Planescape: Comments

> from details page Planescape Set: "Plane Plane is a subtype of legendary land with a static effect."

Note that plane is already a supplementary card type.

Yea, I was kicking around ignoring that and just creating a separate category of plane land cards. But I could just treat the planes as legendary lands. Haven't gotten to that part yet.

The way I'm imagining this, there would be a main set that establishes the setting of Planescape and the main themes and mechanics laid out here. Then there would be two expansion sets that gets into factions and more multicolor stuff (without just recreating Ravnica). That's thinking ahead a lot and I need to properly figure out this main set first though. This set is more for fundamentally defining the setting and the "legendary" theme.

Does this set get grandeur? Maybe on noncreatures? Maybe on nonpermanents? You go hard enough on legendary landcycling that it would make sense there, too.

That's a tempting idea. I feel I've been in need of one more mechanic to flesh the set out. I can definitely see the utility of grandeur.

Update:

I created a skeleton for the set to help plot out a roadmap, and I've shifted my focus to commons at the moment and provisionally filled out the white commons already.

This definitely will be a large set, about 280 cards.

I'm very tempted to switch legendary landcycling to nonbasic landcycling because it's less niche and more cross-compatible with things.

I haven't officially added grandeur to the set but I've tinkered with some designs with it. It might be used mainly for some legendary rares, maybe some legendary uncommons.

Likewise, I've tinkered with some saga ideas, but because they exist more at higher rarities and I'm trying to get the commons together, it's not a focus yet. But will be important.

The gates thing might end up being left behind, or at least, it might not really mechanically matter as much as nonbasic and legendary lands. I might make "gates matters" mainly a green-focused theme as part of its "land matters" theme.

It also appears that cycling and discarding have naturally risen as a strong sub-theme.