The Storm Scale

Updated 2014/10/14







Dragonstorm art by Kev Walker

Mark Rosewater, lead designer of Magic and Tumblrist Extraordinaire, will from time to time entertain questions about where mechanics sit on the Storm Scale, which is a measure of Mark’s opinion of how likely they are to return in a Standard-legal set. Values generally range from 1 (“very likely to return”) to 10 (Storm; that is, very unlikely to return.) For your viewing pleasure, I have compiled a list of all the Storm Scale values I could locate, including the date on which those responses were given.

If you notice any errors or omissions from the document, please let me know here on Tumblr, or on Reddit at /u/walking_atlas.

I will do my best to update this list periodically. In the mean time, happy planeswalking everyone.







A

Affinity for Artifacts

2013/03/15- 7

Affinity (not necessarily for Artifacts)

2012/09/28- 3

2013/03/15- 5

2013/04/25- 5

Annihilator

2014/01/03- 7

2014/02/22- 8

Art by Maro

2013/12/09- 10

Artifact-Themed Block

2012/12/14- 1

Auras that Tap

2012/11/04- 10







B

Banana-Based Plane

2014/03/25- 12

Banding

2012/10/07- 10

Bands with Others

2013/12/08- 11

Battle Cry

2012/10/01- 3

Bear Lord

2014/04/01- 3

Black-Border Two-Card Spell

2013/03/20- 7

Block set in the past

2014/02/23- 6

Bushido

2012/11/26- 8

Bushido with a Different Name

2012/11/26- 4

Buyback

2013/03/03- 6







C

Card that Goes into an Opponent’s Deck

2012/11/08- 10

Cascade

2012/09/23- 3

2014/06/17- 7

Champion

2012/12/09- 6

Changelings

2012/11/16- 5

2013/01/02- 5

2013/02/09- 4

2013/11/05- 4

Chroma

2013/03/19- 5

Clash

2012/09/28- 9

Colorless Nonartifact Spells

2013/10/23- 1

Convoke

2012/10/01- 2

2014/02/22- 3

Creatures Bigger than Eldrazi

2014/09/24- 8

Creatures with Negative Power / Toughness

2013/02/01- 4

Cross-Block Keywords

2014/01/29- 8

Curses

2013/01/26- 5

Cycling

2013/12/08- 1

2014/01/31- 1 / 2







D

Dark Ritual in Standard / Modern

2014/03/09- 10

Dauthi

2014/01/29- 6

Delve

2014/05/10- 5

Devour

2012/11/26- 6

Disenchant

2013/04/10- 8

Djinns

2012/11/30- 4

Domain

2012/09/28- 4

Double-Faced Cards

2012/09/25- 1

2013/12/19- 3

2013/01/06- 3

2013/12/38- 3

Dredge

2014/06/06- 8

Dryad Arbor-Style Manlands

2014/03/11- 9

Dwarves

2013/01/23- 1







E

Echo

2012/11/07- 8

Enchantment Block

2012/10/12- 1

2012/12/14- 1

2014/08/08- 4

Enchant World

2013/12/17- 9

2014/04/08- 10

Entwine

2012/11/05- 4

Epic

2014/01/29- 7

Evoke

2012/12/27- 3

2014/01/19- 4

2014/03/31- 5

2014/05/10- 5 / 6

Exalted

2014/01/03- 3

Expert Expansion without a Planeswalker

2014/04/13- 10

Extra Turn Cards

2013/04/03- 1







F

Fateseal

2014/02/23- 8

Fetchlands

2013/02/10- 3

Flailing

2012/10/01- 10

Flanking (as is)

2012/11/13- 9

2014/02/13- 8

Flanking (tweaked)

2012/11/13- 7

2014/02/13- 5

Flashback

2012/11/20- 1

2014/01/31- 1 / 2

Flip-Cards

2012/12/19- 8

Fractional Numbers in Black Border

2012/11/19- 9 ½

Full-Art Lands

2014/01/18- 1

Full-Art Vanilla Creatures

2012/10/14- 5

Fuse

2014/01/29- 4







G

Goats

2012/11/30- 2

Goblin Planeswalker

2012/12/08- 5

Gotcha

2012/11/19- 10

Gravestorm

2014/01/29- 8

Graveyard Order Matters

2013/12/17- 10

Grind (mill until you mill a Land)

2014/06/03- 5







H

Horsemanship

2013/09/14- 9

2014/01/04- 8

Human Tribal

2013/11/27- 1

Hybrid Mana

2012/09/28- 1







I

Infect

2012/10/19- 2

2012/12/31- 3

Imprint

2012/12/31- 5

Instant-Speed Discard

2013/05/29- 1







J

Jace #5

2012/12/01- 1







K

Kicker

2014/01/31- 1 / 2







L

Laces

2013/10/28- 8

Landfall

2012/11/27- 1

2013/12/04- 1

Level-Up

2013/12/25- 7

Lightning Bolt

2012/11/16- 2

Living Weapon

2012/11/11- 6

2013/04/26- 6

Lotus (a new one)

