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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1067: Wilds of Eldraine Commander with Jeremy Geist

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

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I have Jeremy Geist on the show to talk about the design of the Wilds of Eldraine Commander decks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive-to-work at-home edition.

0:07.2

So I'd like to use my time at home to do interviews. So today, I have Jeremy Geist with me. Hey, Jeremy.

0:13.2

Hello, pleased to be here. You know, 10 years ago when I started listening to Drive to Work,

0:17.0

I never really expected I would be on it. Well, hey, everyone's dream one day.

0:21.8

You too could be on drive to work.

0:24.3

So let's talk a little bit about how you got to Wizards,

0:26.3

and then we'll talk about the theme of the day

0:28.6

is the Wilds Eldring Commander Decks that you worked on.

0:31.2

So we will get that in a second.

0:32.3

But I just want to fill people in.

0:34.7

How did you get from someone listening to Drive to Work

0:36.9

to somebody on to Drive to Work to Somebody On to Drive to

0:38.1

Work? Yeah, absolutely. So as lead up to the story, for Unstable, I wanted to go into the pre-release

0:46.0

blind. So I didn't read anything about Magic for like three or four weeks prior to the pre-release.

0:51.2

So then I went and played in it, and then I was like, I'm going to

0:54.7

catch up on all the magic news. And then I looked and I saw that they had announced the great

0:58.6

designer search three several weeks ago. And that was the beginning. I entered the GDS3,

1:04.7

and I did extremely well. And I, yeah, after after that I was on Magic's radar.

1:12.3

Yeah, so basically you came in second.

1:14.4

Ari Ne won the Grandin Search 3.

1:18.4

And then what happened was you did a lot of freelance projects for Rwara.

1:21.0

You did deck building and such, right?

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