[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered
 
See thing is I don't think there would be hilarious low odds of Ignition. Kyubey kinda has an idea of what a Spark looks like. If one in a million people have one then Jade's Earth should have around 7,000 people with sparks, more or less depending upon the population numbers.

Combined with the countless Incubators patrolling the planet I wouldn't be surprised if they could track down every last one of them and, though one way or another, force them to Ignite.

Then consider there are at least 103 Earth's under their supervision and the number of potential Walkers jumps into the three quarters of a million range.

Lot's of test subjects for the Incubators and it would all be thanks to Jade.
He can see mages, not planeswalkers. Whole different kind of fish.
Speaking of: MtG magic and Planeswalker sparks are not gender-specific, nor species-specific. Males and non-humans can be planeswalkers. Hell, robots can be planeswalkers. Meaning that Kyubey can now use not just young girls, but also pretty much all humans.
Kyuubey doesn't know that. :V
 
[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered

I don't want to deal with other 'walkers. We have MTG card game for that :V

But I do feel like stories / rumours / myths would be interesting, and allows for the GM to also handwave in changes to universes (although already being in the past / future already allows some), although uh that WOULD make Jade feel less special about her 'walking skills.
 
He can see mages, not planeswalkers. Whole different kind of fish.

Worth noting that Kyubey did in fact detect our Spark igniting:
an unknown structure overlaying her entire soul activated and began to actively interfere with my scans.
Furthermore he is actually trying to recreate that effect:
Immediately following her transformation into a magical girl, I attempted to recreate the circumstances responsible for the appearance of the secondary overlay.

He just hasn't succeeded. The bit about Subject #1781 is more a side success in that he succeeded in replicating the 'empty' spaces in Jade's soul, making 1781 a Black mage, but not the secondary overlay, IE: spark.
 
[x] Go with the MTG statistics. Allow the existence of 'walkers other thanJade, with one out of every trillion people becoming one.
 
[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered
 
[x] Go with the MTG statistics. Allow the existence of 'walkers other than Jade, with one out of every trillion people becoming one.

First of all, just because they spark doesn't mean we will run into them for a while. Infinite universe and all that.

Second of all, the best way to nullify an enemy Planeswalker is to rip out their spark. We might as well shove that into our friends so they can travel with us.

Third of all. Just because others can Planeswalk doesn't make us less unique. We are a Super-Red-Mage-Space-Princess whereas others will simply be MGs who can planeswalk. Sure they might get access to Mana but I don't think they will develop the same way we did. If any are activated somewhere they are not familiar with and then walk away then they won't even have reliable access to Mana.

Fourth of all. It would make things more interesting. At the moment we can just walk away from places and everything pretty much resets. With enemies who can planeswalk we can have cold wars and such that span multiple planes.

Fifth of all. Planeswalker duels are fun.
 
[x] Go with the MTG statistics. Allow the existence of 'walkers other than Jade, with one out of every trillion people becoming one.
 
[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered

Let's not make the quest even more complicated than it already is. We can always add planeswalkers in later once we've actually finished the tutorial.

That said, I kinda like the idea of a scavenger hunt to find out what happened to these ancient figures with powers similar to our own.
 
[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered

Let's not make the quest even more complicated than it already is. We can always add planeswalkers in later once we've actually finished the tutorial.

That said, I kinda like the idea of a scavenger hunt to find out what happened to these ancient figures with powers similar to our own.
Just because there can be Planesalkers doesn't mean that they are going to be thrown at us right away. We're voting for if they ever show up. Not for if they show up now.

Your Watsonian is a good argument from a statistical point of view but from an MtG point of view Planeswalkers seem randomly bump into each other far more than they statistically should.

As for your Doyalist, just because we are fine for now I like to leave the option open for more interesting adversaries in the future. Unless we come across something plane spanning I see us running out of interesting things to do.
 
Is it known to have been the result of a Walpurgisnacht? (Don't answer if it's not something Jade would have cared to have found out, obviously)

Sorry, missed this 'til just now: Yes. When magic was revealed, that attack was pointed to as what happens when a Witch kills enough magical girls and becomes absurdly strong. Its shape, theme, and familiars were altered after the attack. The next time Jade returns, if it's within the next few months, its new appearance will be shown on most news stations and/or an easy Internet search away.


Let's not make the quest even more complicated than it already is. We can always add planeswalkers in later once we've actually finished the tutorial.

On that note, since a bunch of people are voting for "don't have them", but are fine with them cropping up later: It won't really be relevant for at least several in-game months, possibly years or decades. The other Incubators can't start experimenting until after the complete information from Kyubey reaches them. Not to mention most of the new planeswalkers are just going to get nom'd by Eldrazi.
 
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On that note, since a bunch of people are voting for "don't have them", but are fine with them cropping up later: It won't really be relevant for at least several in-game months, possibly years or decades. The other incubators can't start experimenting until after the complete information from Kyubey reaches them.

TBF we're voting for 'don't show them in quest' but 'hear they exist from past events in the universe'.

Like A:TLA would have rumors of a 'walker helping one of the earlier Avatars, with the title 'Spirit Walker' or something.
 
[X] Don't have the possibility of other 'walkers turning up.
--[X] But have stories / rumours / myths of them be something that can be encountered
 
As for your Doyalist, just because we are fine for now I like to leave the option open for more interesting adversaries in the future. Unless we come across something plane spanning I see us running out of interesting things to do.
Most, if not all, MtG planes, from what I remember, are planet-sized at most. We are dealing with interstellar civilizations in several of the settings. I doubt we are in risk of becoming overpowered any time soon.
 
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