hi Mark, i'm a little confused about how battles are supposed to be placed. at the prerelease I played, players would cast a battle, place it down in front of me, but then realize they need to read the etb effect and turn it around. I don't need any information on the battle except for its name and the number of counters on it, and its a permanent my opponent owns and controls that doesnt affect any of my permanents. I felt that was most clear when the battle was on its owner's side of the battlefield, text facing them, in front of their creatures or near their life tracker.

Usually you put it on your opponent’s side, so they can easily represent when you’re blocking with creatures.

You responded to a question with your own question, something akin to ‘Are people confused with Disturb and Day/Night being in the same set?’ The answer is yes. Every game I played in my prerelease I had to explain to my opponent that Disturb and Day/Night operate independently. Except for the last guy who understood the rules very well. My question, is there any way to ensure that reminder text isn’t simplified to the point of confusion? Because the Day/Night tracker token was the source of confusion.

In retrospect, we might have not wanted to use the day and night icons on things that weren’t daybound/nightbound even if previously Innistrad sets had.

If or when: cards with a Limited-only drawback, akin to Cogwork Tracker but pushed for constructed?

We can make cards that care about factors that matter more in limited and thus are a bigger drawback, but I don’t see a big future in constructed-legal cards that reference things that are limited-only things like drafting.

If tireless tracker was reprinted in a Zendikar set, would the ability word Landfall be added to the card (assuming landfall was a mechanic in the set)? In other words, are ability words changeable between printings like other italic text?

We can’t do it for keywords. We might be able to do it for ability words.

Hey Mark, quick question. Why doesn't tireless tracker have the keyword Landfall? The ability is basically Landfall - create a clue.

We don’t use non-evergreen keywords/ability words outside of the sets than use them. We just write it out.

So is Tireless Tracker--a mono-green creature that Investigates (a lot like drawing a card) every time you play a land--a bend or a break?

It probably is a break. Green can draw one card but not multiples without being tied to creatures.

"We’ve been making a problem with green draw for a few years where we’ve been disconnecting it from creatures." Is it still allowed enchantresses and land based draw (like Tireless tracker)?

It shouldn’t have land based draw. You always have land, that’s just draw. The occasional Enchantress is probably okay.

How come Tireless Tracker didn't just have "Landfall-Investigate" instead of that paragraph of text? Seems like a lot of work for a small detail.

Vocabulary only makes things easier (for less enfranchised players) when it exists in volume.

Maro, Tireless Tracker basically has Landfall. Why not use it?

We don’t list block keywords in blocks that don’t use that keyword.

Why does Nightfall Predator require red in its activation cost to fight, if Ulvenwald Tracker uses fight in mono green?

Nightfall Predator uses red not because green couldn’t work colorpiewise (because it can), but because development was trying to find a way to keep the power level in check.