Does the misspelled Secret Lair Doom Blade count as a crime in an acorn game?

Yes.

Can I ask you to pass on feedback to the testing teams for limited to please stop giving Green such pushed removal? Green removal is almost always "Bite" rather than "Fight" effects now, often pumps the creature (sometimes permanently), usually for three and sometimes even two mana, and often at instant speed.

The trade-off for this used to be that Green's removal was vulnerable and conditional because it was reliant on creatures, but Green's creatures are so pushed these days and limited is so creature focused that cards like Throw from the Saddle and Clear Shot play just like Doom Blade and Murder, comparable or better to what Black (the "removal colour") gets.

I worry that it distorts the roles the colour pie plays in limited magic. It certainly detracts from my enjoyment of it.

Green historically has been the weakest limited color. We’re trying to help fix that.

Can you elaborate on why Doom Blade would be Esper? The effect seems to fit better in either Mardu (B and W destroy creatures and R has damage, which is close to destroy when it's a big ammount) or Grixis (Nonblack clause: Black + its allies)

Not Doom Blade, Doom, as in Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four villain.

Hi Mark,I've recently heard and read a lot of Magic content in which someone uses the word "casted", e.g. "my opponent casted a Doom Blade".To the best of my knowledge, the past tense of cast is cast, so "my opponent cast a Doom Blade". I just wanted to double-check with an authority in the area though - casted, or cast?Okay, you got me, I'm not really checking, it's definitely cast. I'm just hoping your blog can help turn the tide against this egregious misuse of language!

The past form of cast is cast. Blogatog is pro-grammar.

Hi Mark. Regarding the issue of hybrid in commander. I feel like the problem is misconstrued. The reason that its an and instead of an or is not about the casting but its state on the battlefield. For example if you play a golgari longlegs it doesn't matter if you pay with all green mana, your opponent can't doom blade it because its black. Unless hybrid changes in such a way that it isn't the case then the deck building rule should stay as is.

Here’s the problem. You make the decision at deck construction so it’s thought of in that regard not as a color on the battlefield issue. If I have a monoblack deck in any format other than Commander/Brawl (and I mean literally every other Magic formats - and there are a lot), you can play your black hybrid card.But let’s examine, the color on the battlefield argument. Does the Commander rules keep you from having permanents on the battlefield that are a color not in your color identity? No, it doesn’t. There are numerous cards that are additional colors or change colors. There are lots of cards that make tokens of a different color than itself. As long as those cards don’t have a mana symbol of another color, you’re free to play them. So trying to justify the hybrid rule with that doesn’t work because it’s not consistent with how the color identity rules work with cards of other colors.That’s my whole point. Rules for what a format allows want consistency (and also intuitiveness, although I’d argue that is very tied to consistency), and the hybrid rules fail badly in the consistency department. As a game designer who cares a great deal about games being consistent and intuitive, it rubs me the wrong way. The better argument path to pursue, by the way, is why it needs to be inconsistent not that it isn’t inconsistent.

Palladia-Mors’s hexproof for a limited time after hitting the battlefield is a pretty cool ability - it helps you avoid "feel bad" situations where you finally get this big dragon out only for your opponent to immediately Murder/Doom Blade/etc. it. Sure, it's not protected indefinitely, but it guarantees you can at least do SOMETHING with it before it gets killed. Is this something we could see on more creatures in the future? If so, what colors do you think it'd be in?

What do you all think of this restricted hexproof ability?

Does Rules Lawyer die to Doom Blade?

It does. : ) Rules Lawyer doesn’t stop state-based effects from affecting itself. Think of it as a bit quirkier Platinum Angel.

Unquestion, can I destroy the gold dragon token with doom blade?

Yes. It isn’t black.

Lighting bolt or doom blade in standard

Doom Blade.

Spiritkhan is asking what you think standard/limited etc would be like if you hadn't dropped the power level of instants and sorceries (eg: no one cmc kill spells like Bolt or Path, scarce numbers of two cmc counterspells like Mana Leak or Deprive, and even fewer 2 cmc kill spells like Doom Blade etc etc etc)

I think it would be worse, which is why we did it.