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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#704: Tempest Cards, Part 1

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This is part one of a four-part series of card-by-card design stories from Tempest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

0:05.8

And it dropped off my children at school. Okay, so today, my very first podcast, way, way, number one,

0:14.8

I talked about Tempest, which was the first set that I led. And somebody on my blog brought up that

0:20.6

while I did a podcast about the making of Tempest,

0:24.5

I never did a card by card on Tempest.

0:26.7

And so I'm going to write that wrong today and to the next bunch of podcasts.

0:31.2

So it's time to talk, Tempest.

0:33.9

So the list I got actually is an order of color.

0:37.9

So this is in, I think, collector number order.

0:41.4

So anyway, normally I've been doing them in just straight alphabetical order.

0:46.0

But we're going to try something a little different, so I'm going to do this one in color order.

0:50.2

So the order we would print the file.

0:52.3

No, I'd say, we would print the file by rarity.

0:54.0

So this is collector number, which is by color, but alphabetically by color.

0:59.1

Okay. So, where do we start?

1:02.3

Let's see.

1:05.1

Oratog. So Oratog costs one in a white.

1:08.9

It's a one-two creature. It's an A-Tog.

1:11.7

And you can sacrifice a creature to give it plus-2 plus-2 until end of turn.

1:16.7

So the A-Tog story.

1:18.4

So the original A-Tog came out in antiquities.

1:21.9

And you could sack...

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