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ZNR Rules and Mechanics AMA w/ Wizards of the Coast

Greetings Reddit!

We here at Wizards are so excited for Zendikar Rising, and it's rules and mechanics, that we will be hosting an AMA on Wednesday, September 9th from 10a - 11a PT right here on r/magicTCG.

This AMA will be focused on the rules and mechanics of ZNR, and hosted by your friendly community team and members of the Magic Design team -

u/wotc_clarke - that's me!

u/wotc_communityteam - Chris, our Community Manager for Magic TCG

u/WotC_MTabak - Matt Tabak, Rules Manager

u/WotC_Abro - Andrew Brown, Senior Game Designer

Feel free to post your questions in this thread, and we will draft answers ahead of time. Once the AMA begins, we will create a new thread and post answers to questions from this thread in the live thread as well as answer live questions. Thanks Reddit!

*EDIT* Adding one more member of the Magic Design team, James Wyatt u/aquelajames , Senior Game Designer focused on world building.

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  • Wizards Community Team
    Posted 5 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Do modal double-faced cards still calculate the CMC from the front-face if the back-face is face up?

    An answer here from Matt Tabak (WotC_MTabak):

    "They do not. That is a feature of transforming double-faced cards like the Innistrad Werewolves. That rule was added because we felt having the back faces be susceptible to removal based on their converted mana cost felt wrong.

    For the new modal double-faced cards, the cmc is calculated using the face that's up on the stack or on the battlefield. It's front face in other zones. This is more consistent with the design of MDFCs, that the faces are independent of one another."

  • Wizards Community Team
    Posted 5 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Lithoform Engine and copy permanent spell

    It enters as token. Is the token "created" for all cards that care about token creation?

    From Matt Tabak (WotC_MTabak):

    "The token is not "created" and won't interact with cards like Doubling Season. What happens is the copy of the spell is created on the stack. As that spell resolves, it becomes the token."

  • Wizards Community Team
    Posted 5 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Regarding the effect of [[Anowon, the Ruin Thief]] " Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. "

    - Does this effect only apply to the damage being dealt by attacking Rogues, or will it also include combat damage that is dealt by other creature types as long as at least one Rogue successfully dealt combat damage?

    From Matt Tabak (WotC_MTabak):

    "The player dealt combat damage mills cards only for the combat damage dealt by your Rogues, not for any combat damage dealt to them at the same time by non-Rogues."

  • Wizards Community Team
    Posted 5 years, 4 months ago (Source)

    Do Changelings count as all members of a party, or do you need separate creatures to count, even if classes overlap?

    From Matt Tabak:

    "A changeling can fill any role, but it can fill only one role. You'll need to control at least four creatures to have a full party. The number of creatures in your party is always the largest number it can be. So if you control a Rogue and a creature with changeling, there are two creatures in your party."

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