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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1161: Bloomburrow Play Design with Jadine Klomparens

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

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with Play Designer Jadine Klomparens to talk about the play design of Bloomburrow.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

So today we're going to talk Bloomberg Play Design, and I have J.D. and Clomparans with me to talk all about it.

0:14.0

Hey, Jadeen.

0:15.0

Hey, Mark, how's it going?

0:17.0

Okay, so I think we're going to do is start with the mechanics that cover all the animals, and then we'll talk with the individual animals.

0:23.1

How does that sound?

0:24.6

Sounds great.

0:25.7

Okay, so let's start with offspring.

0:28.3

How challenging from a play design standpoint is offspring?

0:32.4

You know, not really that hard.

0:35.7

It's mostly a kicker variant.

0:37.4

It's got lots of knobs, so it's pretty

0:39.2

easy to get the right cost on it. The most challenging part about it from our perspective is that

0:45.3

it's just fundamentally getting two of the same thing, which can be a lot more powerful than having

0:50.4

one of it, and in a lot of ways, lot less fun just kind of repetitive etc but there's

0:56.1

some really cool dreams to fulfill having access to your effect kind of even if you lose one of your

1:00.8

creatures is really cool so we have a lot to work with pretty easy mechanic for us okay let's talk

1:06.8

gift how hard now gifts is something a little bit newer right yeah gift is pretty new it's novel it's

1:13.4

super sweet um the hardest part of for it for us is that uh in competitive 60 card magic

1:22.6

you often do not want to help your opponent so So getting the cost just right and like figuring out

1:29.0

what we need to bribe you with so that you will give your opponent something and make the choice

1:34.1

come up is not the easiest thing. Some gifts are the gifts are not all equal. Like you very rarely

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