Is the Resilient Roadrunner evasion (also seen on Gingerbrute) something that R&D is warming up on? It's kind of charming to me, like a hidden Flying variant.

It’s a tool to represent speed that we’ll use when appropriate.

Hi Mark, I had a question about food creatures. Would you say that food as a subtype explicitly requires the creature to have the ability:{2},{T}: you gain 3 lifeOr for example if you were to make a beefier version of gingerbrute (delver of secrets style) called "gingerhulk", could it have an ability like {3},{T}: you gain 5 life

Food creatures need to gain life when sacrificed, but it doesn’t have to be exactly 2 for 3 life. See Vegetation Abomination as an example:

As someone who loved original Eldraine but finds Wilds to resonate less, I want to provide some points of criticism.
Roles, conceptually, are a sort of fourth walkk breaking. They take a world where fairytale tropes (and Arthurian) are a theme, and turn it more into a world where the player creates a fairytale with the world’s creatures as raw material. To some this is a positive, but to me it makes the characters themselves hollow. It is also, as a mechanic, more about the structure of fairytales than about the stories themselves. The result is that the world feels less organic to me, and more staged.
I also find the food monsters to be very dissonant from the rest of the world. A single gingerbrute in the context of escaping the kitchen is one thing, but a whole forest inhabited by such creatures feels like an altogether different world.
Lastly, I find the rehashing of fairytales characters from original Eldraine to be uninspired. We already had a rat piper, a beanstalk Jack, a witch with a tempting apple, etc., and now we have them again as different characters.
This isn’t to say there aren’t good things about the set - there are many. But to me, the set overall made the world feel lesser.

Thanks for the feedback. How do others feel about Wilds of Eldraine in contrast to Throne of Eldraine?

Ticking Mime Bomb is the best Magic Card Name since Gingerbrute. High five whoever is responsible please

It was a team effort.

Are there actually a lot of people who think Shrine is a creature type? Did people think Food was a creature type because of Gingerbrute?

Yes, and yes. In their defense, there’s not a good way to signify what subtype things are just by looking at a single card.Ideally, there would have been room for a creature type.

Are there more ways to make haste matter after the first turn that you are thinking about putting on cards?

We have done it on occasion with things like Gingerbrute, but it’s not a big goal for us or anything.

Hi mark! I believe you've said in the past that all colors can make food if the needs of a set call for it. If so, can all colors get food-artifacts like gingerbrute or golden egg that let you sac them for lifegain?

Generally, blue and red do not get life gain, so there has to be an important reason structurally to the set for them to get a little food. Could it be a Food artifact creature? It’s even less likely than a by-product of a spell, but yes, it is possible given the right constraints.

Is there any design space around an evasion ability that is based on speed rather then being up high in the hair, like fixed Horsemanship? I'm thinking of something like "This creature can only be blocked by creatures with horsemanship, flying, haste, or flash."

Gingerbrute is playing in this space.

Can you explain how mystic sanctuary and gingerbrute fit into new world order? they seem to have a lot of text and complexity for a common

Neither of those cards seem particularly complicated. Both are a little on the wordy side for common, but you get some wordy commons. I’m not sure what you consider about them that’s hard to understand.

Is Gingerbrute named that to avoid a name that makes people think of gender (Gingerbread Man, Woman, Person)? To me, “brute” seems strange for a 1/1.

It was a play on “gingerbread”.