Hi Mark, I have a weird question about card legality.
For context, as of All Will Be One, new cards become legal "as soon as you have them" so that you can play with them as soon as you get them from the pre-release.But with MH3, that set reprints cards that already exist. So, on what day are the reprinted cards legal in Modern? If I were to somehow get my hands on MH3 product before pre-release, I would be able to take that to a tournament and it would be legal. Would that also mean I could take a Sapphire Medallion from Commander Masters to a tournament ahead of the pre-release?

Reprints become legal the day the set comes out.

I've been missing the old yearly Commander releases, since they didn't need to be tied into a set and its world, so in that respect I'm personally quite happy to see MH3 Commander decks (or last year's for CMM), since they're closer in spirit to the old styleWas there a specific reason the MH3 decks couldn't be released as Commander 2024? That seems like it'd have sidestepped some of the frustrations with the branding

A common complaint is we’re making too many things. Separate branding only exacerbates that feeling.

I understand that they weren't the face Commanders, but why didn't you throw the "X can be your Commander" line on the new Chandra, Teyo, and Vronos cards in the Commander Masters Planeswalker Precon? It would have been a great opportunity to have a Chandra Planeswalker Commander.

We try to not just throw that line on willy nilly. The card has to be designed to be a commander. If you want Chandra as your commander, I got you covered:

Please thank whoever's responsible for a 3/1 red elemental creature token with haste being printed in CMM. It's taken 20 years for us to get one of those.

Will do!

I understand the need to fill certain slots in a set, to keep them balanced, but what is the logic/reasoning behind including reprints of cards that have been printed/reprinted very recently as part of a regular set/bonus sheet included with a regular set?
I.E. Radha, Coalition Warlord; Raff, Weatherlight Steward; and Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful all being from Dominaria United then getting reprinted on the Multiverse Legends sheet in MOM. Or Yargle, and Anafenza, who were just part of Multiverse Legends being reprinted in Commander Masters.

I know when you look at a set through the lens of a singular issue, in this case reprints, it seems so easy to make changes to maximize that goal. But the reality of making a Magic set is that there are a huge number of goals the designers need to meet. There are goals for every relevant format. There are structural goals. There are theme goals. There are as-fan goals. There are creative goals. And while you’re making this set, many other teams are making many other sets. There are a lot of balls in the air, and it’s not as easy as you might think to maximize every vector. Why does it happen? Because sometimes it’s the best choice given the options and concerns at the time.

Not a question. Just wanted to send thanks to the Magic team for doing the Sliver deck for Commander Masters. I stopped playing Magic around Tempest and Weatherlight back in the day, got back in a year and a bit ago, and I immediately started wanting to build a Sliver deck, but joked about it as an "if I win the lottery" goal. Well, thanks for making it happen WITHOUT me having to win the lottery! :)

Glad you’re happy about it.

I mean no disrespect but I'm genuinely curious but what is the purpose of having the same card reprinted in multiple sets in a year especially one with no real demand to be reprinted (chainer dementia master in both dominaria remastered and commander masters)

Sometimes a card just fits well in two products. Other times, a set slips and ends up closer to another product than planned.

Hi Mark. Has the set codenamed “Actuary” been revealed yet?

That’s the codename for Commander Masters.

Mark, I gave this feedback a few times already but it is time to ask for it again: please stop printing cards that are only available in foil. For some reason only 3 of the 4 face cards of the Commander Masters decks will be available in non-foil versions and that's quite disappointing. Foil cards bend a lot during winter where I live, making them unusable. They are also harder to read and, in my opinion, look uglier than the regular version.

I will pass along the note (and have numerous times before).

Hi Mark, can you tell us the codenames of Commander Masters and Lord of the Rings?

Lord of the Rings’ codename was Anvil. I don’t know Commander Master’s codename.