Commander is unique in that it’s one of the few formats where building the strongest deck you possibly can isn’t necessarily the goal, so Heggen says that “if we make a card that leads to a certain kind of deck with a certain kind of attitude, it will find an audience and that audience will play that deck and enjoy that deck and have fun with that deck, and not simply because it's the right power move.”įlip through the gallery below to see all the cards in the February Superdrop. Heggen says that Commander is “the primary lens through which viewing these,” but that there’s no “arbitrary threshold” they have to hit in terms of viability or popularity in the format. You can't just weave these into any of our products, but when you're doing these one-off cards and you're trying to build a Chun-Li that's gonna go on to live a wonderful life in Commander decks where people are pulling through all of Magic, it just unlocks all of that.” You would not put all these abilities in a set, we would probably think real hard about putting Untap or Multikicker. “When we're doing the Secret Lair executions of this, it really does unlock the team to go wherever they want to go with it. “What happened is the team, for all of these, they sat down at the very beginning and just started going through everything Magic's done and saying ‘is there a fit?’” Heggen explains. That last one is a particularly odd choice given it’s only shown up on a single card after its initial introduction in 2008's Shadowmoor block, but Heggen says it was explicitly used as a visual joke here: the symbol looks like the quarter-circle joystick motion required to do Ryu’s Hadoken ability in the video games. Those abilities are surprisingly wide-ranging mechanically too, featuring everything from Multikicker on Chun-Li to the equivalent of Skulk on Dhalsim to the Untap symbol on Ryu. The team even considered making cards based on specific moves or iconic things that weren’t characters themselves (for example, something like a “Round One” or "Perfect" card), but that they instead decided to represent moves as abilities on each creature. Her only other major role is in the Netflix film “Bird Box,” but she shines brightly in “Obi-Wan.WOTC’s Mark Heggen tells me they began conversations with Capcom for this crossover about two years ago, and that they tried a bunch of different character lineups and creative angles, but that it ultimately made the most sense to focus on the these eight classic fighters. For many fans, it’s virtually certain that Fisher would’ve approved of Vivien Lyra Blair, the young actress playing her character. Young Leia is bold and sassy and adventurous, just as Carrie Fisher played her in her adult years in the original tirlogy. Granted, it was more than a pleasant surprise - just like Baby Yoda’s surprise debut in the first episode of “The Mandalorian,” Young Leia appears to be a major character of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” picks up 10 years after the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and, given that Obi-Wan himself is watching over young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine, the appearance of his sister in the opening episode shocked many. With the arrival of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” on Disney+, fans have been introduced to a young Princess Leia - and of course, they promptly lost their minds. There might be a new child in the hearts of “Star Wars” fans. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF “OBI-WAN KENOBI”
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