Hi, Mark!!!Last night I went 3-1-0 in my first ever limited event, the Bloomburrow prerelease, courtesy of a black-red deck built around Valley Rotcaller.Please apply double turbo high-fives to everybody involved in making the set (including yourself); it's awesome and adorable and a ton of fun to play and open!

Will do!

Hi Mark!Just letting you know that my girlfriend is very excited for Bloomburrow prerelease (she likes the fuzzy creatures, and the not fuzzy ones too), but feels like she might not have the right to get excited

Show this to her: You absolutely have the right to get excited! Our whole job is to get people to fall in love with specific cards, so please get as excited as you desire. Magic is a game for anyone who wants to play it.

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.

When/if: a single set split into two draftable packs. There is some overlap (land cycles, equipment, colorless artifacts, etc) but one pack is Team X (Bolas let's say) which is 3 different archetypes in his colors and the other packs are Team Y (Ugin let's say) which are 3 archetypes in colorless, white, black. All the cards together make a single set, but you would draft Ugin packs with Ugin packs, and then only play against players who drafted Bolas packs.

We did this in Mirrodin Besieged. The set was split in Mirran and Phyrexian, and you chose which side to play when you played in the prerelease.

Any chance we could see creature tokens be more readily available? one per every few packs isn't nearly enough to actually obtain and use even half of the tokens present in sets nowadays. I'll finish a limited event, even a prerelease, and only leave with a couple tokens and it's depressing

We’re exploring options to get more tokens into players’ hands.

I believe that ask about gifts being optional was asking if you believe some players will think it is NOT optional, due to the cards just saying "Gift X". I don't think the asker thought it was mandatory.

We’ll have to wait until the prerelease to see if there’s confusion. I don’t anticipate confusion.

the simic guild symbol sticker from the Return to Ravnica prerelease guild kit has been on my family's sliding glass door for over a decade now, serving as a way to make it obvious whether it is open or closed to birds and humans alikei just though maybe you'd get a kick out of hearing that : )

I do.

Re: Ante - There's a casual league format known as Ante Sealed League. Like a normal sealed league, you can use the same deck week to week and gradually add more packs to it, but in this variant you also get to use any cards you win. As an added bonus, you get to graffiti any card you lose to make it distinct. It's unusual, but it can be a lot of fun.

If everyone’s on board for the experience, that’s great.

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.

Hey! Just wanted to say the prerelease of MH3 was really fun and to say thanks :)I pulled three (3!!) Sorins after hoping and hoping for weeks Id find one, and the adapt mechanic being spread across colours helped me pull together my first ever 2-1-0 deck in an event.Anyway, just wanted to show some enthusiasm. Enjoy your day :)

Glad you had a good time.