Rosewater Says Graveyard-Order Designs Were Not Worth Pursuing

Mark Rosewater recalled designing cards that cared about graveyard order, but said R&D decided early that the idea “just wasn’t worth it.” In a November 9 Blogatog answer, asked whether he remembered designs that were too much effort, he suggested letting players rearrange their graveyards. He did not identify the designs he tested.

Rosewater did not spell out what made the designs too much work. In a separate answer that day, he said, “We currently have no plans to do that,” referring to banning or errataing existing graveyard-order cards. On October 31, he said an online-only game might allow new designs, but he did not think the practical design space was large (Blogatog).