#489: Unstable, Part 2
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.8 | I'm pulling my driveway. |
| 0:02.0 | We all know what that means. |
| 0:03.6 | It's time to run the drive to work. |
| 0:06.2 | And I get to continue to tell the story of unstable design. |
| 0:10.6 | Okay, so when last we left off, I talked about how I wanted to have factions, |
| 0:18.2 | because I wanted to kind of do a modern, I wanted to apply modern creative to an onset. |
| 0:25.1 | And I liked the idea in mad sciences world that there were different factions that all used, you know, mad science in different ways. |
| 0:34.0 | And we started with trying to figure out where the goblins were, because Steamflugger boss was going to be in the set. |
| 0:39.5 | And obviously, we were trying to bring to life Steamplug or boss. |
| 0:43.3 | Like, okay, well, clearly one of the factions had to be goblins. |
| 0:47.0 | Goblins like to fiddle with things. |
| 0:48.7 | They were the perfect fit for the set. |
| 0:50.3 | They're silly. |
| 0:51.3 | Everything about them was right. |
| 0:52.2 | So when trying to figure out where to put the |
| 0:54.9 | goblins, I ended up realizing that red-green, because I wanted to do two colors, that red-green |
| 0:59.5 | was the right place to put them. That I didn't want to make mono-white or mono-blue |
| 1:04.1 | goblums. That didn't feel right. And mono-black made them feel a little too mean. That really |
| 1:09.3 | wasn't black goblins tend to get into tolkien goblin type |
| 1:12.8 | territory okay so once i had red green i decided that okay i guess that means we're going down a path |
| 1:18.9 | of ally colors um it's funny uh later on um in concertarkier and then later in Ixelon I started playing around with |
| 1:29.8 | cycles that weren't that weren't asymmetric cycles or things that weren't you know |
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