Ultimate Price

Ultimate Price Capability

Can Ultimate Price kill the gold Dragon token?

Yes. It is just a single color, Gold.

Colors Dragon Tokens Ultimate Price

Ultimate Price Vs Dragon

Can Ultimate Price kill the dragon token from Sword of D&D?

It’s gold which is a single color, so yes.

Colors Dragon Dungeons & Dragons Tokens Ultimate Price

Ultimate Price and Devoid

Would ultimate price hit devoid?

No, because Devoid cards are not monocolored. They have no color.

Colors Devoid Monocolor Ultimate Price

Enchantment Block Strategy

Would you tone down targeted removal in an Enchantments-matter block to make the main drawback of Auras be of less impact? Would you consider doing something like "destroy target creature that's not enchanted" similar to how Ultimate Price / Victim of Night / Go for the Throat worked in their respective blocks?

I agree that enchantment blocks have the job of figuring out how to make auras more relevant than normal. Your solution is one possibility but there are others that would also work.

Auras Creatures Destroy Enchantments Go for the Throat Ultimate Price Victim of Night

Black Removal Evolution

You said: "Black creature removal has shifted away from having to have restrictions. “Just let black kill” seems to be the current motto." That doesn't seem to be the case, since of the four main black kill spells in Standard, Tragic Slip is conditional, Ultimate Price and Victim of Night are target-restricted, and only Murder just kills. What's up with that?

I didn’t say we dropped all restrictions, I just said we are pushing towards more letting black kill than we used to.

Black Creatures Spells Standard Tragic Slip Ultimate Price Victim of Night

Rapid Hybridization Critique

I understand that Polymorphing is in Blue's share of the pie, but I strongly disagree that Rapid Hybridization qualifies as polymorphing. This spell destroys, then creates something new; a polymorph changes the original. I could understand if it was an enchantment that turned a creature into a vanilla beast. Dreadbore is at sorcery speed and requires 2 colors of mana, but mono blue can kill Council or Lazav at instant speed for U? Mono black in RTR can't even target leaders with Ultimate Price

There is no way in current Magic rules to actually change one creature into another (well, unless the are on opposite sides of a double-faced card, then they get to transform). The language used is what has to get the job done within the rules, but the flavor is not of destruction and creation but of changing from one into the other.

Beast Black Blue Colors Creatures Dreadbore Enchantments Flavor Instants Mana Polymorph Rapid Hybridization Rules Sorceries Transform Ultimate Price Vanilla

Card Naming Philosophy

You often talk about card names as a shrinking resource. Why are a great deal of the cards in return to ravnica eating up this space? Martial Law and Ultimate Price particularly seem to be digging into this space unnecessarily, whereas Stealer of Secrets and Fencing ace hit the nail on the head.

Note if we believe we are making a card we can reprint in the future, we don’t consider giving it a good name eating up a resource.

Card Names Card Printing Fencing Ace Martial Law Reprints Return to Ravnica Stealer of Secrets Ultimate Price

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