Spiders

Questioning Quaketusk Boar Reach

Quaketusk Boar having reach is probably going to catch a lot of people off guard. In the past, reach creatures typically were archers, or spiders, or had "spitting" or "turret" or "bounding" or something like that in the name. I understand that reach is far more common nowadays, making it harder to keep doing this, but I feel like SOME rules for reach creatures should still exist. The rules don't even need to be about the name or creature type. Maybe its something that's communicated in the art.

Reach has proven difficult to communicate in art because it doesn’t have clear symbols like wings for flying. We make a lot of large creatures that don’t have reach.

Archers Art Boars Creatures Flying Rules Spiders Quaketusk Boar

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

Keywording Functional Changes

Doesn't keywording abilities potentially cause some functional changes? In terms of Muraganda Petroglyphs, Serra's Blessing and Spidersilk Armor - the way they're printed, you could have a saproling token that gets +2/+3, doesn't tap to attack, and can block creatures with flying. No abilities were given to it, the enchantments changed how the creature behaved. Now, with the Keyword errata'd in, your creatures "gain" reach and vigilance, making Petroglyphs ineffective.

We change overall rules. What we don’t do is change the functionality of individual cards. Rules changes will impact how particular cards work.

Card Printing Creatures Enchantments Errata Flying Keywords Muraganda Petroglyphs Reach Rules Saprolings Serra's Blessing Spidersilk Armor Tap / Untap Tokens Vigilance

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