Could we ever see insects broken down into more specific types? Like say bees or ants

I think that would just splinter insects, making it even harder to build a deck around them.

Just to provide a contrasting point against your "economy of scale" argument, I feel that the community backlash against these crossovers is such that, while the likelihood of finding a magic community near you is greater than , however I doubt many magic players will accept them into their game. It will likely splinter the community in two (not kill it though, like you wanted ;) )

As someone who monitors both the online communities and reads the market research, it’s been my experience that the loud messaging on the internet and the desires of the majority of the players do not always line up.

While playing an Un cube with some friends, we came across an interaction we figured we should ask the official Unrules manager about. If I have a library enchanted with Animate Library, and make a copy of that library using splinter twin, what does it make?

Not what you want. A non-animated library that you can’t draw off of, basically you get nothing.

I just wanted to say thank you to all responsible for printing Prime Speaker Vannifar, as I think it's a very elegant way to breath some life into the old Birthing Pod style lists without making the effect overly problematic. It's one of my favorite cards printed recently. Is it possible we could see a similar fix for Splinter Twin?

That’s a little trickier to replicate on a creature.

Hi Mark, do you think that Splinter Twin should remain banned in modern right now having a format with a pair of turn 3 combos on it? Thanks.

It’s so far out of my area of expertise that I have no idea.

In your Metamorphosis article you were very upfront about the length of time KTK cards would be standard legal so we would "understand the impact before [we] purchased the cards." Then as a company you reprinted Splinter Twin in Modern Masters 2015 and then banned it in Modern. Then today's bannings. To keep up with the transparency you wanted to bring with the format changes, would it be possible to have an official list of cards being monitored for bannings?

We don’t have the ability to predict the future. We do try to be transparent, but if we don’t know, it’s hard to tell you all.In the past we’ve tried having a "watch list" for cards we were thinking about possibly naming but it panicked people more than calmed them down.

Un-rules question: If I enchant my Togglodyte with a Splinter Twin, will it copy the on/off status of the original or always enter the battlefield on?

The copy will start in its initial state as if it were just cast.

With the keeping of science fiction separate from Magic; do you think there's a possibility of a sister game to Magic that could be based on science fiction?

The problem is making a parallel game would just splinter the audience.

Who was responsible for the Splinter Twin reprint in MM2015? I hope he/she is fired, because that was completly a mistake, if not a joke to all players to reprint a valuable card and ban it less than a year later.

Do you have any idea what we’re going to ban a year from now? How about two years from now? Neither do we. Because of our lead time to physically print sets, we have to make decisions long before we know the future environment.

Could green get a bone splinters-type destruction, since it requires a creature?

No.