When design hands over a file, we have a card for each slot. Usually we also have what we call 66’s, cards that have been cut for various reasons but that we like.
Part of development is removing problem cards so the process will naturally make room for newer cards.
I don’t feel indestructible should be at common (with rare exceptions) because of some of the confusion but indestructibility is far from the most confusing ability we keyword.
All right, since you asked so nicely. How about: Games are to mental health as sports are to physical health. As the workforce has been shifting for years from physical labor to mental labor, games are more important than sports for developing useful employment skills.
In some ways yes and in other ways no. It depends on how it’s being used. One of my goals (so far unsuccessful) is to turn unblockable and indestructible into full-blown keywords to make them French vanilla 100% of the time.
Meer as in “rhymes with deer”.
It’s Transformation Week so I chose to talk about an important transformation that’s had a big impact on the game: the transformation of Magic R&D.
Very happy. I believe design, development and creative were all on our A game.
There are a lot of problems setting sets in the past but we have done it. Urza’s Saga, for example, was a flashback story block. It was set in the past.
Urza’s Saga was a huge developmental mistake as the set was crazy (and I mean crazy) overpowered. That doesn’t mean there weren’t cool designs or fun cards in it.
No, we have Thanskgiving Day off. I just decided it would be fun to do a Thanksgiving day “Tales from the Pit”.
Part 2 of my article on the many graveyard cards, mechanics and sets I’ve designed. (I apologize for posting this late but travel back from Worlds made me forget to post it on Monday.)
It’s happen numerous times. Alpha had Savannah Lions (2/1). Morningtide had Indomitable Ancients (2/10). Feel free to post any others you come up with.
I don’t say things just because people ask me to; not if it isn’t true. We have moved some of looting into red, and left some in blue, and you will be seeing more of it in upcoming sets. (Working ahead means decisions take a while to get to print.) Also we have been trying to find other ways in red to create a chaotic feel without always having to use the word “random”.
I haven’t counted but I’ve been to somewhere in the mid to high thirties. Alaska is the big one I want to visit but haven’t made it to yet.
