Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen

- Introduce new plane where the blue-aligned humanoids are Vedalken instead of Merfolk
- Don't print any Vedalken typal cards, ever
- Players haven't really connected with Vedalken when we return to the plane because there's no Vedalken deck
- Introduce secret clade of Merfolk who have been hiding on the plane the whole time, honest.
- Print Merfolk typal cards.
- People just like Merfolk more than Verdalken, for some unfathomable reason

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Jan 24, 2025 at 3:36amWeb
Show threadShawn "Fruan" PoulsenJan 24, 2025
If there were Merfolk hiding on Esper the whole time too, I'm going to scream.
Show threadRethinkJeffJan 24, 2025
@Fruan This is definitely the dinner with Gavin effect happening, which I know makes me sound insane, but the prof eats with WotC, and so WotC makes sure his favorite kindred eats.
Show threadBo BrinkmanJan 24, 2025
@Fruan give me a Legendary Homarid, you cowards!
Show threadShawn "Fruan" PoulsenJan 24, 2025
@bo_brinkman
Show threadBo BrinkmanJan 24, 2025

@Fruan

*squints*

"They printed a blue Goblin?"

Show threadRethinkJeffJan 24, 2025
@bo_brinkman @Fruan They did! https://scryfall.com/card/apc/119/razorfin-hunter
Razorfin Hunter

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Show threadShawn "Fruan" PoulsenJan 24, 2025
@RethinkJeff @bo_brinkman More of that flavour text about having maybe always been lurking under the sea. It's probably nothing...
Show threadShawn "Fruan" PoulsenJan 24, 2025
@bo_brinkman Now I'm imagining a bar for abandoned Blue humanoids, with a Homarid, a Vedalken and a Cephalid morosely getting drunk together.
Show threadRethinkJeffJan 24, 2025
@Fruan @bo_brinkman I am so, so mad about Cephalid erasure T_T
Show threadBo BrinkmanJan 24, 2025
@RethinkJeff @Fruan I didn't even know they had been Octopused. :( Poor dears.
Show threadArtemisJan 24, 2025
@Fruan I feel like the person who wrote that flavor text was also the person who designed Thunder Junction
Show threadTalen LeeJan 24, 2025
@Fruan I was wondering when merfolk got to mirrodin
Show threadShawn "Fruan" PoulsenJan 24, 2025
@Talen_Lee Eh. Every living thing on Mirrodin was pulled from somewhere else. I always thought the weird thing was that there weren't Merfolk on Mirrodin.
Show threadJayJan 24, 2025
@Fruan I feel like the vedalken were far more interesting as four-armed techno-wizards than whatever they are normally. Just blue humanoids?
Show threadChris IngersollJan 24, 2025

@BluJBird @Fruan on Mirrodin, they have four arms. On Avishkar, they have six fingers. On Ravnica, ... *shrug*

I've always just read them as WotC Vulcans, but I don't have anything to back that up other than the only one who has ever mattered, Dovin Baan.