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Appreciation for Salvation Swan

New 27 Jul 2024 Asked by blaze-1013 6 Comments

Restoration Angel is one of, if not my favorite Magic card, so can you give high fives to the people involved in making Salvation Swan.


Can do.

Propagate Mechanic Speculation

New 27 Jul 2024 Asked by beechdallama 4 Comments

Hey Mark, with proliferate and populate both being done already, what do you think a mechanic called Propagate would do were it to be similar to the other two?


Populate was called propagate in design which I to this day sometimes mistakenly call it. I have no idea what else it would do.

Clocknapper's Errata Implementation

New 25 Jul 2024 Asked by thefriendlyeldrazi 5 Comments

Hey Mark, is Clocknapper from Unfinity going to recieve errata with Bloomburrow's release?


Yes. Scan down to the post I just made from some tweets by Matt Tabak.

Set Progress Timeline

New 25 Jul 2024 Asked by neverusingthisaccount7 3 Comments

Out of all the sets you’re working on right now, which is the farthest along in the timeline? Alternatively, what’s the distance between vision design and release date?


Cairo is the in-universe Magic set that is the farthest out. It’s in vision design. I start exploratory design on a Universes Beyond set in August. The end of vision design to print is two to three years. In-universe Magic sets are closer to release than Universe Beyond ones when they come out of vision design.

Possibilities for Nautical-themed Sets

New 25 Jul 2024 Asked by pinkmoth 7 Comments

which do you think is more likely: a more nautical-focused set taking place on ixalan, or on an entirely new world?


Another world, but Ixalan is known for its Pirates.

Differentiating Rules and Functional Erratas

New 25 Jul 2024 Asked by kasim18-blog 8 Comments

I don't play Neheb so I have no feelings there, but I am genuinely curious. Why is it okay to change the rules/wording and make a major functional errata to how Neheb works, but not make the nephilim and Godsire legendary in the name of avoiding functional errata? It's not like Companion where it was an emergency thing.


I know we’re looking into this issue.That said, there is a difference between changing a card and changing a rule which results in a card playing differently. The first is functional errata (we’re actively changing how the card works). The latter isn’t. We’re changing how the game works and the relevant cards play with the rules as they now exist. Here’s an example. Lifelink used to stack. If you had two copies of lifelink on a creature you gained twice the life. We then changed how lifelink worked. Every card with lifelink now worked differently, but that wasn’t us specifically redoing any card.

Dissatisfaction Over Template Change

New 23 Jul 2024 Asked by blazinjsin 9 Comments

Just adding my voice to the din, I hate the new template change from post combat main to second main on every card, which is very functional errata on cards like Neheb the Eternal. It nerfs a lot of things in extra combat decks. Entirely too many things are once per turn these days, there's no need to change to older cards to that too.


There are a lot of things to juggle when changing terminology. The impact on a single card often isn’t as important as other gains made.

Xerex on the Rabiah Scale

New 21 Jul 2024 Asked by submergedforgottencladogram 2 Comments

Mark, it's my birthday this week, and I'd like to thank y'all for timing Bloomburrow prerelease to nearly occur on my personal day of celebration, a set I have been very jazzed about since it was announced. I really love the possum druid in particular.

For my question though, where is Xerex on the Rabiah scale? I really enjoyed the glimpses of surreal Escher geometries and the alien beings that live there.


Xerex is a 9. “World that’s hard to comprehend” is not an ideal premier setting.

Bloomburrow Animals Diet

New 19 Jul 2024 Asked by the-infamous-cowardlion 5 Comments

Mark, can you confirm if most animals in bloomburrow are vegetarian?I know the planeswalker's guide says that "Typically, animalfolk are vegetarians, enjoying a robust diet of seeds, nuts, grains, fruits, vegetables, and other nutrient-dense ingredients. ", but apparently some people have argued that means that each animalfolk is "mostly vegetarian" but eats meat and that is really driving me crazy.
- Sincerely, a rat player that also likes the pet bugs that the rats have in bloomburrow


Most are vegetarian. I believe some eat fish.

