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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1233: Arc Planning

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

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about the team that figures out what in-Multiverse Magic sets we'll be doing in the future.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:01.9

We all know what that means.

0:03.5

It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.2

Okay, so today I want to talk about a weekly meeting I have called arc planning.

0:13.2

What is arc planning?

0:14.8

What do we do?

0:16.1

Who's in it?

0:17.3

All that and more will me explain today.

0:20.6

Okay, so if you've listened to me, tell stories, which as regular listeners, I assume you have,

0:25.5

I used to talk about back in the day, back when, like, Randy Buehler was my boss,

0:29.3

that I would put together a five-year plan, that sometimes would be a six-year plan or a seven-year

0:34.8

plan, but I would sort of map out where I thought we were going.

0:39.5

So back in the days, it was mostly like me pitching it, and then a few other people would sort

0:45.7

of sign off on it, but that was the process back in the day. It's gotten a lot more evolved.

0:50.9

There's a lot more pieces to it. There's a lot more people involved in it.

0:55.3

So we meet once a week. So the arc planning team, the idea of this team is we sort of decide

1:01.6

what the upcoming sets are. And there's a lot, a lot that goes into that. So today is going to be

1:08.6

me explaining sort of what the arc planning team does,

1:12.1

things we think about, and just walk through the arc planning process. Okay, so let me start

1:19.4

by talking about the people on arc planning. Now, this team has changed over time. I'm just

1:26.0

going to run through the people that are currently on the team.

1:29.5

But it is an ever-changing thing.

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