I just came across the card "Stingscourger" a red creature that can bounce opponents creatures. I don't think I've seen red have that effect before. Would you consider this a bend or a break, or is it in red slice of the pie, just infrequently used?

That card is from a set called Planar Chaos where we did a what if take on the color pie, imagining if effects went to different colors. Nothing in Planar Chaos is inherently precedent for color pie. Welcome to Blogatog! : )

I know you guys don’t do gimmick sets like Scourge anymore, but scourge gave us morph, and inspired fight. Internally do you guys play around with severely restricted environments (a no creature set for example) to get the creativity going for the actual sets you work on, or would that be too much time/effort away from the sets meant for players?

Our sets have plenty of constraints without needing to add artificial ones. : )By the way, Scourge was not a gimmick set. Did you mean Legions, the all-creature set right before it? Onslaught, the set before Legions, introduced morph. Fight was introduced, as a keyword, in Innistrad.

Can we pleeeaaase get more cards that cast from exile like Squee the Immortal and Eternal Scourge? My Rakdos Treasures could really use them haha.

It’s just playing in dangerous space. Exile is supposed to be a permanent answer to problems.

Expectations due to the initial name of "Innistrad Werewolves" aside, a lot of disappointment is also due to MTG's werewolf history. Of Innistrad's 5 tribes WWs are the ONLY one absent from other planes, absent from Avacyn Restored, & not getting a commander deck. Their mechanic was abandoned as they became Eldrazi in Eldritch Moon, & day/nightbound is a soft reset, etc... Given all this I was hoping MID would go above and beyond w/WWs. Not just be a normal Innistrad set w/minor theming.

Obviously, we could always do more than we did, but I do want to stress that we did more with Werewolves than we ever have in any set before. • The set has more Werewolves than any other set. Yes, I get it’s only 7 more, but when the previous record was 12, that’s a big jump up. • We did Werewolves as a vertical cycle in a third color. • We did Werewolves as one-of’s in a fourth and fifth color.• We brought back our Werewolf planeswalker• We designed what we think will be the definitive Werewolf Commander, something players have been begging for years.• The set’s main mechanic is a tweak on the “Werewolf mechanic”. • The set’s story revolves around the Werewolves. I think calling Midnight Hunt “a normal Innistrad set w/ minor theming” is unfair characterization of the set. It’s clearly a Werewolf-focused Innistrad set. I get maybe not Werewolf enough for some players, but it’s not like Scourge where we sold it as “a dragon set” and it had four Dragons (and a bunch of Dragon-themed cards) in it.

Hi Mark. I've been missing a lot of what made magic enticing to me back when I was a kid, which was the super weird and creative art direction in sets like scourge, mirrodin and kamigawa. Why is the art these days so... safe?

I would check out our showcase and Secret Lair cards where we’re pushing art boundaries more than we ever have in the history of the game.

"All set logos now use the Beleron font." -- Could they ... not? Magic has had some beautiful and evocative logos in the past; Mirage, Ice Age, Scourge, Nemesis and Time Spiral all immediately jump to mind as memorable, and although Beleren has the benefit of familiarity, can we not keep it for placeholders, taglines, that sort of thing, and still see distinct and different logos in future?

Things can change, but the current policy is having all the logos in Beleren. It helps give Magic a more consistent look and feel.

Nice work on yawgmoth, I like that as a commander, its possible to tailor him to the power-level of your playgroup. He's also interacts fantastically with my favorite card(s) (haakon stromgald scourge/reassembling skeleton)

I was happy we were finally able to make a Yawgmoth card.

Regarding Magic in pop culture, today popular videogame youtuber "Videogamedunkey" used the art for Scourge of the Fleets in his latest video. I thought it was really neat.

Thanks.

Hey Mark, I would like to request that on planes where it could work that Commander specific legendary creatures be brought into standard, like Jeleva, Nephalias scourge could show up on a third return to innistrad, or Kaelmne on a return to Theros, it would be neat to see where these new lengends come from, like Licia or Mathas

Legendary characters are extra tricky to reprint in a Standard-legal set. We have to be on their world within the correct time frame and have the mechanics line up.

Speaking of Un-sets, I have an Un-rules question: can I cast eternal scourge from the absolutely-freaking-exiled-forever zone (from the card AWOL)?

No. It’s in the name of the zone, which by the way is not the Exile zone.