Re: Shrines. Some elves count all elves. However not all elves have to count all elves. May I request Shrines that don’t count all Shrines. One related to the Gods, Demigods, clerics, or devotion feels flavorful.

When 100% (or very near) of cards do something, there’s a lot of expectation for future cards to do it as well. We don’t always do what’s expected, but it has to be factored in, and usually involves other factors.

Outlaws (and the oft-suggested 'Sea monsters' batching) seem like a great hit. In retrospect, do you think that - with appropriate modifications to the rest of the set accordingly - Party in ZNR would have been better received as say, 'Party members (Clerics, Rogues, Warriors and Wizards are party members)'?

Party needed you to have one of each which is slightly different than batching.

Is Arcade Gannon supposed to be a Doctor, not a Cleric?Healers and their ilk have been Clerics up until now, is Doctor going to be a creature type that's just available now? Or will I be allowed to use Twice Upon A Time to search him out, and stuff like that?

We are using the Doctor creature type where flavorfully appropriate. Many Universes Beyond sets that are bit more modern in their setting will use it.

Theoretically, would it be possible for a card to say it qualifies as something, strictly by its text? IE, could a creature card say “~ is Historic” if it wasn’t Legendary or Artifact, or “~ counts as a member of your party” if it’s not a Cleric, Wizard, etc?

I’ve been told the rules don’t allow that. Historic itself isn’t a property, it’s just a shorthand of a list of properties.

In typal that cares for things that are two creature types would it be: creatures that are rabbit and warrior, rabbit warrior creatures, or creatures that are both rabbit and warrior?I’m guessing something like this will probably never happen due to how limiting of a restriction it would be.

Lets say you have three creatures. Peter who is a Rabbit Warrior.Paul who is a Rabbit Cleric.Mary who is a Raccoon Warrior.Here’s what happens with different templates:All Rabbit Warriors you control gets +1/+1Peter gets +1/+1.All Rabbits you control get +1/+1. All Warriors you control get +1/+1.Peter gets +2/+2. Paul and Mary get +1/+1.All Rabbits or Warriors you control get +1/+1.Peter, Paul, and Mary all get +1/+1.

Is it possible we see any creatures in magic be errata’d to be doctors? Healers tend to be given the cleric type, although I feel like some of them make more sense as doctors

I think Doctor will be used in more modern settings and let high fantasy settings stick with the more fantasy-sounding creature types - yes, things like cleric.

What makes a Warlock different from a Wizard, a Druid or a Cleric of malicious beings?

It’s just different approaches to using magic. Warlocks tend to have more selfish ends and are willing to tap into forces others won’t.

Hi Mark, with all the talk of tribal recently, can I maybe voice a counterpoint/unpopular opinion? As someone who loves making individual tribal decks, I greatly dislike batching of lesser established creature types. Mixing Warrior/Samurai or Wizard/Giants takes away from the unique identity of each tribe. Can we get more lords for lesser types like Clerics did in Dominaria United? Cats/Pirates/Minotaurs/etc could all greatly benefit from a 2 cmc lord that gives +1/+1 to their respective types.

We only get so many slots to do creature type caring cards. Batching allows us to hit more of them and also does a better job of enabling certain themes to hit a large enough volume to work in Commander. We’ll stick make the single creature type cards, but batching is a useful tool to make more players happy.

What makes Far Out an acorn card and Clandestine Chameleon not?
I’ll just come right out and say it: I’m peeved that Far Out, a card whose design I LOVE isn’t implicitly black bordered and that I’m going to need special permission from my playgroup to use it. I’m a Melvin, and not being able to use it everywhere really rustles my Jimmies.

The normal rules can’t handle what’s known as mutually exclusive modes. It’s when a card has multiple modes, but the outcome are different choices of the state of one item. I’ll use the card Outlaw’s Merriment from Throne of Eldraine as my example:Outlaw’s Merriment\1RWWEnchantmentAt the beginning of your upkeep, choose one at random. Create a red and white creature token with those characteristics.• 3/1 Human Warrior with trample and haste.• 2/1 Human Cleric with lifelink and haste.• ½ Human Rogue with haste and “When this creature enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to any target.”There are three modes, but you only get one creature. This forces us to answer the question of what do you do if something is more than one state at once. For example, what happens if you cast Outlaw’s Merriment and chose all three modes? The normal rules can’t handle this.The acorn answer is you combine all the information as best you can. In the case of Outlaw’s Merriment, you would get a 6/4 Human Warrior Cleric Rogue with haste, lifelink, trample, and “When this creature enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to any target.”

I am really dissapointed that my zombies didnt get a 2 mana lord, but all the other ones did. Dis you know why clerics was the choice? They are more WB thing

Look up all the Zombie lords we’ve made. Then look up all the Cleric lords. They needed it so much more.