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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#546: World Identities

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

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about why it's important for each plane to have a distinct identity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

Okay. So today's topic is based on, so on my blog, one of the things that tends to happen is

0:13.8

there's certain topics that will pop up from time to time and we'll talk about them and then usually

0:18.5

they go away, but they keep coming back. We have certain topics that keep resurfacing.

0:24.5

And today's topic is one of those topics.

0:27.5

Just because as I record this, it's something that I'm dealing with on my blog.

0:33.1

And it makes me realize that it's actually an interesting topic.

0:35.9

So I'm going to spend today talking about why we shape worlds the way we do.

0:42.5

So to understand this argument, let's first talk a little bit about dominaria and the corkiness

0:46.7

that is dominaria.

0:48.8

Okay, so when Richard first made the game, back in Alpha, he made planeswalkers. You were a planes walker. What did it mean

0:56.8

to be a planes walker? It meant that you would walk between worlds, between planes, that there was a

1:04.0

multiverse, and the multiverse existed of many different worlds. Now, the quirky thing about early

1:09.0

magic is most of early magic was set in the same world on dominaria.

1:13.1

In fact, the first 10 years of magic.

1:14.9

So for those real quickly, so Alpha basically takes place in Dominaria.

1:20.1

Arabian Nights, I think at the time it was made, the thought process was, oh, sure, it's Dominaria.

1:25.6

We have since retroactively said, oh, no, no, no, it's not Dominaria.

1:29.4

It's Rabaya.

1:31.0

Arabian Nights is from Robaya.

1:34.0

Then there was antiquities.

1:35.3

That was set on Dominaria.

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