The Magic animated series will be in its own continuity, but the characters will have their same backstories.
MaRo's saying his SDCC panel tomorrow (at 6:30 PM PT) is going to have "changes".
maximusleopluradon asked: "I believe San Diego Comic-Con doesn't let you stream panels." Again I understand that this decision is/was bigger than you, but as you've stated before, part of good design is managing expectations. And when there is a big panel reveal of a highly anticipated set, I think that many of you player base expects that they would be able to watch it. In fact my fav set reveal is the on stage event for BFZ. If SDCC doesn't allow streaming events, then may it's not the right place? Thoughts?
There are many factors that determine the time window when an announcement can be made (a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff like when products have to be listed for distributor/stores to purchase it). San Diego Comic-Con was the only major convention in the time window and I'd already set up a Magic panel, so it seemed like the fortuitous choice.
I realized that I was conveying a lot of information, so I specifically wrote an article that could be released with it (technically shortly after), so that everyone can be walked through the changes in even more detail than the panel could handle.
I know it's easy to want the ideal, but a lot of making things work is finding the best answer given all the constraints you're working with. So in short, streaming it simply wasn't an option.
July 19, 2019
cairnwanderer asked: Changes? There are changes? Unknown changes? ... Is now the appropriate to panic?
Good changes. I did write a whole article. : )
July 19, 2019
sadmi666 asked: "so that everyone can be walked through the changes in even more detail than the panel could handle". So in addition to the release of the set there's going to be changes so big that people is going to need to be walked through them. Was that a hidden hint or a slip of the tongue?
My teaser in my Monday column said, "Join me next week (in the evening on Saturday, July 20, after our San Diego Comic-Con panel) for one of those articles I do that gets everyone talking."
This shouldn't be new information. : )
July 19, 2019
falingard asked: "so that everyone can be walked through the changes" ...Changes? What changes? I thought your SDCC panel was about the fall set?
It is about the fall set. Did you think what Eldraine is sbout was all I was talking about?
July 19, 2019
What would be a big change that:
1. MaRo would care about
2. MaRo would be excited to announce
3. Would be worth announcing at SDCC, to an audience that may not be that invested in Magic even if they are players
4. Is complex enough that it needs to be walked through
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Well, we know Core Set 2021 is coming, so this isn't a reversion to the two-set block model. A rules change seems to break condition 3, and probably 2 and 4 too. Something related to Arena seems possible, but would Maro care that much about it? Historic coming to paper would violate 4, given the Arena announcement didn't need all this.
I don't know.