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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#587: Sets by Plane

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

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I walk through each set and talk about what plane it takes place on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

Okay, so today I'm going to go through the history of magic and talk about the planes that each set takes place on.

0:15.0

So you can be knowledgeable so you'll know each set where exactly does it take place.

0:20.9

We're going to talk about that today and talk a little bit about sort of the nature of how and where we make planes.

0:27.7

Okay, so we're going to go all the way back.

0:29.5

So limited edition alpha, the original set, that Richard didn't really particularly make, you know,

0:35.1

it wasn't set necessarily any particular place.

0:38.7

Dominaria was kind of the default sort of world, but it wasn't really until we get to

0:46.1

Arabian Nights that there's a defined place that takes place. And even Arabian Nights, which is

0:50.8

funny, Arabian Nights kind of was given its own plane after the fact.

0:56.8

The whole concept of, oh, there's a multiverse and there's different planes,

1:01.2

that kind of took a little while to get cemented.

1:04.5

The term Plainswalker, I don't even think the term Plainswalker was in the Alpha Rulebook.

1:09.0

I think that came out shortly after.

1:11.7

But anyway, Arabianites, the first expansion, takes place on the plane of Rabia.

1:16.8

R-A-B-I-A-H.

1:19.2

Rab-I-A-H.

1:19.8

Rabia was a fancy way of, well, the things on the Rabaia plane are Rabayan or Arabian.

1:28.7

That is a place we've never really visited again.

1:31.4

It's the one world that we did that kind of really isn't our own world.

1:35.5

I mean, Arabian Nights really is kind of just Richard capturing 1001 Arabian Nights and doing the characters and stuff from that.

1:42.4

So it has a name, it has its official plane, it's Rabaia.

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