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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#621: Simic

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

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is the tenth and final in my Ravnica guild series. In this podcast, I talk about the green-blue guild, the Simic Combine.

Transcript

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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.

0:06.1

Okay, so I've been doing all the guilds, and so far I've done all of them but one, which leaves the Simic Combine.

0:14.4

So it's the final, the 10th and final guild. So interestingly, Simic is the guild that has been in the last set every time. It was in

0:22.6

dissension in the first original Rabnika block. It was in Gate Crash in the second one. And it's in

0:30.5

Rabnick alesians, this time around. So Simic always waits till the end, apparently. Okay, so let's

0:36.4

talk a little bit about green and blue.

0:38.7

Okay, so green is the color that believes that the world is perfect the way it is, that really

0:46.0

you have to stop and admire what is around you, that is the color that's like nature is this

0:50.9

beautiful, wondrous thing, and only if you truly stop to understand it,

0:56.6

can you really appreciate it and, you know, that Green believes that the whole point of the

1:01.0

world is not to change the world, but to understand and acknowledge that the world is perfect

1:08.0

the way it is.

1:10.0

Blue, in contrast, blue being the enemy of agreed, is very much about the blank slate.

1:14.9

Blue believes the goal of life is perfection, is making yourself the best that you can be.

1:20.6

And Blue believes through education, through tools, through technology, that, you know, through experience, that people can become what

1:29.0

they need to be, that people are blank slates that can be formed. And so, when you blue and green,

1:35.5

obviously, the inherent conflict is the nature and nurture conflict. You know, what is the thing

1:39.6

that makes people who they are? Are they born that way? Is there genes? Or is it experience? Is it life

1:46.1

that makes it that way? You know, can you become what you want to become or are you sort of

1:51.4

destined to be what you were born to be? That's the inherent green-blue conflict. So what

1:55.9

happens when green and blue get together? Well, the idea is you take Green's love of nature,

2:03.5

and you combine it with Blue's desire to improve upon things,

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