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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1295: Eventide

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

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk all about the design of the fourth set in the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block, Eventide.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling in my driveway.

0:02.1

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

It's time to have their drive to work.

0:06.3

Okay, so one of my ongoing quests, 1,200 plus podcasts in,

0:11.2

is to do a podcast on every single released magic expansion.

0:16.8

So right now I'm going through all the, what were standard release ones from the very beginning,

0:23.0

or in the beginning they weren't standard release.

0:24.5

But anyway, I'm up to Even Tide.

0:27.6

Even Tide is the small set that went with Shadowmore.

0:31.6

So before I jump into Even Tide, how did we get here in the first place?

0:36.1

Let me sort of really quickly talk through

0:38.4

how uh Lorwin shadowmore maxi block you know the too many blocks together how that all came

0:45.5

about um okay so several years earlier uh the magic brand team decided they wanted us to have a

0:53.1

fourth magic set.

0:54.7

And we ended up doing cold snap.

0:57.6

And it was this only, you know, it was the third ice eight set we found lost in a file

1:02.4

cabinet or whatever.

1:04.0

But it was very disconnected from everything.

1:06.1

And we weren't super happy with it.

1:07.7

So I said to Bill, I go, Bill, next time you want to do four sets in a year, talk to me, I will make it, I'll structure it. I'll make it so it so organic, that it's part of the block, that it's not this extra add-on. So two years later, Bill comes back to me, goes, okay, we're going to do four sets. So I thought about it, and the idea that I really liked that I came to was,

1:29.9

what if instead of having a normal, so at the time normal blocks were three sets,

1:33.9

they were one large set and two small sets. What if I had a, what if we did a block that was

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