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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1218: Weatherlight

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

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This episode looks back at the design of Weatherlight, the third set in the Mirage block.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

0:04.1

We all know what that means.

0:06.0

It's time another drive to work.

0:08.8

Okay, so one of the things I've been trying to do on my podcast is do a podcast on every single magic expansion.

0:17.9

And so today, I'm doing what I haven't done yet, weatherlight.

0:22.3

So for those that don't know, it came out in June 7th of 1997.

0:27.5

It was the third set in the Mirage block.

0:31.6

Had 167 cards, 62 commons, 55 uncommonds, and 50 rairs.

0:38.3

So the design team was Dan Cervelli, Mike Elliott, Joel Mick, and Tain Woodruff.

0:43.9

The development team was, uh, Mike, William, uh, William, Jockish, Bill Rose, Henry Stern, and myself.

0:51.2

The art director was Sue Ann Harky.

0:53.5

Um, okay, let me have a little context to whether or the way. What's going on?

0:57.1

So, basically, magic comes out in 93.

1:04.9

The first thing they do after Magic comes out is they hire a bunch of the original playtifters to work on magic.

1:12.3

Skephalias, Jim Lynn, Dave Petty.

1:15.2

And so a lot of the early R&D are people that were playtefters.

1:20.1

Well, what happens is they decide that a lot of them want to be working on other stuff.

1:25.5

So they hire sort of the next wave of magic designers.

1:29.4

And that next wave is me, Bill Rose, William Jockish, Mike Elliott, Henry Stern.

1:35.6

And so there's a period of time where the five of us were the development team,

1:40.4

and we were doing most of the development work.

1:43.2

But,

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