#537: Poll Position #1

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

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I started a new feature on my Twitter where I polled the audience about various Magic design issues. This podcast goes over the issues I asked about and the feedback I received.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to another drive to work.
0:06.0	Okay, so today's topic is an interesting one. So, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.
0:15.0	So what happened is I run a daily poll on my website, on Twitter, not my website, on Twitter,
0:20.0	called Head to Head, where it takes place over three weeks. on a daily poll on my website on Twitter, not my website, on Twitter, my Twitter, called
0:21.8	Head to Head, where it takes place over three weeks, there's 16 things of a topic, and they
0:26.7	vote against each other. And normally, before I put it up, I give it out to R&D to pre-vote on,
0:32.5	and there's a little game we play in R&D where the winner gets a trophy, a bragging trophy,
0:36.3	that they get to hold on to it so someone else wins it.
0:39.3	But anyway, I was really busy with Great Designer Search and I just forgot to do, I didn't get to it.
0:47.0	And so I had this week where I didn't have the head-to-head ready.
0:50.9	So I decided, okay, well, maybe I can use that for something different. And I ended
0:54.8	up making what I call pole position. Poll being P-O-L-L-L. And the idea is that I would ask people
1:01.9	poll questions, that things that we were curious about for magic, I would ask them. And then
1:08.9	just it means for me to sort of see what people think
1:11.2	about stuff. Once again, my caveat with polls is, polls are more for entertainment than anything,
1:17.2	but it's a means by which I can get some information. And for example, when we get to Dominaria,
1:23.5	like there's a theme in Dominaria that directly came from one of these polls and other things.
1:30.8	I mean, I know there are decisions that got made because, oh, we were surprised to see something in a poll and it affected decisions.
1:37.7	But anyway, so today my plan is to talk about the week of poll questions.
1:42.5	I'm going to tell you the question.
1:43.9	I'm going to tell you how people voted. And then I'm going to talk about the topic of poll questions. I'm going to tell you the question. I'm going to tell you how people voted.
1:45.4	And then I'm going to talk about the topic of why I put it up
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