Hey, Mark! This may be a bit too early to ask since there's now two years of sets coming to Standard before Thran Portal rotates out, but could you speak about why Thran Portal was given the Gate subtype? It's the only Gate in Standard and plays differently from every other Gate in Eternal formats. Thanks again for all that you do!

There’s a big debate if we should use subtypes outside the window of where they are mechanically relevant to allow interactions in eternal formats. That card was us dipping our toes in the water and trying it out.

I don't understand why the common snow duals from Kaldheim weren't reprinted for DMU for domain but Thran Portal has the gate subtype. Neither are mechanically relevant but the new DMU duals use up name equity.

You are equating very different things.

Could we get reprints of erratic portal and some of the other impossible to find cards for commander? I keep seeing reprints of boring, easy to find $1 rares when some of the more exotic and more interesting cards repeatedly get passed over(even if they aren't valuable either tracking them down is a drag)

Make a list of reprints you’d like to see in the comments and I’ll prompt our Commander-focused designers to take a look.

Consulting Gatherer, one of the Portal sets had a card called Eightfold Maze.

FYI

There are tons and tons of cards with only one printing that most players would like to get more of. The tutors from the Portal sets, Grim Tutor and Goblin Settler from Starter, etc. Is there a reason these have yet to get reprinted, even in a supplementary set?

We have a list of cards we think players want and are always looking for places to put them.

How come Rabiah is a retroactively conceived plane for Arabian Nights, but the Portal sets don't seem to have a planar identity? I'm asking because it seemed absent from your list of potential revisits.

I didn’t talk about planes from supplemental sets.

We've seen primitive firearms in Portal. Are there more planes were primitive firearms (possibly similar to those in the late middle ages) are possible?

We have since opted not to show guns. Tbe most powerful weapon in the game wants to be magic.

"Portal: Three Kingdoms took place on an unnamed plane that shares a lot with early history China, but is not China." Including the names of a bunch of Chinese historical figures? It seems like a weird choice to insist it was some other multiverse plane that looked so much like Han dynasty China that the people even had the same names.

Both Arabian Nights and Portal: Three Kingdoms borrowed strongly from existing story elements from the source material.

Are Mu Yanling and Jiang Yanggu from the same plane that Portal second and third age take place on?

I do not believe so.

Couldn't we do what Comics do any use story to explain bigger changes in the future? Like, if we need Changelings in every tribal block, make a story about them escaping through the planar portal and getting scattered on every plane or something.

1) Planar portals are no longer really a thing. The Planar Bridge, the only existing planar portal, can’t transport living materials. Bolas had to raise a zombie army covered in lazotep to use it.2) While changeling is an answer for heaby tribal sets, it’s far from the only answer mechanically.3) Worlds need creative integrity. We try to avoid using things that conflict against the nature of the world.