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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#662: Modern Horizons Cards, Part 3

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

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is part three of a four-part series on card-by-card design stories from Modern Horizons.

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.

0:05.0

So I'm in the middle of doing Modern Horizons card by card stories. So we're up to K and Kaya's Gile.

0:13.0

Okay, so Kyaz Gile costs one white black. So three man of total, one of which is white, one of which is black.

0:19.0

It's an instant. Choose two.

0:22.0

And there's four choices. Each opponent sacrifices a creature. Exile all cards from each

0:26.5

opponent's graveyard. Create a one-one white and black spirit creature token to flying, or you gain

0:32.0

four life. And then it has entwine three. Choose all if you pay the Entwine cost.

0:40.1

So remember from last time I talked about Entwine,

0:43.7

this is a mechanic I literally dreamed up in Mirren Block.

0:47.5

I went to bed trying to solve a problem,

0:50.4

and in my dreams, I dreamed it up and woke up and wrote it down.

0:56.6

So normally an Entwine card has, it's modal, and you have two. You pick one and then if you pay the entwine cost, you get both. So this is kind of mixing in a twine

1:01.8

with a command. A command is something in which you have four choices and you pick two. So this

1:08.3

is kind of an entwined command where you get four choices pick two,

1:11.5

but if you entwine it,

1:12.5

then you get to pick another two.

1:14.6

So this is kind of a cute tweak.

1:17.8

The other thing that's nice about this card design

1:19.7

is, so there's four things.

1:21.7

So each opponent sacrifices a creature.

1:23.3

That's a black ability.

1:24.7

Exile all cards from each opponent's graveyard.

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