Creative manager for Magic , Alicia Mickes, talked about the inspiration: "The borderless planeswalker card art concept was to build on the many facets of each Planeswalker by featuring exciting vignettes of their varied Zendikar adventures." Lead art director for Zendikar Rising , Taylor Ingvarsson added, "This time around, we wanted to deliver on a risen lost civilization that provided the characters in the story and players to engage in the high risk, high reward of daring adventure into these lost Skyclave ruins." This Planeswalker art really captures the spirit of Zendikar so well that we turned them into posters and shared them with stores
The Serpent Society has a really fun ward ability that gives opponents five poison counters - meaning each player can only ever target them once
People in America had already heard of it: In December 1997, the New York Times reported that a Pokmon episode caused hundreds of children in Japan to develop seizure symptoms
With the banning of Birthing Pod, Kiki-Jiki and Restoration Angel fell out of favor in Modern
The characters depicted as planeswalkers arent actually capable of walking across planes, just really powerful or important characters