Plainswalker Paradise

vedalkenghurl:

One of my favorite things about designing the double-faced cards was having designers pitch concepts for ideas and then I go, “Sounds great. Now make the card.” A sword with a demon’s essence trapped inside, forever influencing its handler to kill sounded cool, but I’ll admit there were many ways this card could have gone wrong.

Another interesting thing about this card is that we do something we seldom ever do in normal expert expansions—we made a card with an ability that only makes sense in a multiplayer game. Normally, we tend to make text meant for multiplayer mean something in a traditional two-player duel, but for once we decided to just do it the cool way and not worry about it.

- Mark Rosewater