Target Minotaur

Silver Border Card Reprints

Could some silver border cards like Amateur Auteur and target minotaur be made eternal if they got a reprint?

If either card was in Unfinity, it would have been eternal.

Amateur Auteur Eternal Minotaur Reprints Target Minotaur Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Mixing Black and Silver Sets

I love silver bordered sets, and Unstable is probably my second favourite set (behind Conspiracy). However, both Modern Horizons and AFR are very silver-border. There’s a bunch of cards (even the dungeon and d20 mechanics) that are straight out of silver-border. I would be much happier to see a set that is 50/50 silver and black border every couple of years than seeing you fight for a 100% silver set that drops once a decade and gets gatekept. I also think some black border would allow for limited to not have to do weird things to justify their silver border (like target Minotaur type cards). I think UnB and MH2 and the rise of Commander have possibly made it so silver and black don’t need to be kept so separate going forward. :)

What do others think of this idea?

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Black Black Border Commander Fight / Bite Limited Mechanics Minotaur Modern Horizons Modern Horizons 2 Target Minotaur Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Silver Border and Black Border

If Silver Border sets had always allowed black-border cards, do you think cards like Target Minotaur and Amateur Auteur would've been black border? What about Crow Storm?

Yes. Storm Crow could have been black border, but we would have most likely raised the cost.

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Silver and Black Border Explanation

So mark people keep saying to you UB Should be silver borderAnd you say silver border cards can't be made into black border.I think they refuse to believe because of cards like “Target Minotaur” with “Lightning Visionary” pretty much exactly the sameAnd “Super-duper death ray” to “Flame spill” which is the same but trample part is removed.Can you explain your statement with these cards in mind?

The purpose of silver border is that it’s for cards that can’t work in black border. To help simplify Unstable limited we made a few simple creatures that we loosely justified with an art variance. Super-Duper Death Ray didn’t work in black border at the time Unstable was made by a Rules Manager figured out how to do it afterwards. Silver border was never intended as a way to take cards that work perfectly in black-border Magic and make them off limits. It was a border to allow us to print cards that otherwise couldn’t be made. I will note as Magic evolves some things we formerly couldn’t do in black border become doable as with Super-Duper Death Ray,

Art Black Border Card Printing Creatures Flame Spill Lightning Visionary Limited Minotaur Rules Manager Super-Duper Death Ray Target Minotaur Trample Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Clarifying Variant Arts in Cards

Can you clarify why "cards with variant arts" is something you can't do in black border (or couldn't do at the time, because M21 Teferi clearly shows it's something you can do today), but "cards that are not cannon" is?

A joke told through four different arts is not something we would go in black border. The joke about Target Minotaur is that we keep using Minotaurs as the victim of destruction/damage spells. The repetition makes the joke funnier.

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Target Minotaur Card Inquiry

How does Target Minotaur meet thd qualification of "It doesn’t do things we can do in black border"?

A number of the cards in Unstable had variant elements mimicking the digital printing we had originally planned to do (each version on the sheet has its own version). There were cards with variant arts, names, flavor text, watermarks, and rules text. Target Minotaur was one of the art ones.

Art Black Border Flavor Text Minotaur Rules Target Minotaur Watermarks

Variants in Draft Boosters

In unstable you could open cards like Target Minotaur and Novellamental that had versions with different art or flavor text. Is that something we might see in black border draft booster product in the future?

Magic did it long ago in black booster and with Booster Fun, it will be returning although not at low rarity like Unstable.

Art Black Black Border Draft Boosters Flavor Limited Minotaur Novellamental Rarity Target Minotaur Unstable