#1069: Heroes of the Realm

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A number of years ago, Wizards started a new employee appreciation program which resulted in us making not quite official Magic cards. In this podcast, I talk about how they got made and walk through the designs.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling on my driveway.
0:02.4	We all know what that means.
0:03.8	It's time for other drive-to-work at-home edition.
0:06.8	Okay, so today I'm going to talk about Heroes of the Realm.
0:12.3	So real quickly, let me first say, what is Heroes of the Realm?
0:16.5	So this was an award program started by Chris Cox, who was the former CEO of Wizards, now
0:26.9	he was the CEO of Hasbro.
0:28.6	And he wanted to do something that sort of acknowledged good work during the year and do
0:33.4	something that felt very, you know, you know, it felt like it would make, it would feel, I don't know,
0:40.7	wizardy, wizard of the coasty. So the idea he came up with was what were called Heroes of the
0:45.9	Realm Cards. And the way it works is each year, some number of teams, I think usually it's
0:51.9	three, but it can vary from year to year.
0:57.0	And the idea is those three teams get to produce a card.
1:01.6	So they get to make a card.
1:02.7	So all the people that win can together produce a card.
1:05.7	And then they make it that we print it.
1:08.4	The back has a special Heroes of the Realm back.
1:10.6	It doesn't have a normal
1:11.2	magic back. So it's not an official magic card. Like you can't, if you go to a vintage tournament,
1:17.3	you cannot play this card. And I don't think this was true at the very beginning, but now
1:23.1	they put the individual name of each person on the card. So when I've won a Heroes of the Realm card, it has my name on the card.
1:30.1	So it's my...
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