The alchemist pack price. I'm curious about the math that arrived at this price. Maybe this could be discussed at the town hall.
The math for the Legendary and Alchemist packs were similar. They both provide roughly double the amount of Legendary and Gold Foil cards per dollar spent respectively as compared to Booster packs. The downside is fewer total cards. So for players who prefer to focus on Legendary and/or GF cards these packs are a clear better choice, but for players who want to focus on a more complete full collection, Booster and possibly Starter packs should be a better choice.
Where does this leave new players in regards to summoners? Summoners will be a bottle neck for them. Summoners are intended/supposed to be a bottleneck to some degree but too much and they give up. IMO a mix of common and rare summoners seems to be needed here and in the future for NPE.
This is a good question that was also asked by someone else in the comments. I don't have an exact answer yet except that we will make sure to take this into account when designing the set because I agree it is important to make sure that new players have reasonable access to Summoners.
What happens to the CL card's production power on plots when they leave modern? What is the multiplier going to be?
Also a good question, and that's also still TBD right now. We will plan to collect player feedback on this and possibly have a separate governance proposal to decide that as we get closer to the set launch. We've also been working on designing some new things that should provide more utility for older cards so it will be helpful to see how that turns out before making any decisions about land.
Does the team have a private server where they have tested only having Rebellion core, promo and SB reward cards to play? Are there glaring holes like not enough common and rare tanks for all the splinters? Does the new set address them?
We do have private testing servers and this will be what the team looks at when designing the new set. We aim for the new set to compliment and work in combination with the other Modern format cards.