CR 702.1c states that "the same is true for" effects apply to each of a keyword's variants separately. 702.11g states that "hexproof from each " is shorthand for one variant of hexproof per possible quality of that characteristic. This means in non-Un games, discarding Breaker of Creation (which has hexproof from each color) to Indominus Rex, Alpha gives five counters and thus draws five cards. How many cards do you draw in an Un game? (In particular, does every eye color count?)

In Un-games, when counting colors, you count the five normal colors plus any color of permanents you have. You have the gold Dragon token from Sword of Dungeons & Dragons, you’re now at six. You also have a brown Avatar of Me, you’re now at seven. You have a pink Teddy bear counter from Gift Shop, you’re now at eight.

Mark! I love love love Gray Merchant of Alphabet! I'm still a bit iffy on this set overall, but I honestly don't think I've been more excited about a Theros reference.If possible, could you please distribute high-fives to any and everyone responsible?

Will do.

Where is the paradise from Birds of Paradise located? Dominaria?

I don’t think we’ve ever specified, but the majority of Alpha is set on Dominaria.

Is there a chance we could see duals that are better than shocks in a supplemental set to make older formats that rely on alpha duals more accessible?

I think the shock lands are about as good of a dual land as we want to print.

“When I say I don’t think they’re good for Magic that includes I don’t think they’re good for Commander.” - What makes you say this? For other formats, your justification is that it makes it easy to play too many colors but commander color identity solves that problem. Also, the battlebond lands are very similar to original duels and they haven’t caused problems.

What does color identity have to do with it? The Alpha dual lands make it to easy to play multiple colors in decks with lots of colors.

Hi Mark, I just wanted to ask why is it that green gets regrowth effects and black has raise dead? Ignoring flavour because you can justify anything with it, green is the creature centric colour so it just seems philosophy wise it should be limited to raise dead effects rather than regrowth. Is this a grandfathered choice?

That’s just a choice grandfathered in from Alpha.

Without any payoff for them being artifacts/enchantments in the set(like being colorless), having creatures die in limited to a naturalize effect due to flavor seems a bit too arbitrary for my tastes.

But then dying to other specific qualities (power/toughness, creature type, CMC, etc.) is okay? Since Alpha, you could Shatter an artifact creature. I don’t see why Demystifying an enchantment creature is any different.

Personally, if the question is "colored artifacts or less artifacts in general", I'd go with less artifacts. I don't think edging artifacts on to enchantments design space makes for a better game.

They’ve overlapped significantly since Alpha. Colored artifacts have been a thing since 2008 (technically the first one was 2007). I think this change is more psychological than practical. And we wouldn’t make this change if we didn’t feel strongly it was better for the game.

A few of the playtest cards work within the rules and have reasonable names and textboxes, like Wizened Arbiter and Noxious Bayou. In theory, if Wizards decided to print these cards in an actual set, could they be printed exactly as-is text-wise?

In theory, yes. I think you are overestimating what is reasonable. I tried making Noxious Bayou as a blue/black dual land as part of my futureshifted land cycle in Future Sight, and the play design response was “hard pass”. Too much of the time it’s just an Alpha dual land with extra tracking.

Hey Mark, it's my birthday, could you tell me a fun fact of any kind about Magic? ☺

The Alpha card Scavenging Ghoul has exact five vowels - a,e,I,o, and u, in alphabetical order.Happy Birthday!