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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1049: Mapping

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

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about the concept of "mapping" and how we use it to design Magic sets.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling up my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about an effect we call mapping.

0:11.0

And what that means is people ask all the time, okay, you're going to make a new set.

0:16.0

How do you decide what goes in the set? How do you decide what order do you add things to the set?

0:26.5

You know, what is the process of making a set? And so there's a technique called mapping that I want to talk about and explain sort of how we use it and the general philosophy behind it.

0:33.0

So essentially the idea of any set is you want to get a theme, some mechanics, you know,

0:42.5

you want some cycles, you want, you know, you just want to get a variety of different components

0:48.5

that's going to add up together to make a full set.

0:52.5

But one of the big questions is, well, like, you can't add it all at once, right?

0:58.8

The nature of building a set is not, I independently get all the pieces and then I put them all at once.

1:05.7

What happens is I have to figure out sort of, there's an order by which we put a set together, by which we sort of look at, we look at the set.

1:17.5

And we call it mapping because the idea is, let's say I'm making a map of the sets.

1:25.0

I have to sort of like, I have to draw something first.

1:28.2

I have to put something,

1:29.4

something has to go on the map first.

1:31.4

And then depending on what you put on the map,

1:33.3

other things will get built around it.

1:35.4

And that is,

1:37.0

the basic idea is

1:38.8

that we have to sort of think out

1:40.7

what we're doing,

1:42.4

that we have to think out

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