Thought Nibbler

Thought Nibbler Cycle Success

From a design perspective, how successful was the Thought Nibbler vertical cycle of undercosted cards with a drawback of reducing the player's hand size?

Not super successful.

Thought Nibbler Your Hand

Necrodominance Hand Size Reasoning

Why does Necrodominance set maximum hand size by 5 (setting it to a specific value) rather than decreasing it by 2 (like Thought Nibbler or Locust Miser)?

Different cards will sometimes approach issues in different ways.

Locust Miser Necrodominance Thought Nibbler Your Hand

Rarity Upgrades

When I look back at the sets when I started playing (around Odyssey) and I think about sets now: It feels like there used to be more vertical cycles (Thought Nibbler/Eater/Devourer) or just cards that were just uncommon upgrades of common cards (Gnat/Locust Miser). Is this my perception or does WotC do fewer obvious rarity upgrades now? I have my thoughts why WotC would do it less, but could you talk about this briefly?

We do less vertical cycles as they structurally do a lot less work than the vertical ones.

Cycles Locust Miser Odyssey Rarity Rarity Thought Nibbler Uncommons Wizards of the Coast

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