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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#595: Selesnya

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

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part of my guild series where I walk through the history of the guild through all three visits to Ravnica. In this podcast, I talk all about the green-white guild.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.3

Okay, so last time I started talking about guilds. So I began with Demir. So today we moved on to

0:13.1

Selesnia. So today all about the green white guild. Okay, so we go back to Gravenica. We're

0:19.6

forming the guilds.

0:21.1

So when we're first making them, one of the things we wanted to do is we wanted to figure out

0:25.0

what is sort of the philosophical center of the guild and what is the mechanical center of the guild.

0:32.3

So let's start with philosophical.

0:34.3

Okay, we look at white.

0:37.1

What does white represent? Well, white is all about wanting peace.

0:41.9

Peace through order, as I like to say. White believes firmly that there's enough resources to take care of

0:50.1

everybody in the world. Everybody in the world can be happy. But in order to do that,

0:55.0

you need to take steps to think in terms of the group as a whole. That, you know, if everybody

1:02.0

is selfish and individual, then there might not be the resources you need. But if people

1:08.0

are willing to be thoughtful and make decisions based upon what is best for everybody, then, you know, there is the resources to do that.

1:18.3

So White is very much about the good of the group.

1:21.3

It's very much about sort of thinking big picture.

1:24.5

And a lot of what White does is create rules and structure to sort of ensure that

1:29.9

people act in the interest of the group because people have reasons to sort of act selfishly

1:35.2

if not without any guidance and that's why white makes laws it's why white makes you know sort of

1:42.1

moral rules.

1:49.4

And so that is a key element of white.

1:54.0

Green, green is very much about growth through acceptance.

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