Date: 2013-02-18
Type: Paraphrased
Location: Hanover, MD
Reporter: Green Fire
I was at the signing and I asked him,(and I’m paraphrasing now because I didn’t get much sleep before or since) “If Hoid would be printed as an Magic: The Gathering card, what would be his color and converted mana cost?”
Brandon said he would be a “Straight Blue Planeswalker” and “expensive” “probably 7 to 9 mana 4-6 colorless UUU”.
I should have pressured him for a sample loyalty ability or something… but the line was NUTZ.
For thoes who don’t understand the magic color pie/philosophy of each color, there are plenty of essays online, but without me explaining all the info; to me it means he has real power in craftiness and trickery (like we didn’t know that before) ;) But that tells us he’s not Blue-White or Blue-Black just “Straight Blue”, which is important. And as planeswalkers go it puts him up in at least Nicol Bolas’ level. Jace is a small fry to a Blue planeswalker with Hoid’s level of expertise.
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