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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1001: Red with Jules Robins

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This is the second in my series of interviews with color representatives from the Council of Colors. In this podcast, I interview Jules Robins about red.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

0:07.0

So I like to do interviews at home and today is Jules Robbins, the representative of red on the Council of Colors, in an ongoing series, interviewing all the different representatives.

0:19.0

So welcome, Jules.

0:22.4

Thanks for having me on, Mark.

0:27.7

Okay, so I think you are the second longest on any color.

0:30.1

I think Ethan has the, he's,

0:30.9

Ethan's number one on blue.

0:33.2

But you've been on red, I think, longer than anybody else,

0:34.8

other than Ethan on blue.

0:37.3

So let's talk all about red.

0:39.1

All right.

0:42.5

Okay, so first let me ask the, I'll begin with this question.

0:45.2

I've asked the same questions I asked Megan.

0:59.4

What do you think, like what has red, what has red added in the last couple of years that you think is key that is important that red is now doing where it might not have been doing it before?

1:14.3

Yeah, I think this is kind of across a few different effects, but the big project on red of late has been trying to figure out how to translate the core of the color to something that plays well in formats like commander where play a bunch of small aggressive creatures and

1:21.5

back it up with a few burn spells to the face is not as good a strategy so really trying to figure

1:27.3

out what's the essence here?

1:29.8

We've represented it through speed and aggression, through a lot of magic.

1:35.0

But really, that's just like one side of red being about passionate emotion and living in the moment.

1:48.0

So I, right, I guess the first real foray into this was the impulsive draw mechanic where you exile cards and can play them

1:52.0

for that turn from the top of your library.

1:57.0

And right, that's been around quite a while now, but we keep making little like tweaks and innovations too there.

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