Post by Laharl on May 5, 2006 16:34:21 GMT 1
An extract from the Q+A on the Wizards site:
"April 26, 2006
Q: 'When cantrips' originally came out (in the Ice Age Block) they had you draw a card on the next upkeep. Then cards came out allowing you to draw a card as soon as the spell resolved and people were still calling them 'cantrips', although they are very different (in my opinion). What went into the decision to change how cantrips work?"
--Dave
here's the answer:
A: From Matt Place, Magic R&D:
'Hi Dave,
'Many people think cantrips changed to make it less likely that you forget to draw your card, and then ask four turns later if you could draw that forgotten card. The real reason was that at the time we were considering removing the upkeep phase from the game, and therefore needed to remove the reference to upkeep from cantrips. Our polling at the time revealed these statistics:
Favorite Phase in Magic (1000 players polled)
301 Second Main Phase
223 Combat Phase
212 Discard/Cleanup Phase
99 Draw Phase
71 Untap Phase
56 No Answer
37 First Main Phase
1 Upkeep
'In spite of these numbers we decided not to remove upkeep from Magic, at the time, but knew we would eventually have to. It is unlikely that upkeep will still be a part of Magic by early 2007.'
'(Or, if you don't believe that, maybe it really did have something to do with a mandatory draw that didn't happen right away, and thus caused rules issues when it wasn't noticed until turns later. Your choice.)'"
have Wizards turely gone mad!!?? there are way too many cards that use the upkeep to just throw away such an important phase
"April 26, 2006
Q: 'When cantrips' originally came out (in the Ice Age Block) they had you draw a card on the next upkeep. Then cards came out allowing you to draw a card as soon as the spell resolved and people were still calling them 'cantrips', although they are very different (in my opinion). What went into the decision to change how cantrips work?"
--Dave
here's the answer:
A: From Matt Place, Magic R&D:
'Hi Dave,
'Many people think cantrips changed to make it less likely that you forget to draw your card, and then ask four turns later if you could draw that forgotten card. The real reason was that at the time we were considering removing the upkeep phase from the game, and therefore needed to remove the reference to upkeep from cantrips. Our polling at the time revealed these statistics:
Favorite Phase in Magic (1000 players polled)
301 Second Main Phase
223 Combat Phase
212 Discard/Cleanup Phase
99 Draw Phase
71 Untap Phase
56 No Answer
37 First Main Phase
1 Upkeep
'In spite of these numbers we decided not to remove upkeep from Magic, at the time, but knew we would eventually have to. It is unlikely that upkeep will still be a part of Magic by early 2007.'
'(Or, if you don't believe that, maybe it really did have something to do with a mandatory draw that didn't happen right away, and thus caused rules issues when it wasn't noticed until turns later. Your choice.)'"
have Wizards turely gone mad!!?? there are way too many cards that use the upkeep to just throw away such an important phase
