Fossil Find

Fossil Find Mechanics

Why does Fossil Find explicitly care about not caring about grave yard order?

Fossil Find is worded such that it can be played in a format where graveyard order matters and not force you to randomly select a card yet keep the graveyard in the exact same order.

Fossil Find Mechanics The Graveyard

Graveyard Order Impact

“We no longer reprint cards where graveyard order matters that are entering a format where it doesn’t currently matter. We also don’t design new cards that do it.” I do know that’s currently the case. I also came across Fossil Find again recently. I no longer remember when the shift to graveyard order not mattering occurred. Was it before Shadowmoor? I think it was, but that makes Fossil Find weird. Also with the current focus on Commander and eternal, could graveyard order mattering return?

The last graveyard order cards are in Tempest block I believe. The design space isn’t worth the aggravation of not being able to rearrange the graveyard to keep track of stuff in it.

Card Printing Commander Design Space Eternal Fossil Find Reprints Shadowmoor Tempest The Graveyard

Graveyard Order Policy

Could a “graveyard order matters” card be reprinted into a format that has “graveyard order matters” in it, but not that particular card? Ex. Modern already has fossil find, so could nether shade be brought in?

We are trying to minimize them even if formats that have some.

Card Printing Fossil Find Modern Reprints Shade The Graveyard

Fossil Find Card

Could the wording of fossil find be due to that fact that they wanted the card to be easier to play in eternal formats?

Probably.

Eternal Fossil Find

Fossil Find's Purpose

Do you know why Fossil Find was made, since Stronghold had the last printing of a card that cared about graveyard order?

I assume it was made to interact with older formats where graveyard order matters. The card itself doesn’t care so it didn’t break our rule about not caring in current Magic. I admit it’s odd and I doubt we would even reference graveyard order today to avoid confusing players.

Card Printing Fossil Find Rules Stronghold The Graveyard

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