神河当時 - プレイテストのハイライト

昨日の記事の続きです。

Dave Hanson becomes the first Magic player to abuse the "crash-dragons" and the new legendary rule. Within 24 hours of getting these "new cards" (they showed up in an email about halfway through our testing), Dave had the white, blue, and black versions in a deck with four copies of Buried Alive, Patriarch’s Bidding and…well, who cares what else. (Yes, we were also aware of Sneak Attack.) He could store and bring out either one each of blue, black, and white – or double them up and let the "legend rule" do the rest. It was devastating – not least because Yosei used to have an even more powerful tap-down effect than it has now. Changes: Yosei’s ability is a bit more reasonable now.

Todd Petit and Bob Drosky become the first two fearless explorers to break the effigies and shrines. Like Lewis and Clark braving the Rocky Mountains, Drosky and Petit demonstrated in both limited and constructed multiplayer formats that these unassuming 1/2 zubera and matching legendary honden do have their uses. Sort of. Occasionally. When the light is right. Changes: the zubera are pretty much identical to when we last saw them. The honden have different (staggered) casting costs.


Paul Hemze borrows a buddy. "Borrow Buddy" was the playtest name for Blind with Anger. Every other game, Paul would look at an attacking creature, cry out "borrow buddy!" in his silliest voice, and then wreck some other poor guy who happened to have a decent non-legendary blocker available. Of course we knew this was good – it’s the latest variant of Ray of Command – but the amazing frequency with which Paul pulled this off is still noteworthy. Changes: No change to this card from when we last saw it.


Joe Santos reverses some sands. During my preview of Reverse the Sands, I was unable to reveal that our group already had fairly intimate knowledge of this card. Joe loved it (then called "Vice Versa") and played it constantly. I hated it, and still hate it even though I’ll probably use it myself. It’s that kind of card. Changes: They bumped up the cost by 1. We didn’t tell them to do this; but we’re glad they did.


Todd Petit makes a three-fer deck. There was a potion involved, and a lot of stupid brokenness. I forget the rest and I’m glad; decks like Todd’s really don’t deserve even this much press. Changes: The card isn’t in the set anymore. Let’s all just hope they don’t try this one again.

引用元
DOWN TO EARTH Posted in Serious Fun on October 19, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/serious-fun/down-earth-2004-10-19

プレイテストのハイライトとして、各メンバーの動向が書かれています。

新しいレジェンドルールを悪用して伝説ドラゴンサイクルのPIG能力を誘発させたり、ずべらと本殿の有用性を見出したり、と言った具合です。

後、多人数戦用に作られた《砂の逆流/Reverse the Sands》は大好きな人と大嫌いなプレイヤーとがいたようです。誰かに嫌われようと、別の誰かに愛されるようなカードであればいい、という話もありますし、これはこれで成功なのでしょう。