New Posts For Thread: 7/19/2010 MM: "The Multiplay's The Thing"http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_ThingThis thread is for discussion of this week's Making Magic, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.Cabal Coffers is fun and balanced, not weak. It's can be fun in peasant. The first purpose of cards is to play well and create fun environments. Creativity and uniqueness come later. Also, some things just should be in all colors. Otherwise you couldhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_Thing?post_id=458772509#458772509Cabal Coffers is fun and balanced, not weak. It's can be fun in peasant. The first purpose of cards is to play well and create fun environments. Creativity and uniqueness come later. Also, some things just should be in all colors. Otherwise you couldSat, 24 Jul 2010 17:22:18 -0500Design should take care about development as well. And as a chief designer, Mark should have made the cards quite balanced. If there is a naturalize for cmc2, he could have made a cmc1 version with a more realistic drawback... of should have chosen ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_Thing?post_id=458739961#458739961Design should take care about development as well. And as a chief designer, Mark should have made the cards quite balanced. If there is a naturalize for cmc2, he could have made a cmc1 version with a more realistic drawback... of should have chosen aSat, 24 Jul 2010 13:27:22 -0500@ fractal Interesting post.The legendary lands from the urza block were weird and two effects have doomed them. Artifacts can have casting cost of [mc]0[/mc] and there are [c=Mind over Matter]cards that can untap lands[/c]. Personally, I missed the ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_Thing?post_id=458738937#458738937@ fractal Interesting post.The legendary lands from the urza block were weird and two effects have doomed them. Artifacts can have casting cost of [mc]0[/mc] and there are [c=Mind over Matter]cards that can untap lands[/c]. Personally, I missed the aSat, 24 Jul 2010 13:19:37 -0500You're mostly talking about development stuff, not design stuff. Design isn't concerned about mana costs or whether Naturalize is better or whether Soothing Balm isn't playable. Card #1 is tweaked enough for 2HG, the fixed Congregate doesn't work onhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_Thing?post_id=458695417#458695417You're mostly talking about development stuff, not design stuff. Design isn't concerned about mana costs or whether Naturalize is better or whether Soothing Balm isn't playable. Card #1 is tweaked enough for 2HG, the fixed Congregate doesn't work onSat, 24 Jul 2010 07:22:42 -0500[c]Swerve[/c] would certainly have been more effective against [c]Cruel Ultimatum[/c] in Shards block limited that way.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/25391281/7192010_MM:_The_Multiplays_The_Thing?post_id=458627197#458627197[c]Swerve[/c] would certainly have been more effective against [c]Cruel Ultimatum[/c] in Shards block limited that way.Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:08:46 -0500