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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#663: Modern Horizons Cards, Part 4

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

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This is part four 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 another drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so I've been talking all about modern horizons, and I'm up to R. We're talking through all the cards, or some of the cards.

0:13.1

So we're up to Ranger Captain of Eos. So one white, white, so three man a total, two which is white. It's a three, three human soldier, so it's a creature.

0:23.5

When Ranger Captain of Eos enters the battlefield,

0:26.0

you may search your library for a creature card

0:28.0

with converted mana costs one or less, reveal it,

0:31.1

put it in your hand, and shuffle your library.

0:33.6

Sacrifice Ranger, Captain, Eos,

0:35.5

your opponent can't cast non-creature spells this turn.

0:38.8

So this is a fun example of something we do in time spiral leg sets, where we take two old

0:45.8

cards and we combine them together. So this is a combination of Ranger of Eos from Shards of Alara

0:51.5

and Knight Captain of Eos, also from Shards of O'Lara. and Knight Captain of Eos, also from Shards of Alara.

0:55.2

So, Ranger of Eos was the card made by Antoine Ruel when he won the very last Magic

1:01.2

Invitational.

1:03.4

And so the idea is you take Knight Captain of Eos and Ranger of Eos and sort of combine them together to make Ranger Captain of Eos.

1:15.4

So Ranger of Eos did the first ability, which entered the battlefield when got a small creature,

1:21.9

and the sacrificing stuff on creature spells was Knight Captain of Eos.

1:24.8

So anyway, um,

1:28.1

it's,

1:28.7

I, I enjoy when we're able to sort of combine old things to make something cool that's new.

1:33.7

Um,

1:34.0

I will admit that I think Ranger of Eos is a little more known than Knight Captain Eos,

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