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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#476: Hour of Devastation

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

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk all about the design of Hour of Devastation.

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 have to drive to work. And I took my daughter to the orthodontist. Okay, so today, one of the things I did some, I got some feedback from the audience a while ago. And people were asking for more recent podcasts about more recent sets.

0:22.9

So what I've decided to do is I'm going to not do the full card run through,

0:28.4

but I'm going to do individual sort of podcasts about making other sets that I do shortly

0:33.4

after the set comes out, not exactly, you know, a little tiny bit.

0:37.2

But so I did Aminket already. So today I'm going to talk about hour of dead. after the set comes out, not exactly, you know, wait a little tiny bit.

0:39.6

But, so I did almond ket already.

0:42.5

So today I'm going to talk about hour of devastation.

0:44.9

Hour of devastation.

0:49.3

Anyway, so we're going to talk all about how it got made.

1:03.3

Okay, so let's begin with a little caveat, which is we changed over from the old system of three sets a year and a core set to the two blocks system, which was large, small, large, small, so two blocks a year.

1:14.0

So there was one small problem that it gave me is under the old system, I only actually managed the three sets, the course that was somebody else would do.

1:15.4

I mean, I would peek my head in, but I usually the course that was not something I was very

1:19.2

concerned with.

1:20.3

Other people were doing that.

1:22.4

But when we changed to the new model, now we had four, you know, four relevant new sets. So I had to pay attention to them.

1:31.3

Now, obviously, this change would lead to the three and one change. I'll get to another time.

1:36.3

But anyway, the thing I was trying at the time was that I was spending full time on the large

1:43.0

sets and half time on the small sets.

1:45.5

So for our devastation, they would meet twice a week. I would show up for one of the two meetings.

1:49.9

So I was sort of keeping my toe in and I was involved, but I wasn't as involved as I was on most sets.

1:58.8

The fact that I was only there half time.

2:05.2

So I was there, so I obviously can talk about the design.

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