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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#611: Lorwyn Cards, Part 1

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

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is the first in a four-part series about the card-by-card design stories of Lorwyn.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out the driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:03.4

It's time to drive to work.

0:05.9

Okay, so today, and for the next few podcasts, I'm going to be going through Lorwyn,

0:12.3

doing a card-by-card podcast.

0:14.7

We're going to talk about different cards from the set of Lorwyn.

0:18.1

So we're going to start with a Johnny Gold Main.

0:20.8

So two white-white.

0:22.4

It's obviously a plainswalker. Now a legendary plainswalker. At the time, it would have

0:28.5

just said planeswalker. A Johnny. So he has a loyalty of four, and he has three abilities. His first

0:35.4

plus one ability is you gain two life. His minus one

0:40.0

ability is put a plus one plus one counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain

0:44.4

vigilance until end of turn. And his minus six abilities create a white avatar creature token.

0:50.3

It has this creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.

0:57.5

So, a couple things.

1:02.7

So we had originally planned to make the Plainswalkers, or make some of them in future site, and then they were going to show up for the first time, not in future site, in Lorain.

1:09.0

But we weren't happy with them.

1:10.8

We ended up pushing them back, so they ended up premiering in Lorwyn. But we weren't happy with them. We ended up pushing them back. So they ended up

1:12.4

premiering in Lorwyn. So we ended up making five Plainswalkers in Lorwyn, what is now known as

1:18.1

the Lorwyn Five, which would be Ajani, Jace, Liliana, Chandra, and Garrick. Yeah, the interesting

1:26.4

thing on Ajani was...

1:29.3

Ajani out of the gate was actually the least popular of the five.

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