Hi Mark! My birthday was 4/17. I’m 43 now. Can I please get a birthday trivia factoid on either Sliver Hivelord or Sliver Overlord? :)

When we put Slivers in Magic 2014, we didn’t make a five-color Sliver as we’d done with previously Sliver printings. The audience wasn’t happy about that, so we ended up putting one, Sliver Hivelord, in (along with a cycle of Slivers) Magic 2015.Happy Birthday!

Do you think we could see a return of Slivers to a premier set where the bulk of them are reprints? I'm sure a lot of players would like to see the M14 Slivers reprinted with the classic Sliver visual design. This would also solve for the issue of a lack of new space to make new Slivers in a premier set.

It helps solve for the design space issue (although lots of reprints vs. new cards might make some Sliver fans unhappy), but doesn’t handle the structural issue (that it forces a lot if demands into the structure of a set).

Hi Maro! Is Collosal Whale from M14 a break?

Let’s call it a big bend.

I played Magic in 94/95 but left for a time. M14 brought me back in. Reading Blogatog regularly has kept me more engaged, increased my interest and as a result connected me to a great community of people. Thanks for all you do and happy birthday!

Thank you.

High fives to everyone for bringing slivers back, but especially high-fives to the person who first said "let's use the real slivers not the m14 slivers". I love that we're back to the "snake with one arm and beak" design that's so iconicly Sliver

The humanoid Slivers were on Shandalar and appeared in Magic 2014. Magic 2015 had a return to the Rathi/Dominarian ones. The message was pretty clear that the old look was more beloved.

Technically M14 did have a premending walker. Liliana.

Good point. : )

When you said magic 2014 had pre mending walkers, you meant commander 2014 right?

Oops. Yes, I meant Commander 2014.

Will we ever get. Jaya Ballard Planeswalker?

Magic 2014 opened the door to nostalgic pre-Mending planeswalkers, so there’s always a chance.

Regarding Earth in the Multiverse. A quick study of Gatherer reveals 26 cards across 59 printings that reference an IRL William. Faulkner/Yeats/Knox x1 each, Blake x2, and Shakespeare x21 (ref'ing 15 works). Most notable among these is Pay no Heed. The original Torment printing had a unique (if generic) quote while the Magic 2014 printing that came 11 years later and had a quote from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part I. Sir, what are your thoughts?

Magic cards exist on Earth. Real world flavor text doesn’t mean Earth is part of the Magic Multiverse.

What're these new sliver-esque cards people are complaining about? I can't seem to find them?

They are referring to the Slivers from Magic 2014 where we changed their look from the original Tempest shape and made them only affect Slivers you own and not all the Slivers on the battlefield.