ikacid asked: Are you aware how it must appear when one promise is broken and another upheld, when the first promise was to the player's favor and the second to Wizard's? Because, while it may not be the case, it looks like Wizards is only keeping its word insofar as it can benefit from it.

Part of my job as the person showing you behind the scenes is I explain R&D’s thought process at any one point in time. As such, I have written a lot of articles explaining what and why we are doing something. That is not me promising something, that is me elucidating what we think at the time.

I have written millions of words and talked about all sorts of thoughts, some of which have shifted over time. For example, the “only having unique cards sold in boosters” didn’t change with the buy-a-box promo, but years ago when we started putting original content in Commander decks. (And one could argue previews in Duel Decks technically did it before that.) Then we introduced planeswalker decks which also have original content.

In contrast, the Reserved List was a public announcement,not casually mentioned in one of my articles, but officially posted by Wizards with a stated promise to never take a particular action.

I get how making these two things seem equal creates fun Reddit fodder, but they are not remotely the same. You might as well get mad at me because we don’t make marquee artifacts anymore or we decided fear isn’t worthy of a keyword.

R&D is going to have thoughts, which I will share to you as part of letting you all see what we do, but those thoughts will change as the game grows and evolves. That is not remotely the same as us breaking a promise.