Kaya the Inexorable

Proliferate Interaction

New 03 Jul 2023 Asked by lonedm 24 Comments

I've been testing a proliferate deck on Arena and realized that Ghostform counters from Kaya the Inexorable don't work the way I thought. I now understand that they are more for reminders (kinda like monstrous and +1/+1 counters).I get that you don't want to have every type of counter needing to be defined, I guess I just wish it was different.


Some counters are more about being a marker that an event has occurred more than granting an ability. Proliferating those will seldom “do anything”.

Concerning Kaya the Inexorable

New 05 Jan 2021 Asked by boltedmonkeyman-deactivated2023 99 Comments

Will you be able to tell us how Kaya the Inexorable ended up seeing print? It's very surprising and disappointing to have a card break the fundamental rules of the game's design. It makes playing the card feel much less rewarding (a bit like cheating), in the same vein as something like a green Lightning Bolt. It just seems so strange to me that it would even be made.


Let me be clear about something. I personally don’t like cards casting other cards from exile (that weren’t put in exile by that card), but that is just my opinion. It’s not a fundamental rule. R&D, as a whole, believes it’s okay in certain circumstances. That’s how cards that do that get printed. Magic is made by a large group of people, so it’s a group creation and not a singular creation. Nothing is being done that isn’t allowed to be done.


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