The FAQ

Update FAQ Page Request

New 25 Jul 2024 Asked by the-pokemon-prof 5 Comments

hey mark, i know its probably not a priority but i figured id bring up that your FAQ page is several years out of date! at least eleven of the worlds on the "short list" there have been done by this point! teehee


Does anyone know how to change it? Tumblr’s interface isn’t helping me figure out how to do it.

Who's This Guy

New 23 Jul 2024 Asked by whentheskittlesfightback 7 Comments

i am tormented by the question every day, who are you? the faq button doesnt work (presumably because i am on mobile), and i just have no idea who you are. am i supposed to?


I am the Head Designer for a game called Magic: The Gathering. I have no idea why non-Magic players are seeing my posts.

Community Projects Idea

New 15 May 2024 Asked by banksyguythrowingthings 11 Comments

MARO! Has it ever occurred to you that people will do projects like "Make a list of all the un-cards that work within the regular rules" and you could just like... ask for a reddit post which you could then review and post, saving you time? Same with an FAQ update I imagine? Maybe there's legal weirdnesses with that, but you likely have a small army of volunteers at your service if only you would ask for things.


A fine point.

Silver Border Evaluations

New 15 May 2024 Asked by somniphagore 12 Comments

Would you ever consider going through the Un-sets and posting an unofficial (actual, not just the pun) of cards you believe are silver border solely due to set rather than rules or play concerns? As someone who has used your blog multiple times as a source for rule 0 discussions I assume others might also use you as an informal authority on "intended game design"


This is a project I’d love to do if I can find the time. Note, so is rewriting my FAQ, so that might give you an hint of how busy I am. I can say that the die-rolling works in the rules and would (almost) all be eternal legal if such a list was made.

The Big Idea FAQ

New 12 May 2024 Asked by magicalgirlpenny 17 Comments

hi mark! i have an un-rules question for a deck i'm brewing: the faq for The Big Idea says the extra dice it rolls are seen as separate from the original, but what about the results? say i use it to get +1d6 to a roll and i roll a 4 and a 6, for cards like Mr House, would that count as two results, or one result of 10? thanks!


One result. It’s adapting the roll, not increasing the number of rolls.

Updating FAQ Shortlist

New 24 Apr 2024 Asked by atogota 20 Comments

Have you ever considered updating the shortlist on your FAQ page? A lot of the worlds on there, such as Egyptian World, Meso-American World, Underground World, and Camelot World are settings that we've visited, probably since you wrote the blurb.


It’s on my to-do list.

FAQ Update Needed

New 08 Mar 2024 Asked by w4tchtower 16 Comments

Will you be updating the FAQ? There are broken links


There’s a lot more issues than that. I do hope to update it this year.

Silver Border Rules

New 17 Feb 2024 Asked by aalgot 21 Comments

If I use death wish in a silver border game, can I add a blue reverse to my hand, it is a card I own that’s outside the game, just not a magic card.


No, the FAQ for the different Un-sets all explain when a silver-border/acorn refers to a card it means a Magic card.

FAQ Update Reminder

New 03 Jan 2024 Asked by mj6music 44 Comments

I’d like to throw out another reminder to update the FAQ, not just because the plane short list is mostly complete, but also the address for Wizards is no longer correct and the links to articles you reference are all broken now. Thanks for all you do MaRo!


Can someone remind me how to update it?

FAQ Update Humor

New 19 Nov 2023 Asked by doctor-seamonster 30 Comments

Also I assume that you will never update the "requested planes" list in your FAQ because at this point it's come back around and the more things get checked off, the funnier it gets for being even more out of date.


One of these days, I should update my FAQ. It really is on my To Do List. It’s just a long list.

