Kirin

Creature Type Criteria

Why is kirin a creature type but not giraffe? And if giraffe ever becomes a creature type, would questing beast get errata to be one?

What does and doesn’t qualify as a creature type is a tricky issue. Go too narrow and you miss some charm. Go too broad and you eliminate a lot of typal possibilities. It’s kind of Vorthos vs. Mel.

Beast Creatures Errata Kindred / Typal Kirin Melvin / Mel Questing Beast Vorthos

Subtype Grouping Proposition

There seems to be some confusion about shrines' creature types. What do you think about the possibility of grouping subtypes with types instead of having then , maybe with small symbols to seperate types? For example, Go-Shintai would be "Legendary * Enchantment (Shrine) * Creature" instead of "Legendary Enchantment Creature - Shrine"; or Cloudsteel Kirin would be "Artifact (Equipment) * Creature (Kirin)" instead of "Artifact Creature - Equipment Kirin"...

While the creature Shrines have caused a little confusion, I’m not sure we want to change things, making things more confusing the rest of the time (and adding space restrictions) to address something we do with such irregularity.

Artifacts Cloudsteel Kirin Creatures Enchantments Equipment Kirin Subtype

Alternative Typeline Structure

For the subtype confusion, would it be possible to structure the type line something like "Artifact - Equipment, Creature - Kirin", "Legendary Enchantment - Shrine, Creature" and "Enchantment, Creature - Human Samurai"? It would require some rules rewriting and adds a few characters, but it might make things clearer.

We’d be trading one type of confusion for another.

Artifacts Creatures Enchantments Equipment Human Kirin Rules Samurais Subtype

Disturb Mechanic Rule Query

Hi Mark! I have a bit of a rules question regarding Disturb. When you cast the card for its disturb cost, is it being cast as a spirit or its original creature type? I'm loving the look of the new cards and I'm hoping they work with my Cloudhoof Kirin deck.

It’s a Spirit.

Cloudhoof Kirin Creatures Disturb Kirin Mechanics Rules Spirit

Monocolor Creature Types

"There are not a lot of non-class creature types that have appeared on monocolor cards of every color." Just of the top some that have appeared as monocolor cards in every color (in cycles) are Spirit, Avatar, Incarnation, Bringer, God, Demigod, Shapeshifter, and Kirin. Also Human of course.

FYI

Avatar Bringer Colors Creatures Cycles Demigod God Human Incarnation Kirin Monocolor Shapeshifter Shapeshifter Spirit

Kirin Beeble Scale

Beeble scale rating for kirin?

It’s a 7 as it needs the right world.

Beeble Beeble Scale Kirin

Birthday Trivia Request

it was my birthday on the 11th but it looks like i made the mistake of sending a trivia ask right as you went into the SDCC panel. is there any chance you'd please be willing to give trivia on either of my commanders (marath and celestial kirin) or-- if there isn't anything fun there-- on my prerelease promo, managorger hydra? thanks!

Marath was designed to take advantage of the Commander rule that Commanders return back to the Command Zone when leaving the battlefield (as were a number of cards in that design). The design is pretty cool in that it allows you to kill Marath so you can play him again. My only gripe is the card has three X effects you can generate by sacrificing +1/+1 counters: Putting X +1/+1 counters in a creature, deal X to a creature or player or make an X/X elemental token. They were supposed to be an effect from each of the three colors of Marath - White, Red and Green. The second ability is Red and the third ability is Green but the first ability is more Green than White. (Both put +1/+1 counters on but Green tends to do the larger numbers as going tall is more Green). Happy Belated Birthday!

Birthday Celestial Kirin Colors Commander Conventions Creatures Elemental Green Hydra Kirin Limited Managorger Hydra Prerelease Promos Red Rules The Command Zone Tokens White

Legendary Creatures' Consciousness

Was isamaru sentient? What about lot celestial Kirin, pheldagrif, polukranos, child of alara, gahaji, the sliver legends, thromok, etc?

Sentience means having sensation or consciousness. Sapience means having wisdom or judgment.All living creatures have sentience. Only intelligent creatures have sapience. Thus, all legendary creatures have sentience but not all have sapience.

Celestial Kirin Child of Alara Creatures Kirin Legendary Creatures Sliver

KTK/DTK Parallels

Will we get an Arcana or article outlining all the card-to-card parallels in KTK/DTK. Things like the two Kirins and the direct reprints?

Hopefully. I think we want to let the players find stuff on their own first.

Card Printing Kirin Reprints