#1277: Betrayers of Kamigawa
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This podcast is another in my quest to cover every Magic expansion.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work. |
| 0:06.4 | Okay, I have this ongoing quest to have a podcast on every single expansion. And so I've been going through them and covering the ones I haven't yet done. |
| 0:17.6 | So it turns out that we're up to betrayers of Kamagawa. |
| 0:22.2 | So I in fact did a bunch of podcasts on champions |
| 0:24.7 | of Kamagawa. I will go over |
| 0:26.8 | a little bit today on champions, |
| 0:28.7 | but I'm going to set up betrayers, and then I'm |
| 0:30.7 | going to talk all about betrayers. Then at |
| 0:32.7 | some point in the near future, I will talk about savior |
| 0:34.5 | of Kamagawa. Okay, so |
| 0:37.2 | Champions of Kamagawa. Okay, so Champions of Kamagawa |
| 0:38.8 | was |
| 0:41.5 | sort of Bill's last |
| 0:43.7 | sort of block design as head designer. |
| 0:47.4 | So what happens is I take over |
| 0:49.6 | as head designer in the middle of |
| 0:52.3 | of champions of Kamagawa block. In fact, the very first set that I had any um, responsibility as a head designer was, in fact, oh, and betrayers of Kamagawa, this set. Now, it was way far along. I more was just trying to, both betrayers and, um, saviors, was more of me trying to like get them to the point of what they were doing |
| 1:12.2 | uh it's not really to a rabnika that i have a big like the first blocks that i'm in charge of where i have a |
| 1:17.8 | big input betrayers and savers are more me just trying to make sure the sets live up to what they |
| 1:22.7 | were trying to do um so real quickly there's a little update, so we'll get into betrayers. Bill's idea for champions was he really wanted to do a top-down block. |
| 1:36.3 | And nowadays, we do that all the time. But back in the day, it wasn't something that we |
| 1:41.6 | had done all the time. And Bill's idea was, here's what he wanted to do. |
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