Ranger

Rangers as Universes Beyond

Hey Mark! My partner had asked me if MMPR would be capable of becoming a Universes Beyond set, and given that I know nothing about how or why you can/can't work with certain properties to make products, I thought I'd ask you.

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are capable of becoming a Universes Beyond.

Partner Rangers Universes Beyond

List of Green Cards

In case anyone was curious about how many Lay of the Land cards are in green:Mono-Green: 58
Analyze the Pollen
Attune with Aether
Borderland Ranger
Boseiju Reaching Skyward
Brave the Wilds
Bushwack
Caravan Vigil
Civic Wayfinder
Cultivate
District Guide
Druid of the Emerald Grove
Elfhame Sanctuary
Evolution Charm
Flare of Cultivation
Flourishing Bloom-Kin
Fork in the Road
Gaea's Bounty
Gatecreeper Vine
Greenseeker
Herd Migration
Horizon Seeker
hunting Cheetah
Journey for the Elixir
Journey of Discovery
Kodama's Reach
Krosan Tusker
Kura, the Boundless Sky
Land Grant
Lay of the Land
Many Partings
Nervous Gardener
Nissa's Encouragement
Nissa's Pilgrimage
Nissa's Triumph
Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Nylea's Intervention
Open the Gates
Outcaster Greenblade
Peregrination
Realm Seekers
Realms Uncharted
Reclaim the Wastes
Rites of Spring
Seek the Horizon
Shard Convergence
Spinewoods Armadillo
Spirit of the Aldergard
Sprouting Vines
Sylvan Ranger
Sylvan Scrying
The Huntsman's Redemption
Thirsting Roots
Trail of Mystery
Traverse the Ulvenwald
Verdant Mastery
Vorinclex
Yavimaya Elder
You Happen On a GladeGreen featuring another colour: 7
Dig Up
Flower // Flourish
Huatli, Poet of Unity
Invasion of Ergamon (flipped to Truga Cliffcharger)
Path to the World Tree
Safewright Quest
Yasharn, Implacable EarthUn-cards: 3
Selfie Preservation (Un-card)
Spirit of the Season (Un-card)
Wild Crocodile (Un-card)(everyone feel free to add any that I've missed!)

FYI

Analyze the Pollen Armadillo Attune with Aether Borderland Ranger Brave the Wilds Caravan Vigil Civic Wayfinder Colors Crocodile Cultivate Dig Up District Guide Druid Druid of the Emerald Grove Elder Elfhame Sanctuary Evolution Charm Flare Flare of Cultivation Flourishing Bloom-Kin Flower // Flourish Fork in the Road Gaea's Bounty Gatecreeper Vine Gates Green Greenseeker Herd Migration Horizon Seeker Hunting Cheetah Invasion Journey for the Elixir Journey of Discovery Kodama's Reach Krosan Tusker Kura, the Boundless Sky Land Grant Lands Lay of the Land Many Partings Nervous Gardener Nissa's Encouragement Nissa's Pilgrimage Nissa's Triumph Nylea's Intervention Open the Gates Outcaster Greenblade Path to the World Tree Peregrination Ranger Realm Seekers Realms Uncharted Reclaim the Wastes Rites of Spring Safewright Quest Seek the Horizon Seeker Selfie Preservation Shard Convergence Spinewoods Armadillo Spirit Spirit of the Aldergard Spirit of the Season Sprouting Vines Sylvan Ranger Sylvan Scrying The Huntsman's Redemption The Wilds The World Tree Thirsting Roots Trail of Mystery Traverse the Ulvenwald Un-sets Verdant Mastery Wild Crocodile Yasharn, Implacable Earth Yavimaya Elder You Happen On a Glade

Ranger vs Scout

Hey Mark. What's the difference between Ranger and Scout creature types?

Scouts are more about going ahead and getting intel on what’s upcoming. Rangers have an affinity with nature and are skilled craftspeople.

Affinity Creatures Ranger Scout

Community UB Requests

Well, if today is UB wishlist time, my pod has mentioned recently some things they'd like to see

Avatar (The Last Airbender, not the James Cameron one) - Lots of elemental magic, soldiers, monks, and weird magical creatures

Discworld - A Magic-adjacent genre space, plus fans who are very passionate about it.

