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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#594: Dimir

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

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This is the first of ten guild podcasts. I'll be doing five now and five when Ravnica Allegiance comes out. In this one, I talk about how we first created Dimir and the three guild mechanics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's time for their drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, well today is the start of a new series.

0:10.0

I'm going to talk all about the guild.

0:12.0

So each guild will get its own show.

0:15.0

I'm going to do five of them while Gates of Ravnika is out,

0:19.0

and then I'll do five when Ravnika Legions comes out.

0:22.3

And I'm going to talk all about the guild, how we made it, and then walk through all its

0:26.6

incarnations in the three different times we did it. That's what I'm planning to do. So,

0:30.9

I'm going to go in order, but in order of the ones that are in the set. So the first one

0:35.1

would be Demir. So let's talk about demure. Okay, so when we first decided

0:42.3

we were going to do the guilds, what we were very excited about was trying to find the overlap.

0:47.0

Like what happens when you have the sensibility of blue combined with the sensibility of black.

0:51.9

So let's talk about that a little bit. So blue is the color that is all about wanting perfection.

0:59.6

Blue believes that you can become anything you want to be given the knowledge, the training, the skill, the tools.

1:07.8

You know, you, anybody has potential to become anything.

1:12.3

It's just a matter of you having the proper elements to do that.

1:17.5

And so Blue very much is looking to always better itself.

1:21.5

It's very pro-technology.

1:23.7

It's super pro-knowledge.

1:25.6

It's pro-education.

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