#1285: Top 20 Most Influential Expansions, Part 3

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

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This is part three of three going over my talk from MagicCon: Atlanta looking at the top 20 most influential Magic expansions of all time.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling out of the driveway.
0:02.0	We all know what that means.
0:03.6	It's time for another drive to work.
0:06.1	Okay.
0:07.1	Well, today is part three of a three-part series based on a speech I gave at MagiCon Atlanta on the top 20 most influential magic expansions of all time.
0:21.7	So, we are up to number seven future site.
0:26.4	It released in April of 2007.
0:28.9	I led the design for it.
0:31.5	Mike Turian led the development for it.
0:34.8	So it was part of the time spiral block.
0:38.4	So the time spiral block had a past, present, and future flavor.
0:44.1	So the idea of time spiral came.
0:46.8	We hinted at the past.
0:48.6	We had a bonus sheet that showed old cards in the old frame.
0:51.7	And then we had Planner Chaos.
0:53.1	It was about the alternate present. And then we had Planner Chaos. It was about like the alternate present.
0:55.8	And so it's, uh, bonus sheet showed cards, but in different colors.
1:00.4	Wrath of God is now black and its damnation.
1:03.2	Um, and then we get to FutureSight.
1:05.0	So FutureSight's idea was the showing cards from the future.
1:09.8	Which at the time, uh, caused a lot of confusion because it's very easy to say
1:16.5	these are cards from the past. They're literally cards from the past. Okay, I got it. Okay,
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