Gravedigger

Gravedigger Character Continuity

My birthday is coming up! I wanted to ask about one of my favorite cards from back when I started in 6th edition. I was looking at the spoilers for MH3 and noticed that the card art for "Gravedig" - looked exactly the gravedigger from the all time classic card "Gravedigger" ! Is this intended to be the same character or just a coincidence?

It’s intended to be the same character.Happy Birthday!

Art Birthday Gravedig Gravedigger Modern Horizons 3 Spoilers

Gravedigger's Zombie Typing

Since you were designing for Tempest, maybe you know. Why is Gravedigger a Zombie?

I like Zombies and thought it would be good in a Zombie deck.

Gravedigger Tempest Zombie

White Gravedigger Potential

Can white get Gravedigger?

If it got a small/cheap creature, sure.

Creatures Gravedigger White

Gravedigger Common Rarity

Is not having Gravedigger at common because it can recur another of itself an NWO issue or just a Limited power level issue?

We keep self-recurring cards out of common. I’m not sure it’s technically New World Order (as that’s more about complexity), but it’s NWO-adjacent.

Gravedigger Limited Power Level

Rarity Shifts

Over the past couple years we have seen a few cards increased to uncommon like Doom Blade and Gravedigger. Why don't we ever see cards lowered in rarity?

Counterspell started as an uncommon. Tundra Wolves started as a rare. When things move up, other things have to move down.

Counterspell Doom Blade Gravedigger Rares Rarity Tundra Wolves Uncommons Wolf

Anarchist and Anarchy

It being new years and me and some other punk friends are celebrating, Can we get some triva on the the cards Anarchist and Anarchy?

Anarchist was part of what we call a “follow-up cycle” where we take a card we like and later make cards in the other four colors turning it into a cycle. The card that spawned Anarchist was Gravedigger which appeared in the set before it, Tempest. We chose sorcery for red because it was one if the two spell colors and we wanted blue’s version to be able to get back counter spells and this fave blue the ability to get back instants. Anarchy is before my time but as a color pie guru, I considered it one if the greatest color pie violations of all time.

Blue Color Pie Colors Cycles Gravedigger Instants Red Sorceries Spells Tempest

Two-for-One Commons

You mentioned that "Development doesn't like two-for-ones at common." Since you printed Divination/Mind Rot in M14, I'm assuming you mean only attached to creatures? Does this mean that things like Gravedigger are more likely to show up as uncommons going forward?

Yes, I did mean built onto creatures. And yes, Gravedigger has become an uncommon thing.

Card Printing Creatures Divination Gravedigger Mind Rot Uncommons

Visions, 7th Edition Contributions

Is there anything I can credit you for doing in Visions or 7th Edition?

Cards I remember designing (or co-designing) in Visions: (note this is a long time ago so my memory might be faulty) Anvil of Bogardan Brood of Cockroaches Chronatog City of Solitude Eye of Singularity Helm of Awakening Juju Bubble Necrosavant Ovinomancer Quirion Ranger Rainbow Efreet Relentless Assault Rowen Squandered Resources Suq'Ata Assassin Talruum Champion Triangle of War Cards I remember making (or co-making) in Seventh Edition: (once again my memory is not perfect) Arcane Laboratory Archivist Coat of Arms Compost Confiscate Delusions of Mediocrity Elvish Lyrist Elvish Piper Engineered Plague Evacuation Fervor Grafted Skullcap Gravedigger Hibernation Lightning Blast Maro Mawcor Might of Oaks Nature’s Revolt Opportunity Opposition Persecute Pygmy Pyrosaur Reclaim Relentless Assault Revenant Rolling Stones Rowen Seeker of Skybreak Seismic Assault Serra’s Embrace Shock Spellbook Sudden Impact Telepathy Temporal Adept Thieving Magpie Tolarian Winds Yavimaya Enchantress

Anvil of Bogardan Arcane Laboratory Archivist Assassin Brood of Cockroaches Champion Chronatog City of Solitude Coat of Arms Delusions of Mediocrity Efreets Elvish Lyrist Elvish Piper Engineered Plague Eye Eye of Singularity Fervor Grafted Skullcap Gravedigger Helm of Awakening Juju Bubble Lightning Blast Mark Rosewater Mawcor Might of Oaks Necrosavant Ovinomancer Pygmy Pyrosaur Quirion Ranger Rainbow Efreet Ranger Relentless Assault Revenant Revolt Rolling Stones Rowen Seeker of Skybreak Seismic Assault Seventh Edition Spellbook Squandered Resources Sudden Impact Suq'Ata Assassin Talruum Champion Temporal Adept Thieving Magpie Tolarian Winds Triangle of War Visions Yavimaya Enchantress