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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1071: Wilds of Eldraine Story with Roy Graham

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

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with Roy Graham, the person in charge of overseeing Magic Story, to talk about Magic storytelling and the making of the Wilds of Eldraine story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition.

0:06.8

So I love having guest song when I'm at home. So today's no different. We have Roy Graham. So Roy is in charge of story.

0:14.9

So behind the scenes, magic has a story and somebody has be responsible. That person is Roy.

0:22.3

It's me.

0:23.0

Hi, Mark.

0:23.6

Thanks for having me on.

0:25.0

Okay, so the goal today is I want to talk about how we do story.

0:28.9

We're going to use Wild of Eldrain as our example.

0:31.1

So we'll talk about the Wilds Eldrain story.

0:33.4

But I'm trying to give the scope of how exactly the story comes together.

0:36.6

So let's start.

0:38.5

So when in the process do you get involved first?

0:42.2

What's the very first thing you'll do in making the story first set?

0:45.7

So Val's Eldred being an example.

0:48.1

Right.

0:48.5

So this has actually been something that's changed a lot over like the history of magic story and there have been a lot

0:56.1

of different timelines at which the like story people come in sometimes it's been earlier,

1:04.3

sometimes it's been later. Right now, I come in pretty far in advance without talking about any specifics.

1:16.2

We're doing some like story building blocks way far in advance right now out to the things that you talked about actually at, gosh, where was that?

1:28.1

Was that the...

1:28.6

Oh, and Magicon in Barcelona.

1:30.9

Yes, exactly.

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