Seeker

List of Green Cards

In case anyone was curious about how many Lay of the Land cards are in green:Mono-Green: 58
Analyze the Pollen
Attune with Aether
Borderland Ranger
Boseiju Reaching Skyward
Brave the Wilds
Bushwack
Caravan Vigil
Civic Wayfinder
Cultivate
District Guide
Druid of the Emerald Grove
Elfhame Sanctuary
Evolution Charm
Flare of Cultivation
Flourishing Bloom-Kin
Fork in the Road
Gaea's Bounty
Gatecreeper Vine
Greenseeker
Herd Migration
Horizon Seeker
hunting Cheetah
Journey for the Elixir
Journey of Discovery
Kodama's Reach
Krosan Tusker
Kura, the Boundless Sky
Land Grant
Lay of the Land
Many Partings
Nervous Gardener
Nissa's Encouragement
Nissa's Pilgrimage
Nissa's Triumph
Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Nylea's Intervention
Open the Gates
Outcaster Greenblade
Peregrination
Realm Seekers
Realms Uncharted
Reclaim the Wastes
Rites of Spring
Seek the Horizon
Shard Convergence
Spinewoods Armadillo
Spirit of the Aldergard
Sprouting Vines
Sylvan Ranger
Sylvan Scrying
The Huntsman's Redemption
Thirsting Roots
Trail of Mystery
Traverse the Ulvenwald
Verdant Mastery
Vorinclex
Yavimaya Elder
You Happen On a GladeGreen featuring another colour: 7
Dig Up
Flower // Flourish
Huatli, Poet of Unity
Invasion of Ergamon (flipped to Truga Cliffcharger)
Path to the World Tree
Safewright Quest
Yasharn, Implacable EarthUn-cards: 3
Selfie Preservation (Un-card)
Spirit of the Season (Un-card)
Wild Crocodile (Un-card)(everyone feel free to add any that I've missed!)

FYI

Analyze the Pollen Armadillo Attune with Aether Borderland Ranger Brave the Wilds Caravan Vigil Civic Wayfinder Colors Crocodile Cultivate Dig Up District Guide Druid Druid of the Emerald Grove Elder Elfhame Sanctuary Evolution Charm Flare Flare of Cultivation Flourishing Bloom-Kin Flower // Flourish Fork in the Road Gaea's Bounty Gatecreeper Vine Gates Green Greenseeker Herd Migration Horizon Seeker Hunting Cheetah Invasion Journey for the Elixir Journey of Discovery Kodama's Reach Krosan Tusker Kura, the Boundless Sky Land Grant Lands Lay of the Land Many Partings Nervous Gardener Nissa's Encouragement Nissa's Pilgrimage Nissa's Triumph Nylea's Intervention Open the Gates Outcaster Greenblade Path to the World Tree Peregrination Ranger Realm Seekers Realms Uncharted Reclaim the Wastes Rites of Spring Safewright Quest Seek the Horizon Seeker Selfie Preservation Shard Convergence Spinewoods Armadillo Spirit Spirit of the Aldergard Spirit of the Season Sprouting Vines Sylvan Ranger Sylvan Scrying The Huntsman's Redemption The Wilds The World Tree Thirsting Roots Trail of Mystery Traverse the Ulvenwald Un-sets Verdant Mastery Wild Crocodile Yasharn, Implacable Earth Yavimaya Elder You Happen On a Glade

Artifact Synergy Appreciation

Hey mark, I've really been enjoying how green and black have been getting interesting and unique artifacts and artifact synergies of late. Specifically cards like Sarinth steelseeker and vat of rebirth, I really appreciate them.

Happy to hear that.

Appreciation Artifacts Black Green Rebirth Sarinth Steelseeker Vat of Rebirth

Attitude toward Recontextualizing

When a Limited environment has a card that's contextually much less powerful than normal (Terror in Mirrodin, Glory Seeker in Rise of Eldrazi), do you consider that good/interesting design? Or do players end up feeling "tricked" by those?

I think a little recontextualizing is fun, but you don’t want too much of it.

Eldrazi Glory Seeker Limited Mirrodin Seeker

Trivia on Glissa Sunseeker

Hey Mark, looks like my birthday trivia got swallowed last week. Can I get some trivia on my favorite character Glissa Sunseeker?

Glissa was the first creature to have “mana in your mana pool matters”. I was trying to give her something new because she was the protagonist of the novel. Happy Belated Birthday!

Birthday Creatures Glissa Sunseeker Mana

Keywords Outside of Standard

I understand not wanting to put nonevergreen keywords in set as they go through Standard. However, would it make sense to grant them the keywords when they're only legal in formats outside of that? For a non Consider example, Gearseeker Serpent would gain Affinity for Artifacts.

That gets into a larger question: how often do we want cards to function in a way that the written card doesn’t tell you?

Affinity Artifacts Format Legality Gearseeker Serpent Keywords Serpent Standard

Dread Wight Group Membership

With Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Dread Wight joins a select group of cards including Glory Seeker, Restore Balance, Stasis Cocoon, Void Shatter, etc. What qualifies a card for membership in this group?

I assume card names where all the words in the name are themself card names.

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Card Names Cocoon Dread Dread Wight Glory Seeker Restore Balance Seeker Shatter Stasis Cocoon Void Shatter Wight

Rarity and Promo Card Discounts

Silver-bordered rules question: Let's say I have Rarity in play, and I want to cast a promo card from back before rarities were defined on cards, like DragonCon Nalanthi Dragon or the HarperPrism Book Promo Windseeker Centaur. Do I get a cost discount? If not, what rarity should they be considered?

