Unicycle

Vehicle vs Reconfigure

Hey Mark! I'm curious why Set Design went for the vehicle variation for mount rather than the reconfigure variant suggested by vision design, to me the latter seems to capture the 'creature that combines with a rider' idea really well. Although maybe this goes back to the unicycle equipment/vehicle debate

It was significantly less complex/wordy and more intuitive.

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Unicycle Rules Query

Are there any rules issues with Unicycle? It seems pretty simple to me. Could we see equipment/vehicles in a premier set?

I’m not sure what rules complication comes from being both Equipment and a Vehicle.

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Unicycle Design Challenges

Was there ever a unicycle in the Unfinity file? I really expected one!

We talked about it, but never found a design we liked. There is a playtest Unicycle in the Mystery Booster.

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Unicycle Equipment Vs. Vehicle

Will Unfinity settle the unicycle equipment vs. vehicle debate?

I think the playtest cards settled that debate. : )There is a creature on a unicycle in Unfinity, but it doesn’t exist as a card by itself.

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Universe of Plow Vehicles

There is no universe where a plow is a vehicle, not even the unicycle universe.

How about a snow plow? : )

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Unicycle Equipment-Vehicle Concept

Re: MDFC where one side is an equipment and one side is a vehicle. How about a unicycle? :)

This is the most popular response of this week. : )

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Equipment versus Smaller Personal Vehicles

Hola Mark. I'm in the unicycle better fits an equipment camp, and I'd like to share my thoughts. Equipment is items needed/used for a particular task, and vehicles are equipment (dump trucks, bicycles, and tractors are heavy, sports, and farm equipment). Vehicles in Magic replace the user(s)'s stats and damage/effects suffered by the vehicle does not affect the user(s). Given that, smaller personal vehicles mechanically make more sense to me as equipment.

I do understand the other side’s position. And there are members of R&D who agree with you. I just lean towards the more intuitive answer which I find tends to follow word usage. That said, it’s clearly a grey area.

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Unicycle as Equipment?

Can you explain the argument behind a unicycle possibly being an equipment? It seems like a vehicle to me. It's a thing you ride that makes transport easier?

Some people draw the line as to what’s powering the object. If the person is powering the object, they view it as an equipment.

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Unicycle Debate Continuation

On the topic of the Great Unicycle Debate, where would you place rollerblades? Seems like they're pretty obviously equipment to me, but then again, I thought the same thing about unicycles...

Rollerblades aren’t a vehicle, so I’d say they’re equipment.

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Talking through Unicycle Equipment

Did you ever resolve whether a unicycle is equipment or a vehicle? And if so could we someday see a cycle of cycles (bi, uni, and other)?

There’s a mystery booster playtest card where it’s both.

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Unicycle Equipment Versus Vehicle

I read this like a year ago but it still bothers me. It was a designer search and they were designing a unicycle card, and someone made it an equipment. One of the judges was like "why make it an equipment when vehicles exist," and I'm concerned. The difference between a vehicle and a mobility-enhancing equipment, in my opinion, is if holding a sword will change your power level. If you're holding a sword in a car, it doesn't really do much, but if you hold a sword on a unicycle, you're deadlier

“One of the judges” was me. Here’s my criteria: if it’s a piece of equipment, it’s an Equipment. If it’s a vehicle, it’s a Vehicle. : )

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Unicycle Card Pleasure

Just saw the mystery booster Unicycle card and I am very pleased

: )

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Magic Carpet Quandary

I hate to reopen the Great Unicycle Debate, but what would the power and toughness of a “crewed” magic carpet be? Wouldn’t it make more sense as equipment that granted flying?

My personal line for Vehicles: Do you ride it? If you wear or wield it, it’s an Equipment. If you ride it, it’s a Vehicle. As I learned during the great Unicycle Debate, others set the line differently.

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Flying Carpet Classification

If R&D designed a new flying carpet card, would it be a vehicle or an equipment?

Ah, the Unicycle debate. Let’s ask all of you, is a flying carpet a vehicle or an equipment? (I’m not taking about the card Flying Carpet as that is neither.)

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Unicycle Equipment Request

If the next unset has a Unicycle equipment vehicle, may I request that it is on fire?

The Unicycle is referencing Great Designer Search 3 where we had them design circus tropes and there was a big argument about whether a unicycle was a Vehicle or an Equipmemt.

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Next Unset Vehicle Equipment

Next unset: Vehicle Equipment

Unicycle. : )

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Unicycle Artifact Possibility

Can I get a maybe on a Unicycle artifact that is both an equipment and a vehicle (with reminder text \that becoming a creature unequips it)?

Maybe. : )

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Equipment Vehicle Feasibility

Per the unicycle debate. Would it be possible in black border to have an artifact that is both Equipment and Vehicle? Or is that combination of card types limited to silver border for now?

I’m skeptical we’d do that in black border.

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Definition of Vehicle

A device like a unicycle or skateboard gives your own efforts mechanical advantage. A device like an automobile doesn't need your effort, it does work on its own. In my mind if it does it's own work and only needs your guidance as a driver it's a vehicle. If it's simply giving your efforts mechanical advantage you've got an equipment.

According to the dictionary, a Vehicle is “a conveyance moving on wheels, runners, tracks, or the like, as a cart, sled, automobile, or tractor”.

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Vehicles vs Equipment

I feel like, in my mind at least, the core difference between Vehicles and Equipment is in whether it's an accessory or the focus. Though it fits the dictionary definition of a Vehicle, a Unicycle is defined much more by who's riding it than, say, a Car is by who's driving it.

You just said “whose riding it”. That’s one of my dividing lines. Do you “ride” it or “wield” it? If you ride it, it’s a Vehicle. If you wield it, it’s an Equipment.

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