Rapacious One

Rise of Eldrazi Design

Maybe a bit of a silly question, but if Rise of the Eldrazi were made today would its six colored Eldrazi (Dread Drone, Rapacious One, Nest Invader, etc.):A) Stay the same (colored) B) Have DevoidC) Lose the colored pips and be fully colorless D) Not exist

We would most likely use b) and/or c).

Colorless Devoid Dread Dread Drone Drone Eldrazi Nest Invader Rapacious One Rise of the Eldrazi Rise of the Eldrazi

Challenge of Implementing Squirrellink

Is squirrellink really that hard to do in black border? Rapacious One was printed well before Earl of Squirrel and basically has Eldrazilink. Is the difficulty in making squirrellink work without a trigger?

We could write out what squirrelink does in black border. Making it a lifelink variant is where we get into trouble.

Black Border Earl of Squirrel Lifelink Lifelink Rapacious One Squirrel

Eldrazi Mechanics Shift

In the original Zendikar, Eldrazi and their Drones were separated mechanically in an obvious way (colored, small, creates/enhances spawn, vs. colorless, huge, annihilator). In BFZ it's much more blurry (besides processors) with Eldrazi being colored and smaller. There's even an Eldrazi that's smaller than a Drone was (Rapacious One, Barrage Tyrant), which seems wrong to me. Was this a conscious change?

Kelly, the creative person in charge of the creature types, did have hard and fast rules about what is what, but there is a little bit of subjectivity.

Annihilator Barrage Tyrant Colorless Creatures Drone Eldrazi Processor Rapacious One Rules Spawn Zendikar

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