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.

Did Bloomburrow ever have more Equipment that it does right now? Between Blacksmith's Talent and the Valiant mechanic, I'd imagine it would be easier to drop a few more Equipment in the set for increased synergy.

The set had a lot to fit in. There’s a good chance set design tried a larger as-fan of equipment at some point.

I absolutely love the Offspring and Valiant mechanics from Bloomburrow! What is the chance we see these effects again in other sets?

Success breeds repetition.

FYI on May 16th I asked that given how disguise reworks morph and the dev issues with heroic, what would you consider changing to rework heroic. You replied “there is an upcoming set that answers that very question”. I presumed you were referring to a Marvel set, but qanadhar left a comment certain it was Bloomburrow. Just some of the fun foreshadowing of Blogatog. :)(I presume there’s an article or podcast that explains the rework soon?)

Next week’s article talks about the mechanics. Short version: heroic looked into allowing abilities, but there existed things you could repeatedly activate for 0, so we left it off. Valiant added abilities back in to help it trigger more, and used the once a turn restriction to deal with the problem interactions.

Valiant feels pretty bad when Heroic exists.... I'd rather have an ability with a little less punch that I get every time.

Valiant will trigger more times per game than heroic in most decks.

We've seen very few cards as of yet, but are the following mechanics exclusive to their faction: Valiant (Mice), Thresold (Rats), Expend (Racoons), Forage (Squirrels)? Or can we expect to see at least a little of (some of) them in more colors?

Those four mechanics are unique to one animal archetype.

How does More or Less interact with cards like Valiant Effort if we make it roll three D6? Thank you.

I assume you mean Valiant Endeavor. You choose one die for the first effect and then choose a different die for the second effect.

Why does Valiant Changling have the cap of 5 for its cost reduction when it costs 5WW?

Because you can only reduce the generic mana part and that’s 5.

Fun fact: today is mine and Mozart's birthday! Any trivia about Magic and music? Or failing that any awesome trivia about you, Mark?

Here’s a story about my musical ability. I was once in a musical as a chorus member. I auditioned with the song “High Hopes” and surprisingly was one of just a handful of people to get cast. During the many rehearsals, the musical director tried valiantly to improve my singing. Just before the show opened, he took me aside and said that he thought from my audition that I had potential as a singer, but it turns out I didn’t. He then told me it would be okay if I just mouthed the words. Happy Birthday!

You tried valiantly to stop it, Maro, but I think "flip card" has come to mean "double-faced card." As a lover of language and not fighting human nature, you should appreciate this. Now what do we call the Kamigawa flip cards?

I will not give up the fight. “Flip cards” are the Kamigawa cards.