Kindle

Reading Options

Is there anyway we can read the stories that doesn’t involve a phone or computer? I loved both arcs, but as a 40 yo fan reading on my phone is a miserable experience and detracts from the excitement. I would love to have a pdf to print out, or a kindle ebook to buy for a dollar in order to relax and enjoy the story. In short, the long arcs are awesome, but it is definitely more cumbersome for us old people to read it these days!

So an export for an ebook format would work?

Card Printing Kindle Story / Lore

Zubera Honden Trivia

It’s my birthday today! (The 20th) Can I get some sweet Zubera or Honden trivia?

I believe the Zuberas were made as a Kindle variant that went on creatures and only counted other Zuberas that died the same turn as it did. They were all Spirits, so they played into the large Human vs. Spirit conflict of the story. The card’s were made to play with the soulshift mechanic and things that let you sacrifice creatures.Happy Birthday!

Birthday Creatures Human Kindle Mechanics Sacrifice Soulshift Spirit Story / Lore Zubera

Requesting Kindle Novels

Hi Mark, are you able to either shout down the corridor at the appropriate employee, or provide me with an email address to use in order to get the Masquerades Cycle of MTG novels added to the Kindle store? I'm about 70% through Bloodlines, and I have Rath and Storm to tide me over for now, but time is running out!

I can pass along the request.

Blood Employee Keyword Abilities Kindle

Card Rarity Discussion

Cards that carw about you having mtipke copies of themselves in the deck are probably going to be rare or lower as a baseline right( excluding cases like kindle becoming a set mechanic)

Usually uncommon or lower if it’s at all something to think about in draft.

Kindle Limited Mechanics Rares Uncommons

Pop Culture Mention

Magic reference on page 269 of the kindle edition of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Magic took the game stores by sudden storm and drove out all the RPG players.

Thanks for filling me in. As always, I love hearing about Magic showing up in pop culture.

Game Stores Keyword Abilities Kindle Pop Culture Sudden Storm

MTG Book Availability

RE: MTG book reprint - many of these are available on Kindle and some more are available the 27th! Just an FYI

FYI

Card Printing Kindle Reprints

Favorite from Tempest

Favorite card from tempest?

Today? Kindle.

Kindle Tempest

Functional Reprint Necessity

Why are there so many functional reprints of cards where the original would have fit just fine flavor-wise? E.g. did we need Illusory Wrappings in AKH when Reduce In Stature would have fit just as well? Or Precise Strike for Kindled Fury in AER?

If the flavor was a perfect fit, we would have used it.

Card Printing Flavor Illusory Wrappings Kindled Fury Precise Strike Reduce in Stature Reprints

Diligent Farmhand Trivia

Today is my birthday! Can I get some trivia for my favorite card: Diligent Farmhand?

Diligent Farmhand was designed as a tweak on the Kindle mechanic from Tempest having a card that counts as a “Kindle” without being a “Kindle”.Happy Birthday!

Birthday Diligent Farmhand Kindle Mechanics Tempest

Kindled Fury vs Precise Strike

"Sometimes the old name is problematic on the new plane." Isn't the name Kindled Fury universal? There's no particular attachment to any particular plane, and it would probably make sense given how Aether Revolt was about the anger of the inventors. Precise Strike just seems like a waste of name space.

Kindled Fury has a very different flavor from Precise Strike and the former didn’t convey creatively what they needed the card to convey.

Aether Revolt Flavor Kindled Fury Precise Strike Revolt

Functional Reprints Justification

What is the justification for functional reprints such as Precise Strike (Kindled Fury)? It seems to pointlessly eat up name space.

Sometimes the old name is problematic on the new plane.

Card Printing Kindled Fury Precise Strike Reprints

Kindle Mechanism Origins

Is the Kindle mechanic referring to the card Kindle or to something in R&D?

The card Kindle and the nana cards like it. It’s not a named mechanic. It’s a nickname.

Game Design Kindle Mechanics

Rats Trivia

today is my birthday and i was wondering if you have any trivia on my favourite creature type rats

The card Plague Rats inspired both Slivers and the Kindle mechanic. Happy Birthday!

Birthday Creatures Kindle Mechanics Plague Rats Rat Rat Sliver

Absent Kindle-Cycle

Mark why didn't you guys make a full "Kindle"-cycle like in Odyssey and Coldsnap? The Burst& pauper lover in me was deeply sadened :(

A set only has so much space.

Coldsnap Kindle Odyssey Pauper

Kindle Revisited

An old friend.

Kindle.

Kindle

Kindle in Standard

Do you think Kindle is too powerful to be printed in standard? I feel like it's a balanced and fun burn spell.

Not a developer, but I think it’s fair enough for Standard.

Card Printing Kindle Not a developer Standard

Graveyard Count Mechanics

Can we see back in standard cards that counts it's copies in graveyard, like Kindle or Rune Snag? I found them very funny to play.

There’s a chance. As the creator of Kindle, I’m a fan of the mechanic.

Humor Kindle Mechanics Rune Snag Standard The Graveyard

Favorite Common Design

Do you have a favorite common card that you designed?

Today I’ll say Kindle from Tempest.

Kindle Tempest

Favorite Burn Spell Chat

Yesterday was my birthday! Can you share what your favorite burn spell is, or trivia on a burn spell you had a hand in?

My favorite burn solely is Kindle. It came about because I was trying to make a Plague Rat-inspired burn spell. The clever solution was to count how many were in graveyards so that each one got bigger. Happy Birthday!

Birthday Kindle Rat Your Hand

Kindle Mechanic Future

There's an effect that appears in Odyssey, Tempest, and Coldsnap that follows the template 'Do thing x, where x is n plus the number of cards named in all graveyards'. I love this mechanic, but I fear that NWO means that it could never reappear. Is this true? I could see the effect on Pardic Firecat and Diligent Farmhand never reappearing since it's so obtuse, but I really want the main mechanic to come back. (Maybe with flashback on it too for fun interactions)

We refer to the mechanic as Kindle based on the name of the first card to do it. I like Kindle and believe there is a good chance of it returning.

Coldsnap Diligent Farmhand Fear Flashback Kindle Mechanics Odyssey Pardic Firecat Tempest Templating