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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#499: Lessons Learned: Kaladesh

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about a design I led (or in this case co-led) and walk through all the lessons I learned from doing it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

0:05.0

Okay, so today is another in my Lessons Learned podcast series.

0:11.0

So the idea here is I talk about sets that I led the design for, co-leved the design for in this case,

0:15.0

and I talk about all the lessons I learned from making the set.

0:19.0

So today it's about Kaladesh.

0:21.9

So let me first by stress that I co-led Kaladesh.

0:24.9

I did not lead it by myself.

0:27.6

This was for the set where I did the first half of it and handed over the range to Sean

0:32.0

Maine for the second half of it.

0:34.2

So Sean and I were both on the team for the full year. I just led it for the first six months, and Sean led it for the second six months.

0:42.2

And this was the first, well, I take it back.

0:44.9

I co-led a set.

0:46.0

I co-led Gatewatch with Marg Gottlie, which was the first time I had done this.

0:50.8

So this is the second time, actually, I'd done this.

0:52.6

But I do a series, Cowadesh, Amundkin, I did this this. So this is the second time actually I'd done this. But I do a series,

0:55.9

Kaladish Amman Ken I did this with. It kind of was the precursor to the changeover to vision design.

1:01.4

This was sort of the first of that bunch. So anyway, let me talk about the mini lessons from

1:07.6

Kaladesh. So just to refresh some memories of, I think I did a podcast on Kaladesh's design.

1:14.6

So I'll rehash a little bit here just so I can explain the lessons.

1:17.6

Okay, so the way it worked was, originally we were going to do Amman Ket first and Kaladish second.

1:24.6

So in exploratory design, we were midway into doing Amundkat when we made

1:29.4

the decision that for story reasons and other reasons, we wanted to flop them and so that Caledish

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