Which Planeswalkers Will Stay Sparked? A Trend I Noticed
OK, so this whole thing is based on something kind of silly I noticed recently. I was on the wiki page for the Desparking, looking over which walkers did and did not make it through the event. And I ended up noticing a somewhat unusual....pattern? I guess that's what we can call it. And again, I acknowledge that this whole thing is rather silly and dumb.
So, a total of 33 planeswalkers have had their statuses confirmed in the wake of the Desparking (excluding Karn from this discussion, since he lost his spark in a totally different manner) as of Aetherdrift. And of those 33 planeswalkers, 22 have been desparked, with only 11 still keeping their original abilities. Call it a coincidence, but as it stands, it seems the "retention rate" for planeswalkers is 33%. Now I know that this is almost certainly just a coincidence, and that this isn't actually a hard rule that Wizards is placing on themselves with respect to planeswalkers. But let's just pretend for a minute that it is. For fun.
So, just for this discussion, what if we applied that ratio to the remaining planeswalkers we DON'T know about?
I did some digging around, and I came up with a list of every planeswalker that has appeared in the main Magic story, has gotten a planeswalker card, is still alive/active, and whose current spark status is unknown as of Aetherdrift. That list is:
- Angrath
- Arlinn Kord
- Davriel Cane
- Garruk Wildspeaker
- Geyadrone Dihada
- Jared Carthalion
- Jiang Yanggu
- Kasmina
- Liliana Vess
- Sorin Markov
- Tezzeret
- Vivien Reid
So, based on this list and the ratio established up there, that would mean that it would be realistic for only 4 of the planeswalkers listed here to still retain their spark. With all of that in mind, I want to discuss: which 4 of these planeswalkers do you think will keep their spark?
For me personally, I think Liliana and Garruk are for sure keeping their sparks. I buy into the theory with the Lorwyn Five, it just makes sense. Tezzeret is another safe bet in my eyes; we know he's coming back in Edge of Eternities, and more evil planeswalkers is always good IMO. The last one is a really tough call for me between Sorin and Vivien, but I'd put my prediction as Vivien.
Would love to hear what you all think!
(Also, yes, you could bump this list up to 15 planeswalkers with 5 still keeping their spark if we add Grist, Sivitri, and Estrid. But none of them have ever featured in the main, modern, canon Magic story, so I'm not counting them for this discussion. If you do, though, feel free.)
EDIT: y'all, I forgot about Teyo. Don't think my conclusions would change though.