I think Descend X, “if you descended this turn”, and “Fathomless decent”, have a vocabulary issue like Haunt did. They all mean different things. Descend 4 is a condition (similar to delirium/threshold). “If you descended this turn” is an action (similar to “if you milled a permanent or a permanent died” which is “Revolt”). Fathomless descent is neither a condition nor an action; it functions closer to Undergrowth/Chroma as a counting mechanic. As a tiny amount of feedback, using vocabulary in 3 different contexts makes it more difficult to grok (and remember).

Would using three different words for things so mechanically connected not cause more confusion?

Any thoughts on giving creatures with types in their name the actual creature type? Such as Shadowmoor's Demigod of Revenge getting Demigod, in addition to its Spirit Avatar types it already has? Or Elite Inquisitor getting Inquisitor? Or the Aether Revolt Rebels getting that?

When we errata creature types, we often do that, but not always. The word being in the name doesn’t always line up. A Giant Spider is not a Giant as an example.

Hi MaRo, it's my birthday today. Is there any trivia about my favorite planeswalker, Saheeli?

The original plan for Kaladesh was to have Chandra be the face of the set, but it became pretty clear that she was a better choice for the rebellion of Aether Revolt. Kaladesh was all about invention and that’s just not Chandra’s thing, so we made a inventor planeswalker to be the face of Kaladesh and that was Saheeli.Happy Birthday!

Hi Mark, I went on a wikipedia rabbit hole and the prophecies from Ahmonket are probably the best pieces of lore I've seen in a game in a long time. Massive kuddos to whoever came up with those

It was the Amonkhet creative team, but I sadly don’t remember who specifically.

Less an ask than a comment.

I have found the storytelling by K. Arsenault Rivera simply superb, my favorite since the Era of Aether Revolt, such as "Renewal".

Please send my compliments to the author and thank you for the return of these web stories!

Will do.

Good morning! I'm invoking the sacred Birthday Trivia Rites to ask if you have any interesting tidbits about Thrulls, one of the first creature types I paid attention to because of Soul Exchange.

When the East Coast playtesters designed Fallen Empires, they wants each color to have an internal conflict. In black, the dark Order of the Enon Hand faced a Thrull revolt. The Thrulls were creatures they had created to serve as servants, but they rose up. Fallen Empires was the introduction of the Thrull creature type, but we’ve used it on many expansions set on Dominaria.Happy Birthday!

Mark, when I was still a kid, I begged my parents to let me go to the aether revolt prereleases because it was the "coolest set they've done in awhile". But. Then I kept saying that for every set that. Followed

We’ll try to keep that up.

Does creature type updating only apply to creature cards? Could Thatcher Revolt, say, get errata'd to produce Human Peasant tokens?

I don’t know if we’ve ever errataed token creature types. Anyone aware of an example?

If we go to Ixalan again, are the four main tribes a package deal? By that I mean, if you chose to focus on Torrezon, could there be a focus on the Legion of Dusk, with lesser emphasis on the Sun Empire and their dinosaurs, for example? Could one tribe be absent in a return?

I feel if you exclude Dinosaurs or Pirates, there would be revolt. I also don’t think we’d do it with Vampires or Merfolk completely absent. For example, I was just asked earlier today about white Vampires.

What was the newest Standard set at the time that it was determined that WAR was going to be the Planeswalker set?

I handed off the design two years ago. So, you all were playing Kaladesh and Aether Revolt while vision design was working on it.