Lizards

Animal Appearance in Duos

From what I can gather all the duos, like Bakersbane Duo are in shards: Bakersbane duo is green but fits in a squirrel (bg) or raccoon deck (rg), making it a basically a Jund card. The black cards are an exception: Glivedive duo is in a wedge, Mardu (bat wb and lizard rb). Presumably the other black one will be squirrel (bg) and rat (ub)My question is: why? Is the pattern of shards intentional? Is the deviation to one color having wedges intentional?

The only guideline was each animal appeared in just two duos.

Bats Battle for Zendikar Black Colors Golgari (B/G) Green Gruul (R/G) Jund (B/R/G) Lizards Mardu (R/W/B) Orzhov (W/B) Raccoons Rakdos (B/R) Rats Squirrels Three Color Bakersbane Duo

Lizard Shortage in Bloomburrow

I'm enjoying Bloomburrow previews far more than I expected. It might be too early to tell but so far I've been disappointed by the shortage of lizards revealed. As a player who does not love the friendly furry creatures (bats included), I hope to see more scaly friends.

It’s the black/red draft archetype.

Bats Bloomburrow Creatures Draft Formats Lizards Rakdos (B/R) Red Spoilers

Request for Card Errata

Hello, Mark, quick request: I'd like you errata the Outlaw batch to include Wizards effective immediately, and I'd also like you premptively errata all Lizard Warlocks in Bloomburrow into Lizard Wizards.This might have some unforseen play balance concerns and it would be tremendously confusing to have so many new cards not do what they say, but look at the upside: "Lizard Wizard" rhymes.Please and thank you.

If only creature types rhyming was a higher priority for R&D. : )

Appreciation Batches Bloomburrow Creatures Errata Game Balance Humor Lizards Warlocks

Lizards in Bloomburrow

Hey Maro, I noticed that many of the lizards in Bloomburrow are outlaws and many can commit crimes (and are the outlaw colours RB). Please high five the people responsible for adding more cross set synergy/support to the game :)

Will do.

Bloomburrow Colors High Fives Lizards Mark Rosewater Rakdos (B/R)

Scales to Shale's Affinity

Scales to ShaleIt would have been cool to read “Affinity for Lizards”. I enjoy seeing Affinity care about non-artifact things.

We were careful about how much typal scaling we did.

Affinity Kindred / Typal Lizards

Non-mammal Creatures in Bloomburrow

I wonder if non-mammal animals (such as crab, fish, insect, octopus, or spider) were considered as a draft archetype for Bloomburrow.

Lizards are one of the ten two-color pair animals.

Bloomburrow Crabs Creatures Draft Formats Fish Insects Lizards Octopus Spiders

Viashino's Type Change Impact

In your Bloomburrow article, you mentioned that there are over 140 lizards in Magic. However, I'm pretty sure that number is including Viashinos. Does that mean the decision to change Viashino's type line was made before you decided to make Lizards one of the 10 animals?

We’ve been talking about making the Viashino change for years. Adding Lizards just forced our hand to do it before the set came out.

Bloomburrow Lizards Viashino Your Hand

Classification of Animal Species

Hey Mark, so have a question for you from an ecologists perspective here. Why is it that some classes of animals within magic, such as mammals, amphibians, reptiles are broken down into family classes as archetypes (rabbit, wolf, frog, lizard, snake etc) but birds are just birds and not broken down any further? Just an odd one I've noticed for a while haha

We wanted to make bird lords rather than hawk lords.

Birds Frogs Humor Lizards Rabbits Snakes Wolf

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