Do you think Partner With could be in standard sets? While I personally tend to have issues with cards that directly reference commander for some reason Partner With has enough noncommander overlap to keep my interest. Norika Yamazaki, the Poet partnering with Heiko Yamazaki, the General seems to obviously be a perfect fit. I don't know if the rules for partner with are considered too complex for general play but used in moderation could be a great opportunity.

We tend not to push tutoring mechanics in premier sets.

What's the general reception to Throne of Eldraine so far?

It’s been very good.

How has Modern Horizons adding cards directly into Modern been received? From what I can tell it has some loud naysayers, but I'm curious what the general response has been.

Here’s a fine place to ask. What do you all think?

Mark, you were talking about mechanics that ask for specific types of cards. I think that the card Flicker asked for being an Instant but it was printed as a Sorcery. Was there a reason for that? Nowadays the effect could be printed as a White instant, right?

I originally made Flicker as a vertical cycle in white in Urza’s Destiny. Flicker, the card, was originally an instant at common. All the cycle went away except Flicker got changed to sorcery and moved to rare. No one at the time but me saw the general utility of it. Luckily, I’m persistent and kept putting it in sets.

Re: prison players. You said "You’re misunderstanding the point of the psychographics. It’s not about what they play, but why. Do they enjoy the rush of doing this, does it allow them to express something about themselves or is it a means to demonstrate what they are capable of?" the why is that it prevents the other players from doing their thing. So T@mmy I guess? But the general image of that archetype is "likes to play big flashy things" and prison usually plays more passive cards

Read this, my follow-up article on the player psychographics that goes into more depth:

Timmy, Johnny, and Spike Revisitedhttps://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/timmy-johnny-and-spike-revisited-2006-03-20-2

If I were to be hired into Wizards R&D right now, how long would it take for me to be caught up to speed on all the future stuff that R&D knows about that the general public does not?

It takes a few days to see it all and usually a month or more to wrap your brain around it.

I think you misunderstood the question about "too many PWs." It wasn't that WAR has too many, but *every* set has too many. Other question asker points out that there are 25+ every year normally, which I agree is too many

That is not the general consensus of the playbase. In fact, the original plans for planeswalker cards was to do them more infrequently, but we upped the number because of audience input.

Sorry to say that but i'm terribly unexcited by the commander 2019 announcement. No teaser art, not even single sentence about its themes. The general lack of informations about the next products is making me bored and uncertain, i don't know if you should keep my money for this summer's magic products or buy something else.

I think the announcements were more to positionally put them on the year’s calendar than tease them. We have a lot of products and if we tease too many at once, it splinters the conversation too much. We will tease the Commander decks closer to their release. We just had the slide show for them, and I’m pretty confident the Commander fans are going to be happy.

How was the second deck from Unstable recieved? Like just the general idea, not necessarily contraptions specifically? If you can separate that reception.

Contraptions were well met, but the extra deck is a huge leap for black border. While we may get there, we’re not currently close to it.

I played Mirrodin block when it was originally released and loved the world building & flavor. I'm curious, what did the general public not like about those aspects of Kamigawa?

From the best we could interpret, it felt odd and unconnected to what they expected from the world.