God-Eternal Oketra

Card Creation Insights

Can I invoke birthday trivia for for either God-Eternal Oketra or Skeletal Swarming, either one you'd want to talk about?

Skeletal Swarming is a top-down design of Skeletal Swarm from D&D. I think it was made a spell versus a creature to capture the feel of barrage of Skeletons attacking. Happy Birthday!

Attacking Birthday Creatures God-Eternal Oketra Skeletal Swarming Skeleton Top Down

Token Abilities and Color Matching

God-Eternal Oketra, a white card, makes black zombies with vigilance, so it's not unprecedented for some tokens to have abilities that don't match their colors.

We have plenty of cards that make tokens of a different color. I was saying that whatever that token does it needs to be in color pie for the color that created it.For example, white could make a 1/1 black creature with flying because white has access to flying, but it couldn’t make a black 1/1 with deathtouch because white doesn’t have access to deathtouch.

Black Color Pie Colors Creatures Deathtouch Flying God-Eternal Oketra Tokens Vigilance White Zombies

White's Powerful Card Pool

I have noticed that in recent sets, white has had a lot of powerful and in my opinion, unbalanced, cards such as All That Glitters, God-Eternal Oketra, Dawn of Hope, Heliod, Sun-Crowned, and multicolored cards like Dream Trawler, Lurrus of the Dream-Den, Teferi, Time Raveler, Winota, Joiner of Forces, and Zenith Flare. Has this been a coincidence, or is there a push in design to make a more powerful card pool for white?

We have been focusing on white as there was a large public outcry about it.

All That Glitters Dawn of Hope Dream Trawler Flare God-Eternal Oketra Heliod, Sun-Crowned Lurrus of the Dream-Den Teferi, Time Raveler White Winota, Joiner of Forces Zenith Flare

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