"Because digital has become such a big part of Magic, we’re always conscious of misclicks." That sounds like they should add and 'are you sure' to digital instead of removing options for paper. Some of us have played paper for 20-30 years and will never touch digital, it's not exactly fair to us. Using polymorph effects on your own stuff (like Chaos Warp) isn't exactly a corner case, it's super common. Same with other effects that may be harder for digital but make sense to be able to do.

When we make Magic cards we have to think about all the ways they’ll be used by various players and balance those needs accordingly. For example, we’ve adjusted our templates, so they always work in multiplayer even though the majority of Magic play is two-player. That’s part of what being part of a robust game entails, players understanding that how other people enjoy the game can have impacts on how they play.

If Red can't remove enchantments, why Wild-Magic Surge? Sure it gives an enchantment back but you're still getting rid of the enchantment that you want to get rid of. Can't see why Chaos Warp is a huge break but this is totally OK from a Color Pie perspective.

We talked a lot about this on the Council of Colors. Red is one of two colors of polymorphing (turning creatures into a different creature). Blue gets to make the change knowing what it turns into, while red does it randomly, so you don’t know what you’ll get.We’ve decided that red can extend polymorphing into other permanent types, but that it has to still be the same card type. It also can’t miss some of the time and not replace it. So, red is allowed (on rare occasion) to polymorph an enchantment into a random other enchantment (some of the time being another copy of the same enchantment). Chaos Warp broke two of these rules. 1) It could change enchantments into non-enchantments and 2) it could whiff and not replace it.

Hi Mark. I asked a question a few days ago about how Ravenform and Resculpt saw print despite being color pie breaks. Thanks for answering, but I think I was a bit unclear. I know blue was allowed to destroy creatures through polymorph type effects, but these two cards specifically can destroy artifacts in mono-blue, which was the real break I was thinking of.

It’s what we call the “slippery slope problem”. Once one thing is acceptable, there is push to do something similar but a little different, so making small exceptions can get you in trouble over time.

Sorry for being unclear, but when I asked about True Polymorph I meant the AFR card, not the general Polymorph effect

True Polymorph is totally blue. It’s not a Polymorph spell in a Magic slang sense though.

You said “The key to blue’s transformations now is they’re temporary or undoable,” does this mean True Polymorph is a bend/break or does that only apply to spells which are cheap enough that they could realistically be used as removal?

True Polymorph (where you don’t know the outcome of the transformation) has been moved to red.

Also , WTF up with every color's weakness getting power creeped out except RED weakness to enchantments , ever thought about giving them blue's old feedback spell ? wouldn't let them remove enchantments , but i think it fits red's them to mana barb someone for casting enchantments. at least give mono red a way to interact with enchantments in some way. Thanks ... signed kid with 50+ shivan dragons and darkpacts =P

How about a red spell that lets you polymorph sn enchantment being cast into a different spell? : )

I know you don’t want to put destroy target permanat in too many colors which is why Boros can’t do it, but could a RW chaos warp be in pie?

Blue/red makes more sense as polymorph exists in those two colors.

With the general understanding that random (or unknown) Polymorphing is now red, and "known" Polymorph is Blue, can I ask what's going on with Nascent Metamorph in C20? Is the fact that it's your opponent deck what puts it in Blue?

Nascent Metamorph is a clone not a card that polymorphs other things, so it’s blue.

Some of the relatively newer mechanics in Red (rummaging, polymorph, free spells off the top of the library) are either shared with or derived from Blue. White currently has this with card filtering. What I'm asking is, could we get more White mechanical space from Blue?

We prioritize getting things that make sense for a color over where we get it from.

Does Dreamshaper Shaman mean polymorph is moving to red? Because I never thought about it until now, but I think Red could use it in commander, and it feels more of a red ability anyway.

Polymorph is something both blue and red can do, more red when the outcome of the change is unknown.