When the argument is based on falsely equating the two things, yes it does need an "um, actually"

And similarly, Avacyn's Pilgrim is Green and only Green, so I can run it in my mono-green deck. Done and dusted.

It doesn't care about colour, it cares about colour identity. Which is its own arbitrary set of rule.

It can make sense to use an outsider perspective to introduce, but doing it with new 4 characters, in addition to the Planeswalkers, really cuts into the time for Lorwyn stuff and has produced a story with what seem to me to be pretty significant pacing issues.

Not my time period, but I think there are goblins in Mercadia, so I'll guess Squee?

FWIW Mark Rosewater says the final tally will be much more balanced as far as gender www.tumblr.com/markrosewate...

Also the best elf, Badgermole Cub

I really really hate the desparkening.

To me it would make more sense to save the actual creature cards for Strixhaven. That way you don't get a sense of taking away from Lorwyn, and hopefully people will be happy to see them in Strixhaven. They can still have them show up story spotlight cards.

This always seemed like it should be a very good card but I could never make a simic stompy deck with it quite good enough

Baldur's Gate (the original, I mean) seems agreeably simple and unfiddly compared to modern CRPGs like Pathfinder, POE and Divinity