Perkymanz

Question for you all. Mummies should be what creature type?

a) Mummy

It does what I enjoy April Fools articles doing. They start from a possibly believable premise and then just incrementally get crazier and crazier.

For those that have never read it:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/new-new-world-order-2013-04-01

I would also like to see the classic cowboy plane, but I recognize that’s hard to do since you would have to make native americans and mormons into factions, as well as the fact that cowboy heroes are normally loners, and lone monsters don’t go well.

Norse Mythology is obvious. The whole idea gets my heart beating fast.

In today’s information gathering, I’m interested to hear what planes you want to visit in an upcoming Standard-legal set. Here’s how I would like you to respond. Please list, in order, your favorites from one up to five. You can list less than five, but please restrict yourself to five answers. Number 1 should be the plane you most want to see us visit in the future. 

If you’re interested you may also tell me why you want to return to that plane. You can list any known plane including ones we’ve never visited before. I need names of existing planes though and not “wild west plane”. 

Here’s an example:

1. Innistrad - It’s my favorite plane

2. Fiora - I love Conspiracy and would like to see Fiora in a Standard-legal set.

3. Tarkir - Go back, but there better be clans.

4. Rath - I don’t know how you’d do it, but I’d love it.

5. Alara - More Esper please.

I would love to get a lot of data, so please pass this along to your Magic friends to answer as well.

2. Theros - I’m a sucker for enchantments, I’m a sucker for top-down design, I’m a sucker for Greek Mythology, and I started playing Magic here.

3. Kaldheim - I’m a sucker for top-down, I’m REALLY a sucker for Norse Mythology, and big heroes fighting big monsters with big weapons gets me excited just typing it.

4. Muraganda - I’m also a sucker for dinosaurs. I loved them on Ixalan, although they felt like more of a setpiece than their own tribe. Having them be under the foot of the Sun Empire didn’t help. Honestly, the worst part of Muraganda would be having to fit the petroglyphs in there somewhere since, when I’ve fiddled with the “vanilla matters” stuff in my own custom sets, it didn’t do well at all.

I get that you’re trying to mock diversity and inclusion, but I think it comes from an ignorance of what it means to feel excluded. When you’ve lived your life in the majority, it’s easy to take it for granted that you see yourself represented in the products and entertainment you use.

But every time we branch out (and I’m not exaggerating, *every* time) and represent a new segment of people, I get heartfelt messages from them about how much it means to them to see themselves in the game.

The reason “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther” have been such cultural touchstones is because it’s allowing new groups of people to experience something they’ve never experienced before.

I get it’s easy to mock that when it’s something so basic to your experience that you don’t even realize it’s a thing you would miss if you didn’t have it, but I beg for you to try and see life through other people’s perspectives just as I always talk about how good designers see the game through different players’ perspectives.