Before Time Spiral block came out, we ran a Head-to-Head competition on the website to see what players' favorite character was. The winner got reprinted in Time Spiral and got an alternate version of themselves in Planar Chaos. What character am I talking about? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: When you came to the site that day, the whole screen got taken up by Wrath of God that then transitioned into Damnation. It was one of my favorite web site reveals. #WotCStaff

As a lover, and creator, of Magic content, this is great! #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: The first announcement of Planar Chaos happened when you visited the Magic daily site one day. What Planar Chaos card took over the screen? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: Vanishing. I felt like Fading did a good job of capturing the immediacy of the present, but it was a mechanic we wanted to tweak as players kept intuitively playing it wrong. Redoing it captured the alternate reality vibe. #WotCStaff

Today's #MakingMagic article is part 2, of 2, on the design of #MoodSwings: magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki... #mtg #WotCStaff

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: What mechanic was put in Planar Chaos specifically to reference “alternate reality present”? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: The answer I intended was suspend, but have since realized split second did it as well. The challenge with connected art elements is it makes it very hard to change which cards have the mechanic later in set design, so we don’t do it on larger mechanics.

Apparently there’s a new Magic movie coming out this May. : )

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: One mechanic in Time Spiral had a visual element in the art. It caused us so many problems (it’s hard to change cards) that we mostly stopped doing it. What was the mechanic? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Jaya Ballard. #WotCStaff

Congratulations to my daughter Sarah for becoming a college graduate from the University of Arizona!

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: There was a character in flavor text where the editor gave them a last name that was the Seattle city she lived in. This character later got a legendary creature card in Time Spiral. Who is the character? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Assembly-Worker. The creature type first showed up on Mishra’s Factory from Antiquities in 1994. #WotCStaff

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: What Time Spiral creature had a creature type that was first seen on a land many years earlier? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Split second. It was originally created in Coldsnap as a nod to interrupts. #WotCStaff

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: What Time Spiral mechanic was created for Coldsnap, but I saved it for Time Spiral because it matched the block’s time theme? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Flashback. #WotCStaff

Today’s trivia question: I saved one returning mechanic for each set in Time Spiral block to hit its theme. What was the mechanic for “the past”? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Purple was introduced as a new color to designate rarity. Purple means “special”. #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: Time Spiral premiered a new color. What was the color and how was it used? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: Flash was introduced in Time Spiral. #WotCStaff

Here's the preview panel from #MCVegas where I get to talk excitedly about two different sets. : ) #WotCStaff

This week's #MakingMagic column is part 1, of 2, looking at the twenty-eight year design of Mood Swings, my new TCG: magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki... #mtg #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: What now evergreen keyword was introduced in Time Spiral? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: Arcum Dagsson. #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: What Coldsnap legendary creature appeared in the flavor text of twenty-one Ice Age and Coldsnap cards? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: Barbarians, Warriors, and Berserkers. #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: Lovisa Coldeyes was one of the early typal cards to affect multiple creature types. What three creature types does she give +2/+2 and haste to? #WotCStaff

Answer to the previous #mtgtrivia question: Vanish into Memory was the fourth and final "You Make the Card" card, designed by all of you. #WotCStaff

My second "Drive to Work" (#1338) is all about the twenty-eight year history of getting my game #MoodSwings made: share.transistor.fm/s/5eb88a07 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145...

My first "Drive to Work" podcast (#1337) for this week is all about my recent trip to #MCVegas: share.transistor.fm/s/26d84a8e audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

I was happy to appear on Justin’s “Think Like a Gamer” design podcast. I talked about designing #mtg and my new #MoodSwings game. #WotCStaff

Here's the #MoodSwings panel from #MCVegas.

I went to MagicCon Vegas this past weekend representing IGN and played Mark Rosewater's new (old?) game, Mood Swings! Even, better: I got to play it with the man himself and picked his brain a little about making it. www.ign.com/articles/moo...

Here's last week's second "Drive to Work" podcast (#1336) talking about the importance of Goat Guy. Who's Goat Guy? Why is he important? This podcast explains all: share.transistor.fm/s/f1bee2a0 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

Here's the first "Drive to Work" podcast (#1335) from last week where I talk about the design of Born of the Gods, the second set in the Theros block: share.transistor.fm/s/7cdbd277 audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff

Today's #mtgtrivia question: There was one Coldsnap card not designed by a Wizards of the Coast employee. Which card was it? And who designed it? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: Dark Depths. Marit Lage, at 20/20 is the largest creature token. #WotCStaff

I always played to win. : )

Today's #mtgtrivia question: Coldsnap has a card that creates a token which holds a record to this day. What is the card and what is the token? #WotCStaff

Answer to yesterday's #mtgtrivia question: One month. It's the shortest time Magic design has ever had. The set had the regular time for development. The reason for such a short amount of design was it was a late ask by the Magic brand team. #WotCStaff

A Reddit page has started for Mood Swings: www.reddit.com/r/moodswings... #WotCStaff

28 years later, Mood Swings finally makes its premiere at MagicCon Las Vegas! #WotCStaff #moodswings #moodswingsgame #moodswingstcg

Also up today, the card-by-card notes for every Mood Swings card: magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat... #WotCStaff

The Mood Swings Card Gallery (with all 133 cards, plus the headliner card) went up today: magic.wizards.com/en/news/card... #WotCStaff

Here’s an article by Colby Nichols on how he made the Mood Swings logo, card frames, card back, and packaging: magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat... #WotCStaff

Today’s #MakingMagic column is about the twenty-eight year history of getting Mood Swings made: magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki... #WotCStaff

Today’s #mtgtrivia question: Coldsnap’s design holds the record for the shortest ever design. How long was it? (Development had its full time allotment.)

Answer to yesterday’s #mtgtrivia question: The inspiration for Coldsnap was lost TV episodes, things someone found in an obscure place years later. Coldsnap was the Magic equivalent.