The Watcher's Deckbox

Sylvhem's sideblog about Magic: The Gathering. Home of the Storm Scale database. Vorthos. Collector. Azorius. [email protected]

[indusconcept]

GHIRED, CONCLAVE EXILE / Magic the Gathering : Commander 2019

© Wizards of the Coast

[magicjudge]

And here it is! My brand new hot and fresh free preview from Commander 2020! This is a spicy one for sure. Thanks to @wizardsmagic for the ability to bring this card to you. You can see me discuss the card at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeiOCXMB-kk

[rudjedet]

For the ask game: I would say you have around 2,000 followers or something like that.

Ding ding ding! Right on the money! It’s 2,087 as of now. 

[dailymtgflavortext]

“Hallowed be this potpourri of sundry goods!" 

-Ineffable Blessing

[magical-leak]

[markrosewater]

If/when: The Raven Man getting a card?

Little when. When because we make a lot of cards, so known, requested characters have a decent chance of seeing print one day. Little because it’s a tricky character to make a card for.

[markrosewater]

If / when: Seb McKinnon basic lands cycle

Big when. The only thing stopping it eventually is Seb not wanting to do basic lands.

[merkymerx]

Revisited a Liliana of the Veil concept sketch I did a while back.

H.R. Giger and artworks of Dejah Thoris were my main sources of inspiration.

Work’s been too busy for me to do a full body concept art :( Hope I’ll get the time in the future!

[markrosewater]

Is the wanderer allowed to have random uncommon/rare planeswalker cards in sets? I would love for more wanderer cards.

She’s available for cameos in art. She has to play a larger role than that to get a Planeswalker card.

[markrosewater]

Hi Mark, hope you and your family are safe these days. Gotta little questoin about magic story. Most of the time, planes feature important Artifacts of great power, that are relevant to the overarching story of magic, liker the Helvault, the Immortal Sun, the Planar Bridge, or the Chain Veil. May I request more important Enchantment (like Calix or The Great Aurora) for future magic stories?

You may.

[markrosewater]

Finally got round to playing Unsanctioned for the first time with my housemate. We've only played two games but it was a massive load of fun! Enter the Dungeon is a really fun card!

Always happy to hear fun stories about Un-play. And yes, I’m very proud of the design of Enter the Dungeon. Ever notice people playing Enter the Dungeon in the art of Stone-Cold Basilisk?

[oldtumblhurgoyf]

meet the new goyf, same as the old goyf

I remade @tumblhurgoyf with the same url:  https://tumblhurgoyf.tumblr.com/

Been meaning to do some house cleaning and this is the easiest way, so give the new blog a follow if you’ve enjoyed the nonsense you’ve been seeing here. I’ll probs try to tag the new blog better and actually archive stuff.

[markrosewater]

“Tales from the Pit” #2252

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“My criticism of the Izzet is that their impulse for learning seems too much like impulse and too little like learning.” —Trigori, Azorius senator

-Mindmoil

[markrosewater]

I shall tap 44 mana to play "Birthday Trivia" on my turn. 'Target Maro must search thru his deck and reveal information pertaining to my favorite card, Gifts Ungiven. If he cannot, he is forced to give up trivia on the Storm mechanic itself.' :)

When I designed Intuition (in Tempest), the intent was you had to pick all different cards, but I didn’t write it clear enough and people were picking the same card. I pointed out that wasn’t what I intended, but they were enjoying the card as it was so they wouldn’t change it. Gifts Given was me redoing Intuition that way I intended it to play.

Happy Birthday!

[markrosewater]

Mark Rosewater on TikTok

“Walk to the Den” #WotCStaff #fyp

Here’s my latest Tik Tok video.

[markrosewater]

Maro’s Ikoria Teaser

Previews for Ikoria: Lair of the Behemoths don’t start until April 2, but I’ve been getting a lot of requests from people cooped up at home that are eager for any content, so I decided to do something I used to do all the time back in my column in The Duelist. I’m going to be giving you a Maro Teaser where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

The following can be found in Ikoria:

• Magic’s seventh Egg

• A card with the text “four or more times this game”

• A card with the text “total power 10 or less”

• Magic’s largest power/toughness granting aura.

• A card with the text “X is the number of times this creature has mutated”

• Magic’s third and fourth card with “(Zero is even.)” reminder text.

• Three cards with the text “different name(s)”

• Twelve different types of counters

• A card that says “choose a kind of counter at random”

• A card with the text “remove eight foreshadow counters”

• And a cycle that players have been asking us to make for over ten years

In addition, Ikoria has creatures with the following creature types:

• Dinosaur Turtle

• Shark Beast

• Demon Kraken

• Elemental Otter

• Brushwagg

• Hellion Horror

• and a Nightmare Squirrel (Yes, a Squirrel in a Standard-legal set!)

Hopefully, this can tide you all over until the previews begin on April 2nd. Enjoy!

EDIT: Oops, there’s actually thirteen different type of counters. I searched for counter and planeswalkers don’t actually say “counter” on them. So that’s twelve not counting loyalty counters. Sorry.