Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:28 pm
So I've got color pie and color philosophy bones to pick with some of the design a in the past two days:
* The Mardu partner pair's colors and names are really off. The champion of freedom is *white* and the devourer of the free is *red/black*. Freedom is a no brainier red ideal. The champion of the freedom being white, the color maybe least concerned with personal free, feels like they don't know what the colors even are. Rakdos is perhaps the least restrained color, if you wanted something that devoured the free or freedom it would be white black or white blue; also a no brainier. If you've been designing cards for any amount of time and know magic color ideology 101 how is this a mistake you make?
* The snake leviathan legend is RUG. Snakes are GU almost all the time, that's fine. But there are barely any red snakes, most of the black snake like creatures are naga, but there are more snakes with black than red IIRC. Add leviathan, which are basically all blue with black the main secondary color. Where is red in this picture? This legend should be BUG. It's not even a hard choice.
* Same deal for the Hydra and X spells legend, but it's an even worse ball drop. It's BUG. Hydras are GR. They *always have been*. When there's a third color in their identity it's generally black. It's also a nightmare, which should just reinforce black as the third color. Nightmares are sometimes red and sometimes blue, but paired with Hydra and targeted at Hydra and x spells theme its again, a no brainier that it should be GRB. It being non red cuts a large swath of the cards that should go in a Hydra and x spells deck out of the card pool.
It just bothers/worries me that really obvious screw ups of color ideology and tribal colors. They're supposed to have multiple layers of people reviewing card design to make sure things like that are getting caught and fixed. Those sort of things just make it look like they are all asleep at the wheel.
* The Mardu partner pair's colors and names are really off. The champion of freedom is *white* and the devourer of the free is *red/black*. Freedom is a no brainier red ideal. The champion of the freedom being white, the color maybe least concerned with personal free, feels like they don't know what the colors even are. Rakdos is perhaps the least restrained color, if you wanted something that devoured the free or freedom it would be white black or white blue; also a no brainier. If you've been designing cards for any amount of time and know magic color ideology 101 how is this a mistake you make?
* The snake leviathan legend is RUG. Snakes are GU almost all the time, that's fine. But there are barely any red snakes, most of the black snake like creatures are naga, but there are more snakes with black than red IIRC. Add leviathan, which are basically all blue with black the main secondary color. Where is red in this picture? This legend should be BUG. It's not even a hard choice.
* Same deal for the Hydra and X spells legend, but it's an even worse ball drop. It's BUG. Hydras are GR. They *always have been*. When there's a third color in their identity it's generally black. It's also a nightmare, which should just reinforce black as the third color. Nightmares are sometimes red and sometimes blue, but paired with Hydra and targeted at Hydra and x spells theme its again, a no brainier that it should be GRB. It being non red cuts a large swath of the cards that should go in a Hydra and x spells deck out of the card pool.
It just bothers/worries me that really obvious screw ups of color ideology and tribal colors. They're supposed to have multiple layers of people reviewing card design to make sure things like that are getting caught and fixed. Those sort of things just make it look like they are all asleep at the wheel.