Regarding your recent point that "if nothing ever gets banned, we aren't doing our job properly", I think I agree. However, players will often point to the decade from 2006 - 2016 in which only two cards (Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic) were banned in Standard for contrast. Do you feel that more cards should have been banned during that time, or that R&D wasn't pushing the envelope enough?

I think we weren’t aggressive enough in our banning.

So I was wrong about Oko being the face of the set, but that's the impression new planeswalkers give me. Regardless, my tone was rather scornful, and for that I would like to apologize. Let me ask a related question, then: is Standard perpetually going to be warped around planeswalkers from now on? Both of the Teferi planeswalkers as well as Oko are contenders for some of my most disliked cards ever printed, and I'm really apprehensive about the soming sets, especially core set 2021.

Play design is obviously going to pay extra attention to planeswalkers. They’re a tricky card type to balance, but there will be more eyes on them. As for Core 2021, just because one version of a character is problematic doesn’t mean all versions will be. Jace, the Mind Sculptor, for example was an issue play design-wise, but most Jaces have been fine.

The new Collector Boosters for Throne of Eldraine will only feature cards from that set and not past borderless planeswalkers, such as Jace, The Mind Sculptor from the WAR Mythic Edition Boxes or extended art walkers, such as Liliana of the Veil from UMA box topper packs?

The only borderless planeswalkers will be of planeswalker cards from the set.

My girlfriend and I were wondering who was most responsible for designing Jace, the Mind Sculptor. She thinks you're probably responsible but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt

I was involved. My biggest contribution was getting him to have four loyalty abilities.

Does Mastermind's Acquisition work on cards that aren't legal in standard? For instance in a standard tournament could I use it to bring Jace, the mind sculptor into my hand?

In Standard, it gets the card from your Sideboard which can only be a Standard-legal card.

Can a Planeswalker be reprinted lower than Mythic in a masters set? Like masters doesn't have to be flavourful, so whilst obviously something crazy like Jace, the Mind Sculptor at common would be dumb, one of the less powerful walkers at rare probably wouldn't break limited. Not a complaint that it isn't happening, just curious as to whether it could?

It would be highly unlikely.

Do you think we'll ever see another mono-colored planeswalker with four loyalty abilities? Or did Jace the Mind Sculptor prove that this is too dangerous?

I think it’s still possible. Jace, the Mind Sculptor’s issues go beyond having four loyalty abilities. #WotCStaff

It's not hate for Jace, is just getting boring seeing him everywhere.

Ajani and Garruk have the same number of cards. Chandra and Liliana have been in just as many stories. Garruk and Chandra have been in just as many core sets. While Jace, the Mind Sculptor is the most powerful planeswalker we’ve made, many other planeswalkers have been very influential in tournament play. The Jace hate goes beyond numbers.Is it because some people love hating things that are popular? Is it because Jace is the closest thing to a player analog? Is it a hatred of hoodies? I don’t know.What I do know is that Jace is the most iconic and popular planeswalker we have, so he’s not going anywhere.

Which planeswalker character has been best received?

Jace. In all our polling, including before Jace, the Mind Sculptor was printed, Jace has handily won every market research poll we’ve done.

Hey Maro! It was my birthday today!! Any crazy trivia on Jace the Mind Sculptor?? Thanks! Love the blog! :)

A lot of people think Jace is the most popular planeswalker because of Jace, the Mind Sculptor when, in fact, the opposite is true. We chose Jace to be the first four loyalty planeswalker because he was the most popular. Happy birthday.