Hi Mark, I was listening to your podcast episode on the alphabet in magic, and you say something along the lines of "I can't quite remember why we used Q for the untap symbol". If you still don't know, could it be that Q in English is almost guaranteed to be followed by a U, which is what you most likely would have used if it was not already used by Uncommon and Blue?

I think it most looked like the circle of the tap symbol.

I also find the wording of Gift a little strange in that it doesn't explicitly define the "cost" like Ward does. "Gift — Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token," doesn't sound as nice, I suppose. And maybe that's a good enough reason.

We could have written it more in “Magic-speak”, but we preferred making it sound more like normal English. It mechanically works just fine.

Would it be possible to reprint silver-bordered/acorn cards as black-bordered cards in future (assuming they already work within the rules)? Or is there any rule preventing that?

The troublesome issue is the conflict of two standing rules: 1) Any card with the same English name is playable in tournaments.2) Silver-border/acorn cards aren’t tournament legal. Printing a silver-border/acorn card in black border makes us have to break one of those rules.

Hi Mark,TLDR: love the change to "kindred" on French cards.I want to say that, as a French mainly playing with English cards, I wasn't really thinking anything much of the change from tribal to kindred, mainly because I didn't know the word kindred before, but I just saw a card using the new template in French "[cardtype] de clan: __" (literally: [cardtype] of (the) clan __) instead of "[cardtype] tribal" (it was also the word "tribal" in French) and I think it has so much more flavor of the card being part of the group instead of just being like the group.

I’m glad you like the change.

Sorry for my english (is not my mother language) I've waited so long for this birthday trivia and i want to ask you: Nicol bolas is my favorite magic character of all times, love him. In the Nicol bolas, planeswalker card. since BR is a guild that easily can destroy any creature, why his first ability can't destroy a creature?

It is to differentiate it from the second ability. The first ability deals with noncreatures and the second deals with creatures.Happy Birthday!

People call lions and tigers “cats”. Hi Maro, how do you consider multiple languages when making this arguments internally? (I am pro a creature type unifer, be it feline or cat)

It’s mostly dictated by English.

Hey Mark, so I recently discovered that Rathi Assassin has had its creature type errated quite a bit over the years. So I went ahead and made a mockup proxy of its official typeline despite how small the text had to be. Would Wizards ever attempt to print a card with this many creature types? Or does this mean Rathi Assassin will never get a physical reprint since its type has been only technically and digitally updated by errata over the years?

There are numerous factors. Type line restrictions vary depending on what languages the card needs to be printed in. We can go a bit smaller on cards only printed in English. There are also some solutions that might involve rules text.

Hello, mark.（My native language is Japanese. I use machine translation. I may be using incorrect English.）
I've been buying MTG since "Wilds of Eldraine". I like Kellan. I liked how he got closer to the people he met on his journey and how he changed his clothes. I heard that Kellan's journey ends with "OUTLAWS OF THUNDER JUNCTION". Will we be able to meet Kellan again? I want to see more of him.
I'm not very sociable so I'm not good at card games. MTG is great because you can enjoy the beautiful pictures and story. I'm grateful to all the people involved. Thank you.

I think we’ll see Kellan again.

Hi Mark - since Universes Beyond has come up again as a topic, I want to share something I think is really fun about it. Some English words are obviously evocative and are going to be used in various settings, and as an example of that we have cards for the Master from Doctor Who and the Master from Fallout. There are cards with Brotherhood in the name from Fallout, and I assume there's a chance of us getting them in Marvel, too. There's an Ancient One in Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and I imagine there's a chance of us getting a Marvel one in the future. Putting these in decks together is something that brings me pleasure that wouldn't have existed before UB, even if my Fallout Brotherhood/Marvel Brotherhood team-up might be vulnerable to Brotherhood's End from the Brother's War!

Mixing and matching can be a lot of fun.

To the best of my search skills, Thunder Junction is the first full plane whose name is just English words (outside UB). Was there any reason a more fantasy name wasn't chosen?

It’s what the denizens of the plane choose to call it. We do try to name our planes to match the overall flavor of the world.