Lovisa Coldeyes

Alter Creature Types

Can Blue alter creature types in permanents? For example, Blue changes Lovisa Coldeyes to "Each creature that’s a Barbarian, a Warrior, or a FISH gets +2/+2 and has haste."

It could hack creature types in rules text.

Barbarian Blue Creatures Fish Haste Lovisa Coldeyes Permanents Rules Warrior

Batching Tribals Opinion

Happy Friday, Mark! I was curious about your opinion on "batching" tribals, cards like Death Baron or Lovisa Coldeyes that effect more than one creature type at a time. Is there much design room there, or does it cross the dangerous "just because we can doesn't mean we should" line?

I think it’s interesting, and not particularly dangerous, design space.

Batches Creatures Death Baron Design Space Lovisa Coldeyes

Cross Tribe Support

Hello Mark,From what I understand, the issue about creating new creature types is to find a balance between flavor and tribal/mechanical support. What do you think about creating more cards with "cross tribe" support in mind? (Especially for niche creature types; I really liked lovisa coldeyes supporting barbarians and berserkers for example)

We do cross creature types where it flavorfully makes sense.

Barbarian Berserker Creatures Flavor Keyword Actions Kindred / Typal Lovisa Coldeyes

Pre-Revisionist Characters

To answer that one person's question, numerous pre-revisionist characters have already jumped into modern Magic. Nicol Bolas, Freyalise, Tevesh Szat, Leshrac, Kristina of the Woods, Taysir, Urza, Mishra, Yawgmoth, Lim-Dul, King Darien, Lovisa Coldeyes, Empress Galina, and more! The first Dominaria story even referenced Dakkon Blackblade!

FYI

Dakkon Blackblade Dominaria Empress Galina Lovisa Coldeyes Mishra Modern Nicol Bolas Story / Lore Urza

Lovisa and Commander

Was Lovisa Coldeyes made with Commander in mind at all? She makes for a really fun deck. I probably have more fun with her than my nephilim deck despite that deck having 3 more colours and tonnes more expensive cards.

While Commander existed at the time it hadn’t yet gotten much of a spotlight on it, so no she was designed with the format in mind as I, her creator, didn’t know about the format yet.

Colors Commander Lovisa Coldeyes Nephilim

Lovisa Coldeyes Facts

Maro, it's my birthday today and it's -7 here in Minneapolis. Would you be able to tell me some interesting fact about Lovisa Coldeyes to warm me up?

When we were making Coldsnap, were trying to include things that we felt could have been in the Ice Age block but had not been. Lovisa had been referenced in flavor text so she seemed like a good fit. She was completely a top down design to match her flavor. Happy birthday and stay warm!

Birthday Coldsnap Flavor Ice Age Lovisa Coldeyes Mark Rosewater Top Down

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