#1348: High Mana Value Spells, Part 2
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This episode is part two of a two-part series where I talk about the designs of all the cards that have a mana value of 11 or higher.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to rather drive to work at home edition. |
| 0:06.0 | So, from time to time, I like to do what I call a card-by-card episode, where I walk through cards that fit a certain criteria and talk about how they got designed. |
| 0:16.0 | So this is part two of my one on expensive spells. |
| 0:25.3 | So my guideline is these are all spells that cost 11 or more. |
| 0:28.4 | And so we have a lot of expensive spells and magic. |
| 0:30.3 | In fact, we have 47 of them. |
| 0:32.6 | And I talked about a bunch in part one. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm going to talk about the rest of them in part two. |
| 0:39.1 | So we're going to be kin in Eldridge Moon with Emmercule, the promised end. |
| 0:46.2 | So last year, last time I talked about the previous Emmercule, which was Emmercule, the aeons torn. |
| 0:53.4 | But in Eldridge Moon, so it costs 13 generic mana for a 1313, legendary creature Eldrazi. |
| 1:12.1 | This spell costs one less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during the player's next turn. After that turn, the player takes an extra turn. Flying trample protection from instance. Okay, so the first thing we wanted to do, we were doing Emmercool again. The last Emmercool had been 1550. |
| 1:17.0 | We made this one a little bit smaller, but it mineslavers your opponent. |
| 1:18.5 | We thought that was pretty cool. |
| 1:23.5 | So what happened was the Eldrazi Titans. |
| 1:27.0 | In Riza-Odrazi, all three of them were there. When we came back in Battle for Zendikar, we put one in each of those blocks, and then |
| 1:31.0 | Emmer Cool, have been lured away by... |
| 1:34.7 | Who, Lurd him away? |
| 1:38.4 | I'm blinking on names today. |
| 1:40.6 | He got lured away and lured to Innestrade. |
| 1:47.7 | And he was causing havoc there. |
| 1:49.5 | So we needed to show him here. |
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