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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1055: Black-Red-Green

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

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's 10-500 drive to work.

0:06.3

Okay. So I've been doing a series of podcasts talking about the three-color pairs, or not pairs, three-collar triplets.

0:12.8

So today I'm up to black, red, green. So the way the structure works is I will talk through each color individually.

0:22.6

I will talk through the color pairs, and then I will approach each of the three-color pair with each color as the center color.

0:28.6

Okay, so let's begin with the three colors.

0:33.6

Okay, black. Black is all about power through ruthlessness. So black believes that the world is the way it is. That every other color wants to change the world and, you know, black's like, I want to acknowledge that the world is what it is, which is everybody's out for themselves. And then everybody is after, you know, everyone wants to grab, but they can grab for themselves.

0:57.1

Okay, that is what the world is.

0:59.1

Let's not be ignorant of that fact.

1:01.1

And that's fine.

1:02.6

You know, we should have structure it such that people have the opportunity that the powerful will thrive.

1:09.5

Essentially black-like systems where it lets people who, you know, who have the most drive,

1:15.5

who have the most desire, who work the hardest to be the ones that get the most.

1:21.6

And so black is very much about, hey, fundamental what Black wants is,

1:27.0

I want to have enough power that I have

1:29.4

control of everything I need to have control of. That, you know, if I do what it takes, then I can

1:36.4

have absolute power. Now, in order to do that, in order to get the power that it wants,

1:43.3

Black is like, look, I have to be willing to do what it takes order to get the power that it wants, black is like, look,

1:47.6

I have to be willing to do what it takes, whatever that is.

1:53.4

If I have to pay certain costs, if I have to make certain trades, if I have to do certain actions,

1:56.8

you know, black is like, I have to be willing to do whatever.

2:00.8

So when we say ruthlessness, what it means is there's nothing off-living for black.

2:02.8

There's nothing too taboo for black.

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