#1179: Cardcrafting

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Once a week, the Magic designers get together to talk through technical design issues. That meeting is called "Cardcrafting," and I talk about it in this podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling on my driveway.
0:02.0	We all know what that means.
0:03.6	It's time for their drive to work.
0:06.3	Okay, today's topic from my blog.
0:08.7	I'm going to talk all about card crafting.
0:11.6	What is card crafting?
0:13.6	We'll talk about it.
0:14.9	It's a meeting for those that don't know.
0:16.5	So on Fridays, we have an hour meeting where mostly the designers discuss designer-type
0:24.5	issues.
0:26.5	So today I'm going to give you a history of how car crafting came to be and then talk about
0:32.3	what do we talk about in card crafting?
0:34.3	Why is car crafting important?
0:35.6	What do we do there?
0:36.8	So that is today's topic.
0:38.0	Um, the person who recommended this in my blog wanted me to spend 30 minutes mimicking
0:44.4	what a card crafting meeting would be like, but I decided that was too hard. So, so instead,
0:49.3	it's the history of card crafting. Okay, so to understand card crafting, we have to go back.
0:56.4	Back in time.
0:58.2	So in 1995, is when I started at Wizards, or full-time at Wizards.
1:04.6	And at the time, there was a group called R&D, and R&D at the time was solely the designers,
1:13.0	or what we call the designers and developers at the time,
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