FYI: Magic already has some psionic vampires: Moroii and Szadek, lord of secrets from Ravnica: city of guilds; Mirko Vosk from Dragon's maze; Duskmantle seer from Gatecrash; and Jeleva, Nephalia's scourge from Commander 2013. All of them are Dimir colours, except Jeleva, who is in Grixis colours.

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in your podcast about not designing just to prove you mention it's important to design for your target audience. Would you say that the inclusion of True-Name Nemesis, which is a mediocre multiplayer card but an eternal staple was a mistake in Commander 2013?

Yes, I do believe in retrospect it was a mistake.

Why did Commander 2013 not have new two-colour legendaries when the first Commander set did?

Because each year we’re trying to make the product a little different.

Given that the Grixis Commander deck is incredibly expensive online and scarcely found in retail stores for MSRP due to this fact, are there any plans to rectify this so that actual Commander players can get their hands on it more readily?

There is a second printing coming of Commander 2013 decks.

I'm a part of the playerbase that loved Time Spiral and complex Magic in general, and while I'm glad that we get some love with supplemental products, there's nothing quite like an expert expansion. Modern Masters and Commander 2013 were great, but almost everything there was a reprint. Is there any hope of something more like an expert set for us?

The expert sets are for everyone so we have to make them for everyone. There are complicated things in each set and a deep draft environment for players like yourself but if we made a Modern Masters-level complex expert set, we would lose a lot of the audience and that’s not something we wish to do.

I recently witnessed another player "blame" you for True-Name Nemesis. But if I recall correctly you did not contribute to Commander 2013. Am I right?

That is correct. I neither made the card or even worked on the product it appears in. As official scapegoat, it is though completely my fault. : )

Knowing what you know now, is it possible for you to do the next printing of Commander 2013 with twice as many of the Mind Seize deck, or does the way everything is laid out at the printer lock you in to producing the same number of each deck?

I’m pretty sure we are locked into doing it the same way as the first printing.

Is there an intentional downsizing in complexity/power level for Theros? I started playing right before Theros and after playing Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 and Commander 2013 decks I really have an appreciation of the smattering of interesting mechanics and complexity that I find Theros currently lacks.

I love how I get to defend one day how Theros isn’t too complex and the next day how it isn’t too simple. : )

"Mostly no because we tend to use codenames that don’t do the best job of hiding what the supplemental set is." What was Commander 2013's codename?

C13. Not so exciting nor hides its identity.

My LGS (who looks to me like they have a monopoly on shipping MTG here in my country since other shops get product from them) is selling Commander 2013 as sets: all 5 decks for roughly $175. They didn't allow preorders, didn't have a price til Nov 1, and will only sell the product on Nov 6. Price is okay and I get why they sell it as a package, but having no preorders is pretty rough because I really want the product. Can something be done so that preorders are always allowed?

That is not something we have control over.