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A bit of a design flaw in my opinion--infinite Trrus, infinite pump on all of your creatures next turn.
I do like the idea of a colour switch as well, though it may feel weird to mix it with the lesser known character idea, since it would only be his/her second appearance.
What did you think of the idea for Elpeth returning from Theros' hell? She's not a secondary character so the colour switch was interesting I thought.
Otherwise, to keep the same colour balance, we could bring back Kaya, she's a woman on top of that and the similarity between Fiora and Rezatta may help find a good reason to bring her on this plane?
WB Returning planeswalker (Elspeth)
UR Da Vinci
G Muse-touching planeswalker (the tree)
If we put Karn, we must either create four planeswalkers to reach colour balance — which is a bit much — or create this situation:
UR Da Vinci
WBG Abzan muse-touching planeswalker
C Karn (returning planeswalker)
And a three-coloured planeswalker is hard to cast in a regular environment like we are planning to do. One solution could be to give Karn an actual colour but it's a bit weird and may end up dissapointing expectations for Karn.
Here's an art for Elspeth. But it seems too mono-black. Nevermind.
A two-coloured card featuring two returning monocoloured characters (for instance a WB card with Gideon and Liliana) could also be something new and interesting if we find the right art?
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/masked-cutthroat
https://www.deviantart.com/art/Elspeth-in-the-Underworld-560420072
Here's the one with the white cape again for comparison purpose:
Also, planeswalkers can change their clothing too. You don't have to get the exact picture of them. Just look at Liliana, or the new Vraska.
While that's the case, her clothing is pretty much what makes Elspeth iconic and recognizable. Liliana is one of the faces of magic, along with having that crown-like thing, and Vraska's a gorgon. Elspeth's hood+cape combo is her big trait, along with her weapon. Take those away, and she wouldn't be recognizable.
It's true the white one is an official but unused artwork of her white self so we can't really see any change, I just thought the lightning could hint at her emerging from the shadows. We don't need to have a strong change in her look, and being Black doesn't mean you have to wear black robes and skull necklaces x) Kaya for instance is White/Black but doesn't feature those colours in an obvious way in her official art.
@Lujikul I would even say she doesn't need the spear to appear on the art to be recognizable, a female knight in a hood could probably do the trick if she has some similar physical feature.
@everyone Otherwise, if we can't find a decent twist for the returning planeswalker, we can always make an in-colour return? Here's a try at a visual for Sorin:
Sorin is out of his stone? Lol, for a perspective Ob Nixilis wasn't named "Ob Nixilis Out of His Hedron Shackles". Just saying.
Just follow Ob Nixilis's naming convention. Sorin Unstoned. I mean nobody wants a high planeswalker.