Devoted Druid

-1/-1 Counter Design

New 28 May 2023 Asked by deathcloud86 37 Comments

I don’t understand why much of the rest of WOTC is against new -1/-1 counter cards. Toxrill, The Corrosive, Devoted Druid, and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician have proven to be extremely popular cards. Seems like a missed opportunity to make more fun cards


The issue is two-fold:1) R&D doesn’t like how heavy -1/-1 environments play. They tend to be sloggy and prone to too much atrophy.2) Unless we have punch-out counters, we tend to shy away from mixing +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters at lower rarities.We can still use them in higher rarities and supplemental sets.


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