I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
- They used a Planar Chaos border since it's in the past, before he gets Compleated (minor but possible)
- Starting in Dominaria, they are changing the Legendary rules to be a special symbol with no rules baggage and a new "Unique" keyword. They aren't quite ready to drop that bomb on us, possibly because "Legendary Matters" is a major mechanical theme of Dominaria.
- Regenerate is returning but being functionally changed; this is spelled out on the card and they aren't ready to reveal that yet.
- Because he's such a popular commander, it's a full art card or has some other special treatment (if this is the case it makes me extra sad to not see a legendary on the front of the Artificers deck but what can you do?)
I think "two" is most likely, as I think they'd likely be proud to show off any special border/foiling treatment and overhauling a currently defunct keyword in a supplemental non-booster product is way outside their norm.
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- They used a Planar Chaos border since it's in the past, before he gets Compleated (minor but possible)
- Starting in Dominaria, they are changing the Legendary rules to be a special symbol with no rules baggage and a new "Unique" keyword. They aren't quite ready to drop that bomb on us, possibly because "Legendary Matters" is a major mechanical theme of Dominaria.
- Regenerate is returning but being functionally changed; this is spelled out on the card and they aren't ready to reveal that yet.
- Because he's such a popular commander, it's a full art card or has some other special treatment (if this is the case it makes me extra sad to not see a legendary on the front of the Artificers deck but what can you do?)
I think "two" is most likely, as I think they'd likely be proud to show off any special border/foiling treatment and overhauling a currently defunct keyword in a supplemental non-booster product is way outside their norm.
Where did they say that Dominaria was going to do that? Can you cite the article?
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I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
That's not "rewording", that would be a functional change, and they don't do that just because they change their minds about a mechanic. Oblivion Ring wasn't updated with the new template, they just printed Banishing Light instead.
- They used a Planar Chaos border since it's in the past, before he gets Compleated (minor but possible)
- Starting in Dominaria, they are changing the Legendary rules to be a special symbol with no rules baggage and a new "Unique" keyword. They aren't quite ready to drop that bomb on us, possibly because "Legendary Matters" is a major mechanical theme of Dominaria.
- Regenerate is returning but being functionally changed; this is spelled out on the card and they aren't ready to reveal that yet.
- Because he's such a popular commander, it's a full art card or has some other special treatment (if this is the case it makes me extra sad to not see a legendary on the front of the Artificers deck but what can you do?)
I think "two" is most likely, as I think they'd likely be proud to show off any special border/foiling treatment and overhauling a currently defunct keyword in a supplemental non-booster product is way outside their norm.
Where did they say that Dominaria was going to do that? Can you cite the article?
Sorry, this is me rampantly speculating; no one has SAID anything. MaRo has repeatedly said on his blog that he hates that legendary has rules baggage and it's a constant design struggle on every single set. Even for unsets - lots of Commander players wish Earl of Squirrel was legendary, but casual Squirrel players would hate if it was since they couldn't run multiples or clone it. When people ask what he'd change about Magic if he ruled with an iron fist, "Legendary has no rules baggage and is denoted by a special symbol" ranks just behind "Instant is a supertype, not a type" and way ahead of "Creature-Dog".
Having legendary be a special symbol would allow them to make more things Legendary for commander, without it impacting gameplay. They could then errata all legends printed before Dominaria to have a "unique" keyword, and selectively choose going forward if a legend needs to be "unique" (like most planeswalkers, or Thalia, Guardian of Thraben), or if it'd be fine in limited and casual constructed to let players run multiples. As an added perk, it'd let them do more typings for tribal/casual players - Chromanticore isn't legendary and Oketra the True isn't a cat for many reasons but one of those reasons is that it literally wouldn't fit on the typeline.
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I was reading up the other day on how confusing "regeneration" was to not only new players, but even the WOTC staff that led away from using that and replacing it with indestructible until end of turn effects. My bet would be that that is it. I understand it is a functionality change, but WOTC HAS done that with other cards, such as Lord of Atlantis, Lord of the Undead, and also every creature that has been reprinted and had different creature types multiple times, Phage the Untouchable as an example there.
In my opinion, they're making special "moving" foils, that's it. It could be a nice thing for some particular products, and the last DD is a reasonable ground to test the reaction of the market.
You know I'd really like that. Not as a usual thing, like for promos only, but still, gimme holograms.
I doubt it's a change to regenerate. That seems like an odd thing to hold back as "something special." They would more likely just update the ability with the release of a regular set and mention it in the release notes like they do with most templating updates.
If it's a functional change, that makes it even less likely, given their stance on functional errata.
Given that the only significant difference between Goblin Welder and Ezuri, Renegade Leader is that Ezuri is legendary, that seems like what the special thing is centered on.
