Hey, can you pass the feedback to the right team that the current secret lair system sucks? Like I love magic. I love this game dearly and I enjoy the concept of secret lairs giving me great art and cards I previously couldn't access being accessible in some way.This concept of limited scarcity feels disheartening and makes it so nearly inaccessible when I don't immediately remember when a secret lair happens and I shouldn't have to plan my day to buy something lest it sells out in under an hour or close to it. I was excited to get a Miku bundle but it was sold out by the time I was going to and the limiting the bundles to only a select number just creates FOMO and scalpers will take advantage of the system regardless of limits

I will pass it along.

Opened a bundle for OTJ today, and noticed that it had a game card from Magic Core Set 21 explaining how to play Draft when the box contains Play boosters. Is this a slight oversight? I thought new product would include updated game cards explaining how to play with Play boosters instead of referring to Draft?

Whether or not you’re using Draft boosters or Play boosters, you’re still drafting or playing (booster) draft.

It might be too early, but would you consider doing a podcast on protection/shroud/hexproof/ward as a bundle to talk about R&D’s evolving uses of “you can’t target this” mechanics and what you feel like you’ve learned from them?

I can add it to the list.

Hey Maro,
When a set has a special land in the basic land slot for packs (constellation lands for the most recent Theros, full arts for Zendikar, snow lands for kaldheim) why do the bundles not include those lands and instead have lots of normal basics? I feel like including the special lands as a guarantee or even for half of the land spots in those bundles would make them more accessible and also make the bundles more desirable.

The reason we don’t do that is it would lessen the lands feeling special in the booster.

Hi Mark,Looking at the newest batch of secret lair alternate art lands (meditations on nature)...Firstly, they are AMAZING. Secondly, I will probably yet again not buy any because of the fact that they are only available to buy as 1 of each land type in a bundle... could you please pass along to the appropriate groups a desire for bundles of 10 of the individual land types sold separately?I believe this has a much more practical application for use as a game piece.

How many of you want all your basic land to be the same in a deck? I know there are competitive game reasons to do so, but I’m more curious about it from an aesthetic viewpoint.

Hey Mark!A feedback regarding MOM Aftermath.This one is on me for preordering without double checking the product, but with so many different new products it gets kinda hard to follow everything happening.I was very surprised to learn that boosters will have a third of the amount of cards we usually get. With similar price and visual identity of booster boxes, bundles, collector boosters, im feeling a bitter taste for paying essentially 3x the "price per card". Even after seeing "epilogue boosters", it was not intuitive that meant "same price for 1/3".Magic is not a cheap hobby, and the quality of design never lets down. I know this product is a first of a kind, but Id argue in favor of creating more distinctive packaging/communication of products that are not what consumers are used to.

It’s a good note that I’ll pass along.

Hi! Mr. Rosewater!First of all, I have to say that I’m a gigantic fan of your work, and your philosophy on game design has really influenced me for the better as a writer and storyteller overall. So, thank you so much for everything you do and for being so transparent on this blog about the game. (Forgive me if this ask is worded oddly - it’s my first ever ANYTHING on Tumblr and I’m still trying to find all the ropes. I’m desperately clinging on to those few I’ve found. Can somebody tell me how long the way down is?) Secondly (and more importantly), it is, as we all know, Christmas, and I just received an Unfinity draft box last night. Unfortunately, I’m away from home and don’t have a land station or other supplies to host a four-player draft, nor do I have sleeves to allow me to do some weird gimmick like sleeving cards upside down to function as lands. Therefore, do I have your blessing to run the draft with Duel Masters rules (you can play any card upside down as a land of the card’s color[s]) and forgo running lands? Do you have any other suggestions? I also have a Gift Bundle of The Brothers’ War, but it only has 40 lands. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Have fun doing something quirky. I would later play with lands when you get a chance as the “Duel Master” version is far from what we playtested and adapted the design around.

I know this isn’t your department, but you shouldn’t be offering secret lair bundles where the savings is $1. It feels very disrespectful to the intelligence of your player base.

I’ll pass that note along.

For Souvenir T-Shirt: I have that sheet of stickers that came with the old gift bundles. Would those count as Magic-branded items (and if so, would each count separately)? (note that on the side they have the little symbols indicating their card type like they had in the future-shifted cards in Future Sight).

It has to be an item that you can wear (a tee-shirt, a hat, jewelry). You can’t “wear” stickers.

"I don’t think land accessibility has increased much. Most of basic lands for players are still coming from booster packs." What steps/ how much effort goes into solving this? I'm aware of Bundles having basics (and wish they were full art again, no BFZ was not a failure) and the basic land packs that can be purchased by LGSs.

We have solved it. We put basic lands in booster packs.