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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1279: Saviors of Kamigawa

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is another in my quest to talk about every Magic expansion. This time I talk about the third set in the Champions of Kamigawa block, Saviors of Kamigawa.

Transcript

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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.

0:06.0

Okay, so I have this ongoing series where I'm trying to talk about every magic set in existence.

0:13.0

So recently I did a podcast on betrayers of Kamagawa.

0:17.0

So I'm now going to do the, that was the second set in the championship of Kamagawa block.

0:22.6

Now I'm going to do the third set today, Saviors of Kamagawa.

0:26.6

So Saviors of Kamagawa comes out in June of 2005.

0:31.6

It has 165 cards.

0:34.6

So 55 commons, 55 uncommons, 55 rairs. Mythic Rare, not a thing yet. And 55 is because the

0:43.4

sheets are 110. So each card appears twice on the sheet. The design team was led by Brian

0:49.5

Tinsman, who also led the design for champions of Kamagawa. So Brian led the first and third set in the block.

0:56.8

I think I only did that once.

0:58.2

I did that in Mirrodin.

0:59.1

I did Mirrodin in Fifth On.

1:01.3

But anyway, his team was himself,

1:05.5

Brian Schneider, Brandon Bozzi, and Devin Lowe.

1:09.4

Brandon was on the creative team. Brian and Devin Lowe. Brandon was on the creative team.

1:13.4

Brian and Devin were both head developer at one point.

1:17.0

And then the lead of the development team was Randy Bueller,

1:20.9

and Brian Schneider, Worth Wilport, Mons Johnson, and Justin Webb were on the development team.

1:26.5

Some of those names you might recognize.

1:29.0

Jeremy Crawford was the art director. Okay, so this was the third set in the block. Now,

1:35.1

longtime listeners know that one of the reasons we stopped doing blocks was what we referred to

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