Hey Mark, so I recently discovered that Rathi Assassin has had its creature type errated quite a bit over the years. So I went ahead and made a mockup proxy of its official typeline despite how small the text had to be. Would Wizards ever attempt to print a card with this many creature types? Or does this mean Rathi Assassin will never get a physical reprint since its type has been only technically and digitally updated by errata over the years?

There are numerous factors. Type line restrictions vary depending on what languages the card needs to be printed in. We can go a bit smaller on cards only printed in English. There are also some solutions that might involve rules text.

Hey Mark I know this is a common complaint In multiple play groups that play eternal formats that a couple of older token generators don't have have physical tokens outside of proxy or home made examples being Phelddagrifs 1/1 hippos, dune-broods 1/1 sand creature tokens, and boris devilbloons 1/1 minor demons. Have there been any thought about doing a spellbook type release to fill up these missing tokens?

I can pass along the request.

Magic in pop culture shoutout: There's a YouTube series called 12Tone where the speaker talks about music and draws doodles to support the points. At one point he's saying that one idea can be used as a proxy for another, and he clearly sketches a Black Lotus. The video is called "Why Classical Harmony Doesn't Work Anymore."

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm making a Maro Commander deck and was thinking of having a proxy Maro in a second sleeve. Do you have a picture of yourself that you think would look good striking down enemy planeswalkers?

My Wikipedia photo has been put into public domain.

I was watching the store of the amazing Terese Nielsen and I was wandering, Are artist proof cards considered tournament legal or are they considered high end proxy?

I am pretty sure they are not tournament legal.

I recently played in a Vintage tournament (proxies allowed). After the tournament I've come to the conclusion that Tinker isn't powerful enough. Do you think we'll get a strictly better version in the future? :)

Tinker, interestingly, was chosen by R&D as the most broken card I’ve ever designed.

Hi there,I was just wondering. Do you play more magic with real printed cards or with proxies used in design?

I play way more with playtesting cards. Playing with real cards is a luxury.

What I don't understand is: with so many more printed commons than rares, why would you choose to stick proxies on Sorin Markovs?

When we get cards, what we call incrementals, we get an equal number of every card. As this is what we eventually use for sticker stock, our commons exist at the same volume as our rares.

What's the joke behind using Moat as the card "Look at Me, I'm R&D" used as the base for its proxy?

R&D will sticker over old cards and whenever someone from outside R&D learns this they the always shocked over what we’ll sticker over. This was just a joke about that.

I know you and others are wanting another Un-set, but I would far rather see a black-bordered set every time over a Un-set like we've seen. I don't know what Magic has to gain in regards to using up time and energy on a card set that is unplayable in basically all formats - I think that if people like to play it occasionally as a fun alternative, it's something that they could create themselves with more flexibility via proxies, etc. Do you really think this is attractive to the average player?

I think you massively underestimate how much Magic is played at kitchen tables as opposed to tournament venues. As I often say “Everyone doesn’t necessarily play the way you do.”