Camouflage

Boldness in Spell Restrictions

I just listened to your restrictions podcast. But restricted spell casting and even abilities were baked into the game in Alpha, Sirens Call, Camouflage, False Orders could only be played at specific times, Neteling Imp could only be activated at a specific time and Veteran Body Guard only dud his Kevin Cosner impression if untapped. Not to mention the interupt, instant and sorcery timing rules.

There have always been restrictions. We’ve just been more bold in where and how often we can use them.

Camouflage Drive to Work False Orders Imp Instants Rules Siren Sorceries

Complexity's Role

Additional pieces and complexity have always been part of the game, in Alpha ,The Hive made tokens; Clockwork Beast, Cyclopean Tomb, Fungusaur, Gaea's Liege, Living Artifact, Rock Hydra and Scavaging Ghoul used counters of some kind. In the same set Aspect of Wolf, Fireball, Gaea's Liege and Personal Incarnation involve fractions with rounding up and down(many players still have some difficulty using these cards) and then just out right comp lexity, Camouflage, Illusionary Mask, Lich,Raging River and Word of Command. Not to mention Banding, Protection, interrupt batches, tapped artifacts turning off, tapped blockers dealing no damage, in addition to individual card interactions. This game has always been complex and drawn on other components outside of just the cards. All to the enrichment of its players. Do you think without the conceit of this complexity as many early board, minature, rpg, card game players would have been drawn to this azmazing game?

I think complexity is more feature than bug, but it’s still a dangerous force to be used carefully.

Artifacts Aspect of Wolf Banding Batches Beast Camouflage Clockwork Beast Cyclopean Tomb Fireball Fungusaur Gaea's Liege Hydra Illusionary Mask Incarnation Lich Living Artifact Personal Incarnation Protection Raging River Rock Hydra The Hive Tokens Wolf Word of Command

Potential Card Updates

Great podcast about silver border / acorn, especially the point about casual play coming before the formalized rules. There are a lot of cards that are exceptionally complicated in errata in order to make them work (Shahrazad, Raging River, Camouflage), or have to be banned from vintage to stay in black border (conspiracies). Do you think its possible to errata those cards into silver border / acorn?

I believe Conspiracies would have been acorn if that technology existed at the time.

Bannings Black Border Camouflage Casual Play Conspiracies Drive to Work Errata Format Legality Raging River Rules Shahrazad Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets Vintage

Psychic Network and Aeather Vortex

What happens when psychic network and yet another aether vortex are in play at the same time?

It gets weird. You can have permanents on the battlefield, but not be aware what they are. It’s kind of like how Illusionary Mask and Camouflage originally worked except it’s flipped in that everyone *but* you knows what it is.

Camouflage Illusionary Mask Permanents Psychic Network Yet Another Aether Vortex

Names for Better Cards

Do you ever wish that you could have saved names like "Teleport" or "Camouflage" for better cards? At least cards that do something similar to what the name implies?

I do.

Camouflage Teleport

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