#1343: All the Mood Swings Cards, Part 1
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part one of a five-part series. In it, I go through every single Mood Swings card, in collectible number order, and talk about how they were designed, including many of the changes they went through and some strategic tips on how to play them. Note: This is a bonus episode for this week.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work. |
| 0:06.4 | Okay, so today I'm going to start a multi-part series where I'm going to talk through every |
| 0:11.8 | mood swings card and talk about how it got designed. So there are 133 cards. So I'm not quite |
| 0:19.7 | sure how many podcasts this will take, but I'm going to, and I'm going to go to collector number order. So I'm not quite sure how many podcasts this will take. |
| 0:21.8 | And I'm going to go to collector number order. |
| 0:23.9 | So I'm going to start from the beginning of one, |
| 0:26.2 | which is a card alphabetically first in white, |
| 0:29.3 | and move all the way through until we get the card |
| 0:31.1 | alphabetically last in green. |
| 0:34.7 | So we're going to start with altruism. |
| 0:37.3 | So altruism is a, um, a rare white card. It is worth |
| 0:44.6 | three, but if there's at least one card in the graveyard, it is worth six. And if you do that, |
| 0:53.0 | then you, starting to the person to your left, give them a random card |
| 0:56.6 | from the discard pile. |
| 0:59.0 | And then if you have any cards left over, they go to the bottom of the deck. |
| 1:03.6 | So this card, I designed this card pretty late in the process. |
| 1:07.2 | This was during the final push, you know, the push for the, we were actually making the secret |
| 1:12.7 | layer set. I think what I wanted was I was trying to interact with more ways to get people |
| 1:20.1 | cards and I wanted to have an answer to people that were making use of the discard pile. |
| 1:27.8 | So my creative solution was, well, what if I give people cards out of the discard pile? |
| 1:33.7 | And then if there's leftovers, I get rid of them. |
| 1:35.9 | So the idea is I'm getting rid of the discard pile. |
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