Back in commander 2017 O-kagachi was the legend I was most hype for due to spirit tribal but it doesn’t have a synergy or lord ability for spirits so If or when: a new legend or second version of O-kagachi is 5 color that actually a spirit tribal legend?

I often talk about my desire for stripping the rules from the legendary supertype. That’s always met with a majority opinion not to do that. Well, one of the side effects of keeping it, is there are certain conflicts that push us away from making things legendary because of it. One of the biggest things is tribal effects.If a tribal card is designed so you’d want to have multiples in play at once, there’s a disincentive to make it legendary as it would prevent the card from functioning at its maximum capacity. Not all tribal effects stack and sometimes we throw Commander a tribal bone, but this is the tension with legendary tribal creatures.That said, if we make a new O-kagachi I’ll pass along the request for Spirit tribal.

In recent DTW you said Dominaria set's tribal wizard theme came out because of twitter's head-to-head result. Is head-to-head also the cause of Commander 2017's wizard? I always thought Dominaria's wizards type is closely related with Commander 2017's one.

I put the Wizard theme in. It was directly inspired by the Head-to-Head results.

Hi Mark, I normally forget to ask for Birthday Trivia but I remembered this year! I was wondering if you had anything for Licia?

Lucia came about because Commander 2017 saw the opportunity of a red/white/black Vampire deck to allow players to combine the black/red Vampire of Innistrad with the white/black Vampires of Ixilan. Licia was designed as a top down red/white/black Vampire. Happy Birthday!

Was Teferi's protection in commander 2017 meant to seed the idea of Teferi coming back?

Yes. : )

In R&D, did anyone have any reservations about having Commander 2017 have a tribal theme so close to Ixalan?

No, we liked the thematic synergy.

What cool things have you learned from your Twitter brackets?

Gavin just revealed that Wizards doing well in the first Head-to-Head encouraged him to make it one of the deck choices for Commander 2017.

I noticed all four of the Commander 2017 tribes were in your Top 20 Creature Types podcast. Coincidence?

: )

I know you didn't have too much to do with commander 2017 (to my knowledge) but there is something that I would be eternally grateful if you could help shed some light on the reasoning and design process. That question is why does Edgar Markov have nothing related with gaining life? The card itself could simply be B/R and no one would bat an eye. Flavor wise it's even more of a mystery seeing as every single iteration of Sorin, who is his own grandson, has something to do with life gain.

Sorin is his own man. : )

We've now seen that Commander 2017 has Phasing, *and* pseudo-storm. Is this the biggest upset we'll see to the storm scale in this set, or should we brace ourselves for a card with "Bands with Other"?

Again, the Storm Scale is for Standard-legal sets.

An earlier mark made me wonder - has the full Commander 2017 lineup been announced? I'm trying to figure out what colors and tribes the decks will be, but all I can find is GW cats and WUBRG dragons.

Stay tuned. Each day is showing off a new deck.