Planar Die Interaction

New 18 Oct 2023 Asked by suigenyukiouji 27 Comments

I love planechase and Doctor Who, and thus plan to make a First Doctor and Susan deck as such. Question: does Vedalken Squirrel-Whacker interact with the planar die at all? It doesn't specify numbers (I know cards that say "ignore the lowest" and such ignore planar die rolls), but I can only assume it won't allow you to "store" a planeswalk symbol or a chaos symbol as its power or toughness. (though, in an acorn game, maybe it could?)


From the Unfinity FAQ: If an ability triggers “whenever you roll a die,” it will trigger whenever you roll any die, including the planar die. This is a change from previous Un- rules. Some abilities use the result to determine part of the effect. If you get a non-numerical result (currently just the planar die, but the future is long), that part of the effect won’t do anything.What this means is rolling a planar die for Vedalken Squirrel-Whacker won’t do anything as it has no numbers.

Updated World Requests

New 30 Aug 2023 Asked by unknownwarrior33 31 Comments

I was just reading the FAQ, and I'm impressed: most of the worlds listed on the "short list" either have happened or have been announced. Are there any newer common requests you would add, if you decided to update it?


Yes.

Errata Changes Explained

New 28 Aug 2023 Asked by thespitefulcrow 29 Comments

Hey Mark, I noticed your FAQ mentions that there would never be mechanically functional errata to cards; what's the explanation for Training Grounds then? The original rules text, as well as the ruling info, both state that you can choose to discount a creature's activated ability by just 1 or even 0 if you so choose, but with the Aftermath reprint, you no longer have a choice and you're forced to take the full discount of 2. Sounds like a mechanically functional change to me.


We do occasionally make small functional errata changes on cards, but it isn’t something we do a lot.

Spelling Bee Rules

New 23 Aug 2023 Asked by themartiangeek 28 Comments

Do artist names count for Spelling Bee?


No. From the FAQ: “The player looking at the top card of your library can choose any word from the card’s name, type line, or text box. Notably, they can’t choose a word that’s only in the artwork or artist credit. It doesn’t have to be a real word from a dictionary; Astroquarium is a perfectly cromulent word, for example.”

FAQ Updates

New 13 Jul 2023 Asked by chairsarefornerds 38 Comments

are you planning on updating your faq for there to be less repeat questions? also, would you like to use this ask to plug the fact you have an faq so there's less repeat questions?


At some point, I’ll update it. It’s just something I have to do on my computer, and 99% of me interacting with my blog is on my phone.

FAQ Revision Status

New 13 Jul 2023 Asked by faerross 45 Comments

When was the last time you revised your Blogatog FAQ? I notice the 'short list' answer still includes Egyptian, Fairy Tale, "Camelot", Pirate, Prehistoric, and Steampunk worlds; each of which we've seen implemented in part or whole.


I have never revised it, so it’s pretty old.

Blogatog FAQ Progress

New 28 Jun 2023 Asked by namshubofanki 29 Comments

Also, congrats on knocking so many entries off of the short list in the blogatog FAQ, you folks really crunched it out.


Thanks.

FAQ Update Suggestion

New 22 Apr 2023 Asked by fzzr 40 Comments

You may want to update your FAQ. Several of the worlds on the "short list" have been done and the other magic folks' blogs linked there seem to all be moribund.


The FAQ is old.

Dragon Change Trivia

New 16 Mar 2023 Asked by j-waffles 34 Comments

I WOULD LIKE TO INVOKE BIRTHDAY TRIVIA BECAUSE I FORGOT ABOUT IT ON MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY MARCH 8TH! My birthday wish is an update to the FAQ, but failing that, can I have some trivia on descent of dragons from DTK?


The card is a bit of a bend, but turn a bunch of creatures into Dragons was too cool to pass up.Happy Birthday!

FAQ Update Inquiry

New 27 Nov 2022 Asked by oworaviolitime 23 Comments

Is the Blogatog FAQ still up to date? I'm noticing some missing sets that you've worked on such as Unfinity and I wanted to make sure other info there such as the postage address and policies on asking certain questions was still accurate.


The FAQ is quite a bit out of date, but the address is still correct.


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