![]() ![]() These also can lessen the blow for newer players too. In top-tier Constructed, it never feels good to have to include a non-upside enters-the-battlefield-tapped land in your deck. It raises the minimum bar of power level for mana bases in Standard. Swapping the set of dual lands available accomplishes a few goals for us. M20 includes the "gain land" cycle originally debuted in Khans of Tarkir, as well as Evolving Wilds, at the same drop rate as M19. This is also true for M20, but we've changed which cycle of tapped lands and added another land. In Core Set 2019, there was a chance to get a tapped dual land in the basic land slot. Magic should be about making interesting decisions, but we felt like it was too nuanced earlier in the draft. We can make Booster Draft more inviting by making a few more cards easier to identify as powerful. Opening a booster pack and having to decide which card to put in your deck is hard for new players. ![]() If we lower the power gap between the rare slot and the other rarities, opening packs becomes more exciting.īooster Draft is a fun way to enjoy Magic and is more fun the more meaningful choices you have. We like strong removal like Murder at common, and Cloudkin Seer is a fun and strong creature that doesn't take over the game singlehandedly. We like to power up cards that we identify as fun and interactive. ![]() These cards are exiting in part because of their strength relative to their commonality. Here are two common cards from Core Set 2020 that came directly from F.I.R.E.īoth Cloudkin Seer and Murder are generally stronger than most common cards we have given you in the past. Our goal had never been to not design cool commons, but we stopped constraining ourselves as much. Starting with War of the Spark, we pushed to make more commons exciting. One of the major shifts that came out of our F.I.R.E. We want to design and cost cards so that they can inspire cool new decks and archetypes for players to build and own. We try to get a wide variety of decks and strategies to about the right power level.Į Is for Exciting – Players should be excited to read cards and play with them. R Is for Replayable – The key aspects of replayablility are balance and diversity. It also means that a wide variety of strategies should be viable in all types of play. From Play Design's perspective, this means that formats should be accessible to newer or less enfranchised players by having resonant cards and comprehensible gameplay. I Is for Inviting – Our game should be accessible to many people. We strive to make cards that are fun for a wide variety of audiences. As game designers, interpreting different definitions of fun is part of the job. ![]() For Play Design, fun is about interesting decisions, diverse gameplay experiences, and each game being unique. Here is what it means to me, as a play designer.į Is for Fun – Above all else, our game should be fun to play. It translates differently for the Initial Design, Play Design, and Creative teams. "Fire" is an acronym that holds the tenants of our new philosophy. This led to the refinement of our core goals of R&D, and the generation of F.I.R.E. F.I.R.E.-ing it upĪs Dave Humphreys discussed in his War of the Spark Set Design article, Aaron Forsythe delivered an impassioned speech to the R&D squad about things we should work further on to generate excitement with our cards. I'm going to talk about the new set, show off some new cards, and discuss some of Play Design's new philosophies with Standard and Limited moving forward. Welcome to the first week of Core Set 2020 preview season. ![]()
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