Cards without a rarity don’t get a discount.

Centaurs Dragons Promos Rarity Rules Windseeker Centaur

Green's First Strike Ability

Hey MaRo, could you provide some insight into why Green doesn't get or shouldn't get First strike unconditionally (Glissa Sunseeker). What about Green as far as the color itself or its philosophies doesn't make First strike fit?

We limit how many colors have any one ability. White and red, the combat-oriented colors, have it primary. Black which has a lot of knights has it tertiary. Three colors is enough.

Black Colors First Strike Glissa Sunseeker Green Knight Mark Rosewater Primary Red Tertiary White

Dryad Greenseeker Validity

Wait, is Dryad Greenseeker from M19 a mistake? That was pretty recent [T, Look at the top card of your library. If it’s a land card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.]

Green can land fetch, so that is fine.

Dryad Dryad Greenseeker Green Lands The Library Your Hand

Color Identity Balance

Blue excelling at many low as-fan things vs. other colors excelling at a few high as-fan things means blue's splashy (set-selling) MEMORABLE cards get to be more varied and unique. Ex. All Modern Masters mythics: U: Keiga, Snapcaster Mage, Temporal Manipulation, Tezzeret the Seeker, Vendilion Clique. 5 radically different effects, 2 blue-exclusive. Vs. R: Bonfire of the Damned, Comet storm, Kiki-Jiki, Past in Flames, Ryusei; 3/5 are damage boardwipes, the other 2 could be bends in U. See issue?

I’ve talked plenty about how Snapcaster is pushing more towards red and Vendilion Click is a black card masquerading as a blue card (aka a heavy bend). Things are more balanced than they seem.

As-fan Bend / Break Black Blue Bonfire of the Damned Colors Comet Storm Keyword Abilities Modern Modern Masters Mythic Rares Past in Flames Red Snapcaster Mage Temporal Manipulation Tezzeret the Seeker Vendilion Clique

Booster Pack Definition

So, for Booster Tutor and Lore Seeker, what counts as a booster pack? Do the Dominaria and Guilds theme boosters count? What about the DotP promo boosters? A standard showdown or an Ugin's Fate pack? A seeded booster from a core game 7th, 8th, or 9th edition?

If it’s a sealed booster pack, you’re good to go. Not in an actual booster? No good.

Booster Tutor Boosters Dominaria Limited Lore Seeker Promos Standard Story / Lore Tutoring Two Color

Target Destruction Criteria

A number of cards recently (Vraska, relic seeker, status/statue, bounty agent) have "destroy target artifact, creature or enchantment" as opposed to the cleaner "destroy target nonland permanent". Is there a reason for this? i ask because one of the design principles you tend to stress is to keep things simpler/easier to understand and to avoid wordiness on cards (the text on bounty agent is a mouthful)

I assume the reason is so they can’t destroy planeswalkers.

Artifacts Bounty Agent Creatures Destroy Enchantments Planeswalkers Vraska, Relic Seeker

Omnath Origin Trivia

Hi MaRo! Today is my birthday and I'd really like some trivia on my first and favourite (don't tell the others) commander: Omnath, locus of mana!

I had first messed around with mechanically caring about what mana was in your mana pool in Mirrodin with Glissa Sunseeker. Ken Nagle, inspired by that, made Omnath in Worldwake. Happy Birthday!

Birthday Commander Glissa Sunseeker Ken Nagle Mana Mark Rosewater Mirrodin Omnath, Locus of Mana Worldwake

Green Card Draw

Is Dryad Greenseeker another one of those cards where, since it's green card draw not associated with creatures, it wouldn't be put into a set file anymore?

No, green can get land out of the library. That’s a different ability.

Card Draw Creatures Dryad Dryad Greenseeker Green Lands The Library

Early Magic Era

When asked how Storm Seeker got the "green light", your answer was that early Magic was different. What do you consider early Magic?

Pre-Mirage. There are ways to look at it though that extend it out further.

Green Keyword Abilities Mirage Storm Seeker

Storm Seeker Approval

Mark, can you help me figure out how Storm Seeker got.... The green light? n_n

Early Magic was a different time.

Green Keyword Abilities Storm Seeker

White Prowess Possibility

Are we ever likely to see prowess in white again? I know it's primarily a U/R mechanic now but cards like Seeker of the Way and Monastrey Mentor were favourites of mine from Khans. Second only to Monastery Swiftspear of course :)

White has it tertiary which means it could show up infrequently.

Izzet (U/R) Mechanics Mentor Monastery Swiftspear Prowess Seeker of the Way Tertiary White

Pseudo-Mechanics Rule

About the "pseudo-mechanic" question(s). I interpreted it more along the lines of Gearseeker Serpent's ability being pseudo-affinity than improvise.

The rule with this is if there is just one or two cards that do something that was ability worded in another set, we don’t use the ability word.

Ability Words Affinity Gearseeker Serpent Improvise Mechanics Rules Serpent

Affinity Keyword Future

Just a quick question about a keyword I didn't see in the article Monday: Will affinity ever make a reappearance or will it only be worded out like on Gearseeker Serpent?

Affinity could make a return although I believe when we next see it keyworded it won’t be Affinity for Artifacts but some other subset.

Affinity Artifacts Gearseeker Serpent Keywords Serpent

Affinity for Artifacts

Hi Mark! Just wondering how you managed to get Gearseeker Serpent into Kaladesh. I thought affinity for artifacts was a 10 on the storm scale :O

One card is not a whole mechanic.

Affinity Artifacts Gearseeker Serpent Humor Kaladesh Keyword Abilities Mechanics Serpent Storm Scale