Hostage Taker

Usage of Banisher Priest Effects

In the mechanical color pie article, you said banisher priest effects are only in white, but hasn't black gotten them in cards like hostage taker and gelatinous cube?

It’s possible it becomes secondary one day. Right now its used pretty infrequently in black.

Banisher Priest Black Color Pie Draft Formats Gelatinous Cube Hostage Taker Secondary White

Wording Consistency

Can you retire wording like on Stolen Strategy of "you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color" and only use the Hostage Taker and Thief of Sanity ("you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type") wording from now on? Kozilek thanks you. Same for using Incubation Druid text instead of Oasis Ritualist's or treasure tokens?

We want to choose language that maximizes comprehension of the ability. That is prioritized over working with colorless mana as that is a very tiny case use.

Colorless Colors Druid Hostage Taker Incubation Druid Mana Oasis Ritualist Stolen Strategy Thief of Sanity Tokens Treasure

Functional Errata Philosophy

“We avoid functional errata” A. In modern times you don’t, just look at marath and hostage taker. But B. In the case of non game-breaking errata, why? What cost exists?

We like cards, as much as is possible, to do what they say they do.

Errata Functional Errata Hostage Taker Modern

Legendary Pirate Absence

Is there no legendary Pirate in Rivals of Ixalan?

There is not. The black/red rare/mythic rare is Angrath.
The blue/red rare/mythic rare is part of the double-faced land cycle.
There is no blue/black rare/mythic rare because the allied cycle was split with Ixalan and Ixalan got blue/black (Hostage Taker) and red/green (Regusair Alpha).

Alpha Black Blue Dimir (U/B) Green Gruul (R/G) Hostage Taker Izzet (U/R) Lands Pirate Rakdos (B/R) Rares Red Rivals of Ixalan

Hostage Taker Text

Will Hostage Taker's text be changed to reflect the errata in future Ixalan print runs?

No. We don’t change cards in future print runs to avoid making people collect printing variations.

Card Printing Errata Hostage Taker Ixalan

Pleasant Pirate Surprise

Just finished with my prerelease! My pulls dictated I played pirates which I had no interest in, but I did and it was fantastic! Hostage Taker is currently my favorite card in Ixalan.

Arrrg!

Hostage Taker Ixalan Limited Pirate Prerelease

Hostage Taker Errata

Hi Mark. Didn't you say one of the Ixalan cards should receive errata? If yes, which and when will it happen?

Hostage Taker will get errata before release to keep it from infinitely looping.

Errata Hostage Taker Ixalan

Hostage Taker Silver Abuse

So Hostage taker is rampant for abuse in silver bordered land?

Only with R&D Secret Lair.

Hostage Taker Lands Secret Lairs Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn

Hostage Taker Reprint Policy

Is there a chance that Hostage Taker can be corrected in future print runs of Ixalan?

We don’t tend to change the cards in future printings of the same set. When we did it in early Magic, it caused all sorts of confusion.

Card Printing Hostage Taker Ixalan

Hostage Taker Errata

Am i wrong or Hostage Taker can go infinite just by itself, and, if there is nothing else in the battlefield, could lead to a draw?

There will be errata on it to prevent that.

Errata Hostage Taker

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