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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#644: Ajani's Pridemate

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Game Design, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Mtg, Leisure, Magic The Gathering, Ccg, Games, Mark Rosewater

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is all about us adding two words to the rules text of one card and all the hullabaloo that followed. I explain why we did it and walk through the timeline of what happened (it's a little convoluted).

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.

0:06.2

Okay, so today, one of the things that I've started wanting to do more of on this podcast

0:11.8

is take sort of issues of the day and walk through them. Now, obviously, the issues of the day are delayed a little bit,

0:18.0

because I've recorded this ahead of time, but I'll talk about something that's been a topic of conversation on my blog.

0:23.7

And that is the card, a Johnny's Pride Mate.

0:27.0

So real quickly, let me fill you in what the card is, and then I'll get you up to what the controversy is.

0:33.6

Okay, so Johnny's Pride Mate was first made in Magic 2011, I believe.

0:39.8

It's a white creature, one in a white, so two men a total, one of which is white.

0:43.5

It's a two-two creature, and it says, whenever you gain life, you may put a plus one plus one counter on a card name, on Johnny's Prime mate.

0:53.9

It design whenever we make the cards,

0:56.4

because the title will change,

0:58.4

we just put a card name where the title will go,

1:00.1

so we don't have to keep rewriting it as we change things.

1:02.4

So sometimes when I say that,

1:03.6

I'll say card name when it means the name of the card.

1:06.3

Okay, so the issue at hand is a couple months ago, my time, a few more months than that, your time,

1:19.7

a Johnny's pride mate changed in digital, that the May got dropped.

1:33.9

That before it was, you know, whenever you gain life, you may put a plus and plus a counter on Johnny's Pride mate.

1:36.2

And the change was, now it wasn't optional.

1:38.2

Now you had to put the plus and plus a counter on.

1:41.1

And there was a big hubbleau.

1:42.3

Yes, I said Hubbleoo.

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