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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#599: Boros

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

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 45 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 red-white guild, the Boros Legion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.7

Okay, so I've been having a bunch of Guild podcasts. We've had Demir, we've had Selznia,

0:13.1

we've had Is It, we've had Golgari. Well, now we're up to Boros. Okay, so Boros is red orwhite. So let's start by talking philosophically. Where does

0:23.6

red and white come together? So white is the color that believes in peace, peace through structure.

0:29.5

It believes that everybody can get along. If only we think together and act as if the group

0:35.6

matters versus acting out in for individual reasons.

0:40.4

And so White does this by making rules to ensure that the, that everybody, you know, people

0:46.7

will do things, you know, people will be swayed by things that will make them do things

0:53.1

that are maybe not so good for the group,

0:55.5

but are good for them the individual. And how do you prevent that? Well, by making laws, by making

1:01.6

rules, by sort of saying, well, this is the way you must do things, and that people, well,

1:07.5

if you kind of tell them how to act, maybe you can get them to act accordingly.

1:12.2

Red, meanwhile, red is about freedom through action. Red believes that you, you know, it wants

1:18.3

to be passionate and live its life with purpose and it wants to sort of, you know, be experiencing

1:24.9

whatever it can experience. Not first, you might think these are opposites.

1:29.1

I mean, they are enemy colors, right?

1:31.7

A lot of times we talk about the conflict between red and white as a difference between freedom versus security.

1:39.4

That red is all about wanting to, you know, to be free to do what it wants.

1:46.0

But that causes problems because if people can do what they want it might hurt

1:47.9

others um

1:49.5

but white is its quest for security to make sure

1:51.9

that everybody's okay might restrict what people

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