Victim of Night

Innistrad Monsters Batching Probability

"if/when: batching for "undead" creatures (zombies, skeletons, vampires, ghouls etc.)?" "If, but I could see it working in the right set." What are the chances that the next Innistrad set has vampires, zombies and werewolves batched as "monsters" or a similar term? (See for example Victim of Night.)

The batch doesn’t want to be too high a percentage of the set.

Batches Creatures If/When Innistrad Skeleton Vampire Victim of Night Zombie

Walk the Plank Design

Was there ever a discussion to make Walk the Plank more similar to Victim of Night? Ie Instant speed, and mention other races that would be silly to make Walk the Plank like Fish, Leviathans etc

We chose for simplicity and not hit the tribal one that was relevant.

Fish Instants Kindred / Typal Leviathan Victim of Night Walk the Plank

Enchantment Block Strategy

Would you tone down targeted removal in an Enchantments-matter block to make the main drawback of Auras be of less impact? Would you consider doing something like "destroy target creature that's not enchanted" similar to how Ultimate Price / Victim of Night / Go for the Throat worked in their respective blocks?

I agree that enchantment blocks have the job of figuring out how to make auras more relevant than normal. Your solution is one possibility but there are others that would also work.

Auras Creatures Destroy Enchantments Go for the Throat Ultimate Price Victim of Night

Black Removal Evolution

You said: "Black creature removal has shifted away from having to have restrictions. “Just let black kill” seems to be the current motto." That doesn't seem to be the case, since of the four main black kill spells in Standard, Tragic Slip is conditional, Ultimate Price and Victim of Night are target-restricted, and only Murder just kills. What's up with that?

I didn’t say we dropped all restrictions, I just said we are pushing towards more letting black kill than we used to.

Black Creatures Spells Standard Tragic Slip Ultimate Price Victim of Night

Victim of Night Mechanics

Why Victim of Night doesn't say "Destroy target human Creature"?

We wanted the card to be mechanically broader than that. There is always a tension between making a card as flavorful as possible and making it play as well as possible. “Non-monster” ended up working better than “human”.

Creatures Destroy Flavor Human Victim of Night

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