First, I want to say I really like Thunder Junction more than I thought I would. It could end up being my favorite set this year. Great job to you and the team! Second, back in AFR, the commander precons had a humanoid adventurer face commander and a monster alt commander. I thought that was really cool because I'm a big fan of monsters and weird creatures and love building decks with them as the commander. Magic has some really great monsterous creature types that are underrepresented as legendary creatures. I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I'd love for one humanoid and one beast/monster commander to be the norm for precon design. The Grand Larceny, Desert Bloon, and Quick Draw precons are great examples of this. Having Yuma, Gonti, and Stella Lee as the humanoid face commanders and Kirri Talented Sprout, Felix Five Boots, and Eris Roar of the Storm as the more monstrous alt commanders.
I bring this up because I was really hoping for something a little more monsterous for the Most Wanted precon alt commander. Like a Skeleton or Nightmare or Horror or Minotaur, or Bird. Something along those lines would be really interesting with one of the outlaw creature types. Instead, we got a Dwarf. Vihaan Goldwaker is a great card, don't get me wrong. I just wish that every precon could have alt commanders that are a little more "out there" in terms of creature type usage instead of another human or dwarf or elf, etc. What are your thoughts on this?

My thoughts are there’s some one out there who loves Dwarves who’s super happy because we made a Dwarf card for them. I hear you that you’d like more non-humanoid legendary creatures, and that is something we’re dedicated to doing, as evidenced by the decks you did enjoy, but there’s a lot of player desires to meet, which means we need to spread the love a bit.

just wanted to send appreciation for the tanuki representation in neon dynasty - it was the one thing i most wanted (a little specific, i know) and didn’t expect it as they weren’t present before! very much enjoyed!

Happy to hear that.

Jump start was the set I most wanted to play in person this year, more so than even things like masters drafts, but had the least ability to. Obviously this timing is out of control, but even if jump start 2 isn't green lit or is going to be 3 years because design time etc., do you see a world where a second wave of jump start is printed in say a year's time to allow people to enjoy it the way it was intended?

We haven’t stopped releasing Jumpstart.

Current favorite member of gatewatch: Nissa. Most wanted new addition: Tibalt (i admit its a stretch)

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How did Announcement Day go over? I found that it removed a lot of the joy in seeing those announcements spread over time and also made each announcement on Announcement Day seem less special.

I would love input on Announcement Day as it’s something we’re planning to keep doing, so any feedback on how to improve them is most wanted.

since someone brought up bizzar-alara, will we ever be able to say a return to Alara? I know there's probably a list of many places people want to refer to (which is only growing, i'm sure), does alara get much want when talking about potential return-to sets? Is there any market research about which returns are most wanted that you can share with us?

Let’s do some research. Okay Question Marks, do you want to return to Alara? If so, with distinct shards or all mixed together?