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Something I’ve Been Dying to Say for 28 Years

Red is a colour of mana generation, however does this also mean red gets colour fixing similar to green?

Is the Mood Swings deck that you carry curated in any way or just an off the shelf copy?

I orderer 10 Mood Swings and they are arriving tomorrow!! Opening a Love headliner will feel a lot better than opening a serialized mythic. Send your good luck Maro!

Just thought I'd let you know people are trading in the r/moodswingstcg reddit (and probably in the discord as well)! I'm in the UK and found Malice warps our games too much so I'm trading for a guy in the US with two copies of Love :)

Can I get a maybe on a way to give all creatures mutate? Please?

Hi Mark, I remember seeing people ask you for birthday trivia about certain cards/mtg concepts, so I figured I would ask for my birthday. Can I please have a fact about the shrine subtype?

Bashfulness seems like an effect that I would expect… maybe in a different color? But I can’t justify why 😀 could you speak to why it belongs in Blue?

Hey MaRo! I just realized that we didn't get any magecraft in Secrets of Strixhaven; where is Magecraft on the storm scale now? Was it unpopular or did SOS not have enough room for it?

If tournaments for mood swings were to happen at some point, how do you think they would be run?

In Mood Swings do suppressed cards also lose all abilities? I know their value is set to 0, but I wasn't sure if that's it. For example if Bliss was already on the field and got suppressed by Pacifism, would the "While in play" ability still be active and affecting how other moods are being scored?

If you could go back would you change lands to be not a permanent but instead their own type of thing stays on the battlefield?

A decade ago (blogatog is old) I asked if 1996 World Champion was still legal in all formats, and you confirmed that Wizards the Coast honors ancient oaths made in the final years of the 20th century. Does WotC still uphold this promise?

Dear Maro,

Is it possible for us to ever see Vampiric Link again? I can understand the lifelink confusion it created at the time, but I loved it for being a playable black aura that rewarded you for stacking it with the ability. Perhaps as a cameo a card like this would stick out enough that it self-signposts that it's different than a normal lifelink-granting aura?

Mark, when will we have more werewolves?

Mark, I don't understand your answer to whether R&D's Secret Lair in play and a creature enchanted with the Alpha printing of blessing would let someone pay W to give any creature +1/+1. You said "the original Blessing, in Alpha, was targeted", so that sounds like you're confirming that "W: Target creature gains +1/+1 until end of turn" should allow someone pay W and target any creature. ...but then you concluded your answer with "So, no." Did you misread their question, or is there something I'm missing?