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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1025: March of the Machine Set Design with Dave Humpherys

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

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with Dave Humpherys, the lead set designer of March of the Machine, to talk about the making of the set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not playing my driveway.

0:02.3

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:06.5

Well, today I have Dave Humphreys, the lead set designer of March of the Machine, and we're

0:12.2

going to talk all about the set design.

0:14.2

So, hey, Dave.

0:16.4

Hi, everyone.

0:18.0

Okay, so the story picks up.

0:20.4

So vision design has finished.

0:22.8

We handed off, let's see, let's walk through the elements of the set.

0:27.1

So we had a version of backup.

0:29.2

We called it Boost at the time.

0:30.4

That was handed off.

0:31.4

We had convoke in the set.

0:32.9

We had incubate that we called cocoon at the time.

0:36.7

We had the transforming double-faced cards.

0:39.9

We had a bunch of suggestions for Praders, one of which was the sagas, but we gave you a

0:44.2

bunch of suggestions.

0:45.6

And then we had something that wasn't at all battles.

0:47.9

We had double-sided lands that you played the land, and then you transformed it, and

0:53.6

then the backside had a plane as a

0:56.4

subtype as a land with a subtype plane um so anyway let's let's start with that so we gave you

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