#1364: Ravnica Allegiance
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This is another in my series where I attempt to give every Magic expansion an episode of my podcast. Today, I talk about Ravnica Allegiance, the second set of our third visit to Ravnica.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay, so today's another in my series where I'm trying to talk about every magic expansion ever. |
| 0:12.9 | So I'm up to Ravnikah Allegiance. So interestingly, I always assumed when I got to the point where I started my podcast that I would have already talked about these episodes, but that is not true. |
| 0:23.8 | So I have talked about Gills of Ravnika, and I did do a lesson learned about both Gilds of Ravnika and Ravnik allegiance. |
| 0:31.3 | The reason I did them together is the design was done together. |
| 0:34.8 | But I've not talked about Ravign Allegiance as a set alone. |
| 0:37.9 | So I decided that today I will. |
| 0:41.8 | So Ravnikollegance, code named Meatballs. |
| 0:45.8 | Gilles of Ravnika was spaghetti. |
| 0:47.3 | So spaghetti and meatballs. |
| 0:49.3 | And it came out January 25th, 2019, 259 cards, 111 commons, 80 Uncommons, 53 rairs, 15 mythics. |
| 0:59.4 | I led the vision design. |
| 1:01.4 | The team was me, Jules, Robbins, Jackie Lee, Ari Levich, who did the creative team, |
| 1:05.5 | Sam Stoddard, who I handed off to, and Brian Hawley. |
| 1:08.7 | The development, or the set design team was led by Sam Stoddard, |
| 1:12.7 | Eric Lauer, Adam Prozac, Dave Humphreys, Michael Majors, Paul Cheon, and Peter Lee. Okay, so, |
| 1:20.3 | I guess I should start by talking about where were we in Magic? So this was our third visit |
| 1:26.8 | to Ravnika. The first Rav ravnica uh the first ravenica uh the first |
| 1:31.1 | fact the very first set or first block i ever led as head designer um or that i'm in charge of |
| 1:37.4 | his head designer i also led ravenka was original ravnica uh and that was uh a full block large small small I realized that I needed to give each |
| 1:48.8 | of the guilds time to shine so the the real the real quick dirty version of original Ravnika |
| 1:54.0 | was we were going back to doing a multi-color block it's the first time we'd repeat a theme in a |
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