Mark Rosewater threw out this bomb on Twitter recently:

Question of the Day: What thing do you most want to see Magic do but are doubtful we will? #QotD

— Mark Rosewater (@maro254) September 26, 2012

While there were many serious answers, ranging from . . . 

@mulldrifting @maro254 I like that one, and I'd add: present worlds with more mystery and less stark, assigned "good vs evil."

— Inkwell Looter (@inkwell_looter) September 26, 2012

 . . . to . . . 

@maro254 Maybe late to the party, but I'd love Time Spiral 2: Electric Boogaloo, but I doubt it'll ever actually happen. #QotD

— Wilson Tejeda (@wiltejkiel) September 26, 2012

 . . . and dozens of important topics discussed (such as how to best market MTG to women and whether the name “Magic” holds the game back from mainstream success) . . . 

This gem stood out in the fray:

R&D tasks you to design an uncommon Planeswalker. What does it look like?

— Eric Klug (@klug_alters) September 26, 2012

@klug_alters Tibalt

— Thomas (@HobbesQ) September 26, 2012

The consensus was an immediate, ugly, passionate Bonfire of the Damned frenzy starring our poor friend.

Sigh for the Tibalt, our dapper, multilayered, curly-Q-tailed ’walker! (I hope that’s his tail, anyway . . . )

Despite being extremely fashion-forward (he rocked his ensemble back in the spring, while these models sport attire intended for fall 2012) . . . 

Dolce & Gabbana	Gucci
Versace	Tommy Gavin
. . . and actually really freakin’ hot in a lean, dangerous way, a la Tommy Gavin . . .	. . . we simply, viscerally hate Tibalt’s guts for a singular reason:

HE SUCKS.

And we really wanted him to be good. He’s the charismatic, unemployed ex-boyfriend we just didn’t understand and couldn’t change. He’s the box of chocolates, Hallmark card, and diamond-heart pendant that still did not get you laid. He’s the entire college experience. He’s a liter of diet soda, a fifth of Fireball (it’s basically a low-proof liqueur, guys—read the alcohol content on the label), and a bottle of your dad’s Aqua Velva mixed together at a high school hot tub party. He. Sucks. The naïve hopefulness we felt when we first laid eyes on T, and the subsequent violent dashing of those hopes, is what has taken the community’s hatred to a white-hot level.

We tried. We did. I really want it to work out, baby . . . Guys as successful as Brad Nelson tried to make love to Mr. Fiend-Blooded with odes articulated through decklists.

"Tibalt Flare by Brad Nelson"

• Creatures (7)
• 3 Phantasmal Image
• 3 Sun Titan
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

• Planeswalkers (3)
• 3 Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded

• Spells (25)
• 1 Ancient Grudge
• 1 Negate
• 3 Desperate Ravings
• 2 Unburial Rites
• 2 Whipflare
• 4 Faithless Looting
• 4 Lingering Souls
• 1 Dead Weight
• 2 Oblivion Ring
• 2 Nihil Spellbomb
• 3 Ratchet Bomb

• Lands (25)
• 1 Island
• 1 Swamp
• 2 Mountain
• 2 Plains
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 2 Seachrome Coast
• 3 Evolving Wilds
• 3 Shimmering Grotto
• 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4 Clifftop Retreat

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Intangible Virtue
• 2 Ancient Grudge
• 2 Celestial Purge
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ray of Revelation
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 2 Devil's Play
• 2 Timely Reinforcements
• 1 Whipflare
• 1 Ghost Quarter

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And Wizards has made a last-ditch, prom-night-style proposal with this product:

Sure, I’ll buy it, but I’m under no illusions. It’ll be Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin all over again. And Sorin’s deck will play The Spider (Forrest, I really wanted you to be good—sigh).

In spite of all heroic efforts, it appears Tibalt’s legacy will be The Planeswalker at Uncommon.

That and the ho-hum reputation as some dude who killed Mercutio and in turn was killed by Romeo.

John Leguizamo as Tybalt

But when all’s said and done, any legacy is better than no legacy, right?

‘Till next time, may Magic be your sword. T and I will be quaffing and dirty dancing at a Franz Ferdinand show near you.

– MJ

@moxymtg on Twitter

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