There are a ton of planes, right? So the places that get focus are likely to be extraordinary in some way, like having more walkers than normal. Nobody wants to write stories about the many planes with no walkers.
They never say that the planes shown are exceptional. My view is that they should just adjust the 'walker rates to something more reasonable. Like, say, one in ten thousand has the spark, and one ten thousand ignites. That still gives you one in a hundred million, which is much more reasonable.
 
Also, those numbers are incredibly stupid when you look at the lore. Zendikar has a population of a few hundred million, at absolute most, and two planeswalkers. Tarkir has one walker and one potential, despite having a population of around a billion (estimate). Ravnica might have a population of a hundred billion, or as high as a trillion, but that's still too few to have three walkers. Alara has two native walkers. Theros has two.

The one in a billion has the spark, and one in a billion potentials ignites, doesn't hold up with the number of walkers we actually see.

Two things to consider:

First off is how old is that civilization. In the history of humanity on Earth there have been approximately a hundred billion humans which means even low odds like a Planeswalker igniting isn't as low as it could be. So depending upon how long Ravnica's population has been that high three walkers isn't that unreasonable.

Secondly in a random distribution coincidences do happen. For all the Zendikars, Tarkirs, and Ravnicas there are likely thousands if not millions of planes that have never have a walker. Given a large enough sample size really amazing stuff not only can happen but is almost expected to happen.
 
First off is how old is that civilization. In the history of humanity on Earth there have been approximately a hundred billion humans which means even low odds like a Planeswalker igniting isn't as low as it could be. So depending upon how long Ravnica's population has been that high three walkers isn't that unreasonable.

Secondly in a random distribution coincidences do happen. For all the Zendikars, Tarkirs, and Ravnicas there are likely thousands if not millions of planes that have never have a walker. Given a large enough sample size really amazing stuff not only can happen but is almost expected to happen.
Ravnica has funky planar shit that meant that they couldn't get walkers until after the original Ravnica set. So those three have all ignited in the last decade or so since the set ended. And which is easier, saying that ever single plane that's gotten a focus since Lorwyn is a statistical anomaly, or just changing the numbers to have some scale?
 
To be fair, they're really old numbers, dating back to Arena or something, long before the Mending/revisionist spark changes. At that point Dominaria was literally the center of the multiverse, so having so many walkers hanging around was in some way expected.
 
Ravnica has funky planar shit that meant that they couldn't get walkers until after the original Ravnica set. So those three have all ignited in the last decade or so since the set ended. And which is easier, saying that ever single plane that's gotten a focus since Lorwyn is a statistical anomaly, or just changing the numbers to have some scale?

Given the grandness of the multiverse you honestly need odds that high to avoid everyone and their dog being Planeswalkers.

Take your suggested numbers for example. With them I'd expect there to have been a thousand Planeswalkers from Earth alone with a new one born every year thanks to modern day birth rates, actually closer to 1.3 per year. You have to remember that Planeswalkers, as I understand it anyway, are ageless and can get pretty resilient with their magic. So I'd expect a fairly large majority of those who Ignite live for thousands if not millions of years.

So a thousand Planeswalkers per earth and easily billions or trillions of Earth like planes...
 
Bunnycat Interlude 1
The 13,575,872,324 Incubator gestalts in charge of maintaining local harvesting operations simultaneously established communications, temporarily leaving their charges unguarded. The meeting began immediately; there was no need for social niceties. They all knew why the Kyubey gestalt had organized an assembly, even if the more detailed data packets were still in transit.

"Subject #1: Jade Agni. Suffers from depression, mild paranoia, demophobia, iophobia, mild atychiphobia, and the phenomenon known as 'loneliness.' Jade's father, an entertainer, was collateral damage from Hanna Fukui's wish. Jade's mother, a cook, subsequently committed suicide, attempting to bring Jade with her. Minimal effort was required to turn Jade into a magical girl candidate.

"Intended as an expendable asset, Jade defied expectations by immediately turning to Jeanne Lorelle, a nearby magical girl. Attempts to dissuade her were unsuccessful. After Jade joined her on a witch hunt, Jeanne was easily misled into believing Jade had been kissed and was likely to spontaneously die if Bellatrix was not defeated in short order. Arranging for multiple incidents to delay Jeanne's allies required an unusually large amount of energy, but were still successful.

"As expected, Jade was mortally wounded shortly after. The familiar responsible also elected to curse her prior to its elimination. 173 seconds later, Jade somehow managed to throw off the curse. Seven seconds after that, she and the surrounding area spontaneously burst into flame, eliminating four of my bodies.

"Immediately thereafter, Jade displayed a massive personality shift and began to rampage through Bellatrix's barrier, leaving an inferno in her wake. Said flames were not natural and somehow managed to destroy all grief they touched. Jade fell unconscious shortly after defeating Bellatrix. Scans determined that the entirety of her body had sustained severe damage save for her brain.

"Upon awakening, Jade was easily convinced to contract. She also agreed to a scan of her soul in exchange for a 20% increase in power.

"Understanding her soul proved to be surprisingly difficult. Several 'empty' areas were discovered early on, but it took significantly longer to establish a reliable means of detecting what was actually there. A complete copy of my findings has been distributed and is currently in transit. Suffice to say that her soul contained a source of power violating the rule of conservation. While I believe I could have determined a way to manipulate the 'Red' energy given enough time, an unknown structure overlaying her entire soul activated and began to actively interfere with my scans. Said structure greatly increased the amount of Red energy her soul was producing, but it forced me to conclude the process early.

