Lion Umbra

Unexpected Reach Granting Reason

New 21 Jun 2024 Asked by shoo-be-doo926 9 Comments

what was the reasoning behind giving Lion Umbra reach? reach doesn't seem very lion-eywas it originally a different animal?were other abilties too powerful/too weak?


Late in set design we sometimes realize we don’t have enough defense for flying. As the art’s commissioned at that point, and we don’t make flyers that the art doesn’t clearly communicate flying, our choices for answers are limited. Reach is one of the tools we use, and sometimes we have to do the best we can finding cards that make some amount of sense. I don’t know whether that’s true of this card, but it’s a reason things that don’t seem like a slam dunk for reach sometimes get reach.


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