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** The Desparkening, an event at the end of ''March of the Machine'' where a majority of planeswalkers lost their sparks and became regular (albeit still powerful) individuals. Gameplay-wise this has been reflected by reintroducing many former planeswalkers as legendary creatures, and a mandate to only include one planeswalker per expansion. Those who are in favour agree with the designers that it opens up interesting new ways to tell stories, especially since the new Omenpaths allow more characters to travel through planes and now they don't need to be Planeswalkers in order to interact with each other. Those against, however, feel that the move runs counter to the previous fifteen years of storytelling where Planeswalkers have been the clear main characters and are now being demoted to legendaries (which themselves have gone through some UniquenessDecay over time as only some of them get actual stories to show ''why'' they're legendary these days). There are also those who feel that this move was made specifically to shill to Commander players, since it introduces more potential commanders, and many already believe it's become a spotlight-stealing format.

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** The Desparkening, an event at the end of ''March of the Machine'' where a majority of planeswalkers lost their sparks and became regular (albeit still powerful) individuals. Gameplay-wise this has been reflected by reintroducing many former planeswalkers as legendary creatures, and a mandate to new baseline of only include one planeswalker per expansion.expansion instead of the usual three or four. Those who are in favour agree with the designers that it opens up interesting new ways to tell stories, especially since the new Omenpaths allow more characters to travel through planes and now they don't need to be Planeswalkers in order to interact with each other. Those against, however, feel that the move runs counter to the previous fifteen years of storytelling where Planeswalkers have been the clear main characters and are now being demoted to legendaries (which themselves have gone through some UniquenessDecay over time as only some of them get actual stories to show ''why'' they're legendary these days). There are also those who feel that this move was made specifically to shill to Commander players, since it introduces more potential commanders, and many already believe it's become a spotlight-stealing format.

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Ensemble Darkhorse is subject to Administrivia.No Recent Examples Please, and Loot's introduction is not old enough yet. And even then I think he might be closer to Base Breaking Character, as I've seen a lot of people deriding him for how blatantly he was designed to be cute and marketable.


** Loot, the new pet charcater debuted in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, has proved to be a hit among new and old fans alike.



** The joke set Unhinged has long been derided as the game's most unfun set of all time (mostly focusing on the set's emphasis on mechanics that interact with player speech, motivating players to play in complete silence). It was so unpopular that unsold booster boxes were destroyed and there were no new silver bordered (i.e. joke) sets for thirteen years. Unstable broke that streak, and was so well-loved that it's led to Unsets becoming part of Magic's regular rotation, appearing roughly every other year since.

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** The joke set Unhinged has long been derided as the game's most unfun set of all time (mostly focusing on the set's emphasis on mechanics that interact with player speech, motivating players to play in complete silence). It was so unpopular that unsold booster boxes were destroyed and there were no new silver bordered (i.e. joke) sets for thirteen years. Unstable broke that streak, and was so well-loved that it's led to Unsets becoming part of Magic's regular rotation, appearing roughly every other year since. it temporarily revived the Unsets.

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