Maro: "You are encouraged to commit crimes"

I get where the theming is coming from, but from the outside (I haven’t played Magic in years, I like reading your design insights though) the “Commit a Crime” stuff looks like it is going to be treated like Gotcha by the players. Certainly “we’ll see”, but it looks/smells very similar from where I’m sitting.

It will cause inaction? You are encouraged to commit crimes, so it incentivizes interaction, not deter it.

This comes as a response to the reminder text he shared about commiting a crime:

The Reminder Text for Committing a Crime

Because there’s been so much talk about it, I’ve gotten permission to show it to all of you:

(Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/markrosewater/744235689256878080/the-reminder-text-for-committing-a-crime