October 7, 2004
Q: "It seems as of late that people at Wizards have been fond of using new keywords for old and new effects. Some examples of this are the vigilance and defender keywords. Are you not afraid that this could hinder beginners because they now have to learn all these new keywords?"
--Craig
Mississauga, Ontario, CAN
A: From Randy Buehler, Director of Magic R&D:
"It’s a good question. We are constantly torn by the desire to make the game as easy to play as possible for beginners, while also keeping our expert-level players happy as well. Just about everyone we’ve gotten feedback from seems to like the idea of keywording abilities like vigilance because they know next year those keywords won’t have reminder text anymore, and that will make the cards both more elegant (since they have less text junking them up) and also simpler to play with (since it’s quicker to mentally parse ’vigilance’ than ’CARDNAME does not tap to attack’) and the chance might even allow us to do more interesting cards since we’ll have more room for rules text. However, every time we add a new keyword it raises the bar on how much you need to know in order to learn how to play Magic.
"The good news is that we have an answer to this puzzle: we aim our Core Sets at new players and do our best to get them all to start with what we call ’Nth Edition.’ One of the big differences between Core Sets and Expert-level sets is that every single keyword in the Core Set gets reminder text every time. That way new players will get to learn what all the basic Magic abilities (like flying, first strike, fear, and vigilance) actually do. Hopefully, by the time they move up to expert level sets they won’t be confused when they run into a keyword like ’defender’ and everybody just winds up happier than they have been."
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ASK WIZARDS - OCTOBER, 2004 Posted in Feature on October 1, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/ask-wizards-october-2004-2004-10-01
『神河物語』から警戒と防衛がキーワード能力になりました。この点について、初心者の覚えること増やしてしまうのでは、という疑問が寄せられました。
これについては、基本セットですべてのキーワード能力に註釈文をつけるをつけることが対策だと答えています。基本セットの立ち位置を考えれば、そうなるでしょう。
一方で、キーワード能力として簡素化することで、長々としたテキストを読まなくて済む、という利点も挙げられています。
初心者と経験者の両方を配慮した工夫がうかがえます。
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