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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#402: Color Pie Conflicts

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There are five conflicts between the five colors. In this podcast, I discuss them all.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

0:05.0

Okay, so today is one of my favorite topics.

0:09.0

So a while ago for you guys, recently for me, I wrote an article called Pi Fights, where I talked about the conflicts of the colors in the Color Pie.

0:18.0

And I love talking Color Pie. So today, today is about conflict.

0:22.6

So I'm going to talk about the five basic conflicts.

0:24.6

And so A, we'll talk about what they are, and B, talk about how they actually connect.

0:29.6

The one thing I find really neat is, when you look at how the color fights its two enemies,

0:34.6

the conflict that a single color has with each of the two

0:37.8

enemies is related. And it's all very interconnected. And that is cool. So I'm going to talk about that

0:42.3

today because I love talking color pie. Okay. So quickly recap. Let me talk about what the five

0:49.5

colors want, just to put the context here. White. White wants peace. White looks around and said, look, if

0:57.7

everybody had what they need, we have the resources that everybody can have what they need,

1:02.1

that everybody can be happy, that we can live in a world where there's no conflict, but

1:06.1

there's no suffering, that we have the tools to live in a utopia. We just need to do that.

1:12.6

And White says part of doing that is creating a structure

1:16.6

to make sure that people are thinking of the good of the group

1:20.6

over the good of the individual.

1:22.6

And so White is all about figuring out and finding out the ways

1:25.6

by which we can be a better people and that

1:27.9

we can create systems, we can create laws, we can create moral guidance, we can do things

1:35.5

so that people are living correctly and making sure that everybody can be happy.

1:41.8

Okay, Blue, Blue seeks perfection. Blue believes that everybody's born a blank slate,

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