People have complained about not having enough cards to fill out colors for limited with the switch to play boosters and I've started noticing an uptick in hybrid mana cards which would be a solution to this problem. Is this correlated, or is it just a coincidence that we've recently seen more hybrid and that it helps address this issue?

It’s correlated.

Hey Mark, why was it decided to remove the draft and set the booster because of confusion amongst them, but putting value booster is better, is supposed to be a support for pauper/pauper commander?

You’re conflating two things that have nothing to do with one another. Draft boosters went away because the majority of the audience preferred set boosters. Play boosters were a way to keep the essence of set boosters while still providing limited play. All of that is mostly centered in local game stores. Value boosters are addressing a need of certain mass market stores to have Magic boosters at a lower price point. They are not a product the vast majority of enfranchised players will ever interact with, and their existence has nothing to do with organized play.

Mark, I play a lot of limited and one thing I've noticed with the new play boosters is that it is no longer guaranteed to have a card of every color in it. This is especially glaring in a set like MKM or MH3 with multicolored commons. In MH3 especially, since there are no colorless commons, I've opened several packs where it is missing a color and the only cards in my other color are multicolored, meaning I basically don't get a 1st pick. Is this a known problem? Is anything being done about it?

The collation only allows us to guarantee four colors and not five.

Any news on reprints of secret lair exclusives? After the initial few SLX runs, exclusives without non-lair reprints have started to pile up again (Honor Among Thieves, Doctor Who, Lara Croft, Arden Angel). Did the switch from Set Boosters to Play Boosters affect getting these out in the wild at all, and if so, is there a new solution in place yet?

Play boosters have added some new challenges to work through.

Why was the decision made for the face commanders of mh3 to be in play boosters?

I assume because we thought enough players would like being able to open them.

Does the fact that play boosters have the opportunity for more rares impact what cards you print at rare and mythic for limited purposes? One of the MKM packs I opened for a draft recently had 4 different blue rares in it.

We’re designing sets such that common and uncommon have more answers to the rares and mythic rares.

I know pack collation is a complicated and detailed process that most players (myself included) know little about, but after two sets of drafting play boosters, I'd like to ask if it's possible to collate them to avoid duplicate cards in a pack and ensure there is at least one card of every color per pack. Duplicate rares and packs missing a color can really mess with draft signaling, and my naive self wonders if collation is a place to improve the draft experience without harming collectors.

Ideally, packs should avoid duplicates within each pack. Duplicates within a booster box are a bit trickier to avoid.We can guarantee four out of the five colors in most packs, and five in some. We haven’t found a way in the current system to hit all five in every booster pack.

unless I'm mistaken, from what I Saw, fog and multi block ( one Can block many ) didn't showed much or even at all in the recent set ( at least standard legal ) will those show up again at some point or is it unlikely ?
Also, which colors might get the ability to block multiple creatures with one ? From what I Saw it was a white thing, is it specific to it or can other expect to see this effect ?

Fog is something we use pretty sparingly these days, especially in play booster world. Multi-blocking is something we stopped many years ago due to digital concerns. We already were making so few of them, and they didn’t play all that great, so giving them up wasn’t a big deal.

I might be a victim of statistics, but play boosters have felt a little rough for sealed in both MKM and OTJ (in average). Obviously it's playable, but I find myself a lot of the time short of a cool color combination by just a few more cards. (And to be clear, I mean including everything even the "bad" commons). Is this a common complaint? Is there something that can be done? Maybe a little fewer multicolored cards or fewer unplayable/unsupported cards in the bonus sheet? Maybe boosters could go back to guaranteeing one common of each color?

This isn’t a complaint I’ve been getting. Note 95% of sanctioned sealed in the world is at prereleases.

Maybe I am in the minority, but I previously only bought set boosters and never really cared for draft as I was primarily a constructed player. With Play Booster, I actually started to play in drafts and prereleases. So it's actually a win for me and my play group who would never play any form of limited.

I haven’t seen the data on this yet, but I believe you’re part of a larger group than you think.