Star Wars - We're getting a Space Opera set next year, and what's a Jedi but a Space Monk?

Power Rangers - Transforming legendary creatures! Giant robots! Other Giant Robots made of the first giant robots! (This is a direct quote from the person who said she wanted to see Power Rangers)

Thanks.

Avatar Creatures Elemental Giant Legendary Creatures Monk Ranger Robot Soldier

Creature Type Errata Rules

I thought the general rule was that if an old card had a new creature type in the name, it got that creature type added to the card. See: Dread Warlock, and the abundance of Ranger cards. It makes sense not to do functional errata on things like Jacob or Eloise but I guess I'm not seeing why Dogged Detective doesn't fit that rule

The rule is *if* we choose to errata a creature type, we usually do creatures with that creature type in its name.

Creatures Detective Dogged Detective Dread Dread Warlock Errata Functional Errata Ranger Rules Warlock

Universes Beyond Color Matching

When designing for Universes Beyond, how do you manage when Magic colours don't line up to the other IP's colours? For example you might want to print a Black Power Ranger card, who typically would not jive with black mana in-universe but it might be just jarring to see "Black Ranger, 2WW"

One of the rules of Universes Beyond is characters with a Magic color in their name, don’t have to be that color. A corollary: characters known for wearing a certain Magic color, don’t have to be that color.

Black Card Printing Colors Mana Ranger Rules Universes Beyond

UB Suggestions

could i suggest universes beyond for chronicles of narnia (on my own behalf) and power rangers (on my fiance's behalf)? :-)

You may. : )

Humor Ranger Universes Beyond

Power Rangers Crossover

Hypothetical. I would love to see a Power Rangers UB crossover someday. If that were to happen, is it possible to create or modify "Morph" to make the 2/2 an actual creature type, such as a human? This is presumption, I'm just curious if that's something that's possible or if it would need a different type of morph. Or if you'd just forgo that and do transforming cards. The long story short is please make a Power Rangers UB

It would be easier to have a legendary creature that makes facedown creatures Human than to change the rules for all morph creatures, many of which creatively are not Human. I can add your request to the list of desired Universe Beyond properties.

Creatures Human Morph Ranger Rules Story / Lore

Tribal Support Future

What are the odds that we'll see more tribal support for creature types like Druid and Ranger in the future?

Magic’s a hungry monster and players like “creature type matters” as a theme.

Creatures Druid Kindred / Typal Ranger

Color Pair Assignments

Hey Mark, bit of a random/long question, but could I ask you what two-color pair you would put each of the following ten classes into, assuming one color pair for each class: Warriors, Rogues, Wizards, Clerics, Rangers, Knights, Monks, Warlocks, Shamans, and Druids. I've been wrestling with this question for a while and I'm completely stumped, so I figured I'd ask you! Thanks!

Normally we choose our creature types to match the colors, so we have a balanced collection. Your ten skew towards certain colors, but I’m up for a challenge. Assuming we have to use these ten and we’re trying to make it as backwards compatible as possible, here’s my guess:white/blue - Monkblue/black - Rogueblack/red - Warlockred/green - Shamangreen/white - Rangerwhite/black - Clericblue/red - Wizardblack/green - Knightred/white - Warriorgreen/blue - DruidKnight’s the odd fit, but thanks to Throne of Eldraine, there are Knights in all the colors.

Azorius (W/U) Black Blue Boros (R/W) Cleric Colors Creatures Dimir (U/B) Druid Golgari (B/G) Green Gruul (R/G) Izzet (U/R) Knight Monk Orzhov (W/B) Rakdos (B/R) Ranger Red Rogue Selesnya (G/W) Shaman Simic (G/U) Throne of Eldraine Warlock Warrior White

Characters Outfits and Colors

About why Magic characters tend to have outfits reflective of their colors, that is a pretty common thing for character design in media. Power Rangers for example has long done this.

Yeah, it’s far from a Magic exclusive thing.

