Hey, Mark! Quick one- I've been noticing a lot of "bite" cards in green (i.e. Hunter's Talent) the last few years, and not as many fight cards. At first, I thought this was "too much", but I quickly realized the hoop for green removal is already pretty daunting, and maybe this is just the direction you're going in.
Am I reading this right?

We have been increasing the number of “bite” spells (deal damage equal to power) to help with green removal in limited.

Are bite spells that can hit players in-pie for green? Obviously they're in-pie for red... Also on the topic of green spells hitting players (though largely an unrelated question), spells like Hurricane. Which is the bigger issue with them: Hitting players unconditionally being out-of-pie for green, or the "killing everyone" gameplay issue? I assume those are both significant.

They are not in pie for green.

"Can the rules support "all creatures fight each other"?" "Not without getting into a lot of specificity, and I’m not sure that rules text fits on a card." Couldn't you get the desired result with concise text by saying "each creature deals damage equal to it's power to each other creature?"

That’s not exactly the same thing.

Regarding "all creatures fight each other," couldn't the rules handle "each creature deals damage equal to its power to each other creature?". Obviously whether you'd want to make that card is another question.

We could do that, but it’s more all creatures bite than all creatures fight.

I've heard you say that you regret separating Instant and Sorceries, that is, that you wish you could just make Instants a Sorcery that you can cast off your turn (or something to that effect). Why can't you change that in sets going forward? Is it simply too ingrained in the game at this point?

Inertia is a hard force to fight against. The biggest strike against the instant super type is it would make old cards with text that functionally works not do what they say.

hi MaRo, looking at the various mecanic each colors has, that come back every set ( counterspell or draw for blue, kill spell or reanimate for black, damage of impulsive draw for red, ramp or bite on green ) its quite safe to see why those keep coming back, tuned a little or improved for the powercreep, since those are fondamental to the color on top of being useful as a whole.However there's one thing that come back, yet I'm always confuse of why, given how seemingly weaker than most other effect it is, that being : green buffing spells. Things like "gain +2/+2" or "+1/+3". Given how the game evolve, I always wondered, why those low cost spells with simple stat increase spells keep coming back ? Are those viewed as useful enough nowadays to be worth making ? Or are those easy to make, cards that help fill the lowest rarity ?

Those spells see plenty of play, especially in limited formats.

Can I ask you to pass on feedback to the testing teams for limited to please stop giving Green such pushed removal? Green removal is almost always "Bite" rather than "Fight" effects now, often pumps the creature (sometimes permanently), usually for three and sometimes even two mana, and often at instant speed.

The trade-off for this used to be that Green's removal was vulnerable and conditional because it was reliant on creatures, but Green's creatures are so pushed these days and limited is so creature focused that cards like Throw from the Saddle and Clear Shot play just like Doom Blade and Murder, comparable or better to what Black (the "removal colour") gets.

I worry that it distorts the roles the colour pie plays in limited magic. It certainly detracts from my enjoyment of it.

Green historically has been the weakest limited color. We’re trying to help fix that.

I know at least one person for whom Provoke is their favorite mechanic of all time, is there any chance we'll see it return to a premiere set someday?

Fight becoming evergreen has made provoke returning a bit of a challenge.

Can a green/black hybrid give a creature death touch and have it fight/bite?

No, Black doesn’t get fight.And even in monogreen, although it can do both things individually, the combination of the effects does something green doesn’t do (aka destroy a creature).

When or if: Keywording "Bite"?

If. Keywording it doesn’t result in most of the rewards a keyword gets us.