Talk:Predefined token
Inherent ability?
Just wanted to note that Rosewater contradicts what I wrote here about NOT being similar to basic land types, but I believe he is either mistaken or being loose in interpreting the question - https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/185772835068/i-noticed-in-rapacious-dragon-that-you-keyworded . As I stated in the article, the rules say nothing about gain/loss of subtype causing a permanent to have the ability, they simply say that tokens created that way start with the ability; Rosewater has been known to focus more on a design perspective than a literal mechanical perspective, he didn't actually use the word "intrinsic" which is what the rules use to define how basic land types work, and I haven't seen a rules manager or judge address this one. - jerodast (talk) 08:05, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Development
Planning a development section tracing the timeline of this concept a bit more. Sources & notes:
- Gold at a small scale in JOU (May 2014)
- Clue at a large scale via Investigate only in SOI (April 2016)
- Treasure at a large scale in XLN (Sep 2017)
- "Why isn't treasure keyworded" https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/odds-ends-ixalan-part-1-2017-10-09
- Predefined concept made official in Core Set 2020 rules & Rapacious Dragon, with errata for past Treasure makers (July 2019)
- ELD first set to use new predefined token with widely-used Food (Sep 2021)
- https://vensersjournal.com/C19-ELD
- Not mentioned in update bulletin, boo Shiffrin
- "Like Treasure tokens before them, Food tokens are a predefined sort of token..." https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/throne-eldraine-mechanics-2019-09-04
- "...pushed them to making a Food token. Influenced by Clues (from Shadows over Innistrad)..." https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/singing-eldraine-2019-09-16
- TBD added Gold with errata for past Theros Gold makers (Jan 2020)
- Kaldheim added Shards, used barely at all (Feb 2021)
- MH2 adds first non-investigate Clues and thus added to predefined list (June 2021)
- VOW adds Blood (Nov 2021)