abzanhouseguest asked about cards that trigger off things being exiled. We already have a few! The War Doctor being probably the strongest example. A couple Eldrazi too. It's a very rare thing but you've done it before.

Fine point.

The fact that Xerex is beyond comprehension could be an asset for storytelling. That’s the kind of place that’s ideal for an escape story or a story about finding an important objective that’s hidden there. As far as mechanics go, that’s a bit tougher. I could see it overlapping with the flavor of the Eldrazi.

It could work in print where the player can imagine the setting. It has a lot more problems when we have to draw art showing what it looks like.

Was there ever any consideration to re-type Cosmic Horror as an Eldrazi?

Not that I know of.

With omenpaths being a thing could previously depopulated wasteland planes (maybe through Eldrazi attacks) be repopulated? Maybe similar to how Karn made Mirrodin but with a base instead of creating it out of this air made from metal?

It’s possible.

I loved your Council oof Colors series, but I was confused about the colorless one. It was brought up that there's no flavor identity to being colorless, but Urgin, Karn, and the Eldrazi all prove that's incorrect. There's a lot of flavor there! Is there enough for a full podcast on the flavor of colorless, maybe? Or maybe the history of it in the game?

Colorlessness doesn’t have philosophical connotations. Cards end up in colorlessness more for mechanical reasons.

I know colorless isn't a color, but what does colorlessness mean philosophically? There's colorless characters within the story, like Karn; it's not reserved for mindless automatons like thopters and forces of nature like the Eldrazi.

Colorlessness doesn’t have a philosophy. That doesn’t mean colorless characters can’t individually have one.

Sorry, my question was more about Emrakul than Karn; I was just trying to see if the two cases were similar. Isn't calling Emrakul "she" something the titan herself hasn't provoked, but rather just an easier label for those referring to her? I know there are differences - Eldrazi don't have the same sapience required to correct someone or have an issue - but ultimately it seems like both characters are in the same boat where they have no gender, but do have a pronoun others use for convenience?

Emrakul is a very different case than Karn. The Titans spurned “gods” loosely based on them. The God associated with Emrakul was female. The actual Titans are so far removed from anything fathomable, that I’m not sure what gender for them actually means.

Hey Mark, I really love the direction that magic is going in. I sincerely love that magic can address an old threat that was left unresolved such as the eldrazi Titans, and yet introduce new conflict such as the disappearance of Nahiri. My question is this. Are most planeswalkers aware of New Phyrexia? I understand that Koth is there, and Venser is of course dead. But is Karn warning people to stay away, did Elspeth even tell her good friend Ajani?

A question for Doug. I don’t think a lot of planeswalkers know about the Phyrexians let alone Mirrodin.

Mark, thank you. I've read your articles about the psychographics and i recognized that i'm a timmy, power gamer. So, i decide to fully embrace my destiny, i built up Karn Tron in modern yesterday. Wahoo, this is FUN. Thank you for helping me understand why i play magic and what i want my deck to make me feel. Karn rules ! Well, Eldrazi rule too !

One of the reasons I’ve been very vocal about the psychographics (well, other than being transparent in how we do things) is to let players understand that they play for different reasons and that it’s okay. Make Magic the game you want it to be. That’s one of its greatest strengths.