Boots of Speed

Flavor vs Gameplay

Having Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius at the same time wasn't "nice". Now there can be 4 in the battlefield. Can I ask how this was an improvement?

We took slight flavor hit to get a substantial gameplay gain. This is very similar to what I call the “elephant in the boots” issue. If we wanted to be very flavorful, boots wouldn’t go on animals. The equipment would say something like “Equip humanoid”. I mean an elephant can’t get boots of speed on. But we decided that the gameplay was better if any creature could use any equipment. Yes, at times it makes flavor that doesn’t make sense, but the gameplay was so much superior that we decided to suck up a slight flavor hit. Same thing here.

Boots of Speed Creatures Elephant Equip Equipment Flavor Game Play Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

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