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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#640: Planeswalker Who's Who

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

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I walk through all the Planeswalkers to explain who they are and how they're mechanically represented on cards.

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.

0:06.0

Okay, so this was a request from my blog. Today I'm going to do a who's who of planeswalkers.

0:12.0

So for all the planeswalkers that have a card, I'm going to talk about who they are, where they come from if we know, and what their power suite is, what, what magic they can do and sort of mechanically how we represent that.

0:24.7

Are you ready?

0:26.2

Let's see if we can get them all.

0:28.0

Okay, we'll start with a Johnny Goldmane.

0:30.7

So he is a Leonin from Bant, so one of the shards of Alara.

0:36.4

That's the white-centered shard of Alara. So I guess technically he's from Alara, but from the Bant the shards of Alara. That's the white-centered shard of Alara.

0:38.9

So I guess technically he's from Alara, but from the Bant's

0:41.0

shard of Alara. And his

0:43.4

powers is he's a healer, and he

0:47.1

has the ability to aid others.

0:49.4

His magic can't help himself.

0:51.6

His magic can only help other people.

0:56.3

So he is the perfect teammate because he enhances other people's abilities. And he's a healer. He also can heal people. So usually

1:03.2

you see him when we make planes walk our cards of granting things to other creatures and gaining

1:09.3

life representing healing.

1:12.4

Okay, next, we have Angraph.

1:14.9

Angrath is a minotaur.

1:17.3

We don't know where he's from.

1:19.7

He was trapped on Ixelon.

1:22.1

We do know that he has some kids that he was desperately missing and wanting

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