Top Ten List #6 - Top Ten Cards That Took The Longest To See Print
8) Moonring Mirror (Champions of Kamigawa)
Before I came to Wizards of the Coast, I had a cool idea for a card that allowed a player to have two hands (of cards that is) that they could swap back and forth. That card ended up being called Duplicity and it was printed in Tempest. Unfortunately, Duplicity ended up being a dud and no one except for a few eager Johnnies ever played with it.
So I was determined to remake Duplicity; this time doing it right. I tried various versions, some artifacts and others enchantments. But it wasn’t until Champions of Kamigawa that I was finally successful.
1) Heartbeat of Spring (Champions of Kamigawa)
During the development of Fifth Edition (back in something like 1997), the team made of wish list of cards it wanted to see in future base sets. The list was for cards that didn’t yet exist but that the team wanted to see get designed. One such card was a “green mana flare”. I stuck it in Tempest. And Urza’s Saga. And Mercadian Masques. And Invasion. And Odyssey. (I skipped Onslaught.) And Mirrodin. And finally Champions of Kamigawa. Seven years later it has finally seen print.
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TOP TEN OF THE MORNING Posted in Making Magic on October 25, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/top-ten-morning-2004-10-25
様々なトップ10について語る記事です。
印刷に至るまでにかかった期間の長さトップ1,8に『神河物語』のカードがランクインしています。
1位の《春の鼓動/Heartbeat of Spring》については、過去の日記（※１）で取り上げました。日本語の記事もあるので、そちらを読む方が分かりやすいでしょう。
8位の《月輪の鏡/Moonring Mirror》は、《二枚舌/Duplicity》のリメイクになります。様々なバリエーションを試した結果、完成したのが『神河物語』の時期だった、ということでした。
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神河資料 - ９年待った《春の鼓動/Heartbeat of Spring》
https://researchofkamigawa.diarynote.jp/201912252015371051/
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