Is there a reason most donate and exchange control effects, especially in recent years, only do creatures? Similarly, is there a reason that almost every exchange control effect requires that the permanents share a card type?

It’s a safety valve for play balance.

Hi Mark - If/When more spells or creatures that donate other permanents (like Harmless Offering) in Red and Black? It's obviously a pretty niche thing, but my poor guy Blim is having to carry so much weight at the moment with only about three other cards that help.

The Donate ability is blue and red, so I don’t expect black to do a lot in that area. We don’t do a lot of it overall because it makes it harder to create creatures with drawbacks.

If/when, a r/g donate commander?

If. A hybrid donate is much more likely to be blue/red.

Ok, so hear me out:

1) My opponent controls a Wicker Picker.

2) I use Mindslaver to control their next turn.

3) In this turn, I play a creature from their hand, and I use Wicker Picker’s sticker kicker.

Since I am in control of my opponent’s turn, can I put a sticker on the Sticker-kicked creature?

Does the answer change if I used “Donate” to give them my Wicker Picker in the first place?

(Also, one thing I’ve realized from past answers is that if my opponent doesn’t want a sticker glued on their card, we can use a counter. I can’t force them to use stickers with real glue).

You cannot. Same with Donate. There are no cards currently in the game of Magic that change ownership of cards (well, except ante cards, but those haven’t been a thing in a long, long time and they are banned in every format).EDIT: Some further clarification. Built into the sticker rules is you have to voluntarily choose to put a sticker on a card. Nothing in the game can force you to sticker something if you don’t want to sticker it.EDIT #2: Checking into this, I gave a slightly incorrect answer. If you Mindslaver your opponent, you can force them to sticker cards they own, but you can’t literally force them to put a sticker on it. The player may choose instead to represent it with paper and pencil.

Follow up to my Donate question, I hadn't heard of Harmless Offering before; what colors can give away their own permanents?

Blue and red, the main colors of stealing, can also give away control.

“Could donate ever be reprinted in a standard set?” Not too long ago we had harmless offering, which is just color shifted donate

That was my rationale for why it was okay.

Under what circumstances does a design team put cards in a set that donate your own permanents to your opponents? Donating never seems to be a main theme in a set. So that leads the one off cards like Donate and Bazaar Trader seems weird in there respective sets.

It’s not an effect we want in volume, so it doesn’t lend itself well to a theme.

If the players were willing to donate to making a bronze statue of you to place outside of the WOTC headquarters would that be something you are interested in? I think this idea is a must.

There are actually hundreds of people that make Magic happen. I’m not sure there’s enough space for that many statues. : )

What do you do with the board games you weed out?

I donate them.