From the outside looking in, it seems like the time from Kaya's appearance in Conspiracy Two to her role in Ravnica is two years, while the time between when Estrid was developed for Commander 2018 versus Theros Beyond Death was just under two years. Does that help explain why sometimes we see planeswalkers seeded for future sets, versus when players perceived missed opportunities--you all just didn't know they existed yet?

We knew Estrid existed at the time we made Theros Beyond Death. She wasn’t a good story fit.

You have to admit, for black border, the designs of many of the new character cards from Commander 2018 were some of the most innovative, boundary-defining cards I've seen. Arixmethes, Xantcha, Varchild, etc. They're not just amazing flavor captures of requested characters, but very fun and unique. Let's give C18 credit where it's due.

There are some very cool designs in Commander 2018.

Lord Windgrace showed up as a planeswalker in Commander 2018. Would Serra ever have a chance of appearing as a commander either as a legendary creature or planeswalker? Or is she likely to never see a card?

A Serra planeswalker card is a possibility, although more likely in a supplemental set as she’s dead.

Is Tamiyo in commander 2018?

You’ll know by the end of the week.

I want to respectfully voice my disappointment with handling C18 early spoilers. The themes are amazing, but the pictures were undewhelming and dampened my enthusiasm. No face cards, no recognizable characters. Spider and zombie especially do not tie with anything and do not feel exciting (as spoiler arts). I would be way more excited if we just got themes-names-colors in text form with really juicy art to speculate about or with no art at all.

One of the challenges of having so many products is that we have to balance the needs of one against the other. In a vacuum, you’re correct, we could have made the first teaser of Commander 2018 splashier. Here’s the problem. We specifically didn’t want to. The spoiler happened the day before Core 2019’s release. Our desire wasn’t to hijack the community conversation away from Core 2019. That meant choosing preview material that would excite people without starting talking points which would steer the conversation elsewhere. Maybe, that means we should have just waited a week or two to start the Commander 2018 teasers, but then that means no on-ramp to slowly ease the product into the players’ consciousnesses which we know leads to a better preview. This is all to give you all a better sense of the complexity behind the scenes of creating preview plans.

"Would you all rather wait longer to get info but get a full episode on the topic?" Actually, I think yes. When there's an official video to show off new stuff, it sets a high expectation bar that we wouldn't have otherwise.

I think the problem was proper expectation setting. It was a Core 2019 stream with a small Commander 2018 teaser. I think too many people were expecting something different.