Re: PoisonIt has a problem in Commander (or any other free-for-all format) where normally only one player is using it, so the other players aren't contributing to their win condition (unlike damage.) So the best case scenario for the poison player tends to be eliminating one opponent quickly before gassing out/becoming the archenemy and getting eliminated.Are there any plans to address this in future Commander products, perhaps by introducing creatures with toxic and myriad, and/or cards that goad creatures and give them toxic?

I’m not sure there’s a great need to make poison better in Commander.

I understand Phyrexian Mana causes a myriad of issues in a number of formats, but I'm a big fan. Not necessarily of the overly-powerful cards since I don't play competitive, but for the flexibility it provides and some of the interesting design space that seems available. Do you think we'll see a 'fixed' version, like with cascade/discover or infect/poison, that could be more broadly used and not specifically linked to phyrexians

Phyrexia: All Will Be One and March of the Machine did experiment with using Phyrexian mana in different ways, such as having loyalty as an additional cost and using it in activation costs.

Any reason wastes aren't their own type? They're the only basic out of the 6 that myriad landscape can't ramp with.

It causes headaches with the tournament rules and play design issues with domain, so we chose not to do it.

Would you ever consider changing the rules for Legendary such that copies of legendary permanents are inherently NOT legendary? The flavor would help things like clone, myriad, etc, and make it way more intuitive. There may be rules complications though

If I had my way, legendary would be just a marker.

If you don't mind me asking, what makes Legion Loyalty a bend? Myriad originally appeared only on the cycle from 2015 and Blade of Selves, so it seemed like it was something that each color could get, even if making temporary tokens is usually just red

I’m probably being a bit too harsh. In Commander products, white can probably have myriad. In a vacuum, it does less self copying than other colors.

So with Legion Loyalty fresh in mind: Myriad, bend for white or not?

It’s a bend.

I understand that trying to give Dominaria a cohesive identity is not only your goal in modern blocks, but is also a good way to reintroduce the world to a newer audience. However, Dominaria has always been about the myriad of places & cultures that exist there; shoving them all into one set does it 0 justice. Is it possible for future visits to Dominaria to focus on one area of the world? Can we do this with other worlds too, like Ixalan's Torrezon, or the distant land hinted at on Innistrad?

Much as we saw many parts of the plane in Dominaria, a return would likewise probably show many locations, but we’re committed to focusing on it as the “history plane” and not have each visit feel like a different plane.

Mark, minus myriad, populate, and storm, there are five cards in all of green that make copies that add to the number of creatures on the battlefield, only two of which aren't a creature making copies of itself. Red has eight such cards (again, minus the three previous mechanics), but all those copies are temporary. However, all eight have a much wider selection of targets than green does and most are repeatable effects.

“If you subtract the things that make it a larger number, it’s a smaller number.” Yes, you got me there. : ) Red gets temporary copying. Green makes tokens or goes and gets duplicates out of the library. Green’s version is more permanent and has a greater number of cards (I count them all - plus did you count the duplicate getters?) so I call it number two. But look, both red and green are secondary. They just do it differently. The difference between me calling one #2 and one #3 is a thin division. If you would like to swap the positions in how you personally order them, more power to you.

Why is ante 9 on the storm scale? Given the myriad issues with it and the near-universal dislike of the mechanic, why wouldn't it be 10 or a very flavorful 13?

Ante is a 10 (or higher).

Hi MaRo, my birthday was two days ago but I think my question got lost in the myriad asks you probably get so, I'll ask again: do you have any trivia on my favorite legendary creature, Skithiryx? If not, any cool trivia regarding Infect will be OK!

Skithirix came about because we wanted a legendary creature with infect. I regret not making it Black/Green to be a better infect Commander. Happy Belated Birthday!