With the caveat that you're not a power level guy, what's your gut feel on Lightning Bolt having another chance in Standard now the format has more sets and more power generally?

I’m skeptical. It really warps the environment.

Hey Mark, I've been seeing you get a lot of "passionate responses" to the Kamigawa reveal. Ehile the OG Kamigawa sets came out before I started playing MtG, they were the driving force as to why I started playing. Knowing that the set wasn't the best selling/ received well at the time. I didn't think we'd return. Tuesdays announcement brought me joy. I understand that some of the things that made me love Kamigawa, might not return, and while that will upset me. I understand. I cannot wait for that spoiler season to start. Thank you for giving Kamigawa another chance!
Also, can we get a hint if a certain "Good boy" will be referenced?

We don’t return to worlds without trying to make fans of the world happy. I’m not saying we always succeed on every vector, but a lot of Kamigawa love was put into Neon Dynasty.

Maro, how come Teferi is gaining another chance to use his spark, and my favourite plenswalker of all times Venser is dead for good? I'm just sad now :(

Terferi lost his spark. Venser died. One is easier to undo.

Whilst not all legends should be a top-down design, would you agree that not making Ludevic top-down was a mistake?

Here’s the problem. We made the Partner mechanic which required a lot of mechanical structure. That meant the cards were designed bottom up and not top down.The cards had to be legendary because of the requirement to be commanders, so we had two options: Make up completely new characters or try to see if we could find existing characters that hadn’t yet gotten a card that made some sense with the existing designs.Previous Commander products told us players really like when we reference existing characters, so we set out to try and match characters to the designed cards. This is tricky as you don’t have the fine control you have with top down designs.Should we have saved any characters until we could have done them as top down designs? Maybe. There’s a strong case that Ludevic might have been one in that category.But I imagine a parallel world where we chose to do less existing characters so we could save them for a future top down design, and people are complaining that we didn’t have enough “known” legendary characters.“Why haven’t you done __________ ?” Is a very common question here. If we had saved Ludevic for a future time, that might be many years from now.Designing Magic is hard because so many people want different things and trying to juggle them all so you make as many people as happy as you can is difficult. I hear that many of you Imagined Ludevic as being a top down design and maybe with 20/20 hindsight, that would have been the correct call, but we didn’t have that hindsight when we’re making things.Players had said they wanted a Ludevic card and we had an opportunity to make one, and we knew another chance was most likely years away, so we took the opportunity. The reason I constantly seek feedback is so we can learn. If we did something differently than you wanted us to, tell me, so I can get a sense when we made a mistake (or did something correct) and can adjust accordingly in the future.

Would you consider giving chroma another chance or devotion came to stay?

Devotion is the new chroma. : )

So what are your thoughts about the YMTC results so far?

I’m always interested to see what the public chooses when given decisions. I’m using YMTC as another chance to learn about our audience. I’m not sure quite what we’ve learned yet as I haven’t had the time to examine the results more closely.