Would sorcery speed pingers solve the problem of too much complexity in combat and allow pingers to be printed in standard?

They don’t change the math much. Yes, it’s different for first strike/double strike.

Why did you move away from pingers?

It greatly increased the math complexity of combat.

Could we see designs that were color pie breaks as part of multicolor cards that have the original color, as a sort of reference?

Such as a Blue-Red pinger?

That would be doable.

Has there been any desire to give blue pingers again? I recall a Drive to Work about I think M20 where your guest seemed wistful about the days of blue pingers.

There is no desire to do that.

"Green is not getting burn. Green can have one its creatures deal damage to another creature. Green has to have a creature to deal damage." I have to ask. : ) Does this mean green creature-pingers will exist more?! I mean more frequently than Garruk Relentless, and where it's a numerical, not-tied-to-power amount of damage. I'm not saying they should suddenly appear in droves, but in theory would it be an uncommon occurence (rarity joke!) at minimum?

Green will not be getting pingers. Green will occasionally on spells have one-sided fight.

Hi Mark! I'm a drafter that tends to like more complex sets, and I really miss pingers! Are "normal" 3 mana tims in conflict with new world order, or have they fallen out of favor for another reason?

“Tims” (aka creatures that tap to deal 1 damage to target creature or player) are red flagged at common under New World Order as they add a lot of board complexity.

Just finished my first draft of Tempest Remastered and I drafted Shaman-en-kor, Spirit-en-kor and Orim, Samite healer and at one point had a match against two pingers and an on board P/T boosting creature. Let me say I have never appreciated NWO more. But would a more board complexity heavy set be possible in the future?

The pendulum swings but no longer that far in normal expansions. Modern Masters 2015 is complex though.

Can you defend flickering in White, over Red? As you've said before, doing it first doesn't count, or else we'd be looking at Blue pingers. White doesn't really need flickering mechanically (Up until Avacyn Restored, we hadn't seen flickering in a long time, and White wasn't lacking mechanically), and the flavor of flickering in red ("GO AWAY NOW! Do whatever later, I don't care about that") makes a lot more sense than white's "I teleport you away and then back real quick to dodge a fireball".

White is the color of delay and the one most willing to give things a fresh start.

I noticed in the past, mono-blue got pingers or spells that make an opponent lose life... What's the story behind that? And why stop it?

Richard liked the idea of sorcerers that could ping creatures and players with small spells and put then in blue because sorcerers made sense in blue. The problem was direct damage didn’t mechanically make sense in blue so this flavor of card eventually moved to red.

How would you feel about an efficient green flying pinger? It would be flavored as a hornet.

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