Who is your favorite planeswalker

That's something that we could probably do. It's just tricky because mechanically unique cards are divisive among the community, and so the question is: "Do we want a Secret Lair that just takes other cards and reskins them?

Do we want to wait until there are cards that are being made that would match the characters, and then reskin those? Do we want to see how people receive the Lord of the Rings set, and if they really like it, then maybe they would do something Stormlight? I really kind of want to see how all of this plays out with the Secret Lairs and stuff, which I really like, but I know they're divisive in the community. Anyway, this is on everybody's radar, right? They're making fantasy properties into card sets.

There's only a couple names that come up. It's Tolkien, then probably George, and Harry Potter, and then me, so they have talked to me. But a full set, there haven't even been talks about that. It's all just been like, "Hey maybe would you be interested? So don't hold your breath, but we'll see how the Lord of the Rings set goes. Here's the thing. I have a powered cube, right? So Eternal Masters, I'm like You know?

So I usually play one draft of this, but then It's fun, but it's-- You know, I've got the cube, right? So anything that we've-- if we want a very complex, weird drafting environment then we just grab that.

Having you create a story for Magic has been speculated for a very longtime now. Will there be a return in the future possibly a full length novel or was this a one-shot type of deal?

I doubt this will be the last time I write something for MTG, but it is difficult to fit this sort of thing into my schedule. Doing it for free this way actually helped, as instead of thinking about how much it would earn relative to other things, I could just relax and treat it as a gift to the readers.

I don't know if I could have fit it in otherwise, oddly. I don't know that I'll ever be able to do a main-line MTG novel, as the amount of time I'd want to spend going to the planning meetings and the like would probably be prohibitive. But we'll see. It's clear that Davriel is a Dimir aligned character but I find Tacenda a little bit harder to read my closest assumption it's Boros. If she would be printed in a future which color combinations would she have?

I'd make Tacenda G-W-R. Green for her belief in fate, and for the power of the Entity. Red for her passion and music. White for her belief in, and protection of, her community. I see a lot of people commenting and suggesting that Davriel is straight up UB as represented in this story.

Would you agree that this is the case? And if a different side of Davriel were to be represented on a card say, his days as a conquerer what do you think his colour alignment have been then?

However, I think there's a strong argument for mono black for him. His power is a mix of a thoughtsieze and the power seen often on mono black cards like Gonti.

Granted, it's also seen on blue cards, but it can exist in mono-black. He does have an academic side to him, but mostly for studying demonology--a very black pursuit. His past is that of a very pragmatic economist, approached from a very black-aligned view. So mono-black makes a lot of sense for him.

He could also be seen as Esper. He believes in order, and the importance of social institutions--particularly as a means of controlling the masses. The past version of him is very in alignment with this. These are not bad, and it's always hard to figure out how to define by this system--honestly, I wouldn't trust my definitions, I'd have to go to MaRo or something.

Lift is very green, not just in powers, but in personality. She's all about instinct, and doing what occurs to her in the moment. And Dalinar is red who became white. Navani is mono-blue. Eshonai is probably green. With your skills in world building, If WotC invited you to help design a new magic world what sort of world would you want to make?

Something that interacts in an interesting way with the five colors of magic, like Alara did. And finally, have you ever thought of doing the story for Wizards Of The Coast on one of their mtg blocks? Ruin: Black. Odium: Red.

Honor: White. Preservation: White. Cultivation: Green. Autonomy: It's complicated. Also, question 3 is way too large for me to commit to right now. And for 4, if the right opportunity came along and they were interested, I could see myself doing this.

Ambition is mono-black, and endowment is probably mono-green. Some of the blue shards are ones we haven't seen as much from yet. I always viewed Kelsier as red-black, personally. He loves his friends, and his team, but is counter-authority in a big way. He's extremely selfish and violent, but is bleeding toward believing in something more important as the books begin.

I can completely see that argument. However, Kelsier has a strong megalomaniac streak. He set up a religion to worship him. He spent most of his life as a thief, seeking to get ahead--and enrich himself. His arc is, to an extent, learning to allow the red side of him dominate the black side--but I still see him as a mixture of both.

And you can see the malice on occasion like when he dumps the body of the nobleman he's killed. If you could pick one character from the Cosmere to be a planeswalker, who do you think would cause the most chaos or have the most fun?

