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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1261: Edge of Eternities Set Design with Andrew Brown

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

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with Andrew Brown, the set lead designer of Edge of Eternities, to talk about the making of the set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:06.0

So I tend to use my home ones to do interviews. And today I have Andrew Brown, the lead set designer for Edge of Eternities, because we're going to talk Edge of Eternities today.

0:17.0

Hey, Andrew.

0:18.0

Hey, Mark, how's it going?

0:20.0

Okay, so you led the set design.

0:23.2

So the audience understands you were also on the vision design.

0:26.1

You were there for the whole time.

0:28.3

Yep.

0:28.8

But we're going to pick up...

0:30.3

There's another podcast with Ethan talking about the vision design.

0:32.7

So we're going to talk about the set design.

0:35.5

So...

0:35.7

Sounds good.

0:36.5

Okay, so mostly when the set design. So... Sounds good. Okay, so mostly, when the set was handed off, all the things that you know in the set

0:43.2

with one big exception, but void and warp and landers were in the set in some form. All of them

0:49.8

would change along the way. And then let's start with the biggest change, because when the set was handed off, Station

0:57.2

wasn't in the set.

0:59.0

We had what we called cosmic cards, which were, the way I described them is imagine a melded

1:04.0

card, but it's one card rather than two cards.

1:07.7

That was what we handed off from Vision.

1:09.4

The idea of giant cards, it was modeled after what

1:11.8

we had done in Transformers, where the transformer boosters literally are larger than normal and come

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