Culture Wizards considers removing Shaman and Druid from MTG over real religion comparisons - What, no QAnon Shaman?

https://nichegamer.com/wizards-considers-removing-shaman-and-druid-from-mtg-over-real-religion-comparisons/

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by Brandon Lyttle on October 5, 2023 at 11:53 AM, EDT



Wizards of the Coast hinted that the Druid and Shaman creature types could be removed from Magic: The Gathering due to real religions which practice druidism and shamanism.

Mark Rosewater, the head designer of Magic: The Gathering since 2003 regularly answers questions about the game on his Tumblr blog. One question about how the Witch creature type was removed due to its association to a real religion led to an answer hinting at more removals in the future.

In reference to the question about using witch as a creature type: if ‘witch’ is excluded bc of its significance as a real world religious identifier, why are ‘shaman’ and ‘druid’ creature types?

We are currently examining that exact topic.

In recent years, Wizards of the Coast has been carefully removing content and language from their products to avoid accusations of racism and other forms of intolerance.

While druidism and shamanism are still practiced today, at least one user pointed out that the faiths’ representation in Magic: The Gathering counterbalances the Christian symbolism present at the game.

Please don’t phase out druids, I’ve always enjoyed seeing local Celtic culture/history represented and unlike witches they’re not a sinister depiction. If Magic can handle exaggerated fantasy clerics, angels and demons I think we deserve druids alongside them, Christian symbols have already crowded out pagan alternatives in too many places.

Druid is far less of an issue than Shaman.

Despite this, there appear to be no plans to remove angels or demons from the game.

 

[Bogliacci]

Lmfao what a faggot game to play

 

[Maldron the Assassin]

No you don't understand I want to erase your culture because it is inferior, but for your own good.

 

[Grub]

I really hate wizards of the coast. I've hated them ever since they bought tsr and ruined d&d. MTG's always been gay though.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

What's next? Removing all references to magic?

 

[Bogliacci]

Next thing they'll find out is that the Catholics have priests

 

[Heed Not]

Say what you will about Konami but I'd rather play tier 0 kitty cat OTK than worry about ethnic representation in my trading card game.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I really hate wizards of the coast. I've hated them ever since they bought tsr and ruined d&d. MTG's always been gay though.

Lol they used to have a legit white supremacist doing art and the card number in gatherer for it was 1488... somehow or another it legit ended up being the 1488th card made.

I posted the meme version cause it still makes me giggle.

Also tentacle porn in the early sets pretty much.

But yeah, shits done turned batshit-woke.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Say what you will about Konami but I'd rather play tier 0 kitty cat OTK than worry about ethnic representation in my trading card game.
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Ain't reading all that. Screw the rules, I got green hair.

 

[DankSmoker]

Why dont they just make a seperate game about polyamorous genderqueer wood elves trying to make it in the big city instead of messing with something that's worked for decades?

 

[CoolSixtyNiner]

I liked magic the gathering when i was a kid. An older relative of mine gave me his cards when he went off to college and i would just gawk at the art. I met a bespeckled gingie on the bus the first day of middle school and he loved the game and taught me how to play. We would play on the bus everyday to and from school and it is a nice memory for me.

I hadn't looked at a card in over 15 years until my girl and i went to a game store to pick up twilight struggle during the lockdowns. Then i saw the faggotry. The niggadry. The girlbossadry. How the fuck did it get so gay? The art is also just awful. Deviant Art Photoshop trash of powerful black women with no soul. I really hate these people and i truly thought they couldn't get any gayer, but gayer they got.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

This is somehow more retarded than anything else that WotC has done in recent memory. So glad I gave up mtg.

 

[Shidoen]

If you do have the old cards are they gonna send the Pinkertons after you?

 

[Zirnwyb]

These are the same fucking idiots that think Orcs and Beholders are racist. It's hard to take them seriously when they come out with shit like that.

 

[Asian tech support]

These are the same fucking idiots that think Orcs and Beholders are racist. It's hard to take them seriously when they come out with shit like that.

What the heck is their argument for beholders being racist?

 

[CarlosDanger]

What a bunch of faggots, was never into MTG but this faggotry has killed DnD as well.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The fun police continues to ruin everything they touch.

 

[Kheapathic]

I really hate wizards of the coast. I've hated them ever since they bought tsr and ruined d&d. MTG's always been gay though.

I've been slowly sourcing and buying all the D&D source books I can find before they rewrite everything and pretend the shit was woke the moment Gygax wrote it down. I don't run any campaigns or anything, but I'm gonna have the library.

 

[Zirnwyb]

What the heck is their argument for beholders being racist?

I'm pretty sure it was some dumb shit about racial supremacy in their case.

 

[UCT]

Wizard can't stop themselves from doing something retard everyday and I'm sure it will hurt their bottomline......is what I'd say if I didn't already know that all Magic players are consooooommmers of the highest order, even people on this site still consooomed as Wizards nigga'd up my boy Gandalf and Strider. No hope for Magic players to actually stop buying product to force Wizards to stop being retards. Very sad to see pillars of nerd culture knocked down to appease the type of faggot who probably cries at a Star Wars trailer.