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That's not actually errata, though? That's just the actual rules text for Prowl. The reason it looks weird is that, unlike most cards with Prowl, it can't make any assumptions about what creature types your Prowl-er is. Latchkey Faerie Enigma Thief Auntie's Snitch

Nooks and Crannies - {G} Enchantment If a creature you control would explore, instead scry 1 then that creature explores. When Nooks and Crannies enters the battlefield, target creature explores. When a land enters the battlefield under your control, transform Nooks and Crannies if you control...

Yes, but how likely is it that there's a bunch of Doctor Who fans who aren't already interested in Magic that also happen to be friends with enough people who play Magic that buying a Magic deck is worth their time? Like, I wouldn't doubt that that has happened, but it's far more likely that the...

I question that logic, though. Or, at least, I think it's making a bunch of unwarranted assumptions about conversion rates and the demographic buying these products. To put it differently: imagine that Mattel made a deal with Hasbro and put out a line of Barbies where she was cosplaying various...

Amalia Benavides Aguirre - {W}{B} Legendary Creature - Vampire Scout Ward — Pay 3 life Whenever you gain life, ~ explores. Then, destroy each other creature if its power is exactly 20. 2/2 --- T2 This thing, T3 Wildgrowth Walker + Tamiyo's Safekeeping, swing in for an arbitrarily large amount...

Funnily enough, one of the cards I'm currently the most interested in is I've been fiddling with a Mardu Vampires vs. Humans cube (with some sneaky class tribal stuff in there as well), and I like having three-drop black lords/signposts for the various themes (the other two I'm currently...

Better make two proxies unless you want to play favorites!

OK, so story-wise he's apparently just a really old spirit who doesn't remember his name... but I think it's funnier if you take the name literally and he's just some random grandpa that's legendary for some reason. :p

It's also important to realize that blacksmithy's cube design principles include stuff like "I think Vintage doesn't have good mana" and "if it costs more than two mana it should win you the game" (paraphrased, of course). Any advice he gives should be considered in the context that his idea of...

Am I the only person who has a real hard time telling the Common and Uncommon rarity symbols apart for this set? As much as I'm mostly iffy about DFCs... I kinda like the idea of Crafting. I can definitely see this seeing play, especially since Map tokens are a thing. OK, I kinda love this...

Have we hit the point where we're getting as much UB product as non-UB stuff yet? Or are we still a year or two out?

Honestly, I think avoiding GRBS is more important than a card being "exciting". Like, as a player? Yeah, sure, cool exciting cards are cool. But as a format designer your priority is to have cool exciting play patterns, and cards are just your way of implementing that.

How dead would you have been if Devil's Play had been one card up in the deck?

I think it's pretty crammed... but not for, like, people who play the game casually? Like, if you just play Commander or update your cube occasionally or whatever, the amount of product is a plus (because hey, more cards to mess around with!) It's far more crammed for, say, Legacy players...

The other possibility for the 2009 mechanic would be... Traps? He sure did pick a year without a lot of new mechanics, huh...

On one hand, I like rad counters, am cautiously intrigued by the fact that we're revisiting Energy, and some of the designs (Nuka-Cola Vending Machine is honestly pretty neat). On the other hand, I don't like Junk mechanically, don't care for Fallout aesthetically (I'm not a fan of post-apoc...

It's not that the vanilla creatures are special, mind you — they're not special by definition! My thought was closer to the stereotype of Pauper where you have crazy enablers that you use to play absolutely garbage creatures. So you're slamming down moxen and setting up elaborate engines and...

Eh, the real powerhouse cards tend to be brutally simple. ... I think that the nuance that gets lost when people go "wall of text good or bad?" is that not all walls of text are created equal. Sure, Gollum, Scheming Guide has 62 words and Questing Beast has 48, but Gollum only has one ability...

You know for a fact that they'd fuck it up, just like Netflix did. (And probably for the same exact reasons...) Wrong kind of cowboys. :p If you don't have a thing against anime, I highly suggest sitting down and giving the original series a watch. It's a classic for a reason.

Honestly, the funniest thing that I've gotten out of the NEW BOOSTER thing is that you could probably make a pretty reasonable cube where all of the creatures are just draft-chaff vanilla creatures. Oh, sure, a lot of us have been seduced by the modern approach to creatures (where they have to...