Rumeurs et listes sur la 9° édition

It's interesting that the more experience I get as a designer, the more I appreciate the simple cards. Brainstorm is one such card. Brainstorm is never the star of the deck, yet it helps push the percentage a few points in its controller's favor. It's a subtle card that rewards a skilled player (see, we really do like that). Cards like Brainstorm are very hard to design so when I see one that works, I'm always impressed. So it's simple and elegant. So was Pyroclasm. How'd Brainstorm make it up to number five? Because it did all that… and costs one mana. As a non-creature card no less. Since most of you probably don't design Magic cards and this may not mean anything to you, let me use a Hollywood metaphor. Hollywood has a large number of attractive actresses (one of my favorite perks of living in LA, by the way). It also has a great deal of funny actresses. But a looker that can do comedy? Few and far between. When a casting director finds a new one, they cling on like the hook side of Velcro to the loop side. What does this have to do with one-drops in Magic? I consider well-balanced, interesting one-drops to be the Jennifer Aniston of Magic design. Now, I'm sure a bunch of you are saying, hey, there's plenty of good one-drop spells. Not the kind I'm talking about. See, I'm not counting one-drops that R&D over-juiced. The cards where we put a little more than one mana's worth of power in the card. Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves, Duress, etc., are all nice cards, but every time R&D prints one we have to watch the cards like a hawk. The category of one-drops I'm talking about are cards that see play but that R&D doesn't have to feel dirty about. These are cards that honestly have a mana's worth of power. Cards we can always reprint because they aren't raising the overall power level of the game. The poster child of this kind of card is Giant Growth. And Brainstorm. In addition, Brainstorm really put cheap deck manipulation on the map. A lot of cards and even mechanics (scry, cough, cough) owe their existence to the influence that Brainstorm has had on the game.

Petite anecdote, en Alpha il y avait un cycle de cartes qui coûtaient 1 et qui avait un effet en 3. La verte et la blanche sont rééditées mais la bleue (Ancestral recall) est trop dégénéré. Brainstorm est donc une sorte d'Ancestral recall corrigé.

j'adorerais qu'ils réédite Brainstorm. D'ailleur si il le réédite, ce serait en quelle rareté ?

Llanowar couvre des milliers d'hectares mais personne n'entre dans la forêt sans que les elfes le sachent

attend si il faut ajouter le type humain à tous le monde va yavoir des tonnes de cartes erratées, on va plus s'en sortir...