![]() ![]() Some cards got other races, like Dryad ( Dawnstrider), Dauthi ( Dauthi Marauder), Soltari ( Soltari Crusader), Thalakos ( Thalakos Sentry), Kor ( Silkenfist Fighter), Merfolk ( Ceta Disciple), and so on.ģ) Creatures that lacked an obvious class got a class. In fact, more than half of the cards involved in this update got "Human" added to them. The vast majority of these are creatures that should be Human but were printed before Mirrodin. But some didn't.Ģ) Creatures that lacked races got a race. Many cards that can turn into creatures, from Mishra's Factory to Opal Titan, listed the creature types they turn into. But we didn't have an "every creature has a creature type" policy, so lots of artifact creatures were subtypeless. ![]() Some artifact creatures had types like Golem, Gnome, or Chimera. (Some, like Sliver Queen, had creature types in their text box others, like Rorix Bladewing, had extra types on their type lines.) Most legendary creatures were printed as "Summon Legend" or "Creature - Legend," and had no further creature types. Prior to the Mirrodin set, Legend was a creature type. There are three types of cards that lacked creature types: There are four main categories of changes.ġ) Creatures without creature types got some creature types. So now is the best time to seriously streamline that list. Those creature types matter! Updating the master creature type list that lives in the Comp Rules is especially important because all the Lorwyn creatures with changeling have all those types. The creature type update is synched to the Lorwyn release because Lorwyn is a tribal set. ![]() Once that's the case, then it's in everyone's best interests to make the creature types as sensible as possible. If you're holding an Ice Age card, do you know whether it's been reprinted in Ninth Edition? Tenth Edition? Masters Edition? A Coldsnap theme deck? You've got to look it up if you really need to know. Decisions made while looking at a tiny subset aren't necessarily the right decisions in the long run, so why not make the long-run decisions now?Ģ) Our hope that players would be able to avoid Oracle when they want to know what creature types their cards are was already torpedoed. Masters Edition is another set of online-only reprints, but that was a compilation, not a standard set.Īs time went on, two things became clear to us:ġ) It would be easier to look at the big picture and update everything than it would be to continually update small slices of the pie. ![]() Two expert-level sets ( Mirage and Visions) have been digitally reprinted for Magic Online. A bunch of Ice Age and Alliances cards popped up in Coldsnap theme decks. There are reprints that show up in expert-level sets (like Elves of Deep Shadow or Verdeloth the Ancient). So our policy was that we'd update creature types when we reprinted cards.īut we reprint cards in all sorts of weird ways. When Samite Healer showed up in Ninth Edition, was it supposed to remain a Cleric rather than a Human Cleric? No, of course not-the only way for it to make sense in Ninth Edition and in Standard was to make it a Human. We soon realized that policy would be impossible to support because we reprint cards. Then you'd have to check Oracle to know what creature types your card is, and we felt that was best avoided. At first, we had no plans to update cards from the past. Back in the Mirrodin set, we implemented the "race class" model for Magic creatures, and we made Human a creature type. Rather than continuing to live with inconsistencies for the foreseeable future, we're going all out and updating everything in one fell swoop. Thetime has come! Over the past few years, we've been updating Magic cards to modern creature type standards in dribs and drabs. ![]()
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