bruno

"mr storylets"

writer (derogatory). lead designer on Fallen London.

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So I'm on one of my extended breaks from Magic: the Gathering which is why I didn't hear about this until a bit after it was announced, but people on Cohost might enjoy learning that the Magic set coming out a year from now... they're doing Redwall? They're doing Redwall. It's a plane populated by anthropomorphic woodland creatures.

The funniest question this raises is that canonically, in Magic, the power/toughness of cards is reflective of the combat prowess or literal size of things in a sort of universal absolute scale. There's a whole plane that's a joke about this, Segovia, which is a plane where everything is tiny (so a Segovian Leviathan is a 3/3, whereas a normal leviathan is typically a 6/6 or bigger creature). So I have to ask, is everything in Bloomburrow canonically gigantic? I assume that the cards in this set have the normal spread of power/toughness values for a magic set, therefore there are probably 2/2 mice.

Are the cute and cozy mice with capes made out of fallen autumn leaves human sized, and therefore on this plane the sunflowers are as big as redwoods, and if you planeswalked to Bloomburrow everything would be, from your perspective, gargantuan?


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in reply to @bruno's post:

Redwall itself never fully answers this question - in the first book a mouse rides a horse, implying that the woodland creatures are human size but that beasts of burden are not scaled up appropriately.