Yeah they probably have a "display related cards" script which automatically calls up any linked cards, and since it links to itself is just recurses up to the limit
This one's actually intentional, we thought it was funny since it's a unit that creates a copy of itself.
Could be that Catastrophe is considered a "token" which is summoned via other effect and is not counted as "random 1 cost follower"
This is correct - effects like this only generate collectible cards to avoid issues like this example.
The Yeti Token - Kinkou Wayfinder example others bring up below is different, because it's pulling any 1 cost units from your deck.
“I came into the office one day and there were a bunch of explorations on the wall, and I saw this dude on a chariot with these three ghostly sharks. And it made such little sense that I was immediately in,” laughs UNCONKABLE. “One person on our team at the time absolutely hated it.
Burn the non-believer !
Don't worry, we later gave the non-believer his own framed copy of the artwork. I haven't seen it, but I'm just going to believe that it now is displayed right above the mantelpiece in his home
This was really cool. Especially giving us behind the scenes on how different artworks were picked and mechanics being tested.
My personal favorite moment in the article was reading “I’m a big fan of Yu-Gi-Oh,” says UNCONKABLE . Yugioh is my favorite card game, and hearing someone from the Legends of Runeterra team mentioning is felt amazing. The initial trailer for Runeterra and all the Reddit posts and discussions focused on Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone, I didn't think they were ever being influenced/making something Yugioh inspired. I gave some feedback during an early LOR survey sent to my email about taking influence from Yugioh, and I am so glad they did in a way :)
Edit: Looking forward to more of these articles and other champion's design stories! Keep up the great work guys :D
There's actually a lot of Yugioh fans on the team, including myself. I'm a pretty lapsed fan personally, but when Duel Links dropped you know I was in there grinding to KoG