Street Sweeper

RTR Design Origins

Which came first in RTR design, the card design for the Street Sweeper trope, or the enchant-land cycle?

I believe the enchant land cycle came first.

Enchant Lands Street Sweeper

Designing Cards

Did you have a hand in designing Volatile Rig or Street Sweeper from RtR? They seem like your kind of funny, flavorful cards. It's nice to see some more tongue-in-cheek cards!

I designed neither. Volatile Rig was designed by the development to fit art they had (they had kicked out the card that was originally tied to the art). Street Sweeper was designed by Ethan Fleischer during a sub-design team designing city tropes.

Art Ethan Fleischer Flavor Humor Street Sweeper Volatile Rig Your Hand

City Tropes in RTR

Previously I asked you about how you would convey City in RTR. Between Gates, Land auras, and activated abilities on Non-Basic lands. I think you guys promoted that lands in cities do things without detracting from the other themes of the set, or stepping on the toes of Zendikar. My fave of these designs is Street Sweeper, did you guys try to hit up other city tropes in the same top down way as that? (Like an Azorius artifact called stoplight?)

We did. In fact, we even put together a design sub-team to do nothing but design city trope cards. That team made Street Sweeper.

Artifacts Auras Azorius (W/U) Gates Gates Lands Street Sweeper Top Down Zendikar

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