Gavin Verhey, one of the lead designers at Wizards, posted an interesting question on Twitter:

“You get to pick one Magic keyword mechanic to return in 2024. What is it?”

What are we bringing back?!

  • AndrewOPMAEnglish
    10•6 months ago

    My crazy long shot that’s never coming back as is, sadly: Dredge. I think it’s such a fun and unique mechanic, and cards like Life from the Loam are excellent examples of how it can be done well.

    More realistically: I’d love to see Buyback again, an old one I loved from Exodus. Capsize every turn!

    • nfhEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      Dredge is really hard to do well though, in that it makes a card playable no matter what else is written on it, and making a card too playable, then adding dredge onto it can easily make it broken enough to pick up bans in eternal formats. It’s such a small design space, but I’d also love to see a few cards try to thread that needle.

      Buyback is fun, Clockspinning in particular stands out as a fun card to play, even if it’s not amazing. Expanding it to creatures would be a fun twist to see it come back with.

      • AndrewOPMAEnglish
        4•6 months ago

        Yeah probably so difficult that even in the 0% chance it does come back the cards would be so neutered that what’s point.

        A low dredge value helps though and even a few that are quirky would be cool. Like a recurring ETB effect on a cheap artifact with dredge 2 that’s heavy on the lore. Something!