MTG Salvation

Damn it. Why is this not a Horse? Why does R&D keep making all kinds of redundant subtypes and spell mechanics? The game is too cluttered with the stuff as it is. Unicorns are fancy horses. They should be the Horse creature type. Now you can have this thing that looks like a Horse and acts like a Horse but doesn't benefit from Crested Sunmare or anything like that.

This sort of thing is definitely a pet peeve.

Man playing some Hearthstone and Duelyst really put this stuff into perspective to me and I'm just glad that our game is as streamlined as it is. The other card games can't even template with respect to their own rules most of the time. MTG has some creature type issues but I can get over that.

Heh. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Personally, I'd like to see subtypes cleaned up a bit. Although Unicorns are close enough to Horses that it still bugs me. But I mean, we have a lot of extraneous subtypes that just aren't used enough to be relevant. Hippos could be Beasts, because there is somewhat more support for Beasts. Shades and Spirits should really all just be Spirits. Viashino should be Lizards the way that Aven are Birds. And why is there an Antelope subtype in this very set when the Indrik, which looks like a giant prehistoric ungulate, is a Beast?

It's a silly thing, perhaps, to be miffed over. But all the same, I'd like to see some of these things changes for more consistency. Then again, I also really love tribal stuff and miss tribal-typed noncreature spells, too.

Unicorns and Pegasi are to horses as Angels are to humans, if you think about it. Unicorns especially, they can speak some languages, cast spells and stuff, think strategically. Unicorns are mythical beasts, and horses are animals. I think the bigger issue is WOTC printing horse-tribal support in the first place and making you want horses, haha

Though the fact that Zombies can't be Human Zombies but can be Elf Zombies is stupid, same with Spirit and Vampire