Pangolin

Creature Type Shift

For a long time, R&D used beast for both “nondescript monster” but also “real animal that we don’t want to bother giving a creature type”. However it seems like in the past few years, a lot more creature types for real animals are being made for random cards. Stuff like pangolin, shark, and most recently, capybara. Is this an intentional shift? If so, can we expect to see this kind of thing in bloomburrow?

It is a conscious choice, yes. Will it impact Bloomburrow? Maybe. : )

Beast Bloomburrow Capybara Creatures Game Design Humor Pangolin Shark

Unrules Token Names

Hi Mark - unrules question! Once you put Claire D'Loon on the battlefield, do token names (often creature types) become card names for the purposes of things like Psychic Paper? If I use Volrath's Laboratory to create a Pangolin token, can I use Psychic Paper alongside Claire D'Loon to rename one of my creatures "Pangolin"?

Sure.

Card Names Creatures Pangolin Psychic Paper Tokens Un-sets Volrath's Laboratory

Appreciation for Pangolin inclusion

Hi, Mark. I just wanted to tell you how much I loved that y'all included a pangolin on Ikoria. They're my favorite animal, so I was way more excited opening them than a vanilla 1/5 warrants lol. High fives to whoever made that call! (And high fives to all the conservationists keeping the real pangolins around!)

Virtual high fives to be applied.

Appreciation High Fives Pangolin Vanilla

Pangolin Type Request

Ridgescale Tusker didn't get updated to be a pangolin, but it sure looks like a pangolin. Can you please ask the people in charge of creature types to make it a pangolin?

I’ll pass along the concern.

Creatures Pangolin Ridgescale Tusker

Unique Semantic Occurrences

"Eli Shiffrin‏ said on Twitter that there is Pangolin errata coming." Another great thing about Magic: you get to write a whole bunch of sentences that would have been utter gibberish 30 years ago.

Quite often, I write a sentence and think that I might the first person in history to have ever written it. : )

Errata Pangolin

Pangolin Errata Notice

Eli Shiffrin‏ said on Twitter that there is Pangolin errata coming.

FYI

Errata Pangolin

Pangolins in Magic

Are Prowling Pangolin, Ridgescale Tusker, and maybe Bumbling Pangolin going to be pangolins now that global series has made pangolin a creature type?

It’s been a common question. I do not know what impact the Global Series will have on the rest of Magic.

Bumbling Pangolin Creatures Pangolin Prowling Pangolin Ridgescale Tusker

Pangolin Appreciation

Mark I almost forgot, thank you SO much for making one of the Host Creatures a pangolin! Pangolins are my favorite animal of all time, it's in my favorite color with a useful effect, and it's a BUMBLING Pangolin!! I can't HANDLE how cute it is! I look forward to building a full 60 card deck dedicated to seeing how many crazy things I can mix with pangolins. Thank you for this simple but very appreciated blessing. <3

Always happy when a little detail connects with someone.

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