#1237: Top 20 Worst Mechanics, Part 1

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

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This podcast is part one of three on my series about the 20 worst mechanics of all time, based on my talk at last year's MagicCon: Las Vegas.

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0:00.0	I'm Pulae My Driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.
0:06.4	Okay, so today and some number of future podcasts, I will be talking about a speech I gave
0:12.7	at MagicCon Las Vegas in 2024. It was the 20 worst mechanics of all time. In Chicago, I had done the 20 best mechanics of all time,
0:24.1	and I made a series of podcasts on that talk.
0:27.3	So today, I don't know whether it'll be two or three.
0:31.0	We'll see how it goes.
0:32.5	So I'm going to talk about the 20 worst mechanics of all time.
0:35.2	I did do a podcast really early on on the 20 worst mechanics of all time, and I'm sure there's
0:40.8	some overlap.
0:42.2	But I did a lot of prep for the speech, so this should be a bit different.
0:46.1	Also, that one was a long time ago.
0:48.1	Okay.
0:48.9	Number 20, stickers from Unfinity.
0:53.7	So the interesting thing about stickers is
0:55.8	I actually don't think the actual
0:57.8	mechanic of the stickers
0:59.7	meaning I have the means
1:02.1	to
1:02.8	place things on my card
1:06.2	that weren't there
1:08.2	before. There are four types
1:10.1	of stickers. There were name stickers. There were art before. There are four types of stickers.
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