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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1205: Innistrad Remastered with JC Tao

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

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with JC Tao, the lead designer of Innistrad Remastered, to talk about the making of the set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.8

So today we're going to talk all about the design of the industry red mastered. So I went and got the lead designer, J.C. Tao. Hey, Jaycey.

0:16.2

Hey, Mark. How's it going? Okay, so I want to start by sort of explaining the parameters of what was given to you as a challenge.

0:23.5

Okay, so here's what I believe the parameters were, and correct me if I'm missing something.

0:29.4

You were allowed to go to any set, not just any set, sorry, any card that represented Indistrade that took place on Indistrade.

0:38.1

So obviously, you had access to Indistrade, Dark Extension, Avicenraud, Avicin Restored, Shadows Over Inestrade, Eldridge Moon, Indistrade Midnight Hunt, Indistrade, Crimson Vow.

0:47.4

And any set where, like, you know, a core set or modern masters or anything that just literally it took place on

0:56.4

Indistrade, right? That was the parameters. That's correct. Okay. And basically, you had to do two things.

1:06.4

Let me get the easy one out of the way. And then we're going to spend most of the time talking about

1:09.6

the hard thing. The easy thing is, hey, we wanted to reprint cards we knew people wanted, and cards that were good for constructed.

1:17.7

And I know you guys made a list, and you talked to all the constructed people, and, you know, we, you made sure the cards that people wanted were in the product.

1:25.8

That's not a very complicated thing.

1:27.6

So you did do that.

1:29.0

The product has a lot of fun reprints.

1:30.7

Yes.

1:31.5

The more challenging thing is you had to make a limited environment and a limited environment

1:37.1

which is here's the cards you got.

1:38.7

That's it.

1:39.4

You can't make new cards.

1:41.1

You can't invent new things.

1:42.5

You have to make it out of what exists.

1:44.8

So I want to really delve into that because that to me, as a designer, that's the major challenge.

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