maastrictian asked: Re: your latest answer about female planeswalkers. There are twice as many male than female planeswalkers, whether counted by cards or characters. It would be awesome if that were 50/50 in future sets!
You are correct that my “not far apart” line was wrong. I went and counted and male planeswalkers outnumber female planeswalkers 2:1. Here’s why that’s so. Planeswalkers are designed as player analogues. We want to create characters for our players to want to emulate.
Right now, the game is predominantly played by men. Obviously, we’d like to see that change and I feel it is slowly changing. If our goal is to create characters to emulate and the majority of our players are currently male, that means we need to make more male planeswalkers right now.
Note that we do make a bunch of female ones because it’s important to have planeswalkers for females to emulate and we want to create a world where there are male and female planeswalkers, but the skew comes out of the current natural gender skew in the game.
If the game ever got to a 50/50 male/female mix we’d have a 50/50 mix of male and female planeswalkers. Note our current mix is more skewed towards women than our current player ratios.
