#1293: Avatar: The Last Airbender with Chris Mooney
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this podcast, I sit down with Lead Set Designer Chris Mooney to talk about the design of Magic: The Gathering® | Avatar: The Last Airbender™.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition. |
| 0:06.0 | So normally I'm at home, I like to do interviews. So today I have Chris Mooney to talk about Avatar Velas Airbender. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey Chris. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello. I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay. So let's start from the... First off, let's talk a little bit about your... |
| 0:22.6 | I know you are a fan of Avatar, so how did you end up be running the set? |
| 0:26.6 | Well, so this is my first, like, set that I led as the primary designer, really through all parts of the process, which in and of itself isn't that common. |
| 0:42.6 | Normally I work on the early parts of sets like exploratory and vision design, but this time they said, hey, we want you to stick around and lead set design as well. |
| 0:52.6 | So, you know, I've done vision design for other sets. |
| 0:54.8 | I've done Commander products, but this is my first main set that I got to lead. And the way |
| 0:59.7 | that happened was, you know, it was just a really lucky, you know, timing of everything, where |
| 1:08.7 | it was getting to be around the time when I was at the point in my career |
| 1:13.2 | where it made sense for me to lead a main set. And this one was coming up. I had talked to great |
| 1:19.9 | extent with many people of how much I loved Avatar long before I knew that we were, you know, |
| 1:25.1 | going to partner with. That's just, you know, one of my favorite |
| 1:27.9 | shows of all time, something that I love talking about and about how much I love it. So when this came up, I was on, you know, the top of the list and a couple other people told me that, you know, they were asked, they were like, hey, you know, we've got the set coming up. Do you have any interest in leading it? And they were like, you should have Chris lead the set. |
| 1:47.0 | So I'm very thankful to all those people. |
| 1:50.0 | And yeah, it really was a dream come true. |
| 1:54.0 | I've been telling people when talking about the set |
| 1:58.0 | that when I was younger, I would make my own custom magic sets, |
| 2:04.6 | and a set based around Avatar was one of the ones that I made when I was a kid. |
| 2:09.6 | So it was honestly one of my least favorite ones. |
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