#1300: 30 Years, Part 3
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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This is part three 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 out the parking lot. We all know what that means. |
| 0:04.0 | We don't. It's time for another drive from work. |
| 0:07.0 | So I'm doing a series right now where I'm talking about, called 30 Years, |
| 0:12.0 | based on an article series I did in my, in making magic, my column, |
| 0:16.0 | where I'm talking about the 30 innovations, design innovations, |
| 0:20.0 | since I started working at Wizards 30 years ago on October 1995. |
| 0:25.3 | I thought it was going to be a three-part episode. |
| 0:27.7 | It turns out it's a four-part episode, I believe. |
| 0:30.1 | And so in order to get all four parts done this week, |
| 0:32.9 | I am doing a rare, although less rare, drive from work. |
| 0:38.3 | I actually did a drive from work not that long ago, but anyway, it's enough. |
| 0:42.3 | I don't want to say my time's getting full, but I'm doing a podcast 2-end from work. |
| 0:48.3 | Okay, so last we left, I talked about number 14, which brings us to number 15 bonus sheets. And for this, |
| 0:56.7 | we have to go to Time Spiral in October of 06. So Time Spiral had a time theme. One of the ideas |
| 1:05.5 | was we were, we had a bunch of mechanics that we thought were interesting mechanics, suspend, and what else? |
| 1:13.9 | It was Flash, and we had a mechanic we took from Cold Snap split second. |
| 1:20.3 | But anyway, we had this time theme, and I was really big. |
| 1:24.0 | This is the second block that I led as head designer that I oversaw. And so I thought, |
| 1:30.7 | how do you divide time into three parts and became very apparent that it wanted to be past, |
| 1:36.7 | present, and future? And so the first set, time spiral, was all about the past. And I came up this |
| 1:43.2 | cool idea of what if occasionally cards from the past actually showed up about the past. And I came up this cool idea of what if occasionally cards from |
| 1:46.7 | the past actually showed up in your booster. And we had already changed the frame in eighth edition |
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