#1296: 30 Years, Part 1
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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This podcast is part one of a four-part series talking about 30 big design evolutions since I started working at Wizards of the Coast in October 1995. This is based on a three-part series I did in my Making Magic column.
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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. |
| 0:06.6 | Okay, so today is the start of a series called 30 years based on a series of articles I did in my Making Magic column. |
| 0:17.7 | So to celebrate my 30 years working at Wizards, what I did is I went back, so I started working |
| 0:23.1 | at Wizards full time in October of 1995. And so I went back and looked at the 30 biggest design |
| 0:31.9 | innovations, the things that changed how we did design that happened in the last 30 years. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, it's not like one per year. |
| 0:40.8 | It's just 30 things that all. |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, the rules of this was it had to happen starting with October 95. |
| 0:47.4 | So there's a few things that happened before that, not counting those. |
| 0:51.1 | And it had to be something that I thought really fundamentally changed design some way. |
| 0:56.2 | Maybe it was a new tool, maybe it was a new way to think of things, maybe it was a new process. |
| 1:01.6 | There's a lot of different kinds of things I listed. |
| 1:03.5 | But the core of it is these are all things that since I started working at Wizards got added |
| 1:09.7 | to design in a way that changed how magic design worked. |
| 1:13.9 | So for each one of these, I talk about the thing that started it. |
| 1:17.2 | And I walk through, so once again, the thing I like to do when I do podcast versions of my articles is |
| 1:22.1 | I just have more time to sort of go into more depth. |
| 1:25.5 | So this is kind of like the article, but there's a little more there |
| 1:29.2 | because I have extra space to do so. |
| 1:31.7 | So we shall begin. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm not even sure how many podcasts this will be. |
| 1:36.2 | I have 30 items total to talk about, obviously. |
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