What are the odds of us getting a new Scarecrow commander that is less oppressive than Reaper King and more synergistic in the near future.... compleated Reaper King?

I can’t tell you how soon something can happen, but I do believe another legendary Scarecrow is more when than if.

Hello, Mark. I’m a big Scarecrow (and Slivers!) fan, and the absence of Scarecrows from VOW and only one in MID is a design or flavor decision?My group believes that there’s a design pressure on the tribe because every new Scarecrow will be considered for Reaper King, so there’s not a lot of design space for them. Is that true?

It’s just Innistrad sets have a lot of competition for creature type slots and the sets being tribal means a good chunk of the creatures have the be the main five (with Wolves counting as Werewolves for this purpose). There was no inherent ill will against Scarecrows.

I'm a huge fan of hybrid (the frames are so much more beautiful than gold frames!) Could we get a hybrid-matters commander, or another multi-hybrid legend? (3+ colors helps because EDH makes it harder to play a lot of hybrid cards in one deck. Sadly Reaper King is pretty narrow.)

I’m not sure we can care about hybrid mechanically. On the battlefield, hybrid permanents are just multicolored (which we occasionally care about). In theory, we could look at the mana cost, but it’s not something we’ve ever done.

I'm a huge fan of Reaper King (scarecrow tribal). Do you think we might get to see a queen or prince in the future or would that be too silly?

Reaper Queen makes me smile.

How long till a WUBRG artifact?

Negative thirteen years if you’re talking about a five-color artifact (Transguild Courrier from Dissension) and negative eleven years if you mean an artifact you can cast for literal WUBRG (Reaper King from Shadowmoor). Sphinx of the Guildpact from Ravnica Allegiance is also a five-color artifact.

Long time drive to work listener, first time blogatog questioner here. In the kaladesh lessons learned ep you brought up a potential willingness to color Artifacts more. On a scale of 1 to s10rm, how likely do you think monohybrid mana (a la Reaper king) is to solve some of your problems?

Monocolored Hybrid is pretty restrictive so while it might help in a very particular setting, it’s not the solution to the larger problem.

Re: different hybrid mana symbols in a single mana cost. This actually has been done exactly once I believe. Reaper King in Shadowmoor. That was obviously a special case and is easily grokkable, but figured it was worth pointing out.

Reaper King is part of what made us realize the confusion it causes.

mark, buddy. if we ever return to lorwyn/shadowmoor can you promise not hurt the reaper king?

I can make no promises. Nor am I in charge of the group that would make that decision. All you can ask of me is to not publicly say I like the Reaper King.

I recently finished building my Reaper King commander and wanted to know how well Scarecrows were received and if we can expect more in the future?

I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Scarecrows.

More a comment: I'm not sure that Reaper King's comments actually constitute a Straw Man Argument. All of those points, with the exception of the fear factor, are valid arguments for why they wouldn't make good minions.

I didn’t say it was a straw man argument. I said his critics say it is.