally I'm not the biggest fan of the situation. While on the surface, it is a really interesting dilemma for the characters of the story, (previous planeswalkers), especially on how certain walkers react. We saw a bit of this with Nissa in MOTM Aftermath, but what about characters like Liliana, who personally put a lot of emphasis on their state as a planeswalker, and all the work she went through to maintain it. Huatli and Saheeli also provide a really engaging story and adventure of them both travelling the multiverse to try and find one another again, but I feel stories like that struggle to be created cohesively in the current state of the way the Magic story is told.

As someone who personally prioritises the story of Magic over playing and keeping up with the actual game (I'd love to be more engrossed in buying and playing the new sets and stuff, but magic products are wildly overpriced and practically unable to be bought where I live), I think that the differentiation between planeswalkers and legendary creatures was important to defining the main characters and the secondary characters of each arc and set. While the Great Desparking levels the playing field for all kinds of characters to take the stage, but then again, that could already be done, simply by delegating each set with a sort of 'planelocked' protagonist and set or characters to play out the domestic, single plane stories while planeswalkers could step in and have their own, multi set spanning story arcs simultaniously. This way, planes that we havent seen in a long time (Kamigawa, Lorwyn, Tarkir) are able to show off their vibrant and intriguing worldbuilding and storylines without having it overshadowed by the rest of the multiverse, as well as have planeswalkers dip in and out whenever their story demands it. But, I think that now with characters we were able to distinguish as our set of leads being diminished majorly to be like the other secondary characters, we lose that sense of iconography and coherence with them as a group.

If there's one thing I want to get across with this, is that Magic is in a very special situation with the opportunities its story has gone and will go. The situations that the many worlds of Magic offer its characters is really unique and what keeps bringing me back to caring so much about the story. I want to say that whatever happens in the future, I hope that characters of magic the gathering are put first, which I know is a lot to ask from a profit focused company. Still, the great Desparking, while not something that I really appreciate and like, has to be upheld and really investigated with the integrity it demands. i want stories of old planeswalkers trying to find each other, sifting through many different planes (I swear to god if Saheeli and Huatli aren't reunited together soon there will be problems), as well as offering factions of various planes to come together in conflict or unison. What would Innistrad be like if it's people realised they could go to other planes rather than be hunted and terrorised for life? A set exploring the Innistrad Refugees would be really interesting. What if the Simic Combine of Ravnica set up base on Ikoria, seeking to creat their own kaiju monsters? Does Strixhaven offer interplanar excursions or student exchanges? All I ask is that the people at Wizards take the time to think, and I mean really think, about the affects this will have to the characters that have been built up for literal years, as well as how the connection of the multiverse's planes will affect one another.

I will probably (Definately) write more long sort of posts about how I feel and ideas I have about Magic's story and especially its characters, just because I really adore so much of this game, and I hope that the story moving forward will be able to shake off the more lacklustre bits that have been plaguing much of it for the past few years.

So yeah, TLDR give your story and choices weight, respect your characters and their arcs, and reunite Huatli & Saheeli (ship name dinobots) or else.

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