Netmarble's Magic: The Gathering mobile game, Magic: ManaStrike, has revealed a new skin for one of the playable Planeswalkers in the game, Nahiri, and fans are surprised to see how the portrayal looks totally different from the Nahiri fans know.
Check it out:
Now, compare that to Wizards of the Coast's previous artworks of the Kor Planeswalker:
ManaStrike's new Nahiri skin looks more like Ivy from the Soul Calibur fighting game.
This is not the first time the free-to-play mobile game surprised us with an unusual character design. Earlier this year, ManaStrikerevealed a unique Gideon look wearing a never-before-seen armor.
Magic Head Designer Mark Rosewater previously explained that the Gideon we see in ManaStrike is one of the "what if" character skins: "Manastrike takes place in Bolas's Meditation Realm and is largely a simulation," Rosewater said. "That's why you can see Jace battling Jace, for example. This conceit allows the game to do some 'what if' character skins like Heart of the Aether Gideon skin. You'll see more 'what if' character skins in the future."
So with that said, I wouldn't consider the new Nahiri look canon.
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Magic: ManaStrike is now available on Android and iOS devices.
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