Monday, April 23, 2007
Dryad Arbor
Dryad Arbor is a Land Creature - Forest Dryad. I wonder why they did not make it a Land-Forest Creature-Dryad. It seems to me that the later is more intuitive to the uninformed reader. Additionally this means that you can't introduce new subtypes on dual type cards, because people won't know which is which. For example let's say I wanted a creature to have two subtypes Spirit & a new type Vision, but I also want to make it an Enchantment. If I print "Enchanment Creature-Vision Spirit" it's ambiguous as to whether vision is a creature type or Enchantment type.
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See, I never understood why this bothered you so much... I think it's more intuitive as printed. The idea is it's first and first, second and second... the only place I can see an issue is if you want multiple subtypes for one type... say Dryad Arbor was a:
Land Creature - Forest Dryad Elf
Now I look at that and go wtf?
But I don't mind the trade off for no double subtypes per type... though I can't wait until we get a:
Creature Enchantment - Elf Aura
or
Artifact Creature - Equipment Elephant
That should confuse some of the old guys that haven't been around in awhile. ;)
And while I'm thinking of it, what if they didn't want a subtype? Say like:
Land Enchantment - City
or would that just not ever happen?
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