I'm always happy to see more Bird cards (Bloomburrow has me excited)Is there also a chance we will see more chickens without silver borders in the future?

It’s always a possibility. They would be creature type Bird.

howdy mark, i'm not a big fan of universes beyond but more than anything i strongly dislike the ub card frame. i've played magic for a long time and my reaction to the the ub frame is honestly pretty similar to white borders. i regularly see people sharing this same opinion. has there been any research on how players feel about the ub frame? is there any chance it will change or has that ship sailed? white borders famously weren't considered a huge success as a signifier.

Nothing is unchangeable. How do others feel about the Universes Beyond card frames?

RE: the question about enchantment borders. Have y'all considered applying the enchantment creature border treatment to all enchantment cards?

It has been discussed.

Hi Mark! At first I was firmly in the non-UB camp, but as time has passed and, rather selfishly, as cards from IPs I like have started to come out/be announced, I have changed my stance and actually quite enjoy them.
My only gripe that persists is the UB card border. With other sets, alternate borders are a collecting choice, and personally I prefer the uniformity of my cards all having regular borders, but with UB cards that choice is taken away from me. Despite liking UB, every time I see one in my hand or while shuffling through cards, the metallic-looking border instinctively makes me think "that's not a "real" magic card, it's a Universes Beyond card".
Do you think there's a chance that changing the UB border to that of regular Magic cards would help bridge the gap of acceptance in people's minds?

I’m curious what you all think.

Why don’t borderless treatments run into the same problems that having two or more borders in a set do?

The problem wasn’t that we can’t print black border and silver border on the same sheet. The issue was we couldn’t do them with the number of cards planned for the sheet. That meant we’d have to cut cards and we didn’t want to. Borderless cards can be printed with the proper number on the sheet so it can be done.

What prevents you from having black and silver border cards on the same sheet thus forcing you to change to acorn despite signifying the same thing.

If you want to have different borders on the same sheet, you have to do what is known as “gutter cutting”. That requires you to have less total cards on the sheet. The only way to do that in Unfinity (based on when the decision was made) would have been to cut cards from the set. We don’t get a lot of Un-sets, so I wasn’t willing to do that.

I know the mixing of silver border and black Border in the printing process is a logistical nightmare, but what about a thicker silver 'outline' around acorn cards and keeping the border black?

The two can be mixed with enough planning. It was hard to retrofit.

About watermark matter in black-border:What about a supplemental set with cards that care about watermarks, but only in limited games of that set?Kinda like Conspiracy, but it doesn't need to have cards that matter while drafting (not that it couldn't)

That’s basically silver borders/acorn which is what Conspiracies should have been.

I've always wondered about Contraptions - you stated at the time that they weren't given borders with the intent that they would be black-border legal even though there were no black border assemble effects. But at the time dice rolling wasn't black board, and there are a number of contraptions that roll dice. Were you anticipating dice-rolling becoming black border back in Unstable?

I thought it was potentially possible.

If or when: sliver-bordered cards?

The new Ponies set has silver borders.