Why didnt you do all the rings in lord of the rings? Gandalf and galdriel both had rings but you only did the one ring. It's called lord of the rings plural so I wanted more rings. You only did the one ring. I wanted ring kindred

We did do all the rings. A number of them were Sol Ring variants in the Collector Boosters.

If you ever made another un set is there any chance you'd add a The List to it?

Unfinity basically had an Un-List, although it might have only been in the Collector Boosters.

I don't like the argument that because original Oko is at a higher rarity on a bonus sheet, it's impact in Limited is minimal so it's fine.

Not everyone plays on Magic Arena and does Limited events dozens of times. Some people only play Limited in paper a couple times or at a pre-release and it's extremely discouraging when the one or two times you play limited, you get bodied by a notoriously OP card that isn't even a mechanically new card.

Magic makes numerous different products, various products where they can reprint cards that aren't also used for Limited (i.e. collector boosters, FNM promos, Secret Lair, pre-constructed Commander decks) or even high powered reprint Masters sets that can be drafted.

I don't see why Oko needed to be in the Play Boosters and I thought the same about Ragavan in March of the Machine. If it's thematically important to release the reprint associated with the set, then why not just do it in collector boosters?

One thing I don't like about all of these bonus sheets is it means in nearly every limited environment with them, the best and most powerful cards are oftentimes old cards that I'd played with or against rather than the new cards I want to be excited for.

Let’s see what the Question Mark’s think about this specific topic.

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Hi Mark,
Is it possible to reduce the variety of rare lands that come out of Commanders of the same set?
I bought the Doctor Who Collector Booster Box that is full of them and this inhibits me from buying the Fallout collector booster box, because I would find the same lands (too many) of the Doctor Who edition with different art, instead of the new cards created ad hoc.
50 rare lands are an obstacle that will stop me from buying the next UB collectors too. Is there a way to drastically reduce this number? Thanks

Land design is one of the most restricted veins. In addition, there is a lot of demand for more printings of certain lands. Those two factors combined push us doing more repeat lands in Commander products.

Any card that is printed foil only in a commander deck can and should be printed plain in collector boosters. Same goes for other alt treatments. Mmkay?

Two issues: 1) Not every product has a collector booster associated with it. 2) When we ask collector booster buyers if they want nonfoil collector cards in the collector boosters, the large majority say they do not.

Can I request that for future universes beyond commander precons with collector boosters, the double sided tokens in the boosters match sides with the ones in the precons? I’m keeping 4 decks to play together and got a special Deckbox with 4 token compartments, but some of the foil tokens are tokens for 2 different decks. It’s a small problem but it is a bit inconvenient.

I can pass the request along.

If draft boosters weren't selling well outside draft, wouldn't the easiest solution be to just print less draft boosters and print more set/collector boosters?

That’s what we were doing. The problem is there’s a point where the number dips low enough that it’s not financially viable to print it. That’s the direction we were headed, and the cause of us making the switch.

What are your thoughts on magic these past few years? For many years the formula has barely ever changed, but in the past 5 or so years we've seen that formula shift multiple times a year. Set Boosters, the List, Commander Precons with every set, Collector Boosters, Universes Beyond, Serialized chase cards, more sets in a year than fingers on a hand, Theme Boosters, Jumpstart Set Boosters, now Play Boosters. It looks like all of the sudden it got so chaotic and has been everchanging since.

We kept changing up how three-set blocks got put together, then we changed two two-set blocks, then to the three-and-one model, then we changed from the design & development model to the exploratory design/vision design/set design/play design model, then we moved to the flexible set model. All of that was over five years ago. Magic throughout its history has constantly been in flux. What parts are changing evolves over time, but there is no point where Magic isn’t constantly reinventing itself.

Hi Mark,I'm a huge Magic fan! So much so that my fiance and I are making our own card game and taking inspiration from things we enjoy about playing Magic together. I enjoy collecting alternate art treatments, and my favorite format is limited. However, I am concerend about the collapsing of set and draft boosters. Was there any consideration regarding replacing or combining set and collector boosters instead of set and draft boosters? Because in my mind, those are products that fill a more similar role in that they a) are not draftable and b) offer alternative art treatments. To me, it seems like set boosters were a more affordable way to get certain treatments and offered a better value per pack than collector boosters. So why did Wizards instead decide to combine set and draft boosters, which have never fit the same niche? Why not just have one product for alternate arts and one for draft? That way, you would not have to fundamentally redesign how you make sets. Further, do you think that you would ever go back to making just draft boosters if, based on data and player feedback, limited play and set design suffer in the long term from this fundamental change? Thank you.

As I spell out in my article today, the issue was draft boosters were in danger of going away. Players preferred set boosters because they feel they were better value, and it became harder and harder for stores/regions to justify getting draft boosters. This was having a huge impact on players ability to play limited which we feel is an important part of the play experience. Combining set boosters and collector boosters would have done nothing to solve this problem.

Where can the special guest cards be opened? Are they like a bonus sheet? Or are they exclusive to certain boosters?

They are in the set boosters and collector boosters for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.