Colors Ranger

About Various Creature Types

-Er creature types: Nightstalker, Sliver, Shapeshifter, Specter, Soldier, Assembly-Worker, Spider, Artificer, Archer, Rigger, Berserker, Spellshaper, Salamander, Volver, Elder, Beholder, Bringer, Ranger, Badger, Thopter, Flagbearer, Badger, Otter, Oyster, Carrier, and Monger. Silver Border: Gamer, Paratrooper, Waiter, Proper (from Miss Demeanor, whose current typeline is Creature — Lady of Proper Etiquette), Designer, Lobster, and Wrestler.

FYI : )

Archer Artificer Assembly-Worker Assembly-Worker Badger Beholder Berserker Bringer Carrier Creatures Elder Flagbearer Gamer Humor Miss Demeanor Monger Nightstalker Otter Oyster Ranger Rigger Salamander Shapeshifter Shapeshifter Sliver Soldier Specter Spellshaper Spider Thopter Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets Volver

Future Mount Mechanic

If/When: A mechanic that lets one creature ride another? I'm mainly thinking along the lines of Knights or Rangers riding Horses or Rhinos or other mounts without needing the Horsemanship keyword. Maybe some sort of Mutate variant?

We call it the “mount” mechanic in R&D and I’m sure there will come a world where it makes sense to finally solve it.

Creatures Horse Horsemanship If/When Keywords Knight Mechanics Mount Mutate Ranger Rhino

Hybrid Card Nod

Actually, there was a (hybrid) green-white Adventure card, Oakhame Ranger

A fine point.

Blogatog / Tumblr Hybrid Ranger

Playing Cards from Library

You had "playing cards from the top of your library" as primary for none, and secondary for all. We've seen this effect almost exclusively done in Green. We even have Ranger Class, Realmwalker, and Augur of Autumn in Standard right now as the only three with the ability to play cards off the top. Are we to expect this in other colors to start trickling in soon, or should the original statement be changed to reflect Green as primary?

Don’t confuse who’s allowed to do it with who has done it most, especially on really rare abilities.

Augur of Autumn Colors Green Primary Ranger Ranger Class Rares Realmwalker Secondary Standard The Library

White's Future Abilities

In the new colour pie article, you list playing cards off the top of your library as secondary in white. As far as I know, Verge Rangers is the only thing like that white has at the moment. Does this mean that we can expect to see more things like it in white going forward?

I said all colors have access to it if they’re playing things in color. Note it’s not something we do very much in any color.

Colors Ranger Secondary The Library Verge Rangers White

Variety vs Party Support

To put the structural support party needs in perspective, ZNR has over 90 creatures with the party types, over half the creatures in the set. In contrast, AFR has only 29. So about 60 creatures would've had to be party-supporting types instead of the great variety they actually were. For instance, rangers and bards might not have been able to be included if their slots were taken up by party classes.

FYI

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Bard Creatures Ranger Zendikar Rising

Prerelease Story Sharing

prerelease story: i played a red green deck that splashes for fighter class and minsc beloved ranger. at first a thought "why is minsc a mythic?" but after 1 game i realized why, also my friends kept on saying "go for the eyes, Boo" whenever i casted him which made me laugh

: )

Eye Fighter Class Green Humor Prerelease Ranger Red Sealed Format Story / Lore

Future of Archer Class

Are there any plans to discontinue Archer as a supported class? We have Rangers now, and we were already seeing bow-wielding creatures that weren't Archers in previous sets, such as Jaspera Sentinel.

Not every person with a bow is a Ranger.

Archer Creatures Jaspera Sentinel Ranger Sentinel

Creatures in Conventional Expansions

Can I get an In/When on the following creatures from AFR showing up in a conventional Magic expansion: gnolls, humanoid dragons (with the dragon subtype), gnomes (non-artifact), halflings.

The D&D specific things aren’t going to show up in non-D&D Magic sets. Things like Bard and Ranger should show up though. Non-artifact Gnomes already exist - Quarum Trench Gnomes from Legends, but I could see a new world with them.

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Bard Creatures Dragon Gnoll Gnome Halfling Legendary Creatures Quarum Trench Gnomes Ranger Subtype