Boar

Questioning Quaketusk Boar Reach

Quaketusk Boar having reach is probably going to catch a lot of people off guard. In the past, reach creatures typically were archers, or spiders, or had "spitting" or "turret" or "bounding" or something like that in the name. I understand that reach is far more common nowadays, making it harder to keep doing this, but I feel like SOME rules for reach creatures should still exist. The rules don't even need to be about the name or creature type. Maybe its something that's communicated in the art.

Reach has proven difficult to communicate in art because it doesn’t have clear symbols like wings for flying. We make a lot of large creatures that don’t have reach.

Archers Art Boars Creatures Flying Rules Spiders Quaketusk Boar

Defining the Animal Super-Batch

The decision to define the animal "super-batch" by real-world animals seems very strange to me. I suppose it works on Bloomburrow (because you'd separately decided to make all the Bloomburrow animals "real" animals) but it doesn't make a lot of flavor sense. A resident of Ravnica, for instance, doesn't know that a boar is a "real" animal but an indrik is not. They think of them both as part of the natural order.Was it ever considered to define the animal batch by what people in-universe would think of as "animals", i.e., including mythological and fictional animals but excluding sapients and the other categories on your list?

The concern was what was intuitive to the people actually playing the game, not what fictional character might think.

Batches Bloomburrow Boars Flavor Natural Order

Boars versus Pigs

I am in favor of boars staying boars!

How do others feel?
Which of the two creature types would you prefer for porcine creatures? Boar Pig Have no preference

Blogatog / Tumblr Boar Creatures

Boars Vs Pigs Suggestion

Has renaming boars to pigs been considered? I feel more people would call a boar a pig than a pig a boar

I’ve tried, unsuccessfully to get it changed for years.

Boar

Ox vs Cow Preference

I like Ox. Cow feels like it’s a silly farm animal. I don’t want to think of ‘old McDonald had a farm’ when I’m playing Magic

You must be in the Boar over Pig camp as well. (Not me.)

Boar Oxen

Boar to Pig Conversion

Now that Hounds have become Dogs, any plans for replacing Boar with Pig?

I’ve tried.

Boar Dog

Farm Creatures Commander

If/when: a farm creatures commander to batch & support boars, goats, oxen, etc?

I assume when, but it requires the right set.

Batches Boar Commander Creatures Goat If/When Oxen

Rarity Discrepancies in Packs

On Rarity: Why does it seem that junk rares show up FAR more frequently when opening packs than top tier rares? No matter what set, every time I open a couple boxes I end up with multiples of the junk rares and very, very few of the top tier ones. Why is there always a pile of Eijango Uprising and never a pile of Boseiju, Who Endures after opening several boxes? Never a pile of Dryad of the Illusion Grove, always a pile of Nessian Boar? Do all Rares actually show up at the same Rarity?

All rares are at the exact same rarity (aka they appear the same number of times on the sheets).

Boars Boseiju, Who Endures Dryads Illusions Junk Nessian Boar Rares Rarity

White's Tutoring for Legendary Cards

Tutoring for legendary cards as in Board the Weatherlight, Search for Glory and Thalia's Lancers is part of White's pie or they were all bends?

It’s something we’re experimenting with in white.

Board the Weatherlight Search Search for Glory Thalia's Lancers Tutoring Weatherlight Weatherlight White

Preference in Beast Terminology

As long as we're discussing the topic, I want to say I'm firmly on the side of pig. Using boar is the same as using hound: just relying on "word coolness" instead of what creature type should be about, accurate taxonomy. Guess there are a lot of competing audience desires here.

Welcome to my world. : )

Beast Boar Creatures Humor

Pigs vs Boar Typing

I'm gonna put in a vote for continuing to type pigs as "boar" and not the other way around. Boar just sounds cooler IMO.

Not too boar-ing? : )

Boar Humor

Animal Typing Changes

Now that hounds are dogs, is the next battle boars becoming pigs?

That’s going to be a harder battle. By the way, Pig does exist in silver border.

Battles Boar Dog Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Boar Tribal Probability

I've noticed that there's a part of the community that gets really excited when a cool Boar card is printed (for example: Ilharg). How likely is it that we eventually see Boar tribal cards?

It’s obviously possible, but I think there’s worry in R&D that it might boar a lot of players. : )

Boar Card Printing Kindred / Typal

God Subtype Cycles

"Do you think the god subtype will ever appear without being part of a cycle?" "One day." Do you consider the new boar god in WAR part of a cycle?

It’s the red card in the God cycle.

Boar Cycles God Red Subtype

Ilharg Origin

Was the character of Ilharg, the Raze-Boar created in order to fill the gap of a Red god in WAR, since Hazoret won't be an Eternal?

Maybe. : )

Boar Eternal God Raze Red

Ilharg's Type Line

Why is Ilharg a boar god but none of the Amonkhet gods had their respective animal type?

He had a better agent. : )I think because he’s not just boar-headed, but actually a boar. Or possibly because “Boar” is a short word and fit on the type line.

Amonkhet Boar God

Guild Superweapons Cycle

A number of the guilds have had nontraditional superweapons spoiled: Perihelion II, Vitu-Ghazi, The Boar God... Will this be a complete cycle?

No.

Boar God Two Color

Ilharg's WAR Presence

Will Ilharg, the Raze Boar be in WAR?

Wouldn’t that be Boar-ing? : )

Boar Raze

Ilharg the Raze Boar

Good afternoon, Mark! First off, wanted to say thank you for being so willing to communicate with the community. It's really cool to see someone so much being discussed. I started playing back in September, and one question about the guilds I had is that, is there ever a chance of us seeing Ilharg the Raze Boar as a card, ever? He seems like he'd be a pretty cool RG legendary.

He’s definitely a creature players have been asking for, so I’m sure we’ll make him/her (???) eventually.

Appreciation Boar Creatures Gruul (R/G) Raze Two Color

Ilharg Commander Hope

Hey Mark, can I get a maybe on Ilharg the Raze-Boar in WAR? I'd love to have a commander that allows me to "floop the pig" to win.

Maybe. : )

Boar Commander Raze