168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic the Gathering's head designer has explained why the Werewolf-themed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Innistrad: Midnight Hunt set features fewer Werewolv๊es than players may have initiall👍y expected.
According to Mark Rosewater, who oversees all of Magic's design, Werewolves weren't as prevalent in Midnight Hunt as you'd expect from a set with the codename "Innistrad: Werewolves" due to a few reasons. Primarily, their defining feature being that they are double-faced cards is logistically difficult – this is something senior designer has also said in the past, when asked why there was not a Werewolves-themed Commander deck for Midnight Hunt. Printing double-faced cards is expensive, and any sleeveless play of double-faced cards can be problematic.
In Rosewater's on the official MTG blog, he also discussed how Werewolves can be a tricky and limited creature type to define for. Primarily being red and green, and having a strict set of mechanical constraints to them (such as that they 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:transform) made designing lots of werewolves while still feeling distinct from each other tricky. In Midnight Hunt, werewolves outside of red and green were introduced, with the creature typ🍎e now having representation inꦆ every colour.
The question relative lack of big, legendary Werewolves was also raised, as there are only two in all of Midnight Hunt: Arlinn, who is a Planeswalker and so is not a valid Commander for the Commander format, and . Rosewater said that any other designs for a Werewolf commander would either encroach on Tovolar's design space (being a red/green Werewolf legendary), or require adding more colours that were both not supported by the Werewolf creature type and went against Innistrad's two-colour colour identity design.
Despite players wondering where all the 🦋werewolves are, Rosewater was still keen to point out that Midnight Hunt has more of them than any other Innistrad set. In Midnight Hunt, there are 19 werewolves, beating the original Innistrad by seven. However, this was marketed as "the Werewolf Set", and Werewolves are a creature type people have 🥃been desperate for support for for a very long time.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Werewolves players won't have to wait long before seeing them again, though, as Rosewater confirmed they will be making a reappearance in November's Innistrad: Crimson Vow set. He has said that Crimson Vow will have a "normal number of Werewolves", which likely means somewhere between seven and 12. Also returning in Crimson Vow are more Innistrad favourites, such as the stitcher Geralf (whose sister showed in Midnight Hunt), the lunarch Odrich and the legendary warrior Thalia.
