Any thought on that the lack of land destruction means expensive cards that would in past formats be unplayable become staples due to their more powerful effects and by default makes ramp (even temporary like treasures) the key to leveraging these powerful effects and land with useful abilities? Formats with decks built around cards like Aetherworks marvel, Fires of Invention, Wilderness Reclamation, Field of the Dead which can leverage more powerful expensive spells earlier seem to show a gap in development understanding of unintended consequences, any thoughts on that?

There’s an alternate world where decks that keep players from ever playing cards exist and Magic is way lower on net fun. Also, when asking questions of the people that make a game, why not assume that they might know things you don’t rather than presume they’re making mistakes?

Is it disappointing that cards like Fires of Invention and Wilderness Reclamation have been cornerstones of Standard since entering and have kept their dominance over many of the newer cards in sets?

No. Having to make sets where no card can stay relevant for its entire time in Standard would probably be impossible.

Hello Mark! First time Question Mark here. So, who designed fae of wishes and fires of Invention? Those are my two favorite cards in standard right now. They form the basis of a control deck thats different from everything i have played before. Its amazing how you guys reivent this game each expasion!

The first version of Fae of Wishes was created in vision design. I think Fires of Invention was designed during set design. I’m not sure who designed each although there is some chance I made the original Fae of Wishes.