I just saw a collection of 7 screenshots from 2011 thru 2018 from this blog where you repeatedly shoot down the idea of doing mtg crossovers. You said "We think it's important that Magic is one cohesive game, and not a hodge podge of different things." This hurts to hear because it's verbatim sentiment that has been expressed to you about UB which you shot down as unreasonable, and you never addressed the contradiction. I know things change, but how can we trust what you say to us here?

I’ve never said anyone’s feelings are unreasonable. People can and should feel justified believing whatever they want. My goal on this blog is to share with you my best sense of where Magic design is at that moment. Often Magic moves in directions I can’t predict. If you asked me ten years ago, as many people actually did, I wouldn’t have predicted Universes Beyond. But now that I’m knee deep in it, and I’ve seen a lot of data based on the ones we’ve released, I’m a convert. I believe it is something that will bring lots of happiness to Magic players. For example, I was in a playtest for a Marvel set the other day and it was one of the most fun playtests I’ve had in years. I’m a huge fan of Marvel, and, obviously, a giant fan of Magic, so bringing those two loves together is quite joyful. It really hammered home to me the power of Universes Beyond. Trust is a thing to be earned, and I’ve worked hard for twenty-eight years to form a trust with the players. I’ve never lied to you, but I have said things that I didn’t think would happen that did. Saying something not knowing the future isn’t lying. I 100% believed the thing I said when I said it. Also, I always stress that I couch future talk with the mindset that I don’t use my future knowledge. If I know we’re doing thing X next month, I’ll act as if I didn’t know that when asked about it, because it’s important for me to not ruin the surprise of what’s to come. This is much more like not telling someone they’re having a surprise party than straight up lying, but yes, whatever you want to call it, me not ruining future surprises is something I do regularly on this blog, and I’m totally transparent that I do it.

For Surprise Party, could I use printed tokens with Changeling?

Yes.

Hey Mark! We had a blast last night playing with our Unfinity commander decks, really love the set :D We had a couple eules questions come up, which might be important in future games. Does Devil K. Nevil have to stay on the table for his jump to be successful? And the other is with Surprise Party, do you have to hide the tokens under things already on the battlefield or can you sneak them into sleeves of cards in your hand before you play the cards as long as you aren't caught?

Devil K. Nevil has to clear the line of creatures, but doesn’t have to land on the table, although he gets style points for it. You can’t hide the Robots in things before you play them. You have to hide them after things are on the battlefield.

Mark, how do you suggest we utilize Surprise Party in draft? Do I only get the clown tokens I open? Am I allowed to ask other players for their clown tokens? Should I not give away my clown tokens if someone asks for them, out of fear of being surprised? If someone wheels a suspiciously large cake onto the battlefield, should I fear for my life total?

You can ask other players for tokens.

If I trim the edges off a robot clown token, can I still use it for Surprise Party?

The token need to be the full token.

Surprise Party asks you to use "printed Clown Robot tokens". This refers to the creature types on the tokens, so can I use Shapeshifter tokens with changeling?

Does that exist as a printed token?

Where can we find the Nathan Holt birthday video?

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgBQbeQJQ-E&feature=youtu.be For those unaware of what this is. Nate Holt, along with Shawn Kornhauser, makes the “Walking the Planes” videos. Nate is the one one screen and Shawn does the camera work. Shawn through Nate a surprise party, which Nate thought was being thrown for Shawn, and Shawn had a bunch of Magic folk make Nate a video. The video has many Magic pros and me wishing Nate a happy birthday.