Hello Mark, regarding your white mana symbol question: Prismatic Ward (and Fylgja, the other white promo from Ice Age) were printed in the set with the old symbol. There's an Ask Wizards from January 2007 from Kelly Digges that I linked in the earlier post; as he put it, "having all printed copies of a given card match was viewed as more important than consistency within the set." For years the only online images available were later mockups with the new symbol though!

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Mark, I was just looking back at old articles, and I just realized that Knight of the Widget's flavor text was a Space the Convergence reference! You sly dog!

Kelly Digges was both in charge of Unstable flavor text and wrote the Space: The Convergence article.

An FYI to curious Question Marks. Kelly Digges answered at great length the complications with having tribal be a supertype and even touched the subject of what it would be like if subtypes weren't associated with card types. They can google the Ask Wizards of May 17, 2007.

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It took me a while, but I finally figured out what the Drone creature type means mechanically (Devoid creature that is not a Processor). Have you guys explained this anywhere yet?

Kelly Digges has on Twitter.

It's nice that we're getting Uncharted Realms about cards found in the new Modern Masters. Helps to make it feel like it's contributing to the overall mythos despite being a supplemental set. Getting a piece of Kamigawa fiction was a nice surprise as well.

I’ll pass along the kind words to Kelly Digges who oversees the column.

Nahiri is fantastic, and so is the story. Much thanks to the creative team and Kelly Digges. I noticed that she is very similar in appearance to Stoneforge Mystic, and not just by being a female Kor, but also her clothes, haircut, and abilities. They are so similar it seems beyond coincidence. Is Stoneforge Mystic supposed to represent Nahiri in some way?

dougbeyermtg:

Nahiri was part of a tradition of kor stoneforgers — powerful mages who forge weapons from stone — and that tradition still exists on Zendikar today (which we know as the card Stoneforge Mystic). Nahiri’s (awesome) art by Eric Deschamps was definitely modeled on the art of Worldwake’s Stoneforge Mystic. Nahiri, the Lithomancer art by Eric Deschamps Nahiri’s title of “the Lithomancer” relates to this same tradition of stoneforging, and her talents in crafting with stone contributed to the trapping of the Eldrazi on Zendikar along with Ugin and Sorin. In short, Nahiri is the creator of Zendikar’s hedrons. More in “The Lithomancer” by Kelly Digges: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/ur/lithomancer-2014-10-29 Art by Igor Kieryluk

For those that are curious about “the lithomancer”. Also, Doug answers the Stoneforge Mystic question.

Where can I direct my feedback on Uncharted Realms passages? I want to show my praise for "Kiora's Followers" and encourage the inclusion of Planeswalker actions like Planeswalking, mana tapping, and summoning specific creatures. A happy reader am I.

I can pass along the message to the creative team and Kelly Digges, the author of the story.

Did anyone at Wizards dress up for Halloween?

Yes. The Pit even had two Doctors (from Doctor Who), the tenth and eleventh.  (Gavin Verhey was the tenth and Kelly Digges was the eleventh.)

Ibought the first 5 batchs of duel decks, but I stoped buying them because I didn't have much fun playing them. I bought again IvG for the tournament caliber cards in it and for alters for my Cube. I played a few games with my girlfriend on its release and since we played them every evening, because the decks are a blast to play, fun, balanced, and really hard (but rewarding) to master. I think I'll need to buy a second box for the cards. Could you please pass my thanks to those responsible?

I will do. I believe it was a combination of Chris Millar, Mark Gottlieb and Kelly Digges.

Have you ever considered including the respective card designer's name on cards? I think it would encourage collecting cards based on the designer just how people might collect music based on the musician and people would begin constructing MaRo decks.

Design credits are not so clear cut. Much of the time, many hands can be involved in the design of a card. Also, it’s not always obvious who made a particular card since there is a lot of parallel design going on.  For example, I was trying for years to get Bestial Menace in the game. It eventually made it into a set, one I was on the design team on, yet it was turned in by Kelly Digges who had no idea that I had written about it in a column nine years earlier.