Hey mark it’s me the guy thats been begging for mass nonbasic hate in standard/pioneer for months I just saw the card Suspine Lynx was spoiled THIS IS SO AWESOME! twice the cost of Price of progress for half the damage obviously isn’t as good, but price of progress is also too strong for either of those formats anyway. Plus being on a 5/4 with two other relevant abilities is AWESOME! THANK YOU

You’re welcome.

Hey Mark, on the topic of players being worried about creature types losing their distinctiveness by being added in with the broader type rather than a specific race (ex. Viashino(Lizard) or Naga(Snake)), I looked to see how many are already currently templated this way and there are ALOT more than I realized.Archaic (Avatar), Aven (Bird), Leonin (Cat), Malamet (Cat), Nishoba (Cat Beast), Daemogoth (Demon), Ainok (Dog), Flamekin (Elemental), Loxodon (Elephant), Mycoid (Fungus), Thallid (Fungus), Akki (Goblin), Boggart (Goblin), Mogg (Goblin), Redcaps (Goblin), Eumidian (Insect), Kraul (Insect), Nantuko (Insect), Khenra (Jackal), Kitsune (Fox), Merrow (Merfolk), Selkie (Merfolk), Triton (Merfolk), Onakke (Ogre), Caryatid (Plant), Nezume (Rat), Rhox (Rhino), Amphin (Salamander), Orochi (Snake), Kami (Spirit), Drogskol (Spirit), Eidolon (Spirit), Ent (LoTR) (Treefolk), Trow (Troll), Kappa (Turtle), Liche (Zombie), Eternal (Zombie), Draugr (Zombie), Nim (Zombie), Skaab (Zombie)

Yep. Most of the ones that didn’t do it entered the game before we made this the default.

Is it possible to have DFCs outside of Acorn where there the backside can vary - Knight of the Kitchen Sink style? If not possible in cards, how about in tokens? It would be cool to have some of the Morph head games, except with a more interesting front half than a Grey Ogre.

The normal rules can’t do that. A front has to have the same unique back.

People like to call 2 mana 2/2s "Bears". I'm unaware of other versions of this for different mana values, but if you had to come up with names for 1 mana 1/1s, 3 mana 3/3s, and 4 mana 4/4s, what do you think you'd call them?

R&D calls four mana 3/3’s Hill Giants and three mana 2/2’s Grey Ogres.

What does "tribally connected" mean? Is that like the Ogres and Demons in Champions block?

It’s like how we connect Werewolf and Wolf in Innistrad sets.

'I think “good” and “bad” are poor labels for cards. It implies that some cards are somehow more appropriate to be cards than other cards. Every card serves a purpose. "Let's call them "weak" cards.What I consider a weak or bad card is one that I open in a pack, and it spends the rest of its life outside of a deck. Living it's existence as a non game piece. Never even considerable for a deck.Over the years I've accumulated too many of these. And would like to see less of them. Especially since I see many many versions of the same weak cards over and over. It would be nice to see at least playable alternatives of decent (not necessarily strong) cards. Maybe with relevant creature types, or fun mechanics instead. Even if it's a weak card, if it has a set mechanic it can be more useful than just yet another vanilla 2/3 for 3. A 2/3 surveil 1 would be just much more fun, even if it's not necessarily good. I don't know if I'm making any sense.

Let me try approaching this from a different vantage point. We print a new common 2/3 vanilla creature. To you it is worthless. You have a lot of 2/3 vanilla creatures, another one adds nothing to the game of Magic for you. It’s a waste of cardboard.Now Sally is excited. She has an Ogre deck and this slots perfectly at the three slot for her deck. Diego is also excited. This card was illustrated by his favorite artist and he can’t wait to get it signed at an upcoming convention that the artist will be at. Alex is excited because they have a “ladies looking left” deck and this is a female Ogre looking left. Should we take away a card that makes Sally, Diego and Alex happy, just because it doesn’t make you happy? You are part of a community, and part of that comes the responsibility to accept that not everything is made to cater to you. Yes, some cards should excite you. We want you to have enough cards that you enjoy that you have many options on what you can play, but every card doesn’t need to.

I've wondered about this for more than 20 years now: back in the day when jokey card names were more common (Telim'Tor et al) was it intentional that Exodus contained MoM and PoP (Mind over Matter and Price of Progress)?

Not that I was aware of, but maybe.

Skullknocker ogre is red, and it can force an opponent to discard a card at random. What happened there?

It’s a bend.

Do you think you will ever revisit the idea of two tribes defined by their interdependency like the Ogres and Demons from Kamigawa?

Sure.

Without counting power level, is the effect of Price of Progress still in red's color pie?

Yep. Red still can punish people for nonbasic lands; it just needs to be a red punishment.