Maro! It's my birthday and I've forgotten to ask for trivia for the last 3 years. Got anything about my favorite card, Monastery Swiftspear?

I believe Monastery Swiftspear was one of the creatures made in the first batch of prowess creatures we made to first test the mechanic. Happy Birthday!

Do you as a designer ever want to create cards like this hypothetical "Vanilla Noncreature Spell" to see if someone can effectively utilize it? Something along the lines of a 0 cost Vanilla Instant in a set with cards like Guttersnipe, Young Pyromancer, Monastery Swiftspear or even Kiln Fiend could be a bizarre but interesting tool.

The problem is it takes up space that can be used to make a card that significantly more people will play with and enjoy.

So Khans has already hugely impacted older formats with 4 very defining cards. Jeskai Ascendancy, Treasure Cruise, Dig Through Time, and Monastery Swiftspear. I can't help but notice three of these cards are blue... does this signal a return to our Island loving overlords?

Or that blue cards are more likely to play into current metagames of older formats.

MaRo! Help! I just can't manage to build a decent Jeska(i) deck! Cards like Singing Bell Strike and Monastery Swiftspear are incredibly powerful but after that and Seeker of the Way, all of the other cards seem to be extremelly below the curve unless you play atleast 2-4 noncreature spells per turn! Which is very difficult to do, atleast for me with my very limited collection of cards. Any piece of advice? P.S is it a coincidence that you already have a card named Jeska?

My advice is to see what decks others are playing. I hear Jeskai’s doing okay (see below).