Hi Mark, I opened a creature with Scavenge and it made me think, could the rules handle stat buffs and ability granting to creatures outside the battlefield? (to increase how much they scavenge for or how big Coram gets) Would there be enough design space for it?

My gut is the rules could do it if we wanted to, but there isn’t a lot of synergy/design space, so there’s not a great reason to do it.

What are your favourite guild mechanics for each guild of Ravnica? Do you think they're also the ones most likely to be brought back?

Azorius - DetainDimir - SurveilRakdos - SpectacleGruul - BloodthirstSelesnya - ConvokeOrzhov - ExtortIzzet - ReplicateGolgari - ScavengeBoros - BattalionSimic - Evolve

Would it not be better for creatures like odric (and more recently, urborg scavengers) to just bestow "all abilities" rather than rattling off a list of inconsistent and ever changing abilities? Are there too many interactions that could break the game?

Those cards list abilities because the black border rules can’t handle saying “all abilities” or even “all keyword abilities”.

Would you say that cards like Odric and Urborg Scavengers qualify as French Vanilla Matters??

No, they’re anti-synergistic with vanilla creatures.

There was an un-debate; for Scavenger Hunt, one of the items you can wind up searching for is a "four-legged creature". My opponent went searching, and grabbed Complaints Clerk. I objected on the grounds this was clearly a humanoid sloth using what appeared to me to be distinctly functioning as arms and legs, ergo not four legged. My opponent countered that it was a sloth, sloths are four-legged, therefore this was a four-legged creature. The store owner felt yes, judge felt no. Who was closest?

Humanoid animals have two arms and two legs, not four legs. A normal sloth would have four legs.

FYI the Spikes are bringing to Unfinity: a tophat, glasses, WUBRG top, pen & paper, lotsa fuzzy dice, tape measure, timer, granola bars, English dictionary, smartphone, Antiquities/Eldraine booster packs, a like-minded buddy, prosthetic 3rd arm with flipping skills, inconspicuous clown robot tokens, jokebook, box of tchotchkes, copious MTG merch, #GuessThatMagicCard sent to mom, 10 Ninja's Kunai cards, Scavenger Hunt basic lands, 5 cards stolen from Johnny (by same artist), and an Ikea showcase.

Nice list. Some notes:• The dice have to be real dice, both for rolling and stacking.• The smartphone will have a timer. • The prosthetic arm won’t work for A Real Handful. • The Clown Robot tokens have to be the official ones. • The person guessing #GuessThatMagicCard can’t be coached. : )

Could we ever get a new mechanic that works like Scavenge, but also uses ability counters?

Possibly.

Could we ever get a tweak of scavenge that also uses ability counters?

They’d have to overlap in a set for that to even be a possibility.

Since we're returning to Ravnica once again, I have a high guess, we'll never see Dredge again according to the Storm Scale. But that makes me wonder if scavenge, overload, and other guild functions will return.

Convoke’s back. : )

Your correction of question 49 seems to misread the question. It's not about the same spell having Cycling and Miracle, it's about both being in the same play environment, and the interaction being that if you cycle you get an instant-speed draw which you can use to cast miracles if it's your first draw of the turn. Similarly for the interaction between Scavenge and Modular. (This doesn't change the correct answer).

There are combinations that are difficult just not as difficult.