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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#689: Artifacts & Enchantements

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is about the similarities and differences between artifacts and enchantments, and how they've changed over time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway.

0:02.1

We all know what that means.

0:03.6

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.4

So, okay, so today's podcast is, was inspired by a topic of conversation on my blog.

0:13.4

So last week, or sorry, yeah, last week I had my social media preview card for Throne of Eldrain, and it was glass

0:24.3

casket.

0:26.1

For those that are unaware, it is one in a white.

0:30.3

It's an artifact.

0:31.9

When enters the battlefield, you may exile any creature with a converter amount of cost of three

0:36.9

or less

0:37.5

for as long as it stays in play.

0:40.5

And a lot of the concern was that what this artifact did,

0:46.1

traditionally in magic, enchantments and our creatures do.

0:50.1

And people are like, way, why is this an artifact?

0:53.5

And it really got us into the conversation of what is the mechanical difference between artifacts and enchantments?

1:00.6

So I thought I would talk about that today.

1:05.4

So, and then I will end up by talking about glass casket.

1:10.5

I will come back around to the glass casket.

1:14.2

Okay, so let's go back to the beginning of the game.

1:17.8

Back to Richard Garfield and Alpha.

1:21.3

So when Richard was first making magic,

1:24.5

he was really trying to capture the idea that, you know,

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