Mutilate

Swamps in Pie

"Dakkon Blackblade is definitely a color pie break, right? Right?!?It’s a green ability on a white/blue/black card. : )"
This made me think of a related question. I know counting lands generally is core green, but is counting swamps still in pie for black? (ex: Nightmare, Mutilate, Cabal Coffers)

Yes, it’s still in pie for black.

Black Cabal Coffers Color Pie Dakkon Blackblade Dimir (U/B) Esper (W/U/B) Green Humor Lands Mutilate Nightmare Nightmare

Crime Commiting Criteria

Was damage/destroy/discard every considered as the criteria for committing a crime?

The ability passed off from vision design was whenever you target, destroy or deal damage to an opponent or their “stuff”. (Discard almost always targets the player.) The reason we went down to just target was the other two got muddy in the rules.For example, let’s say I cast Mutilate (-X/-X to all creatures where X is the number of swamps I have) with a battlefield filled with creatures that have toughness less than X. . Did Mutate destroy the creatures? It did not. It merely lowered their toughness to 0. The game destroyed the creatures as a state based effect. There was enough non-intuitive answers like that, that we removed destroyed and damaged from committing crimes.

Creatures Deal Damage Destroy Discard Mutate Mutilate Rules Vision Design

Art for Reprints

Why do some reprints get new art and others don't? (p.s. I am incredibly thankful for the new arts for mutilate and wit's end.)

Reprints in expert expansions always get new art. Reprints in core sets are up to the art director (currently Jeremy Jarvis).

Art Card Printing Mutilate Reprints Wit's End

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