Hi Mark! Hope your preparations for Independence Day are going swell!One of the things I'm worried about regarding MTG Foundations is that it may have too strong of an effect on the design of future sets (e.g. the strength of 3-mana Green creatures will be restricted due to Llanowar Elves) and that the power level of certain cards might be too large to the point where cards will overstay their welcome (e.g. the reason why 2WW board wipes without downsides have not been printed for a decade). There's also the worry that it might get tiresome to see the same cards for 5 years, as there's only some times you can see Omniscience cheated out that it becomes tiresome.With all these concerns in mind, how pushed is MTG Foundations in terms of power level i.e. is it intended to include staple cards that will define the meta for 5 years or just provide a baseline from which design to work off of?

A lot of time was spent on Foundation. And the knowledge that it was going to be in Standard for a while was well known.

If blue isn't supposed ramp/fix why can it get free cast effects. Basically why is Treasure out of pie for Blue while Omniscience is, when Omniscience does what Treasure does but better?

Casting cards out of the library for free is a different thing than ramping. Just because you can do one effect doesn’t mean you get to do every effect that can be thought of as similar in some regard.

I was looking through the wallpapers Wizards makes available on their site (Thanks!) and saw the art for Omniscience titled "Jace Beleren Planeswalking". Do you know if this was the premise of the art description? Is that a canonical depiction or more an artist's interpretation?

My guess is it was the temporary name sent to the artist.

Can you tell the Arena team the Omniscience draft was awesome? It was a weird format where things I normally ignored were a lot better since it was free :)

Will do.

Do you consider "Omniscience" a flavour failure? I've always been annoyed by the card because it means "to know everything". In my opinion, the card should have been called "omnipotence". "Omniscience" makes so much more sense on the card Enter the Infinite.

Omnipotence is black’s ideal not blue’s.

If I have Richard Garfield, Phd in play, and an effect lets me cast a spell without paying its mana cost (like say Omniscience), can I play a land as Ancestral Vision?

No.

Would you say that due to the nature of EDH as a single-ton eternal format focused on multi-player, makes the printing of cards like Chaos Warp, if not ok, then at least less of a breaking of the rules, provided that they are only legal in that format? E.g. Because colors will straight up lose to certain cards if they don't have a way to deal with them. E.g. Aura-shards shuts down most mono-red strategies, and Omniscience is a straight up win if you can't deal with it.

I do not. No format’s existence is justification for breaking color pie. Colors are supposed to have vulnerabilities. It’s an important part of the design of Magic.

How come Arcanis the Omnipotent brings you more cards (representing knowledge), and Omniscience lets you cast spells for free (representing power)? Shouldn't they be Arcanis the Omniscient and Omnipotence?

The card was originally calked Omnipotence but that is the ultimate goal of black not blue so the name was changed.

If I have on the battlefield Omniscience, Platinum Angel, Sigarda, Avacyn, Asceticism , Melira, Witchbane Orb, and Tamiyo's Ultimate at the same time, do I win?

You do in the OPASA AMWOTU format. : )

If there were an omniscience-sized hole in red's design skeleton, could the same effect be printed as red with a different name, like "free will"?

It’s a dangerous trap to justify mechanics stretching with names because you can always find a name that sounds good.