Hey Mark, we've had Time Walk for 30 years now. When will get Time Run?

Any day now.

Time walk was originally a card that said “target player skips their next turn”. With the new popularity of multiplayer, that actually is very different from “take an extra turn”. Could we ever see a card that says “target player skips their next turn”? It would have to be balanced like an extra turn spell for 1v1, but in commander it would be a very interesting card for politics

The problem is it would have to be costed for 1 on 1, making it way overcosted for multiplayer.

Supposedly during Alpha development, Time Walk said "target player loses next turn", but it was changed to "target player takes an extra turn" because people thought it meant "loses *the game* next turn". Has R&D in the decades since ever considered making a blue extra turn spell that makes someone skip a turn? In normal two player game it's functionally the same, but the difference would especially be relevant in today's commander-focused culture..

The issue is we have to cost it like an extra turn as that’s how it functions in two-player. I’m not sure it would be worth running in multiplayer at that cost.

Hi MaRo, thanks for all your hard work making Magic. Both Control Magic and Time Walk effects are massively powerful, with Time Walks getting banned even at 7 mana. Is it possible that these effects should get the "Vindicate treatment" of being only doable with two colours?

A second color isn’t the safety valve you think it is. : )

What are the chances of a 2 mana time walk effect but with an enormous drawback?

Hey Mark, I guess my birthday trivia got buried, but my birthday was August 6th, and I was wondering if you had any trivia on extra turns in Magic?

Here’s one of my favorite original playtesting stories of Magic. One of the playtesters goes up to Richard and said that he got the most powerful card in the whole playtest. He casts it and then automatically wins at the start of his opponent’s turn. Richard wracks his brain for what card he’s talking about because he knows he didn’t make a “you win” card. So he asks to see it. The player shows him Time Walk which originally read “Opponent loses next turn.” Richard smiles and changes the template to “You get an extra turn.”Happy Belated Birthday!

Lets pretend that WoTC decided to print a black border copy of Time Sidewalk. Would printing the Time Walk tokens violate the reserved list?

No.

Just because leadership vacuum is color pie compliant, doesn’t mean it should be printed. Counterspell is perfectly within pie, and yet still excluded from modern. Similarly, ,time walk and ancestral recall are both well within the color pie.

Okay, Commander players, is Leadership Vacuum too strong?

You said a while ago that Seedtime is a break. What weakness of green does it undercut? The weakness of not being able to get extra turns?

Early Magic did this things where colors occasionally did something their opponent normally did (but they didn’t) when fighting against it. We don’t do that anymore. Every color has its own strategy for winning. It has the tools of the things it does and doesn’t get the tools of the things it doesn’t. Adding extra turns to green fundamentally changes how it’s creature strategy works. That’s why it can’t just randomly get a Time Walk effect.

I am unable to navigate twitter, what was the Tim Walk mistype in response to?

Today’s Head-to-Head poll was about the blue color pie between Time Walk and card drawing. I mistyped Time Walk as Tim Walk.