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If the Gatewatch is like the Justice League, then wouldn't it only be a matter of time for Wizards to make an Injustice League too?
A block constructed where various archetypes are represented and balanced: aggro, control, midrange, combo, tempo (and possibly prison and land destruction).
Both of them are probably capable of traversing planes so this could be a battle that is raging on in many planes at the same time across the multiverse.
The full history of Sarpadia. Main themes is tribes. Each tribes may have subthemes, like counters, tides, etc.
Block or set with no cards using standard frames. I.e. all cards are either split, flip, double-face, leveler, planeswalker, or full image (e.g. basic lands and vanillas.)
Down-top set/block with the main idea being to apply/justify the "Great Noncreature Type Update". That is, to add flavorful ("tribal") subtypes for instants, sorceries, and possibly enchantments.
~ is a variant of phasing.
In addition to the usual effects of phasing, if a permanent enters the battlefield while it has ~, a phased out token is created that is a copy of it, at the same time. Its status is the same except that the copy is phased out.
In addition to the usual effects of phasing, if a permanent enters the battlefield while it has ~, a phased out token is created that is a copy of it, at the same time. Its status is the same except that the copy is phased out.
"~--[text]" is a static keyword ability. As a permanent with this ability enters the battlefield or is faced up, add the specified ability text to this permanent as a layer 3 effect. This effect ends if this permanent is faced up after being faced down. If multiple ~ abilities are linked to each other, then the abilities added in this way are also similarly linked.
"Chain from [quality]--[text]" means that this spell has the specified ability (usually a spell ability, but it might not be) from when you start to cast it until it leaves the stack, if all of the following conditions are met:
- Either you had cast a spell with the specified quality, or played a land with the specified quality, or a spell with the specified quality that you had cast has resolved.
- You did not do anything else with your priority (including passing) since the most recent such event occurred, other than cast the spell with this chain ability, and optionally mana abilities.
- The event occurred during the same step of the same turn (e.g. you cannot chain from the resolution of a spell that ends the turn).
Once it gains the ability, it does not lose it until it leaves the stack, so changing the conditions so that they are violated will not remove it (nor will changing its text, e.g. if the quality is "red", then Sleight of Mind cannot change whether or not the chain condition is met.
- Either you had cast a spell with the specified quality, or played a land with the specified quality, or a spell with the specified quality that you had cast has resolved.
- You did not do anything else with your priority (including passing) since the most recent such event occurred, other than cast the spell with this chain ability, and optionally mana abilities.
- The event occurred during the same step of the same turn (e.g. you cannot chain from the resolution of a spell that ends the turn).
Once it gains the ability, it does not lose it until it leaves the stack, so changing the conditions so that they are violated will not remove it (nor will changing its text, e.g. if the quality is "red", then Sleight of Mind cannot change whether or not the chain condition is met.
Maro's article today announced changes to the way blocks and rotation will work for the foreseeable future. What do you think?
Discuss mechanics, returning cards, etc
Discuss ways to improve Magic's combat system. Including how to give players more strategic and tactical control.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/designing-universes-beyond-2022-09-12
Why does WotC consider dice mechanics something not serious? I.E. being relegated to an "Un-" set instead of a real MTG set. Most player's have them, and I don't think it's any less convenient than attempting to find counters and tokens for things. Seems like it has potential.
Arena Jumpstart: Historic Horizons will introduce mechanics that only work in the digital game.
Remove supertypes from the game and turn them into keywords.
How to download the official Oracle texts (as JSON, SQLite, or other data-oriented format) with all italic texts (reminder texts, ability words, flavor words) excluded (or marked in some way as being italic, so that they can be removed afterward if wanted)? What I had found (including JSON in Scryfall) doesn't do.
Evolutionary is a static ability which affects the process of casting a spell that has this ability. During the mode selection step of a spell with "Evolutionary [cost]", you can choose any combination of the following options any number of times; it is done before selecting modes. Each choice makes this spell cost an additional [cost] to cast.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one color word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one creature type word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one basic land type word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one nonbasic land type word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one color word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one creature type word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one basic land type word with another.
- Change the text of this spell by replacing all instances of one nonbasic land type word with another.
Modal spells now use bullets. Choose one —
• That's really cool!
• I don't care.
