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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#488: Unstable, Part 1

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

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Un- sets are where I try new things, so it seemed only apropos to experiment with having the podcast be about the design when the set is being previewed. This is part 1 of 3.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out my driveway. We don't know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.0

And it is finally time to talk unstable. So I did have a podcast with Mark Purvis where we talked about sort of general terms about how the set got made.

0:16.0

But now it's time to talk specific terms about the actual design of the actual set.

0:23.1

Okay, so I don't know how long this will take.

0:25.8

I'm going to start today.

0:27.1

This might be a multi-podcast.

0:28.8

I'm not sure.

0:30.4

But anyway, we'll begin back in the beginning, 2011.

0:35.6

So January 2011.

0:37.6

Okay, so let me explain. I mean, Mark, I want to sort of go more detail, but I'm going

0:42.8

to hit a few points we talked about in the podcast with Mark Purvis.

0:47.8

Okay, so our problem was, we wanted to make a third onset.

0:51.2

So by we, it was the Council of Marks.

0:53.6

So it was me, Mark Purvis, and Mark Globus.

0:58.0

And we wanted to figure out how to make a third onset.

1:02.0

The problem in our way was both unglued and unhinged,

1:08.0

we had printed too many cards and had to destroy cards.

1:11.6

Now, the contention of both me and Purvis was not that there wasn't an audience and it wasn't a successful product, but that we just didn't understand the nature of the product and printed too many cards.

1:24.6

So way back in the time, in some ways, I guess unglued was the first supplemental product.

1:30.5

We didn't really do supplemental products.

1:32.5

Like back then, either we made a corset

1:34.9

or we made a normal expansion, all of it went into standard,

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