MaRo- it's my birthday and I hope to invoke the sacred rite of trivia. I'm the guy that begged and begged until we got Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant on a card, completing the Legacy in game. For my birthday, would you share something new to the community about the Legacy or one of its component pieces?

Gerard and the Weatherlight crew are delayed at the Stronghold. They get the signal from Ertai that the portal is about to close, so they use an item from the Legacy, the Windshaper to speed them through the portal. In the original version of the story, this causes them to crash in Mercadia which leads to the story there. Happy Birthday!

"Original weatherlight crew" is that gerrard's crew that went to rath and mercadia, or is it the previous crew led by sisay?

That’s Gerrard’s crew.

Could you give us any trivia on the origin of the Capashen name?

I went and asked the source, the man who named Gerrard, my co-creator of The Weatherlight Saga - Michael Ryan. He said it was a riff on Capulet, Juliet’s family name in “Romeo & Juliet”.

Hi Mark. Today is my fortieth birthday. Any chance we get to see Rofellos again? Or anything you can share about this marvellous elf?

When Michael and I created the Weatherlight Saga cast, we had a list of creature types we wanted to use. Elf was on the list, but we ended up going with a cat warrior for our green crew member. Later we realized, we needed a reason for why Gerrard left the ship and realized that it needed to be the death of someone close to him. That character, we said, could be the elf. And why not make him from Llanowar? Happy Birthday!

It's my birthday the other day, but I think my question got lost in the shuffle. As usual, could I get some previously unshared trivia about the original weatherlight saga? (For reference, you've shared that Volrath was going to be disguised as Tahngarth and that the hourglass pendant Gerrard gives to Pol Cordel had a giant role in the original third act of the story). Thank you!

In our version Crocax doesn’t betray the crew and kill Mirri. They both play important roles later in the story. Happy Belated Birthday!

Do you recall what the rationale was back in the day for printing legendary characters as generic characters? For instance, in Weatherlight, Maraxus got a legendary card, but Gerrard was printed on the generic "Master of Arms" card, and only got a legendary card in Apocalypse. What was the philosophy for printing characters at the time?

Master of Arms was a role that many people filled, including Gerrard. We put Gerrard in the art just to get more Gerrard art in the set. There was always plans to print a Gerrard card.

So will we one day see a 2.0 version of Orim, Samite Healer like we did with Sisay, Weatherlight Captain or Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero?

Hopefully, one day.

Mark I very much look forward to playing with some of the cards from C19. But one thing stuck out to me: Gerrard has the Weatherlight crew in the background of his art. Greven has Crovax and Volrath behind him. Why wasn't Vhati il-Dal also depicted behind Greven? He's one of the more memorable characters connected to him.

The artist picked the images he thought made the art look the best.

Gerrard and Atla. Are you trying to make everyone play eggs in some form or another?

They’ve figured us out. Scramble!

Why are you willing to admit Gerrard was a bad design, but you seem unwilling to admit Artifact sets are bad design?

Mirrodin was a very clever design. It had a lot of developmental issues. Esper shard was a very cool design. Scars of Mirrodin was an evocative and intricate design. Infect was polarizing, but things that push boundaries often are and it had passionate fans. There were a few broken cards, but not my purview.Kaladesh is one of my favorite designs I’ve ever done. Players got to actually feel like an inventor. Again, there were plenty of development issues, but it captured the feel I was aiming for as a designer.I admit artifact blocks have a lot of play design concerns, and that’s why we’re starting to incorporate colored artifacts to help provide more tools for play design with balancing artifacts, but I’m quite proud of all four artifact designs I’ve worked on.