"I promise some cool Selesnya previews are coming." Not saying you're doing this on purpose, but you said something similar during RTR block, and that ended up being the disappointing reveal of Emmara Tandris.

Emmara is much better this time around. : )

In your recent podcast, you mentioned how being legendary is just a drawback. Way I see it, either it's a big enough drawback that you can power them up to compensate, or you can't power them up because it's not really that big a drawback. Neither situation seems bad. Only problem would be if it's a huge drawback and you intentionally make them weak, which doesn't seem to happen (other than flukes like Emmara Tandris). I don't see how legendary being a drawback is bad in either case.

The problem is if we make a card legendary for one group we are limiting how many copies players who don’t care about it get to play. I’ve watched players open cards, get excited about them and go “Oh, it’s legendary” because it means it’s hard to build a deck around.

How much hate mail do you expect WotC over the train wreck that is Emmara Tandris?

I am getting more than an average amount of mail about Emmara and yes the majority of it isn’t positive. I know there was a lot of change through development of that card but I’d need to go do some research first. I’ll get back to you guys on how the card ended up as it did.