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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#643: Breaking Rules

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

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I discuss when rules should and shouldn't be broken in Magic design. It involves a bunch of talking about planeswalking and puppies.

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 today's podcast was inspired by my blog this weekend. Okay, so today's topic is,

0:14.1

when do we break the rules? So it's about talking about why we have rules and when and how we decided to break them.

0:22.6

So let me first get into the conversation this weekend on my blog.

0:26.5

So there's a character named Jing Yangu, and he is one of our, we made two plainswalkers

0:34.2

for a special Chinese skew.

0:36.8

We were trying to, well, we were making an introductory product for China.

0:40.3

Part of it involved creating two planeswalkers.

0:42.3

They were in the global series.

0:44.3

And then Yang-gu is actually in War of the Spark.

0:48.3

So the reason we bring Yang-U up, by the way, in China, the familiar name is the second name, not the first name.

0:55.4

So I'm calling him Yangu, Jingyangu, because that's the familiar name.

0:59.6

So Yangu has a dog named Mao, and he travels with Mao.

1:06.3

Now, you might think that's not such a big deal.

1:09.0

It's cool.

1:09.6

A boy and his dog traveling the planes walking around the multiverse together.

1:15.1

But it turns out there's a rule that on my blog I've stated it multiple times that we,

1:23.9

planeswalkers are only,ainswalkers are the only means

1:28.1

by which you can travel the planes,

1:29.9

although I guess the old dressy have a weird exception.

1:32.9

And they cannot bring with them any organic material.

1:37.4

For those that are following the main storyline,

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