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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#768: Ikoria, Part 1

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

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I begin telling the in-depth story of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths's design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work,

0:05.8

coronavirus edition. Okay, guys, so I am going to talk today about the design of I-Corria.

0:16.7

So, I think this will probably be multiple podcasts, but we shall see.

0:23.3

Okay.

0:24.3

So at the beginning of our story, we must go far back.

0:27.2

Back to, I don't know, many, many years ago.

0:29.9

So the original plan for the 19, or not 19, sorry, the 2019, 2020 magic year, if you will.

0:38.6

So the, and I'm using northern hemisphere seasons here.

0:42.4

Fall set, winter set, spring set.

0:44.9

There's not how we've normally had a magic year.

0:47.6

And normally there's a corset in the summer.

0:50.6

Anyway, the original plan was we were going to go to Eldrain for two.

0:55.0

So the code name for this year was archery, baseball, cricket.

0:59.5

That's important.

1:00.2

So I'll talk about them.

1:01.5

When I talk about them, what I mean is think of them as being the positioned.

1:05.5

Archery is the fall set, baseball is the winter set, and cricket is the spring set.

1:12.8

Okay, so the plans originally was alpha and archery and baseball were going to be,

1:18.8

we're visiting Eldrain.

1:20.1

The first set was going to be kind of in the light of day.

1:22.6

We see the courts.

1:23.8

We're out in the sunshine.

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