I just saw all the new stuff from the Preview Panel! Could you please give high fives to whoever got the enchantment frame changed for Foundations and whoever got Schemes back for Duskmourn?

Will do.

I just wanted to leave a note on Faerie Schemes. I’m a primarily cEDH player, but bought it because I wanted a casual deck with a fun theme. It’s by far the best experience I’ve had with a Magic product in the past five years. The typal synergies were nice, but what was really cool was figuring out all the subtle interactions with Hullbreaker Horror and Malleable Impostor. When y’all are making precons, please don’t stop putting in layers of discovery. It makes the experience so much more enjoyable than just playing the obvious strategy (and it makes the decks more powerful too).

Glad you enjoyed it. I’ll pass along the kind words to the team that designed it.

How much of a concern is the idea that reusing the same color schemes as sets cycle might eventually get stale? I've wondered for awhile how big a deal it really is - it just seems like something that would eventually become hard to ignore.

What other options are there? We only have the five colors.

Creepy crawly nasty insects can still be B and G though, right? I love those aesthetics and they don’t fit white much at all. While I could see golden honey-themed bees (bee people?!) in white, with the very structured hexagonal honeycomb patterning too.

Absolutely.

"She’s scheming and tricky and loves stealing things. She also systematically works to keep improving her capabilities, whether it’s finding the best sea monster to summon or the most effective gadgets to steal." Whoa whoa whoa! Schemes are a black thing, no? Doesnt trickster feel more at home in red? The love to steal things? I understand take something to study, or to mind control, but just plane ol' blatent thievery?

Scheming and trickery and stealing are all base blue things. Black is more about doing things others won’t and less about elaborate sneaky plans.

Do you think whatever color border Conspiracies should've had should also be applied to Archenemy schemes or Planechase planes? Also, what color would you pick if it were up to you?

Schemes and Planes are a different size, so they don’t need a different border.

Re: "How many cards are there?" It ultimately depends on what you count as a card. Do Un-cards count? What about 1996 World Champion? What about Planes/Schemes/Phenomena/etc.? What about Richard Garfield's life celebration cards? This makes the question difficult to answer. But a far easier question is "How many cards are currently legal in Vintage?" and the answer to that is 17,198.

FYI

Would a Standard legal set ever have any interaction with the Command Zone, as conspiracies and Archenemy schemes do? Or is the zone itself limited to supplemental products?

We don’t mention the Command zone by name in rules text on cards in Standard-legal sets.

Favorite Planeswalker in the Gatewatch: Liliana. She's not a straight-up good guy. She has other motives, other plans, other schemes. Of all of them, she's the most likely to manipulate the Gatewatch into furthering her own agenda. Like pitting the Gatewatch against a demon that has a contract on her soul. As far as who I would like to see join the Gatewatch, probably Ajani. His secondary color is the most flexible and organically he's the most likely to agree with the Gatewatch concept.

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FYI: On Gatherer, if you want to view Planes from Planechase (along with things like Schemes, Phenomena, Vanguards...), there is a checkbox you must click to "Include Special Items". Gatherer by default ignores everything that isn't a regular card.

FYI