Ravenous

Article 'Elegance' Availability

Hi Mark! This is an odd one but I'm desperately trying to locate a complete form of your Article "Elegance". The polarised responses you show in "An Elegant Response" along with your mentioning it in Drive to Work #44 (I'm a only *a little* behind) have me ravenous to read it. I've found the base 50 words (through the wayback machine) but the hyperlinks don't work and the teaser has only gotten me more excited, do you have any suggestions as to where I might find more of this article?

“Elegance” has been lost to time. It’s a huge amount of work to fix all the links, and is considered not worth the investment of time. I can look at home and see if I can track down the original version on my computer.EDIT: I had it on my work computer. See above.

Drive to Work Making Magic Ravenous Teasers

Ravenous Tyrannosaurus Clarified

Hi Mark! Lots of confusion over the devour wording on Ravenous Tyrannosaurus. Can you confirm how it’s meant to be read? Is it 9 counters for sacrificing 3 creatures or 27?

It’s 9 counters. The reminder text in Oracle has been updated to make it clearer.

Creatures Devour Ravenous Ravenous Tyrannosaurus

Universes Beyond Mechanic Crossover

Do you think we’ll see mechanics that debut in Universes Beyond products make the jump into regular sets? (Ravenous please)

I do.

Mechanics Ravenous Universes Beyond

Ravenous in Premier Sets?

Any chances Ravenous shows up in a premier set?

There is a chance.

Premier Sets Premier Sets Ravenous

Storm Scale Placement

Where would squad and ravenous go on the Storm Scale?

Squad is a 4. Ravenous is a 6.

Ravenous Squad Storm Scale

Interplay between Color and Reserved List

Hi Mark. About the reserved list, yeah that old chestnut. How does Ravenous Giant in Modern Horizons exist when it is *identical* to Juzam Djinn apart from being red rather than black?

It being a different color makes it not the same and thus the Reserved List does not apply.

Black Colors Djinns Giant Modern Horizons Ravenous Ravenous Giant Red The Reserved List

Nahiri's Design Origins

Not only is today my birthday, but I finally remembered to ask a trivia question! Could I perhaps learn something about the best kor in the Multiverse, Nahiri? (In the meantime, I'm absolutely loving the Eldraine previews and am ravenous for more! Thanks for all your hard work and outreach — it really makes a difference.)

We needed an artifact matters planeswalker for the Commander decks and we decided to use Nahiri, who at the time was only known as the Lithomancer who with Ugin and Sorin trapped the Eldrazi. We liked the idea of her being Kor as it was a race on Zendikar, we’d connected to equipment.

Artifacts Birthday Commander Eldrazi Equipment Kor Planeswalkers Ravenous Spoilers Zendikar

Ixalan's Missing Goats

Are you aware that Ixalan (despite having Chupacabras) has no goats? It doesn't seem right to me, but I checked. Also it needs to be possible to earn an achievement when you destroy a goat creature with Ravenous Chupacrabra.

Obviously the Chupacabras ate all the Goats.

Creatures Destroy Goat Ixalan Ravenous

Ravenous Intruder Origin

Was Ravenous Intruder ever just Atog in the file?

No.

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Monkey Type Updates

I don't understand the Monkey type updates. Sure, it would be nice to have the monkey and ape type line up with actual taxonomy, but I would imagine gameplay trumps that. Why are cards like Monkey Cage and Ravenous Baboons being changed away from their printed wordings, when they have never been printed with monkey? If you change Ravenous Baboons just because baboons are actually monkeys, shouldn't Hooting Mandrills get changed too, because mandrills are actually monkeys?

The intent is all actual Monkeys should be Monkeys.

Ape Card Printing Game Play Hooting Mandrills Monkey Monkey Cage Ravenous Ravenous Baboons

AVR Spoilers Expectation

When can we expect official AVR spoilers? It may be a bit early to ask, but this block is turning out to be one of my favorites and I'm ravenous for more :)

In general we tend to do our spoilers around the same time every year. Be patient, good spoilers are coming.

Ravenous Spoilers

Real-Life Inspired Cards

Have you ever made a card based on something that often happens in real life, like, listening a joke and "hey, this could be a card or something"?

I talked in a recent column how I created Ravenous Demon after joking that demons think of humans like Lays Potato Chips - you can’t eat just one.

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