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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1227: Tarkir: Dragonstorm Vision Design

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

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I walk through the vision design for Tarkir: Dragonstorm and talk about the evolution of the Dragon subtype and clan mechanics.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:08.0

Okay guys, today is all about Tarkir Dragon Storm vision design.

0:15.0

So I'm going to talk about the early making of Tarkir Dragon Storm.

0:20.0

So our story actually begins before Dragonstorm.

0:24.7

We go back to the original cons of Tercure Block.

0:27.5

So let me just set up what we did before,

0:30.0

so it has a lot to do with our return.

0:32.4

So once upon a time, we used to do blocks.

0:36.6

Blocks were three sets every year.

0:39.3

There was a fall set that was large, a winter set that was usually small,

0:45.3

and then a spring set that was either small or large.

0:48.3

In the early days, it was large, small, small.

0:51.3

Eventually we started messing around with large, small, large.

0:53.3

And then we started experimenting with what large small large and then we started

0:54.6

experimenting with what if the large set had new mechanics? Like what if we sort of started over

1:01.6

in the third set? So try to make something new. We had what we call the third set problem,

1:05.7

which people were getting tired of things by the third set. So we had this idea of what if we

1:09.8

reinvent the third set. So we had this idea of what if we reinvent the third set?

1:11.6

So we had done that a couple times,

1:13.9

and we were scheduled again to do large, small, large,

1:16.7

where the third set reinvented itself.

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