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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1281: Early One-Drop Creatures

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is a look back at the early creatures that only cost one mana.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:05.9

Okay, I realized I haven't done a card podcast in a while where I just go, I pick some subject, and then I go through and talk about the cards in that subject.

0:14.2

So for today, I've chosen early one drops. That's my theme today. So I'm going to start with Alpha, and I'm going to go chronologically in order for as long as I can until I get to work.

0:25.6

And I'm going to talk about, so the category today is one-drop creatures, which is creatures that cost one single mana.

0:31.6

And we're going to talk all about early one-drops. That's our theme.

0:35.6

So we're going to start with Alpha. Alpha had 12

0:40.0

one drops, six of which were in green. So let's start there. Okay, so first off, we'll start

0:46.0

in white. So the classic Benelish hero, white for a one-one with banding. For those that might not

0:53.8

know what banding is, because banding has not been part of magic for a while-one with banding. For those that might not know what banding is,

0:54.9

because banding has not been part of magic for a while,

0:57.6

it was an ability of very complicated ability,

0:59.6

but basically allowed you to combine banding creatures

1:03.5

with non-banding creatures

1:05.0

to make what's called a band

1:07.6

where they sort of all attacked or blocked together.

1:10.0

And then you, the control of the band, decided, like, how damage went to the band.

1:16.0

Anyway, it was complicated.

1:17.7

But Benro's Hero was the very first banding creature.

1:21.2

In fact, it wasn't even called Banding.

1:22.4

I think it said bands on it.

1:24.1

It later got changed to banding, but it's like, it originally says, Benner's hero, summon hero, bands.

1:31.6

The one other white one drop in Alpha,

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