Gavin Verhey, one of the lead designers at Wizards, posted an interesting question on Twitter:
“You get to pick one Magic keyword mechanic to return in 2024. What is it?”
What are we bringing back?!
Gavin Verhey, one of the lead designers at Wizards, posted an interesting question on Twitter:
“You get to pick one Magic keyword mechanic to return in 2024. What is it?”
What are we bringing back?!
My crazy long shot that’s never coming back as is, sadly: Dredge. I think it’s such a fun and unique mechanic, and cards like Life from the Loam are excellent examples of how it can be done well.
More realistically: I’d love to see Buyback again, an old one I loved from Exodus. Capsize every turn!
Dredge is really hard to do well though, in that it makes a card playable no matter what else is written on it, and making a card too playable, then adding dredge onto it can easily make it broken enough to pick up bans in eternal formats. It’s such a small design space, but I’d also love to see a few cards try to thread that needle.
Buyback is fun, Clockspinning in particular stands out as a fun card to play, even if it’s not amazing. Expanding it to creatures would be a fun twist to see it come back with.
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Yeah probably so difficult that even in the 0% chance it does come back the cards would be so neutered that what’s point.
A low dredge value helps though and even a few that are quirky would be cool. Like a recurring ETB effect on a cheap artifact with dredge 2 that’s heavy on the lore. Something!
We did get a dredge card fairly recently in [[Shenanigans]], the key here was a niche (but okay priced) effect + a low dredge number. Brings it more in line with the original “fair” use of dredge (re buying useful cards)
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