I understand that there are things you can point to that are visible consequences of the Phyrexian invasion like story content and the deaths of Eldraine’s king and queen, but doesn’t it say something that you need to point those out as counter arguments to begin with?The problem with threatening a Phyrexian planar threat is that the damage was implied to be irreversible. Compleation often involved grotesque surgical mutilation, so it doesn’t make sense that compleated characters could return to normal so easily and without any significant scarring. Phyrexian oil is supposed to be so dangerous that a single drop could eventually infect and corrupt an entire plane, so it seems impossible to eradicate. Even ignoring the resilience of the Phyrexians themselves, a large scale military invasion aided by the most powerful beings on each plane should have left those planes in a post-apocalyptic state, yet all of that seems to be off-screen or completely disregarded. We went underground for Ixalan, so we didn’t see the devastation. We went into the wilds for Eldraine, so we didn’t see the courts in shambles. Ravnica seems to be the same as ever, just with more detective hats. And the last set of the year that immediately followed the invasion takes place on a plane nobody even lived on during the invasion, so there were no consequences to show off.I think the real issue isn’t necessarily that there weren’t consequences, but that you guys chose deliberately not to show them on cards, outside of the desparked planeswalkers and a few cards in Aftermath. As it is, it’s difficult to believe that the Phyrexian threat that was built up over decades could be so easily repelled AND completely defeated at the height of their power, but I would argue that the sets directly following the invasion should have all had a blatantly dark, somber, post-apocalyptic theme. Instead, we got a bunch of light hearted costume party sets that seemed chosen specifically to NOT show how much damage was done. I get that you want to have a tone shift after a darker year, but it just feels like instead of getting closure, we all just got whiplash instead. It would have been better to show a struggling multiverse slowly learning to rebuild before diving into the next big arc.

There’s a big difference between did big things happen and do we need to focus on them? For the Vorthoses who read the stories, the Phyrexian War had huge consequences for many worlds. From a game standpoint, it changed how we used a whole card type and allowed us to make sets we couldn’t make before. The impact of the events of March of the Machine on flavor and mechanics was major.The reason we didn’t focus on the outcomes on the cards and have a year of dreary sets is we strongly believed the majority of the players didn’t want that.

"Hi Mark, in mana costs, for mixing hybrid mana and non hybrid (and mixing different hybrid mana symbols too like Leyline of the Guildpact) is there an official order that you guys go by?"ft
As far as I can tell, it just follows the normal mana color order, with the hybrid mana symbols placed in-between their respective colors to "connect" them, like in compleated Tamiyo the phyrexian hybrid mana was in-between its two colors.So like, as an example, if there were a hypothetical bant card with one of each color and then a hybrid White/Blue and a hybrid Green/White, it would be templated as G g/w W w/b B

That sounds correct.

I have a character I really like that was compleated that I really want to see again. Is there any chance of that? Should I get my hopes up?

Nissa and Ajani were compleated and got cured, so there’s hope.

Did any beebles get compleated?

Most of them are in the un-iverse these days which didn’t get attacked.

If Phyrexia had somehow managed to compleat Chimney Imp, would they have won?

It’s good the multiverse never found out.

I feel like the new creatures that get compleated when you transform them are going to be the same as the eldrazi werewolves that got better when they transformed, lots of potential, but way too expensive to flip. I could be wrong of course, we'll have to see this weekend.

They all do have Phyrexian mana costs.

Re: and Koma/tibalt/theros gods compleated on cardsWhy is that hard? Couldn't it be a regular old supplament set that can do any area in time line like modern horizons sets?

It’s the same old problem. A player desperately wants Thing X. It’s the one thing they most want us to do. There are plenty of opportunities for us to do it. Why won’t we make it? Because for each player it’s a different thing. It’s not just one thing we have to make, but millions of things we have to make. Yes, we’ll try to figure out what are the biggest requests so we can prioritize those, but even then, finding the right slot where it works with the set it’s in and synergizes in the larger environment can be tricky.

If or when: cards representing the compleated characters we didn't get in MOM, like Koma or the other Theros gods. Also Tibalt.

If. We need to find the right product to put them in.

Mark, imagine my Shock and Duress when I discovered that you were a compleated sleeper agent! How long have you been keeping this secret from us?

I think I’ve been pretty open about it. I was compleated years ago by my old toaster for those curious.

So how is your compleating process going along? Feel the perfection yet?

Oh, I was compleated years ago.