Okay how about this, the creature type “mutant” exists, so how about updating the rules to make mutants able to mutate even if they are also human science a mutant not being able to mutate (see cytoplast manipulator) sound dumb.

We don’t like creature types having mechanical meaning. It’s why we made the defender keyword, so becoming a Wall didn’t inherently keep you from attacking.

Star Trek and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universes Beyond sets please. They're both Paramount properties, and Hasbro has an existing relationship with them thanks to the GI Joe and Transformers films.Ninja Turtles would make a great set of Commander decks and Star Trek is worth a full draft set.

I’ll pass along the suggestions.

I know this is something you're still testing out, so I'd like to give some feedback on it: I'd rather see fewer new creature types created for Universes Beyond. For example, for the upcoming doctor who decks, I would have liked to have seen "Artifact Creature- Alien Mutant" and "Artifact Creature- Robot Zombie" intead of "Dalek" and "Cyberman" respectively. It would allow for more synergies for one thing, since they can tie into existing typal synergies as well as give more members to types that were previously lacking, and just overall makes them feel more at home in magic as a whole. For all the same reasons magics own creature types were consolidated, I think UB ones should be too. But beyond that, I also just think it often sounds cooler. "Alien Mutant" is a lot more descriptive than "Dalek", telling magic fans who aren't familiar with doctor who a little about them, and imo just has a punchiness to it. It's also just less redundant. There's something to be said for the power of specific words, yes, but i think the name and art can do a lot of work there. You don't need "creature type: dalek", when you already have a picture of a dalek and "dalek" in the name.Thank you for listening!

Universes Beyond is young, so we’re still figuring out how best to handle creature types. I agree with you that I lean towards more general terms where appropriate.

Is there a lore reason why creatures that are "human mutants" like those in the simic guild can't mutate, but their elven and merfolk mutants members can?

The non-Human rider was to capture the flavor specifically on Ixalan.

What was was rationale behind Master Bionancer making all creatures enter as a Mutant if there is absolutely no Mutant support? I see the flavor, but was there a time were mutant would be mechanically relevant in the original set but it was abandoned and that part just stuck, or was another consideration? Its one of my pet cards and i love it, but it always made me wonder what was behind that part.

It was done for flavor, but with an eye to the fact that probably one day we’ll make some cards that care about Mutants.

If you made cards based on the x-men would they have creature type human? They are homo superior in the comics not homo sapiens.

They would most likely be Mutant Human because human is what they are a mutant of.

Hey Mark, is the Mutant creature type still used? I was a bit disappointed that none of the creatures with Mutate were creature type Mutant, and it makes me think that it is a retired creature type.

We still use Mutant. We just chose not to put it on creatures with mutate.

If you did make a teenage mutant ninja turtle, what order would the creature types go in? Teenage turtle mutant ninja?

I assume we’d do Teenager and not Teenage as our creature types are nouns not adjectives. I believe this would be the order: Turtle Teenager Ninja Mutant. Turtle would come first as it’s essentially the race. Teenager is next as it speaks to age. Ninja’s next as it’s the class. Mutant is last because we tend to put Mutant last (it’s last on 51 out of the 53 non-Changeling Mutants) as it’s an overall modifier, I guess.

Hi Mark, Can i request a set with a mutant type matters theme?

Ooh, Universes Beyond X-Men? : )

Hi Mark, how likely is it that creature types like Mutant and/or Chimeras (flavorfully) get Changeling and not just to Shapeshifters (though I love Shapeshifters of all shapes!) ???

Not super likely.