Editing Mark Rosewater (section)

==The Storm Scale==
Rosewater thought up a scale to rank the likelihood of specific Magic cards, settings, and keyword mechanics returning in standard legal sets. It's named for the infamously broken storm mechanic, which he ranks as having no chance whatsoever of being used as a major theme ever again. The scale uses ranks between 1 and 10, although oddly, things that are less likely to return are given higher numbers. Probably it should really be a ranking of something's potential disruptiveness in future sets, but Rosewater's background isn't in a technical field so he probably just never thought about it. This concept proved to be popular, so he made four more scales of similar formatting:
* The Rabiah Scale, which describes the likelihood that any one particular plane will be revisited in the future. For reference, [[Kamigawa]] is a 7, "It's unlikely to return, but possible if the right environment comes along."
* The [[Venser]] Scale, which is the likelihood that any particular planeswalker will get a card in the future. Venser is super dead, even more dead than [[Elspeth Tirel]], hence his placement at the top.
* The Beeble Scale, the likelihood that a particular creature type will show up in standard. Beebles have only ever been seen in Un-sets ever since.
* The Gotcha Scale, the likelihood that a particular silver-bordered mechanic will show up in another silver-bordered set. Gotcha is a woe begotten mechanic from Unhinged that basically turned every game of Magic into a wordless staring contest, instead of a social experience.