I don't know if this is fit for a regular article, a podcast or a Nuts and Bolts, but I'm very curious to know about how you determine numbers/as-fan for Limited archetypes, especially A+B stuff. Like, why did WOE's WU have many tap triggers while OTJ's GU only had one explicit plot-matters card? Why did the tap triggers were all at uncommon but other themes usually have at least one common trigger? I understand it's a feel and testing thing mostly, but any effort to put it into words would be appreciated. :)

The short version is every theme is different and we endlessly playtest to get a sense of the appropriate as-fan. Maybe I can turn that into a whole column or podcast. Not sure.

You’ve said before that “destroy target permanent” should only be printed on WB and BG cards. Teferi, Hero of Dominaria gives you an emblem with “Whenever you draw a card, exile target permanent an opponent controls.” despite being a WU card. Is this a break, or a bend?

It’s a bend. White can pinpoint destroy any permanent type except land, and by the time you jump through the hoop, it’s late enough in the game that destroying a land is just going to be a very low option.

As much as I love the new 'Origami' mechanic, limited really gets to feel samey when every-other game ends when somebody folds their whole board into cranes to swing in. I know you cant say much... But with the keyword officially being evergreen moving forward, is there anything in the pipeline to encourage other play patterns?

Crane is just the white/blue archetype.Other options:Blue/black - Fortune TellerBlack/red - HatRed/green - SwanGreen/white - Lotus flowerWhite/black - ButterflyBlue/red - Water balloonBlack/green - Masu boxRed/white - HeartGreen/blue - Jumping frog

From a design perspective, I think the pulpy-noir take of MKM would have aesthetically meshed better with New Capenna and its art deco style. I also think it would make sense to have a bunch of private detectives suddenly appear, as on Ravnica the Azorius and Boros seem to have law under control, but on Capenna people might need to hire someone independent of “the system” now that some of the crime families have been hit hard. From a player perspective, Ravnica is engrained in people’s heads and you don’t have that issue on Capenna where we’ve only had one set.

A lot of these notes seem to imply, why didn’t you think of New Capenna? We did. We explored New Capenna. It didn’t fit. It didn’t have components we needed. It didn’t have enough known characters. It required explanation that we didn’t have space to explain. And on top of all that, New Capenna, as a setting, just wasn’t all that popular with the players.

I don't know if it was Vision Design or Set Design that set the common gold disguise costs as HH, but doesn't that go against the current philosophy of not wanting double costs in low mana values? I specifically mean that you can play, for example, disguise {W/U}{W/U} in white-black (no blue), but there's a lot of variance of how comfortably you can flip it depending on what lands you drew and what other costs you want to pay that turn, which I thought Wizards wanted to avoid.

Hybrid works differently than monocolor symbols because they work in three different decks efficiently, each of the two monocolor decks and the combined two colors.

The new WU hybrid card that has surveil makes me wonder: do colors get the same access to scry and surveil, or does the graveyard interaction mean you distribute the two differently?

White isn’t supposed to get higher surveil numbers. This card had a lot of discussion.

Hey, I know this won’t matter to most, but it matters to me; why does Tomik, the acting Guildmaster of the Orzhov, have an Azorius watermark in Ravnica Remastered? Did something major happen?

It’s a mistake.

A few years ago back in June of 2019, you told us that Augury Adept was a color break for white at the time, and that the card has a gold white/blue effect rather than a hybrid white/blue effect. Is Augury Adept still a color pie break through the lens of the modern white color pie? Over the last few years, white's color pie has been expanded to have limited draw effects of "do a thing, get a card, but only once per turn" like Dusk Legion Dualist and Bennie Bracks. it feels like a combat damage trigger might be within that realm now. Is that the case or is it still a break?(Side note, I like the way you all tackled the white card draw issue in a way that feels super white. Well done.)

We’ve revamped white’s ability to draw a lot since 2019.

"Hi Mark! Have you done the X-Men yet? :) What is Professor X’s color identity?One color: blueTwo colors: white/blueThree colors: white/blue/black" What black aspects does Professor X has?

Professor X has, on numerous occasions, done quite questionable things to keep mutants alive.

If/when: a set with five factions of color pairs where they weren't all enemy or ally (e.g. WU, UR, RG, GB, BW)

If. It’s tough to do if we aren’t doing the remaining pairs.