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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1350: Marvel Super Heroes Design

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Games, Mtg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Game Design, Leisure, Ccg

4.7806 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about designing Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.2

We all know what that means.

0:03.9

It's time another drive to work.

0:06.5

And today, I get to talk about a set that I've been dying to talk about.

0:10.4

Today is about the design of Marvel superheroes.

0:14.1

Matches the Gathering, Marvel Superheroes.

0:16.1

Very exciting.

0:17.2

Okay, so let's go to the very beginning.

0:21.4

So when Aaron Forsyth first pitched the idea of Universes Beyond,

0:27.2

he made a little presentation, and he talked to a couple of individual people.

0:30.4

I was one of the people we talked to.

0:31.7

He showed me and he goes, what do you think?

0:33.8

And the literal first words out of my mouth were dibs on Marvel.

0:38.5

So he came to me about, I don't know, a year and a half later, and he goes, we're pitching to Marvel.

0:44.7

And I want you to make the cards.

0:47.5

So I had to make, I think I had to make seven cards.

0:50.4

It had to be in all the colors, various card types, various rarities.

0:57.0

And for one of them, he said, mostly I want you to do the stuff they'd expect,

1:00.8

but we should do one deep cut just to demonstrate that we're fans of the property.

1:06.4

And I'm trying to remember I did, I did like a Scarlet Witch and I did Rocket and I did Thanos.

1:14.9

I did like a member of Shield to show a common.

1:17.5

I think I did Cap Shield.

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