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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1294: Moxen and Lotuses

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

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about the design of every card with Mox or Lotus in the name designed as a spiritual successor to Limited Edition (Alpha)'s Moxen and Black Lotus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of my driveway.

0:01.9

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

It's time, rather, drive to work.

0:06.5

Okay, today is what I'm dubbing the jewelry episode.

0:11.2

I am talking mocks and lotus.

0:15.0

Moxes, moxen.

0:16.7

I think moxes is the technical plural.

0:19.2

Okay, so let's start our story.

0:21.7

Back in Alpha, Richard Garfield made six cards that went on to be pretty famous.

0:29.9

He made Black Lotus.

0:31.8

For those that are unaware, it's an artifact that costs zero,

0:34.8

and you can tap and sack it to add three color of any

0:39.3

mana to your manna pool.

0:41.7

Black Lotus is kind of the boaster child of magic.

0:46.7

It is a card that gets probably the most attention of any of the old cards, probably because

0:51.6

it's crazy powerful.

0:54.7

And then the mocks were five, they're a cycle of them.

0:58.4

All these were rare.

0:59.4

There wasn't mythic rare at the time.

1:01.4

And each of the mocks cost zero.

1:03.6

They're an artifact as well.

1:05.1

And they tap for a respective mana.

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