"After she had become a magical girl, instead of immediately accumulating enough grief to become a witch, Jade's soul remained completely clear of grief. Unfortunately, any attempts to approach her for an explanation were met with hostility and immediate termination of the avatar contacting her. Jade vanished the day after.

"Immediately following her transformation into a magical girl, I attempted to recreate the circumstances responsible for the appearance of the secondary overlay. Most attempts failed. Subject #1781 was my first success, demonstrating the appearance of another 'empty' space similar to Jade's own. This one produced a similar, but different, type of energy I am labeling 'Black'. While Subject #1781 immediately turned into a witch, her ability to generate and control Black energy remained. Said ability interacted with her nature as a witch and produced a continual and massive amount of conservation-violating energy.

"Subject #1781 has since been assimilated into the Walpurgisnacht of Earth-103, empowering it and producing a massive source of continual power. I estimate that it alone has increased Earth-103's yearly output by over five times. I have already determined a method for controlling Black energy, and although it seems actively harmful to all kinds of life, it can still be used to make magical girls continually produce conservation-violating energy. I have tested it on 100 subjects thus far. Every attempt was successful.

"Unfortunately, I have yet to discern the location of Jade Agni and no further Red candidates have been found. As Earth-103 will cease to be a sustainable testing area if I continue to investigate, I am temporarily ceasing my attempts to find another candidate."
 
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Yaaaay!!! Go Kyubey!!!
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:( Great, our decision to become a MG didn't just traumatize Jade but also made PMMM even worse.
Nah, it's fine. He'll keep studying and figure out the other colors eventually and that'll balance things out. Remember, Kyuubey wants Earth-103 and all other Earths to be sustainable just like you do.

In the meantime, is there any chance the mana Jade gets from her hometown might be forcibly changed to Black?
 
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SO we made things actively worse with our agreeing to become a magical girl. Whee. :(

1881 people. 1881.
 
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SO we made things actively worse with our agreeing to become a magical girl. Whee. :(

Your agreement to become a MG isn't what helped Kyubey figure things out. Or at least, not entirely. Letting him do a detailed examination...


So, let's never go back to PMMM-Verse and write it off. At least until we can wipe out universes with our ability to spam supernovas.

They'd have to be tiny universes for that to work. :p

Seriously, the observable universe is absurdly large, with an estimated 100 billion galaxies. The Milky Way alone contains between 200-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets. Even then, the material from said supernovas would birth new stars if you made enough of them.

(Also, space is really pretty!)
 
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Take your suggested numbers for example. With them I'd expect there to have been a thousand Planeswalkers from Earth alone with a new one born every year thanks to modern day birth rates, actually closer to 1.3 per year. You have to remember that Planeswalkers, as I understand it anyway, are ageless and can get pretty resilient with their magic. So I'd expect a fairly large majority of those who Ignite live for thousands if not millions of years.
No they're not. Planeswalkers are mortal, and are only more powerful than normal mages due to being able to get gear and magic from any plane they want.
 
They'd have to be tiny universes for that to work. :p

Seriously, the observable universe is absurdly large, with an estimated 100 billion galaxies. The Milky Way alone contains between 200-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets. Even then, the material from said supernovas would just serve to birth new stars.

(Also, space is really pretty!)
OBJECTION! Alivaril, you're thinking in the wrong direction.

We just need larger supernovas, not smaller universes!

And that's easy, we just add FOOF! :V
 
SO we made things actively worse with our agreeing to become a magical girl. Whee. :(

1881 people. 1881.
He was going to do experiments to duplicate our Red mana awakening whether we became a magical girl or not. If anything, letting him scan our soul let him finish the experiments faster than he would have otherwise, reducing victims.

And him getting access to Black which synergizes with the shit he was already doing was just plain crappy luck. Any of the other colors would have... I have no idea what the Incubators would do with the other colors. They probably couldn't form grief-black-witch batteries with them.
 
Well now the plan to develop a conceptual weapon/spell to soul kill incubators should most likely be accelerated.
 
He was going to do experiments to duplicate our Red mana awakening whether we became a magical girl or not. If anything, letting him scan our soul let him finish the experiments faster than he would have otherwise, reducing victims.

And him getting access to Black which synergizes with the shit he was already doing was just plain crappy luck. Any of the other colors would have... I have no idea what the Incubators would do with the other colors. They probably couldn't form grief-black-witch batteries with them.

Blue would have been nice. They probably would have just used Blue themselves and promptly abandoned everyone.
 
Seriously, the observable universe is absurdly large, with an estimated 100 billion galaxies. The Milky Way alone contains between 200-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets. Even then, the material from said supernovas would birth new stars if you made enough of them.
If the only reason planeswalkers are powerful is because they have a lot of access to lands and varieties of magic, Kyuubey has the lands part down.
 
No they're not. Planeswalkers are mortal, and are only more powerful than normal mages due to being able to get gear and magic from any plane they want.
No, Planeswalkers have the Spark, which makes them just plain better. They don't just have theoretically infinite mana to call on even before you get into spells like omnipotence, they also have what amounts to Talent = Yes.

And that's not even counting oldwalkers, who were literally immortal dimension creating shapeshifters that started off on the level of gods.

Planeswalkers are matches for Elder Solar Exalts, though they're the squishy wizards to a Solar's sorcerer/warrior hybrid.
 
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