Hello Mark! My birthday was on the 3rd, but it's been a busy few days so I'm just now cashing in my birthday trivia!Do you have any trivia on Grove of the Burnwillows? Or perhaps Future Sight as a whole?

Grove of the Burnwillows was part of my cycle of cycles dual land cycle, where each futureshifted dual land represented a whole cycle of dual lands. Grove of the Burnwillows was made as an anti-pain land (aka the Ice Age dual lands), where the cost was the opponent gaining a life instead of you losing one. Happy Belated Birthday!

I've been thinking about what I want my birthday question to be for a while (because I know it's trivia but come on), and I think I finally came up with something.If/When: MORE FUTURESHIFTS?...I guarantee this has already been asked but idc it's my birthday let me have this

We always look at Future Sight when making new sets, but it gets harder and harder to find appropriate spots. I don’t think we’re done yet.

Hi Mark. How often do those in charge of making cards/mechanics for a set visit the unused cards left from future sight? And how many in the future frame are left unused or unusable due to, for example, being too wonky?

Most set leads will take a peek at the futureshifted cards. As time goes on, the pickings get slimmer and slimmer. Some are pretty wonky, or have an odd mix of creative and mechanics.

Hi Mark! I'd like to request more thematic futureshifted cards as special guests. With Play Boosters, this would still affect limited, but maybe at an ok frequency.

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking for.

if or when: seeing again a enchantment that has to tap to activate an effect

If. We were messing with things we don’t normally do in future shifted cards. Artifacts and enchantments are mechanically similar enough. I don’t see a reason to remove one of the few differences. I never say never though, so maybe the right design in the right world will have us reconsider.

Was the Future Sight futureshifted frame made tongue-in-cheek, or was there real consideration that the design could be the framing for magic cards in the distant future?

A lot of thought went into it, but there were never any plans to actually move to it.

You've said that designers regularly look at the futureshifted sheet for pre-prints they can print. How often do you (personally and collectively) look for Un-cards that could be given functional reprints (or at least substantially the same card functionality) that now work in normal rules?

That’s not nearly as fruitful a subset as you think.

If you would have to pick a mechanic from Future Sight that went unused since that had the most shot of returning unchanged, which one would it be?

I’ve got not just one article on that, but three:

Back to the Future Sight

Back to the Future Sight, Part 2

Back to the Future Sight, Part 3

Hi Mark, can we get some insight on why Graven Cairns is the only one from the futureshifted dual lands that has gotten its cycle completed? Are the other 4 not good enough in terms of current gameplay or have they just not found their place to be made?

Those Future Sight dual land were us being pretty experimental. Not all of them are getting cycled.

Can we get more cards like Spellweaver volute that enchant things aside from permanents and players? Animate dead doesn’t count

Spellweaver Vollute is one of those futureshifted cards that kind of works, but really doesn’t want a lot pushing on that area of the rules.