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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#457: Color Pie: Dealing with Creatures

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is my first mechanical color pie podcast where I go in depth on one mechanical aspect. For my maiden voyage, I chose to talk about how the five colors handle creatures.

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 to drive to work.

0:06.3

I dropped my daughter off at her internship. Okay. So today, last time I talked about the mechanical

0:14.1

color pie and the article I made and sort of how it got put together. And I said, oh, maybe I would do

0:20.4

a podcast talking about the mechanical color pie. I said, oh, maybe I would do a podcast

0:20.8

talking about the mechanical color pie.

0:22.3

I said, you know what? Why wait?

0:24.4

I decided to make one.

0:26.0

So what I wanted to do today is when I occasionally do this kind,

0:28.8

this is the kind of thing I'll do every once in a while,

0:30.6

is I'm going to take one slice of the color pie

0:34.5

and go deep, go deep on that slice.

0:43.3

So the one I decided to start with today is dealing with creatures. So one of the things the game needs is every color needs a way to deal with creatures.

0:49.3

And so how do we do that? How do colors handle that?

0:53.3

What exactly are the abilities that each color has

0:56.8

to be able to deal with creatures? So my plan is what I'll do today is walk through all the different

1:01.0

colors and then talk about what each color does and then talk about where they're overlaps and sort of

1:06.4

run the gamut of, okay, what exactly can this color do to deal with creatures?

1:12.8

Now, one of the things I'll say today, I'm going to go in WUberg order.

1:16.0

So Wooberg is white, blue, black, red, green, because in our card coding, white is W,

1:20.7

blue is U, black is B, R is red, green is G.

1:24.7

And that's the order we put them in.

1:26.4

So we say Woburg, that's the order that we put them in so we say Wubeberg that's the order

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