However, that is not the case. For over 20 years, Magic: The Gathering has been expanding to more and more mediums, from books to comics to other tabletop games to video games.However, some types of expansion also have hang ups. Red gets to untap creatures only in a very specific case: getting additional attacks from them, as on Relentless Assault and Threaten. --Rick Desbo, OK, A: From Randy Buehler, Director of Magic R&D: Case in point: Godzilla, King of the Monsters. I imagine most players have some kind of outside IP they'd love to see in the game in some capacity, be it silver bordered or an alternate skin, maybe even something mechanically unique like this. Is it fair that players who live near Georgia have stronger decks than those who do not? Noble Purpose is a larger-scale version of Spirit Link, and it seemed that it should be more rare. The rules committee for Commander made the right choice. "Another misprint was a series of foil Friday Night Magic promotional cards that were added to Japanese Urza's Legacy and Urza's Destiny sheets as test runs to see if the print process was working right. Lance Armstrong hasn't won the Tour de France all those years simply because he's an amazing athlete. Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose. I am going to be unpopular perhaps, but that's something I'm used to since I played Magic: the Gathering in the '90s. Numerous people who were there for that convention also popped over next door to see what all the hubbub was about and got their first introduction into Magic. So if you’re concerned about the future of magic (like I am) with these unique black bordered … i don't really think so. "Somewhere out there is a list of cards that Wizards has agreed not to reproduce. All Rights Reserved. We should not be trying to homogenize Commander decks into finely tuned archetypes. A: From Devin Low, Research & Development: It is not a bad thing for a collectible game to have rare items. And, unlike the Godzilla cards that appeared in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, these are not existing Magic cards with a TWD skin on them. In the summer of '94, Wizards realized one printing of Revised had severe mistakes, with the art almost too dark to see on many cards. The reason was this one line of text: "These are mechanically unique cards that will be legal in Eternal formats.". No dragon is at position (0,0). ", Q: "Why don't you do promo cards any more like Nalathni Dragon or Arena that aren't part of an expansion but are only available through some special means?" It makes the game feel less like a game and more like a cash grab whenever decisions like the The Walking Dead Secret Lair, such as the controversial Collectors Boosters, the VIP edition of the much unnecessary Double Masters set that came out earlier this year, and the extreme power ramp and insulting number of broken cards that players have been experiencing over the past handful of sets. Many collectibles do promotional items sold only at specific events. Just please, try to be as constructive as possible. Search for any kind of major fandom and you're bound to find a plethora of custom cards. However, the way it is being done currently is just fine as well. The issue was that it was only given out exclusively to attendees of Dragon Con and had a limited print run of roughly 10,000. (That is cards that has a mechanic or combination of mechanics not found anywhere else.) All of this just makes for a messy and problematic product. Wizards of the Coast will have released not just one functionally unique promotional cards, but three (plus tokens). That's how we make the realest and best changes that we want to see, after all. The problem is that Magic is a game and each card has a functional place in that game. There're some concerns over diluting the actual Magic IP and universe if we have too many outside IPs coming into the game. I'm no licensing expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd have to imagine there could still be issues based on that fact and the original card name alone. nalathni dragon was not free. This is why when a mythic rare is desirable in every format in Magic, the price of that card tends to skyrocket. A diverse community of players devoted to Magic: the Gathering, a trading card game ("TCG") produced by Wizards of the Coast and originally designed by Richard Garfield. Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/magicTCG.