DCC 2/12/14: WOTC, please bring back DINOSAURS.

As you may have noticed in yesterday's DCC, we made a reference to the Dinosaur creature type in Magic. It used to exist, many moons ago. It is still printed on some cards, such as:

But somewhere along the line, the Dinosaur creature type went the way of, well, the Dinosaurs... it became extinct. No longer do we have dinosaurs in Magic; instead we have Lizards. Lizards. You know what else is a lizard?

Little guys like that. Ironically, he gets bigger than Pygmy Allosaurus. 

Dinosaur has an important connotation to it, one that should be a very excellent example of what part of the color Green is all about: Big, and badass. 

But how could Dinosaurs possibly work their way back into Magic? Certainly we would have some reverse engineering issues should it become a regular creature type again; several cards would be transitioned back to being dinosaurs from lizards, like this one:

It could be confusing. But this is a complicated game, already full of printed creature types that have extra subtypes tacked on via Oracle text.

Cards like this could be errata'ed to be Dinosaurs, or even Dinosaur Lizards, and finally achieve the proper level of badassery:

"Summon T-Rex" is more like it.

I think that we could see a brilliant return to the Dinosaur creature type at a later date when we find ourselves with a new set whose theme is immersed in the past. Jace planeswalks to some new world full of early life forms and lands teeming with rich, untapped mana. 

One day, we could be welcomed to...

Jurassic Block.

-CC