Ive noticed that Legend cards don always fit into the story… Their power/toughness, abilities, and creature types don always mesh from the novels to the cards. Why is that?
Bet you’re thinking of the fact that the Tsabo Tavoc card could beat the Gerrard Capashen card in combat any day, while the opposite is true in the story, right? That’s probably the most stark example of the sort of discontinuity that you’re talking about, but those who work in Magic R&D and Continuity believe that we’ve done a fairly good job overall in keeping the link between cards and characters. There are a few factors that come into play. The first is that R&D’s involvement with (and knowledge of the finer points of) the Magic backstory has fluctuated over the years. This was especially true with the Urza block, when Wizards’ book publishing department began contracting novelists to creat Magic plots and characters. So that from that point on, R&D has depended on the story writers to communicate plot points. For example, Vhati il-Dal, a legend from Tempest, was reduced in power and toughness because Greven il-Vec kills him in the story. The aforementioned Tsabo Tavoc and Gerrard
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