The official answer taken from Magicthegathering.com.
Hello! Is there a link that explains who/what Marit Lage is? I was under the impression that she was a powerful planeswalker. However, the token art makes “her” appear as a large Hypnox type of a creature? Thanks!
–Justin
Lancaster, OH
A: From Brady Dommermuth, Magic creative director:
The Argivian scholar Arkol thought Marit Lage was a planeswalker, but he was wrong. What’s known about Marit Lage is that she is a being of immense power, able to move across the planes but not by the same means planeswalkers can. She is not native to Dominaria, and could justifiably be called a demigod. She is mentioned in passing a couple of times in The Eternal Ice, a Magic novel by Jeff Grubb. It’s implied that she wreaked havoc on Dominaria at some point, and it’s clear that she had a human following (see the flavor text of Brine Shaman, Curse of Marit Lage, Wrath of Marit Lage, and Dehydration). One interesting footnote about Marit Lage is that the cards that bear her name penalize black’s allied colors rather than its enemy colors.
But we’re not convinced.
Some of our readers aruged that the Marit Lage token is just an avatar of herself, it might not even be Marit Lage herself! We got a little too curious and decided to put on our Jester…erm…Thinking Cap and search for the REAL MARIT LAGE.
Clue number 1: She’s not from Dominaria
Clue number 2: “she is a being of immense power”
Clue number 3: “she wreaked havoc on Dominaria at some point”
We managed to find a few suspects.
Suspect Name: Little Girl
Colour/s of Origin: White
Why she could be Marit Lage: That cutesy bunny ears, that ‘im so innocent’ eyes and that teletubby plushie, cos we all know teletubbies are EVIL!.
Why she couldn’t be Marit Lage: “cos these days all she could do is to pee the bed.”
Suspect Name: Miss Demeanor
Colour/s of Origin: White
Why she could be Marit Lage: She’s a Lady of Proper Etiquette (read: She’s a control bitch)
Why she couldn’t be Marit Lage: She looks waaaay too hot to be Marit Lage.
Suspect Name: Mother of Goon
Colour/s of Origin: Black
Why she could be Marit Lage: She has a human following.
Why she couldn’t be Marit Lage: The human following dresses in hip-hop fashion.
Suspect Name: Phyrexian Librarian
Colour/s of Origin: Black
Why she could be Marit Lage: Flying, Trample, Horror creature type and she loves to read.
Why she couldn’t be Marit Lage: Ah well, she’s a Phyrexian…
After hours and hours of searching, just when we’re about to give up we realised that we left out an important piece of clue. “Justifiably be called a demigod.” So let’s round up the clues. She’s not from Dominaria, she is a being of immense powers, she wrecked havoc on Dominaria at one point and she’s a demigod…Sounds too familar and…too close to home? Guys, Marit Lage has been right in front of us all along!
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She’s big, she’s fierce and she’s NASTY! while she doesn’t have a card to herself (we suspect she threatened the R&D department), we are positive that Marit Lage, is in fact Granny!
