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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1078: Designing for Limited

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

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our new office is open, so I'm back to driving to work. In this podcast, I talk all about the ways we design for Limited. Due to traffic, this podcast is a full hour.

Transcript

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0:01.0

I'm pulling my driveway.

0:02.0

You heard me!

0:03.0

I'm pulling out of my driveway.

0:05.0

We all know what this means.

0:07.0

For starters, the new office is open, and it's time for drive to work.

0:12.0

So today is the very first day of our new offices being open.

0:17.0

So I am for the first time driving to the new offices.

0:20.0

So today, I thought I would talk about designing for limited.

0:26.3

So when we make a set, obviously, many different people will play with every set.

0:32.2

There's lots of different uses for the set.

0:34.2

But one of the ways to play with a set is in limited.

0:38.2

And when we say by limited, there's two main formats we designed for.

0:41.8

One is sealed. Most pre-releases are done in sealed.

0:45.2

Sealed meaning you just open up, you get like the equivalent of six packs usually.

0:50.6

You open it up, you can add any basic land you want and you play.

0:53.6

Or booster draft, booster drafts where you get three boosters, you open it up, you can add any basic land you want, and you play. Or booster draft,

0:54.8

booster drafts where you get three boosters. You open it up one at a time, you choose a card from it.

1:00.1

Usually you draft with seven other people, and then you pass a card to the left. You keep doing

1:05.2

that to you draft all the cards from Pack 1, Pack 2, you pass to the right, do that to drafts all the cards from Pack 2, Pack 3 back to the left.

1:11.6

There are other ways to play limited. There are other limited formats, but Booster Draft and Sealed are the vast majority of play.

1:21.6

In fact, booster draft is most of limited play. Sealed really is restricted to the pre-releases. It's a sanctionable format, and there are

1:31.3

some stores that do a little bit of seal, but it is mostly when people want to play limited formats

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