Day of Judgment

All Creatures Fight/Bite Spell

A theoretical “all creatures fight/bite” spell seems like it’s going to be Day of Judgment (or at least Duneblast) in 99% of situations. Seems like it goes squarely into the “deathtouch + ETB fight” category to me, even if a functional template could be figured out.

It would probably be multicolored, if we did it.

Creatures Day of Judgment Deathtouch Duneblast Enter The Battlefield Fight / Bite Judgment Templating

Potential for Black Day of Judgment

If or When: A black Day of Judgment?

When if you mean a black card with the same rules text, if if you mean the same mana cost (but converted to black).

Black Day of Judgment If/When Judgment Mana Rules

Color Pie Term Origin

The first use of the term "Color Pie" I could find was in your June 3, 2002 article "Day of Judgment", although the concept was mentioned in an earlier article by Randy Buehler: "Of Polls and Pies" on April 26, 2002

We were using the term before 2002 in R&D. That’s the earliest in print reference to it?

Card Printing Color Pie Colors Day of Judgment

Card Name Spellings

Is there a reason that Day of Judgement is spelled Day of Judgment on the card? My computer autocorrected to the first option and confused the mass card order list. Another card with a weird grammar bit I noticed today was Resolute, Archangel. The comma is important, apparently.

Judgment is spelled without an “e”. See the Magic expansion for proof. Radiant is the archangel’s name thus the comma.

Day of Judgment

White's Card Advantage

For everyone asking about white card advantage, Day of Judgment IS white card advantage. White just doesn't gain card advantage off drawing, except for the occasional cantrip removal or cantrip d00d (and white's tend to be of the Wall of Omens variety).

Yes, white gets card advantage. All colors do. White is bad at card drawing.

Card Draw Colors Day of Judgment Wall Wall of Omens White

Black Day of Judgment

Is a black Day of Judgment printable from a color pie standpoint? Everybody would love a Damnation reprint but I'm guessing it's unlikely to happen because of the regeneration clause...

Black is more than allowed to kill lots of creatures.

Black Card Printing Color Pie Colors Creatures Day of Judgment Reprints

Damnation's Future

Any chance we might see Damnation or a black Day of Judgment in the (near) future? Or was that a one-time thing for Planar Chaos?

Black is king of creature kill so mass creature kill is in black’s part of the color pie.

Black Color Pie Colors Creatures Day of Judgment Planar Chaos

Three Word Texts

Do you share with me the simple pleasure of a card with only three words in it's text box? I've always preferred Day of Judgment (M12 version, at least) to Wrath of God because of the elegance of a large box with "Destroy all creatures." dead centre. Also, as a card goes it doesn't get much easier to grok than that!

I too enjoy a simple three word rules text.

Creatures Day of Judgment Destroy God Rules Wrath of God

DotP Encounter Design

I'm loving DotP on the iPad, thanks for that. Back around Tempest, the legendary Aaron Forsythe built a deck that was all Muscle Slivers and Kindles. Some of the encounters really feel like that. (Especially the all-Bloodghast/Day of Judgment deck). Who designed the encounters?

The decks and encounters were built by Magic R&D mostly the developers.

Aaron Forsythe Blood Bloodghast Day of Judgment Sliver Tempest

Regeneration and Destroy

A few days ago you said, "One of the major reasons we don’t use bury is that we don’t use “Destroy target creature. It cannot be regenerated.” much anymore." Is there a particular reason you're moving away from preventing regeneration with destroy effects, e.g. Wrath of God to Day of Judgment, Terror to Doom Blade? The biggest reason I can come up with is that it can limit interactions.

We found that it hosed regeneration for no particular reason. It also added more words to the cards and we’ve been on a campaign to reduce words where we can.

Creatures Day of Judgment Destroy Doom Blade God Wrath of God

Dealing With Hexproof

Im not gonna give up on my question. "Were working years ahead" is not an excuse for making creatures immortal for people playing my colours (anything but blue). I can not deal with the hexproof angel that stops diabolic edicts. Its ruining my magic experience. I dont want to stop playing modern or t2 but im probably moving to cube until you guys fix up this mess.

Just off the top of my head. White has Day of Judgment style effects. Black has discard. Red has stealing effects (okay, you then have to sacrifice it). Green has fight. There are ways to deal with it in colors other than blue. We understand that hexproof + evasion is a potent combo so in the future we’ll be both having less of it and charging more for it.

Angel Black Blue Colors Creatures Cube Draft Day of Judgment Discard Evasion Fight / Bite Green Hexproof Modern Red Sacrifice White

Day of Judgment Insight

Speaking of how white can have creature removal but at a price (have to make an exchange, or meet a condition, etc.), how Day of Judgment fits into white's color pie?

White also gets destroy everything of a certain card type. It can wipe the slate clean.

Card Types Color Pie Colors Creatures Day of Judgment Destroy Exchange White