Hi Mark,I think it's fair to say some players have had their feathers ruffled with recent design choices and printing decisions. I've seen someone describe all of the tention around the idea, "You can never truly return home." In Magic context, it's the fact that in a vacuum, it's very hard to recreate the conditions players fell in love with the game and their magic 'golden ages'. It's caused me to really thing about recent changes differently.But my questions for you is, what is your magic 'home'? Or what's the period of magic that you find yourself yearning for the most? What does the magic you fell in love with look like?

When Beta came out, I knew that it was going to sell out immediately, so I bought a bunch of booster boxes. I then restricted myself to opening one booster pack a day. At the time, Wizards had decided to keep the contents secret, and the Internet was young, so it didn’t have the means of making the contents known. This meant every day when I opened my booster pack I would see cards for the first time. The thing I fell in love with Magic was that I was constantly surprised. I didn’t know what the game was capable of, so whenever it went a place I hadn’t thought of, it truly felt magical. That’s been my touchstone as Head Designer. I want the game to keep surprising, to keep pushing its boundaries. I want players to see things they never thought possible and share that same feeling I had the first time I saw a Thicket Basilisk. “They can do that?!” Which means to me, the constant evolution is home.

why do you like dominion (the board game)? it's the worst part of mtg- tedious deck building- with no actual game to play once you build the deck. plus, it's non interactive in the extreme

I think you are focused on the wrong aspects of the product. It is to today’s gaming world what Magic was ninteen years ago - an inventive touchstone creating a genre that has spawned numerous popular offshoot games.  As a good rule of thumb, when a game is an influential as Dominion, it’s doing something right. That doesn’t mean you have to like it but you need to respect that many others do.