Lumberknot

Trivia on Lumberknot and Morbid

Could I get some birthday trivia on my favorite creature from my first deck, Lumberknot, or the morbid mechanic?

The morbid mechanic came about because we wanted to find a way for death to be meaningful in our gothic horror set. It was one of the first things we tried, and it worked, so we didn’t ‘t have to try much else.Happy Birthday!

Birthday Creatures Horror Lumberknot Mechanics Morbid

Mechanic-Dependent Cards

Do you feel like it's worth it to create cards like Flowering Lumberknot (Can't attack/block unless soulbonded & has no innate soulbond ability) are good to have because they encourage use of a mechanic, or are they too parasitic?

We have to be careful how many of them we do because they are confusing out of context. A few can do a lot of work.

Flowering Lumberknot Mechanics Parasitic Soulbond

Treefolk Design Challenge

I feel like you guys don't try very hard for treefolk, or the art direction is off target. You produce cool, majestic looking stuff that COULD be treefolk type, like Scion of Vhitu Ghazi, and Wayfaring Temple, but when you turn out a treefolk specifically, it looks like Lumberknot or Kalonian Twingrove.

I’ve had multiple art directors tell me that treefolk are very hard to make look cool.

Art Kalonian Twingrove Lumberknot Scion Treefolk Wayfaring Temple

Conspiracy Sliver Pun

If a player started a Conspiracy set to Sliver and plays a Lumberknot, would they have slivered their timbers?

: )

Conspiracy Lumberknot Sliver

Flowering Lumberknot Origins

Who was the mastermind behind Flowering Lumberknot? Because they are my hero. Dropping it on turn 4 with an unpaired Soulbond creature won me the game within the next two turns in every game that situation came up today. :)

I believe the design was mine. I was trying to enable a soulbond deck. I was famous during design playtest for drafting all soulbond decks.

Creatures Flowering Lumberknot Playtesting Soulbond

Treefolk Hexproof Coincidence

Is Treefolk being hexproof a thing now? Or is it just a coincidence that the recent ones (dungrove elder and lumberknot) are?

Just a coincidence. Hexproof isn’t tied to treefolkness. (Read Maro’s Tumblr where he events brand new words!)

Blogatog / Tumblr Dungrove Elder Elder Hexproof Lumberknot Mark Rosewater Treefolk

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