The Warrior

Creature Type Reasons

what makes a magic card have the warrior, knight or soldier type?

Usually flavor, but sometimes typal themes in a set.

Creatures Flavor Kindred / Typal Knight Soldier The Warrior Warrior

Valkyrie Token Confusion

Hi, I bought a Valkyrie Harbinger for one of my deck, but I'm confused for the token. Valkyrie Harbinger creates a "4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance" and I can't find such a token in Kaldheim because it seem the angel token it has is a 4/4 white Angel Warrior with flying and vigilance. Is it a misprint? Oracle doesn't have the warrior subtype. If it is, can it be errated to make the token a warrior too?

Valkyrie Harbinger and Rampage of the Valkyries both create a 4/4 white Angel token that isn’t a Warrior, so it wasn’t a misprint.

Angel Card Printing Creatures Flying Kaldheim Rampage Rampage of the Valkyries Subtype The Warrior Tokens Valkyrie Harbinger Vigilance Warrior White

Serra Trivia for Birthday

If it’s not too much trouble I would like to get a bit of birthday trivia about Serra, my favorite planeswalker.

The names Serra came from the word “serrated” because the warrior angel carried a sword.Happy Birthday!

Angel Birthday Planeswalkers Serra The Warrior Warrior Warrior Angel

Dual Race/Class Lords

Was there ever consideration of dual race/class lords (lorwyn-like)? I'd love to have gotten a bit of Kor support and other formats would probably appreciate having another human/elf/merfolk/vampire (plus cleric/wizard/rogue lord) instead of just the warrior lord.

Tribal support is tricky and we have limited space. I hear you though that you’d like more world specific tribal support.

Cleric Elf Human Kindred / Typal Kor Limited Merfolk Rogue The Warrior Vampire Warrior

Creature Type Consolidation

During the Grand Creature Type Update, was it ever considered to consolidate bigger creature types amongst each other? I'm thinking collapsing Samurai, Knight, Barbarian, Berserker, and/or Soldier into the Warrior creature type.

The goal of creature types is not just maximizing tribal interactions. There’s a lot of flavor dividing up certain categories (such as magic caster or combatant).

Barbarian Berserker Creatures Flavor Kindred / Typal Knight Samurais Soldier The Warrior Warrior

Squirrel Sub-Theme Potential

Would it be possible to see a squirrel sub-theme in a supplemental booster based set like the warrior subtheme in Battlebond?

Unstable had a small Squirrel theme.

Battlebond Boosters Squirrel The Warrior Unstable Warrior

Warrior Tribal Trivia

Happy Birthday Mark!! My birthday as yesterday but I forgot to ask a question so, ith all the Battlebond hype floating around, could I get some Trivia about the Warrior tribal? that's by far one of my favorite things about the set

We used to focus a not more on Soldier than Warrior, but ever since the Warrior tribal of Khans, we’ve upped Warriors a bit. Happy Birthday!

Battlebond Birthday Kindred / Typal Soldier The Warrior Warrior

Amonkhet Token Vigilance

Why do a bunch of the 1/1 tokens made in Amonkhet have vigilance? Seems like a weird keyword for a 1/1, let alone a trend of 1/1s.

We were trying to convey the sense that they were the citizens of the city working out for the trials. We gave them the Warrior subtype and vigilance to capture the intensity of their training. The other option, first strike, led to bad game play en masse.

Amonkhet Citizen First Strike Game Play Keywords Subtype The Warrior Tokens Training Vigilance Warrior

Warrior Sub-theme Insight

I'm interested as to the decision to include the Warrior sub-theme in Khans block so far. I doesn't do anything significant in the wedge-themed Khans, and doesn't have the time-travel feel of Fate Reforged. Why keep it in? Both of those sets already have great and varied mechanics and themes.

Tribal themes are very popular, so much so that we try to include at least one in each block. In Khans, Warriors was used as something for a White/Black deck to do in draft.

Black Fate Reforged Kindred / Typal Limited Mechanics Orzhov (W/B) The Warrior Three Color Warrior White

Khans Theme Query

If Khans was supposed to be a block with a warrior subtheme, why are there so many soldiers & bezerkers?

Because not everything is supposed to be part of the warrior subtheme.

Soldier The Warrior Warrior

Warrior and Soldier Distinction

Were the warriors in KTK ever soldiers?

Before the warrior matters theme happen, some were soldiers.

Soldier The Warrior Warrior

Anthropomorphic Species Logic

why exactly does every intelligent species have to be anthropomorphic Maro? why can't a hyperintelligent megatoad learn the way of the warrior without being a biped? Serioustalk.

Resonance. When animals act like humans, it helps for them to have some human features.

Human Mark Rosewater The Warrior Warrior

Bushido Flavor Limitations

Bushido is often defined as "way of the warrior" but its actually literally "warrior spirit" not sure how that's against magic flavour

The problem is the flavor is still pretty limited as it can only go on things that have the flavor of being a warrior, basically humanoids and even then a subset of them. Let’s imagine you made a giant toad that you wanted to give the ability to. “Way of the warrior” would make no sense.

Bushido Flavor Giant Limited Spirit The Warrior Warrior

Design Roles

I just finished "A Kick in the Seat of the Pants" and I was wondering which of Explorer/Artist/Judge/Warrior you consider yourself best at in magic design.

Part of being Head Designers is taking on all four roles. Probably I’m best at being the Artist but I’ve discovered that I have to spend a lot of time being the Warrior.

Art Explorer The Warrior Warrior