• What? That's ridiculous!
• That's really cool!
• I don't care.
• What? That's ridiculous!
What is Magic's greatest strength?
What is Magic's greatest weakness?
If you could change one thing about Magic, what would you change and why?
What is Magic's greatest weakness?
If you could change one thing about Magic, what would you change and why?
If you could make an existing keyword evergreen, what would it be and why?
Which keyword would you remove from the evergreen keywords?
What keyword was received the most poorly but has the most potential?
Which keyword would you remove from the evergreen keywords?
What keyword was received the most poorly but has the most potential?
What was your favorite set and the worst part about it?
What was your least favorite set and the best part about it?
What was your least favorite set and the best part about it?
In English there has been a push for a singular gender-neutral pronoun. If one is "officially" added to English how do you think it would alter the format of how cards are phrased? If a "new" pronoun, like xe is added, would the cards be "he, she, or xe discards..."? If they were to also become a singular gender-neutral pronoun would that just become the default "that they controls"? Alternatively pronouns could probably be avoided entirely with by just referencing a person as player "unless that player pays..."
It's up. Anyone joining?
If this doesn't fit here, I'll remove it.
been moving away from it myself, mainly because if my sets ever get played it sure won't be by newbies. might as well give myself license to ratchet up the complexity
do you guys design as if you're a WOTC employee, or do you do it for yourselves/your friends?
do you guys design as if you're a WOTC employee, or do you do it for yourselves/your friends?
Strixhaven will see "shuffle your library" to just "shuffle."
converted mana cost is reworded as mana value.
converted mana cost is reworded as mana value.
How many different ways can you lose at once?
M15 will introduce slight modifications to the card frames. However I don't suggest this site follow along because their slim borders make it very hard to discern a card's color, especially on a monitor screen. Keep the borders solid and highly contrasted from the text box.
Magic Arena is WotC's latest online interface to emulate the paper game.
So... what happened?
Snow as a theme is quite popuar despite being very parasitic, because it is evocative.
One weakness of snow-themes: Including Snow Basic Lands has no cost.
One weakness of snow-themes: Including Snow Basic Lands has no cost.
mill 1 cards (Put the top one cards of their library into their graveyard.)
MtG Salvation is being shut down. Is anyone else sad about that?
NEw FORUM GAME: Choose a playtest card from the mystery boosters and find a card on magicmultiverse that most resembles it. Lowest Card ID wins, Card IDs greater than this card's Card ID are disqualified.
In a surprising turn of events NNWO is instated in a fictional parallel universe. It is decided that all previously evergreen keyword mechanics that now only are redflagged are demoted to deciduous and need replacements that are truely simple.
Someone's trained a recurrent neural network on Magic rules text. The results are predictably amusing.
plenty of stuff
Pursuant to article Community Set / Universe > Planeswalker, whereby such a discussion regarding how walking the planes was desired in the main game. Hereby resides the unofficial meta-discourse of the possible creation of such a new card type to be introduced into the normal game.
How do you decide what creatures fill your original planes?
Magic: the Puzzling, and cards that can be used in puzzles (Rosewater's "Magic: the Puzzling" book says that cards that are hardly of any use except puzzles are called "rosewater" cards).
Rabiah Scale is how likely Maro thinks they are to return to a plane in a Standard-legal set.
In response of lackluster legendary theme in Kamigawa block, could the theme have fared better if Legends appeared in a special sheet, ala Time Spiral Timeshifted cards, Innistrad DFC cards, or Dragon's Maze lands sheet?
discussion thread for this year's state of design
Story-Based Block means the story determines which plane the block takes place.
How do you test cards%? Particularly for draft?
An excellent Orzhov fanfiction story. See comments for link.
Has anybody tried it? What do you think?
On the interaction of monstrous cards and high-costed removal
Choose one or more —
• Color indocators are now symbolic.
• Phyrexian mana now looks like hybrid mana.
• Devoid is now a batch word.
• Color indocators are now symbolic.
• Phyrexian mana now looks like hybrid mana.
• Devoid is now a batch word.
Comments appreciated.
The march update for EDH now allows a player to return their commander to the command zone if their commander would be sent to their hand or shuffled into their library.
Discuss the upcoming set release.
You may discuss the change from silver border to black border.
