Gavin Verhey explains the biggest difficulties of adapting Universes Beyond into Magic: The Gathering — from avoiding five-color soup, to ‘Figuring out what Green means’
THE SO WHAT
IP crossovers that actually work are about system constraints, not fan service — “what Green means” is a design governance problem. If you’re building extensible systems, treat new IP or feature sets as rulebook negotiations, not just content drops.
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