Orchard Spirit

Orchard Spirit Reprints

New • 25 Jan 2020 • Asked by glintfang-nezumi • 27 Comments

Why was orchard spirit (green wind drake) reprinted as recent as magic origins?

It’s harder to stop reprints of things we shouldn’t do than new cards.
Card Printing Drake Green Magic Origins Orchard Spirit Reprints Spirit Wind Drake

Green's Past Mistakes

New • 02 Feb 2019 • Asked by glintfang-nezumi • 21 Comments

How come green used to get things like spire tracer and orchard spirit?

It shouldn’t have. It’s why we have the Council of Colors, to keep cards out of color from being printed.
Card Printing Colors Council of colors Green Orchard Spirit Spire Tracer Spirit

Pseudo-Flying Creatures

New • 16 Feb 2017 • Asked by turnonethoughtseize • 36 Comments

What is the point of pseudo-flying creatures like Signal Pest and Orchard Spirit? Is it a flavour thing to not actually write out "flying"?

It is people messing with the color pie for no good reason.
Color Pie Colors Creatures Flavor Flying Orchard Spirit Pest Signal Pest Spirit

Faux Flying Mechanics

New • 19 Jul 2016 • Asked by ironchefravnica • 31 Comments

If Orchard Spirit had flying, it could block other flyers. Same for Silhana Ledgewalker, creatures with a Canopy Cover aura, and so on. If the same cards said "Yeah, by the way, they also have Reach", it would be faux-flying. Without Reach... is it really not a big enough difference?

Green has the ability to block fliers. That’s in green’s slice of the pie. What Green is supposed to get very infrequently and only at higher rarities is the offensive part of flying. That’s why faux flying in Green is a problem.
Auras Canopy Cover Creatures Flying Green Orchard Spirit Reach Silhana Ledgewalker Spirit

Orchard Spirit Query

New • 18 Jul 2016 • Asked by lili-the-last-hope • 27 Comments

On Orchard Spirit, it says "Orchard Spirit can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach"... Why not just put "Flying"?

I’ve said repeatedly that “faux-flying” (what I call it) shouldn’t be in Green.
Creatures Flying Green Orchard Spirit Reach Spirit

Green Faux-Flying Critique

New • 12 Oct 2015 • Asked by envoyofghosts • 34 Comments

What is the justification for cards like Orchard Spirit and Spire Tracer that are basically flying in green? They seem cheaty.

I agree 100%. I don’t like faux-flying in Green.
Flying Green Orchard Spirit Spire Tracer Spirit

Green's Evasion Quest

New • 12 Sep 2015 • Asked by goodshepherd2301 • 25 Comments

Since you've mentioned Orchard Spirit as the wrong kind of evasion for green, what would you consider as the right kind of evasion? Is it just trample? Could green use menace? What philosophy should green embody in its evasion?

Finding Green more in-color evasion is on our to-do list.
Colors Evasion Green Menace Orchard Spirit Spirit Trample

Orchard Spirit's Inclusion

New • 12 Sep 2015 • Asked by thanos-caliban • 25 Comments

How do you explain the printing of Orchard Spirit in Innistrad, one of your personal favorite sets you've lead and ranked by you as one of your best designs?

There is this thing called development that happens after design. They change things and (mostly) make them better. That doesn’t mean I agree with 100% of their changes. The issue at hand is Green needed more evasion so they turned to an effect Green had used before. It’s the job for me and my team of designers (at large, not the design team of the set) to find in-color ways for Green to have evasion so development will have the tools they need.
Card Printing Colors Evasion Green Innistrad Orchard Spirit Spirit Your Hand

Orchard Spirit Reprint

New • 12 Sep 2015 • Asked by daengburapa • 35 Comments

"We should always using flying instead of it. And even if we do use it, which we shouldn’t, it shouldn’t be in Green." How do you explain the reprinting of Orchard Spirit in Origins?

I am only one man. : )
Card Printing Flying Green Orchard Spirit Reprints Spirit

Green Faux-Flying

New • 23 Jul 2015 • Asked by zhwoobatte • 46 Comments

Maro, how is Orchard Spirit within the color pie? It doesn't have the actual ability itself, but it's nearly functionally identical to flying, which mono-green doesn't get.

Yeah, not a fan of faux-flying in Green. Welcome to Blogatog. : )
Color Pie Colors Flying Green Mark Rosewater Orchard Spirit Spirit

Orchard Spirit Origin

New • 17 Jul 2015 • Asked by howdidigethereimnotgoodwithmagic • 26 Comments

"I can veto any idea in design" - Okay then, as Head Designer with veto power... and as Lead Designer of Innistrad... Please, explain Orchard Spirit.

Not added in design.
Head Designer Innistrad Orchard Spirit Spirit

Orchard Spirit Oversight

New • 09 Jul 2015 • Asked by simicpower • 56 Comments

"How did Orchard Spirit slip past your watchful gaze?" "I’m only one man!" Whatever happened to your clones?

I’m only [REDACTED NUMBER] men!
Orchard Spirit Spirit

Overlooked Orchard Spirit

New • 09 Jul 2015 • Asked by eliah • 30 Comments

How did Orchard Spirit slip past your watchful gaze?

I’m only one man!
Orchard Spirit Spirit

Green Tyranny

New • 03 Jul 2015 • Asked by popcornbunni • 43 Comments

The Green tyranny needs to be put to a stop MaRo. Orchard Spirit is back on its way to limited decks soon!

In the Two Block Paradigm, there’s no longer a main set design I’m not on, so I’ll have a better chance to stop things like “green flying”.
Flying Green Limited Mark Rosewater Orchard Spirit Spirit

Green's Cheaty Flying

New • 13 Jan 2015 • Asked by choppenstantz • 39 Comments

May I ask what the idea behind green getting "cannot be blocked except by creatures with flying"? I want to assume it's not really common in their pie, but it's happened as recent as Orchard Spirit in Innestrad at least. It just seems like for a color that doesn't get flying, it's reads an awful lot like "flying but not written out as flying"

I’m not a fan. I agree that it’s just cheaty flying and Green shouldn’t have it.
Colors Creatures Flying Green Orchard Spirit Spirit

Green Flyers Rarity

New • 02 May 2014 • Asked by masterhelion • 17 Comments

Green isn't supposed to have flyers, so how did cards like Orchard Spirit get made?

It gets them very infrequently not never.
Green Orchard Spirit Spirit

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