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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1239: Top 20 Worst Mechanics, Part 3

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

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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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.

0:05.8

It's time for their drive to work.

0:08.7

Okay, so the last two podcasts, I've been sharing, I did a, in Las Vegas, Magic Con, Las Vegas,

0:15.7

2004, I did a talk, and the talk was on the top 20 worst mechanics of all time.

0:22.4

And so I've done two podcasts so far, and I've covered 15 of the 20, but there are five remaining.

0:29.7

So today I will talk about the last five.

0:32.8

And the whole idea behind this talk was talking about not only why they were bad mechanics, but

0:38.2

like what about the made them bad, what was the problem, what lessons did we learn?

0:42.8

So a lot of the idea of talking about bad mechanics is not just, I mean, it's fun to sort of

0:47.5

look back at bad mechanics, but also it's kind of what do we learn from them?

0:51.2

Why did we make the mistake?

0:52.4

How did it happen?

0:53.4

So that is a lot of impetus behind this talk.

0:57.4

Okay, so we're up to number five, which is radiance from original Ravnica.

1:03.5

It's the Boros mechanic.

1:06.0

So now, when I made Ravnika, the idea for Ravnika, the original concept was we were going to do a

1:15.5

multicolor block.

1:17.4

And we had already done a multicolor block.

1:19.6

The very first block we'd ever done that was like a themed block was invasion, which was

1:23.7

multicolor.

1:25.0

And so we were going back and for the first time ever, we were repeating a block theme. Now, multicolor. And so we were going back, and for the first time ever,

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