#598: Golgari

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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

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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.
0:06.5	Okay, so I've been talking about the guilds. So I've talked about Demir. I've talked about
0:10.9	Celesnia. It's now time to talk. And I've talked about Is It as well. Now it's time to talk
0:16.6	about Golgari. Okay, so, um, let's go back to the beginning, back to original Rabbnika.
0:24.4	So, as I start for each one, we talk about wanting to find the common ground philosophically
0:30.0	and the common ground mechanically. So let's start philosophically. Okay, so black is very much
0:36.6	about wanting power, and it will get its power through the
0:42.2	willingness to do whatever it takes.
0:45.1	And that black is, black believes that the key to life is just those that are willing to
0:53.1	take the steps and do what is necessarily are able to
0:56.0	succeed above those that aren't willing to sort of step up and do what it takes. Black is very
1:03.2	self-motivated and it looks out after itself. It believes in the good of the individual versus the good of the group.
1:14.7	And so, Black, it's very much about sort of wanting to help itself the best way it can.
1:23.1	Green, oh, and an important part of that is one of the the things Black wants to use whatever resources it can.
1:30.3	Well, one of those resources is the power of death.
1:33.7	Black recognizes that death is a very potent ability, very potent force, and that most people are afraid of it.
1:42.4	Most people want nothing to do with it.
1:43.9	But Black in its willingness to do with it.
1:48.8	But black in its willingness to do what it takes will harness death
1:52.3	and death is a big part of how black functions.
1:56.8	Okay, green, in contrast,
1:59.2	green is very much about wanting to accept the world as it is.
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