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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1051: Blue-Black-Red

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 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is another podcast in my three-color series. Today, I talk about blue-black-red.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pouring my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:05.8

Okay, so today is another in my three color series. I'm going to be talking about blue, black, and red.

0:13.8

So this is the arc or shard with black in the center. So as I do with all of these, let me quickly recap the colors.

0:21.5

I'll recap the color pairs, and then we'll get into what happens when you start

0:24.6

mixing them all together.

0:26.2

Okay, blue is perfection through knowledge.

0:31.4

Blue believes that you were born a tabla rasa, a blank slate, and that you could become

0:36.8

whatever you want to become.

0:38.7

That basically your job in life through education, through experience, through technology and tools,

0:45.5

is to figure out what you are capable of and then meet that potential.

0:51.0

But Blue is a big believer that in order to do that, that you have to be very careful.

0:56.3

You have to think things through, that you don't want to be rushed.

1:00.2

You know, you don't want to miss an opportunity because you weren't careful enough about it.

1:04.3

And so Blue is very methodical.

1:07.2

Blue also believes that the key to sort of getting what it wants is understanding the nature of what makes things tick.

1:14.6

So blue is the color that most, you know, part of the power of knowledge is knowing what part of something is important.

1:21.9

And blue is not beneath trickery or misdirection.

1:27.3

Blue is willing to sort of manipulate things to get what it wants. is not beneath trickery or misdirection.

1:31.2

Blue is willing to sort of manipulate things to get what it wants.

1:36.3

But fundamentally, its goal is to be the best that it can be,

1:38.2

to be the perfect version of itself.

1:40.4

Okay, black.

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