When you use to make planeswalker intro decks you would make cards like Elspeth's Devotee that would searched out the named planeswalker from the preconstruct. Did you ever consider having those cards search out an "Elspeth planeswalker" so in theory those cards could have some application outside just that deck?

I think they were Standard legal, so we had to be careful with what they could fetch.

i work summers at the camp where i learned to play magic years ago, and i’d like to note that the discontinuation of planeswalker decks has really hampered our ability to introduce new players. commander is tough to explain to kids, and welcome decks aren’t anywhere near as appealing. in the future could we see pw decks return, even as a yearly or infrequent thing? nothing delights new players quite like a planeswalker

I’ll pass along the note.

Did you know Elspeth Resplandent is the 4th monowhite planeswalker card (not counting Planeswalker Deck exclusives) with mana value 5 or greater? I love low MV monowhite PW, but I was really missing the high MV ones. Can you high-five whoever was responsible for this card design?

Will do!

If/When? A Will or a Rowan Kenrith planeswalker card that isn't mechanically linked to the other twin?

It’s kind of their schtick. Rowan did get a solo planeswalker deck card in Throne of Eldraine.

Hi Mark I think that the answer is obvious, but how well the new commander decks are doing when compared to the planeswalker decks they replaced?

Doing very well.

Hi Mark! Is there any reason the planeswalker deck cards that tutor for the key walker like Garruk’s Warsteed and Chandra’s Outburst search for the Planeswalker by it’s name instead of by type? I always thought the cards were pretty neat, but I have never used any of them outside of the decks they come in because the walkers they come with tend to be underpowered. I changed them to type in my cube and have had a lot of success so far.

It’s done to keep the power level in check.

MaRo, as a cube curator, may I ask you consider reprinting some errata'd cards, especially those that deal damage to "any target"? I know Volcanic Hammer isn't the most desired card out there, but maybe a Planeswalker deck can get it as a reprint?

I’ll pass the request along.

Are the planeswalker decks for Ikoria?

I don’t believe so.

If R&D had known about Dack Fayden's fate, would he have gotten a card in the set proper, replaced Tezzeret as the Buy-A-Box promo, or been the face of a planeswalker deck?

He would have been in or connected to the set had we known.

On average, how many new planeswalker cards do you intend to print in a non War of the Spark year? ( Including planeswalker decks) Then rationalize to me why 1 of those a year cant be a Sphinx, or Hydra, or Spider, or Ooze, or Fairy, or Surrakar, or Khenra, or Viashino, or Cephalid, or Nantuko, ect. I’m not trying to be rude, I just legit don’t understand why 1 or 2 of something weird a year is so problematic when you make so many.

We get somewhere around twelve planeswalkers a year in Standard-legal sets (barring outliers like War of the Spark). They need to be the characters from our story. Most will be existing planeswalker’s as that’s who is in our stories - our cast of characters. That means we only get a handful of new characters. Some of them have to be certain new characters that are part of the story. Our next priority is to hit our diversity goals. We want to figure out groups that aren’t represented by our planeswalkers and give them representation. Those tend to be human or at least humanoid. After that, there’s not much left, many years that fills up all our slots. So it’s not as easy as you think. And that’s not even getting into our market research that shows most players aren’t interested in nonhumanoid planeswalkers.