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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#722: Top 10 Blocks

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

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about what I consider to be my top 10 Magic blocks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.4

Okay, so today is another top 10 list. I haven't done a top 10 list in a while.

0:12.2

So today is the top 10 blocks. Okay, so for many years, over about 25 years, we made 25 different blocks, starting with Ice Age block, ending with Ixelon block, and then we sort of dissolve the block model.

0:29.3

But, so we have 25 different blocks.

0:31.8

So today, I'm going to go through and pick what I consider to be the top 10 blocks.

0:36.9

So a few caveats before I get to my list.

0:39.3

First off, I'm judging them as whole blocks. It's not just a matter of blocks that had good

0:46.2

sets in it per se. It's, I'm sort of judging as the essence of the whole thing. And that means,

0:52.4

A, I'm judging it sort of mechanically held together.

0:55.2

I'm judging it storywise held together.

0:57.6

What just, as a whole entity, was a great block.

1:01.2

Now, note, for today, I'm not taking into account how well they sold necessarily.

1:06.4

I'm taking into account what I, this is me as a... As someone who put together a lot of these blocks,

1:12.9

judging sort of what I think of them

1:15.5

and what ones excite me most

1:18.2

as just blocks trying to do something really interesting.

1:24.4

Anyway, the other caveat I always give

1:26.7

what I do top 10 list is, this is my opinion today.

1:29.9

Maybe if you ask me a month from now, I'd be slightly different, but this was the top 10 list I made today.

1:36.8

Okay, so at number 10 for best blocks, Amundket.

1:43.5

So Ammonket was, in fact, it's the only two-set block on my list.

1:50.4

The thing I liked about Amin-Kat was it did something with a story that I thought was pretty

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