Hello Marcos. What is the chance that there is a Commander who serves as a tutor to search for a specific card from a previous set?

I’ll say low.

Hi Mark! I just found your blog and can't seem to find any results with the search so sorry if this has been asked before. Could rad counters show up in a future (non UB) set? I LOVE the design of them and the Fallout set got me into the game so having more pieces for a radiation deck would be amazing.

The mechanical execution can. I’m not sure if they’d have the same name.

It fells odd to me that there are so few effects in green that put lands directly from the deck into your hand. There are lots of things in white that let you search for plains (land tax, gift of estates etc) but verry few green ones. Is searching lands to hand not in pie for green, or is there another reason why we don't see these effects.

We do them fairly often, so much so that R&D has a name for green cards where land fetching goes to hand: Lay of the Land cards.

Hello! I was wondering if a compilation of designs from any of the Great Designer Searches might exist. Have a lovely holiday tomorrow.

The links to the pages currently don’t work, sadly.

Talk on Kindred cards started my mind back to an old question I had. Was the intention for Kindred Shapeshifter cards with Changeling that any search your deck type card with any creature type search parameter could retrieve them?

Yes.

If basic has no rules baggage (any number in a deck), why is it needed as a supertype at all? Couldn't the lands currently labeled basic be batched to 'basic', but lose the supertype? Then a term for 'any number' could be used and applied to lands, relentless creatures, etc?

When you search for a basic land, that means something rules wise.

Why every set needs to introduce so many new keywords? I believe there are already enough. Stuff like Disguise, Cloak, Collect Evidence, Suspect, are born (and I believe dead) within Murders at Karlov Manor. LCI had Craft, Descend, Discover, Explore. OTJ has Crimes and probably more. I understand that it's fun to draft with new mechanics, but I hate when I am playing any format and have to search online what a specific new mechanic does.

We make new mechanics because players tell us it’s the number one factor of why they buy new sets. Disguise and cloak are just us updating Morph and Manifest, which I do expect us to use again. Collect evidence played well, so I assume it will return. Suspect is the mechanic I’m least sure we’ll use again, but I’ve said that about plenty of mechanics that went on to come back.If an excess of mechanics is frustrating for you, you might want to try a rotating format, like Standard, which greatly limits how many mechanics are available at a time. Non-rotating formats are just going to continually go up in mechanics. It’s their nature.

Is Arcade Gannon supposed to be a Doctor, not a Cleric?Healers and their ilk have been Clerics up until now, is Doctor going to be a creature type that's just available now? Or will I be allowed to use Twice Upon A Time to search him out, and stuff like that?

We are using the Doctor creature type where flavorfully appropriate. Many Universes Beyond sets that are bit more modern in their setting will use it.

If/when either make a card that lets us search and then not shuffle or integrate shuffling as part of searching.

I’ve tried to make shuffle an inherent, and unwritten, part of search, but haven’t, as yet, been successful. If, but I hope when.

If you had to make one color secondary in "search your library for a basic land of any type," which colour would get it?

I wouldn’t, but if I had to, red, I guess.