Probably Elspeth. When Elspeth is dressed in armor appropriate for her personality. I have a thing about that. But I really like-- I mean, it's me. I like the questing knight searching for answers who thought she found them and then they turned-- the moral axis was upended. That was a really cool story, to me. If I were asked by Wizards of the Coast to write a story, I would probably say yes I've told them this, as well, that if they asked me to write a story, I would probably say yes.

I did! If you throw my Davriel out, because obviously I'm gonna pick my own, let's see, who is my favorite? Ashiok is probably my favorite, just because they have such an interesting look to them and I like the powerset, that's the way I like to play, and there's so much mystery about Ashiok, so Ashiok.

If we're talking about one that's actually had a story written about them, I really love how they handled Urza, just because you'd expect Urza to be very Gandalf-y and wise, and he was kind of, you know, that black side to Urza was really cool to me.

And so-- yeah, there you go. When I think of Brandon and MtG, I wonder, if the 5 kinds of mana, were suddenly replaced by investiture from the 16 shards, how would that affect the game? I don't know if this would even be mechanically possible--MTG is balanced around those five poles. It would probably make things a whole lot more complicated, and might be better matched to a game with a lot of flexible factions.

Were there any other Planeswalkers, Gatewatch or otherwise, that you would have liked, or would like to write for, at some point? I like a lot of the odder, less central characters. Ashiok, Tamiyo. I do really like Elspeth, partially because of her origin, and partially because of her arc.

I have a question, because I really like Magic: the Gathering. What set are you collecting right now? I'm always kind of collecting some of everything. Right now I'm building a Theros cube, so kinda working on that. It's just, I have all my old ones so I'm just like, "Eh, I'll build a cube out of these", so I've just been putting that together, and then I've been building this really weird one that's a commander cube.

So I'm grabbing specific cards from here and there and putting them together. Search for text: Search in date range: from. Questioner If your character Hoid were a Planeswalker what color would he be? Brandon Sanderson If Hoid was a Planeswalker what color would he be?

Aldehyde1 If you don't mind me asking, who is your favorite planeswalker in game Brandon Sanderson Ashiok from a combination of design, play style, and hints of lore. Smackashi Who is your favorite planeswalker story wise? Brandon Sanderson I really enjoyed all the lore of the Brother's War, and so Urza has a soft spot in my heart.

Questioner Phenax, which Shard do you think he is most like? Brandon Sanderson God of Deception. Brandon Sanderson Yeah. Mithre If the characters were cards, what abilities would you like them to have? Brandon Sanderson I'd like Davriel to steal cards out of people's hands and then play them. Brandon Sanderson That would be cool, and I would like to see planeswalker cards with odd mechanics.

But I think it would be a lot of complicated wording to do something that would, in essence, be very similar to: Minus loyalty: Look at target player's hand an exile a non-land card from it.

Mithre Maybe Tacenda would have a tap target creatures effect? Brandon Sanderson That's a pretty good idea.

Questioner What's your favorite guild in Ravnica? Brandon Sanderson Probably Dimir, probably. Questioner That's exactly where I am, actually. Brandon Sanderson I'm glad Dimir's finally good, 'cause in the previous two, Dimir has not been a place you wanted to be, either in original or in returns.

Arkm21ebr Are there any MtG planes that have had an influence on you and share some characteristics with any of the planets in the cosmere?

Brandon Sanderson It's hard to say how much influence MTG has had on me, since I started playing in high school--right around the time when I started writing. NPDgames When did you first start playing? Brandon Sanderson I started in , when my brother brought home a Starter deck soon after Revised had launched. Sethel What color of Magic [the Gathering] decks would some of your characters play?

Brandon Sanderson It's going to depend on the character right? Brandon Sanderson Too many! Brandon Sanderson Dalinar now is mono-White. Korombos Vorthosy How-does-magic-work Question: In your mind, is Planeswalker magic a different kind of magic than clerics, wizards, druids, and such who are not Planeswalkers, or just different in scale? Questioner What's your Magic color preference? Brandon Sanderson I draft, almost exclusively. So my color preference is whatever is open.

Questioner Gotcha. Brandon Sanderson Umm, I lean more toward control than I do aggro, but what's--whatever is open--whatever I open I will go for. Argent I enjoyed the story a lot. I wish I had interesting things to ask about them, but I just don't know enough MTG lore to come up with anything - which leads to my first question: How can a guy learn more about the lore of MTG?

And, a related question: Had I been more versed in MTG lore, would I be able to recognize specific spells or creatures in this story? Davriel's eyes changed color a few times when he was casting, I figured the color might match either the color of existing spells or what you felt his spells would've been, had they been actual cards.

