What was the major miracle that happened for us to see Storm in standard?

The start of cameo mechanics in premier sets.

In a previous answer you said effects that care about how long a card has been in your hand is alchemy territory, but your skeptical of if they would do it. Funnily enough, They have done it! Captain eberhart reduces the cost of cards you’ve drawn this turn and raises the cost of cards your opponent drew this turn. Technically this could work in paper as it functions like sylvan library or miracle, although there are practical issues since tracking across an entire turn is very different than checking only when you draw the cards

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Which is more likely to happen first? A shared Red/Blue evergreen keyword or an enchantment token a la food/clues/blood/treasure?

The latter. 🐿️ - Prowess happening was a minor miracle.

Heya! Another question about Universes Beyond, pardon, but something I saw that surprised me a touch was a new card with Miracle! I recall some words from you(?) about how Miracle caused issues in tournament play, so I wasn't expecting to see new stuff with the mechanic. Is the use of Miracle here in part because of top-down design with an external IP? In part because it's a Commander product and not intended for competitive environments?

Also, Triumph of Saint Catherine looks like a fun card -- kudos to the design team!

Commander is far away from high-end tournament play, so there are things we’ll do there we might not do in a premier set.

What are the issues with Miracle? Other than I assume if you make too many you end up with pointless main casting costs.

It requires a precise logistical act of drawing cards in tournaments.

Hi I just want to say I think Kamigawa neon dynasty is the perfect set, it's everything I ever wanted. Every single draft theme would have been my favorite part of a different set, so getting them all in one set is like a miracle. I loved having both sides of this set and how they interact.

I’m happy you’re happy.

When or if, creature with miracle?

If. I don’t know of miracles are ever returning, let alone a tweak on them.

Hi Mark. When a new card frame style is created, like for snow in Kaldheim, are all color variants created whether they are used or not? For instance, did a gold-colored frame for miracle cards exist before it was known there would be no multi-colored miracles?

We don’t make frames until we need them, but it’s a lot easier to make a frame where it already exists in other colors, as certain elements can be reused.

Watermarks can't matter mechanically, but could they be used as a visual reminder in the same fashion as card frames (like with Miracle)? Say we have another set that features batching like Dominaria, could everything in that batch have a watermark simply as a shorthand reminder that it's in the batch?

Sure.

You mentioned that an issue with Miracle is how it makes player have to draw differently. Did any iteration of miracle try to have Miracle cards shuffled face up in the deck?

There are numerous tournament concerns with that suggestion. When we experimented with the idea back in Tempest, we toyed with the idea of different colored card backs. Note that this was before opaque sleeves were a thing,