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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1099: The Dark

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

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk all about Magic's fourth expansion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so one of my goals, I have many goals here in my podcast, is I want to do a podcast about every magic expansion and talk about the design of it.

0:17.1

Now, there have been a lot of magic expansions. I've covered many of them, but I've not covered all of them.

0:23.1

In fact, I'm making a chart to figure out which ones I haven't done yet.

0:27.3

And one of the ones I haven't done is the dark.

0:31.7

So for those, my night know, early magic, Magic comes out in 1993.

0:39.2

That's Alpha.

0:42.6

And then Beta also comes out in 93.

0:47.9

The very first expansion, Arabian Nights, comes out December 93, January, 1994.

0:51.9

And then after that, there's Antiquities, which is another small set.

0:55.1

Then there's Legends, which is a big set that comes on the summer of 94. And then the fall of 94 is the dark, which is a small set. That is the set

1:02.0

I'll be talking about today. Now, I started working for Wizards full time in 95, the fall of 95.

1:11.6

And the first that I started working on was alliances.

1:15.6

I had people, when I was in Los Angeles, I set up a playtest team for homelands.

1:23.6

So I did work a little tiny veteran homelands, although I didn't, I wasn't really part of the design.

1:29.0

But Homelands is the seventh magic expansion, I think.

1:33.4

So the previous six, I had nothing to do with.

1:35.6

I mean, I was a fan of magic.

1:37.7

I played with them.

1:39.3

And for a lot of them, not for the dark, but for, Ice Age Forward, I was getting I was getting, what we call

1:46.2

God books. I was getting cards

1:48.1

early so I can make my puzzles. I was

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