Legendary is trickier to analyze. The same arguments hold against it being a change to the legend rule, and that gets compounded by the elimination of the planeswalker uniqueness rule. So, functionally, I don't think it's a change to the legendary supertype at all.
That said, it seems likely that they could introduce a special frame treatment for legendary permanents. Full art maybe. Masterpiece-like frame maybe. Maybe they're changing the style in a more normal way, like they did with the planeswalker frame. Who knows. Anything that's purely aesthetic seems reasonable.
I don't think its going to be a switch from regenerate to indestructible. Thats so much change due to the interactions between cards like Wrath of God and Burn from Within. I'd guessing its regenerate re-ruled, something to do with him being legendary for maybe even something new.
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I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
That's not "rewording", that would be a functional change, and they don't do that just because they change their minds about a mechanic. Oblivion Ring wasn't updated with the new template, they just printed Banishing Light instead.
But also note that there is precedent for changing larger categories of cards, such as card types (planewalkers in Ixalan), and even mechanics (lifelink in M10). I believe changing regeneration is the most likely reason behind this, and here's why: Changing regeneration as a mechanic would be on the same scale as the lifelink change, and it would allow R&D to simplify a complicated mechanic, even opening up the opportunity for them to start using what was previously an evergreen keyword again without discontinuity between old cards and new.
In my opinion, they're making special "moving" foils, that's it. It could be a nice thing for some particular products, and the last DD is a reasonable ground to test the reaction of the market.
You know I'd really like that. Not as a usual thing, like for promos only, but still, gimme holograms.
I don't think they would do this to only one of the face cards a duel deck, and we already saw goblin welder...
So it has to be a new frame for Legendary creatures, right? Dominaria is gonna be a Legendary set at least to some degree so they invented a cool new frame so its more obvious which creatures are Legendary without having to read them
While a more extreme change in the functionality of Legends is possible, the legend symbol and the unique mechanic, I doubt it, for one I don't think MaRo just published their secret well guarded plans for future mechanics in an article about the Great Designer Search, for two it sounds much more complicated than the current legend rule. There maybe changes, again, but I kinda doubt they are gonna be so extreme as to cause functionality changes. Personally I liked the old Time Paradox rules instead of the current Everyone Gets One rules anyway so whatever.
The change to Regenerate is also possible but I highly doubt this as well, for one regenerate was taken out of the game about 2 years ago now, why go back and try to fix something that very few players ever see, especially when it isn't actually broken just more confusing than would be preferred, for two some of the ideas about the fix like changing it to grant indestructible just seems way too radical, this would be a massive functionality change to a massive number of cards
They already changed the way PWs function in a pretty big way at the end of last year, and we pretty much know they are planning a massive change to direct damage spells since they wanna scrap the PW redirect rules for simplicity, just how many massive rules changes, massive erratas and massive functionality changes do you people expect there to be in a one year period?
Also Wizards if your reading, I know its too late to ask but whatever this is please don't make it something stupid. I don't wanna look at new Legendary or Regenerate cards with the same disdain I use when I look at my Thran Dynamo that has CCC instead of just 3
I don't think changing Regenerate to Indestructible works - if anything they might change it to be something more like Persist/Undying.
T: Target Elf gains Renegenerate until end of turn (when that creature dies this turn, its controller returns it to the battlefield tapped under that player's control)
Then it would be an inconsequential wording change to still have that still get hosed by Wrath of God/Terror and such.
Giving regenerating creatures LTB/ETB/Dies triggers is a far less crushing overhaul than the suggested Indestructible change that would remove so much of Renegerate's other functionality (removal from combat, tapping the creature, noninteraction with Wrath/Terror, etc)
I don't think changing Regenerate to Indestructible works - if anything they might change it to be something more like Persist/Undying.
T: Target Elf gains Renegenerate until end of turn (when that creature dies this turn, its controller returns it to the battlefield tapped under that player's control)
Then it would be an inconsequential wording change to still have that still get hosed by Wrath of God/Terror and such.
Giving regenerating creatures LTB/ETB/Dies triggers is a far less crushing overhaul than the suggested Indestructible change that would remove so much of Renegerate's other functionality (removal from combat, tapping the creature, noninteraction with Wrath/Terror, etc)
I really like this, and would greatfully get behind it.
I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
Or maybe because the front card elf is a preview of the new set?
I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
Or maybe because the front card elf is a preview of the new set?
But they show us the card art (and statement that it is Ezuri, Renegade Leader) in the article. It'll have the same set symbol as is on the Goblin Welder they're letting us see. They're not concealing anything about the art or the name of the card. They're concealing the *card*. Something about its frame or its text is what they're hiding.
I assume the reason they are not previewing Ezuri's card is because they are going to reword his regenerate ability to the new indestructible until end of turn...
Or maybe because the front card elf is a preview of the new set?
