Not sure if you're the person to ask, but

If or When - 8ed frame return in any form?

I started right before the switch to m15 frame and have been pretty bummed out seeing retro frame every couple sets, would love to see some strong cards and staples from after the switch like arcane signet, sheoldred, fatal push, etc in that frame. I'd definitely purchase any secret lair with any cards no matter how weak if they were in 8ed frame, though I'm probably in the minority there.

I’m not sure how many retro frames we can support.

Fear was still being used when the Time Spiral sets were being printed, why wasn’t fear used in Slivers?! Intimidate was still in use in M15, why wasn’t there a intimidate Sliver?

Because we were souring on the mechanics.

Hi Mark! My birthday was 4/17. I’m 43 now. Can I please get a birthday trivia factoid on either Sliver Hivelord or Sliver Overlord? :)

When we put Slivers in Magic 2014, we didn’t make a five-color Sliver as we’d done with previously Sliver printings. The audience wasn’t happy about that, so we ended up putting one, Sliver Hivelord, in (along with a cycle of Slivers) Magic 2015.Happy Birthday!

Why was Pioneer made to be returned to ravnica forward, and not say m15 when the border was changed, just like how modern is when the border was changed

The decision was made on what played the best, not what was the easiest to visually identify.

Any chance for a drive to work featuring one of the guest designers from m15 or at least a dtw that talks about the guest designers in general

I already had one of the M15 designers on - George Fan. We didn’t talk about M15 though.

Can I please request more cards with names that start with the letter “X” but pronounced like “Z”? AFR had 2 but before that the last new one was from an Ikoria Precon, and the last standard legal one was all the way back in m15!!!

That’s a very specific ask.

I've noticed that no noncreature spell cards with "False" in the name have been printed into the 8E or M15 frame. Any ideas as to why this is?

Is there any option rather than a grand conspiracy? : )

I do not remember ever hearing about the outside-designed cards from M15 (which is when I first returned to playing). Have you ever done a podcast/article on the topic?

I have not.

Hey Maro, you said in your column this week that for a Planeswalker to be the face of a core set "they have to be a character that can be expressed as a monocolor card". In the past, Garruk (black/green; M15) and Bolas (Grixis; M19) have been the faces for core sets, so is this a change in philosophy or were they simply exceptions to the rule?

I was talking about a core set. Non-core set premier sets can have multicolor planeswalkers as a face. And even core sets on occasion as with Bolas.

I’m curious what tracking issue Pain Lands present. They seem pretty straightforward to me. Lose a life to make a colored mana, otherwise make a colorless mana for no life cost. It was simple enough for them to be reprinted in Origins and M15 in the enemy colors.

It has proven difficult in tournament play to track when an opponent taps for color but doesn’t pay life. They’re tapping a bunch of lands and you have to track what color each can produce and whether they’re tapping for color or colorless.