#1346: All the Mood Swings Cards, Part 2
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part two 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 on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work. |
| 0:06.5 | Okay, this is part two of a podcast series where I'm going to talk about every single mood swings card. |
| 0:15.8 | When we left off last time, so I'm going in order by collector number. So it goes white, blue, black, red, green |
| 0:23.0 | alphabetically. So we last time talked about honor. So this time we'll start with idealism. |
| 0:27.8 | So idealism is a card, a mythic card. It's worth zero. It says you can play an extra card. And then |
| 0:37.3 | all, for any card that is two values, it's the higher value. |
| 0:43.5 | Regardless of whatever else is going on, it just makes it the higher value. |
| 0:47.8 | So this is similar to encouragement. |
| 0:49.9 | Encouragement is an uncommon that for three does that to one card while it's in play. |
| 0:54.7 | Idealism does it to all your cards while it's in play. |
| 0:59.6 | Remember, you don't get to choose which you want, it's just the higher. |
| 1:05.5 | But anyway, one of the challenges in making this card was, I think I made this card first. |
| 1:13.0 | I made, and this card got made during the secret later development period. |
| 1:18.6 | I had the dice. |
| 1:20.5 | I had the dual role of value for a while, but I wanted to make a card that cared about it. |
| 1:25.9 | I came up with idealism. |
| 1:26.9 | I really liked it. |
| 1:27.5 | I liked it enough that I decided to make a one-shot version of it, which was encouragement. |
| 1:32.3 | But I had this weird thing where I needed to price them correctly. |
| 1:36.0 | And encouragement really wanted to be at three. |
| 1:39.3 | It's situational, and so I didn't want it to be too low. |
| 1:42.9 | But then... |
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