Is wild magic surge a bend or break? It removes enchantments, but the fact that the replacement will be an enchantment makes me think maybe it’s okay?

We decided red can turn an enchantment into another random enchantment in your deck, although it’s not something we plan to do often.

Why can't newer spells with "bad" effects target our own stuff anymore? Wild Magic Surge immediately comes to mind.

Because digital has become such a big part of Magic, we’re always conscious of misclicks.

I run a Haktos deck that I absolutely love, and watch vigilantly for any spell I can play to protect him that doesn't target. Surge of Salvation is incredible and feels like a card made precisely for me in every respect. Please let whoever is behind it know they have my undying gratitude.

Will do.

I got reminded of the Surge mechanic from Oath of the Gatewatch and was wondering, where is it on the storm scale?It's noted as being a 4 on the wiki, but that seems uncharacteristic for a mechanic we haven't seen since ~2016.

Still a 4. There are just a lot of mechanics that can return. If 80% of 4’s return within seven years (and that’s probably high), 20% still won’t appear.

Would it be possible to figure out who designed a card? I've been wondering who I have to thank for my current favorite card, Primal Surge, and would love to one day maybe find a way to have them sign a copy, knowing who they are would be a first step to that

It can vary from being easy to figure out to be nearly impossible. It depends a lot on how much it changed from its initial design.

I would like to invoke the Birthday trivia for my favorite 'win condition' Primal Surge. Thanks Maro!

I wasn’t on the design team that made this card, but my best guess the idea behind it was to do an expensive mythic rare that had the potential to do something major, so they took a green ability and just turned up the dial. The effect is nice because it allows you to build a deck around it, but serves a safety measure if you play more than one.Happy Birthday!

Because Surgeon General Commander has the odd templating of "T: Add W, U, B, R, or G", I assume that means that it can't tap for mana of silver-bordered colors like pink and gold, right? Or is it equivalent to "add one mana of any color" and it's just written in a weird way?

No, it can only add those five colors.

Hi Mark, I don't know it this classifies as an "Un-question" but here we go. Surgeon General Commander makes you draw a card everytime you enchant a creature, what to my understanding is to play an aura paying its cost and targeting; but let's say the aura enters the battlefield not by casting, via Sun Titan or Illuna for example; does Surgeon care for that?

Surgeon Commander just cares that it gets enchanted. It cares not how it got enchanted. So, those still trigger the ability.

Un-rules question: Which of the Kamigawa soft glow, samurai and ninja treatments count as having a watermark? They all have some sort of graphic behind the text, but does that just count as being part of the frame? (Soft glow graphic can be hard to see, Surgehacker Mech is a good example though)

It has to be an actual watermark.

Have you ever thought of making kicker or something similar evergreen as a way to fold all the various kicker set mechanics together? So for example, Dash, Awaken, Surge, Unleash etc would all use this keyword in specific ways instead of being their own keywords.

That would just make sets feel more similar.