Wazzzaaaaap, Mark da Shark,Just wanted to send kudos and share my excitement about so much of Bloomburrow! It's gonna be my first prerelease in a long while, since M20, I think, as well as there's so many things to love about it. I've been a big fan of Doug Beyer since Kaladesh, glad he was the lead designer on this set. Also super pumped to be getting both a revisit to the Heroic mechanic in Valiant, one of my favorite mechanics from Theros, and the amount of rabbit typal support. My Cadira commander deck is gonna go through a major redesign when the set is properly out. Hope you have a lovely day!

I’m glad you’re so excited. I can’t wait to hear all the prerelease stories.

Maro, Bloomburrow looks amazing, but I have one problem. I am a kitchen table player and I love creature type decks. Some decks (like my knights) regularly get new cards, but others (like my kithkin) might see a new card once a decade. For Bloomburrow, I know that rats, squirrels, and birds are likely to show up I. The future and have a ton of past cards to use, but for the types like rabbits or raccoons, I imagine they will not be supported long term. Why should I make a deck for those types?

Bloomburrow existing will make us create them more than we would of had it not existed. If volume of creature types is a core issue to you (and I get why it would be), yeah, I’d stick to the creature types that have more history with the game. But there are a lot of players who will have a lot of fun using Rabbits or Raccoons even if they have to stretch a bit (and probably play changelings).

Hey Mark, so have a question for you from an ecologists perspective here. Why is it that some classes of animals within magic, such as mammals, amphibians, reptiles are broken down into family classes as archetypes (rabbit, wolf, frog, lizard, snake etc) but birds are just birds and not broken down any further? Just an odd one I've noticed for a while haha

We wanted to make bird lords rather than hawk lords.

I would rather have seen turtle over frog and the dynamic between turtles and rabbits is funny.

We did seriously consider Turtle for green/blue.

Are Rabbits the new Zombies? Relatively harmless in small numbers, but those numbers do not stay small, and you are soon faced with an implacable horde of carrot eaters?

The Rabbit archetype in Bloomburrow is good at overrunning you with Rabbits.

Aren’t you worried that declaring they your favorite Bloomburrow archetype is “Rabbits” will finally turn Sally to the Dark Side?

No.🐿️ <death stare>

Are there any plans to errata Moonfolk to Rabbit, considering they are inspired by the east asian "moon rabbit" mythology?

There are no current plans to do that.

my son(8yrs) has started to play commander with me and my friends and has shown quite a talent for the game once he learns how the cards in the deck interact.

He is very excited for Bloomburrow as it will be he will be attending the prerelease event with all of us but he was curious to know if the set will allow him to build a very Kindred style deck from it that will focus on the more specific animal types with support? ie otters and bats?

Each of the two-color ten draft archetypes are built around an animal, so if you just draft say Rabbits, you will have a cohesive deck. There is a bit of typal, but it is very light, meaning you’ll be able to use it for constructed, but there’s no guarantee you’ll get what you need in limited.So yes, I think he can do sort of what he wants (make a specific animal deck), but not quite how he thinks he’s going to make it. Also, it’s trickier to play just one animal in sealed versus draft.

I vaguely remember you saying somewhere that Green-White was your favorite archetype in Bloomburrow, but I can't find it anywhere. Am I making this up or am I remembering correctly?

What I said (at the preview panel) was Rabbits was my favorite archetype to draft.

Why are soldier token’s literally the second weakest that it is even possible for a creature to be

Soldiers are core to white which has a go-wide strategy. that wants 1/1 creature tokens, mostly.I don’t advise trying to make flavorful sense of power and toughness. It’s a dark rabbit hole.