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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1024: March of the Machine Design

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I tell the design story of March of the Machine.

Transcript

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0:01.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's pentuffer drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so today, two things.

0:08.0

One, I'm going to tell you the story of March of the Machine, and two, I have a special

0:14.0

guest who's not actually going to talk, but author Gavin Edwards is following me around today.

0:20.0

So at some point in the future,

0:22.1

hopefully there'll be a book coming out and Albaugh Magic. But he's following me around today.

0:26.4

So he's literally in the car. So if you hear him laughing or talking, that is Gavin.

0:31.4

Okay, so let's tell the story of March of the Machine. Okay, so it all begins.

0:38.2

So we did War of the Spark, right?

0:40.5

War of the Spark was, it was the ending of a story.

0:44.1

We were talking the Bolus Arc,

0:45.2

and there was a big conclusion

0:46.8

what I dubbed an event set, right?

0:49.0

It was a set, it was all about sort of top down of the story.

0:52.9

We were telling the story,

0:53.9

the finale of the Bullsark.

0:56.7

And if you remember, War of the Spark was almost every Plainswalker that ever existed

1:00.4

all came to Ravnikah to have a giant war.

1:03.5

And I talked about how that was just crazy.

1:05.5

Every Plainswalker, I only get like two to three planeswalkers.

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