Really happy about the recently previewed flip walkers of MH3, but as much as I love Ral Zarek, I was really hoping to see a new Dack Fayden. Between that and having OTJ being "Crime/Heist set", not even seeing a reprint of him in bonus sheets makes me a bit sad. Is there still hope for Dack fans or should we just let him go?

There’s always hope. I do think we’ll see another Dack Fayden card one day.

"We knew this was Gideons last card, and he plays a major role in the story, so we wanted him to have an exciting card." It's a shame Dack Fayden, who played an equally important part in that specific story, didn't also get a card (and still hasn't)

When we handed over the set, the decision for him to die in the story hadn’t happened yet.

Why did Tibalt get the Dack Fayden treatment? I thought you were going to avoid doing that again after feedback from WAR.

When the decision to kill a character in story after the set is complete, there’s not a lot we can do.

Can i just say I'm not super happy with the extreme color imbalance of planeswalkers in recent sets. I miss when all 5 colors were represented equally, even if split between only 2-3 planeswalkers. My only complaint for NEO was too much blue and no red planeswalkers, Capenna with its lack of blue, and Strixhaven's lack of white (I don't really count the non-PW side of Lukka, as it isn't a planeswalker and Lukka hasn't really kept any one specific bond thus far like Jiang Yanggu has). I get that the demands of the story often cause this, but demands of the story also prevented us from getting one last Dack Fayden.

We color balance for Standard, but it’s very hard to color balance every set, especially when certain characters are key to the story. Also, Dack Fayden wasn’t in War of the Spark because he didn’t play a role in the story until after the set design was finished. (The novel was written later in the process.)

Two PW ultimates (Aminatou and Dack Fayden), and Sky Swallower's ETB ability can allow someone to gain control of an animated library at the same time as the enchantment Animate Library, so it won't fall off. What happens when the player tries to draw a card and no longer controls their own library?

It doesn’t stop becoming “your library” even if the animated library is stolen, so it still falls off. “Your library” means you own it, not control it.

You mentioned Dack Fayden had a card in vision design but it never made the cut for WAR. Has that design been scrapped or is it sitting in a file somewhere for a future project/set?

It was specific for War of the Spark (I assume the uncommon blue/red hybrid slot), so it’s not particularly usable elsewhere.

In Modern Horizon, we got Serra planeswalker whose been dead for long time in the lore. So does this mean there is a possibility of other planeswalker who have died reciving a new card? Like Dack Fayden, Dakkon Blackblade, Leshrac or Taysir

Supplemental sets can have dead planeswalkers.

HEy mark im sorry if youve already answered this but any insight as to why dack fayden doesnt have a planeswalker card in war?

At the time we made the set, he didn’t have a role in the story (aka the novel hadn’t been written yet).

Do we know any planeswalkers on ravnica during WAR that don’t have a card in the set? If so which?

Dack Fayden is the main one.

Hey Mark I understand why Ral had to be selected as one of the RU walkers as he is essential to Ravnica! But Dack Fayden the greatest thief in the multiverse is featured prominently in the trailer as a character how did he not get a card while Saheeli did?(and might also eat it so we never see him again) I do under stand how they exist in a similar vein as RU walkers who care about artifacts!

Dack did not have a role in the story when we were making the set, so we opted for the character we thought we could make a cooler card out of.