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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1013: Colorless with Ben Weitz

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

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

So far, I've talked with all five color representatives. That means it's time to talk with a sixth, the colorless representative Ben Weitz.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.2

So I've been doing a series where I interview members of the Council of Colors, and I interviewed white, blue, black, red, and green.

0:14.9

So you think I'd be done, but I'm not. There's a six member. So Benjamin White is here to talk about colorless.

0:23.4

Hey, Ben.

0:24.7

Hey, how's it going, Mark?

0:26.3

Okay, so let's start with the first question. What exactly is the colorless member? What do you do?

0:34.6

Well, I am sort of in charge of reading over the callus cards when we review them.

0:41.7

You know, all of our sets have plenty of colorless cards to sort of support decks where, you know,

0:49.1

with more generic creatures maybe, or maybe there's like exciting artifacts or vehicles and stuff.

0:55.2

And, you know,

1:02.0

those cards don't fall into any particular color. And so, you know, part of my job on the team is looking at those and making sure that they're appropriate for magic and that, you know, we don't

1:07.9

get too much like ubiquity, for example, of a single card.

1:13.1

Yeah, so one of the interesting things about colorless, and so you're, you were on the play

1:17.4

design team, and it wasn't a mistake that we made you the colorless person. Real quickly

1:23.8

for the audience, we tend to use the colors position as the entry level, like learn the color pipe council, you know, council colors.

1:30.9

It's an intro position a lot of times.

1:32.8

But we constantly decided that we wanted to get a play designer in this role because of how important

1:40.1

colors is to rate.

1:41.5

So can we talk a little bit about that?

1:44.1

Yeah, for sure.

1:45.1

So one of the most important parts of, like, my job as the Culles Colour Pye counselor is making

1:51.4

sure that the Culles cards are at an appropriate rate.

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