10/23/2023 0 Comments Classic snake game add 1 blockWe went through many iterations of Avacyn designs that used forbidden. For example, we thought we might be able to make a forbidden version of Ancestral Recall (it costs a single blue mana to draw you three cards). Because there was such a large hoop to jump through, we could under-cost the cards. You had to play specific cards that shuffled them in. Forbidden cards couldn't be put into your deck. The big mechanic we were playing with in design was called forbidden. Brian Tinsman, who was the lead designer of the set, wanted to explore other options. She's daunting, protects your stuff, and can single-handedly win the game. Prevent all damage dealt to CARDNAME and any other creature you control. It was the linchpin of the whole set, so much so that her name was in it. This meant that the card design for Avacyn had to be something spectacular. It's Avacyn being freed (restored) that sets everything in motion. The events of the block ended up forcing Thalia to open the Helvault, releasing both Griselbrand and Avacyn. Avacyn had been tricked by the demon Griselbrand and trapped in something called the Helvault. Sorin had created her to keep the humans alive so that the vampires wouldn't lose their food source. That something would end up being the Archangel Avacyn. The third set would be about something that turned things around and put the monsters on the back foot. Brady's pitch was to have the first two sets be about the monsters attacking humans and humans being on the brink of extinction. Just as he had done with the Zendikar block two years earlier, he pitched having an event big enough to happen on the plane that justified new mechanics without having to go to a whole new plane. The spring set would now become the plane that Brian pitched.īrady Dommermuth, who led the Creative team at the time, didn't feel they were staffed up to design two new planes (we are now). I said the genre of horror was vast and popular, and we'd have plenty of material, so it was moved. Bill came to me and asked if there would be enough material to move Innistrad from May to October. Then, right before the fall set design was about to begin, Mark Globus brought up to Bill that it was weird to have a gothic horror set not release in October, near Halloween. Tons of people submitted ideas, and the winner was a plane created by Brian Tinsman. Finally, Bill Rose, the VP of Magic, gave in and gave us one large set to do it in.įor the other two sets, R&D would run a company-wide contest to come up with a new plane. Brady Dommermuth and I had been pushing to do a top-down gothic horror set for years. Originally, that final third set was going to take place on Innistrad. ![]() The third set in the block would be large, take place on a different plane, have a new set of mechanics, and be drafted by itself. The initial plan for the original Innistrad block was to have two sets, a large and a small, that take place on one plane, share mechanics, and draft well together. Avacyn, Angel of Hope Foil-Etched Avacyn, Angel of Hope
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