Tin Street Market

Card Design Philosophy

New 24 Jun 2017 Asked by transitionalgirly 64 Comments

Does anyone on the magic team ever feel a bit wasteful when designing cards that are only draft playable? Or less than draft playable like Tin street market. I've always felt bad when everyone throws a bunch of commons in the recycling bin after a draft. Crabapple Cohort is another example. That grumpy tree needs a friend just to brake even with its mana cost. That would make any green creature angry. I guess there's always a place for it in bad card cube.


The vast majority of players can’t differentiate between “draft playable” and “not draft playable”. They play with the cards that they a) own and b) like for whatever reasons they like them.There isn’t a card that doesn’t get played in “casual constructed” (aka “I play with the subset of cards which I own”), the most played “format”. So no, it doesn’t bother us because all those cards *do* get played.


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