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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#579: Designing 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

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On a rare "Drive from Work," I talk with carpooler Scott Van Essen about what it was like to design Kaladesh together.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

0:02.2

You all know what that means.

0:04.1

It's time.

0:04.9

Well, actually, you might not know what it means because it's time for drive from work.

0:08.5

I don't do a lot of drive from works, but normally when I have a guest, the guest comes with me.

0:14.3

So in the evening, we go home, and I don't have a lot of opportunity to have guests.

0:18.4

So Scott, say hi.

0:19.6

Hello. So Scott Vanessa was in the last podcast, all about the Transformers TCG.

0:25.4

So we're doing another podcast, this time about, what is it about?

0:30.8

It's about Kaladesh.

0:32.2

Yeah, so what I decided was Scott normally works on dual mafters, but one of the cool things about working at

0:39.3

wizards is occasionally you get to work on magic, if you don't work on magic all the time,

0:42.9

and Scott was on the team for Kaladash.

0:44.9

So I thought it would be interesting to hear about, I've talked about Kaladash, but I thought

0:48.3

me neat to hear from Kaladish from a different perspective.

0:51.1

So, Scott, talk about how you ended up on the Kaladish team.

0:56.8

Sure. Well, as, Mark, as you mentioned,

1:02.8

I began working here on the Dual Masters team, and I'd been there for a while, and people had told me that it's, it takes a while before you get on a Magic team, because they sort of plan

1:08.1

these things out fairly far in advance. But as I understand it, there was some personnel switching and some, you know, a spot opened

1:17.5

up early.

1:18.2

And so I was asked if I wanted to join.

1:20.4

And I thought for about three milliseconds and then said absolutely yes.

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