Magic: The Gathering Reveals New Rare Land Cycle For Kaldheim
Kaldheim is now in full swing and Wizards of Coast has decided to get the ball rolling, so to speak, in spectacular style this time around.
While fans have seen but a minuscule sample of what the Nordic-inspired set will have to offer when it arrives early next year, initial teasers have already lifted the curtain on two brand new Planeswalkers, Tyvar Kell and Niko Aris. While both of these additions are noteworthy for their unique abilities, the latter is distinguished further as the first non-binary Planeswalker. You can read more about their backstory as a Therosian escapee through here if you wish.
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Kaldheim, from the art to the collabs with metal artists (like my personal fave Lacuna Coil), but also the fact that we are getting two new planeswalkers one of which is Niko Aris, one of the first explicitly non-binary characters in the series.
Designers Katie Allison (game designer), Chris Mooney (game designer), Allison Steele (digital product manager), and Lake Hurwitz (principal concept artist) explained that Niko is from Plane of Theros and was a star figure there. During the events of
Theros Beyond Death, Klothys, the god of destiny, sent out agents to stop people who attempted to defy their destiny.
Magic: The Gathering Reveals First Non-Binary Planeswalker Niko Aris
Kaldheim, will introduce the card game’s first-ever non-binary Planeswalker, Wizards of the Coast has confirmed.
Announcing the news earlier this week in a lengthy blog post exploring the origins of Niko Aris, the developer dives headfirst into the character’s history and how they ultimately wound up far from home in a strange new land. A native from the Greek mythology-inspired realm of Theros, Niko, like many of their people, is pursued by agents of Klothys, God of Destiny for circumventing their fate. Preordained to become a renowned athlete, Niko escapes the chains of destiny and is forced to flee their homeworld in the process, ultimately ending up on the aforementioned Kaldheim.
Magic: The Gathering Introduces First Nonbinary Planeswalker
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Magic: The Gathering introduces its first nonbinary planeswalker, Niko Aris, in the upcoming Kaldheim release. Wizards of the Coast revealed that Niko Aris is one of two new planeswalkers debuting in the Viking and Norse mythology-inspired set in 2021. Though debuting in Kaldheim, Niko hails from the Greek mythology-inspired plane of Theros. In a post on the
Magic: The Gathering website, game designer Chris Mooney reveals, Niko is a new Planeswalker from the Plane of Theros. Early in Niko s life, an oracle foresaw a great future for Niko: they were destined to be a great athlete, an undefeated javelineer who would never miss a shot. Niko trained and competed for many years, but in all that time, they heard stories and songs of heroes who would fight to protect people and began to question the destiny prescribed to them. Eventually, Niko decided to challenge fate itself and, to the shock of many, purposefully lost a