But they show us the card art (and statement that it is Ezuri, Renegade Leader) in the article. It'll have the same set symbol as is on the Goblin Welder they're letting us see. They're not concealing anything about the art or the name of the card. They're concealing the *card*. Something about its frame or its text is what they're hiding.
ye, readed now.
It looks like the art for Ezuri is not completed, is cut in half.
And from the article, the Goblin has a reference to another card of the deck in his art:
"Yup, that's our old friend Goblin Welder! What's it going to be welding? Well, we're not going to show you everything yet,"
"But I can tell you that the card is Ezuri, Renegade Leader, and he's getting new art that looks a bit like this"
If the art is indeed cut in half, maybe the card has a spoiler, maybe ezuri got purified and in the art we can see a husk of his old phyrexian self, or something among those lines. Or something hitting a return to New Phyrexia. It would be worth to keep a secret until close to anouncement day. Maybe in the art we can see mermnach/mirari or other character like Slobad.
I realy doubt Wizards would make a major rules change or a layoult change.
Cant it just be a dominaria card? Like a throwback legend getting a new card?
The article confirmed that the face card is Ezuri, Renegade Leader. It also stated that they have "something special planned" for it, hense the speculation. If we already know what the card does, they must be changing something about it, likely how it looks. They already showed us the art too, and showed us Goblin Welder, which brings up even the question of what "special plans" apply only to Ezuri. I'm betting on a visual change for legendary creatures.
I realy doubt Wizards would make a major rules change or a layoult change.
Because they don't do that... like, several times a year? The just made Planeswalkers Legendary in Ixalan. They've already told us there are changes coming soon regarding targeting and damage redirection.
It is a good point that the art seems peculiarly cropped. I think the most likely outcome is that Legendary permanents will get new cardframe rules - probably a bigger main art panel like Planeswalkers have, allowing the artwork to break the borders like they allow on PWs, and have the continued artwork, faded, behind the text box.
I was reading up the other day on how confusing "regeneration" was to not only new players, but even the WOTC staff that led away from using that and replacing it with indestructible until end of turn effects. My bet would be that that is it. I understand it is a functionality change, but WOTC HAS done that with other cards, such as Lord of Atlantis, Lord of the Undead, and also every creature that has been reprinted and had different creature types multiple times, Phage the Untouchable as an example there.
That's a good point. And they have done stuff with lifelink and deathtouch, so it's possible they've settled on a new meaning for regeneration. I'd be surprised if they were changing it to just mean "indestructible until end of turn", but I could definitely see a simplified version of the original behavior that they'd debut in Dominaria, and show it off with this release.
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If the face card for Elves is a known card and not a preview card for Dominaria or somesuch... why can't we see Ezuri?
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- They used a Planar Chaos border since it's in the past, before he gets Compleated (minor but possible)
- Starting in Dominaria, they are changing the Legendary rules to be a special symbol with no rules baggage and a new "Unique" keyword. They aren't quite ready to drop that bomb on us, possibly because "Legendary Matters" is a major mechanical theme of Dominaria.
- Regenerate is returning but being functionally changed; this is spelled out on the card and they aren't ready to reveal that yet.
- Because he's such a popular commander, it's a full art card or has some other special treatment (if this is the case it makes me extra sad to not see a legendary on the front of the Artificers deck but what can you do?)
I think "two" is most likely, as I think they'd likely be proud to show off any special border/foiling treatment and overhauling a currently defunct keyword in a supplemental non-booster product is way outside their norm.
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Where did they say that Dominaria was going to do that? Can you cite the article?
That's not "rewording", that would be a functional change, and they don't do that just because they change their minds about a mechanic. Oblivion Ring wasn't updated with the new template, they just printed Banishing Light instead.
Sorry, this is me rampantly speculating; no one has SAID anything. MaRo has repeatedly said on his blog that he hates that legendary has rules baggage and it's a constant design struggle on every single set. Even for unsets - lots of Commander players wish Earl of Squirrel was legendary, but casual Squirrel players would hate if it was since they couldn't run multiples or clone it. When people ask what he'd change about Magic if he ruled with an iron fist, "Legendary has no rules baggage and is denoted by a special symbol" ranks just behind "Instant is a supertype, not a type" and way ahead of "Creature-Dog".
Having legendary be a special symbol would allow them to make more things Legendary for commander, without it impacting gameplay. They could then errata all legends printed before Dominaria to have a "unique" keyword, and selectively choose going forward if a legend needs to be "unique" (like most planeswalkers, or Thalia, Guardian of Thraben), or if it'd be fine in limited and casual constructed to let players run multiples. As an added perk, it'd let them do more typings for tribal/casual players - Chromanticore isn't legendary and Oketra the True isn't a cat for many reasons but one of those reasons is that it literally wouldn't fit on the typeline.
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You know I'd really like that. Not as a usual thing, like for promos only, but still, gimme holograms.
