Hey Mark! I saw a comment noting how Dinosaurs didn’t have Enrage in LCI, and made me remember an answer you gave about Werewolves being too tied to a mechanic to be printed without it…What’s been the reaction to other creature types being printed without their iconic mechanic? For example, Ninjas without Ninjutsu in NEO.

In the vision design handoff for Neon Dynasty, the Ninjas didn’t have Ninjutsu specifically because I thought there was a lot of other interesting trope space to explore mechanically. I’m not against Werewolves conveying their lycanthropy in a different mechanical means, but my assumption is all the Werewolves from that set would probably treat it similarly. It’s just a high bar.

hello mark! i have a dilemma. i love enrage but im not a big fan of dinosaurs. would you be able to give me an if or when on enrage across another creature type?

I expect it to return, and odds are if it does, it won’t just be on Dinosaurs.

I ran out of text space. I meant cards like Forbidden Orchard in Massacre Girl, Nomad Stadium in Darien, or Sorrow's Path in Enrage decks. Drawbacks that are drawbacks in 99% of decks, but good on rare occasions because they are one of the few cards that do that thing some other card cares about. I'm asking for more weird, one of a kind drawbacks, including ones that are bafflingly awful until someone figures it out.

Players do like drawbacks you can turn into a positive with proper deck building, but usually a bit more of the time than 1%. What you’re asking for is mostly just cards with big downsides which are pretty unpopular. We make them on occasion, but not often.

Follow up on enrage storm scaleWhy a 6? I know your right fit is dinosaur tribal sets but Couldn't it be used on creatures that aren't dinosaurs and wouldn't you want a keyword for when this creature is dealt damage.

It’s just a tight design space. It could be used on non-Dinosaurs.

Could you rank the mechanics from Ixalan in order of positive reaction from players?

From memory (which could be faulty):1) Double-faced lands2) Raid3) Enrage4) Explore

Is Enrage limited to dinosaurs or any Red/Green/White creature can have it on the right set?

The Enrage/Dinosaur connection was an Ixalan thing. Enrage could come back not tied to Dinosaurs and not even in the same color combination.

The set that you had “enrage” in that Ixalan took from your set, has it come out yet? If not was it in Modern Horizons or the Fall set? Something further out?

It was the original Gruul guild mechanic for Ravnica Allegiance.

Was Fungusaur considered for a reprint in Ixalan? As a Dinosaur with an Enrage mechanic, it feels like a perfect fit.

Fungusaur was the inspiration for Enrage. We did talk about a reprint.

"Dominaria had two new mechanics (historic and sagas). Ixalan had two new mechanics (explore and enrage)." Technically four of the guilds either don't have new mechanics or (in the case of Izzet) have a minor variant. "Undergrowth" has been used on and off since Ice Age (Lhurgoyf), and with a range of effects - it's only the name that's new. Surveil too has been used in exactly that form before, most recently in Ixalan.

If you discount things we’ve individually done on cards before then many sets have zero new mechanics.

Enrage mechanic was taken from Gruul, right?

Not taken. The Ixalan set design team created it on their own. The Ravnica Allegiance team independently had made it for Gruul. The earlier set gets it if they need it, so Enrage went to Dinosaurs instead of Gruul,