If blue can't transform a PW into a beast, is Imprisoned in the Moon a color pie break, or can blue transform Planeswalkers into lands? What other permanent types can blue transform them into?

Imprisoned in the Moon was a major bend for a big story point. It’s not something blue does with any regularity.

With Nissa's Defeat, every color can destroy Planeswalkers with spells in standard. G, B, U(Imprisoned in the Moon) directly, W (O-ring effects, Sweepers), R burn spells. Does this fit in your vision of the color pie?

Green could already destroy planeswalkers although the cards tended to say “noncreature permanent”. Blue is the bend that shouldn’t happen very often.

Does the council of colors ever disagree with you about an effect? Like with Imprisoned in the Moon or Song of the Dryads? Is that how those cats made it to print? If there is a disagreement, is there a procedure for who has final say?

There are disagreements, but we have a system to resolve issues.

What color Should Imprisoned in the Moon have been in? Would it have been Green a la Song of the Dryads?

Green shouldn’t have had Song of the Dryads. It’s a break in green.

Is imprisoned in the moon a color pie break? Blue turning threats into different threats is established, but turning threats into non-threats(lands) seems like it might not quite fit

It’s a pretty severe bend we allowed because it was the climax of the story. I’m not a fan of the card.

You said, "One of green’s biggest weakness is being unable to kill creatures without using its own creatures to do so. A creatureless green deck should be unable to answer troublesome creatures. Arachnid Web does exactly that and thus is a pretty major break." — What about Lignify, which turns a troublesome creature into a harmless one? If that's okay, could Imprisoned in the Moon be color-shifted into green?

Regular readers know I also consider Lignify a color pie break for green.

Also, I'd like to give props to the story team for making the "spoiled" plot points from the cards (anguished unmaking, imprisoned in the moon) different when they come along in the story than they actually seemed on the card. I don't normally read the story, but reading those two articles was worth it because i came away with a different perception on the block than i had before i read them. Well done.

I’ll pass along your kind words.

I was really hyped to find out the "truth" behind Innistrads madness and I was REALLY into the story right up until Imprisoned in the Moon was spoiled. I have not kept up since. I assume curiosity will get the better of me and I'll read them at some point, but I REALLY don't like getting key story elements out of context. Where in market research do my feelings fall?

The story team has made a lot of changes in the last few years about how we tell story, so it’s tricky tracking the impact of individual elements.Here’s what we do know. Story is up. *Way* up. A lot more people are both paying attention to story and are aware of the story. I think your issue has to do with the latter.For many years, we pulled the story out of the cards because we wanted the story to not be spoiled. The end result was that most players simply didn’t know the story.Since we’ve put it back in, awareness is significantly up and we attribute a good portion of our current success to the fact that the players are now more aware that the story exists. So, to answer your question, to the best of our ability to interpret the market research and other data, yes it is working and working very well.

At my pre-release, zero Emrakuls were Imprisoned in the Moon, but several Tamiyo's were. What gives?

No story purists in your store? : )

Given the existence of Song of the Dryads, the presence of Nissa on the art, and the new Tamiyo's green splash, why was Imprisoned in the Moon made blue? The article for it made it seem like it was primarily a development / meta decision. Back to cards such as Phantasmal Terrain and the Laces, I've enjoyed effects that modify the fundamental characteristics of objects. So, I'm interested in understanding where design places "turns things into lands" in the color pie?

Song of the Dryads was a color pie break. Nissa’s presence in the art is inconsequential. And Tamiyo is primarily Blue. that’s why not Green. Note the card is a color pie bend in Blue but it would be an outright break in Green.