Realms and Relics Box Toppers Early in the design process, the design team went through The Lord of the Rings and identified characters, creatures, locations, and items of Middle-earth to plan out how and where each would show up and at which frequency
Delirium is a cool mechanic from back in Shadows over Innistrad that was designed as a modern version of threshold
It's an ability word that annotates that the creature with raid has an additional effect after you attack
We should have been better, we can be better, and we will be better. In addition to the seven cards banned and removed from the database, Wizards of the Coast announced that it would be reviewing every card ever printed for Magic: The Gathering and taking similar action to remove problematic content
The reserved list might seem like an overreaction now, but it felt very necessary at the time
Only 13 of those cards would make it into any kind of real first draft of the deck