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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1234: Vorthos

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

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part one of a two-part series on the aesthetic profiles. Up first, I talk all about Vorthos, the player who aesthetically appreciates flavor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for out their drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so I recently did a bunch of podcasts on the psychographics, and I realized maybe I should also do ones on what we call the aesthetic profiles,

0:19.0

Vorthos and Mel. So today is all about Vorthos,

0:22.4

and I will do a separate one all about Mel.

0:25.2

So basically, a couple of things.

0:28.0

One, I want to explain the difference

0:29.2

between a psychographic and an aesthetic profile,

0:32.2

because a lot of times people want to group these all together.

0:35.5

The idea of a psychographic is, what is the psychological, oh, sorry, what's the psychological?

0:42.4

A psychographic is, what is the psychological motivation you have to want to play?

0:47.4

What about playing the game of magic?

0:50.0

What does it do for you psychologically?

0:52.1

What are you getting out of it?

0:54.0

What is it, what element of your psyche is it satisfying?

0:59.0

And so a lot of the psychographic is about pure psychology.

1:05.0

The aesthetic profiles is less about psychology,

1:08.0

and it's more about aesthetics, which is what element of card making most draws you to it.

1:18.4

And the idea of aesthetics, so in college, I had to take, so I went to Boston University's College of Communication,

1:27.4

in one of the classes that was required for to Boston University's College of Communication, and one of the

1:28.1

classes that was required for every member of the College of Communications was an aesthetics class.

1:34.0

So what is aesthetics? I guess if we're going to talk about aesthetic profiles, let's start by

1:38.1

talking about aesthetics. So the idea of aesthetics is that there are built in human responses to things.

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