The Big Score

Reprinting Color Pie Breaks

Are bonus sheet cards allowed to be pie breaks, since they don’t affect format legality? I get why desert twister wasn’t in thunder junction or the big score, but was very surprised it didn’t appear in breaking news or the commander decks

There are other rules about color pie breaks beyond the “we don’t add them to formats that don’t have them” rule. Another one is “we try not to reprint them if there isn’t a lot of player demand for the reprint”. Yes, some are staples in their format, so there’s a demand, but we try to reprint color pie breaks that we don’t have to.

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Token Variety Feedback

I have some dissenting feedback on the tokens - I enjoy the variety of obscure tokens in packs and would be disappointed if the Big Score tokens didn't appear in the set. I feel like in some sets you never see the interesting tokens because all that gets opened is soldiers and treasure

How do others feel on the token issue?

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Set Symbol Confusion

Was there ever the option of change the set symbol of BIG to match OTJ since it was no longer its own release? Seeing some confusion by many newer players of just what is standard legal from a pack and was wondering if that may have helped.

I have gotten the note of too many different expansion symbols in the same booster pack a few times. We did need some way to differentiate The Big Score as the cards show up through a different means, but maybe there were better options.

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Assessing Aftermath Set in Bonus Sheet

Has it become clear yet if cramming the Aftermath set into a bonus sheet was a success or not? Seeing how bomb heavy the prerelease was made me dislike that solution to your self-made problem quite a lot. Stoneforge Mystic and Oko are incredibly warping in limited.

You’re conflating the bonus sheet of reprints with the Big Score collection of new card designs ported over from the Aftermath-ish product.

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Arena Wombo Combo

Hey Mark! Just wanted to say that I started playing Arena again explicitly because of The Big Score and the cards in it. Worldwalker Helm + Simulacrum Synthasizer is such a fun wombo combo that it brought me, a Commander player, to standard so I can play it more. Please distribute high fives to those who where involved with these designs.

Will do!

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Sealed Play Enjoyment

Hey Mark, just got back from a prerelease (my first prerelease since Dominaria!) and I had a great time. I really enjoyed the spree cards in sealed, I love the way the deserts that deal 1 to target opponent worked as mana fixing off of cards that searched for them (Spinewoods Armadillo especially, that card was super fin) and count for committing a crime, commit a crime itself made for some interesting deck building decisions, and mounts were a nice way to unstick boards full of creatures.I was even sceptical about all the extra cards filling slots (big score, special guests, and breaking news), but I found that it was exciting to see old cards that I think fondly of (I got to see murder, voidslime, etc. and I found that the designs look much better to me in person than it did as spoilers) as well as pull some fun new cards from the big score. Overall I think the set felt great to play with in sealed and I had an awesome time, high fives all around!

High fives shall be applied. I’m happy you had such a good time.

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BIG Cards Origin

What’s the story behind the BIG cards? Were they meant to be an aftermath set originally and changed after Aftermaths reception?

Yes, The Big Score was originally planned to be Outlaws of Thunder Junction’s Aftermath.

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Future Bonus Sheets

If The Big Score does well could we see more "bonus sheets" with new cards? I really like the card designs in BIG and Aftermath and would love to keep getting cards designed that way, despite Aftermath doing poorly and BIG just being a quick fix.

It’s something we can consider.

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Outlaws Spoilers Feedback

I just want to say I'm really happy with how the Outlaws of Thunder Junction product line spoilers have been done. Having each part of the product line, Special Guests, Main Set, Breaking News, The Big Score, and the Commander decks their own largely self contained time to be shown made everything really focused. My one point of feedback is commander decks probably should have had two days instead of BIG. Four full decks is a LOT of information to dump in a single day and is better over two imo.

I’ll pass that note along.

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Fate of Cut Cards

So you said that there were originally 50 cards for the epilogue set, but there were some that just got cut. Is there a chance we see those cut cards ever? Maybe in a different product? Or are they just indefinitely shelved right now?

I don’t know of plans for cards that didn’t end up in the set or The Big Score. Magic is a hungry monster though, so I assume the designs will find their way to print some day.

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Jace Reawakened's Placement

Why was Jace Reawakened moved to the main set and not The Big Score once the epilogue set was getting reworked?

All decisions about what went into the main set and what was put into the Big Score was left up to the Dartboard of Destiny.

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Collector Number Anomaly

Why is Jace Reawakened collector number 271 ??? He isn't part of the U cards?

Jace Reawakened was originally part of the Outlaws of Thunder Junction Aftermath set. That product was killed pretty late, so much so, that we couldn’t change the collector numbers when we moved Jace into the main set. I think the rest of the cards from Aftermath (at least the ones we kept) are part of the Big Score.

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Epilogue Booster Concept

I know it's too late to save, but I have to say that it really is a shame to see the epilogue booster concept flop. With Jace's return as a huge surprise to keep people waiting for, it feels like The Big Score would have been a much better execution of the concept than Aftermath.

I agree, there are cool things we could have done.

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Big Score Selection

So 30 mythics from the planned aftermath boosters became the Big Score, and Jace got rolled into the main set. What happened to the other 19 cards (assuming the aftermath set had 50 like MOM aftermath)?

We just chose the cream of the crop. The rest didn’t get used.

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Future BIG Cards

In the future, is it possible we get BIG style cards in the List slot or is this a one time thing to compensate for scrapping the epilogue set?

I can’t promise what we’ll do in the future. The Big Score cards are a result of us changing our product line-up rather than trying to do a new thing.

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