Hi Mark: Mirri is one of my favorite Magic characters, so I was delighted to see "Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist" printed, even though she's canonically deceased. Is there any chance of Purraj of Urborg making a similar return?

There is a chance. We do make cards of dead characters.

What card name is the hardest for you to pronounce? Urborg Lhurgoyf? Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdicar? Mine personally is Sepulchral Primordial

I learned Lhurgoyf many years ago. The cook, I still can’t say.

Would it not be better for creatures like odric (and more recently, urborg scavengers) to just bestow "all abilities" rather than rattling off a list of inconsistent and ever changing abilities? Are there too many interactions that could break the game?

Those cards list abilities because the black border rules can’t handle saying “all abilities” or even “all keyword abilities”.

Would you say that cards like Odric and Urborg Scavengers qualify as French Vanilla Matters??

No, they’re anti-synergistic with vanilla creatures.

If or when: Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth becoming a full cycle

If. Not all colors do that.

How likely do you consider the cycle with "Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth" and "Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth" to be expanded or maybe even finished?

I’m skeptical as it’s not something all of the colors do.

Currently to reference all cards that contain a certain word would require to spell out all the possible cards with that name in the rules text. When There's only a handful, it is possible (see Urborg Pantera). That is undoable in paper Magic for the Magus cycle as There's too many. Even printing a token with all magus' names would not be a solution because it'd become obsolete and require an update with every new magus. That said would you be willing to try that in digital/alchemy as a testing ground?

The problem is the list is nonsensical in non-English languages (or whatever language the words are based in).

Would it be possible to use the same technology as the Godzilla Promos to have magic cards re-flavored to have more plane specific names? If so, would that allow reprints of cards with plane specific names, such as Urborg, outside of their original plane?

I don’t think we want yo use that technology in that way, but it’s something to talk about internally.

So my birthday was missed the last couple of years. Likely because i only ask for homarids. But do you have any trivia on Purraj of Urborg?

Purraj of Urborg was the first creature to only have first strike on attack. It’s an ability we started using a lot more later (sometimes worded as just on your turn).Happy Birthday!

Why does Urborg make sense in Black? Also, lands are technically colorless, so...

Corruption is a theme of black.