surveil: during this mark said a unnamed mechanic would become deciduous as of brothers war and surveil is actually perfect with Unearth mechanic that was confirmed earlier
landfall:not sure if it’s involved of marks thing but zendikar roil gained the “landfall” text in zendikar rising commander decks when it’s first printing in “origins” didn't
Not sure if this will happen with other mechanics if there is that would definitely be “morbid” and “heroic” and maybe “enrage”
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
I mean, they already did it with domain back in like 2009, so it's no surprise that they'd do it with other ability words like landfall.
It's a little more surprising that they'd do it with a keyword like surveil, but they already did it with scry, so it makes sense here too.
They did it with scry because they moved scry to evergreen status, so it suggests they're doing the same here. The effect has been used in most sets since Guild of Ravnica, so they may have just decided it's being used enough already to grant it that status.
Guessing Landfall effects happened enough they figured they might as well and surveil is gonna be used in graveyard themed sets instead of scry.
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Graveyard themes are common enough that it makes sense to make surveil deciduous so whenever they want to make cards with some kind of filtering effect that interacts with the graveyard, they can just use surveil. It's mechanically relevant with GRN cards, and a good shortcut to encourage players to learn.
Landfall being deciduous is interesting. It's a very widely usable effect, a popular mechanic and a flexible but flavourful name, but as an ability word it doesn't benefit from any mechanical consistency and remembering how landfall works doesn't seem as big of a thing as with surveil. I wonder if we will see any other ability words become deciduous in the future.
Graveyard themes are common enough that it makes sense to make surveil deciduous so whenever they want to make cards with some kind of filtering effect that interacts with the graveyard, they can just use surveil. It's mechanically relevant with GRN cards, and a good shortcut to encourage players to learn.
Landfall being deciduous is interesting. It's a very widely usable effect, a popular mechanic and a flexible but flavourful name, but as an ability word it doesn't benefit from any mechanical consistency and remembering how landfall works doesn't seem as big of a thing as with surveil. I wonder if we will see any other ability words become deciduous in the future.
The obvious analogue to Landfall becoming deciduous would be Streets of New Capenna's Alliance also becoming deciduous and constantly keyworded. I can see Wizards being averse to doing this for many years to come, though.
surveil
https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:surveil&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
landfall: https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:landfall&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
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but the two keys comes as follows
surveil: during this mark said a unnamed mechanic would become deciduous as of brothers war and surveil is actually perfect with Unearth mechanic that was confirmed earlier
landfall:not sure if it’s involved of marks thing but zendikar roil gained the “landfall” text in zendikar rising commander decks when it’s first printing in “origins” didn't
Not sure if this will happen with other mechanics if there is that would definitely be “morbid” and “heroic” and maybe “enrage”
I mean, they already did it with domain back in like 2009, so it's no surprise that they'd do it with other ability words like landfall.
It's a little more surprising that they'd do it with a keyword like surveil, but they already did it with scry, so it makes sense here too.
They did it with scry because they moved scry to evergreen status, so it suggests they're doing the same here. The effect has been used in most sets since Guild of Ravnica, so they may have just decided it's being used enough already to grant it that status.
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Guessing Landfall effects happened enough they figured they might as well and surveil is gonna be used in graveyard themed sets instead of scry.
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plus brothers war has unearth so it’s definitely a good fit for that mechanic
Landfall being deciduous is interesting. It's a very widely usable effect, a popular mechanic and a flexible but flavourful name, but as an ability word it doesn't benefit from any mechanical consistency and remembering how landfall works doesn't seem as big of a thing as with surveil. I wonder if we will see any other ability words become deciduous in the future.
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The obvious analogue to Landfall becoming deciduous would be Streets of New Capenna's Alliance also becoming deciduous and constantly keyworded. I can see Wizards being averse to doing this for many years to come, though.
I'm honestly surprised Landfall didn't happen years ago.