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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#450: R&D, Wave Three

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

🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

From time to time, I dedicate a show to talking about the many people who have worked on Magic. In this podcast, I'm talking again about R&D—this time covering the group I dub the "third wave."

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for

0:04.1

there driving to work. And interestingly, I'm dropping Rachel off at school and then starting.

0:09.7

So what's going on is Rachel is now interning at her old elementary school for her internship,

0:15.9

which is right by our house. For a long-time listeners would know that.

0:19.9

Anyway, and so I'm dropping off but I'm

0:22.3

right by my house so you should get your full content today okay so today I'm

0:26.9

picking up on something I do from time to time where I talk about different people

0:31.6

so this is I've done two previous podcasts on R&D, R&D people.

0:38.7

I did first wave of R&D, and I did second wave of R&D.

0:43.2

So guess what we're up to?

0:44.3

Third wave of R&D.

0:46.5

So this stretches from about invasion block to about Lorwynn block.

0:51.2

And I'll walk through all the different people.

0:56.0

I'm going kind of chronologically, but I'm going to jump around a little bit because I didn't bother to figure exactly who all went in

1:01.4

what order. But this is, it's roughly chronological. Okay, so the person who I consider to be the first

1:07.2

sort of the beginning of the third wave of R&D is Randy Bueller.

1:14.3

So here's what happened.

1:15.2

Let me set the scene.

1:15.9

So Erzegh Saga comes out.

1:18.0

And remember, we work ahead.

1:20.2

So Erz Saga comes out and it goes badly for us.

1:23.8

Very, very badly.

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