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Gavin Verhey (Principal Magic Designer at WotC): "You get to pick one Magic keyword mechanic to return in 2024. What is it?" (twitter.com)

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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?!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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)