The set's usual green one-drop deathtoucher is a Snake Ninja enchantment creature. I did not think that sentence would exist outside a custom card forum until now.
Yet another enchantment creature where "glowy magic-bits" are supposed to represent the enchantment aspect ... and I don't really see it. Magic has too many regular creatures with glowy magic-bits in the art for these to be instantly recognizable as enchantment creatures.
Artifact creatures are always easy to identify because they're made of mechanical bits. They should figure out some cohesive visual language for enchantment creatures, or things are going to get pretty confusing sooner or later imo.
Yet another enchantment creature where "glowy magic-bits" are supposed to represent the enchantment aspect ... and I don't really see it. Magic has too many regular creatures with glowy magic-bits in the art for these to be instantly recognizable as enchantment creatures.
Artifact creatures are always easy to identify because they're made of mechanical bits. They should figure out some cohesive visual language for enchantment creatures, or things are going to get pretty confusing sooner or later imo.
Not to take away from that but in Theros being an enchantment creature meant you were Nixborn whereas in modern Kamigawa being an enchantment means being touched by the Kami so it makes sense that the signifiers are different. Yes, it's confusing. The green glow of being Kami touched could be more emphasized and consistent.
Yet another enchantment creature where "glowy magic-bits" are supposed to represent the enchantment aspect ... and I don't really see it. Magic has too many regular creatures with glowy magic-bits in the art for these to be instantly recognizable as enchantment creatures.
Artifact creatures are always easy to identify because they're made of mechanical bits. They should figure out some cohesive visual language for enchantment creatures, or things are going to get pretty confusing sooner or later imo.
Not to take away from that but in Theros being an enchantment creature meant you were Nixborn whereas in modern Kamigawa being an enchantment means being touched by the Kami so it makes sense that the signifiers are different. Yes, it's confusing. The green glow of being Kami touched could be more emphasized and consistent.
As someone who generally likes enchantment creatures and wants to see more of them, this is probably the biggest point where I can see why they haven't been doing them more often. You can't really expect your audience to remember the lore for why certain creatures are enchantment creatures in specific sets, every time. I wonder how these will perform overall - will the frame be enough, or will it lead to feel-bad moments because players don't remember that they are enchantment creatures? For now, we can only wait.
Yet another enchantment creature where "glowy magic-bits" are supposed to represent the enchantment aspect ... and I don't really see it. Magic has too many regular creatures with glowy magic-bits in the art for these to be instantly recognizable as enchantment creatures.
Artifact creatures are always easy to identify because they're made of mechanical bits. They should figure out some cohesive visual language for enchantment creatures, or things are going to get pretty confusing sooner or later imo.
Different worlds have different dynamics.
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I think, Wizardds is going to iterate on the way enchantment creatures are presented in illustration. I can tell you, if you go back and look at the illustration of artifact creatures, you get some Marble Priest examples in the beginning, too. They missed the mark this time around, but at least they have a concept in place an can learn from the feedback.
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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I gotta be honest I just don't think they should do enchantment creatures. Artifact creatures have the one big thing going for them, being colorless. Enchantment creatures don't have anything that regular creatures don't and the enchantment aspect is more of a liability than a boon.
blah blah as-fans and enchantment matters blah blah, I just don't think it's worth it.
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The set's usual green one-drop deathtoucher is a Snake Ninja enchantment creature. I did not think that sentence would exist outside a custom card forum until now.
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Artifact creatures are always easy to identify because they're made of mechanical bits. They should figure out some cohesive visual language for enchantment creatures, or things are going to get pretty confusing sooner or later imo.
Not to take away from that but in Theros being an enchantment creature meant you were Nixborn whereas in modern Kamigawa being an enchantment means being touched by the Kami so it makes sense that the signifiers are different. Yes, it's confusing. The green glow of being Kami touched could be more emphasized and consistent.
Different worlds have different dynamics.
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Elspeth and Jhoira rock my world.
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blah blah as-fans and enchantment matters blah blah, I just don't think it's worth it.