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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1255: Creature Color Pie

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

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with creatures.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's time about their drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so recently I did a podcast talking about artifacts and how it fits into the color pie.

0:13.0

That was so much fun, I decided to do another one.

0:16.0

This one's going to be on creatures.

0:18.0

So I'm going to talk about how the creature card type interacts with all the different colors

0:23.2

from a color pie standpoint.

0:24.9

I'm going to use the same method I used last time.

0:27.5

So I'll talk first about, for each color, I'll start by talking about destruction and how

0:32.4

they handle creatures.

0:34.5

Then I'll talk about the battlefield, then I'll talk about the graveyard, and then finally I'll talk about the hand in library.

0:41.8

So I'm going to go through each of the colors and talk about it.

0:44.4

So the first thing, when I did artifacts, there are definitely like certain colors that are good at dealing with artifacts and certain colors that aren't good to dealing artifacts.

0:53.9

In fact, it was a weakness for black, for example. Creatures are a little different.

0:59.6

They're so fundamental to the game. Like, green originally was the color that couldn't handle

1:04.3

creatures, and we realized that we needed to give it. So when I, each color does deal with them

1:09.0

in a different way, just because the nature of creatures because there's more of them.

1:13.6

But half the cards are creatures and creatures are very fundamental to the game in a way that, you know, artifacts or enchantments aren't always inherently.

1:21.0

And so just the need to have answers for those is a little bit higher.

1:24.6

Okay, so once again, we will go in Wooberg order, white, blue, black,

1:28.0

red, green. That is the order we put our files, and the order we put collector numbers. Okay,

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