Mistmeadow Witch

Shadowmoor Draft Feedback

Hi Mark, I often see you mentioning that Shadowmoor/Eventide was made to be drafted mono-color and that many people didn't get that. I would like add that the messaging really didn't help. Despite being playable with only one color of mana (and having hybrids cards that fulfilled both conditions), way too many cards used two color words on them: Duos, Lieges, Mimics, Hatchling, Auras and a sprinkle of uncycled rares and uncommon.There were even cards that actually required you to be 2-colors to optimize: Witches, Hedge-Mages, "If M was spent do X, if N was spent do Y" spells and a least an uncycled rare, making it so "mono-colored" decks usually ran a decent ammount of off-colored lands. Hybrid meaning you could afford doing it without getting in trouble. For instance, 11 White cards, 12 hybrid UW, 10 Plains and 7 Islands for a single copy of Repel the Intruders or Mistmeadow Witch.While there are a bunch of cards encouraging to play a single color of spells, Initiates, Cohorts, Mentors, */* creatures, untappers, Chromas and other uncycled cards, only the "land-counting" cycle penalyzed for those "splashes".If you had to do it again, would you make more card that incentive playing lands of only one type?

Playing two colors was an option. It was just the set that made it easiest to play one color.

Auras Colors Creatures Draft Formats Eventide Hybrid Lands Mana Mistmeadow Witch Monocolor Rares Repel Shadowmoor Spells Two Color Uncommons White

Spell Timing Logic

Mr. Rosewater! Mr. Rosewater! I have a very important question! Why do all spells have to have their decisions made as you cast them, as opposed to when they resolve? Ex: why do I have to target my opponents Mistmeadow Witch OR their Baneslayer Angel AS the spell is cast as opposed to when Murder resolves.

Because consistency of effects is important.

Angel Baneslayer Angel Cast Mark Rosewater Mistmeadow Witch Spells

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