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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#620: Orzhov

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 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is the ninth in my Ravnica guild series. In this podcast, I talk about the white-black guild, the Orzhov Syndicate.

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 I've been doing a bunch of guild podcasts, and I'm up to the Orjjav Syndicate.

0:14.8

So that's white and black. So let's talk a little bit about white and black, and then I'll get

0:18.2

into their three visits to Rapnika.

0:27.0

Okay, so white is all about the good of the group, wanting peace, realizing that if we all work together, we can create a world that is good for all of us.

0:31.4

Black is much more self-centered. Black is more about, I want a world in which it gives me

0:36.7

the chance to have the things that I want.

0:39.6

And that black is really much one that believes in systems that reward, that reward the individual,

0:49.3

that say, oh, well, an individual that excels has a chance to thrive.

0:56.1

And that white and black are obviously enemies.

0:58.2

Like one of the challenges of making color pairs when their enemies is at some point,

1:03.1

there's a fundamental disagreement of what's going on.

1:08.1

And that white really wants to do what's good for everybody and black wants to do what's good for black.

1:13.5

How do you sort of bring those together?

1:16.3

So what we found with white and black,

1:18.5

what tends to work best is somebody who's very selfish about their group.

1:26.0

So it has the group sense of white.

1:28.2

It has the, I'm looking out for others,

1:31.9

but it has kind of the, but not everybody,

1:34.6

it's my own group.

1:35.9

And so one of the things that we were looking for very much was

1:40.3

we were trying to find some model of something

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