#1084: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Set Design with Jules Robins

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

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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I interview Co-Set Design Lead Jules Robins to talk about how the underground set moved to Ixalan.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.
0:06.0	So I like to have guests on when I'm at home. And so today I have Jules Robbins, the lead set designer or co-lead set designer for the Lost Caverns of X-Lon.
0:16.0	Hey, Jules.
0:17.0	Hey, Mark. Thanks for having me.
0:19.0	Okay, so I already did a podcast where I talked about the vision design, so let's set up where we're at.
0:24.3	So, we're building a set for a brand new world underground.
0:29.6	I had this idea of having this color theme, and so it was like part underground tropes, part
0:34.9	color matters.
0:37.2	And anyway, so it's come time to turn it over.
0:40.5	I hand the set over.
0:41.4	So the way it worked was Eric Lauer had the set for a little bit, right?
0:45.4	He led the set for a month or two, and then he handed it over to you.
0:49.8	Yeah.
0:50.4	So we're going to sort of pick up when the set gets to you, since obviously that's the part you were more familiar with.
0:56.3	But although you were there for the Eric Party, right?
0:58.8	You were there during the Eric version.
1:00.2	Yeah, it was on the TV.
1:01.3	Okay, so we hand over the file.
1:03.2	And shortly after we hand over the file,
1:05.7	it was like a couple weeks,
1:07.2	we learned that the set's going to be on Ixtelon,
1:09.7	not on Brand new world.
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