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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1187: Foundations Starter Collection Design with Carmen 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

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with Carmen Klomparens, lead designer of the Magic: The Gathering Foundations Starter Collection, to talk about the design of the product.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

So today I have a guest. I like to have a guest when I'm at home.

0:10.0

So Carmen Clamparons is going to talk about the foundation starter collection. Hello.

0:15.0

Woo!

0:16.0

So there's everything you want to know. So, Carmen, you were the one that put this together, correct?

0:22.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:23.1

This is something I put a lot of work into it, whenever.

0:26.2

Like just from the very beginning, I did a lot of work on foundations, not to scoop too

0:30.5

much too hard, but I was a strong second on the set.

0:32.9

I led limited.

0:34.1

I led this part of the whole thing.

0:36.2

And I was really on it from, I think, the second or third

0:39.2

meeting, the foundations was even a thing that we knew we were going to be doing. Okay, so let's,

0:45.2

I really want to focus on the starter collection. I have other podcasts talking about other aspects.

0:49.5

Great. So let's start from the very beginning. What was the point? Why was, why does this exist as a

0:53.7

product?

1:06.0

So for a lot of us, I think we all had that older brother or the queen of the anime club or some cousin that had a shoebox of cards that they showed us.

1:10.5

And there was something in that shoebox that hooked us that we fell in love with or built a deck out of.

1:16.5

And it was really important to make sure that when we did foundations, that we were setting people up to actually have a path to become true magic players, right?

1:21.3

I think a lot of corsets in the past just treat you like, quote, unquote, a new magic player

1:25.8

the whole time.

1:27.1

And this was sort of trying to have the shoebox of awesome stuff to fall in love with

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