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== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', storylines revolve around "planeswalkers", powerful beings who wield magic, travel between planes of existence and do battle with each other.
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* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', players take the role of ''planeswalkers'' -- powerful beings who control magic, travel between planes of existence and do battle with each other. Other planeswalkers are featured as major characters in the different storylines.
 
* Garruk Wildspeaker is a planeswalker who is a nature mage and beast caller. He is aligned with green magic, the color of healing in the game and rather apt for the Medic.
 
* Garruk Wildspeaker is a planeswalker who is a nature mage and beast caller. He is aligned with green magic, the color of healing in the game and rather apt for the Medic.
 
* The item description is a reference to the fact that Garruk is known for summoning and working primarily with large savage beasts in the storyline and card game mechanics.
 
* The item description is a reference to the fact that Garruk is known for summoning and working primarily with large savage beasts in the storyline and card game mechanics.
* Venser is an artificer who shapes and controls metal creations. He is aligned with blue magic and later on, also white magic which is a color associated with healing in the game as well.
 
* The depictions of the planeswalkers Garruk and Venser were originally designed by Aleksi Briclot, and the two planeswalkers wear the same type of helm. Garruk obtained his helm by slaying the sheriff who killed his father when he was a child and now wears it as a trophy.
 
  
 
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File:Garruk Wildspeaker 640.jpg|Garruk wearing his signature tusked helm.
 
File:Garruk Wildspeaker 640.jpg|Garruk wearing his signature tusked helm.
 
File:Garruk Wildspeaker Card.jpg|The ''Garruk Wildspeaker'' card from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''.
 
File:Garruk Wildspeaker Card.jpg|The ''Garruk Wildspeaker'' card from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''.
File:Venser Shaper Savant.jpg|''Venser, Shaper Savant'' as originally depicted with his helm in the ''Time Spiral'' expansion of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''.
 
File:Venser_the_Sojourner.jpg|''Venser, the Sojourner'' holding his helm from the ''Scars of Mirrodin'' expansion of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''.
 
 
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Revision as of 06:37, 5 June 2011

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The Medic

The Planeswalker Helm is a headwear item for the Medic. It is the identical to the tusked helm worn by Garruk Wildspeaker, a planeswalker character from the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. It is a rough metal helmet with short spikes at the top, small eye slits and tusks extending down along the jaw.

The Planeswalker Helm, along with the Planeswalker Goggles, were added to the game as "upcoming promo items for Magic: The Gathering".[1] There has been no further announcement as of yet regarding these items.

Update history

June 3, 2011 Patch

  • The Planeswalker Helm was added.

June 3, 2011 [Item schema update]

  • The item was given a name and description.

Trivia

  • In Magic: The Gathering, players take the role of planeswalkers -- powerful beings who control magic, travel between planes of existence and do battle with each other. Other planeswalkers are featured as major characters in the different storylines.
  • Garruk Wildspeaker is a planeswalker who is a nature mage and beast caller. He is aligned with green magic, the color of healing in the game and rather apt for the Medic.
  • The item description is a reference to the fact that Garruk is known for summoning and working primarily with large savage beasts in the storyline and card game mechanics.

Gallery

See also

References

External links