"Cards can generate tokens of other colors"

So a color's pie includes other colors? It feels like at least a bend. While it's not an inherent weakness unique to any one color, creating tokens of another color in place of, instead of in addition to the color of the card creating it does bypass elements of 'color matters' cards.

Example: A green card making non-green tokens makes green stronger against cards like Out of the Way (with its cost reduction targeting green permanents).

Is the goal of Design to simply cost any 'color matters' cards at lower power levels? Or is this considered a non-issue from the outset?

It’s technically a bend, but a light one. We do it infrequently enough, that’s it’s not thought of as a big deal.

Dear Mark, "Bounce", the returning of creatures to their owners hand, seems like an incredibly red ability to me, especially as a sorcery or as an etb, so we don't get to be trickery like blue. "Right now, I want this blocker gone! I don't care if he replays it later!" You've stated before that this has been talked about, but could you go into a bit more detail? Thanks! ^^

It turns out bounce is a little too synergistic with red’s aggro “win quickly” strategy. Large creatures that are hard to bolt out of the way are supposed to help stop red, so giving red an efficient tool to deal with them has developmental concerns.

Since we're only one day away from the full spoiler, I'll just get this out of the way now. Really hope there wasn't another unfinished accidental cycle. I get the feeling people are going to be disappointed if there isn't another multicolored legendary pirate, when merfolk, vampire, and dinosaurs got one.

Accidental cycles are almost always unfinished in that they weren’t planned to be cycles.

Let's get this out of the way then... when do spoilers for The Awesome Set start?

When the time is right. : )

Lets get this in good and early. When does origins spoiler season start?

Let’s get Dragons of Tarkir out of the way first. : )

Everyone asks "What if a bus hit you?" so I figure I should get this out of the way. What if you hit a bus?

Out of anger?  I try not to do that.

Why were you allowed to say Avacyn Restored has no DFCs? A lot of people see this as a repeat of "no allies in Rise of the Eldrazi" which you named as a mistake too in one of your State of Design articles. You always talk about how spoiling a new set is a delicate process, as each piece of information is judged in isolation. Isn't saying AR has no DFCs at this point a mistake?

The reason I told you now is that I want the teaser season for Avacyn Restored to be about what is in the set rather than what is not in the set. So I told everyone early to get it out of the way.