You may discuss the change from silver border to black border.
Fandom cards/sets are valid, just not standard-legal.
Not really a conversation point per se, but someone requested an update to the creature ratios for each color for a design skeleton. May be of interest.
Share some of your cards that showcase your unique style as a designer.
New set, let's talk about the new mechanics and themes, like modal dfcs and party.
Lots of syntax changes, new card qualities, new keyword variants and more. See comments for details.
OP post will explain all...
For example,
"You may pay
to draw a card"
instead of
"You may pay, if you do, draw a card"
"You may pay
to draw a card"
instead of
"You may pay
, if you do, draw a card"
i made a new card in my dump but it doesnt show up on the recent updates
Some cardsets are explicitly community-designed.
All public cardsets are implicitly inviting comment.
But sometimes we want to explicitly ask for help from the community for personal cardsets. How do we do that?
All public cardsets are implicitly inviting comment.
But sometimes we want to explicitly ask for help from the community for personal cardsets. How do we do that?
Leave a comment with links to individual cards or card sets you'd like feedback to let others know.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Zoe, Delightful Child.
1/1
At the beginning of each upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control and lose 1 life. Then if a player cast two or more spells last turn, transform Zoe, Ravenous Monster.
5/5
Wizards has taught us new words before:
- "remove from the game" became "exile"
- "creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield" became "creature dies"
What other new vocabulary/templating are you interested in?
- "remove from the game" became "exile"
- "creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield" became "creature dies"
What other new vocabulary/templating are you interested in?
DrugsForRobots likes LCGs and so do I, so how about a Magic the Gathering format that does away with randomized boosters?
In MaRo's podcast this week, he talks about the technology Wizards uses.
You may cast "Lightning" spells from your graveyard until end of turn. ("Lightning" spells means any spell with Lightning in its name.)
What are your thoughts on Dragons of Tarkir? Do you have some favorite cards? How about cards that your really dislike? How do you think Wizards handled their Dragon theme? What do you think of the clan mechanics? Feel free to ask your own questions as well.
What are red forms of defense?
Mark Rosewater lays out all the abilities in all the colours (as of June 2017 design-time).
Differences in color pie between 2017 and 2021.
What do you think about the return of Slivers for the core set?
Is there something to be done with a concept were creatures (and possibly planeswalker) are all monocolored (or gold monocolor), but all other spells (minus artifact) are multicolored? What about the other way around?
There is badly a need for some sort of common keyword in UR. This is for discussing this issue.
Choose up to nine —
• The Glorious Façade
• Mirrex
• Furnace Layer
• Hunter's Maze
• Surgical Bays
• Dross Pits
• Fair Basilica
• Mycosynth Gardens
• Seedcore
• The Glorious Façade
• Mirrex
• Furnace Layer
• Hunter's Maze
• Surgical Bays
• Dross Pits
• Fair Basilica
• Mycosynth Gardens
• Seedcore
WotC is remaking legendary creatures from Legends.
One of them will be a planeswalker. (They don't tell yet, but feel free to take a guess...)
One of them will be a planeswalker. (They don't tell yet, but feel free to take a guess...)
“I’ve heard much about you from my daughter,” Multani rumbled. “There was a timew hen I’d balk at your aid, phantom, but she has shown me the merit in Urborg’s strange ways.”
“Gnshhagghkkapphribbit,” replied Yargle.
“Gnshhagghkkapphribbit,” replied Yargle.
Range (This creature may attack with another creature as a band. This creature is assigned combat damage after non-range creatures.)
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When is it appropriate to give a land a basic land type?
Discuss criteria and candidates for good duals that go into the core sets.
So MagicMultiverse is an amazing tool for custom MtG cardset creators, but it has the potential to be the Web's premier custom card-game mockup tool (phrasing?)
I want a term that describes playing a card, but not casting it.
It obviously should make sense with lands, but preferable would be versatile enough to use with hypothetical custom card types that aren't using the stack either.
It obviously should make sense with lands, but preferable would be versatile enough to use with hypothetical custom card types that aren't using the stack either.
Here's a list of all known mana symbols in the system.
Regarding the idea of Instants being a subtype of Sorcery rather than a Supertype unto itself (or worse, in combination with another, i.e. Instant Creature, yuck!)
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