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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#715: Unsanctioned, Part 1

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

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This is part one of a two-part series on the design of Unsanctioned. In it, I walk through the designs of all sixteen of the new cards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the curb.

0:02.3

We all know what that means.

0:03.9

It's time for their drive to work.

0:05.9

And I drop my kids off at school today.

0:08.1

Okay, so today is a podcast all about unsanctioned.

0:13.0

For those that know me, which I assume you do if you're listening to my podcast,

0:15.9

I love me some unsets.

0:18.2

And so I will talk all about how unsanction came to be. And then I'm going to

0:21.9

talk through all 16 of the cards we designed for the set, all of the new cards. Okay, so first off,

0:28.5

how exactly did unsanction come into being? So, I don't know, a year and a half ago, two years

0:35.5

ago, Gavin Verhe was given an assignment by Bill Rose, our VP, to make a product that they codenamed Parachute.

0:43.8

And the idea was we wanted to make a product that was sort of evergreen, meaning we could put it out whenever.

0:51.2

And when we needed it, like we wanted something in our back pocket that

0:55.2

if we ever needed to have an extra set out, you know, for budgetary things or something,

0:59.3

we just had something that was already done. And so the idea of parachute was we'd make it,

1:03.8

it would be something that was sort of evergreen that could go out wherever, and then when we

1:07.4

needed it, we'd pull the cord on the parachute.

1:15.8

So one of the challenges of parachute was it couldn't be,

1:20.5

it had to be something that allowed us to make something that really could live anywhere.

1:24.8

And it's tricky, for example, when you're doing reprints,

1:26.9

because if we want to get reprints in the system,

1:31.1

if we put valued reprints in the product, and we don't know when the product's coming out,

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