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[-7]: You get an emblem with "If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but one damage."

Zorak posted:

mcmagic posted:

I think this Ajani might be better than Mentor of Heroes.

Attorney at Funk posted:

I like the fact that he's only got one colored mana symbol.

BJPaskoff posted:

I like the Game Designer cards. I don't think any of them are super amazing, but the idea that they reference the designer's game (or whatever they're known for) is rad. I'm a bit disappointed in Edmund McMillen's card though, I was hoping it'd more obviously reference The Binding of Isaac or Meat Boy. Does anyone know what it does reference?

Attorney at Funk posted:

I like the fact that he's only got one colored mana symbol.

BJPaskoff posted:

I like the Game Designer cards. I don't think any of them are super amazing, but the idea that they reference the designer's game (or whatever they're known for) is rad. I'm a bit disappointed in Edmund McMillen's card though, I was hoping it'd more obviously reference The Binding of Isaac or Meat Boy. Does anyone know what it does reference?

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I GOT TO HELP DESIGN A MAGIC CARD!

i honestly never thought id type those words. It has been a dream of mine for a very long time, see magic the gathering was probably one of the most important games in my life.. especially when it comes to game design.

I got into MTG when i was 13 (94ish), my best friend AJ told me that i needed to see this card game that was like DnD, where you could summon demons and dragons to fight along side you. i watched these kids playing at the local boys club and when i saw Keldon Warlord hit the table i was floored… “he gets bigger the more creatures you have in play” AJ said. i was already thinking of amazing deck ideas based on the card that play a lot of little creatures so the warlord came out mega huge!… i was sold, i went to a comic shop and picked up a starter deck of revised (because unlimited starters were 4 bucks more!) and my love affair with magic was born.

2 years ago i was lucky enough to be one of quite a few other game devs to be asked to help design a card for the next core set, M15. i had a hobby of designing magic cards, myself and a few other game dev friends of mine actually designed a whole fake set of cards just for the hell of it one month.. so when i was asked to submit a few card ideas i went through my notes and sent in a cycle of cards i called “the children”.

the cycle was a series of 1 drop creatures in each color that were designed to be rare, think 1 drop titans.

i cant find my notes for all 5, but the 3 i submitted to wizards were these.

Blue Child-

U

t: untap target land you control, you may only do this when its not your turn

0/2

Green Child-

G

Flash, when this creature takes damage put a +1+1 counter on it

0/3

Black Child-

B

T: pay 1 life put a +1+1 counter on this

T: remove X counters from this to do X damage to target creature or player

1/1

I really liked the Blue Child a lot, but it wasnt an ability wizards wanted to print in a core set and leaned more towards the Green and Black cards. in the end i decided to focus on the black 1 drop because i felt it was a lot more interesting.

the cards name became Cruel Sadist, a psychotic child that feeds off the player to grow stronger then unleashes it on creatures or players, i had pushed the idea of the card being a succubus or vampire type creature that would drink your blood and spit it at stuff, but wizards liked the idea of a crazed child assassin a lot more.

the card was designed to be kind of like a
Guul Draz Assassin that could possibly protect itself a bit earlier and had more options late game. i really like reactionary decks, i could see myself playing it in a blue black control deck that waited till the eot with a counter spell, but if nothing was played then i put a counter on my guy to raise the threat. it could also be a great anti green card, killing off any early game mana elves and the like.

i like cards that give me a lot of options, killing creatures, growing larger, damaging players or just being an agro 1 drop were all options so this was the card i wanted to push through.

sadly my design was a but too OP and needed to be taken down a few pegs. the design team played around with the card, adding a black mana to each of its abilities and even moving it down to an uncommon to see how it played there. There was a great deal of back and forth on the card but in the end this was the final design for Cruel Sadist.



Remind you of anyone?

Not exactly the micro titan i had planned, but im sure she will find a home somewhere.

it was great working with the team, i learned a lot about the design process and how much testing actually goes into these sets.. i now understand why they make them 2 years in advance. its such a huge honor to have been a part in one of the best design games of all time and look forward to drafting the hell out of this set.

xoxo

-Edmund

mcmagic posted:

I think this Ajani might be better than Mentor of Heroes.

Rogue 7 posted:

I think the problem with this Ajani is the same as others- without support, he does nothing. Mentor of Heroes would dig for gas if you played him on an empty board, and boost his loyalty while doing so. I like his "put a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control", though, I think that's a really cool area of design they haven't explored yet.

Rogue 7 posted:

I think the problem with this Ajani is the same as others- without support, he does nothing. Mentor of Heroes would dig for gas if you played him on an empty board, and boost his loyalty while doing so. I like his "put a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control", though, I think that's a really cool area of design they haven't explored yet.

Cernunnos posted:

It's just more fuel for the Superfriends Fire. I want to see a Standard Superfriends deck by the time Khans cycles in.

Cernunnos posted:

I'm loving that new Nissa.

Both pluses are pretty good on their own and Ult dumping a decks worth of Basic Lands onto the field that are also 4/4s for the rest of the game seems pretty crazy.

Zorak posted:

Edmund McMillen already has talked about his card and the process actually:

Mortimer posted:

Its too bad it looks really bad

Zorak posted:

Edmund McMillen already has talked about his card and the process actually:

Bugsy posted:

Someone one on salvation said it was pretty similar to Issac's mom, but idk.

Spectral Werewolf posted:

Yeah, I thought she was a little boring at first until I reread that her +1 was permanent. Darksteel citadel pairs nicely with that one.

I'm liking most of the outside designer cards, but is aggressive mining at all useful? Seems like it would hurt to much to play it early and mid/late game there's better cards to draw that won't hamper your ability to cast them. I guess it would work decently in a slower limited environment.

Mortimer posted:

Its too bad it looks really bad

mcmagic posted:

Even if it didn't cost a life every time you put a counter on it would still be unplayable.

Bugsy posted:

2BBB and 1 life to deal one damage to a creature is pretty bad. I mean Autonomaton grows easier.

BJPaskoff posted:

I read that, but the "Remind you of anyone?" line makes me think it's a reference to one of his games, but I'm drawing a blank.

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Judging by the sliver hive art, it seems that the m14 redesign has been discarded. Can you confirm or deny it?

Based on player feedback, we generally pulled back from the M14 look and aimed the M15 slivers less humanoid and more bestial. But there’s individual variation. Some look entirely retro, as on M15’s Sliver Hive. Some are more humanoid, using the ”rearrangeable plates” concept from M14’s design. Some split the difference, lying somewhere between the M14 look and the old look, carving out some new space. You’ll see what I’m talking about when more of M15 has been previewed. But overall M15 represents a visual shift away from the look of M14’s slivers.

zorak posted:

Bugsy posted:

This is the first time in a looong time dwarves have been even referenced in mtg right?

Zorak posted:

LSV's preview card for tomorrow is apparently a Planeswalker, and supposedly super sick.

Minority Deport posted:

I'm pretty sure it's meant to be Eve from Binding of Isaac. She hurts herself to get stronger, then murders someone, paralleling Eve's get-hurt-to-actually-do-any-damage playstyle. Edmund also said she's his favorite character, so it makes sense that he'd try and reference her.

Also, we seem to have overlooked the most important thing: sliver art isn't just the goddamn Predator this time!

vOv posted:

Haha, what?

vOv posted:

Haha, what?