It doesn't stop me from loving every leech in the game anyway but you gotta tell your artists that biting leeches leech (which are annelid worms) have either a tubular proboscis or three jaws arranged like a letter Y, not circular rings of fangs like a lamprey (a jawless fish). Only one leech in the history of magic comes close to scientific accuracy and was eons ago; Ron Spencer's Sapphire Leech! Oh no!

In our multiverse, sure. : )

If you could snap your fingers to make one card never have been designed, what would it be?

Leeches. : )

I believe Leeches is the only card that explicitly removes a poison counter.I know poison is designed to be fundamentally different than life, but if a new card was designed to remove poison, would it still be in White?

Things that don’t happen don’t get a color.

Hey Mark I've been away from this Tumblr but I'm wondering why a card wasn't made to counter the effects of poison? Like a reprint of solemnity or even a card that would take a few turns to remove all poison in flavor of the story how they used a spark and melira to cleanse the spark of ajani and what they tried with Nissa. I think that was a flavor fail and playpoint fail. My hope is you guys at least print something that fixes this in the future for standard. I had so much fun with the prerelease this past weekend by the way. I love the enchanted tales addition. I had to run green as I pulled a doubling season and a foil defense of the heart lol.

One of the defining qualities of poison in the game is that it can’t be removed. It makes it play very differently than life and makes the mechanic feel more threatening. Note there are cards that can help you prevent getting future poison, just none that take away what you already have (okay except Leeches, but I pretend that card doesn’t exist).

are you still willing to sign copies of Unyaro Bee Sting and Leeches?

Yes. I’ll sign any Magic card.

You have a problem with color-breaking cards and cards like Leeches, why don't you just ban them?

If I was in charge of the banned and restricted list, I’d seriously consider it. EDIT: I was talking hypothetically. The Head Designer shouldn’t be in charge of the banned and restricted list.

I'd never seen leeches before, is there a color that that effect fits in?

No. The inability to remove poison is a key defining quality of poison in the game. It’s a big part of what separates it from life loss.

Why is Curse of Leeches the only card that uses daybound/nightbound but has nothing to do with werewolves? Or, rather, why weren't more cards like that?

It might be the only TDFC, but there are single-faced cards that do it.

Is Leech Bonder an effect blue can still have?

Blue can move counters. It having -1/-1 counters is not something blue does all that often. Combining the two is a bit of a bend.

Is Leeching Bite from New Phyrexia a bend?

Either a severe bend or a break.