A new game mechanic inMagic: The Gathering’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction set has forced lead designer Mark Rosewater to warn players not to commit crimes in real life.
Now thatMagic: The Gathering’s Fallout collaboration has released, all eyes are on its next big set - Outlaws of Thunder Junction. We’re just over a month away from the Wild West takeover and what we’ve seen and heard of the set so far has a lot of players excited.The most interesting thing about Outlaws of Thunder Junction is a new mechanic that is fittingly based on crime.
Although the full details of how “crime” works in Outlaws of Thunder Junction haven’t been revealed yet, we do know that it’s the term that’s been given to effects that target an opponent or their permanents. With the sets releasing soon, we’re likely to find out the full details shortly, but that hasn’t stopped fans from getting excited about the mechanic.
In fact, some fans might be a littletooexcited. Since the mechanic was revealed, Mark Rosewater,Magic: The Gathering’s head designer, has been receiving a lot of questions about it over on his Tumblr blog. Although some of them are reasonable, some players might be getting the wrong idea about what the introduction of crimes to the MTG should encourage.
One commenter, thunderweb, asked Rosewater if committing a crime in real life will work like it does in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, which I’m really hoping is a joke. In response, Rosewater says that it doesn’t work the same and asked fans not to commit real-life actual crimes just because it’s a mechanic in MTG now.
“Don’t commit actual real life crimes.”
Although it’s highly likely that thunderweb was just joking about committing crimes now that it’s in Magic: The Gathering, we’ve certainly seen weirder stuff happen in the world of MTG.Rosewater has previously had to tell fans that they shouldn’t throw the extremely limited One Ring card into an active volcano, whichshould hopefully be obvious to everyone considering it was sold for several million dollars.
Rosewater has also told fans in the past that they shouldn’t be eating MTG cardsthat are marked as food, something that’s become a bit of a meme in the community. At least, I hope it’s just a meme and fans aren’t actually trying to argue with the game’s head designer about whether they’re allowed to eat “non-delicious” cards.
