I have noticed that in recent sets, white has had a lot of powerful and in my opinion, unbalanced, cards such as All That Glitters, God-Eternal Oketra, Dawn of Hope, Heliod, Sun-Crowned, and multicolored cards like Dream Trawler, Lurrus of the Dream-Den, Teferi, Time Raveler, Winota, Joiner of Forces, and Zenith Flare. Has this been a coincidence, or is there a push in design to make a more powerful card pool for white?

We have been focusing on white as there was a large public outcry about it.

Is Dawn of Hope a bend or break for white?

It’s right on the line between severe bend and break.

I'm trying to build a proof of concept commander deck that works within whites color pie to generate ramp and card advantage it's own way without an pie breaks and I want to make sure I understand what white is allowed. Land ramp is allowed to catch up to others right? And narrow card draw such as Dawn of Hope is only a bend?

It can catch up with others with land and draw with very narrow parameters.

You have mentioned that Dawn of Hope is a part of an experiment. In your opinion what is the current results of that experiment?

I don’t think it’s paving the way to the future.

On the blue being strong & deliver of secrets thing. Blue can overcome its weaknesses by doing what it already does, getting an aggressively costed creature in an instants/sorceries deck. But White can't overcome its weakness with card draw by doing what it already wants to do? I feel like if Mentor of the Meek and Dawn of Hope are considered bonds or breaks, Delver of Secrets should be too.

You’re comparing apples and oranges. Blue’s weakness is not a lack of creatures. All colors get creatures and each gets aggressively costed creatures that play into its strengths. Blue does, by the way have the worst power/toughness ratio to mana cost of any color.

It always seems older cards that played in new / novel design space seem to create the most interest and questions; oubliette in black, dawn of hope in white for example. Is the player based interested in these relics of Magics past a vocal minority, or a bigger group at large?

Players are drawn to cards that let them do something the color doesn’t normally do.

A few of the main reasons white is so wimpy in EDH though is its considerable lack of Landramp and Card Draw, along with a lifegain mechanic that becomes weak when everyone has 40 life. Dawn of Hope tackles some of those problems with card draw and lifeain but... how else can you help it's other flaws? White also has no manner of winning on it's own turn through one spell. it's most common Win Cons are just accumulated value or stuff like felidar sovereign, and that paints a target on you.

We’re actively working on solutions, but it’s about white finding white ways to win, not white acting like other colors.

In response to a color pie question, you said Dawn of Hope wasn't run by the Council of Colors. But in your card story article, you talk about all the debate the Council had about that card. So what really happened?

Sorry. It’s early. I’m tired. I was mistaking Dawn of Hope for Inspiring Commander from the MTG Arena Tutorial. We did talk about Dawn of Hope.

With Mentor of the meek and now Dawn of hope, can white's card draw have a tax of 1 or 2 mana when triggered so that it can't use the card drawn right away most of the time? Anything to help white in commander.

Dawn of Hope was not run through the Color Pie Council. Please don’t see it as a trend of us moving towards card draw for cheap creatures. There’s giant debate if we should have ever printed Mentor of the Meek. EDIT: I’M TIRED AND CONFUSED DAWN OF HOPE WITH INSPIRING COMMANDER.

If Dawn of Hope is a potential pie break, does that mean Well of Lost Dreams was a no-no for doing the same thing in colorless?

Artifacts can do things colors can’t do, usually at a rate that doesn’t undercut a color’s weakness.