The Mage Knight 2004 World Champion will change the Land forever with the destruction of a subfaction! During the award ceremony at GenCon Indy on August 22, the victor of the World Championships will select among three long-established subfactions—the Deathspeakers, the Shadow Khans, and the Northlanders. The subfaction chosen by the Champion will never again appear in future Mage Knight releases, and the story of its downfall will be told in the Scrying Chamber on the official Mage Knight website. To the Champion goes the power!

What!!!!!!!!!!!. I know almost for a fact i will lose my beloved northlanders.

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Wow, thats a lot on the line, DOWN WITH DEATHSPEAKERS

I have to agree with lite. Warbird, if you lose northlanders, its because the champion has it out for you: plain and simple. Deathspeakers, speak your last words. Time for your demise!
-Farchyld

Lets hope the deathspeakers go. :)

It'd be nice to have no newer cheaper revenant. ;)

There is the distinct possbility that i would be the deathspeakers aeradon is not highly thought of by the dark prophet for his failure.

hehe good bye deathspeakers...

If the Shadow Khans go there will be **** to pay!

PUKE -

too late to stop this now - I think its wrong...

so...

Goodbye Deathspeakers!

If it is the shadow khans that would mean raydan and maybe the galeshi involved.

:golem:

I think it depends on the winner... if the winner is thinking purely about new figs and what would most benefit the game bye bye northlanders... Maybe replaced by something better.

Lurk and Reverant are very powerful.

which implies the reasoning behind cancelling them out...

wat if the world champ runs a deathspeaker or shadowkhan army lol.....

This decision will have a lot of effect! I don't think we need anymore deathspeakers, but I would not mind if the Shadow Khans went. Lurk is too good of a subfaction ability. Compare it to some other abilities like Field Repair and it is so much better. Built in toughness throughout the dial and a bonus in certain terrain--we don't need anymore of those figures.

Okay, I have to say I'm opposed to this.

If it was a series of storyline tournaments (even if it was just two games over the course of one month) and the results were based on the outcome nationally, then I could accept this alot easier then one person's descison. I realize that Mage Knight is a game and the course the game takes isn't based on a majority of players' votes, but I think this will probably upset more players then drive them to compete in the World Championship.

I assume that WizKids is doing this to entice people to remain in the tournament so we don't see what happened at Origins with people dropping out happen at GenCon, but honestly it just smacks of the same kind of desperation you see in comic companies when they do things like kill off major characters to try to sell comics (think Death of Superman).