Kami of the Painted Road (Champions of Kamigawa)
During Champions of Kamigawa development (although the credits fail to acknowledge this, I was actually on the Champions development team), I was tasked with creating more “arcane & spirit triggers” (referred to as “spiritcraft” cards). One card I created was the following:Fighting Spirit
1WW
Creature – Spirit
2/1
Flying
Whenever a mystic spell is played, CARDNAME gets protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
1WW became 4W. 2/1 became 3/3. And Flying became “ “ (this represents the emptiness of words).
I’ve included this card because I wanted to point out that often the heart of design is ripped off a card and reattached to another card. My version of the card was a small evasion creature while the printed version is a medium-sized ground pounder. Why is this done? Because development has the additional concern of making sure each color is balanced. Whether that be color or size or abilities, the development team has to worry that each element of the set is rounded out. White had enough fliers. What it needed was a larger ground creature. This ability worked on both sized creatures, thus the change was made.
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THAT’S THE SPIRIT Posted in Making Magic on October 11, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/%E2%80%99s-spirit-2004-10-11
《虚飾の道の神》は最初、3マナ2/1のフライヤーでした。
しかし、セット全体のバランスを見ると、フライヤーが十分であったのに対し、地上の中型以上のクリーチャーが不足していることが分かりました。
そのため、現在のような形になった、ということです。
《虚飾の道の神》はコモンであるため、このような調整の影響を受けやすいのでしょう。
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