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If it's a functional change, that makes it even less likely, given their stance on functional errata.
Given that the only significant difference between Goblin Welder and Ezuri, Renegade Leader is that Ezuri is legendary, that seems like what the special thing is centered on.
Legendary is trickier to analyze. The same arguments hold against it being a change to the legend rule, and that gets compounded by the elimination of the planeswalker uniqueness rule. So, functionally, I don't think it's a change to the legendary supertype at all.
That said, it seems likely that they could introduce a special frame treatment for legendary permanents. Full art maybe. Masterpiece-like frame maybe. Maybe they're changing the style in a more normal way, like they did with the planeswalker frame. Who knows. Anything that's purely aesthetic seems reasonable.
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But also note that there is precedent for changing larger categories of cards, such as card types (planewalkers in Ixalan), and even mechanics (lifelink in M10). I believe changing regeneration is the most likely reason behind this, and here's why: Changing regeneration as a mechanic would be on the same scale as the lifelink change, and it would allow R&D to simplify a complicated mechanic, even opening up the opportunity for them to start using what was previously an evergreen keyword again without discontinuity between old cards and new.
I don't think they would do this to only one of the face cards a duel deck, and we already saw goblin welder...
While a more extreme change in the functionality of Legends is possible, the legend symbol and the unique mechanic, I doubt it, for one I don't think MaRo just published their secret well guarded plans for future mechanics in an article about the Great Designer Search, for two it sounds much more complicated than the current legend rule. There maybe changes, again, but I kinda doubt they are gonna be so extreme as to cause functionality changes. Personally I liked the old Time Paradox rules instead of the current Everyone Gets One rules anyway so whatever.
The change to Regenerate is also possible but I highly doubt this as well, for one regenerate was taken out of the game about 2 years ago now, why go back and try to fix something that very few players ever see, especially when it isn't actually broken just more confusing than would be preferred, for two some of the ideas about the fix like changing it to grant indestructible just seems way too radical, this would be a massive functionality change to a massive number of cards
They already changed the way PWs function in a pretty big way at the end of last year, and we pretty much know they are planning a massive change to direct damage spells since they wanna scrap the PW redirect rules for simplicity, just how many massive rules changes, massive erratas and massive functionality changes do you people expect there to be in a one year period?
Also Wizards if your reading, I know its too late to ask but whatever this is please don't make it something stupid. I don't wanna look at new Legendary or Regenerate cards with the same disdain I use when I look at my Thran Dynamo that has C C C instead of just 3
T: Target Elf gains Renegenerate until end of turn (when that creature dies this turn, its controller returns it to the battlefield tapped under that player's control)
Then it would be an inconsequential wording change to still have that still get hosed by Wrath of God/Terror and such.
Giving regenerating creatures LTB/ETB/Dies triggers is a far less crushing overhaul than the suggested Indestructible change that would remove so much of Renegerate's other functionality (removal from combat, tapping the creature, noninteraction with Wrath/Terror, etc)
I really like this, and would greatfully get behind it.
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Or maybe because the front card elf is a preview of the new set?
But they show us the card art (and statement that it is Ezuri, Renegade Leader) in the article. It'll have the same set symbol as is on the Goblin Welder they're letting us see. They're not concealing anything about the art or the name of the card. They're concealing the *card*. Something about its frame or its text is what they're hiding.
ye, readed now.
It looks like the art for Ezuri is not completed, is cut in half.
And from the article, the Goblin has a reference to another card of the deck in his art:
"Yup, that's our old friend Goblin Welder! What's it going to be welding? Well, we're not going to show you everything yet,"
"But I can tell you that the card is Ezuri, Renegade Leader, and he's getting new art that looks a bit like this"
If the art is indeed cut in half, maybe the card has a spoiler, maybe ezuri got purified and in the art we can see a husk of his old phyrexian self, or something among those lines. Or something hitting a return to New Phyrexia. It would be worth to keep a secret until close to anouncement day. Maybe in the art we can see mermnach/mirari or other character like Slobad.
I realy doubt Wizards would make a major rules change or a layoult change.
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Because they don't do that... like, several times a year? The just made Planeswalkers Legendary in Ixalan. They've already told us there are changes coming soon regarding targeting and damage redirection.
It is a good point that the art seems peculiarly cropped. I think the most likely outcome is that Legendary permanents will get new cardframe rules - probably a bigger main art panel like Planeswalkers have, allowing the artwork to break the borders like they allow on PWs, and have the continued artwork, faded, behind the text box.
That's a good point. And they have done stuff with lifelink and deathtouch, so it's possible they've settled on a new meaning for regeneration. I'd be surprised if they were changing it to just mean "indestructible until end of turn", but I could definitely see a simplified version of the original behavior that they'd debut in Dominaria, and show it off with this release.