I didn't realize expressing love for a long-time favourite character I was hoping would come back soon would be so controversial and cause you a flood of more asks. Sorry about that.

Don’t worry. Blogatog is all about topics ebbing and flowing. You created discussion. That’s a good thing.

In your article "Starting Over" you expressed a wish that magic had from the start had flavorful supertypes like Fire and Water. (But it was too late now to add them) Given the recent desert subtype debate here, do you still believe that would be a good thing, or would it be adding confusing extra words?

If we had it to start over, I’d make subtypes a more involved part of the game. That’s not the world we are currently in though.

Regarding Dawn of Hope: I like the idea of card draw being enabled for all colors in ways that matter to them. Blue should always be best at card draw, of course, conditional or otherwise, but if rewarding White with cards for doing something White likes to do, like gaining life, brings it up to par with at LEAST Red, if not Green and Black, I think that's a good thing.

The problem is white is the color with all the answers and its weakness is supposed to be it doesn’t always have the answer it needs meaning it’s supposed to be the worst at card drawing.

You keep bringing up capitalism as a black-aligned moral good but I think that's a really bad example. Capitalism is only good for the rich and powerful, and its by no means a meritocracy. Given two people with the same disability that renders them unable to work, the one born rich will have the better quality of life. I can see why black loves it - if it succeeds there's the assumption it deserved to and that others didn't, but that's not a good thing.

There are plenty of positive stories about people who applied themselves and succeeded because the opportunities capitalism provides, opportunities they might never have gotten in other places. Everyone having an opportunity to succeed is a positive black thing.

Can I request that we get more stories of Planeswalkers igniting their Sparks through positive experiences? Nearly every Planeswalker whose Ignition story we know are of a negative experience; with Samut being one of the small number (if not the only one) that ignited from a good thing rather than bad.

Sparking tends to require stress and that more often comes from negative experiences than positive ones. It’s kind of like why most of the X-men stories of mutations triggering are tied to traumatic events.

So does being bored to tears by today's article mean it's a good thing not to have applied for the internship?

I truly believe that you frame your own world by the attitude you exude. Being negative to other people just increases the negativity in your own life. I strongly urge you to try just one day of positivity and see how it makes you feel. Search for the good in life rather than always leaning on a cynical outlook. I swear it’s the first step to being happier.

Wanted to let you know something - I am in the OGPC (Oregon Game Project Challenge) and in the scoring guide for 2017, one of the marks you can score on is called "Blogatog". Thought it was cool, and that you should know.

I hope it’s a good thing. : ) Thanks for letting me know.

How did you react when Kaladesh was announced and the very first thing people did was speculate strongly that contraptions would be in it?

There are numerous reasons I think Contraptions are a poor fit for Kaladesh, but one I haven’t talked about is when Kaladesh design started, Unstable already had Contraptions in it and did it in such a cool way that black border isn’t ready for yet that it was never even a real option for Kaladesh. I saw excitement for Contraptions as a good thing as it meant there was demand for them which could only help Unstable.

I disagree that Liliana saving Innistrad makes her morally grey. She only did that to get the rest of the gatewatch on her side, so that she could use and manipulate them. Why should we root for Liliana?

She did a good thing for selfish reasons. Morally grey.

Being unable to play dragons seems a small price for the positive impact Hornet Queen had on Standard, whatever offences it may have committed against the colour pie. It enabled monogreen devotion and green-red ramp decks (some with their own dragons) that were otherwise unable to answer cards like Elspeth, and was key to the Sultai Whip archetype. Above all, it did a lot to help keep Abzan in check as the hornets blocked Rhinos and Rocs, preventing the best deck from becoming truly oppressive.

And it allowed green to dominate the air in an environment of large fliers, something green isn’t supposed to do, so no it wasn’t a good thing, it undermined the core construct of the game, something that if done too much will break Magic.