Planeswalkers are Legendary, now?

[mcfarland]

From this page.

"Starting with this set, all planeswalkers past, present, and future will have the supertype legendary. They will also be subject to the "legend rule." The "planeswalker uniqueness rule" is going away. What does this mean? In short, everything that's true about legendary permanents will now be true about legendary planeswalkers. Also note that this does not mean legendary planeswalkers can be your Commander unless an ability says so."

So it seems that certain cards, like Empress Galina or Sisay can interact with Planeswalkers moving forward. Does this open up any playable design space in Legacy?

[Echelon]

Nic Fit Superfriends perhaps? But that's probably it.

[Barook]

I can see JMS and Baby Jace going into certain decks. Same goes with both 3 mana Lilianas, although probably not as much as Jace.

Gideon of the Trials gets a massive boost since you can spam the board with various Gideon walkers. I wouldn't be suprised if we reached the critical mass for Gideon Stompy at some point.

[PirateKing]

Animated Gideons become vulnerable to Karakas.
Going to be a few more odd interactions as well.

[Fox]

I assume JTMS on board with un-flipped flip-jace is still okay with this change.....and flipped JVP + JTMS is also possible without sacrifice?

[PirateKing]

I assume JTMS on board with un-flipped flip-jace is still okay with this change.....and flipped JVP + JTMS is also possible without sacrifice?

Yeah, Legend Rule only ever cared about the name. Hence Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Thalia, Heretic Cathar were cool to highfive on the battlefield.

And so speaking of the Legend Rule, who whats to help me brew a Mirror Gallery deck

[morgan_coke]

I think Gideon of the Trials might actually work better with Gideon Jura than Ally of Zendikar, simply because of how the two cards' + abilities interact. They also both fit better in control shells than Ally of Zendikar does. But I dunno, maybe run all three?