Hi Mark! The discourse over spiders and scorpions in red has me thinking about were different insects, arachnids, and bugs in general place within the color pie. Not only do I feel scorpions would be a great fit in red, but I think it would be cool if we saw stuff like white bees or blue red dragonflies. Could we see more diverse bugs in the future?

It’s a possibility.

Hello Maro :) I've missed my birthday (it was yesterday) , but I would like to ask for some trivia :) I have the same problem as the previous years: I read and listen to i believe everything you post, so in most cases I already know trivia you post :) Maybe some obscure piece of info about 4-color legends? Or Infect/Poison/Phyrexia?

When Legends came out, I fell in love with poison. It was on two cards, Pit Scorpion and Serpent Generator. I made a blue/black deck with every creature copying card I had. The goal was to poison someone to death. Just once. That’s all I wanted. I played and played, but to no avail. I couldn’t win with poison. I went on to build other decks, but I would pull it out time from time.Finally, months later I managed to win with poison. It felt so good. I vowed then and there that I would do whatever I could to make a poison deck viable. When I started at Wizards, it became one of my goals. It took a while, but I did it. Poison even won a Pro Tour.Happy Birthday!

Which MCU villains are recurring? Thanos is dead. Ultron is dead. Ego, Ronan, Obadiah, Killian, Hela, etc etc. Even Loki, the one character you might be able to call "recurring", was finally killed.

Loki was killed and yet, not currently dead. (You need to watch the Loki show. Spoilers.) Other MCU villains still alive: Red Skull, the Abomination, Justin Hammer, Baron Zemo, Yellow Jacket, Dormammu, the Vulture, Ghost, Yon-Rogg, the Supreme Intelligence, Agatha Harkness, The Kingpin, The Leader, Batroc, Ayesha, Mordo, The Shocker, The Thinker, The Prowler, Scorpion, Surtur, and the Grandmaster. There are also organizations like HYDRA and AIM. And even some of the deaths like Ultron and Mysterio were left ambiguous if they were actually dead.

Why are all the food token arts so weird and triggering? Unhappy bloody pies, frog stew, corkscrew bananas, picknick basket dropped into the dirty ground, the weird demon scorpion from the underworld etc. It's strange since you're so good at making my favorite snack: delicious Magic cards.

Two things:1) There is a food token coming out in a product in 2022 that is very tasty looking (to me at least).2) DON’T EAT THE DELICIOUS CARDS!

Could we see a scorpion legend?

I assume one day. The Scorpion God was legendary.

Hi Mark, kinda a dumb question; would you know who in creative decided one of the three Gods in Hour of Devastation be based off a scorpion in particular, and if the movies The Mummy Returns (2001) or The Scorpion King (2002) had anything to do with that decision?

I know each served a function in the story and they picked creepy critters that filled the needed function.

Mark, do you have any data on how many times the scorpion was clicked?

I’ll go with “a lot”.

My birthday was last week, can I ask what types that don't have tribal support you'd personally like to see get it most? Like, I'd love to see Scorpion tribal and Djinn tribal be a thing, how about you?

I’d like to see more Ooze tribal. Also, Constructs. : )

So I kinda felt like the -1/-1 mechanic for The Scorpion god was kinda outside the color pie, flavor wise it made sense: a venomous Scorpio giving -1/-1 counters. But -1/-1 counters don't seem that red? Is there going to be more support for red/black -1/-1 producers?

Red has done plenty with -1/-1 counters.

Hey Maro, quick un-rules question: With Ach Hans Run and the new HOU gods, do we have to say "Ach Hans Run it's the The Scorpion God" or does the spirit of the rule allow us to omit one of the "The"s?

🐑 must 🗣 “The”. 🐑 have to use the 🕳 name and “The” counts.