Hello!

Last time I wrote, I asked about Planar Chaos, and whether design might go back to something like that with the color pie. Thank you for your response. I can appreciate how it was a novel idea back then, but you do it more now in small ways over time.

My next question also has to do with color.

Like a lot of people, I love commander. I've created a challenge for myself. I'm trying to build a deck in every color combination.

I finally finished colorless, which was a challenge I've been afraid of since I started playing in Alara. Now I'm looking at four color commanders.

I have Omnath. I love Omnath. Landfall's been a favorite, since Zendikar is close to my heart.

And oh. There's Atraxa. Atraxa excites me. I think I'll focus her on poison counters.

But then there's the other combinations. After the Nephilim in Guildpact, most call them Glint, (no white) Dune, (no blue) and Witch (no red).

I see Breya, Saskia, and Yidris. They're awesome cards, and Yidris excites me somewhat. But it feels like a very tiny box that's been built many, many times before.

And those three cards are really it for those three color groupings. There's a whole bunch of representation for WURG especially with Doctor Who UB, and WUBG has the two Atraxa. But the other three don't get much.

Partner is an option I've considered. But at a glance, it seems a bit forced.

Do you think design will do more with the quad-color groupings? Would a set like Alara or Tarkir be possible, but with quad-color tribes? Or does that overcomplicate design too much?

Four-color legendary cards are in a weird place. We don’t want to make them such that people are just using them to play more colors in Commander, so it means we have to be very focused in what they’re doing, and finding a home for such a design is tricky.

Hi Mark, in mana costs, for mixing hybrid mana and non hybrid (and mixing different hybrid mana symbols too like Leyline of the Guildpact) is there an official order that you guys go by? I tried sussing it out by looking at mana costs that mix them, but I can't seem to figure it out. Thank you and have a good one.

Leyline of the Guildpact, does them in WUBRG order. I’m not sure we do it enough to have a default for all use cases.

If I'm playing planechase on a Ravnica plane, and I cast murder on my opponent's enemy of the guildpact, that wouldn't be a crime, right? (murdering the guildless is legal on Ravnica)

Murder is targeted, so casting it on an opponent’s creature is committing a crime. By the way, it’s not legal to kill the guildless.

Hi Mark. Is Leyline of the Guildpact a break in non-Green?

No.

In an Acorn game, if I control Leyline of the Guildpact and my brown-eyed opponent controls Avatar of Me, are all my nonland permanents brown in addition to the five regular colours?

Yep.

Mark, I've never really liked Ravnica, but the idea of a throwback set that takes us to Ravnica back when the Guildpact was first formed, when both the guilds and their paruns might have been very different even from how they were in the first Ravnica block, that would be *very* exciting, regardless of whether we had to have it over two sets or if we had to pick a particular five proto-guilds to focus on in one set.

The founding of the Guildpact is a common ask.

Now that The Brothers' War is a thing... Could we hope for sets based on others past events like the Thran-Phyrexian War or the creation of the Original Guildpact?

I can’t stop you from hoping. I do think us doing something increases the chances of us doing it again (if it went well).

Mark, since we are going to the past, any chances for a Ravnica Guildpact set and a Amonkhet before Bolas set? :)

We’re trying an expansion set in the past as an experiment. If it’s successful, it could prompt more such sets in the future. If only there was an expression to capture this concept. : )

In an alternate reality, is Rakdos ever the living guildpact?

I assume in one alternate reality.

Hey Mark! With the statement that y’all are willing to change how the Companion mechanic works as printed on cards, would y’all finally be willing to make the Nephilim cycle from Guildpact Legendary? We need some more four colour legends! I know you’ve said before that you regret them not being legendary when they were originally printed, but you were (Or are) not allowed to errata them. It seems like less of an errata to add one word to five cards than it does to change how a mechanic works.

Us dealing with companion is a special thing and not precedent to making more changes.