Return to Tarkir: The art and craft of the MTG callback set

In 2014, Magic: gathering He had an irreparable hit on his hands. Tarker boxesThe 65th extension of the card game, introduced the players in the circle of war, as five separate tribes fought for power and glory. In less than a year, the cosmic intervention of a time passenger has completely new shapes to the traveler’s world, and it erased something that eliminates it. Spell The players loved the most about it – the tribes.

After a decade and 39 further extension, players eventually invited to the war -torn plane SpellThe latest set, Tarker: Dragon Storms. And according to the members SpellGame design and global construction teams, coastal wizards, have spent the past 10 years guessing that when the bottle is to be re -occupied, it was inadvertently released when the story of Tirker’s original 2014 ended.

“We did not intend to do this, but we were over,” said Aaron Forsethi, the vice president of the coastal design design and 23 -year -old veteran, said. Spell

He added, “We (actually) wanted to tell a story of the Time Travel, and when we first came to the dragon (dead for a long time).” “And we thought, (with Tarker: Dragon Storms) We (finally be able to be able) have set the foundation of this amazing third set where Dragon is brought back by time travel and this is something in which the players will be very excited and celebrate.

In contrast SpellThe current release structure, in 2014, created an expansion of a so-called block-three and the story associated with the story who told the story of the same world. As part of this structure, Tarker boxes There was the first set in a back -to -back triability known as the Khans Block, which told the story of how the past and future of Tarker was re -written, once the rulers were replaced with the return of the oppressive dragons.

Back, there are many explanations in the blocks of boxes. Its second and third set, Destiny refuted And Tarker’s dragonCertainly there was a lot of excitement for some players when they opened a booster pack in search of epic new dragons that were absent in the first set of the block. But in the years later, it was Tarker boxes It seems that it has been the longest time in the imagination and old memories of comfortable and competitive players-thanks to the famous tribes, such as Abuzan, Slaight and Timor, on a scale thanks to the individual abilities and identities of Timor, which were defined by three colors.

“They got loved Tarker boxes“Forsetth remembered.” And now we were trapped with a world that was not the best version of this world. And the rumors of this issue took many years to find out how we can solve things without recovering things.

Although the ongoing inheritance of the set could not have been unexpectedly, as the personality said, the route of Tarker was not as unique as Spell Go stories.

“We were in a stage for a while where we were destroying our world at the end of the blocks,” he said. “It turned out to be very unintentionally, because every world is a favorite of someone and players always hope to go back somewhere they like.”

With all this luggage behind them, it is easy to see how a unique problem has arisen by modifying the immigrants SpellDesign teams. But the first time of the Golventing franchise through Tarakar is far from returning to the beloved world. In more than 30 years of the game, in fact, most of its worlds have been revised at least once. And with every return, at Ravika, Iphroden, Elderin, and so on, designers face a new set of creative challenges that aims to keep the game fresh while recognizing the expectations of players from a particular place.

“With any return set, you are trying to impress the balance of something that people are really familiar with, they love it, so you really want to meet the expectations, especially the old expectations, which sometimes make it difficult to meet,” said the recent press of Coastal, after the Coasts of the Coast. Tarker: Dragon Storms Preview panel at The magic of February in Chicago. “The trick we have learned… re -make something that has done a good job and create new things to change the thing that was not. And such a return is a recipe.”

Although Mark Rose Water, Frohlch can simplify the recipe, SpellHead designer, returns sets, provides hereditary shortcuts that otherwise have to be made from ground -ups when designing the new world.

“When you create a new set and do not have any rules, it is very difficult because you have to know what you are doing,” Rose Water said in the same press event. “One of the things about returning is, I have a lot of things I know about. Tarker: Dragon Storms) We are clinging, we are dragon. Who speaks a lot. The many structure of the set is: How do we work for tribes and dragons? We have to solve this problem, but at least this is a definite, known problem.

But, according to the forecast, even the return time of the return can help the players’ expectations and the implementation of the overall success of a set can be helpful or difficult.

“Ten years is such a sweet place how we can come back somewhere and mostly implement how we did it for the first time,” the forecast explained. “Ten years are like the breed of players, better design works, and we can provide similar thematic sets that feel current and modern, and for those who were there for the first time, all the correct notes of the old memories were there.”

Although game designers have many insights about the success of a set, including sales, players’ feelings, and competitive play rates, SpellThe world makers and storytellers also take advantage of the inputs to be aware of the direction of the statement that works as the backbone of expansion.

The way the cards in the Return set simultaneously try to experience an old memories for the latest gameplay and most investing players, storytelling experience also has to thly make this injection a narrative in a satisfactory way. Repeating the same stories does not make any compulsive background Spell Cards for game global makers, such as Return Set Tarker: Dragon Storms Provide a new opportunity to modernize previous statement decisions, if not better.

“We have certainly seen the possibility of the latest version of Tarker (…) with a more experienced team building the world, which makes the effects of our creative decisions more realized,” said Doug Beer, a creative director of the World Building. Spell “We knew there was a revolutionary feeling Tarker: Dragon StormsBecause a part of this foundation is throwing the atrocities, and the restoration of these ancient tribes. He naturally pointed to a version of Tarker that stood more in the identification of these tribes. It is not necessary to look at every details of the way the tribes were before.

Where the previous Spell Stories may have used rhetorical devices to inform gameplay mechanics, the effects of advisers who represent different Asian and Middle Eastern cultures that have affected the world of tracker, now helps the design team to make the background more alive and authentic.

The result is a story that is told by gameplay, which feels organic and more rich. One of the most updated to see players in the old tribes is the cure for zombies through smart and declining members of Brod.

“Within the underworld, the last time we saw them, the last time we saw them, has changed, and the Index was nothing but the slaves in the first continuity. “Their bodies are roaming, but they are identified, their personalities, their rotten meat is hit by gold and jade.

“We have heard from advisers that the rituals of men die are actually an important part of some culture practicing for cultivation for sleep,” he added. “We still want to become a large part of the Inded Sultanate, this is a part of their basic identity that we do not want to lose, so what is a new way to photograph this (…) and what is the new way to provide them with a new inflammatory version of Tarker?”

With full For the card image gallery Tarker: Dragon Storms Now directly, players can eventually see the full limit of the re -created pictures in the familiar characters of Tarker, tribes and cultures in the game. This set remains to be seen in full game experience, though expectations are particularly high after the actual tracker block’s trade success and the total number of game defining cards.

Tarker: Dragon Storms On April 11, stores were officially reached worldwide.