Hi Mark,I had a question about Loan Shark from Outlaws of Thunder Junction. It's not a Simic Guardian, so will we be seeing Shark people in a future set, or was it a one-off for the pun?OTJ limited has been quite fun, both flavorwise and mechanically.

Shark people have to be from somewhere. : )

Hey mark. There’s been some discourse the past few days about silliness in magic, brought on by OTJ spoilers, in particular the cards holy cow and loan shark. I would guess that most players like some amount of silliness in magic, even the ones who think they don’t. The issue is that it seems like a lot of people don’t like the baseline being too silly. If there was a card with the creature types ox angel, people would jokingly call it holy cow, without a doubt. Magic players like silly nicknames. Dr. Teeth, Young Peezy, Steve. All cards with normal names that players thought of nicknames for. There’s nothing wrong with some magic cards being jokes or self referential, but when the pun is THIS overt, it can feel like it’s gone too far for some people. Add onto that the fact that some people find the setting or abundance of legends to be somewhat tacky to begin with, and now you’ve made a set where some people feel like magic jumped the shark. Personally, I quite like the plane thunder junction flavorfully, and although it feels heavy on the legends, I can let that go to a degree because of the in universe reason. Holy Cow is definitely too silly for my taste though, and I would guess that’s the case for a lot of the people complaining.I just thought I’d give my perspective on it, and im curious to hear what you might have to say about it

Be aware, there’s an alternate universe where we didn’t name the card Holy Cow, and I have people mad at me that we missed the obvious name. Either choice makes some players unhappy, so we went with the choice that we thought would make the more players happy than unhappy. My poll (here and on Twitter) seems to poinyt towards that we did.