Brandon Sanderson MTG lore is pretty deep and at times, a little confusing. Questioner What's your favorite Magic color deck? Favorite combination? Brandon Sanderson I'm playing blue! Brandon Sanderson Not a ton. Brandon Sanderson Uh, he would be five-color. But most most likely if he's gonna drop a color it's white. Brandon Sanderson I have always loved Dark Depths for that reason--and for similar reasons, I like cards that tell a story by themselves.

ILikeBreadsticks If you could design a new mechanic for Magic, what would you make? Thank you! Brandon Sanderson For my own Mistborn custom cube, I designed a mechanic that cared if a card was sleeved or not.

Questioner If you had to design a legendary creature for Magic: The Gathering for Szeth, what would it do? Brandon Sanderson Szeth is maybe Mardu. DammyJerry Have you ever thought just for fun which KR Order your characters for other books would fit the best? Brandon Sanderson I'd agree with the other commenter that Kelsier isn't much of a Skybreaker.

For example, young Dalinar is very Odium. Modern Dalinar is very Honor. Seifersythe What about Magic: The Gathering color alignments? Brandon Sanderson I guess it would depend on the cards. Brandon Sanderson It would be fun to write about how much Lili and Davriel would hate each other. Glamdring While we're on the subject of you and MtG, do you have a spreadsheet or a document somewhere with the color identities of all your characters? Brandon Sanderson See, I think Kelsier is blue black--though you're right, he probably has some red to him in his rebellious nature and focus on friendship and emotion.

Glamdring Really? Brandon Sanderson I could see Grixis. Brandon Sanderson Spensa is about as mon-red as a character can get, I think. Questioner It's known you're a big fan of Magic the Gathering and that you like house Dimir and you wrote Davriel Cane's planeswalker. Brandon Sanderson Will I every work with Magic again?

Questioner You've mentioned before Adamant as maybe a universe where you can invite people to work with you. Brandon Sanderson Yeah I've definitely considered that. Questioner So how about the other way around though.

You did something like this in The Wheel of Time , working with a pretty fine set of constraints-- Brandon Sanderson Yeah it was a little different in The Wheel of Time because I was given complete creative control. Questioner Or a Magic: The Gathering story? Brandon Sanderson Yeah, yeah, they've got a Gothic core universe called Innistrad, with a-- It's just I love classic Gothic horror, and it would allow me to play with some of those tropes. Brandon Sanderson Well, this story isn't a bad place, since I wrote it hopefully in a way that will be interesting to those who don't know any of the lore.

Questioner I've heard that you're kind of close with the Magic: The Gathering people? Brandon Sanderson I mean, I did write a story for them, I do know some people over there. Brandon Sanderson Different thing, but they asked me to write the story for the new Urza set that's coming out. Questioner How many Eternal Masters boxes are you buying? SeanWhelan1 Having you create a story for Magic has been speculated for a very longtime now. Having Magic go back to novels is going to be amazing and hope to see you around for these!

Brandon Sanderson I doubt this will be the last time I write something for MTG, but it is difficult to fit this sort of thing into my schedule. Aaronator17 I see a lot of people commenting and suggesting that Davriel is straight up UB as represented in this story. Brandon Sanderson I think Davriel is most easily explained as UB, and the creative team agreed with that. Kaladin strikes me as someone with a very White personality and Blue powers. Shallan's Blue. Dalinar's White, but I feel like he was Red before.

Adolin has some Red, some White, and recently some Black I guess. Lift is Red in personality and I guess Green at powers. What else can you guys come up with? Brandon Sanderson Hmm Questioner What's your favorite Magic card to use? Havaroth With your skills in world building, If WotC invited you to help design a new magic world what sort of world would you want to make? What colors are the known shards? What colors are the various orders of the knights Radiant? Brandon Sanderson Any combo-style deck I can draft--or esper if I'm constructed.

Brandon Sanderson Ambition is mono-black, and endowment is probably mono-green. Brandon Sanderson I always viewed Kelsier as red-black, personally. Freedom and emotions - rage and love at various times - drive him. Never altruism, never malice. Just passionate rage. Brandon Sanderson I can completely see that argument. Arkm21ebr If you could pick one character from the Cosmere to be a planeswalker, who do you think would cause the most chaos or have the most fun?

Brandon Sanderson Most Chaos? Venser was a noted artificer, so let's get that over here! How can you not have Jaya in your top ten? She's fun. She's sassy. She's clever. She's witnessed so much and remains grounded.