2013/11/27- 8







M

Madness

2012/11/20- 8

2013/11/10- 8

Magic Cards Being Permanently Resized

2014/01/06- 11

Maro (the card) Reprint

2014/02/11- 3 / 4

Maro Growing a Beard and Mustache

2013/11/20- 10

Maro Magic 8-Ball (where Maro answers questions like an 8-Ball)

2012/10/08- 1

Mercenaries

2013/03/28- 8

Metalcraft

2012/09/28- 7

Miracle

2012/10/07- 4 / 5

2014/01/03- 5

Mishra’s Factory

2013/05/26- 9

Monocolor Hybrid

2013/01/09- 3

Morbid

2013/08/15- 5

Morph

2013/12/10- 5

2014/01/26- 6

2014/08/01- 1

Moxen (a new one)

2013/03/31- 4

2013/11/27- 4







N

Naughty // Nice in Black Border

2012/12/14- 10

Nostalgia Set

2012/11/15- 5 / 6

Ninjutsu

2012/09/25- 7

Ninjutsu with a new name

2012/09/25- 6

2014/08/13- 6







O

Ooze Lord

2013/01/15- 4







P

Pacts

2013/05/06- 7

Path to Exile

2014/02/14- 5

Persist

2012/11/27- 3

2013/01/24- 3

Phasing

2012/12/23- 9

2013/12/12- 9

2014/03/09- 9

Phasing-Like Mechanics that Flickers

2012/12/23- 7

**Phrexian Mana (maybe with a new name)

2012/09/28- 5

Phyrexian Planeswalker

2014/01/31- 10

Phyrexians (the character)

2014/01/31- 2

Pirate Setting

2012/10/10- 9

2013/06/14- 7

2014/10/04- 7

Pitch Cards

2012/12/14- 4

2013/10/27- 6

Proliferate

2014/04/14- 3

2014/08/28- 4

Provoke

2013/03/15- 7

2013/12/12- 7

Puzzle Column by Maro

2012/11/27- 9







Q

Questions about Maro being hit by a bus

2012/12/11- 1

Quests

2013/03/22- 6







R

Radiance

2013/12/12- 8

Rebels As Creature Type

2013/01/09- 5

Rebels-Like Mechanics

2013/01/09- 8

Rebound

2014/03/02- “I’m sure rebound will come back. :)”

Retrace

2012/11/13- 6

2012/11/24- 7

Red Version of Dark Ritual

2014/03/09- 10

Reprint of a Mark Rosewater card

2013/07/31- √(-1)

Return to Rabiah (the setting of Arabian Nights)

2013/06/19- 10

Return to Ulgothra (the setting of Homelands)

2012/11/30- 8

Ripple

2013/04/26- 8







S

Scarecrows

2013/02/23- 2

Scratch-Off Cards

2013/06/28- 9

Scry

2012/12/15- 1

2014/01/31- 1 / 2

Serra as a Planeswalker Card

2012/11/30- 10

Shadow

2012/10/02- 6 / 7

Sixth Color

2012/11/19- 9.5

2014/02/23- 9

Slivers

2012/09/26- 1

2012/11/09- 2

Snow Mana

2012/12/04- 7

Snow Supertype

2012/09/26- 7

Soulbond

2013/04/28- 5

Spike (the creature type)

2013/05/11- 6

Split Second

2012/10/19- 7

Storm

2012/11/25- 10

Storm Scale Questions on Blogatog

2012/11/21- 1

2013/03/14- 1

Suspend

2013/09/23- 9

Swords to Plowshares Reprint

2014/02/14- 10

Sylvan Library Reprint

2013/12/30- 10

Sylvan Library in Appropriate Colors

2013/12/30- 5







T

Threshold

2012/11/20- 9

2013/04/26- 8

2013/11/03- 8

Time Spiral Followup

2014/05/13- 8.5

Totem Armor

2012/11/24- 4

2014/04/25- 3

Tribal (the card supertype)

2014/01/03- 9

Tribal set where all tribes are classes

2013/03/22- 7

Tribal set where some tribes are classes

2013/03/22- 5







U

Unearth

2013/12/24- 4

2014/01/19- 3

Undying

2012/11/27- 4

2014/01/24- 4

Untap Symbol

2012/09/26- 9

2013/03/22- 9

Urza as a Planeswalker Card

2012/11/30- 10







V

Vanilla 1/1

2013/03/24

Vanillia Creatures at Rare or Mythic

2013/04/05- 1

Vanishing

2013/09/23- 7







W

Wither

2012/11/13- 3

World Supertype

2013/01/15- 8







Y

You Make The Card

2012/10/14- 3

2013/02/05- 3





