kingdomangus asked: Since the direction of design has seemingly changed to be significantly less focused on spells, we've seen blue and red die off as colors in standard. Do you think this design change is incorrect seeing what has happened, or do you plan to try and work blue and red into the new midrange metas?

Less focused on spells?

Let’s check the Standard metagame. Here are the five current most powerful cards: (yes, I had some help compiling this list)

Collected Company

Avacyn

Sylvan Advocate

Languish

Dromoka’s Command

Two of them are creatures.

*Three* of them are spells.

Yes, the pendulum swings making certain colors stronger and weaker in the metagame, but it’s not because we’re unwilling to make powerful spells.