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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#612: Lorwyn Cards, Part 2

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

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

Okay. So last time I started talking about cards from Lorwyn. And we're going to continue because I did not finish.

0:12.0

So we're up to Doran the Siege Tower. So Doran costs one black green. So three man a total, one of each color, each of three colors, white, black,

0:22.5

and green. It's a legendary tree folk shaman. It's a zero-five creature. Each creature assigns

0:30.0

combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. So this was the first time I think

0:36.3

we ever did the damage equal to toughness thing.

0:39.3

It has been popular enough that it has been a theme we've done time and again.

0:45.3

There's been an interesting debate about what color exactly is supposed to be the do damage equal to toughness.

0:50.3

I think we mostly do it in green now, but I think we let white do it a little bit.

0:59.9

But anyway, we wanted to make this legendary tree folk, and we wanted to have a cool power.

1:04.6

And so what someone was trying to think of is, how could I make a tree folk that you want to play other tree folk with, but you're not forced to play tree folk with it.

1:09.6

Just, you know, it's something like, you know, it would work well play tree folk with it um just you know it's something like you know it would

1:12.3

it would work well with tree folk and i think dorian was a really good um a great design that sort of

1:18.6

because tree folk in general tend to have higher toughness and power just for flavor so like

1:24.1

it made sense that you want to play tree folk with him, but it didn't require

1:27.5

you to play tree folk with him.

1:28.8

So, like, he's an interesting legend.

1:31.1

And I know they've become a very popular commander.

1:34.1

So it's something, I think when I went through, somebody had asked me to name the best

1:41.5

card from each block, I think.

1:44.9

And I think when I went through this block, I picked Doran, although I wasn't sure whether

1:49.9

Garrick representing the Plainswalkers, because it was the first offended

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