Languish

On Damnation and Color Pie

Is Damnation a color pie break? Is Languish the closest black can get for a 4 mana wrath? I know it comes from Planar Chaos, as a colorshifted card, but some of those colorshifted cards actually aren't pie breaks (Such as Prodigal Pyromancer, Mesa Enchantress, Ovinize, and Seal of Primordium). Is black still unable to have an unconditional wrath at 4 mana? Perhaps one without regeneration mentioned, like Day of Judgement.

Damnation is not a color pie break. Black can kills lots of creatures.

Black Color Pie Creatures Damnation Languish Mana Mesa Enchantress Ovinize Planar Chaos Prodigal Pyromancer Seal of Primordium

Meta Design Shift

Since the direction of design has seemingly changed to be significantly less focused on spells, we've seen blue and red die off as colors in standard. Do you think this design change is incorrect seeing what has happened, or do you plan to try and work blue and red into the new midrange metas?

Less focused on spells? Let’s check the Standard metagame. Here are the five current most powerful cards: (yes, I had some help compiling this list)Collected CompanyAvacynSylvan AdvocateLanguishDromoka’s CommandTwo of them are creatures.*Three* of them are spells.Yes, the pendulum swings making certain colors stronger and weaker in the metagame, but it’s not because we’re unwilling to make powerful spells.

Blue Collected Company Colors Creatures Languish Red Spells Standard Sylvan Advocate

Color Pie Oversight

You often use the example of the "G 1/1 Snake with Flash, Deathtouch and ETB fight ability" as an example of breaking the color pie without going outside of what the color can do. Isn't that the same case with Ezuri's Predation? It's essentially a one-sided Languish. Is this another case of Commander oversight or what?

I believe it is out of color pie for the same reasons.

Color Pie Colors Commander Deathtouch Enter The Battlefield Ezuri's Predation Fight / Bite Flash Languish Snake

Mood Swings Card

If a bunch of fans begged Wizards to print Mood Swings, do you think it would see print or just languish in our dreams like Un-3.

I just don’t think Mood Swings falls in the area we are currently focusing. I do hope it sees print some day.

Card Printing Languish Mood Swings

Portions of Marodigest are unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. The literal and graphical information presented on this site about Magic: The Gathering, including card images and mana symbols, is copyright Wizards of the Coast, LLC. Marodigest is not produced by or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. All other content © 2024 Webscape Internet Engineers. All rights reserved.