Making Your Character - Ignite Your Spark!

MTG is a fairly complex game and, as the name implies, has heavy emphasis on the use of magic. You are a planeswalker, able to travel the different realms of the multiverse, and so by definition are able to wield spells with skill and are dead-set in realizing your full potential, whatever that may be. Exploration and the discovery of strange and dark secrets, plumbing the depth's of one's own mystic soul, carving one's name into the history of the worlds; the life of a planeswalker is one unrestricted by boundaries or fate. How your story will weave together with the other planeswalkers out there remains to be seen; but it somehow always happens that wherever there is one planeswalker, others are surely close behind.

Please Note: Each player will be required to design, submit and establish an Original Character before making use of one of the Canon Planeswalkers from the available list.

Character Creation

To start with, each player must choose a color or combination that best represents their Planeswalker. This is your color identity and will affect what sorts of spells you can use, what mana you can channel, and who you will likely be allies with.

Color theme words
  White - Healing, Protection, Law, Honor, Balance, Light
  Blue - Knowledge, Manipulation, Illusion, Trickery
  Black - Ambition, Sacrifice, Amorality, Undeath, Heresy
  Red - Freedom, Impulse, Fury, Destruction, Chaos
  Green - Nature, Growth, Instinct, Community

While colorless mana does exist, it will not be a selectable Primary choice for your planeswalker character. Artifacts are considered to be colorless because they rely more on science and technology rather than magic, and are often designed to supplement a particular color theme or caster style. The other exception are the Eldrazi, a world destroying and primal race, who will be entirely unplayable.

Next, you will need to select a race and a plane of origin. If you select a race that does not exist on your plane of origin, you will need backstory to justify this break from the norm. However, there are many sentient races to choose from, as well as a great many planes (including many planes that have yet to be discovered). A character from an undiscovered plane will also have to submit supplemental information detailing said plane for the purposes of spell availability.

Races

Angel - Dominaria, Ravnica, Bant (Alara), Innistrad, Zendikar, Serra's Realm* and others. {Always female, Mostly }
Aven (Bird-folk) - Otaria (Dominaria), Tarkir, Alara, Fiora {Usually or }
Leonin (Cat-folk) - Dominaria, Mirrodin, Naya (Alara), Theros, Tarkir {Subraces - Nacatl, Rakshasa} {Usually or }
Centaur - Dominaria, Ravnica, Theros {Mostly , Never }
Vedalken (Demi-human) - Shiv (Dominaria), Mirrodin, Ravnica, Esper (Alara) {Primary }
Dwarf - Dominaria, Lorwyn {Subraces - Jamuraan, Sarpadian, Ulgrothan, Duergar, and others} {Mostly , Never }
Elf - ANY BUT Kamigawa, Mercadia, Innistrad, Theros, Tarkir {Mostly }
Faerie - Tolaria (Dominaria), Esper (Alara), Lorwyn, Ravnica, and others. {Primary can't be or }
Kitsune (Fox-folk) - Kamigawa {Primary )
Goblin - ANY BUT Innistrad, Theros {Primary }
Kithkin (Halfling) - Dominaria or LorShad {Primary , never }
Ainok (Hound-folk) - Tarkir {Mostly or }
Human - ANY BUT Lorwyn {Subraces - Rathi*, Mirrok, Vampire, and others} {Usually , can be WUBRG }
Nantuko (Insect-folk) - Dominaria, Ravnica {Subraces - Kraul, Eumidian} {Usually or }
Viashino (Lizard-folk) - Dominaria, Ravnica, Jund (Alara), Grixis (Alara), Naya (Alara) {Mostly }
Merfolk - Dominaria, Mercadia, Zendikar, Theros, LorShad, {Mostly , Splash }
Minotaur - Dominaria, Mercadia, Ravnica, Alara, Zendikar, Theros* {Mostly and , never }
Nezumi (Mouse-folk) - Kamigawa {Primary }
Naga - Ravnica, Tarkir {Mostly , or )
Orc - Dominaria, Tarkir {Usually or )
Soratami (Rabbit-folk) - Kamigawa {Primary }
Orochi (Snake-folk) - Kamigawa {Primary }
Wolvir (Wolf-folk) - Innistrad ONLY {Mostly or , never )

* = Requires additional backstory

The above list is by no means complete, and only covers sentient races as they have appeared in the MtG card game and associated lore. As this forum roleplay runs tangent to lore, there are many exceptions that can be made if justified properly. Note that Outer Planes are particularly open for changes. One could easily have Orochi from Pyrulea, Aven from Vryn, Dwarves from Kaladesh... just know that these have not yet appeared in canon.

Banned Races - Slivers (Hivemind), Eldrazi (Eldritch Aberrations), Demons (Too powerful)