Darksteel Garrison

Fortifications Interest

Hi Maro! I'm a big fan of Darksteel Garrison! Could I get an if/when on fortifications? As a big artifact player, I'd love to see this space explored more

Fortifications are an if. We just don’t do many enchant lands, let alone ones you would want to be able to move.

Artifacts Darksteel Darksteel Garrison Enchant Fortifications If/When Lands Mark Rosewater

Trivia about Darksteel Garrison

Ah I forgot to ask for Birthday trivia yesterday! I would love to learn something new about Darksteel Garrison.

When making future-shifted cards for Future Sight, we tended to take existing mechanics and tweak them. Darksteel Garrison was us riffing off of equipment doing something similar that equipment couldn’t technically do. We’ve talked about putting fortifications in sets, but land aura effects are just so narrow, it’s hard to find enough designs to justify it.Happy Birthday!

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Enchantment Land Challenge

"our experience with artifact lands in Mirrodin block had a lot to do with why Theros block had no enchantment land." Don't you think the issue with Mirrodin's artifact lands is that there are so many of them? A set of five enchantment lands would be broken too, but an enchantment version of Darksteel Garrison would be flavorful and fun.

Even one enchantment land would have forced development to raise the costs of all the cards with the constellation mechanic.

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Fortify Mechanic Discussion

I seem to remember at least one article on the mothership mentioning that Fortify was brought up during Scars block design, but dismissed because the public response to Darksteel Garrison had been tepid and the design space wasn't large.

It came up both during Zendikar (the land set) and Scars of Mirrodin (home of equipment). It didn’t fit either time but it’s something we’d be willing to use if we found the right home for it.

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Fortifications Discussion

I don't know if someone have asked this (probably someone did), but were fortifications (Darksteel Garrison) considered to be in Scars of Mirrdoin? If not will we see another return to Mirrodin... like ever :D

We did talk about it, but it didn’t really fit in with all the other things going on in Scars of Mirrodin block.

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Fortifications Consideration

One of the cards that intrigued me the most during Future Sight was Darksteel Garrison, and as soon as I had heard about Scars, I anticipated a reprint of it at some point. I know that it's never certain that Future Sight cards and mechanics ever get reused, but did R&D ever consider Garrison or fortifications during any recent set (or future sets)?

We’ve talked about fortifications in several designs but it never quite fit so we haven’t used them yet.

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