She three times the character and power of Chandra. Now matter how hard Wizards may want me to see Chandra as New Jaya with goggles and more, nope. She's not my Jaya. Teferi was right. You may not like it, or him. He protected others. He did what was right. Urza only saw the Phyrexians, and that's all he ever saw. He never wanted to save potential allies in his all-consuming cause against the Phyrexians. Urza was a manipulative and irritating person at the best of times.

Uzar's personal grudge against the Phrexians for what they did to Mishra was something he could never forgive, or forget, and it consumed him. Teferi stood up to him, and protected many from the incoming invasion by untethering them in time.

Sorry Urza, you were wrong. I know this might seem a little weird to most of you. Teyo just appeared, and there are only two cards out there, although he's the POV character for the War of the Spark novel and some stories, so you get a chance to feel for him. Why Teyo? He's just a freshly minted planeswalker who was forced into the Bolas War at the pinnacle. But he's competent, and strong, and I respect that. But he also feels like me.

If I were to manifest any sort of magical ability, I hope I would use them to protect others, just as Teyo does.

I would want to erect walls and shields and more to protect people in large and smaller amounts. Teyo even plays similar to me in Magic , particularly in multiplayer. As I have stated many, many times, "You cannot win a game of Magic , until you fail to lose it. Effects like Maze of Ith and Leyline of Sanctity and such are all things that appeal to me.

In fact, I was intending to write an article entitled, "How Teyo Became My Favorite Planeswalker," but after sitting with him and the others for a bit, I realized he cracks my top five, but not my top three.

I'm going to be honest. I've always had a bit of a crush of Kaya. Her quick but pivotal appearance in the next Conspiracy set was great, and her card was incredibly powerful in multiplayer too, and I have heralded it for a long time. I wrote about her loads before she was pushed into the bigger continuity.

I created a deck where I thought she had what it took to be a member of the Gatewatch, I asked what an Oath of Kaya card would look like and then used that as a great example of jumping off point along with Venser for a Commander deck.

Later, I named her as my top choice for a reprinting in the latest Ravnica block and pointed out just how Orzhov she was! We didn't know then that she was destined to lead the guild and such, but there you are. Kaya also reminds me of my second favorite Avenger I have always been a huge Avengers fan, I have every comic from the 1st issue through of every series, mini, solo comics at the time their character was on the team, and more.

Monica Rambeau, aka Captain Marvel. She was a competent, capable, and interesting character from the beginning. She had a unique range of powers the ability to change her body into any form of energy , and her creator, Roger Stern was a long-time writer of the Avengers. She was in many major storylines in the 80s, such as Secret Wars.

She was the first black woman on the team. Roger Stern, by the by, is one of my favorite writers for the comic, as he had a lot of great additions like She-Hulk and Namor , wrote the Wasp better than anyone else before or since, and also brought in powerful characters like Black Knight Dane Whitman and really fleshed them out.

Stern was a master story-crafter. He was fired in the middle of a six-issue arc after he refused to follow the editor's decision. While his editor Mark Gruenwald , was writing Captain America at the time, sales of one of the flagship comics for Marvel were dropping, so in order to boost sales of his own comic, Mark wanted Roger to write Captain Marvel as an incompetent chair who became increasingly over her head, and then Cap America was forced to return to the Avengers, and kick her off the Avengers, and then take over again.

Now think about that. Not only was that not the character of Monica Rambeau, but it's also a decision that was biased in favor of a comic the editor was writing, as well as removing the first black female Avenger for incompetence. That was not her. She was always a strong character, which made her compelling to me. And in some ways, Kaya reminds me of my 2nd favorite Avenger, who we are about to get over on Disney streaming.

Who is my favorite Avenger? Bonita Juarez is a devout Catholic, social worker living in Albuquerque who is hit by a bolt of fire at night and given her powers. She believes they came from God, and that she is on a divinely appointed mission from above. Karn has had a lot of roles over the years. Great Creator. Karn is, in my opinion, one of the single most compelling characters in the entire story.

We are clearly going to be following Karn and I suspect we'll head back to New Phyrexia soon to check in on the nasties there as well as the limited rebellion there with Koth, Melira, and others helping. I adore Kiora so much that I built a Kiora Commander deck prior to her being printed in card form. I've always had a strong connection with her. She ramps into big sea creatures like sea serpents, leviathans, kraken, and loads more.

She is trying to find creatures big enough to fight the Eldrazi back on her home world of Zendikar. Think of how cool a background that can be! She's also fun, flawed, and fearless.