#723: Theros Beyond Death Cards, Part 1
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to move to drive to work. |
| 0:06.7 | Okay, so I'm going to start talking about the cards from Theros Beyond Death. I've already done |
| 0:13.3 | the podcast where I talked about the history of the set, but now I'm going to go in-depth |
| 0:16.6 | talking about individual card designs. So we're going to start with Archon of Sun's Grace. |
| 0:23.6 | So two white-white, so four amount of total, two of which is white. |
| 0:27.6 | It's a three-four creature in Arcon. |
| 0:30.4 | It is flying in Lifeline. |
| 0:32.6 | Pegasus creatures you control have Lifelink. |
| 0:35.1 | And then Constellation. |
| 0:36.5 | Whenever an enchantment enters the |
| 0:37.7 | battle fit under control, created two two white Pegasus creature tokens with flying. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, so let's talk a little bit about Pegasus and Constellation. A couple things. One is, |
| 0:50.0 | so I talked about when we decided to go back that we wanted to have an enchantment matter mechanic. |
| 0:57.0 | Constellation had been what was in Journey Into Nix. |
| 0:59.3 | We did explore other things, but we found that Constellation seemed to do the best job. |
| 1:05.9 | One of the tricky things about enchantments is, well, enchantment creatures easily get put in the graveyard, |
| 1:12.6 | because creatures, it's not that hard to get creatures in the graveyard. |
| 1:14.9 | It's a little bit trickier to get other enchantments in the graveyard, and it limits some |
| 1:19.3 | the interactions that we had. |
| 1:23.2 | Now, the other problem we went into was, in Journey and Into Nix, all of Constellation was put on |
| 1:29.9 | enchantments. And it created this play design issue where everything kind of snowballed, |
| 1:36.5 | because the things you needed to trigger were themselves on it. And so we had two options |
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