"we prefer topics getting 1&2's and 9&10's than just everyone grading it a 7" why though? Yall are intentionally eliciting a negative experience, and for what? If everybody gives a set a 7, thats a higher grade than if there are an equal amount of 1&2's as 9&10's. Better yet, shoot for the low grade to be a 3 or 4 by shaving off the things that are undeniably going to cause a 1 or 2. In the case of Duskmourn having Mtg versions of a TV set with holograms or a prism based projector would be a less polarizing option. I'm sure you have days where you wake up knowing we are going to see something that will cause love or hate reactions and that can just be a love or meh instead.

To quote myself: “If everyone likes your game, but no one loves it, it will fail.”

Why do multi color cards have gold frames instead of prismatic wardrobe style frames that are all their colors?

Legends chose to make them gold frames, I assume because it was early days and it simplified things. I, along with others, pitched we change two-color cards to frames with two colors (three plus would still be gold, as they looked ugly when you got too many colors). We even had them designed. The popularity and inertia of gold frames kept it from happening. Then when we made hybrid, I suggested we use the frames we’d made for the two-color frames, and it was accepted.

"You mean, Chandler or Joven?" You made The Prismatic Piper cry, Mark.

He’s not technically common, as he shows up at a rarity more common than common. He does have a common rarity symbol (as we didn’t know what else to give him), so it’s a gray area.

Re: “I don’t think it gets much leaner than one”It actually can. There are some creature types with NO cards. Caribou and prism, for instance, are official creature types, but no cards have those types. Caribou tokens can be made with the card caribou range, and prism tokens can be made with the card diamond kaleidoscope. There are other examples too, but those were the only ones from the top of my head

If a card makes tokens of a creature type that counts as a card for that creature’s theme.

Will we ever see a land that produces mana that counts as 2 (or more) colors for Sunburst and the like (e.g. Adds a single W that counts as both W and R mana for Prismatic Ending)

I’m not sure the confusion is worth the design space. The former is big and the latter is small.

Hi Mark, Do you have any trivia for the previous White mana symbol?

It’s the only mana symbol to have a major redesign. The “new” one premiered in Ice Age. There was a white promo card, Prismatic Ward, the came out before the set that has the old white mana symbol, while the one in the set has the new one.

Hey Mark! I have a question about the color pie and how it relates to non-rotating constructed formats. As I understand it black is supposed to be he best at spot removing creatures and planeswalkers but in formats like modern and older it’s options have to compete against the likes of Unholy Heat, Prismatic Ending, Path to Exile, Lightning Bolt, etc all of which do this thing in more powerful ways than black’s options like Fatal Push. Does the council of colors have any interest in balancing out this aspect of the color pie for those formats or does the color pie simply matter less in these places than it does for limited and standard?

There’s not much we can do to color correct older formats; they’re very much formed by the mistakes of the past. If you prefer playing with a more pure version of the color pie, limited and Standard are better formats for you.

To the player who asked about white getting a new "constructed-playable monocolored spot removal spell": Portable Hole (from AFR) and Prismatic Ending (from MH2) are two new cards that fit the criteria and both are powerful enough that they're being played in Modern and Legacy

FYI

Can i request a colorless nonartifact noneldrazi commander? I almost got happy with the Prismatic Piper, but colorless is not a color and choosing a color is not optional so...

I assume we’ll make one eventually, but it’s a pretty niche request.

Hey, MaRo! I've been reading since the beginning, but never had a birthday question to ask UNTIL TODAY! Do you have any trivia about my favorite card, Prophetic Prism? (And, as ever, thank you so much for your interactions with the community. I don't think I'd be a game designer today if you hadn't given me the confidence and knowledge to pursue my dream.)

Prophetic Prism is a good example of us trying to create a common mana fixer, but having an ability not worth a full card, so we make it a cantrip to make it worthwhile for players to put it in their deck.Happy Birthday!