Gloomwidow

High-Flying and Reach

Do you (R&D) still call it high-flying when it's on a creature with Reach instead? (Gloomwidow, a green card)

We do not.

Creatures Flying Game Design Gloomwidow Green Reach

Color Pie Mechanics

I recently noticed that Gloomwidow is the first non-blue creature since Nemesis to have "can block only creatures with flying". It got me wondering. Do downside abilities have a color pie, or is it mostly dictated by flavor/mechanics needs?

No, all abilities are assigned places in the color pie. We call the ability you’re talking about “high flying” and it is primary in Blue.

Blue Color Pie Colors Creatures Flavor Flying Gloomwidow Mechanics Nemesis Primary

Reprinting Strong Cards

Why isn't R & D reprinting the awesome cards from the past more often? Instead of mediocre cards like Gloomwidow, Serra Avatar, Clone, etc why can't we get Death Cloud, Palinchron, Oversold Cemetery, or cards that have seen play? It feels like whoever is designing the core sets isn't doing a good job of combing through Magic's past and I wish this would be looked at. Or at least put these in the expert expansions please.

We do repeat powerful cards. For example, Rancor is coming back in Magic 2013. In expert expansions though we tend to like to have the majority of the powerful cards be new unknown cards that people have to figure out rather than repeats that are already known quantities.

Avatar Card Printing Death Cloud Game Design Gloomwidow Oversold Cemetery Palinchron Rancor Reprints Serra Avatar

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