Squirrels Secondary Color Justification

New 19 Jul 2024 Asked by quantext 4 Comments

Why was black chosen as the secondary color for squirrels?


It started because it fit a card I was making in Unstable. That started the ball rolling. I think black feels like a good fit as Squirrels aren’t too far away from Rats.

Indestructibility as Substitute for Regeneration

New 18 Jul 2024 Asked by renalcul 6 Comments

I noticed that "tap this creature, It gains indestructible until end of turn." Seems to be used occasionally as psuedo regeneration. Since regenerate target creature exists mainly as reminder text anyway, has there been any thoughts about just functionally errataing regeneration into the new tap+indestructible combo that we see lately?


It’s a bit more functional errata than we tend to do.

Animal Appearance in Duos

New 17 Jul 2024 Asked by pvonvil 5 Comments

From what I can gather all the duos, like Bakersbane Duo are in shards: Bakersbane duo is green but fits in a squirrel (bg) or raccoon deck (rg), making it a basically a Jund card. The black cards are an exception: Glivedive duo is in a wedge, Mardu (bat wb and lizard rb). Presumably the other black one will be squirrel (bg) and rat (ub)My question is: why? Is the pattern of shards intentional? Is the deviation to one color having wedges intentional?


The only guideline was each animal appeared in just two duos.

Request for Card Errata

New 12 Jul 2024 Asked by sjk9000 19 Comments

Hello, Mark, quick request: I'd like you errata the Outlaw batch to include Wizards effective immediately, and I'd also like you premptively errata all Lizard Warlocks in Bloomburrow into Lizard Wizards.This might have some unforseen play balance concerns and it would be tremendously confusing to have so many new cards not do what they say, but look at the upside: "Lizard Wizard" rhymes.Please and thank you.


If only creature types rhyming was a higher priority for R&D. : )

Creature Type Errata Possibility

New 12 Jul 2024 Asked by puppydolldaph 5 Comments

Hi Mark! Just saw the spoiler for The Infamous Cruelclaw. Its an awesome card! I was wondering since the creature type Weasel is now a thing would the Bronze Sabel be errated to Weasel instead of Sabel? Thanks again!!!


I did check and yes, sables are Weasels. I don’t know if any errata is planned.

Purpose of Bloomburrow Deck

New 11 Jul 2024 Asked by vodalianjavelineer 1 Comments

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).

Symbolism of Black Squirrels

New 11 Jul 2024 Asked by starlightofpenguins 17 Comments

What makes Squirrels black?


They’re basically Rats with better PR.

Erratas for Outdated Cards

New 11 Jul 2024 Asked by zombsidian 1 Comments

Could cards that have outdated counters or mechanics (ie cards that give -0/-1 counters, Contagion's weird -2/-1 counters) either get erattas for more appropriate counters or functional reprints with regular -1/-1 counters?


That’s the type of functional errata we don’t tend to do.

Legendary Rats in Bloomburrow

New 10 Jul 2024 Asked by kreetn 21 Comments

Can I get a maybe on more legendary Rats in bloomburrow? My goal is to make a sultai Nashi deck with every legendary rat ever, but so far the pickings are slim :)


Maybe. : )

Exclusive Mechanics Question

New 10 Jul 2024 Asked by su92 27 Comments

We've seen very few cards as of yet, but are the following mechanics exclusive to their faction: Valiant (Mice), Thresold (Rats), Expend (Racoons), Forage (Squirrels)? Or can we expect to see at least a little of (some of) them in more colors?


Those four mechanics are unique to one animal archetype.

Threshold Errata Decision

New 10 Jul 2024 Asked by lil-cheez 10 Comments

Why Threshold wasn't given the same errata as Hideaway and renamed "Threshold N"?
So you could've used as it was in the past (threshold 7) or like the "current" one (threshold 8)


We want to be consistent and not have two sets in the same format using different numbers.


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