Hey Mark, random graveyard related question for you. So I understand once upon a time, decks like Dredge were pretty powerful. But nowadays, grave hate is ripe across all formats, its cheap, even free such as torments crypt and it really blocks grave based shenanigans massively. So me question to you is, why is there no anti gravehate cards? Like for example a zombie that reads "cards in graveyards can't be exile" or somet like that. It seems an obvious choice of ability so aye, please inform?

Permanent ongoing answers to answers tend to cause problems more than solve them.

Which would you do to fix dredge? Make it so it only happens for your first draw each turn, or make you have to pay some mana to do it?

Not every mechanic needs to be (or can be) fixed. That said, in the hypothetical, I’d exile the cards rather than mill them.

Just watched the Ravnica panel finally, and it got me thinking. The milling part of Dredge was meant to be a downside, but clearly wasn't. Could a fixed dredge exist and be fruitful, say if you exile from the top of your deck instead?

It would help. Enough? I’m not sure.

with more and more remastering mechanics like devotion, discover and disguise, will it be possible for us to get things like storm or dredge remade in a new nerf'd down form in the future?

A redone storm has more potential than a redone dredge. Both have issues though.

I would assume that cube owners are part of the target audience for booster fun stuff. They often are very enfranchised players that like fancy cards and retro frames. Yet those are mostly printed without reminder text. In a 30+ years old game it's super rough to have obscure, never repeated keywords not explained on cards for a draft format. By now, there are dozens of cool cards I wanted to collect for my cubes but couldn't because I don't expect everyone to know how dredge or extort work.

When we poll enfranchised players, more say they want Booster Fun versions to not have reminder text. Let’s see what you all think.

Should Booster Fun versions of cards have reminder text? YesNoSee Results

Based on the watermark discussion, a set that batches all characteristics of each guild?“All Golgari creatures get +1/+1 (Golgari creatures are Green and Black creatures, creatures with Dredge, Green creatures with a B in their rules text…”Ok, I realized that it’s a bit more complicated than I thought for Ravnica’s Guilds or New Capenna’s Families. But theoretically, you could create factions and use both technologies (batches and watermarks) to help determine when a card belongs to a batch, right? For example, putting a “Historic” watermark in all artifacts, legendary cards and Sagas in Dominaria.

We do use watermarks to help reinforce factions, but as we’ve been talking about today, it carries no mechanical weight (well outside Un-sets).

Some mechanics rated 10 on Storm Scale (such as Dredge, Storm, and Tribal card type) got new cards in Modern Horizons sets.Should I expect other ones (such as Ante, Banding, and Graveyard-order-matters) getting new cards as well? Or are there mechanics not welcomed even in such sets?

The Storm Scale is about mechanics returning in premier sets. Abandoned mechanics, as opposed to ones that are a play design challenge, are far less likely to show up in any product.

"That’s playing with fire." So you're saying it'll be a Chandra manaless dredge deck?

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Given that storm has been reprinted multiple times (MH2 with Relay/Aeve and co, Commander products with Flusterstorm, etc.) is it more appropriate to call the Storm scale the Dredge scale, since that’s a mechanic that hasn’t ever really come back?

The Storm Scale measures mechanics returning in premier sets, which Storm has never done since the creation of the scale.

Hello Mark,Dominaria remastered made me go through memory lane, to the time I started playing magic as a teen (really looking forward to it!).Thinking back of Invasion, I remember a character referenced on multiple cards but that never received a card herself: The Urborg Witch (card references: Addle, exotic curse, dredge, undermine, smoldering tar).Can I request a card for her? :)Thank you

You may.