May 1st will mark the beginning of my 42nd trip around the sun. Now that I am 41, I would like to invoke birthday trivia on the boy I call my son, Fblthp.

Fblthp was a happy accident. Here’s the art description for Totally Lost from Gatecrash:Color: Blue spell (unguilded) Location: Streets of Ravnica Action: A little Homonculus is lost amidst a sea of feet on a busy Ravnican street. Focus: The lost homunculus. Mood: Poor little guy. His flavor text would give him a name (Homunculus don’t have vowels in their name). The audience began memes with him almost immediately. Seeing his popularity, we’ve put him in other art, made cards for him, made plushies out of him, and just embraced the joy that is Fblthp.Happy Birthday!

Do You guys keep reprinting totally lost because it’s at a good spot in limited or so you keep reprinting it cause you know the fans will love it?

“Why not both?”

The latest RNA story mentions a homunculus signing, but I thought that the use of sign language was unique to the homunculi of Kylem because they do not have mouths. Going by cards like Totally Lost and Doorkeeper, the homunculi on Ravnica do have mouths. Could you clarify this please?

Having a mouth doesn’t mean you can necessarily speak. There are mute humans, for example.

How do you pronounce Fblthp, as in Fblthp from Totally Lost?

Fibblethip.

With magic trying to accommodate more different kinds of players now, is there a chance we'll see more 'cute' cards like totally lost or Hedron crab going forward? In other TCGs you can make entire decks around them but in magic they are virtually non-existent and i feel the game is a lotless interesting by their absence.

You can build decks around “cute” cards just not Standard decks. We do “cuteness” is small increments but in twenty-two years we’ve done a lot.

So how Is Fblthp doing? Still totally lost?

Still totally lost.

I found the hidden Fblthp in Conspiracy! Did you know about this? Because I am so happy Wizards engages with its fan in ways like this. Please add more Fblthp hidden in every set.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I’m totally lost. : )

I was looking at the old Tales from the Pit comics and noticed something on #213. You had examples of many bad ideas and Artifact Enchantments were among them. Since that came true when can we expect a top-down design based on your college dating life?

Have you not seen Totally Lost? : )

I am a huge fan of Fblthp, the homonculus depicted on the card Totally Lost. From reading some of the posts here and talking to people at my local game shop, it seems that fblthp has quite a following for a character used in a one-of flavor text joke. Have any other minor characters or cards gotten such a large following in the past?

Yes. Prodigal Sorcerer had quite a following early on. As did Stuffy Doll from Black Vise. There have always been fan favorites.

Any chance you would be able to share the art description behind "Totally Lost"? Did the flavor (and name) come after the art, or was in the other way around?

If it followed the normal procedure, the art description would be finalized before the name. The playtest name, which sometimes ends up as the final name, might influence the art description.