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Mark Rosewater, the head designer for MTG, frequently answers questions from the players on his blog "blogatog"

Recently, a player asked about walls, a creature type from the early days of Magic: the Gathering

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"If walls were created today, would they be a new card type separate from creatures?"

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Player owlprices asked:

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"I don’t think Walls would be a creature type if not for the inertia of their use in early Magic. [...] My guess is they would be artifacts and not at all creatures, setting up attack restrictions without being able to block."

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Mark admits walls were "a total flavor fail"

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This is interesting because Walls are a classic type of creature in Magic, bringing back memories for older players, but the thought process of the design team changed during all these years!

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