Hello! I just wanted to make a slight correction to yesterday's Making Magic article and its history of DFCs - you refer to Huatli, Poet of Unity as "the first creature that transformed into a Saga", but March of the Machine's Praetors formed an entire cycle of those.

Yes, I missed it.

If/when: plushies, miniatures, or action figures of Magic characters. (Personally I want Phyrexian Praetor plushies.)

When. We have made some over the years. I own a Fblthp plushie, for example.

When you created Urbask was it intended that many people would like him as a character and not see him as a villain?

He was, by design, the most relatable Praetor.

Hey Mark, I hope all is well.I'm reaching out to share a suggestion I'm hoping you can pass along to the appropriate channels if that is not you.I am a staunch Magic player but I also am an avid collector that very much enjoys collecting some of the most special and elusive versions of cards.The serialized cards in products like Ravnica Remastered would be much more enticing and I would be significantly more likely to spend more on products that contain them if they were more bespoke and distinct from the non serialized versions.The best way to do this would be by giving the serialized cards new unique art that isn't used on other versions of the card in the same set. This was done for the serialized original praetors in the March of the Machine set and it was extremely awesome but it has been the only time this has been done for serialized cards which are becoming much more frequent.Another option would be to have a specific treatment or frame that is exclusive to the serialized version of the card. For example, include regular and borderless frames for shock lands in the main Ravnica Remastered but have the retro framed shock lands exclusive for the serialized cards.Thoughts?

I can pass those thoughts along. Do others share this belief?

If or When; a Partner keyword variant where only one of the 2 commanders need to have the ability like Doctor's Companion but without the Doctor restriction. I.E. a red Partner that can pair with Atraxa, Praetors' Voice to make a 5 color deck.

If. I don’t think we want to make more partner without condition, nor want partner to enable five-color decks.

If/When: A never-ending or looping Saga.

The Praetors in March of the Machine are essentially looping Sagas.

Taking you up on the "eager for any feedback" part from your vision design handoff article!I know there are many other considerations involved (e.g. Phyrexia fatigue is a thing), but purely from a story perspective, it feels like it would've been better to split MOM up into two sets: the Phyrexians invade, and the Phyrexians are repulsed. As it is, it ended up feeling somewhat anticlimactic (for me, personally), like it was over before it even began. The 70-30 split didn't help matters much in this respect, either. (Yeah I know that's not the in-world balance, just the in-cards balance, because you told me, but otherwise as a player, where else am I supposed to get my impressions from?)If we still had a traditional block structure, this seems like it could've been a great fit for it: Act one, meet the Phyrexians; Act two, the Phyrexians invade; Act three, the Phyrexians are defeated. Alternatively, the "they invade" part could've been pulled forward into ONE, or the "they're defeated" part could've been pushed back into Aftermath thereby turning it into a full set (though that's basically the same three set structure again).I also have a question: Did you all have similar debates internally, or was everyone in agreement that the set/story structure as actually released was the way to go?(And to add something positive: the Saga-Transforming Praetors are truly excellent!)

We didn’t want the war part being more than one set.

Any particular reason we didn’t see any werewolves during March of the Machine? Were there any designed for the set that got cut?

The double-faced cards have specific uses (being Phyrexianized, Praetors, battles, incubate, etc.) in the set, so it wasn’t a good fit.

Is there any particular reason why Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines is the only Praetor (including Ebon,Sanguine and Gix) to not have double colored pips in her casting cost? is it a card spacing thing? if so is that something that often has mechanical influence?

The card was called Norn, Mother of Machines for most of design. At the slide show, a number of people made the note that the card needed to be called Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines as all the other Praetors had their full name. Adding in “Elesh” meant we only had room for two mana pips, one of which had to be generic mana, so she changed from 3WW to 4W.So, why is Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines the only Praetor with a single color pip? Typography.

Hey Mark, just started a Draft when my second pack Mythic was Vorinclex, had no idea the other Praetors were gonna be in this draft environment so high fives to whoever on the team has gifted me this gross deck.

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