#Doubletake design free

'I was looking for a card that tells a story, and even better, lets the player participate in the story. I had a chance to ask Brian what his inspiration for Figure of Destiny was. (r/w)(r/w)(r/w)(r/w)(r/w): If CARDNAME is a Spirit, it gains creature type Avatar, gets +4/+4 and gains flying until end of turn. (r/w)(r/w)(r/w): If CARDNAME is a Warrior, it gains creature type Spirit, gets +2/+2, and gains first strike until end of turn.

(r/w): CARDNAME is a 2/2 Warrior until end of turn. We were working on the design of Eventide, and Brian turned in the following card: This card is the brainchild of Brian Tinsman. So, enjoy Body Double, as I don't expect us to make any more blue 'reanimation.' (R&D policy states that it's okay to reprint color pie breaks as long as they aren't introducing it to a format that doesn't already have it.) To this day, I get players using Planar Chaos cards as proof that a color can do something in color pie. As my blog has taught me, it's hard to communicate that 'this isn't what Magic actually does' when you print cards that do it. Looking back, I regret making Body Double, as well as Planar Chaos entirely. The room is lit by moonlight perhaps coming in from a skylight. The female figure has her head bowed slightly as she places a mask upon her face. The masks can resemble human and humanoid creatures (give us a good mix please). We don't want just a tree with a face on it.Īnd here's the art description for the art they used on the Double Masters 2022 version of the card:Īction: A human-looking female (shapeshifter) stands in front of a stone wall where dozens of realistic masks hang in ordered rows. Notes: Do your best to design a cool-looking treefolk.

#Doubletake design free

Feel free to add some slight indication that the living treefolk is a shapeshifter.įocus: The living copy of the dead treefolk Show a leafy, verdant treefolk of your design, and show the long-dead, dried-out, fallen treefolk at its feet almost like a shadow. Here's the art description for the original card:Īction: This shapeshifting creature takes the form of another creature, but only if that creature is now gone. Other than the creature type changing (Clones were creature type Clone early in the game), the card was pretty much 'brain to print' as we call it in R&D. If you do, ~ comes into play as a copy of that creature card.

As you can see, what I initially put in the file is shockingly close to the final card:Īs ~ comes into play, you may choose a creature card in a graveyard. I dusted off Body Double and added it to the set. It seemed like the perfect set where we could use some of these joke cards. As such, we looked for ways to redistribute the mechanics such that each color still followed its philosophy but represented it differently in gameplay. The whole gimmick of the set was that it was a set from an alternate timeline where the color pie differed from Magic's current timeline.

I'd realized that we could use cloning to let blue essentially reanimate a creature. The designers find this funny, so we often will design cards like this as a joke for one another. One of the quirks of Magic design is that you can use components of a color to design cards that aren't of that color. Last week, I started telling some card-by-card design stories about cards reprinted in Double Masters 2022, but there were a lot of stories to tell, so I'm continuing today.