Scattershot

Changing Creature Types

Hi Mark! About creature types. You’ve said before R&D is skittish about errataing creature types, but there’s been a lot of doing that anyway lately. Apart from changing the types of animal-people like viashino and cephalid to better synergize with their non-anthropomorphic counterparts, sloth was added to a few cards with Fallout, and now dragons from Kaladesh received the cat type. Efreet was phased out in favor of djinn, but not retroactively like naga - all the efreet cards are still efreet, but there won’t be new ones anymore. And lastly, despite both types entering the game around the same time, sloth gets added, detective doesn’t. Arboreal Grazer went from beast to sloth beast, but Dogged Detective stays merely a human rogue. I’m fully in favor of the general direction that’s taken with creature types, and I also understand the risk of doing a lot of this in a game with paper cards. But the way it’s currently being handled feels extremely inconsistent, and the categorizer in me feels upset!
So, my question is: could you, or someone who is in charge of this, elaborate on the seemingly complex reasonings as to which creature type gets added, added but not errata’d, replaced, or phased out (perhaps in an article)? You’ve said before it’s not, but it really does seem scattershot, and I want to understand.Thank you!

Here’s the problem. It’s mostly done piecemeal which creates the inconsistency you’re talking about. Let me bring it up with the relevant people.

Appreciation Arboreal Grazer Beast Cat Cephalid Creatures Detective Djinns Dogged Detective Dragon Efreets Game Design Human Kaladesh Naga Rogue Scattershot Sloth Viashino

Nerf Gun Specifications

With nerf war, does the kind of Nerf gun matter? Could I, for example, use a Longshot or a scattershot?

As long as it’s an actual Nerf gun, it uses darts and it’s unmodded, you’re good to go.

Nerf War Scattershot

Green's Pinging Exceptions

Does green not getting pinging mean cards like Jagged-Scar Archers and/or Scattershot Archer are no longer in green's color pie slice?

Green can damage fliers through repeatable activations.

Archer Color Pie Colors Green Jagged-Scar Archers Scattershot

Storm Constraints

I feel storm is a fantastic mechanic with the prerequisite that you don't create spells with it that win the game. Wing Shards, Scattershot, Hindering Touch etc etc are all excellent storm cards. However, do you think this is too restricting?

“You can do any effects you want except ones that can win the game” is quite restrictive.

Hindering Touch Keyword Abilities Mechanics Scattershot Spells Three Color Wing Shards

Storm Mechanic Limits

While I understand storm's potential to be broken, can't the problem be solved by putting it on cards that can't use it's abuse as a win condition? Wing shards and scattershot seem to be perfect examples of this.

I’m not sure the selling point of repeating a mechanic is “all you have to do us avoid anything that can be used to win with”. : )

Keyword Abilities Mechanics Scattershot Solved Three Color Wing Shards

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