Old Man of the Sea

Creature Errata Revisit Chances

Hey there Mark, since you guys seemed to have changed your stance of late on creature errata (22 cards becoming nobles, 1 card become a warlock, 6 cards becoming sharks, 75 cards becoming dogs just since last year) what are the chances of you revisiting the errata of making Norin a Coward and making the creatures with proper names into legendary creatures (King Suleimon, Old Man of the Sea, Ali of Cairo, Frankenstein, Niall Silvain, Ali Baba, Abu Jafar, Aladdin)... It only seems fitting.

The former is a possibility. Making something legendary is adding a drawback and thus functional errata.

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About Functional Errata

P3K's existence predated the usage of "when" for Zodiac Dragon, and you say that it's not functional errata in spirit, because the literal text doesn't match how the card worked then. YET, Arabian predated the legendary supertype, and you claim that giving them "legendary" *would* be functional errata? I don't get it. Clearly the spirit of those cards is that if they were printed with legendary available, they would have. And I bet 99% of players then had 1 copy of cards like that to play with.

There is a big difference between unified templates across all of Magic and understanding what we might have done if certain mechanics existed at the time. The only way to know if an Arabian Nights card is legendary, for instance, would be to know the source material and know wether or not it referred to a specific character. For example, is The Old Man of the Sea a specific character or a type of character? (He’s a specific character, I believe). In short, we expect players to grasp that all the cards work similarly, but not that a card might have secret abilities that reading the card can’t easily clue you in on.

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