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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#553: Unstable Cards, Part 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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part one of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.1

Okay, so today we begin a series of podcasts all about unstable and the cards of unstable. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through every single card unstable, minus the contraptions.

0:20.0

And I'm going to talk about each one and

0:22.8

tell stories. Anyway, it's going to be a shockful series. I hope you guys enjoy it. And I'm going

0:28.4

to go in alphabetical order. So what is the first card in alphabetical order? What is the first

0:34.1

card in alphabetical order? Is Rumors of My Death, because it starts with a quotation mark.

0:41.4

So this, so Rumors of My Death is an uncommon.

0:45.6

It costs two in a black.

0:47.0

It's an enchantment.

0:48.3

For three in a black, you exile a permanent you control with a league of dashly doom watermark.

0:55.1

Return a permanent card with a league of Dalsallley Doom Watermark from your graveyard to the battlefield.

0:58.4

So this is part of our uncommon watermark matters cycle.

1:04.0

We decided to have a theme in the set of Watermarks Matters, and I wanted for Limited

1:08.8

to make five uncommonds, one for each of the clans.

1:15.3

Or the, what do we call them?

1:17.1

They call them the clans?

1:17.7

I used to call them gangs in design.

1:21.4

But each faction, I guess they're factions.

1:23.1

Each faction has an uncommon, centered in its color.

1:30.3

And the idea is each faction obviously is in two colors. So we picked one of the colors. For the League of Dashley Doom, we picked black. And

1:36.6

then we went around accordingly. And the idea was it was supposed to be a build around watermark

1:42.6

matter cards that cares about the faction watermark.

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