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Golgari Death Swarm
Creature — Bat Fungus Horror
Flying, vigilance
Test Card - Not for constructed play.
(To figure out the best method of playing with the playtest cards with the present rules set, please take a look at the release notes for that card, here.)
legendofa on My cognitive dissonance around multicolor …
1 year ago
Daveslab2022 I mentioned Golgari Death Swarm because it was created as a deliberate reference to the Great Designer Search question. And, being a fake card, it's less legitimate than the real card Warrant / Warden, which the GDS presented as being a worse creative choice. So, we're left with the confusing position of a card that was described as an objectively better creative choice being less legitimate than one described as an objectively worse choice.
Is there a good way to ask the designers directly? I know Mark Rosewater is willing to answer questions on his blog, but I don't have a Tumblr account and I'm not interested in creating one.
Again, I'm not trying to be confrontational, or angry. I'm just very curious why the designers are making certain choices, and don't know the best way to get answers.
Daveslab2022 on My cognitive dissonance around multicolor …
1 year ago
No, because every single one those cards fit into the archetype of that guild.
You’re asking a lot of card design questions that nobody here can actually answer. We don’t design the game. All we can offer is our very very limited opinion. Unless somebody who has worked in the R&D Department at WOTC can weigh in on this thread, nobody can provide a valid answer. Because nobody knows what WOTC has or hasn’t tried, or what their reasoning is for certain things.
You also mentioned Golgari Death Swarm, which is a card that’s legal in exactly 0 formats. It’s technically not even a real card.
legendofa on My cognitive dissonance around multicolor …
1 year ago
wallisface Green is super-anti-flying, but cards with flying and a green ability keep being printed. Why is red first strike + green deathtouch a bend? As far as deathstrike goes, first strike is tertiary in black and a non-ability in green, and this only appears on Glissa, the Traitor and Glissa Sunslayer.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2021
Daveslab2022 Would you consider cards like Recoil, Lightning Helix, the guild charms like Selesnya Charm, or Putrefy bad design, boring, or unintuitive? I understand that + =/= . I'm wondering why that's the case.
I completely understand that there's an active effort to prevent color pairs from feeling too samey, and in interest of completion, I feel obligated to say that Voracious Cobra exists. But I still have some questions.
Is there an absolute prohibition on red-green deathstrike? If so, what distinguishes red-green deathstrike from black-green flying/vigilance?
Is there simply too much overlap between 's dedicated removal and deathstrike?
With Ambush Viper, Ice-Fang Coatl, Winged Coatl, and Fleetfeather Cockatrice, is instant-speed creature spot removal more acceptable in than in ?
What makes Golgari Death Swarm a better creative choice than Warrant / Warden, and why did that get printed if it's an inferior choice?
Is there any potential for a card like Warp World or The Great Aurora to be made in ? Why or why not?
legendofa on How is Camaraderie a Bend?
1 year ago
Mark Rosewater also considers Smothering Tithe a bad break, and I agree with him on this one.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/667294450431705088/it-can-with-the-following-restriction-white (outside links not enabled, apologies)
Yeah, the blue examples I used earlier are old, but they very clearly demonstrate what happens when flavor takes precedence. And while there might not have been any breaks quite that bad for a long time, breaks still happen with some regularity.
So while they might try to avoid letting flavor dictate mechanics, it still happens.
vigilant fliers ever made: zero (maybe Golgari Death Swarm, but that's a meme card referring to this incident). vigilant fliers (with no other abilities) before Grand Designer Search 3: Tempest Drake. vigilant fliers (with no other abilities) since GDS3: Warrant / Warden. I'm not trying to hijack the thread with this note, just demonstrate how the color pie and it's intended use is frequently up for interpretation, and even the official color pie manager doesn't always seems to get it right.
