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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#467: Multicolor Blocks

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

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about the many different multicolor blocks we've made and how we went about making them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

It's time to drive to work.

0:06.0

I took my son to camp again.

0:08.0

Okay, so today, on my blog, we've been talking a lot about designing for multicolors sets.

0:14.0

So I thought today I would combine sort of discussing how we design multi-collar cards, or sorry, multicolors sets, with a history lesson design multi-color cards or sorry multi-color sets with a history lesson on

0:23.5

multi-color sets so what i want to do today is sort of walk through actually when i say sets i

0:29.1

really mean blocks with one exception um so we're going to walk through and talking about well what

0:33.1

happens when we design a block what whatever lessons we learned and i'm going to sort of walk through the evolution of multicolour block design.

0:41.3

Okay, so I start with Legends, which is my only set.

0:43.3

All the rest I'm going to talk about today are blocks.

0:46.3

The reason I start with Legends, on some level, it's not really a multicolored set, but

0:52.3

it introduced the concept of gold cards, of multicolored

0:55.9

cards.

0:57.3

So what Legends did is they introduced both legendary creatures and multicolored cards, and then

1:03.6

they combined them one for one.

1:05.6

So in Legends, all legendary creatures are multicolored and only multi-colored cards or sorry all multi-colored cards are

1:14.9

legendary creatures so it definitely introduced it in the beginning and it was it was splashy in its day

1:22.2

although you go back and look at them the legends from legends are legendary creatures from legends

1:26.9

are mostly not so legendary there There's a few that stand out over time, but, um, you know, look at stuff like

1:35.3

Lady in the Mountain and just cringe a little bit. Uh, but anyway, so legends introduce the idea.

1:39.3

That's when it sort of that, but the first set that said, okay, uh, we're going to make a theme out of this.

1:45.0

This is going to be something that we build the block around was invasion.

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